My Friend Prospero

· 1905

THE CARDINAL'S SNUFF-BOX. Illustrated by G.C. Wilmshurst. _One Hundred and Fifth Thousand_. The coachman drew up his horses before the castle gateway, where their hoofs beat a sort of fanfare on the stone pavement; and the footman, letting himself smartly down, pulled, with a peremptory gesture that was just not quite a swagger, the bronze hand at the end of the dangling bell-cord.…

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