it on a plate; and as I could not find a knife to cut it with, I asked the young man if he knew where there was one. “There is one,” said he, “upon this cornice over my head:” I accordingly saw it there, and made so much haste to reach it, that, while I had it in my hand, my foot being entangled in the carpet, I fell most unhappily upon the young man, and the knife pierced his heart.
At this spectacle I cried out with agony. I beat my head,
it on a plate; and as I could not find a knife to cut it with, I asked the young man if he knew where there was one. “There is one,” said he, “upon this cornice over my head:” I accordingly saw it there, and made so much haste to reach it, that, while I had it in my hand, my foot being entangled in the carpet, I fell most unhappily upon the young man, and the knife pierced his heart.
At this spectacle I cried out with agony. I beat my head,
