essington's

Updated: June 22, 2025

To-night the distinguished appearance and genial conversation of Essington's friend impressed him more than ever with the advantages of knowing so remarkable a personage.

J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston - Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large

"If you got a chance of showing yourself off to Miss Maddison she'd jump at you!" A gleam, inspired and humorous, leaped into Essington's eyes. The Baron, whose glance happened at the moment to fall on him, bounded gleefully from his seat. "Hoch!" he cried, "it is mine old Bonker zat I see before me! Vat have you in your mind?"

J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston - Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large