The Invisible Gentleman, by the Author of 'Chartley the Fatalist', 3 VolsGeneral Books, 2013 - 158 pages This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... me before twelve, if you can wait--if not, leave a note. "Yours in haste, "B. Audrey." "N. B. I observe what yon say in your P. S. So much the better, as I should certainly like to have an ample apology.' "There, '" said he, sealing and throwing the note on the table, "so much for that. Now for Alicia, and that coxcomb of a Lieutenant, and his artful old uncle. I 'll spoil their sport. And old Storer himself too! One would think from his manner that he really thought it a doubtful case whether his daughter would ever get a husband or not. His conduct is perfectly ridiculous!" It is but right to observe that, at the commencement of this day of adventures, our hero had sate down to the breakfast-table, with the resolution of enjoying himself and making his friends comfortable. As has been before hinted, he succeeded perfectly in this hospitable intention up to the time of Captain Popwell's unwelcome visit, during which, either from vexation or forgetful ness, he added a few more glasses of wine to the "quantum suff."" which he had previously taken. This is not mentioned as any alleviation or justification of his abominable proceedings in the affair of poor Stubbs, but simply to account for a certain stolidity which he seems to have evinced during the succeeding transactions. Had his breakfast been of the usual temperate kind, he would probably have discerned that his nefarious scheme, of sacrificing the groom for the preservation of his own honour, was not such a straightforward game as to be played without risk; and he must, assuredly, have hesitated ere he could have entirely abandoned the management of an evidently delicate task, into the hands of one concerning whom he knew so little as of Ensign Williams. So, however, it was; and after... |
