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 Mamselle Bellefesse, the Teacher at the Boarding-school, being call'd up before her time, and in a small building which looks into the road just at the turn, her watch luckily by her side, saw the strange gentleman pass, precisely at eight and three seconds. She describes him differently from Mary Jenkins, though they both agree in the wings. "Il me sembloit avoir le visage de Cupidon avec les ailes de Psyche "—says Mamselle de B. At eight and six seconds the Blind Beggar, by his computation, heard him pass the Cheese-cake House. At eight and eight seconds A. M. the man coming to sweep the chimneys met him at the finger-post. In a second after, he knock'd down and went over Alice Turner, the Saloup Woman; and exactly at eight and ten seconds, Mary Jenkins saw the last of him. Now calculating the seconds and the distances between each spot where he was seen, it is evident he went at a prodigious rate.