The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England (Volume 1-2 ); Being a Continuation of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage, Byy the Author of Dr. Syntax's Tour in Searc

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1817 Excerpt: ... maids, the little niece herself, with two nephews of the merchant, hurried away, and providing themselves with canes and whips, rushed into the lower chamber, where the husband was confined, and wrapping up the poor man's head in the hood of his cloak, to prevent him from giving the alarm, they belaboured him without mercy. The unhappy victim, after a most severe beating, was carried out of the house, and thrown upon a dunghill. The triumphant lady performed her promise, by treating them all, on their return, with the best wine of Burgundy, and then went quietly to supper with her gallant. " As for the jealous husband. the discipline he had received reduced him, as may be supposed, to a very deplorable condition, and, very early the next morning, he was brought, half dead, to his own house. His wife was awakened by the servants from a pleasing dream, which continued in her fancy the agreeable engagement of the preceding night, to be informed that a most melancholy and alarming accident had befallen their master. She immediately rose, threw on her clothes in haste, and hurried away, with a well-dissembled terror in her looks, to enquire the cause of his misfortune.--He also, but from a very different motive, dissembled in his turn, and told her, that he had been attacked on the road by robbers, and left half dead upon the spot.--Alarmed at this information, she ordered a medicinal bath to be immediately prepared for him,--attended him with the most assiduous care, and, having procured the best medical advice, he soon recovered.--However, amidst all his sufferings, he thought himself extremely fortunate in acquiring, even at the expense of so much pain and mortification, the indubitable assurance of his wife's virtue; and continued, from that time, to conduct...