Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

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VICTORIAN SHORT STORIES Stories of Courtship CONTENTS ANGELA, An Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER OF OXNEY COLNE, by Anthony Trollope ANTHONY GARSTIN'S COURTSHIP, by Hubert Crackanthorpe A LITTLE GREY GLOVE, by George Egerton (Mary Chavelita [Dunne] Bright) THE WOMAN BEATER, by Israel Zangwill ANGELA An Inverted Love Story By 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 have occupied 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 making water-colour drawings of flowers and fruit (they are the cheapest models in Venice), and these I send to a friend in London, who sells them to a dealer for small sums.

But, on the whole, I am happy and content.

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