Category: Humour
There had not been a contested election at Yatton, till the present one between Mr. Delamere and Mr. Titmouse, for a long series of years; its two members having been, till then, owing to the smallness of the constituency, their comparative unanimity of political sentiment, an...
Mr. Titmouse, on concluding, made a great number of very profound bows, and replaced his hat upon his head, amid prolonged and enthusiastic cheering, which, on Mr. Delamere's es...
13. CHAPTER XII.Very shortly after Messrs. Mudflint and Bloodsuck had gone to pay this, their long-expected visit, to the governor of York Castle, Mr. Parkinson required possession of the resid...
3. CHAPTER III.The injuries which Titmouse had received in his encounter with the waterman--I mean principally his black eye--prevented him from making his appearance in public, or at Lord Dre...
4. CHAPTER IV.The object which Gammon had originally proposed to himself, and unwaveringly fixed his eye upon amid all the mazy tortuosities of his course, since taking up the cause of Tittle...
11. CHAPTER X.The reader may possibly bear in mind that Mr. Titmouse had established his right to succeed to the Yatton property, then enjoyed by Mr. Aubrey, by making out to the satisfaction...
5. CHAPTER V."Fly! Fly!--For God's sake fly! Lose not one moment of the precious respite which, by incredible efforts, I have contrived to secure you--a respite of but a few hours--and wrung...
1. CHAPTER I.There had not been a contested election at Yatton, till the present one between Mr. Delamere and Mr. Titmouse, for a long series of years; its two members having been, till then...
9. CHAPTER VIII.But to return to Lord Dreddlington. The remedies resorted to so speedily after his seizure at Mr. Gammon's chambers, had most materially counteracted the effects of the terrible...
6. CHAPTER VI.At the earliest moment at which Mr. Aubrey could, without suspicion, extricate himself from the embraces of his overjoyed wife, sister, and children, on his return to Vivian Str...
10. CHAPTER IX.While Mr. Pounce and Mr. Quod, after their own quaint fashion, are doing decisive battle with each other in a remote corner of the field of action; and while--to change the figu...
12. CHAPTER XI.With its architect, fell that surprising fabric of fraud and wrong, the rise and fall of which are commemorated in this history--a fabric which, if it had "risen like an exhalat...
8. did. He read over the whole account several times, as I have alreadysaid; and at the moment of his being presented to the reader, sitting in his easy-chair, and with the newspaper in his lap, he was in a very delightful state of feeling. He secr...
7. CHAPTER VII.The sudden and unexpected rebuff encountered by Mr. Gammon, in the Vulture Insurance Company's refusal to pay the policy on the late Lady Stratton's life, was calculated serious...