Dapperwick’s fingers were fluttering moth-like over the page of George’s drawing-book, which lay open before him on his library’s writing table, around which we all stood: the old anatomist, the young artist, Luke Fidelis and myself. ‘Am I to understand,’ Dapperwick continued, ‘that the original ...
He withdrew without further comment. I picked it up. It was headed, CONTESTED PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION AT PRESTON. NOTICE OF RULES AND PROCEDURES, and the authority at the bottom was that of Mayor Biggs. Below his name in small print it said that Oswald Mallender was charged with posting this bill ...
In this way, after little more than a half hour, the two burly workmen had completed three of the four cuts necessary to remove the iron casing that contained the lock’s mechanism. When I returned from Fisher Gate they were half way through the fourth, though by now they were growing tired, and a...