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`` The girl knows her friends , '' said he . `` She will have her cry out , you may depend ; but after that she will find her way here , and , when she has got over it a little , I shall be sure to learn from her whether he was her lover , and where he was when the place was blown up . A Dence never lies to a Raby . '' But when nine o'clock struck , and there were no tidings of her , Raby began to share the doctor 's uneasiness , and also to be rather angry and impatient . `` Confound the girl ! '' said he . `` Her grandfathers have stood by mine , in their danger and trouble , for two hundred years ; and now , in her trouble , she slinks away from me . ''