[The March Family Trilogy by William Dean Howells]@TWC D-Link book
The March Family Trilogy

PART II
83/211

He'd have helped us through a good many hours of unintelligible comedy.

I'm always coming as Burnamy's guest, after this." The young fellow swelled with pleasure in his triumph, and casting an eye about the theatre to cap it, he caught sight of that other potentate.

He whispered joyfully, "Ah! We've got two kings here to-night," and he indicated in a box of their tier just across from that where the King of Servia sat, the well-known face of the King of New York.
"He isn't bad-looking," said March, handing his glass to General Triscoe.

"I've not seen many kings in exile; a matter of a few Carlist princes and ex-sovereign dukes, and the good Henry V.of France, once, when I was staying a month in Venice; but I don't think they any of them looked the part better.

I suppose he has his dream of recurring power like the rest." "Dream!" said General Triscoe with the glass at his eyes.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books