Our friend, Mr. Alfred Jingle, solicitor, arranged everything splendidly. He prevented Luke from inserting, in a moment of enthusiasm, an advertisement under the Fashionable Intelligence in the daily press that a divorce had been arranged and would shortly take place, between Luke Sharper, Esq., formerly of Jawbones, Halfpenny Hole, and Mabel, his wife. The case was undefended, and the day after the decree was made absolute Luke married Jona.
Nor did Mr. Alfred Jingle forget, when he made out his bill of costs, to include in his out-of-pocket expenses, the cost of certain luncheons and drinks which Mr. Sharper would, no doubt, have defrayed had he not at that time been in a condition of absent-mindedness induced by martyrdom.
Not only did Lord Tyburn succeed in getting his photograph on to the back page of the “Daily Mail.” There was also another photograph of the four ladies whom he had married, reading from left to right. He did everything well.
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Transcriber's Notes:
1. This book is a parody on the biographies of it's times; as a result, very few changes have been made, other than obvious typesetter errors.
2. On the title page, there were two lines of words that were typeset with "strikethroughs"; these have been indicated by the addition of "=" before and after the lines.
3. The original book had no Table of Contents; this e-text has added one for the reader’s convenience.