Category: Short Stories

Mudfog and Other Sketches

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Chapters

7. Chapter 7

Take that old gentleman who has just emerged from the _Café de l’Europe_ in the Haymarket, where he has been dining at the expense of the young man upon town with whom he shakes...

2. Chapter 2

The church-clock struck one. A cracked trumpet from the front garden of Mudfog Hall produced a feeble flourish, as if some asthmatic person had coughed into it accidentally; the...

4. Chapter 4

‘THE PRESIDENT wished to know whether any Member of the section had ever seen or conversed with the pig-faced lady, who was reported to have worn a black velvet mask, and to hav...

3. Chapter 3

‘AT an early hour this morning the bells of all the churches struck seven o’clock; the effect of which, in the present lively state of the town, was extremely singular. While I...

5. Chapter 5

‘As I anticipated, the knobs of cheese were provided for the passengers’ supper, and are now in course of consumption. Your readers will be surprised to hear that Professor Wood...

6. Chapter 6

‘MR. CRINKLES said, that if the objection were found to be insuperable he should apply to Parliament, which he thought could not fail to recognise the utility of the invention.

1. Chapter 1

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8. Chapter 8

When the salt-cellar, and the fowl’s breast, and the trifle, and the lobster salad were all exhausted, and could not afford standing-room for another solitary witticism, the kee...