The String of Pearls (1850), p. 625

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nesvetr at Apr 26, 2016 11:07 PM

The String of Pearls (1850), p. 625


It will be a lesson to others how far they interfere with me. Society and I are now fairly at war, and I will win as many battles as I can. They can't say but this is a well-fought one, two to one. Ha! They ought to make me a Field-Marshal. Ha!"
Making the most hideous faces, just for the fun of the thing, Todd made his

[FROM A RARE OLD PAINTING BY READING, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM]{Figure}

way to the parlour, and taking from a corner, where he knew to lay his hands upon them in a moment, a couple of old newspapers, he twisted them up into a kind of torch, and lighting it then at the fire, he went with it flaming in his hand to the passage. The two men lay profoundly still- Terror and the fall they had had,

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It will be a lesson to others how far they interfere with me. Society and 1 are
now fairly at war, and I will win as many battles as I can. They can't say but
this is a well-fought one, two to one. Ha ! They ought to make me a Field-
Marshal. Ha !"„

Making the most hideous faces, just for the fun of the thing, Todd made his

[feom A babe old painting by beading, in the British museum.]

way to the parlour, and taking from a corner, where he knew to lay his hands
u Pon them in a moment, a couple of old newspapers, he twisted them up
>nto a kind of torch, and lighting it then at the fire, he went with it flaming in
his hand to the passage
The two men jay profoundly still- Terror and the fall they had had,

No. 79.