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CHAPTER XIV. THE TABLES TURNED—THE SAILOR’S STORY.
“As thou urgest justice, be assur’d
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir’st.”
Shakspere.
Proverbs may be musty matters; but take them generally, and how admirably do they establish facts! “Between the cup and lip” slips are frequent and, as events turned out, Mr. Montague, of comic celebrity, was fated to point that moral.