Excerpt: ...a smoke wagon. Even when they go courting they have to play to the gallery. Nowadays Gonsalvo H. Puffenlotz walks into the parlor to see Miss Imogene Cordelia Hoffbrew. "Wie geht's, Imogene!" says Gonsalvo. "Simlich!" says Imogene, standing at right angles near the piano because she thinks she is a Gibson girl. "Imogene, dearest," Gonsalvo continues; "I called on your papa in Wall Street yesterday 93 to find out how much money you have, but he refused to name the sum, therefore you have untold wealth!" Gonsalvo ...
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Excerpt: ...a smoke wagon. Even when they go courting they have to play to the gallery. Nowadays Gonsalvo H. Puffenlotz walks into the parlor to see Miss Imogene Cordelia Hoffbrew. "Wie geht's, Imogene!" says Gonsalvo. "Simlich!" says Imogene, standing at right angles near the piano because she thinks she is a Gibson girl. "Imogene, dearest," Gonsalvo continues; "I called on your papa in Wall Street yesterday 93 to find out how much money you have, but he refused to name the sum, therefore you have untold wealth!" Gonsalvo pauses to let the Parisian clock on the mantle tick, tick, tick! He is making the bluff of his life, you see, and he has to do even that on tick. Besides, this furnishes the local color. Then Gonsalvo bursts forth again, "Imogene! Oh! Imogene! will you be mine and I will be thine without money and without the price." Gonsalvo pauses to let this idea get noised about a little. Then he goes on, "Be mine, Imogene! You 94 will be minus the money while I will have the price!" Gonsalvo trembles with the passion which is consuming his pocketbook, and then Imogene turns languidly from a right angle triangle into more of a straight front and hands Gonsalvo a bitter look of scorn. 95 Then Gonsalvo grabs his revolver and, aiming it at her marble brow, exclaims, "Marry me this minute or I will shoot you in the topknot, because I love you." Then papa rushes into the room and Gonsalvo politely requests the old gentleman to hold two or three bullets for him for a few moments. Gonsalvo then bites deeply into a bottle of carbolic acid and, just as the Coroner climbs into the house, the pictures of the modern lover and loveress appear in the newspapers, and fashionable society receives a jolt. This is the new and up-to-date way of making love. 96 However, I think the old style of courting is the best, because you can generally stop a jag before it gets to the undertaker. What do you think? 97 CHAPTER VIYOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT SNAP SHOTS When Aunt Martha gave...
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