Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines; A Fantastic Comedy in Three Acts by Clyde Fitch Paperback - 2010

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SECOND ACT A Fortnight Later?Madame Trentoni's private parlor in the Srevoort House; a large room with double folding doors at the back which lead into another and larger room. There are two windows on the left side, and a door and mantel on the right. The walls are tinted a light, cold, ugly violet, with a deep crimson velvet paper border. The furniture is gilt and upholstered with crimson satin with heavy red rope worsted fringe. It is comfortable and warm, especially in the summer! and is not plain but hideous. At the windows are lace curtains with heavy satin lambrequins. There is a piano, open, by the windows, in one of which is a very small basket, with a very large handle, full of roses. There is a marble- topped centre-table bearing a Bible, a guide to the city, and a silver-plated card-receiver. An oval- framed steel engraving called Autumn (a young lady most inappropriately dressed for that season of the year, with curvature of the spine, and balancing a prize bunch of grapes on the top of her bare shoulder) hangs on one wall, and on another its companion picture, called Spring (another young lady, only this one evidently a blonde, also sure of the weather and her health, dressed in a veil and a large bunch of buttercups). On the mantel are some dreadful vases, with nice little bouquets in them, and several photographs and some cards. The stage is empty. The hall door at the back near the double doors opens, and a hotel Servant shows in Charles La Martine and Augustus Van Vorkenburg. The Servant carries a small silver tray. Servant. What names shall I say to Madame Trentoni, gentlemen? Charlie. Simply say two gentlemen. He whistles Champagne Charlie, saunters to a window, and pulling aside the lace curtains looks out, as the Servant eodts. Gussie. S...