Excerpt from The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Vol. 1 of 4: In Which Are Included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality In the midil of this agony he made one defperate effort, and hurtling Open the door 01 h: s apartment, bolted into Hatchway s chambe1, which happened to be on the fame floor. There he found the lieutenant in a counterfeit f\ oon who pieten fled to wake hom his trance in an ejaculation of 'lord have mercy upon us!' And being queitioned by the terrified ccrzmc d01e with regardo to what' had happened, all 11 ed him'o 11e had heard the fame voice and clap oi thunde1 by V-i'lich Trunnionhiml elf had been difcompoled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.