Category: Short Stories
“Nelly--Nelly--Nell! Now, where's the wench?” cried Mrs. Gwyn, before she had more than passed the threshold of her daughter's house in St. James's Park--the house with the terrace garden, where, as the sedate Evelyn records, the charming Nelly had stood exchanging some very l...
“Nelly--Nelly--Nell! Now, where's the wench?” cried Mrs. Gwyn, before she had more than passed the threshold of her daughter's house in St. James's Park--the house with the terr...
2. Part 2“That's what I mean,” she cried, tilting up her toes until they were on a level with his knees. “What else could I mean than that I'm already sufficiently shod? Even Nell Gwyn c...
3. Part 3“I admit it, my dear lady; but at the same time, I repeat that I have no faith in the stage. Acting is the most unconvincing of the arts. Is there ever a human being outside Bed...
4. Part 4“Cannot they, indeed? Lord, my good woman, you little know the playgoers. You think that they are so nice in their discrimination? You should have learnt better since the days y...
5. Part 5They went up to the gardens by boat. Their party numbered four, for Miss Hoppner had, when alone with Captain Joycelyn, so pouted that he had promised to bring with him a brothe...
6. Part 6“There was surely, my boy,” said Daly, “but I've forgot her name. The name's not to the point. I tell you, then, the Siddons stormed in the stateliest blank verse and periods, a...
7. Part 7“For heaven's sake, madam!” he faltered--“for heaven's sake--oh, my God! what have we done?--what have we done? Worse than Herod! the innocent children!--I hear them--I hear the...
8. Part 8“Do n't be a little fool,” she wrote. “Are you so anxious to undo all that we have done between us? If you pursue that course, I swear to you that he will be at my feet the next...
9. Part 9“By the aid of heaven, you would say? By the Lord, Sir Godfrey,'t is rather the aid of the opposite power our generalissimo would invoke, if taken at a disadvantage.”