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Peddler in sentence

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another pack, Mr. Birch, and so well stuffed so soon!""Have you not done evil enough?" cried the peddler, regaining his firmness, and springing on his feet with energy.
"Go on," said the peddler, proudly; "take me to Major Dunwoodie; he, at least, may be kind, although just."
A figure stood in the shadow of the door, as if afraid to be seen in the group of Skinners; but a blaze of light, raised by some articles thrown in the fire by his persecutors, showed the peddler the face of the purchaser of his little domain.
cried the exasperated purchaser, "is this your friendship - this my reward for kidnapping the peddler?""'Twould be wise to move more from the light, if you mean to entertain us with abuse, or we may see too well to miss our mark," cried the leader of the gang.
Prudence dictated to the pair a speedy retreat; and the next morning, the only remains of the dwelling of the peddler was the huge chimney we have already mentioned.
The door was opened, and the Skinners entered, dragging in the peddler, bending beneath the load of his pack.
This is Harvey Birch, the peddler spy."
"No," said the man, sullenly, "it is to you I deliver the peddler, and from you I claim my reward."
"'Tis not the will of God to call a soul so hastily to His presence," said the peddler with solemnity.
"'Twas the hut of the peddler," muttered the leader of the gang.
"You have already been tried, Harvey Birch; and the truth has proved you to be an enemy too dangerous to the liberties of America to be suffered to live.""The truth!" echoed the peddler, starting, and raising himself in a manner that disregarded the weight of his pack.
"No, no, no," cried the peddler, in a voice and with a manner that startled Dunwoodie.
The order was immediately obeyed; but the movements of the peddler were too quick; in an instant he swallowed the paper.
"Lead on," cried the peddler, dropping his pack from his shoulders, and advancing towards the door with a manner of incomprehensible dignity.
Dunwoodie whispered his orders in the ear of a subaltern, and motioned to the peddler to withdraw.
The officer to whose keeping Dunwoodie had committed the peddler transferred his charge to the custody of the regular sergeant of the guard.
Followed by Birch, the sergeant proceeded in silence to the door of the intended prison, and, throwing it open with one hand, he held a lantern with the other to light the peddler to his prison.
While speaking, he took a Bible from his pocket, and offered it to the peddler.
Birch received the volume with habitual reverence; but there was an abstracted air about him, and a wandering of the eye, that induced his companion to think that alarm was getting the mastery of the peddler's feelings; accordingly, he proceeded in what he conceived to be the offices of consolation.
"There are few who have not done so," said the peddler, turning his vacant gaze once more on his companion.
But as hope is ever the last feeling to desert the human breast, the peddler gave the dragoon more of his attention, fixing on his sunburned features such searching looks, that Sergeant Hollister lowered his eyes before the wild expression which he met in the gaze of his prisoner.
"I have been taught to lay the burden of my sins at the feet of my Savior," replied the peddler.
"These hands," said the peddler, stretching forth his meager, bony fingers, "have spent years in toil, but not a moment in pilfering."
If the cause is wrong, the sin of such a deed, you know, falls on the nation, and a man receives his punishment here with the rest of the people; but murdering in cold blood stands next to desertion as a crime in the eye of God.""I never was a soldier, therefore never could desert," said the peddler, resting his face on his hand in a melancholy attitude.
"'Tis nothing," replied the peddler, recovering his natural manner, and lowering his face to avoid the earnest looks of his companion.
"See," said the peddler, producing several guineas from his person; "these are nothing to what I will give you, if you will assist me to escape."
The sergeant took up the lantern, and, with some indignation in his manner, he left the peddler to sorrowful meditations on his approaching fate.
"Well, let her then; but be careful that this wily peddler does not get out in the folds of her petticoats."
For some time after the departure of the sergeant, silence prevailed within the solitary prison of the peddler, until the dragoon at his door heard his loud breathings, which soon rose into the regular cadence of one in a deep sleep.
More than once he felt prompted to disturb the repose of the peddler by taunts and revilings; but the discipline he was under, and a secret sense of shame at the brutality of the act, held him in subjection.
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