Diana Tempest, Volume III

When Di came to herself, it was to find that she was sitting on the bank supported by Miss Crupps' trembling arm, with her head on Miss Crupps' shoulder. Some one, bending over...

"Vous avez bien froid, la belle; Comment vous appelez-vous? Les amours et les yeux doux De nos cercueils sont les clous. Je suis la morte, dit-elle. Cueillez la branche de houx....

There come times in our lives when the mind lies broken on the revolving wheel of our thought. "I am illegitimate." That was the one thought which made John's bed for him at nig...

"Toute passion nuisible attire, comme le gouffre, par le vertige. La faiblesse de volonte amene la faiblesse de tete, et l'abime, malgre son horreur, fascine alors comme un asil...

The doctor was sitting with Colonel Tempest on Di's return to the hotel, and Di perceived that her father, who was still in a very excited state, had been telling him about his...

There is in Paris, just out of the Rue du Bac, a certain old-fashioned hotel, the name of which I forget, with a little _cour_ in the middle of the rambling old building, and a...

"For human bliss and woe in the frail thread Of human life are all so closely twined, That till the shears of fate the texture shred, The close succession cannot be disjoined, N...

When John roused himself from the long stupor into which he had fallen after Lord Hemsworth's departure, he put his finished letter to Colonel Tempest into an envelope, and then...

Towards nine o'clock in the evening carriage after carriage began to drive up to Overleigh in the moonlight. When Di came down, the white stone hall and the music-room were alre...

"The dead abide with us! Though stark and cold Earth seems to grip them, they are with us still. They have forged our chains of being for good or ill." MATHILDE BLIND.

When Colonel Tempest lay in a precarious condition owing to the unexpected explosion of a revolver which he was taking to his gun-maker, and which he believed to be unloaded--wh...

Between aspiration and achievement there is no great gulf fixed. God does not mock His children by putting a lying spirit in the mouth of their prophetic instincts. Only the fai...

But still more bewildering is the way in which we live years and years with ourselves in an entire ignorance of the powers that lie dormant beneath the surface of character. The...

It seems a pity that our human destinies are too often so constituted that with our own hands we may annul in one hour--our hour of weakness--the long, slow work of our strength...

"The earth buildeth on the earth castles and towers; The earth sayeth to the earth, 'All shall be ours;' The earth walketh on the earth, glistering like gold; The earth goeth to...

On her hurried return to London the morning after the ice carnival, Di found Mrs. Courtenay in that condition of illness, not necessarily dangerous, in which the linseed poultic...