Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 130
ately steals oft in an opposite direction to that which the victim is supposed tohave taken. Sometimes the stage assassin succeeds in getting close behind the goodnobleman without being seen, when it is usual for him to go through sundry evolutionswith his dagger, each of which is more difticult… … THE STAGE ASSASSIN. 97 the good nobleman, who walks coolly out as if nothing had happened, while theassassin follows with a variety of threatening gestures. It sometimes happens that the victim is caught in a storm on the borders of hisown estate, when he turns into a wretchedhovel to pass the…
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