A Deal with the Devil

"The day after you bolted I met old Talbot and his lawyer about a settlement. I talked rather big, and suggested fifty thousand. Then the brute of a lawyer said, after he had he...

In the morning he was looking ten years older, and for a short time I thought and hoped the New Scheme had broken down. But, after a glass of brandy and soda-water, he brightene...

"Yes, very likely; young men say foolish things. You can’t help fate. Marriages are made in heaven wholesale, though I admit they never guarantee the quality, and turn out a lot...

We had a long conversation as to where we should take ourselves and our secret. Grandpapa first changed his mind about London, and wanted to leave England. He had an unpractical...

I. Grandfather’s Birthday II. In the Cupboard III. Cold Comfort IV. Hidden in London V. The People next Door VI. Retreat VII. "Vote for Dolphin" VIII. Marie Rogers IX. In London...

We were at Bideford when I put him into short frocks and kept flannel next his skin and looked round for a second-hand perambulator. He was always ailing at this stage, and frig...

I dreamed that the morning had come, and that I went into grandfather’s room to wish him many happy returns of the day--a thing I should certainly not have done in reality. But...

Indeed two startling items, both involving dear grandpapa, met my eye on the same morning, in the same copy of the _Daily Telegraph_. Under the "agony column" of that periodical...