Jerome Klapka: 36 books

IN WHICH THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO CAST THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS STORY UPON ANOTHER.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right— except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Reginald Blake was as typical a specimen of the well-bred cad as one could hope to find between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park...

“Charmed. Very hot weather we've been having of late— I mean cold. Let me see, I did not quite catch your name just now. Thank you so much. Yes, it is a bit close. ” And a silence falls, neither of us being able to think what next to say.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. “I do mean it, ” declared Mrs. Korner, “I like a man to be a man.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Myself, I do not believe this story. Six persons are persuaded of its truth; and the hope of these six is to convince themselves it was an hallucination. Their difficulty is there are six of them. Each one alone...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. TO THAT HIGHLY RESPECTABLE BUT UNNECESSARILY RETIRING INDIVIDUAL, OF WHOM WE HEAR SO MUCH BUT SEE SO LITTLE, “THE EARNEST STUDENT OF THE DRAMA, ” THIS (COMPARATIVELY) TRUTHFUL LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED.

Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as “getting a little thin on the top, sir, ” but arranged with economy, that everywhere is poverty’s true helpmate....