Burton & Swinburne 1 - the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Burton & Swinburne 1 - the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
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-CORD BYRON It took him nearly three months to recover his wits,“ said Henry de la Poet Beresford. ”Though `recover' may be too optimistic a word, for I assure you that, by this point, the time traveller was quite demented." Supporting himself on his knuckles, he lurched around the banqueting table as he continued his tale; and every word he uttered, in that thick, guttural voice of his, was heard by Sir Richard Francis Burton, who lay hidden overhead....
"We arranged to meet again on September 28, 1843. He did his vanishing trick, and, over the course of the next three years, I monitored the Battersea girls, their marriages, and their subsequent children. By this time, of course, my reputation was such as to make it impossible to get close to the families, and I was unable to establish which of the daughters bore the Oxford birthmark.
“I reported this to Oxford three years after he'd departed, and he flew into such a fit of temper that, had he dropped dead from apoplexy, I would not have been surprised.MoreLess
-CORD BYRON It took him nearly three months to recover his wits,“ said Henry de la Poet Beresford. ”Though `recover' may be too optimistic a word, for I assure you that, by this point, the time traveller was quite demented." Supporting himself on his knuckles, he lurched around the banqueting table as he continued his tale; and every word he uttered, in that thick, guttural voice of his, was heard by Sir Richard Francis Burton, who lay hidden overhead....
"We arranged to meet again on September 28, 1843. He did his vanishing trick, and, over the course of the next three years, I monitored the Battersea girls, their marriages, and their subsequent children. By this time, of course, my reputation was such as to make it impossible to get close to the families, and I was unable to establish which of the daughters bore the Oxford birthmark.
“I reported this to Oxford three years after he'd departed, and he flew into such a fit of temper that, had he dropped dead from apoplexy, I would not have been surprised.MoreLess
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