"1914"

GOD’S PRISONER RISING FORTUNES OUR LADY OF DELIVERANCE A PRINCESS OF VASCOVY JOHN OF GERISAU UNDER THE IRON FLAIL BONDMAN FREE MR. JOSEPH SCORER BARBE OF GRAND BAYOU A WEAVER OF...

“Bunkum, my boy!--all bunkum! He may try to save his face to the world at large, but I bet you they’re quietly mobilising over there as fast as they know how to, and that’s fast...

“That’s business, my boy,” pealed the Colonel’s hearty voice, as he came in with a telegram in his hand. “I saw you turn in and I’d already been invited to drink a cup of tea wi...

“From the fat gentleman who insulted me in the train yesterday, I presume,” said Ray, with a smile. “He tried to sit on me and then called me names, and I called him Fat-Pig. He...

“I do not know. We certainly don’t want war, but if it comes to a general struggle we may be in it too. It is horrible to think of. In these days--all Europe at one another’s th...

The Colonel, indeed,--whose youth lay away back amid the mists of antiquity, and whose years had discovered to him the existence of a heart that pumped on up-gradients, and a ce...

Every evening, the Colonel, possessed of a firm belief in the efficacy of the commercial barometer as an index of the political outlook, came in to gather John Dare’s latest obs...

“And we’ll sit on their door-step till they make up their minds and take us on. Golf and tennis are off, my children,”--with a nod at the girls. “It’s pipes and sporrans and ske...

“Lord, no! Quite the other way. If there’s two things I admire about old Con they’re his uniform and his jolly old cheek. Think of him going and getting you to marry him right a...

“Not at the loss of it, though the stupidity of losing anything always annoys me. It’s the possible consequences I’m thinking of. It came on me all in a heap in the night that i...

Honor of course, in sisterly fashion, saw his faults and did not pass them over in silence. Still, she also generally did it in humorous fashion which left no more than a moment...

“You’ll find plenty to do at home, my dear. Only the fully qualified are any use out there. Presently,--ay already,--there are widows and orphans to look after, and your out-of-...

“Very small. We are cutting our coat according to the cloth we have. Six francs a day pays our board and lodging,”--at which the Consul permitted himself a brief smile. “But we...

“You see these newer subsidised schools are making things hard for the private schools,” said the other, as the train jogged along the side of the lake, still wreathed with swat...

Mr and Mrs Dare were noticeably quiet. She, because, in spite of herself, her heart was depressed at all this close approximation of the Juggernaut of War. It was impossible to...

“I shouldn’t wonder if it’s a touch of influenza,” said Miss Mitten, when she returned from compounding the posset. “They say there’s a good deal of it about. I don’t know that...

“There was one of our stalwarts at the Pension Estèphe,” said Lois. “Who used to argue such matters with Ray. And I remember him saying one day,--‘You in England are very well-p...

“And yet, when one allows oneself to think about it all, after reading the terrible accounts of the fighting--and he would have me read them all to him--it seems almost impossib...

Bit by bit, each to prevent the other overlapping and outflanking, the hostile lines had spread further and further towards the coast. From the banks of the Aisne, by way of Soi...

“You did magnificently. The General said the Scottish had done what two out of three Regular Battalions would have failed to do. The Staff are saying they saved the situation la...

There followed a few days of recuperative rest, interrupted only, but more than once, by orders to ‘stand-by’ to reinforce the front, which was enduring much tribulation from ov...

Mrs Dare quite understood and fully approved. Her old friend’s need was greater than her own. She gave Honor loving words for her right out of her heart, helped her to get ready...

“Good girl! You’re the right kind for a doctor’s wife,” and then he shook hands with them, patted Con on the shoulder and bade him get ready for the move into town, shook hands...