To front row stalls at the Criterion, where they were giving a knockabout farce called My Little Darling in which a clergyman was put into a boiler, a guardsman hidden in a linen cupboard, and a penny novelette duchess was forced to retreat into a shower-bath in full activity.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
Here the dashing soldier, who for years had been a guardsman, mixing in all the gayeties of a London life, passed days and weeks of dreary despondency.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
Ten years before he started for Khiva, there was much talk at the Rag of the wonderful feat of the young guardsman, who undertook for a small wager to hop a quarter of a mile, run a quarter of a mile, ride a quarter of a mile, row a quarter of a mile, and walk a quarter of a mile in a quarter of an hour, and who covered the mile and a quarter of distance in ten minutes and twenty seconds.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy