The Steam-Packet: A Tale of the River and the Ocean — page 339: what you’re looking at

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258 THE STEAM PACKET, “Well, upon my honour, this is a pretty prospect—a very pretty prospect!” said Buckram, musingly. ‘‘ A regular night of adventures —just such a night as I had on one occasion with the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, when fs aaah ” said Mr. Pifpat: >: “T think I hear something—no— A yes “Yes, by all that’s good—’tis a footstep!” ejaculated the tailor, joyfully. Nor did the ears of the gentlemen deceive them: an honest la- bourer shortly came up to the spot where they were bound to the tree; and a few moments saw them once again in possession of their freedom. They returned thanks, in the best manner they were able, to their liberator; anda brisk walk of about half an hour brought them to the entrance of Boulogne. Another fifteen minutes, and they crossed the threshold of the Hotel d’Angleterre—having previously agreed upon the account they were to give of themselves, in order that no suspicion of their gallantries at the ball-room might transpire to their prejudice. CHAPTER XXIII. IN WHICH CAPTAIN PENTONVILLE AND THE TAILOR DISCUSS THEIR PROSPECTS. Captain PENTONVILLE was loung- ing in the gateway of the Hotel ceding chapter, when he was accosted very sallow complexion, a stoop amounting almost to a hump-back, and a certain scowl upon his coun- tenance which did not prepossess our hero in his favour. The captain surveyed the old gentleman with dis- like, but still with a certain feeling of awe; and this latter seater prevented him from returning a rude and ree answer to the query addressed to him. We must also d’Angleterre, on the morning after the adventure related in the pre- by an old English gentleman, with a Gomicbooks.co