Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 176
d on making the sacrifice of the latter, and in a moment of desperation heprepared the fatal lather, which he smeared with frantic energy all over his face. He didnot, however, immediately summon resolution to apply the devastating blade, and it was aquestion for a moment whether the whiskers would… … Our hero thought of the last rose of summer, and dabbed a quantity of fresh lather onto the remaining whisker, and in a few minutes it was, as the song says, Off, off, andaway! ! and Hugh de Holborn was a wretched, whiskerless man. ********* The result may be briefly told. Hugh and Leonora met at…
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