[The Buffer tells the Resurrection Man and the Lully Prig that Lafleur has swindled them] — illustration for G. W. M. Reynolds’s “The Mysteries of London” by G. Stiff

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The Buffer tells the Resurrection Man and the Lully Prig that Lafleur has swindled them

G. Stiff

1846

Wood engraving

Source: The Project Gutenberg version of G. W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London

This plate, which like the others in the book, has no caption. It appears in a chapter after the passage it illustrates (see below).

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Passage illustrated

"Why, he gave me the slip at last," answered the Buffer, pouring himself out half a tumbler of raw spirit, which he drank without winking, just as if it were so much water. "You see, he kept me humbugging about in Paris week after week, always saying that it wasn't prudent to begin smashing the notes yet awhile; and I stuck to him like a leech. I shan't make a long story on it now—I'm too vexed: all I'll tell you at present is that four days ago he gave me the slip; and so I twigged that it was all gammon. He'd done us brown—that was wery clear;—and so I come back."— Volume 2, Chapter 209, “Alderman Sniff.— Tomlinson and Greenwood”

Bibliography

Reynolds, George W. M. The Mysteries of London. vol 2. London: George Vickers, 1846. Project Gutenberg EBook #51294. Produced by Richard Tonsing, Chuck Greif, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Web. 3 October 2016.

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