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"'You who have sent so many from the world, will yourself go from it howling with fright.'"

"'I will speak trumpet-tongued, and if you like not that word murder, I will shriek it in your ears. If you like not the word blood, I will on the house-tops proclaim and tell the people that it is synonymous with Todd. Ha! ha! You shrink now."'

'"Are you mad?"

"Not yet—not yet. But I shall be, and then it will be time for you to beware of me."'

'"You hear me say so, and you might know by this time, that when I say anything—I mean it."'

"'I have made such arrangements at home, that I can wait here the whole day if necessary, for see him I must—and see him I will; I had a sort of presentiment that he might be out, notwithstanding I have an appointment with him."'

"'The whole world will know it all, soon enough, but long and old habits of caution, always induce me to keep my information as quiet as I possibly can."'

"'but by some kind of fatality, or providence, they seem to be unable to harm each other."'

"it was evident, by the manner in which the lights burnt in it, that there was no want of vitality in its atmosphere."

'"Punctuality is the one grand principle which is the hinge of all my business, and the secret of by far the larger portion of my success."'

"Short-sighted mortals that we are! How often we mistake the shifting morass of difficulty for the terra firma of prosperity, and how often do we weep for those events, which, in themselves and their results, form the ground-work of the happiness of a life!"