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Read in the Wunder reader — freeA. I did not pay that attention to the night to say.
Q. It was beautifully starlight I suppose.
A. I do not know, I did not pay that attention.
Q. Was it a foggy night?
A. That I did not look after.
Q. You will see by the Almanack it was new moon the night before; you did not observe whether it was moonlight, starlight, or foggy?
A. No.
Q. You found he had got into the passage of the house when you got the candles?
A. Yes.
Q. Who let him in?
A. The boots.
Q. Did you see him?
A. Yes in the passage.
Q. How long did you converse with him about the news that you say he said was greater than had ever been heard of for these twenty years from France? All that passed in the passage?
A. Yes.
Q. How long a time might you be in the passage?
A. Not longer than five minutes before I went to call Mr. Wright.
Q. Do you mean you were with him only five minutes before you went up stairs to call Mr. Wright, or altogether?
A. Altogether I suppose about that, I cannot speak to a minute; but he was in great haste to get away.
Q. How long do you think this person was altogether at Mr. Wright's?
A. I should think not more than twenty minutes.
Q. Where were the candles all this time you were in the passage with him?
A. I had them in my hand.
Q. What did you do with them when you went up to Mr. Wright?
A. I left them with him in the parlour; boots got me a candle.
Q. You held the candles in your own hand while you remained in the passage?
A. Yes, while the boots unlocked the parlour door, and I went and put them on the table.
Q. Before you went up stairs?
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