Short stories, American
When Miss Callista Rogers first came from her Vermont home to the little Indiana town of Honeyport, on the Wabash, she had a sense of almost perilous adventure--something like that felt by the pioneer women who followed up the ever-advancing and now forever vanished frontier.
When Miss Callista Rogers first came from her Vermont home to the little Indiana town of Honeyport, on the Wabash, she had a sense of almost perilous adventure--something like t...
2. Part 2But, with all her absorption in the infants Miss Callista did not fail to keep a watchful eye on Widower Evans. She was a woman and not unobservant, and had therefore not failed...
3. Part 3The mother, who was left with her child at the lonely station, would have been glad to die, no doubt; but, for the sake of the babe, she must live on. She was one of those timid...
4. Part 4She was an uncommonly intelligent and well-informed woman for one of her limited opportunities, being a close reader of such literature as came in her way--the range extending f...
5. Part 5To the widow a realizing sense of the death did not come. It is often so when those away from home are taken; to their families they seem still temporarily absent and likely to...
6. Part 6“John rejoined his regiment, and when the war was over came back to find his home and child well cared for by the faithful Mary. Matters went on in this way for a while, with th...
7. Part 7Rose seemed to realize the truth slowly. Her startled eyes fell upon the terror-stricken group at the doorway. Gradually, as comprehension of the situation dawned upon her, a ch...
8. Part 8The history of the next few days she could hardly have told later. She went about her household tasks mechanically, for the living must eat and drink, though the best loved lie...
9. Part 9There were laughter and tears, kisses and embraces, and if the visitor shared these neither father nor mother stopped to wonder. There were incoherent questions and answers when...
10. Part 10“We have lived many years since then. Sometimes the way has been rough and hard. We have had trials and losses; but mercy and goodness have followed us, for we have borne the bu...
11. Part 11Joe Little had first met both the girls at a church strawberry festival, but had seemed to give preference to Nellie. The chief sign of his favor was the fact that his calls upo...
12. Part 12The young man, who was a hard case, rose and stammeringly declared that he had given his heart to God and hoped, by His help, to live a Christian life from that time on.
13. Part 13All her life she had been familiar with the hymns that expressed the thoughts of the world seeking God--hymns of penitence, of agony, of peace and praise, of ecstatic worship--a...