A Famous Forgery Being the Story of the Unfortunate Doctor Dodd
A Famous Forgery Being the Story of the Unfortunate Doctor Dodd
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
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The two together Avent a little in ease of the devoimng annuities^ and the "voluptuous" tavern dinners. But this prefer- ment brought with it, also, an adventm'e whicli had near been fatal. He was coming up in his post- chaise Avith ]\Ii's. Dodd from his new living, when he was stopped near the Tottenham-road turnpike by a momited highwajinan. This was the common proba- tion for travellers making London ; but this free- /'Ijooter, who had some reputation in his profession, and was called Willia...m Griffith, tm*ned back, as he was riding away, and discharged his pistol full at the Avindow. The ball did no more damage than break- 7G A FAMOUS FOEGERY. ing tlie window: "happily, as it was tlien tJtought" odfWj adds " an editor " of one of the Doctor's books. Personal courage was said not to be one of his quali- ties ; and in his evil day, when men with a strange lack of charity went about raking from corners, and sewers, and dust-bins, and publishing every degraded nimour and vrdgar story that could be found, some one came with a legend of bo}dsh London days, when he was in his teens.
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