Identifier: charactersketche00inbrew (find matches)
Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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Sovine. Witness in a murdercase in Edward Egglestons novel TheGraysons. He is put upon the stand andtells a plausible story of the shooting, L) Artagnan « M \ ARTAGNAN, from his room overhead, hears the sound ef-i~^ a contest going on beneath him. He starts to leap from the•window the more quickly to reach the scene of disorder. Hisvalet endeavors to check him. Oh. Monsieur, Monsieur,you will be killed! cried Planchet. Be quiet, imbecile. said dArtagnan. And clutching the win-dowsill, he let himself drop from the first story, which, luckily, was notlofty, without giving himself a scratch. He immediately tapped on the door, murmuring : Im in my turn about to let myself be taken in the mouse-trap,but woe to the cats who attack such a mouse ! The knocker had hardly sounded under the hand of the young man when the tumult ceased, footsteps approached, the door opened and d Artagnan, with his naked sword. Sprang into the apartment of , Maitre Bonacieux. Oumass Les Trois Moiisquetaires. I
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DARTAGNAN. DAVID SOVINE 295 DAVUS whicli lie claims to have seen. The prose-cutor then hands him over to the prison-ers counsel, Abraham Lincoln, whosecross-examination of the wretched manconcludes thus: Why does David So vine go to ah. thistrouble to perjure himself ? Why does hewish to swear away the life of that youngman who never did him any harm ? Be-cause that witness shot and killed GeorgeLockwood himself. I move your honorthat David Sovine be arrested at once formurder! (1888). David Swan. A native of New Hamp-shiie, born of respectable parents who hashad a classic finish by a year at Gilman-ton Academy. He lies down to sleep atnoon of a Summers day, pillowing hishead on a bundle of clothing. While soundasleep in the shade, he is passed by manypeople on the road. Five or six pause tosurvey the youth and comment upon him.Awakened by the stage-coach, he mountsto the top, and bowls away, unconsciousthat a phantom of Wealth, of Love and ofDeath had visited him in the brief hoursin

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