Voces Populi (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... at a SCENE--Interior of Church. Wedding Guests arriving, and exchanging airy recognitions as they settle down in their places. Bridesmaids in various states of self-consciousness, collected at door. Loud and sustained buzz of feminine whispering. Policeman (on guard at another door, to people with a mania for seeing complete strangers married. Very sorry, ladies, but if you're not provided with tickets, I can't let you in. The PEOPLE (with a mania, &c.. But this is a public place, isn't it? POLICEMAN (not feeling competent to argue the point). Those are my orders. THE People, &c., depart disconsolate. VERGER (to GUESTS with pink tickets). Any of those seats there. "PINK." GUESTS (attempting to pass a crimson rope which bars the central passage). We want to be near the altar--we can't see here VERGER (in a superior manner. The higher seats are set apart for parties with white tickets. "Pink" Guests (to one another indignantly, . And after we'd sent that girl a salad-bowl, too They employ themselves in picking out " White" Guests who ought properly to have been "Pink" remark that it is the most shamefully-managed wedding they ever saw, and recur bitterly at intervals to the salad-bon'l. Mrs. RIH'LEKROOK (who always comes early "to see the people." Oh, there'll be a tremendous crush, of course--they know everybody. Look, the De Lacy Vespes have just come in--what a pity it is that eldest girl has such a red nose--she'd be quite goodlooking without it ... There's Narcissus Runderceed, you see him everywhere. (Bows and smiles at him effusively.) Horrid creature And how fat he's getting Do you know who that is? That's Miss Mabel Maycup of the " Proscenium," you know, --looks ever so much older by daylight, doesn't she? I suppose she's not one of the brides fri...