Elsket and Other Stories

ELSKET AND OTHER STORIES. 12mo, $1.00 NEWFOUND RIVER. 12mo, 1.00 IN OLE VIRGINIA. 12mo, 1.25 THE SAME. Cameo Edition. With an etching by W. L. Sheppard. 16mo, 1.25

One rainy day she had a strange turn; she began to be restless. Her large, sad eyes, usually so calm, became bright; the two spots in her cheeks burned yet deeper; her face grew...

Olaf went quickly to her bedside. I heard him say, "My God in Heaven!" and I sprang up and joined him. It was a hemorrhage. Her life-blood was flowing from her lips. She could n...

"She warn see if I kin wuck--dat's what she's after," said George to himself, with a confidential look at a young gentleman in a hunting dress on the wall between two windows. T...

Jeff with dignity informed him that an affair was then brewing, and Lawrence intimated that they were both interested, when the Major declared that he would "advise the young la...

"Marse Nat, I don' warn' shoot at you. What I warn' shoot at you for? I ain' got nuttin 'ginst you on de fatal uth. You been good master to me all my days an'----" The Major cut...

"Dat tunament, suh. P'laski rid it! An' what's mo,' suh, he won de queen,--one o' ole man Bob Sibley's impident gals,--an' when he come to crown her, he crown her wid ole Mis' T...

Mrs. Wagoner used to go to see Mrs. Upton--she went frequently. It was "her duty" she said. She carried her things--especially advice. There are people whose visits are like spe...

"How do you do?" she held out her little gloved hand. She was going out over the road with her father. Jim took off his hat and shook hands with her. Dick Rail saw him, walked r...

Just then the skirmishers ahead began to fire, and in a few moments it was answered by a sullen note from the villages beyond the plain, and the battle had begun. The dropping f...

"Dr. Holland will always find a congenial audience in the homes of culture and refinement. He does not affect the play of the darker and fiercer passions, but delights in the sw...