Boy: A Sketch

It is said by many people who are supposed to “know things,” that our life is frequently, if not always, influenced by the first impressions we ourselves receive of its value or...

And, discovering a bunch of those sweet blossoms half-hidden in the folds of Miss Leslie’s soft lace necktie, he burrowed his little nose into them with delighted eagerness,--th...

Miss Letitia’s house, her “great big house,” as Mrs. D’Arcy-Muir had expansively described it to Boy, was situated on the sunniest side of Hans Place. It was tastefully built, a...

“Of course,” said Desmond, “it is a splendid chance for the boy,--but, Letty, that is just the very reason that I am afraid he will not be allowed to have it. The affairs of hum...

It is a trite axiom, but no less true than trite, that we are always happiest when we are most unconscious of happiness,--when the simple fact of mere existence is enough for us...

Days went on, months went on, years went on, as they have a habit of doing, till Boy arrived at the mature age of nine. Changes had occurred during this period, which slight in...

The next day Boy shut himself up in his own little bedroom and wrote a letter to Miss Leslie. He was a long time about it, and he took infinite pains to spell carefully. The res...

The steady pulse of time, which goes on mercilessly beating with calm inflexibility, regardless of all the lesser human pulses that hurriedly beat with it for a little while and...

The summer flew by,--on wings of romance for Violet Morrison, but somewhat burdened with anxiety for Major Desmond and Miss Leslie. Max Nugent, millionaire and man of the world,...

One day! one night! yet what a change they bring! High in the clouds the same sweet birds may sing, The same green leaves may rustle in the air, And the same flowers unfold thei...

After a storm comes a calm, and the old proverbs which tell us that the longest lane must have a turning and the darkest cloud a silver lining are not without something of a che...

Two years had fully elapsed since the incidents narrated in the last chapter, and Miss Letty, in spite of the doctor’s ominous predictions, was still alive, and, as she expresse...