文档介绍：HOLIDAY ROMANCE
HOLIDAY ROMANCE -
IN FOUR PARTS
By Charles Dickens
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HOLIDAY ROMANCE
PART I - INTRODUCTORY
ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF
WILLIAM TINKLING, ESQ. (Aged
eight.)
THIS beginning-part is not made out of anybody's head, you know. It's
real. You must believe this beginning-part more than es after,
else you won't understand how es after came to be written. You
must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the
editor of it. Bob Redforth (he's my cousin, and shaking the table on
purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn't because he
couldn't. HE has no idea of being an editor.
Nettie Ashford is my bride. We were married in the right-hand closet
in the corner of the dancing-school, where first we met, with a ring (a
green one) from Wilkingwater's toy-shop. I owed for it out of my
pocket-money. When the rapturous ceremony was over, we all four went
up the lane and let off a cannon (brought loaded in Bob Redforth's
waistcoat-pocket) to announce our nuptials. It flew right up when it went
off, and turned over. Next day, Lieut.- Col. Robin Redforth was united,
with similar ceremonies, to Alice Rainbird. This time the cannon burst
with a most terrific explosion, and made a puppy bark.
My peerless bride was, at the period of which we now treat, in
captivity at Miss Grimmer's. Drowvey and Grimmer is the partnership,
and opinion is divided which is the greatest beast. The lovely bride of the
colonel was also immured in the dungeons of the same establishment. A
vow was entered into, between the colonel and myself, that we would cut
them out on the following Wednesday when walking two and two.
Under the desperate circumstances of the case, the active brain of the
colonel, combining with his lawless pursuit (he is a pirate), suggested an
attack with fireworks. This, however, from motives of humanity, was
abandoned as too expensive.
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HOLIDAY ROMANCE
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