Punch
Having engaged a sleeping-berth I naturally hurried, coin in hand, to the conductor, as all wise travellers do (usually to their discomfiture), to see if I could be accommodated with a compartment to myself and be guaranteed against invasion.
Having engaged a sleeping-berth I naturally hurried, coin in hand, to the conductor, as all wise travellers do (usually to their discomfiture), to see if I could be accommodated...
5. Chapter 5_Jarvis (-to _Virginia_=)._ I'm afraid my conduct must seem very strange, but I had to come back to see you. I--er--lost the shirt-front you gave me. Could you let me have my ow...
3. Chapter 3_Grumpy._ Tut-tut. Is everything just as it was last night? Very well, then. You say that when you discovered Mr. Ernest he was lying on his back, and in his right hand he was c...
2. Chapter 2_Virginia._ Quite accidentally in Hyde Park. He told grandfather a long story about a gold brick, and grandfather was so charmed with him he asked him down at once for the week-...
4. Chapter 4_Keble._ Well, I was known to be jealous of Mr. Heron, Sir. I found Susan sponging his shirt-front, and Susan and I are as good as engaged. _Jarvis (=mildly interested=)._ How _...