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ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD 589
CHAPTER XXXIX
IN WHICH SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE THEIR TRIALS
IF Philip and his friend had happened to pass through High
Street, Marylebone, on their way to Thornhaugh Street to
reconnoitre the Little Sister's house, they would have seen the
Reverend Mr. Hunt, in a very dirty, battered, crestfallen, and unsatisfactory
state, marching to Marylebone from the station, where
the reverend gentleman had passed the night, and under the custody
of the police. A convoy of street-boys followed the prisoner and his
guard, making sarcastic remarks on both. Hunt's appearance was
not improved since we had the pleasure of meeting him on the
previous evening. With a grizzled beard and hair, a dingy face, a
dingy shirt, and a countenance mottled with dirt and drink, we
may fancy the Reverend man passing in tattered raiment through
the street to make his appearance before the magistrate.
You have no doubt forgotten the narrative which appeared in
the morning papers two days after the Thornhaugh Street incident ;
but my clerk has been at the pains to hunt up and copy the police
report, in which events connected with our history are briefly
recorded.
" MARYLEBONE, Wednesday,—Thomas Tufton Hunt, professing
to be a clergyman, but wearing an appearance of extreme squalor,
was brought before Mr. Beaksby at this office, charged by Z 25
with being drunk and very disorderly on Tuesday se'nnight, and
endeavouring by force and threats to effect his re-entrance into a
house in Thornhaugh Street, from which he had been previously
ejected in a most unclerical and inebriated state.
" On being taken to the station-house, the reverend gentleman
lodged a complaint on his own side, and averred that he had been
stupefied and hocussed in the house in Thornhaugh Street by means
of some drug, and that, whilst in this state, he had been robbed
of a bill for £386, 4s. 3d., drawn by a person in New York, and
accepted by Mr. P. Firmin, barrister, of Parchment Buildings,
Temple.
" Mrs. Brandon, the landlady of the house, No. — Thornhaugh