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Charles James Lever. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
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TO JOHN ANSTER, ESQ., LL.D
My dear Anster,
NOTICE
AMIABLE AND ACCOMPLISHED READER,
CORNELIUS O’DOWD
MYSELF
A FRIEND OF GIOBERTS: BEING A REMINISCENCE OF SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO
GARIBALDI’S WORSHIPPERS
SOMETHING ABOUT SOLFERINO AND SHIPS
THE STRANGER AT THE CROCE DI MALTA
THE STRANGE MAN’S SORROW
ITALIAN LAW AND JUSTICE
THE ORGAN NUISANCE AND ITS REMEDY
R. N. F. THE GREAT CHEVALIER D’INDUSTRIE OF OUR DAY
GÀRIBÀLDI
A NEW INVESTMENT
ITALIAN TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS
THE DECLINE OF WHIST
ONE OF OUR “TWO PUZZLES”
A MASTERLY INACTIVITY
A NEW HANSARD
FOREIGN CLUBS
A HINT FOR C. S. EXAMINERS
OF SOME OLD DOGS IN OFFICE
DECLINE OF THE DRAMA
PENSIONS FOR GOVERNORS
A GRUMBLE
OF OUR BROTHERS BEYOND THE BORDER
THE RULE NISI
ON CLIMBING BOYS
LINGUISTS
THE OLD CONJURORS AND THE NEW
GAMBLING FOR THE MILLION
THE INTOXICATING LIQUORS BILL
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Charles James Lever
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“Billiards perhaps, and filthy cigars, and that greenish bitter—anisette, I think they call it—are cheap enough, perhaps; but these are all luxuries I can’t share in.”
Here was the cloud no bigger than a man’s hand that presaged the first connubial hurricane. A married friend—one of much experience and long-suffering—had warned me of this, saying, “Don’t fancy you’ll escape, old fellow; but do the way the Ministry do about Turkey—put the evil day off; diplomatise, promise, cajole, threaten a bit if needs be, but postpone;” and, strong with these precepts, I negotiated, as the phrase is, and, with a dash of reckless liberality that I tremble at now as I record it, I said, “You’ve only to say where—nothing but where to, and I’ll take you—up the Rhine, down the Danube, Egypt, the Cataracts———”
