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'So do I,' said Paul, as he took his leave

He went to bed like a , and he awoke in the same condition He had slept well, but as he shook from him his happy dream, the wretched reality at once overwhel has no choice He cannot, when he wakes, declare that he has changed his ue to give himself such instant relief He put his hand up to his brow, and al This was Saturday Would it not be as well that he should think of it further, and put off his execution till Monday? Monday was so far distant that he felt that he could go to Islington quite cootten point which it would be well that he should discuss with his friend Roger before he saw the lady? Should he not rush down to Liverpool, and ask a few o forth to execution, seeing that the matter was in his own hands?

At last he jumped out of bed and into his tub, and dressed himself as quickly as he could He worked hi should be done before the fit was over He ate his breakfast about nine, and then asked hio at once to Islington But he remembered that she was always early In every respect she was an energetic woood or bad, not sleeping it away in bed If one has to be hung on a given day, would it not be well to be hung as soon after waking as possible? I can fancy that the hang in a given week, would not one wish to be hung on the first day of the week, even at the risk of breaking one's last Sabbath day in this world? Whatever be the ony is in its anticipation Paul had realized so of this when he threw himself into a Hansoton

How quick that cab went! Nothing ever goes so quick as a Hansom cab when aso slohen he starts too late Of all cabs this, surely, was the quickest Paul was lodging in Suffolk Street, close to Pall Mall-- whence the way to Islington, across Oxford Street, across Tottenham Court Road, across nu The end of Goswell Road is the outside of the world in that direction, and Islington is beyond the end of Goswell Road And yet that Hansoe the words hich he would begin the interview He had given the Street and the number of the street It was not till after he had started that it occurred to hiet out at the end of the street, and walk to the house,--so that he ht, as it were, fetch breath before the intervieas commenced But the cabman dashed up to the door in a manner purposely devised to make every inmate of the house aware that a cab had just arrived before it There was a little garden before the house We all know the garden;--twenty-four feet long, by twelve broad;--and an iron-grated door, with the landlady's naiving the ony,--pushed in the iron gate and walked very quickly up to the door, rang rather furiously, and before the door ell opened asked for Mrs Hurtle