Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Victorian Short Stories, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Victorian Short StoriesAuthor: VariousRelease Date: March 16, 2005 [eBook #15381]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICTORIAN SHORT STORIES***E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamVICTORIAN SHORT STORIESStories of CourtshipCONTENTSANGELA, An Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk GilbertTHE PARSON'S DAUGHTER OF OXNEY COLNE, by Anthony TrollopeANTHONY GARSTIN'S COURTSHIP, by Hubert CrackanthorpeA LITTLE GREY GLOVE, by George Egerton (Mary Chavelita [Dunne] Bright)THE WOMAN BEATER, by Israel ZangwillANGELAAn Inverted Love StoryBy William Schwenk Gilbert(The Century Magazine, September 1890)I am a poor paralysed fellow who, for many years past, has been confined to a bed or a sofa. For the last six years I haveoccupied a small room, giving on to one of the side canals of Venice, and having no one about me but a deaf old woman,who makes my bed and attends to my food; and there I eke out a poor income of about thirty pounds a year by makingwater-colour drawings of flowers and fruit (they are the cheapest models in Venice), and these I send to a ...