Category: Humour
_Lady Cantire (entering)._ Down already, ALBINIA? I _thought_ if I made haste I should get a quiet chat with you before anybody else came in. What is that paper? Oh, the list of couples for RUPERT. May I see? (_As_ Lady CULVERIN _surrenders it_.) My dear, you're _not_ going to...
The poor patient at Slocum-on-Slush moaned. He had been practically awake for a month, and nothing could send him to sleep. The Doctor held his wrist, and as he felt the rapid b...
1. SCENE XVI.--_The Chinese Drawing Room at Wyvern._Lady Cantire (entering)._ Down already, ALBINIA? I _thought_ if I made haste I should get a quiet chat with you before anybody else came in. What is that paper? Oh, the list of...
3. VOLUME II.--_Wide Awake.Messrs. BINDING AND PRINT had received their visitor with courtesy. They did not require to read _Douglas the Doomed One_. They had discovered that it was sufficiently long to m...
2. VOLUME I.--_Awakening.AND so the work was done. BELINDA, after a year's hard writing, had completed her self-appointed task. _Douglas the Doomed One_ had grown by degrees into its present proportions...