Word: twitches
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...Year," the "Falls of Niagara," and other kindred subjects; and ultimately you meet him in a small cabinet from which the staircase descends to an oubliette. You receive him with civility and extend your hand. He extends his hand in return. You seize him by the arm, twitch him suddenly around to the head of the staircase, apply the hobnailed shoe to his person, and send him flying down stairs into the oubliette. Then, after the noise of his fall is over, you rearrange your dress, ring for the butler, order a bottle of your best Old Madeira, - a wine...