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QUIRK, GAMMON, and SNAP, as prominent and threatening as ever those names had appeared to Titmouse in the day of _his_ agony and suspense. _He_ had stood gazing at them with idiot longing and vulgar apprehension, as the reader has seen. How very different a person now looked at them with feelings of intense interest and overmastering anxiety, as at the names of those who had him completely in their power--his fortunes, his _liberty_, his livelihood, and that of the dear beings whose interests, whose all on earth, whose personal safety--were bound up in his! Mr. Aubrey, with a jaded air, dressed in a buttoned black surtout, and with an umbrella under his arm, entered the hall, where were sitting and standing several strange-looking people--one or two suffering evidently great agitation; in fact, relatives of prisoners whose trials for capital offences were coming on the next day at Newgate--and made his way into a room, on the door of which he read
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Now, sir, your name and business?