# A Society Clown: Reminiscences

Author: Grossmith, George, 1847-1912

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53225

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Society+Clown%3A+Reminiscences+Grossmith&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was one dark, dank, dreary, dismal night in February, 1888 (I believe that is the way to commence a book, no matter what the subject be), when the present writer might have been seen standing, with other gentlemen, in a sombre dining-room brilliantly illuminated with one ceiling-lamp buried in a deep red shade. We were standing round the dining-room table, each with a dinner-napkin in the left hand; while the right hand was occupied in moving back chairs, to permit of the departure of the ladies for the drawing-room. I could not help thinking that, as they filed off, the ladies looked like queens; while we (especially with the aid of the serviettes) looked like waiters. The gentlemen d...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/12/index.md)
- [PART IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part II. will consist of Scenes from the _Merchant of Venice_,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/8/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/7/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-society-clown-reminiscences-53225/chapters/9/index.md)