Punchinello
The Pond at Bumsteadville is sufficiently near the turnpike to be readily reached from the latter, and, if mentioned in the advertisement of a summer boarding-house, would be called Lake Duckingham, on account of the fashionable ducks resorting thither for bathing and flirtati...
The Pond at Bumsteadville is sufficiently near the turnpike to be readily reached from the latter, and, if mentioned in the advertisement of a summer boarding-house, would be ca...
2. Chapter 2Behind the most sample-roomey, fire-insuranceish, and express-wagonized part of Broadway, New York, yawns a venerable street called Nassau; wherein architecture is a monster of...
3. Chapter 3Huguenot, is pretending to sleep on an uncomfortable wooden bench. A drunken villain insults a lovely gipsy_. RENE _gets up and kills him, and escapes his pursuers by falling ov...
4. Chapter 4DUCHESS. (_Aside_.) "Perhaps he is an influential politician, and may get my son an office in the Street Department." To RENE.--"Sir, I will save you. Get behind the curtain." (...
5. Chapter 5PA. "Because, my dear, I am troubled with inability to sleep. Morphine won't help me, but WATTS PHILLIPS will. My physician tells me that he always prescribes one of PHILLIPS'S...
6. Chapter 6RENE. "The hounds of justice dog me. Therefore I will keep in their way until I have seen the lovely niece of the Duchess. She must love me when she learns that I have killed he...
7. Chapter 7COURT PHYSICIAN. "Your Grace is mistaken. True, your son lay dead for a month or two, but by a judicious application of four dozen bottles of my "Universal Hair Restorer and Con...