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Chapter V
“ALCIDE”
Courtlaw took up his hat and coat at once, but Anna motioned him to remain. Jack could
hardly be accounted good-looking: Thames, on the contrary, was one of the
handsomest boys possible. A constant attendant at court, he had the mortification to see every one
promoted but himself, and thus bewails his ill-luck. “We were good friends in
Paris, weren’t we? You made me all sorts of promises, we planned no end of
nice things, and then—without a word to any one you disappeared. “No. ”
“I can’t work. . A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. "My plan is a very simple one," rejoined the thief-taker smiling bitterly. The ladder was now within reach.
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