Miss Slade obeyed, and followed her aunt into the middle room at the back, where, by means of a match dipped into a bottle of phosphorus.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
"Oh, yes, auntie, I see," said Miss Slade, resting her fat cheeks on her fat fingers, and watching attentively as her aunt took out a seal from a tin box, one that looked as if it were made of putty, and compared it with the sealing-wax on the letter.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
In 1876 he exposed the spiritist medium Slade, and procured his conviction.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler