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passed yielded to his impatience and stood
Captain Lawton was too much engrossed in conversation to suffer his eyes to indulge in their usual wandering; and the peddler, perceiving by the voices that the enemy he most feared had passed, yielded to his impatience, and stood erect, in order to make greater progress.
— from The Spy: Condensed for use in schools by James Fenimore Cooper

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