Punchinello
The bewildered Flowerpot had no sooner gained her own room, enjoyed her agitated expression of face in the mirror, and tried four differently colored ribbon-bows upon her collar in succession, than the thought of becoming Mr. BUMSTEAD'S bride lost the charm of its first wild n...
The bewildered Flowerpot had no sooner gained her own room, enjoyed her agitated expression of face in the mirror, and tried four differently colored ribbon-bows upon her collar...
2. Chapter 2arbor. (Don't let the printer imagine that I mean Ann Arbor. It was bad enough in_ WILKIE COLLINS _to banish his dramatis personae to Scotland; but he was nevertheless too human...
3. Chapter 3ARNOLD. " GEOFFREY can't come, so he has sent me. I know your situation, and shall have to feel for you if it gets much darker and they don't bring candles. That is, if I'm to s...
4. Chapter 4GEOFFREY. "There! Thank heaven I didn't break anything. The scenery, the footlights, or a bloodvessel will get broken before the week is out, however, if this prize-ring busines...
5. Chapter 5_and that_ ARNOLD _isn't_. GEOFFREY _takes his weeping wife home with him. Everybody finds out that_ GEOFFREY _is an enormous liar and an unmitigated blackguard. Through the ope...
6. Chapter 6lace trimmings, is seen going to bed in her best clothes, and without taking her hair down--this being the well-known custom among fashionably dressed girls_. GEOFFREY _enters a...
7. Chapter 7The above verse immortalizes an event that caused great excitement in the period in which it occurred, although at the present date it would not be considered of much account, o...