THE PHANTOM UMBRELLA: OR, HOW I FOUND MY WIFE
... THE PHANTOM UMBRELLA; OR, HOW I FOUND MY WIFE. By Mrs. Joseph Rogers. CHAPTER I. AT the time this story begins, I was twenty-two, the favourite of my mother, and beloved by my father as his youngest son, and he made use of me, as such. I was not a model, but I managed to keep pretty square with my people at home, by being in before twelve, taking my sisters to balls, theatres, and of course, ...