Crowded Out! and Other Sketches
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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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...shaky to night, but I shall sleep out here all the same. What are you going to do?" "I prefer to try the house, I think," answered Clarges, and so he did. When he was going to bed, heartily grateful that his cousin was as yet ignorant of his interference, he looked long and earnestly from his one window in the roof at the scene outside before he attempted again the process of sel...
Chapters (28)
- CROWDED OUT!
- And Other Sketches,
- PREFACE.
- SERANUS.
- Crowded Out.
- Monsieur, Madame and the Pea-Green Parrot
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- The Bishop of Saskabasquia.
- A CHRISTMAS SKETCH.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- FINIS.
- THE IDYL OF THE ISLAND.
- The Story of Delle Josephine Boulanger
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II
- The Story of Etienne Chezy D'Alencourt
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- Descendez a L'Ombre, ma Jolie Blonde.
- The Prisoner Dubois.
- How the Mr. Foxleys Came, Stayed and Never Went Away.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- The Gilded Hammock.
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