waif-flask

Updated: May 21, 2025

And Henry Auverquerque, Earl of Grantham, told John Baron Colepepper the whole anecdote how the waif-flask had been carried to the Admiralty, about the parchment of the Comprachicos, the jussu regis, countersigned Jeffreys, and the confrontation in the torture-cell at Southwark, the proof of all the facts acknowledged by the Lord Chancellor and by the Queen; the taking the test under the nave, and finally the admission of Lord Fermain Clancharlie at the commencement of the sitting.

Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs