Corner (The)
.Tattersall’s horsestores and betting-rooms, Knightsbridge Green. They were once at the corner of Hyde Park.
To make a corner. To combine in order to control the price of a given article, and thus secure enormous profits. (See Corner.)
What have I done to deserve a corner? To deserve punishment. The allusion is to setting naughty children in a corner by way of punishment.
“There’s nothing I have done yet, oʹ my conscience,
Deserves a corner.”
