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The hero of the following sketch, though now too wealthy to incur adventures such as the one I am about to tell, is, in other respects, so unchanged, that our fair Amalekites will readily guess who sat for this portrait, even if they have not previously heard the tale from the original’s own lips:- Beneath the starlight, uneclipsed … Read More “Short story: The Conquest, or a Mail Companion (1837)” »