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Another brought a large playbill from
Chatteris, and wafered it there one night. On one occasion Pen, riding
through the Lower Town, fancied he heard the Factory boys jeer him; and
finally going through the Doctor's gate into the churchyard, where some
of Wapshot's boys were lounging, the biggest of them, a young gentleman
about twenty years of age, son of a neighbouring small Squire, who lived
in the doubtful capacity of parlour-boarder with Mr. Wapshot, flung
himself into a theatrical attitude near a newly-made grave, and began
repeating Hamlet's verses over Ophelia, with a hideous leer at Pen. The
young fellow was so enraged that he rushed at Hobnell Major with a shriek
very much resembling an oath, cut him furiously across the face with the
riding-whip which he carried, flung it away, calling upon the cowardly
villain to defend himself, and in another minute knocked the bewildered
young ruffian into the grave which was just waiting for a different
lodger.
Then with his fists clenched, and his face quivering with passion and
indignation, he roared out to Mr.


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