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    Evening Dress Farce
    Evening Dress Farce
    Evening Dress Farce
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    Evening Dress Farce

    By William Dean Howells

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    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

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Evening Dress, by W. D. Howells

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      Title: Evening Dress

      Farce

      Author: W. D. Howells

      Release Date: January 24, 2009 [EBook #27880]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVENING DRESS ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      (This file was produced from images generously made

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      Page 4

      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

      I

      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. You

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