Humorous stories, English
The sultry glare of noon was already giving place to the cool of a cloudless evening, and the lulled ocean was washing against the Pier with a low murmur, suggestive to poetical minds of the kindred ideas of motion and lotion, when two travellers might have been seen, by such...
The sultry glare of noon was already giving place to the cool of a cloudless evening, and the lulled ocean was washing against the Pier with a low murmur, suggestive to poetical...
2. CHAPTER TWO“But about she,” resumed the man of prose, “what’s her name? You never told me that yet.” A faint flush crossed the interesting features of the youth; could it be that her name...
3. CHAPTER THREEOn the present occasion the solemnity of night’s approach was rendered far more striking than it is to dwellers in ordinary towns, by that time-honoured custom observed by the p...
4. CHAPTER FOURBathed in the radiance of the newly-risen Sun, the billows are surging and bristling below the Cliff, along which the Poet is thoughtfully wending his way. It may possibly surpr...
5. Chapter One)! “it’s as much as his life is worth.“Mean by it!” blustered his quondam friend, “what do _you_ mean by it, if you comes to that? You’re an assassin, that’s what you are! Where’s the waiter you had with you last ni...