Charley Kingston's aunt / by Pen Oliver [pseud.].

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Charley Kingston's aunt / by Pen Oliver [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    difficulty about entering in the morniug. With a good deal of persuasion, and some cajolery, I at last obtained his consent to my going on these terms, and thus furnished with all that was neces- sary, I started on my expedition, in high spirits at the success which had thus far attended it. I pursued my way rapidly, fearing that suspicion might arise in the porter's mind on more matured consideration of my eccentric demands, and that he might after all feel it to be his duty to follow me. I well knew my way to the little street, and then remembered that, commanding a corner hard by the gate by which I was to enter, there was a small public-house, a place not unknown to some of the wilder and idler students, who found occa- sional means of exit from distasteful work in order to obtain refreshment, or to relax a brain overtaxed with anatomical studies by playing fifty up on a third-rate billiard table in the back parlour. The presence of only one individual who knew me, or of a too inquisitive neighbour, might be fatal to my scheme, and I arrived within sight of the spot, watching carefully the aspect of the narrow track to be passed, and which, thanks to the brilliant lamp of the public-house, was but too