Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

A Counterfeit Presentment; and, The Parlour Car

On a lovely day in September, at that season when the most sentimental of the young maples have begun to redden along the hidden courses of the meadow streams, and the elms, with a sudden impression of despair in their languor, betray flecks of yellow on the green of their pen...

Chapters

8. Part 8

_Constance_, who has crept nearer and nearer while her mother has been reading, as if drawn by a resistless fascination.--"No, it isn't possible! It's false; it's a fraud! I _wi...

7. Part 7

_Cummings_, turning about from the music at which he has been pretending to look, and facing Bartlett, with a slight shrug.--"If you choose to characterise your own behaviour in...

3. Part 3

_Bartlett._--"Mr. Cummings has told me that I have the misfortune to resemble some one with whom you have painful associations. That is quite enough, and entirely justifies you....

1. Part 1

On a lovely day in September, at that season when the most sentimental of the young maples have begun to redden along the hidden courses of the meadow streams, and the elms, wit...

2. Part 2

_Cummings._--"Yes,--oh yes, certainly; certainly, very often, General Wyatt. But"--endeavouring to recover himself--"your name is known to us all, and honoured. I--I am glad to...

6. Part 6

_Mrs. Wyatt._--"What is the matter with Constance, James? Have you been"-- She goes up to the General and discovers his vigilance: "Asleep!" Waking him: "James, James! Is _this_...

9. Part 9

_Mr. R._--"Yes, I understand that perfectly. I am now asking merely for general information. I do not expect you to relent, and in fact I should consider it rather frivolous if...

4. Part 4

_Bartlett_, restored to consciousness and confusion:--"Thanks; I think it will be better." He rises, and in his embarrassment draws a chair to the spot on which he has been knee...

5. Part 5

_Bartlett_, significantly shaking his head.--"Oh, no, no! I said a _pipe_." He rushes to an old studio jacket which the landlady has hung for him on the back of a chair; he dive...