An Embarrassing Orphan

Published in 1901; this digital version was transcribed from a 1904 re-print with illustrations by an American publisher. Full of William Edward Norris's famous wit and told from the viewpoint of a self-deprecating, first-person narrator, the story is about a staid, old, retired Englishman who is given charge of his nephew's daughter to raise, and then must wrestle with an ethical conundrum—involving a secret about her inheritance—when she grows old enough for romance. Naturally, as most fa...