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whereby a tremendous scramble " was occasioned , and the professor was overthrown in < 8 Ktl ^ e' ^ fl bWpof hfs . gr ^ etKnVss , and extricated wkiiomU € b ! Uj ^ cWty ^ Pi > t «// U bar 1 «? at fi % Supe rintu&bent ? bdrfies . H ^ jwfs Jb » ora ^ auk * en fc ^ testek > 4 Bflt probably fc-Yi ^ s used to it > fo © he Teturried iiiiia few uiijiiitea as wisb as ever ! I 1 / ; . / f n
Nine o- ^ lpek , and no Pivofc i At half-past ten 2 the lights all bwn » d blue , and , everybody said the court mechanician was cer * tainiy rauiiug ii w * to ^ deliver his much-advertised speech ; But no ; there wasmo Pivot ! What did he mean by keeping them all waiting in this infamous manner ? The Marquis of Tipsy cake again commenced punning " . The head professor retired to the
end of the great hall , vacating his chair entirely . The Lillyhood of Lookin glass Vale smiled mellifluously upon the marquis : She had . often done so before , not omitting an occasional deep sig h * ( in a long parenthesis , ) as she caught the glance of his lovely eyes . But it would not do : he still continued his rascally single life . ' . ,
Eleven o ' clock , and no Pivot ! What is to be thought of 4 his masj ; abominable behaviour V exclaimed a thousand voices ; ' , Wbxf is to be done ? ' exclaimed a hundred and fifty voices . ; ' Let us go , ^ muttered twenty voices . And out of the three hundred . and sixty * fiver thousand , men and women then and there assembled ; two dwarfs actually did go . They said Mr . Pivot and his speech might just . be d : ( f , ^ i / ,
A sudden wind now wafted through the great hall ; low , steady , awful , and prelusive ; real to the imagination ; to tha . seasGS , apocryphal ; Excitement and apprehension prevented ; theiit / eeling how deuced cold it was : it felt like nothing particular , hut promised every thing uncommon . ; .....-. ti ,,, _ , The bell of the great cathedral of Puppetdom niw'tolldd
twelve , in a style truly ponderous . Well might the whole aSsera bly cry out fearfully at eacli successive boom . ' Oli > M ^ Pivot ! —great Mr . Pivot !—wonderful mechanician do not get us into a scrape ! ' As the last blow ceased humming , a rich ideal strain of music swept down in full quire from the darkly vast a lid lofty arch of the hall , and Mr . Pivot entered in his saute coloured
coat . . •« ¦ ii . n : r-Grave was the face of Pivot at all times . It was . ucnr graver than any puppet had ever seen it before . His cheek-bones ' looked higher than usual , his forehead more pale , his lips more rigifl , and his eves more unintelligible . An exceedingly u ^ ly man was Mr . Pivot always accounted ; his nice was a map of thought / In his right hand he held a triangle , and he was followed by'a whimpering p ^ ge , carrying an enormous ladle-shaped , loiutf-hantlled jpefldulum . It seemed long enough to string and dip -into i
thsblL yj ^ V kVi ., »¦ # i ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ i ¦ ' • i . . i ¦ ;^ ... ¦ < j , n < i ¦ ' <\ 'Yoi awing and idip into futurity I' said Mr . > Pivot , takib £ f > iip the ( eopiktftttd in ^ agi >» atttH ) sotjmU pieSQHti . AiHl'with tJh ^ Wwbrds
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/41/
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