The Silver Domino (1894)
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Marie Corelli's anonymously published literary satire comments on late-Victorian authors, publishers, and reviewing culture. (Open Library)
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- Waterbury watch
- The narrator quotes and mocks a passage about two Waterbury watches, dwelling on the joke that there is no difference between one Waterbury watch and another.
Source text: "Platte, the subaltern, being poor, had a Waterbury watch and a plain leather guard. The Colonel had a Waterbury watch also, and for guard the lip-strap of a curb chain." (Project Gutenberg ebook 63446)