JACK HORNET. CHAPTER I. A FASHIONABLE HOTEL-FISH OUT OF WATER. "WELL, I declare this stylish hôtel of yours, my dear Sir Thomas, seems to me a regular piece of humbug. If this is to be fashionable, may the deuce take fashion! I couldn't sleep all night, with your fashionable people knocking up the servants, and watchmen in the streets knocking down vulgar vagabonds. Then before day-break a parcel of noisy fellows, who sat up all night to be stirring early in the morning, and start for the Glauber races, routed the whole concern." "Glauber races! my dear Hornet," replied Sir Thomas Green, to whom these VOL. I. B |