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Updated: May 22, 2025
Why, this was, for all the world, just like the penny-dreadfuls of my boyhood and I smiled at the thought that I had become an actor in a drama fitted for a red-and-yellow cover!
But she read whatever she could get hold of from the tattered "pony" to Homer which a boy friend had loaned her, to the most horrible penny-dreadfuls which were her father's delight in his rare hours of leisure. And she assimilated what she read and adapted it to her own fate. Thus her imagination was familiar with happiness, with delusion, with crime.... She knew that she was beautiful.
That belongs to yellow-backed penny-dreadfuls and Sunday supplement tales of breach-of-promise suits. More often the daughter of the business man is both the victim and the vampire of his own shortsighted neglectfulness. The business man expresses it as "working like a slave to give her the best in the land."
They build huts, wear feathers and tomahawks as badges, carry knives and toy-pistols, make raids and sell the loot. Cowards alone, together they fear nothing. Their imagination is perhaps inflamed by flash literature and "penny-dreadfuls."
Nerves broken by sleeplessness imagine many things, and for the first hour Ralph felt sure that Pete would cut his throat before morning. And you, friend Callow, who have blunted your palate by swallowing the Cayenne pepper of the penny-dreadfuls, you wish me to make this night exciting by a hand-to-hand contest between Ralph and a robber. You would like it better if there were a trap-door.
He could think of but a single glaring fact they had killed a fellow man, and they were among savage strangers, thirsting for the blood of the first victim whom fate cast into their clutches. This much he had gleaned from penny-dreadfuls. And they must have money! Again he approached the corpse. This time resolutely. The ape squatted in a corner watching his young companion.
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