Not quite teleportation

Charles Dickens, from Bleak House (1853).

Dickens believed in the spontaneous combustion of persons. He did not, as far as I know, believe in teleportation. But Tulkinghorn’s form of movement is at least close.

Also from Bleak House
At Peffer and Snagsby’s : Bucket’s Moleskine? : Dickens in the house : Five sentences : Gridley’s monologue : “It must be a strange state” : Jellyby closets : Learning to write : Living on credit : “London particular” : Reading don’t pay : “Town-talk”