Gloria

Her eyes flashed fire! Convulsive rage possessed Her trembling limbs and heaved her laboring breast; Blind to the future, by this rage misled, She pulled down ruin on her reckle...

Gloria was seven years old when she came to live with her uncle and aunt. She was too young and too bright to realize the loss she had sustained in the death of her parents, or...

Gloria, singing as she went, and skipping like a kid from point to point, over the breach in the sea wall, and dancing through the old grass meadows and turnip fields—hurried on...

We have lingered a little over these first days of their childish friendship, because they were types of so many days that followed, all through the budding spring, the blooming...

Filled with horror, that subdued all outward show of emotion, the old black woman lifted the light form of her mistress and bore it across the room to the lounge.

Within ten days after the despatch of the doctor’s letter it was answered in person by the colonel’s maiden aunt, who, after many misadventures, reached Promontory Hall in the a...

All she did was but to wear out the day; Full oftentimes she leave of him did take; And oft again devised somewhat to say, Which she forgot, whereby excuse to make; So loth was...

In entering her at the “Sacret Heart,” Miss Agrippina had enrolled her as the “Countess Maria da Gloria de la Vera,” and had provided her with as rich and costly an outfit as th...

His heart Had far outgrown his years, and to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, That ever shone upon him. He had looked Upon it till it would not pass away, But sh...

Colonel de Crespigney found occupation and entertainment enough in unpacking his books from the boxes in which they had been carefully put away to keep them safe from the workme...

Then she arose, hastily arranged her dress, glanced into the mirror to be sure that all traces of the morning’s stormy emotion had passed away from her face at least, however it...

He deemed that time, he deemed that pride Had quenched, at length, his boyish flame, Nor knew, till seated by her side, His heart in all save hope the same. BYRON.

In the cosy cottage on the sandy islet, old Dame Lindsay sat over the bright, open wood fire, knitting busily; the tea-kettle hung over the blaze, singing merrily; the covered “...

O, shut me nightly in a charnel house, O’er covered quite with dead men’s rattling bones, With reeking shanks, and yellow, chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave An...

This, then, was the meaning of those fixed looks that had so thrilled her nerves and curdled her blood—Marcel de Crespigney wanted to marry her! Marcel, whom she always so loyal...

Terrified and enraged beyond anything that she had ever experienced in all the days of her life, offended and revolted beyond all hope of reconciliation, Gloria had fled from th...

The sky was gray, the wind high, and the sea rough, yet David and Gloria remained on deck. He had led her to a bench behind the wheel-house, and there they sat, partly sheltered...

The young bridegroom turned to his wife—his face all glorious with the noblest love that ever inspired the soul of a world-renowned poet or warrior—and took her hand and drew he...

“Gryphynshold! Take me to Gryphynshold! that is the most remote of all the manors left me by my father. Take me there, for I wish to go as far as possible from all the people I...

From this point, however, they had left the lovely landscape of the valley and entered as by a natural gate into the wild mountain scenery, that, as they went on, grew wilder, m...

On his right towered the stupendous precipice of the Iron Mountain, cleft down from summit to base, showing a ravine of wildly shattered rocks, bristling with clumps of stunted...

Over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, That said, as plain as whispered in the ear, “The space is haunted.” THOMAS HOOD.

With a gesture, he silently thanked her, and signed that she should resume her seat, while he drew another to the hearth for himself, saying, as he sank into it:

“Oh, Madame Gloria! I’ve done bragging! I’ll never brag any more! I did pray to my guardian angel if he’d save my life and reason until I could get out of that place I would nev...

Sunshine flowed into the room, filling it with dazzling light. Yet David Lindsay, after having opened the shutters and let down the windowsashes, stood in the middle of the floo...