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Updated: May 15, 2025
Then the boat-hook he wielded with a circular sweep began to take grotesque shapes in my heated fancy; now it was the antenna of a groping insect, now the crank of a cripple's selfpropelled perambulator, now the alpenstock of a lunatic mountaineer, who sits in his chair and climbs and climbs to some phantom 'watershed'. At the back of such mind as was left me lodged two insistent thoughts: 'we must hurry on, 'we are going wrong. As to the latter, take a link-boy through a London fog and you will experience the same thing: he always goes the way you think is wrong.
It was like the chesire cat that kept appearing and disappearing until he made Alice dizzy. We finally found a link-boy and he finally found the McCarthy's house, and I left them giving Ethel quinine and whiskey. They wanted me to stay, but I could not face dressing, in the morning. So I felt my way home and only got lost twice. The Arch on Constitution Hill gave me much trouble.
Excuse me for being so troublesome, but what the devil have I done with my fork? Thank you, I am sure. Temulentia, quoad me ipsum, brevis colligo est. I sit and eat, sir, in a London fog. I should bring a link-boy to table with me; and I would too, if the little brutes were only washed! I intend to found a Philanthropical Society for Washing the Deserving Poor and Shaving Soldiers.
He who was of a stature to snatch the torch of life that flashes from lifted hand to hand along the generations, over the heads of inferior men, chose rather to be a link-boy to the stews....
'You must knock again, if you please. 'There ain't a bell, is there, ma'am? said the short chairman. 'Yes, there is, interposed the link-boy, 'I've been a-ringing at it ever so long. 'It's only a handle, said Mrs. Dowler, 'the wire's broken. 'I wish the servants' heads wos, growled the long man. 'I must trouble you to knock again, if you please, said Mrs.
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