Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 87
the spot I had just left. I guessed, with a cold shudder, whoit was, and paused to breathe more freely. I turned round : it was the poor fellowwho had been so hotly pursuing me! I lingered long enough near the spot to ascertainthat he was got out, and then hastily repaired to the nearest hotel,… … left town the following day, and have never seen my friend since ; hut (I do not say ithoastingly) I can now venture on the ice without the fear of being driven by a skatingbaiUff to risk the Scylla of the Serpentine to avoid the Charybdis of the sponging-house.As no tale is complete now-a-days…
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