Category: Short Stories
The next morning, at the appointed time, accompanied by a young Spaniard, as second, Willis was on the beach, where he found De Vere and his friend. The foes saluted each other with the most scrupulous politeness. Ten paces were measured as the distance, and they took their po...
_Shallow._ Did her grand sire leave her seven hundred pound? _Evans._ Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny. _Shallow._ I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts....
5. CHAPTER IX.Lord! how they did blaspheme! And foam and roll, with strange convulsions rack’d, Drinking salt water like a mountain stream, Tearing and grinning, howling, screeching, swearing...
10. CHAPTER IV.Although Anna was really much pleased with the majority of her new acquaintances, their manners and conversation, as also their style of dress, so entirely different from what s...
1. CHAPTER V.The next morning, at the appointed time, accompanied by a young Spaniard, as second, Willis was on the beach, where he found De Vere and his friend. The foes saluted each other...
3. CHAPTER VIIBe not afraid! ’Tis but a pang, and then a thrill, A fever fit, and then a chill, And then an end of human ill; For thou art dead. Scott’s Lay of Louise.
8. CHAPTER II.“Look, my dearest Anna, yonder is our pleasant little village!” exclaimed Rupert, pointing as he spoke to a cluster of pretty houses, nestling far down in the green valley below...
2. CHAPTER VI._Jul._ What villain, madam? _Lady Cap._ That same villain, Romeo. _Jul._ Villain and he are many miles asunder God pardon him! I do, with all my heart: And yet no man, like he,...
7. CHAPTER I.With the engagement of Rupert Forbes and Anna Talbot, started up a host of scruples and objections among the friends of the parties—not only manifested in the ominous shakings o...
9. CHAPTER III.The little village of D—— was primitive in its tastes and habits. Remote from any populous city or town, it was neither infected by their follies, nor rendered more refined by a...
4. CHAPTER VIII.On the following morning the sentinel on the forecastle of the Scorpion was the first one who discovered the disappearance of the captured slaver. Looking in the direction the s...