Word: hoax
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...that a man writes as a "part," perhaps; but it is thoroughly funny and sincere. Of the other stories "There Was One," though not as bad as its title, is a study in anti-climax which hardly entertains us enough as we go along to make us forgive the hoax. "Chapters from a Summer Romance" is conventional in detail and feeble in situation: in the descriptive parts "scarcely a sound broke the quiet," although a hermit thrush "could be heard in the distance; in the narrative part we have, in addition to some very unreal dialogue, the old, old ending...
...prince is banished from Berlin, but his friend Hotham decides to disguise him as the Prince of Wales and thus gain access to the rooms of the queen and the princess. The king surprises this party and is ready to banish the queen when Hotham explains the hoax. The king then sees that the princess loves the prince and forgives...
...true identity of the pseudo-governor is discovered, and he goes back to his old occupation of porter; and finds his affinity in a German maid of Priscilla's. The Americans are seized, as implicated in the hoax, and they try to return to 1908, but lose the charm. Matters are looking very dark for them, when the scene suddenly changes and they wake up to find themselves back in Boston...
...apartments, but when he comes back he finds Pontbicket ready to kick him out again. Colardeau, a simple old friend of Pontbicket's has been engaged to his daughter for sometime, and naturally objects to Dardard's in tension. He, therefore, has suggested that it is all a hoax as it is the time of the carnival. Pontbicket takes it all in, but when Dardard returns is again won over. Pontbicket is especially delighted over Dardard's plan for importing gloves to England, free of duty. All the left hand gloves are sent to England, all the rights to Scotland...
...must be adopted. The warning of what may happen ought to be sufficient to guarantee that there will be no further abuse of the present privileges. If it is not, however, we can safely say, that the threat of closing the gallery will not be found to be a hoax, and that the Board of Directors will adopt that or any other measure that may seem necessary to accomplish their purpose...