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the thief.

To all this Mr Squeers listened, with greedy ears that devoured
every syllable, and with his one eye and his mouth wide open:
marvelling for what special reason he was honoured with so much
of Ralph’s confidence, and to what it all tended.

‘Now,’ said Ralph, leaning forward, and placing his hand on
Squeers’s arm, ‘hear the design which I have conceived, and
which I must--I say, must, if I can ripen it--have carried into
execution. No advantage can be reaped from this deed, whatever it
is, save by the girl herself, or her husband; and the possession of
this deed by one or other of them is indispensable to any
advantage being gained. That I have discovered beyond the
possibility of doubt. I want that deed brought here, that I may give
the man who brings it fifty pounds in gold, and burn it to ashes
before his face.’

Mr Squeers, after following with his eye the action of Ralph’s
hand towards the fire-place as if he were at that moment
consuming the paper, drew a long breath, and said:

‘Yes; but who’s to bring it?’
‘Nobody, perhaps, for much is to be done before it can be got
at,’ said Ralph. ‘But if anybody--you!’

Mr Squeers’s first tokens of consternation, and his flat
relinquishment of the task, would have staggered most men, if
they had not immediately occasioned an utter abandonment of the
proposition. On Ralph they produced not the slightest effect.
Resuming, when the schoolmaster had quite talked himself out of
breath, as coolly as if he had never been interrupted, Ralph
proceeded to expatiate on such features of the case as he deemed
it most advisable to lay the greatest stress on.


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