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Will felt so like an electric shock He was already in a state

of keen sensitiveness and hardly allayed agitation on the subject of

ties in the past, and his presentireeable It seeun by that loud

bloated stranger were being carried on by this pale-eyed sickly looking

piece of respectability, whose subdued tone and glib formality of

speech were at this moment almost as repulsive to him as their

ree of color--

"No, indeed, nothing"

"You see before you, Mr Ladislaw, a ency of conscience and the knowledge that I am before the

bar of One who seeth not as man seeth, I should be under no compulsion

toyou to coo, you have no claim on me

whatever"

Will was evenMr Bulstrode had

paused, leaning his head on his hand, and looking at the floor But he

now fixed his exalance on Will and said--

"I am told that your mother's name was Sarah Dunkirk, and that she ran

away froe Also, that your father was