The String of Pearls (1850), p. 153

something rather than that, and our cook, although he was about as desperate a cook as the world ever saw, did not like yet to say die. Now, in that curious combination of passions, impulses, and prejudices in the mind of this man, it would be a hard case if some scheme of action did not present itself, even in cir-

The Flight of Tobias from Peckham Mad-House

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cumstances of the greatest possible seeming depression, and so, after a time, the cook did think of something to do.
"Many of these pies," he said to himself, "are not eaten in the shop, ergo their are eaten out of the shop, and possibly at the respective houses of tne purchasers—what more feasible mode of disclosing my position, and "the secrets