Evening Dress Farce
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William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.
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Evening Dress Farce - William Dean Howells
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Title: Evening Dress
Farce
Author: W. D. Howells
Release Date: January 24, 2009 [EBook #27880]
Language: English
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WELL, THEN, I SHALL HAVE TO TRUST YOU
EVENING DRESS
Farce
BY
W. D. HOWELLS
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Black and White Series
Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each.
My Year in a Log Cabin. By William Dean Howells.
The Work of Washington Irving. By Charles Dudley Warner.
Edwin Booth. By Laurence Hutton.
The Decision of the Court. By Brander Matthews.
Phillips Brooks. By the Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D.
George William Curtis. By John White Chadwick.
The Rivals. By François Coppée.
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa. By Henry M. Stanley.
The Japanese Bride. By Naomi Tamura.
Giles Corey, Yeoman. By Mary E. Wilkins.
Whittier. By Mrs. James T. Fields.
Seen from the Saddle. By Isa Carrington Cabell.
James Russell Lowell. An Address. By George William Curtis.
Coffee and Repartee. By John Kendrick Bangs.
Three Weeks in Politics. By John Kendrick Bangs.
A Family Canoe Trip. By Florence Watters Snedeker.
A Little Swiss Sojourn. By William Dean Howells.
In the Vestibule Limited. By Brander Matthews.
This Picture and That. By Brander Matthews.
Travels in America 100 Years Ago. By Thomas Twining.
The Unexpected Guests.—A Letter of Introduction.—The Albany Depot.—Evening Dress.—A Likely Story.—The Mouse-trap.—The Garroters.—Five O'Clock Tea. Farces. Each complete in one volume. By William Dean Howells.
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON.
Copyright, 1893, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
ILLUSTRATIONS
WELL, THEN, I SHALL HAVE TO TRUST YOU
Frontispiece
THE SLEEVES ARE A TRIFLE SHORT, MAYBE
Faces p. 42
THAT LITTLE SUPPER " 56
EVENING DRESS
FARCE
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Mrs. Edward Roberts: "Now, my dear, Amy and I will get there early, so as to make up for your coming a little late, but you must be there for the last half, at least. I would excuse you altogether if I could, for I know you must be dead tired, up all night, that way, on the train, but Mrs. Miller is one of those people who never can listen to reason, and she would take deadly offence if you missed her musicale, and wouldn't forgive us the longest day she lived. So you see? Mrs. Roberts addresses herself to her husband in the library of their apartment in Hotel Bellingham, at Boston, as she stands before the fire pulling on a long glove and looking at him across his desk, where he has sunk into a weary heap in his swivel chair.
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