Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
The fire burns cheerily on the hearth, the great logs crackle and flare up the wide chimney, up which it is my wont to say you could drive a coach-and-four. I draw my chair nearer to it with a shiver. 'What a night!' I say.
The fire burns cheerily on the hearth, the great logs crackle and flare up the wide chimney, up which it is my wont to say you could drive a coach-and-four. I draw my chair near...
2. Part 2To enjoy to the full a travelling and angling tour, some familiarity with or some power of conversing in foreign languages--French, German, or Italian, all three if possible--is...
3. Part 3'You were quite right, Mary,' said Philip to me when we were alone--alluding to the bridegroom. 'The poor wretch is punished enough! It's an _awful_ punishment! By-the-bye, what...
4. Part 4'A tune, Mr Cameron, a tune!' came from several quarters of the room; a request which the piper was pleased and proud to comply with. Nor did the music cease until the door open...
5. Part 5Mr Frank Buckland has been experimenting upon the anatomical construction of the gannet, and says it possesses in its body the most perfect aeronautic machinery that can be conc...