Excerpt from The Fat of the Land, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel

It did not take the party many minutes to convince themselves of the truth of Dobree's assertion. The porch door was found on examination to be fast locked, and, worse still, the key had evidently been withdrawn.

The presumption held more than ever that the beggar-men had either in frolic or from spite played this uncomfortable trick upon the visitors. Mr Clavering's testimony that the copper he had given to one of them in answer to his appeal for relief had been thrown contemptuously on the ground, served to strengthen the opinion that ill-feeling, rather than frolic, had prompted the men to behave in this manner.

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