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THE great Proconsul stood on one of Messrs. Maple’s best hearthrugs in Grosvenor Square. A typical payer of the super-tax, a pink and prosperous gentleman in a morning coat and...

OF what crime, do you suppose, has S. of P. been guilty? It was merely that in a public print he had ventured to ask why the payment of the nominal sum of seven and sixpence per...

Doing his best even in this dangerous anticlimax, S. of P. retrieved the Leading Morning Journal from the carpet, straightened out its crumpled folds with patient humility, laid...

THE _Ne Plus Ultra_ had just achieved the feat of crossing from the Green Park in the charge of a quadruped of whom we are at a loss to furnish a description more explicit. How...

IN WHICH THE GENTLE READER IS TAKEN TO THE PANTOMIME IN THE COMPANY OF MARGE AND TIMOTHY AND ALICE CLARA AND DICK AND THE BABE AND HELEN AND LUCY NANNA, AND WE HOPE YOU’LL ENJOY...

FATHER sat down to write a letter, and Uncle Philip smoked a cigarette in a meerschaum holder and read the _Sporting Times_. But the unfortunate young man could hardly bring his...

IT was the simple fact that Arminius Wingrove had forgotten all about it. Let us not be hasty in our blame, however, since according to his _amende_ to Mr. Philip at least ten d...

As for those three goals against Scotland, he had clean forgotten them. They were never mentioned in his own little world. In Grosvenor Square, in particular, no store was set b...

He was twenty-eight, a very healthy and normal citizen, “a little slow in the uptake,” to be sure, but with private means already, and the heir to the paternal greatness. He sho...

STILL feeling rather a puppet in the hands of Fate, Mr. Philip reached No. 88 Grosvenor Square, the corner house, about twenty minutes after the hour appointed. But as the great...

THE heir to the barony was a dull young man--it is idle to pretend that he wasn’t--yet in his slow-witted way he had a habit of turning things over in his mind. If he married Ad...

IT had been a crowded and glorious week for the Green Chartreuse, but it was not until the Sabbath Day that it had really to embrace the crisis of its fate. Mary had not said “Y...

THE Green Chartreuse was able to break its journey at Romano’s, as it passed that home of wassail _en route_ to Bedford Gardens. And having done so, it was able to answer back a...

NOW who do you suppose it was, my lords and gentlemen, who pulled that blessed bell-wire? No, not the ex-lessee of the Cornmarket Theater. Miss Mary, helping Cook to peel the po...

ON the morrow, or about midnight that same day, to be precise, when Arminius Wingrove came into the club after attending an important _première_, the great man was engaged in co...

MR. PHILIP found an imperious mandate from Grosvenor Square had been laid beside his silver cigar-box when he returned to the Albany at a quarter past two by the morning. It ran:--

“I am going to take Gran’ma to Brighton for a fortnight, and then I’m going to tour the provinces as Lady Agatha in _Kind Hearts and Coronets_, until Mr. Wingrove’s new play is...

MUFFINS and Chayney Tea in Grandmamma’s withdrawing-room were not out of place, because the afternoon had been really so strenuous; moreover, Grandmamma herself did not appear t...

MOTHER was the first to see in the _Morning Post_ that a marriage had been arranged, and would shortly take place. She handed the excellent journal across the table to Father wi...

THE first fortnight of the honeymoon was spent in Paris. They looked at pictures and saw new plays, and went racing on Sunday, and walked in the gardens of Versailles, and did a...

IT was opposite the Magnificent that they came upon adventure the second. Two gentlemen of somewhat informal aspect, one of whom was in need of a shave, and both of whose hats w...

WHEN Horace and Johnny resumed their walk along the King’s Parade, they felt at least two inches taller for having rubbed shoulders with the aristocracy. Everybody does, Sir, sa...

WHEN Philip and Mary returned to the King’s Parade with their inmost thoughts centered upon a dish of tea, a great surprise awaited them. The sitting-room overlooking the sea wa...

GRANNY’S fortnight at Brighton was so successful that it ran to a month. In the latter part of the period Philip and Mary paid several flying visits to the metropolis to see if...

IN Grosvenor Square, at this period, rose-color was not the prevailing hue. The Proconsul had declined to attend the wedding. Moreover, he had given Mr. Philip clearly to unders...

WHY people should be so vexed by things that other people, equally serious of mind, don’t care twopence about is one of the enigmas that is best left to the philosophers.

THINGS had to go forward at Blackhampton in spite of the Ukase, and forward they went right merrily. The adoption of Philip was a fine stroke on the part of the Rags, because th...

IT was Mary’s custom to give the Twins an airing in the park every morning when the weather was fine. Like a wise young mother, she personally undertook this important duty; tru...