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And if you resist?"
You are hanged."
"
Ursus looked out of the window again, and drawing a long breath, said,--
"Thank God! He has passed. He was not coming here."
Ursus was perhaps unreasonably alarmed about the indiscreet remark, and
the consequences likely to result from the unconsidered words of
Gwynplaine.
Master Nicless, who had heard them, had no interest in compromising the
poor inhabitants of the Green Box. He was amassing, at the same time as
the Laughing Man, a nice little fortune. "Chaos Vanquished" had
succeeded in two ways. While it made art triumph on the stage, it made
drunkenness prosper in the tavern.
CHAPTER VI.
THE MOUSE EXAMINED BY THE CATS.
Ursus was soon afterwards startled by another alarming circumstance.
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