Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens
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of the houses--ay, be they Black Boys and Stomach-aches, or Boot-
jacks and Countenances, I care not.' 'Nine o'clock. 'I have procured a local artist to make a faithful sketch of the tyrant Sowster, which, as he has acquired this infamous celebrity, you will no doubt wish to have engraved for the purpose of presenting a copy with every copy of your next number. I enclose it. [Picture which cannot be reproduced] The under-beadle has consented to write his life, but it is to be strictly anonymous. 'The accompanying likeness is of course from the life, and complete in every respect. Even if I had been totally ignorant of the man's real character, and it had been placed before me without remark, I should have shuddered involuntarily. There is an intense malignity of expression in the features, and a baleful ferocity of purpose in the ruffian's eye, which appals and sickens. His whole air is rampant with cruelty, nor is the stomach less characteristic of his demoniac propensities.' 'Monday. 'The great day has at length arrived. I have neither eyes, nor ears, nor pens, nor ink, nor paper, for anything but the wonderful proceedings that have astounded my senses. Let me collect my |
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