Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
It was a beautiful summer afternoon when the coach set me down at my father's gate. Mrs Primmins herself ran out to welcome me; and I had scarcely escaped from the warm clasp of her friendly hand, before I was in the arms of my mother.
In an instant the mountaineers had sprung from their seats, and, seizing the ever-ready rifle, each one had thrown himself on the ground a few paces beyond the light of the fire...
15. CHAPTER V."Huzza, huzza! along the shore, across the desert wild, none meet the Inca and his bride, the free, the undefiled! Huzza, huzza! our steeds are fleet, the moon shines broad and...
8. CHAPTER VIII.My father took three strides up and down the room, and then, halting on his hearth, and facing his brother, he thus spoke--"I condemn his deed, Roland! At best he was but a haug...
9. PART I.--CHAP. I.Away to the head waters of the Platte, where several small streams run into the south fork of that river, and head in the broken ridges of the "Divide" which separates the valle...
11. CHAPTER I."Most votes carry the point, as a matter of course," said the Doctor, carefully distilling the last few drops of an incomparable Badmington into his glass. "I must say I am stro...
13. CHAPTER III."Look upon me with thy lustrous eyes till I see my image dancing in them. O my beautiful, my beloved! Tell me, Oneiza! when the song of the nightingale warbles across the lake,...
12. CHAPTER II.It was the sunny dawn of a tropical morning. The sea had just ebbed, leaving a vast expanse of white sand studded with strange particoloured shells, between the primeval forest...
14. CHAPTER IV.That night there was a scene of revelry in the imperial palace of Caxamalca. Innocent and confiding as an infant, the chief Inca, Atahualpa, had welcomed the coming of the Spani...
4. CHAPTER IV.As soon as I was dressed, I hastened down stairs, for I longed to revisit my old haunts--the little plot of garden I had sown with anemones and cresses; the walk by the peach wa...
7. CHAPTER VII."It was in Spain, no matter where or how, that it was my fortune to take prisoner a French officer of the same rank that I then held--a lieutenant; and there was so much similar...
3. CHAPTER III."Yes, ma'am, because I would take a pinch of Uncle Roland's snuff, just to say that I _had_ taken a pinch out of his box--the honour of the thing, you know."
1. BOOK II.--CHAPTER I.It was a beautiful summer afternoon when the coach set me down at my father's gate. Mrs Primmins herself ran out to welcome me; and I had scarcely escaped from the warm clasp of...
2. CHAPTER II."By the physical condition of his body," said Mr Squills. "He could not have made himself other than he was at first in the woods and wilds if he had fins like a fish, or could...
5. CHAPTER V.The Captain felt that this proposal was meant as the greatest peace-offering my father could think of; for, 1st, it was a very long walk, and my father detested long walks; 2dly...
6. CHAPTER VI.Indeed, a cold drizzling rain had come on within the last two hours; and, though it was July, it was as chilly as if it had been October. My mother whispered to me, and I went o...