There are several pictures of Ignatius that float around online, and I’ve waited to see when the references to them will appear in the text itself. Recently we saw the cockatoo from the cover of my edition, and now we’ve seen the origin of the cutlass in the cover above. Ignatius’s duel with Mr. Clyde, while mostly a bit of boyish horseplay, is a rare l…
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