Category: Short Stories
The Fireside Shakspeare The Reefer of ’76 Flirtation The Saxon’s Bridal Misfortunes of a Timid Gentleman Never Bet Your Head Lame For Life, or Leslie Pierpoint Leaves from a Lawyer’s Port-Folio Cottage Piety Sports and Pastimes.—The Fowling-Piece Review of New Books
On extricating him, it was painfully apparent that his leg was not only broken but that his knee was crushed. He was immediately removed to his mother’s residence and the most d...
2. Part 2It is pretty certain, however that no person on the globe, at the period of his life, had any _just_ appreciation of him. Notwithstanding the triumphant success of his career, a...
8. Part 8One fine day, having strolled out together arm in arm, our route led us in the direction of a river. There was a bridge, and we resolved to cross it. It was roofed over, by way...
5. Part 5“I have _that_ to tell to which you must listen now, Colonel Middleton,” said he, when the betrayed lover would fain have deferred his communication; “now, while your eye is dar...
10. Part 10Wentworth Hall, where the family resided, was a large, antique, imposing structure, situated in the centre of an extensive park, and approached by a long avenue, terminating at...
7. Part 7The evening passed away, and I am not quite sure that I was sorry when the hour of departure had arrived. The strange and overwhelming passion which had taken possession of my s...
4. Part 4Possessed of great beauty, a fine figure, a graceful address, and a host of superficial accomplishments, Rosa Crafts had always managed to be the belle of every circle in which...
1. Part 1The Fireside Shakspeare The Reefer of ’76 Flirtation The Saxon’s Bridal Misfortunes of a Timid Gentleman Never Bet Your Head Lame For Life, or Leslie Pierpoint Leaves from a Law...
3. Part 3Our country’s girls have azure eyes, And tresses like the sunset skies, And hearts to seek, nor need disguise— As pure as heav’n above, sir; With voices like a seraph’s light, A...
11. Part 11There is no piety like that in our cottages. Go through the land from one end to the other,—enter, if you will, at every door you pass,—seek out the dying in lordly hall, and lo...
6. Part 6In an instant that fierce grapple was at an end, for in the twinkling of an eye, two of the men-at-arms had rushed upon him and dragged him off their lord.
12. Part 12Upon the whole, therefore, it is not so very wonderful that Petrarch has had many biographers. Much, to be sure, of the excessive comment upon his character may be traced to the...