Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 115
n to that which the victim is supposed to have taken. Sometimes thestage assassin succeeds in getting close behind the good nobleman without being seen,when it is usual for him to go through sundry evolutions with his dagger, each of whichis more difficult than to kill tbe intended victim at once;… … THE STAGE ASSASSIN. 97 as if nothing had happened, while the assassin follows mth a variety of threatening-gestures. It sometimes happens that the victim is caught in a storm on the borders of his ownestate, when he turns into a wi-etched hovelto pass the night on a Windsor chair, withhis arm…
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