railroad-director

Updated: May 23, 2025

In the flaunting yellow house on the hill the widow and daughters of the late Marmaduke Splurge, Esq., railroad-director and real-estate broker, fondled and hated each other. Mrs. Marmaduke was a well-preserved woman, stylish, worldly-minded, and weak.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858