When at length they rose to go to bed, it struck each man as he followed his neighbour upstairs that the one before him walked very crookedly. (Robert Smith Surtees)

When at length they rose to go to bed, it struck each man as he followed his neighbour upstairs that the one before him walked very crookedly.

Robert Smith Surtees

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