The Silver Domino (1894)

The Silver Domino

Marie Corelli's anonymously published literary satire comments on late-Victorian authors, publishers, and reviewing culture. (Open Library)

Watches

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. The passage being mocked comes from Kipling's Watches of the Night, also collected in Plain Tales from the Hills. Corelli repeats its description of the guards and exaggerates her praise of the prose and its humor. This is a literary quotation inside a satire, not a new scene assigning two Waterburys to Corelli's own characters. (Project Gutenberg source text)

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)