TURPIN - he was a right bastard

The Dark and Dirty Deeds of Dick

Saturday, April 8

Mind your Ps and Qs... peas and queues... piece and cues...

PRISON, play, pretend, purse, pistol, PULLEN, poet, people, perverse/perversion/pervert, peace, period, PENALTY, planets, St. Peter, pamphlet, peddler, pick-pocket, popular, poplar, propensity ("Positive propensity to commit certain kinds of violent crime" - John Clavell, re. gentlemen), padding, polite, PRESTIGE, place, property, poor, profligate, "PULL'D TO HEAVEN ON A STRING" (= hanged), power, presence, pebble (in mouth to alter voice), presume, prayers, pardon, pass, pub, prepare, pronounce, pardon, pleasure, prize, price, pirate, pike, profession, pulpit, pliable, post-chaise, possibilities, PURSUE, PENITENT, Pompadour Rivernall (Dick's brother-in-law, husband of Dorothy Turpin - in 1739 he refuses Dick's letter, bringing about indirectly his unmasking and his death), path, pug, painter, posse, puzzled, pride, pound, pouch, paunch, punch, perch, piss, penis, prick, pock-mark, pox, pillory...

Thoughts for Chapter 7, DICK

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