Category: Humour
There is no more joyous couple in all Mayfair than Sir Louis Marigold, Bart., M.P., and Lady Mary Marigold, and whether they are at Marigold Park, Bucks, or at Homburg, or in their spacious residence in Berkeley Square, their lives form one unbroken round of pomp and successfu...
There is no more joyous couple in all Mayfair than Sir Louis Marigold, Bart., M.P., and Lady Mary Marigold, and whether they are at Marigold Park, Bucks, or at Homburg, or in th...
2. CHAPTER TWOAunt Georgie’s christian name as bestowed by godparents with silver mugs at baptism was not Georgiana but simply George. He was in fact an infant of the male sex according to ph...
3. CHAPTER THREEUNDYING INTEREST IN THINGS ABSTRUSE, experimental, or charlatanish keeps Mrs. Weston perennially young. She has a small pink husband, who desires nothing more of life than to be...
4. CHAPTER FOURHorace Campbell has an unerring gift of smudging whatever he speaks of. As he speaks most of the time, he manages to smudge a good deal, and in consequence is in great demand at...
5. CHAPTER FIVEConstance Lady Whittlemere lives in a huge gloomy house in the very centre of Mayfair, has a majestic appearance, and is perfectly ready for the Day of Judgment to come whenever...
6. CHAPTER SIXWinifred Ames was the youngest of a family of six girls, none of whom an industrious mother had managed to foist on to incautious husbands. They were all plain and square and st...
7. CHAPTER SEVENA fount of perennial youthfulness has been and will be the blessing and curse of certain people’s existence. Up to the age of about thirty-five for a woman and round about forty...
8. CHAPTER EIGHTThe most casual observer of the beauties and uglinesses of Nature will have observed that in the anatomy of that very common object, a Tree, there are two widely different class...
9. CHAPTER NINEIf you are an observant person addicted to washing your hands and face, you can hardly fail to have noticed the legend ‘Whitehand’ imprinted on your basin and soap-dish, and ind...
10. CHAPTER TENSt. Sebastian’s Church, situated in the centre of Mayfair, is justly famous for the beauty of its structure, the excellence of its singing, the splendour of its vestments and th...
11. CHAPTER ELEVENThat amiable little fowl, the Piping Bullfinch, has very pretty manners. If he is a well-bred bird, as most Piping Bullfinches are (though they come from Germany), he will, when...
12. CHAPTER TWELVEEver since Society (with a large S) has been the subject of Gleanings and Memoirs and Memories and Recollections, the distinguished authors of these chatty little volumes have b...