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force, you shall lodge for the next week in one of those holes under ground, of which I believe you have some knowledge, since your fiendish malice contrived them."
"Well, Vanni, I yield. But I hope that your future gratitude"
"Oh! trust to my gratitude. I know my trade too well not to encourage such hell-hounds as you are."
