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The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England (Volume 3-4 ); Being a Continuation of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage, Byy the Author of Dr. Syntax's Tour in Searc - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817. Excerpt: ... blood, accompanied him to his lodgings, to settle their accounts; and when this unhappy, but honourable manj had satisfied him to the utmost of his power,--' I have,' said he, 'paid the debt I owed you;--it now becomes me to discharge another, whicWI owe to myself:--Do not be alarmed,--I am only going to do that. now, which you will probably find it ne-'eessary to do-hereafter;'--and, taking a, pistol from his bureau, which had beenprepared for the event, he put an immediate end to his existence. "Such, my friend, is-the philosophy of gaming; and, for the present, I shall only repeat the observation, which,. if I mistake not, I have already made to you,-that to say a man is a gamester, is to represent' him as devoid of every quality that can ennoble the human mind.--The fate of such a character must be already pretty well known to you, as it relates to this world;--when, however, I perform my promise of discovering to you a prospect of the infer jial regions, you shall be satisfied as to his allotment in another." "But this seems," said Don Cleofas, "to be rather a fatal spot; for, in the very next house I have this instant seen a gentleman, of an Herculean figure, throw a little, prim, well-dressed man down a flight of stairs, with a degree of violence which makes me tremble for his life." "He is not dead yet, however,' answered the Demon, "for his outcries are loud enough to reach us. The fall, it is true, was a very severe one,--but, luckily, he is more frightened than hurt;--nor are any of his limbs broken:--a few' handsome bruises, of which, by the bye, he can cure himself, are all the inconveniences he will suffer from the shock he has received;--and there is, withal, something so truly ridiculous in his disaster, that his best.. friends will not ...
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