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STRONG AS DEATH. 299her hand to him, and as she leaned forward hesaw her awful face." God help y-ou, Mrs. Routh," he said, yvithintense pity. <strong>The</strong>n she said, in a clear low voice,whose tone he remembers, as he remembers theface, these yvords:" <strong>The</strong>re is no God. If there were, there couldbe no such men as he,and no such yvomen asI."When she was a short distance from thcpolicecourt,and beyond the solicitor's sight, she calledto the driverfrom the window that shehad changedher purpose,and desired to be set down at St.Paul's Churchyard.<strong>The</strong> arrival of the prison-van at New-gate excitedthe usual sensation whichit produces amongthe public who congregate in the neighbourhoodof the prison, to see it discharge its wretched contents;the majority of the crowd were, as usual, ofthe dangerous classes; and it yvould have affordedmatter of speculation to the curious in such thingsto look at their faces and calculate, according tothe indices there given, hoyv many of the numberwould one day take a personalpart in a spectacle

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