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The next morning was as fine as ever Dutchwoman could wish for a skate to market . When Peregrine arrived at the Regent ' s Park , he found it wanted a quarter to two . The water was frozen over , and the ice covered witn skaters . When the clock of the
new church struck two , he got very fidgetty , and began seriously to think of applying to the snuff-box ; rather querying if he had not altogether been humbugged . Just at that instant , however , he felt a pull at the tail of his coat ; and , turning round sharp , he saw his little spiritual guide , apparently in a perspiration .
c Dear me / said the dwarf , * I am only just in time ; let us walk on fast ; I can talk to you as we go . Do you know , Mr . Twist , I have not progressed so rapidly since the day I heard the event of the great battle , so well described by your Milton . While I was away , sir , a comet came down , and so cut up the road , that I had to go ten millions of miles round . Now , I am no friend to arbitrary restrictions ; but if there is not some stop put to the licentiousness of t hose comets , I predict the
overturning of all the existing institutions of the universe . But stop a moment , Mr . Twist , we are in the right place now . ' At the place where they stopped , a lady and gentleman were talking to each other across the water , or rather the ice . Peregrine immediately recognised his dear Dorothy and the elderly person who was with her at the theatre .
e My dear / said the old gentleman , who was undoing his skates , * you must come across to me , and then we shall save a mile round , at least . ' I can ' t ,, dear Papa ,, indeed , ' answered Dorothy ; ' I am quite afraid . ' ' Stuff , child ! ' said Papa . ' Come . '
Dorothy did come ; half way , at least ; and then she popped through the ice into the water . The elderly man set up a loud shout of helpless agony ; but Peregrine ran on the ice , and plumped right into the place where sne had fallen . Assisted by his invisible servant , he got her into his arms ; and then broke , splashed , waded and scrambled to the shore , where a tolerable
number of persons had collected . The multitude received him with an English shout of laudation . Peregrine would not relinquish his dear burthen until he reached one of the lodges , followed by the happy , weeping papa , and the crowd . Then papa got into a hackney coach , with his daughter , and expressed his gratitude to Peregrine , by inviting him that day to dinner . When the beautiful clock , on the beautiful mantelpiece of Mr .
John Shock ' s beautiful drawing-room , began to play the beautiful air of ' Fivi tut' Mr . John Shock , who was an oM-fashioned , early man , and dined , when he could , precisely at seven , began to express , aotto voce , his hope that the invited would not keep the dinner waiting . Already were assembled , his son , Mr . Augustus Shock , and his son ' s friend , Mr . Raphael Topenny ; his
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The Magic Snuff-box . 851
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 851, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/33/
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