The commissioner: or, de Lunatico inquirendo / With twenty-eight illustrations on steel by Phiz [i.e. H.K. Browne] [Anon].
- George Payne Rainsford James
- Date:
- 1843
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The commissioner: or, de Lunatico inquirendo / With twenty-eight illustrations on steel by Phiz [i.e. H.K. Browne] [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![upon Ills head, lie gave them warning in regard to the employment of their future life, which was destined to be very short. On the Monday morning following these two personages underwent the brutal extremity of tbe English law. If ever two persons did deserve it they did, and the only people to be pitied were the Eng- lish nation, who certainly never did any thing, collectively, to merit the infliction upon them of such disgraceful exhibitions. Jerry Tripe attended the marriage of Harry Worrel, but by that time, reader, he had fallen, quick as it may seem, into an old man. His goodly paunch was gone, his rounded limbs were shrunk, the fiery nose had become blue and jiiiiched, and it was evident that sorrow, regret, and remorse had taken possession of that once merry and reckless heart. Though one could not help condemning him, there Mere few there nvho could help being sorry for him either, M’heu some six months afterwards they laid his head beneath the turf. A fortnight after the M cdding, in a ])retty house that Mr. Longmore had taken near Market Hreeuford, till the castle and hall should be rebuilt, sat the Chevalier de Lunatico, vitli Laura, her husband, Mr. Longmore, and the good surgeon. The chevalier announced to them after dinner, in a tone of much regret, that he must quit them on the following morning early. Each expressed his sorroM', but Mr. Long- shanks exclaimed— “Well, chevalier, I suppose you must go on your journey, to distri- bute your little billets of invitation about the Morld ; and considering all the folly you have seen amongst us, I should not be at all surprised if you took us Mith you.’’ “ No,” replied the chevalier ; “ I see that my instructions ai'e not sufficiently ample, ami I must return for a time to my ou n sphere to take information u])on the subject. I find that every one I have met with has his own jiarticular madness, but in most cases there is some- thing to make me doubt m hether he really belongs to us or not. As soon as I have gained further instructions I shall return to this earth, and then vou shall not fail to have another visit from “ The Commissioner.” THE END. DuUiu: PriiiJvvl by J. S, Foi.ds, Son, nnd PAiroN, 5, Btichclor'i-walk,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29305500_0520.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
