THE TINTED VENUS
A Farcical Romance
BY
F. ANSTEY
AUTHOR OF
"THE GIANT'S ROBE," "VICE VERSÂ," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY BERNARD PARTRIDGE
NEW YORK and LONDON
HARPER AND BROTHERS
1898
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"To you,
Free and ingenious spirits, he doth now
In me, present his service, with his vow
He hath done his best; and, though he cannot glory
In his invention (this work being a story
Of reverend antiquity), he doth hope
In the proportion of it, and the scope,
You may observe some pieces drawn like one
Of a steadfast hand; and with the whiter stone
To be marked in your fair censures. More than this
I am forbid to promise."
Massinger.
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CONTENTS.
- In Pursuit Of Pleasure
- Pleasure In Pursuit
- A Distinguished Stranger
- From Bad To Worse
- An Experiment
- Two Are Company
- A Further Predicament
- Between The Devil And The Deep Sea
- At Last
- Damocles Dines Out
- Denounced
- An Appeal
- The Last Straw
- The Thirteenth Trump
- The Odd Trick
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
"There," he said triumphantly, "it might have been made for her!"
"Answer me," he said roughly; "is this some Lark of yours?"
"Did you want to see me on—on Business, Mum?"
"What would be done to him?" asked the Hairdresser, with a quite Unpleasant Internal Sensation
"Keep off! Tell her to drop it, Tweddle!"
"It is a Miserable Thing," he was thinking, "for a Man ... to have a Female Statue trotting after him like a Great Dorg"
She was standing before the Low Chimney-glass, regarding he