“Vengeance! Vengeance! I will yet be avenged! In the meantime, let me seek an hour’s repose!”
“Vengeance! Vengeance! I will yet be avenged! In the meantime, let me seek an hour’s repose!”
In 1838 Charles Dickens’s character Mr Pickwick embarked on further adventures into France, and these were published in The Monthly Magazine by a man calling himself “Parisianus.” In this story Pickwick stops to talk to a French gendarme and learns the fate of a parricide.