Punch
The Officers of the Purple Dragoons were gathered together in their ante-room. It was a way they had. They were all there. Grand fellows, too, most of them--tall, broad-shouldered, and silky-haired, and as good as gold. That gets tiresome after a time, but everything can be se...
The Officers of the Purple Dragoons were gathered together in their ante-room. It was a way they had. They were all there. Grand fellows, too, most of them--tall, broad-shoulder...
2. Chapter 2The waiter advanced slowly to FOOTLES, and handed him the letter. FOOTLES took it meditatively, and turned it over in both hands. The post-marks were illegible, and the envelope...
3. Chapter 3Colonel PURSER was a stout, plethoric man. He was five feet seven inches high, forty-five inches round the chest, fifty inches round the waist, and every inch of him was a soldi...
4. Chapter 4Everything fell out exactly as MIGNON prophesied. But if you think that you've come to the end of MIGNON, I can only say you're very much astray, or as EMILY, with his smooth si...
5. Chapter 5_G.O.G._ (_complacently_). I should 'ope not, Sir It _is_ a bit different from when you last saw it, I flatter myself. Fact it is a garding, now. _Then_ it wos a wildernidge!
6. Chapter 6_Simple Citizen_ (_purple_). A waste! I should think it _did_. indeed! And to think of the pretty, green, bowery place it was when I took it! Unprofitable, perhaps, but pleasant...