One False Step
Louisa Musgrove (in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Persuasion’) liked to have Captain Wentworth catch her as she jumped down from a height, and tried it on the steps down to the lower level of the promenade at Lyme Bay. However, she jumped before the Captain was ready, sprawled on the stone-flagged pavement, and knocked herself unconscious – or worse.
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