Mudfog and Other Sketches - Mr. Robert Bolton: The "Gentleman Connected With the Press"

In which we are introduced to the Green Dragon, a public-house where a peculiar assemblage of tradesfolk and a self-styled gentleman of the press gather nightly for discourse on politics and literature, enlivened by the vivid rhetoric of Mr. Robert Bolton. Amidst the social hum, a grim tale of domestic tragedy is unfolded with a theatrical flourish that commands the room's morbid attention before the conversation drifts once more to the curious affairs of bookish authentication.