Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 210
t on some plan to save usfrom the disgrace of returning quite empty-handed ? Certainly, replied Giovanni. I suggest that you take away the statue, as theorigin of all the mischief. Agreed! agreed! they all cried, with delight; and, seizing upon the unfortunatefigure, they dragged it down a huge… … The incident, however, had a more serious effect on Giovanni than might at first beimagined. Repenting of all his sins, he led a life of such privation and abstinence, that hewas canonised after his death as San Juanito de Sevila. The reason why this true history differs so much from the tale as…
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