Category: Humour
Cowardice Court
“Never mind, Tompkins. He has no right to fish on this side of that log. The insufferable ass may own the land on the opposite side, but, confound his impertinence, I own it on this side.”
Chapters
5. CHAPTER V--IN WHICH DAN CUPID TRESPASSES
LADY BAZELHURST was right. Penelope was making her way through the blackest of nights toward the home of Randolph Shaw. In deciding upon this step, after long deliberation, she...
4. CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH THE TRUTH TRESPASSESLord and Lady Bazelhurst, with the more energetic members of their party, spent the day in a so-called hunting excursion to the hills south of the Villa. Toward nightfall they r...
3. CHAPTER III--IN WHICH A DOG TRESPASSESPenelope was a perverse and calculating young person. She was her own mistress and privileged to ride as often as she pleased, but it seemed rather odd--although splendidly deco...
2. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH A YOUNG WOMAN TRESPASSESMr. SHAW was a tall young man of thirty or thereabouts, smooth-faced, good-looking and athletic. It was quite true that he wore a red coat when tramping through his woods and va...
1. CHAPTER I--IN WHICH A YOUNG MAN TRESPASSES“Never mind, Tompkins. He has no right to fish on this side of that log. The insufferable ass may own the land on the opposite side, but, confound his impertinence, I own it on...
6. CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH A GHOST TRESPASSESThe impulse which drove Penelope out for the second time that night may be readily appreciated. Its foundation was fear; its subordinate emotions were shame, self-pity and consc...
7. CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH THE AUTHOR TRESPASSESTHIS narrative has quite as much to do with the Bazelhurst side of the controversy as it has with Shaw's. It is therefore but fair that the heroic invasion by Lord Cecil should...