Thereby Hangs a Tale. Volume One
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Fenn George Manville. Thereby Hangs a Tale. Volume One
A Peep at Tolcarne
In Pall Mall
First Encounters
Rather Unpleasant
The Writer of the Letter
All among the Ferns
Jenkles’s Confession
“Our next meeting.”
Sam Jenkles Prepares for an Expedition
Going the Rounds
The Lion at Home
Hebe
Mishaps
Polly’s troubles
Mrs Jenkles’s Morning Call
Love Minor
Kinks in the Line
Two Scenes
“Sing Heigh – Sing Ho!”
A Ceremonious Call
A Friendly Call
Aunt Matty is Cross
Proposals
An Interview with Barney Sturt
Frank Pratt’s Cross-Examination, and Après
Misunderstanding
Invitations
Before Dinner
After Dinner
Speaking to Papa
Very Dreamy
A Little Confession
A Revelation
With the Owner
In Transition
Mistaken Zeal
Correspondence
New Lodgings
Not Musical
Between Friends
Lady Rea’s State of Mind
Frank a Visitor
A Proposal
In the Woods
The Use of Money
In the Square Called Russell
Netta’s Appeal
Waiting for News
A Visit
At Home
Too Late
Three Months After
A Fellow-Traveller
A Quiet Wedding
Conclusion
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“Voilà! – the pilot-fish and the shark!”
The words were spoken by an individual idly smoking a cigar on the steps of that gloomy-looking pile in Pall Mall known as the Peripatetics. He was the being that, go where he would, uneducated people would set down as belonging to the division Swell; for there was ton and aristocrat in the fit of his clothes and every curve of his body. Women would have called his black moustache and beard handsome, and spoken of his piercing eyes, high white forehead, and wonderful complexion; but Podger Pratt – that is to say, Frank Pratt – said more than once he had never seen a barber’s dummy that was his equal. He said it in a very solemn way; and when it came to the ears of the gentleman in question, he denounced Podger Pratt as a disgusting little cad, and the next time they met at the club Captain Vanleigh asked Pratt what he meant by it.
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“Thanks, no,” said the stranger, “I’ll get back to my rooms. I must have something out of somebody, so I’ll make cabby suffer.”
The cabman rubbed his ear, and looked blue.
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