Category: Journals
It would have been no surprise to his friends had Loyd Morton speedily followed his young wife to the grave. Their brief union had been a very communion of souls--one of those rare experiences in wedlock for jealousy of which Destiny may almost be pardoned. Small wonder, there...
"No, no, although The air of Paradise did fan the house, And angels offic'd all: I will be gone-- ... Come, night; end, day! For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away."
7. CHAPTER VII.The portentous interview in the library was held within closed doors, and at its conclusion the two gentlemen left the house by one of the casement windows of the room that gave...
11. CHAPTER X.The events which led up to the somewhat dramatic climax in Romaine's chamber at midnight would scarcely seem to warrant so pronounced a crisis. An agreeable evening had been pas...
13. CHAPTER XII.The augury of the preceding day's perfection proved correct--Romaine's nuptial morn came up, veiled in murky clouds that promised a period of dismal rain. The very face of natur...
5. CHAPTER V."A day in April never came so sweet to show how costly summer was at hand," may be quoted as applicable to the rare dawn that succeeded that night of mystic import at Belvoir. T...
4. CHAPTER IV.Had he been put upon the rack Loyd Morton would still have been unable to give any coherent account of his vigil at the bedside of Romaine Effingham. Four hours had elapsed from...
1. CHAPTER I.It would have been no surprise to his friends had Loyd Morton speedily followed his young wife to the grave. Their brief union had been a very communion of souls--one of those r...
3. CHAPTER III.Sir Francis Bacon maintained that every man is a debtor to his profession, and that in seeking to receive countenance and profit therefrom, he should of duty endeavor, by way of...
12. CHAPTER XI.If Serena Effingham derived any comfort from the contemplation of Romaine's precipitate union with Morton, that comfort resided in the fact that having secured the constant atte...
6. CHAPTER VI."A sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean, and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind...
2. CHAPTER II.Though Loyd Morton had proved himself to be an ideal lover, he was at heart an eminently practical man. It is true he had not yet quite outlived that heyday of impressions that...
9. CHAPTER IX.Romaine Effingham's convalescence was as rapid as the advent of summer that year. As the brief April days glided into May, she grew strong and well again; sound physically, at a...
10. did. So far he was satisfied, and in so far he fancied himself to bejustified in laying the flattering unction to his soul that he was indeed in communion with the reincarnated spirit of his wife. The point which baffled him, before the non-comm...