... my little suite of five rooms, a most romantic milieu as they had once served as one of the numerous hiding-places of Dick Turpin. Tradition said that a little window in the drawing-room had afforded him a way of escape whenever arrest was imminent, as ...

... Mephistopheles paused on the scarlet carpet, and, striking an attitude, saluted the assembly with fearful imprecations. Dick Turpin held them up and demanded their purses. Mr. Tree, with one hand on hip and the other stretched out in gesticulation, stalked ...