Category: Poetry
At last, I have found a spot where, for myself, there can be no want; where I can sit and write in peace letters to you, my friend, and stories for the magazines. By the last, I shall win money, and, perhaps, laurels; although, I confess, I care little now for them--that is, f...
At last, I have found a spot where, for myself, there can be no want; where I can sit and write in peace letters to you, my friend, and stories for the magazines. By the last, I...
2. CHAPTER II.I looked up from my paper, but she had turned her face from me a little, and bent it low over her work, as if what she was going to say had a certain sort of wickedness in it th...
3. CHAPTER III.Blessed Edith! Guess who said this to-day, after I had been reading aloud in the Westminster Review--“I don’t understand a word, hardly, about this constructive policy and conse...
4. CHAPTER IV.Isn’t this outrageous bad, Edith? Mr. Marsden brought along, when he came back, a note from Alfred Cullen, saying that he will come to D----; a box of oysters from him for uncle...
5. Scene 1. _The Breakfast Table._Mrs. Hedelquiver._ “The Nicaragua route, the Panama rail-road, free trade, and so on--Frederic and Rosamonde think that these are going to do not a little toward making this wo...
6. Scene 2. _The Hall._Monde._ “I want to tell you--why, aunt, you see I want to write mornings, and then ride when I am tired of it--just as I have done all along. And I have been thinking that Mr....
7. Scene 3. _Outside the Gate._Judge Hedelquiver._ “Yes; but never mind it: It was only a new proof that you are the most sensible girl in creation. It is just the way you ought to feel about it. What he wil...
8. CHAPTER V.Edith, dear, how often I write to you. But it relieves me to throw my story by, and gossip in this careless way. And, moreover, I must be telling somebody how happy I am; and ho...
9. CHAPTER VI.He went yesterday morning early; and since that time I go from one chair to another, or from one window to another, sighing, and with untold quantities of lead in my heart. I am...
10. CHAPTER I.A lover of the picturesque, whether poet, painter, or simply an enjoyer of Nature’s works, may be justified, perhaps, in extending his quest after the sublime and beautiful beyo...
11. CHAPTER II.Alas! my noble boy, that thou shouldst die! Thou wert made so beautifully fair! That death should settle in that glorious eye, And leave his stillness in that clustering hair. W...
12. CHAPTER III.The morning following the mysterious disappearance of little Frank Winthrop, unusual symptoms of gloom might have been discerned in the village. The may-pole still stood trimmed...
13. CHAPTER IV.Such language as his I may never recall, But his theme was salvation, salvation to all-- And the souls of his hearers in ecstacy hung On the manna-like sweetness that fell from...
14. CHAPTER V.It was one of the loveliest evenings in the loveliest month of a New England autumn. One of those delicious _pet days_, as they are fondly called, which, perhaps, from the uncer...
15. CHAPTER VI.A month passed away, the stranger had departed, and whatever had been the original object of his visit, it never was made known to the villagers. Grace had as yet received no le...
16. CHAPTER VII.Darkness was about to throw her veil over the earth, when a lofty tent might have been seen pitched on the extreme summit of a ridge beyond which lay the horizon in golden beaut...
17. CHAPTER VIII.Our poor heroine made the necessary effort, and languidly followed her conductor into a long passage which led to a lofty chamber, carefully furnished with a luxurious bed and e...
18. CHAPTER IX.It would be equally needless and painful to linger over the sufferings of the sick maiden. The fever, which the terrible and agitating scenes she had passed through had excited,...
19. CHAPTER X.Weeks passed on, and a round of festive entertainments took place in the mansion of Gen. Lincoln. In all these Charles Lincoln mingled with a discontented and gloomy air of abst...
20. CHAPTER XI.It was on a lovely summer’s evening, rather more than ten years after the events last recorded, that two persons were sitting in the spacious drawing-room of a noble mansion in...
21. CHAPTER I.“Certainly no three men occupy more respectable positions for their age in the community than her three sons-in-law, and as she had no fortune to give with her daughters, she sh...
22. CHAPTER II.“The best paper in town was done yesterday at 2 per cent. per month,” pursued Mr. John Sharp to his brother broker Mr. Growlem, as they cogitated over their morning’s correspond...
23. CHAPTER III.Pass we by the scenes of the few succeeding days. In them, however, Maria was all efficiency. Her cheerfulness and the buoyancy of her spirits seemed never to forsake her, at le...
24. CHAPTER IV.The next few days were those of considerable physical toil to our friends. The care of the younger children had to be resigned to a young girl who had been taken to assist her m...
25. CHAPTER V.On the Sunday succeeding the tea-party at Mrs. Holmes’, our hero and heroine solved the problem in regard to their church-going by appearing in the Episcopal church at Euston. T...
26. CHAPTER IV.Matthew Whitelock, reclining in what he called his “easy chair,” was musing, rather than thinking, over the inconsistencies of the most consistent, and pondering as to which was...