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"How was I to know you would come barging in like this? I never wanted you to meet him." More self-control needed. "I shall be perfectly pleasant and chatty to him," said Luke resolutely. "This letter's just come for you," said Mabel. "The address is in Lady Tyburn's handwriting." He blushed profusely. His ears waved to and fro. Why on earth had not Jona warned him that this was going to happen?
These, I was told, were the friends of the persons executed, or such as for the sake of tumult chose to appear so; and some persons sent by private surgeons to obtain bodies for dissection. The psalm is mentioned in a note on the line in The Dunciad, i. 4l, 'Hence hymning Tyburn's elegiac lines: 'It is an ancient English custom, says Pope, 'for the malefactors to sing a psalm at their execution at Tyburn.
The story of Tyburn's practical joke of the previous evening had upset him. He did not like these practical jokes. He was nervous. He felt that at any moment, at a preconcerted signal, the table might blow up, or the ceiling fall down. Everybody else would laugh, and he would hate it.
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