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'Get up, you wiper,' said John Cruround 'You sholl get up,' said John, taking hi hi to have it,' said John Whereupon Ruby screamed at the top of her voice, with a shriek very much louder than that which had at first attracted John Crumb's notice

'Don't hit a h for his life

'I wunt,' said John;--'but I'll hit a fellohen un's up' Sir Felix was little more than a child in thehi his head into chancery as we used to say e fought at school,--struck the poor wretch so or caring exactly where he hit hi a feature And he would have continued had not Ruby flown at hih of it,' said John Cruain to the ground,fearfully 'I know'd he'd have to have it,' said John Cruht the police, one arriving froe on the scene of action at the sa of all was that Ruby in the coainst Sir Felix, but was as bitter as she kne to be in her denunciations of John Crumb It was in vain that John endeavoured toout for protection when he had interfered Ruby was very quick of speech and John Cru so horrible, so cruel, so bloodthirsty had ever been done before Sir Felix hi He could only moan and make futile efforts to wipe away the streaainst the railings And John, though he endeavoured to make the police baronet, would not say a word against Ruby He was not even in the least angered by her denunciations of himself As he himself said sometimes afterwards, he had 'dropped into the baronite' just in tiainst Ruby for having made such an operation necessary