“He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.”

— F. Anstey

Source: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 3, “The Third Cheque”

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English novelist and journalist 1856–1934

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