Chapter 21: Curtain Polls

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​⁠There had been nothing to prepare Curtain Wells for its chastizement. No wreathed pamphlet warned readers in the most choice preliminary duff that a sarcastick comet would presently singe their vices, their follies and their vanities. Nobody had been invited to subscribe in advance to his own ridicule. As it were on the wings of a Westerly gale, these destructive little volumes settled upon the fi