Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . §5IP1#. m\ Wk 390 TWICE HOTJXD THE CLOCK. of the throng; then the police came down in great force, and, afterknocking a great many people about who were not in the slightestdegree implicated in the disturbance, at last pitched upon the rightparties, and bore the pugnacious Pierrot and the disorderly Cavalier offto the station-house. It is but due to the managers of the masqueradeto state, that no such scandalous melees take place within the precinctsof the theatre itself. The masters of the ceremonies and the police onduty
Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London . §5IP1#. m\ Wk 390 TWICE HOTJXD THE CLOCK. of the throng; then the police came down in great force, and, afterknocking a great many people about who were not in the slightestdegree implicated in the disturbance, at last pitched upon the rightparties, and bore the pugnacious Pierrot and the disorderly Cavalier offto the station-house. It is but due to the managers of the masqueradeto state, that no such scandalous melees take place within the precinctsof the theatre itself. The masters of the ceremonies and the police onduty take care of that : but such little accidents will happen, outside,after the best-regulated masquerades. To the station-house, then, to the abode of captivity and the hallof justice. The complaining postilion and his friends, accompanied bya motley procession of tag-rag and bob-tail, press triumphantly we follow also ? In a commodious gas-lit box, surrounded by books and papers, andwith a mighty folio of loose leaves open before himâa book of Fate, intruthâ
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