Category: Short Stories
In a little house in the Canongate of Edinburgh, there lived, not very long ago, Mr Gustavus M’Iver--(for he never would allow himself to be called Ensign M’Iver, though that was his proper professional designation),—as good a man as ever God put breath in, and as faithful a s...
There was a pause, after which Gustavus, offering two of the women an arm each, leaving the other to bring up the rear, he began a solemn march to the scene of his grief—the mys...
8. CHAPTER VIII.While they were thus as happy as drink and frolic could make any of the sons or daughters of Adam, Gustavus was meditating on the probable effects of his extraordinary remedy fo...
3. CHAPTER III.In the week afterwards, the couple were united in the holy bands of matrimony; and, surely, to say that there was any ceremony about such a union, would be a burlesque of the my...
4. CHAPTER IV.Had Gustavus been a reasonable man, he might have begun supplying, in a rational way, the deficiency of domestic lore which his Julia thus lamentably discovered; but, unfortunat...
2. CHAPTER II.Now, it happened that this same Gustavus, after almost all the sap of his body had been eliminated by fighting, and there seemed to be scarcely enough left to lubricate the musc...
7. CHAPTER VII.Now, it happened that honest Angus M’Guire and Donald M’Nair, two brawny Highlanders, were that day busily occupied in distilling a drop of good whisky, in a subterraneous disti...
1. CHAPTER I.In a little house in the Canongate of Edinburgh, there lived, not very long ago, Mr Gustavus M’Iver--(for he never would allow himself to be called Ensign M’Iver, though that wa...
5. CHAPTER V.Thus did matters continue for a long period of time; and all the efforts, and threats, and devices of Gustavus had no more effect in preventing Julia from taking her pleasure, t...
6. CHAPTER VI.He had now retreated from a bad position to one a mighty deal worse; for, in the midst of a town, he could sometimes see a friend, and smoke a pipe, in the fumes of which all hi...