Category: Short Stories
My great anxiety now was to reach the foot of the English throne as soon as possible; and I consulted my infidel friend upon the safest, easiest, and least public manner of putting my project into execution. I had thought it right to place sufficient confidence in him to infor...
But the matter did not end here. Miss Grampus's departure elicited from her a disclosure of several circumstances which, we must say, in no degree increased the reputation of Mi...
14. CHAPTER III.A full hour after Darby's departure I ventured to open the little dog-eared volume which he had thrown upon my table. The title-page was a curious specimen of that lingual learn...
9. CHAPTER X.I returned to my lodging full of thought. What with the conversations I had heard in the coach, what with the strange sayings of Mrs. Figsby and her husband, I began to have my...
15. CHAPTER II.To the best of our belief, Paris is the only city in Europe where a prize is annually distributed for the encouragement of VIRTUE. In England--that Joseph Surface of the civiliz...
3. CHAPTER II.The Sunday after Darby _lingeringly_ started, I began to think it would be just as well to make "assurance doubly sure;" so I despatched a letter by post to my friend at Bally--...
7. SCENE III.A drawing-room; doors in the flat; one opening into Miss Juliana Smashaway's boudoir, and the other to her bed-chamber. She is discovered standing at the window in a pensive att...
11. CHAPTER II.Five years elapsed. The grief occasioned by my mother's death having in some measure subsided, my thoughts became concentrated upon myself with an intensity scarcely to be conce...
2. CHAPTER VIII.We continued to drive onwards: the faster we went, the more the infidels argued. I sat in my corner guessing my way through their words, and already making up in my mind the sor...
10. CHAPTER I.As I do not intend that any human being shall read this narrative until after my decease, I feel no desire to suppress or to falsify any occurrence or event of my life, which I...
8. CHAPTER IX.I alighted with my friend at the caravanserai where the coach had stopped, and there he advised me to put up for the night, promising to come on the following morning to assist...
12. CHAPTER I.I have often remarked that, among other ornaments and curiosities, Hackney contains more ladies' schools than are to be found in almost any other village, or indeed city, in Eur...
1. CHAPTER VII.My great anxiety now was to reach the foot of the English throne as soon as possible; and I consulted my infidel friend upon the safest, easiest, and least public manner of putt...
5. ACT II.--SCENE I.A public-house, "Black Horse," in the Borough. A tap-room. _Mags_ and _Poppleton_ discovered drinking "heavy wet." _Mags_ rather fresh, and _Poppleton_ evidently the worse of li...
6. SCENE II.Thompson and Fearon's, Holborn; gin-palace at full work; company less select than numerous, and ladies and gentlemen taking "some'ut short" at the counter. Enter, in full unifor...
4. ACT II._Grand Overture_,--composed jointly by Spohr, Haynes Bayly, Newkom, and Rossini, and performed by the largest orchestra ever collected in a European theatre, assisted by the Duk...