Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...of not only coming herself, but also of bringing a friend. Hogmire was delighted. The notion of taking about a couple of charming young ladies was just what he liked. He sent his confidential clerk (who was also a little bit of a detective) to secure operaboxes and the like, and looked forward to a pleasant series of little suppers after the theatre. Hogmire, be it observed, though an attorney--and rather a successful attorney--was romantic and sentimental. I use these adjectives "advisedly," as they say in the House of Commons. There was something Byronic about him. He thought the destinies were hard upon him; not considering that character is destiny. Doubtless he had at the time excellent reasons for marrying a lady old enough to be his mamma; but now he was wont to bemoan the cruel fate which denied to him--a gushing and passionate young fellow of forty--the full gratification of his fervent feelings. His sole consolation was his Platonic liaison with hie niece; and that young lady, having no rooted objection to opera-boxes and silk dresses and Jouvin's gloves, laughingly tolerated this queer avuncular romance. Now it so chanced, when Hogmire sent his confidential clerk in search of operaboxes, that the said clerk was able to offer his master a private box On a famous first night. That divine contralto, Diana Dezii, was going to sing for the first time in London. The Rapier had just been started. Tom Harington was in the early flush of triumphant editorship, and meeting this confidential clerk, who dabbled a little in literature at the Gorilla Club, he gave him a box in that princely way for which he is renowned. The clerk transferred this to his employer, who was never reluctant to economize: and thus it occurred that on the night in question...
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