Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Although the passage of the Rhine was but the prelude to the attack on the fortress, that exploit being accomplished, Kehl was carried at the point of the bayonet, the French troops entering the outworks pell-mell with the retreating enemy, and in less than two hours after the...
rid of, they turn to blubber, or cause some disturbance in the system, intended by Nature to throw them off, which is called a disease. Walking, riding, running, increase the br...
4. Chapter XV. Scraps Of History.Nothing displays more powerfully the force of egotism than the simple truth that, when any man sets himself down to write the events of his life, the really momentous occurrence...
13. Chapter IX.In the cool of the evening, Dr. Riccabocca walked home across the fields. Mr. and Mrs. Dale had accompanied him half way; and as they now turned back to the Parsonage, they look...
1. Chapter XII. “A Glance At Staff-Duty.Although the passage of the Rhine was but the prelude to the attack on the fortress, that exploit being accomplished, Kehl was carried at the point of the bayonet, the French tr...
3. Chapter XIV. A Surprise And An Escape.It is a very common subject of remark in newspapers, and as invariably repeated with astonishment by the readers, how well and soundly such a criminal slept on the night before...
2. Chapter XIII. A Farewell Letter.It was in something less than a week after, that I entered upon my new career as orderly in the staff, when I began to believe myself the most miserable of all human beings. On...
5. Book I.—Initial Chapter: Showing How My Novel Came To Be Written.Mr. Caxton is seated before a great geographical globe, which he is turning round leisurely, and “for his own recreation,” as, according to Sir Thomas Browne, a philosopher shou...
8. Chapter IV.They were now in the hayfield, and a boy of about sixteen, but like most country lads, to appearance much younger than he was, looked up from his rake, with lively blue eyes, be...
6. Chapter II.“Squire,” replied the Parson, “although that is a melancholy conclusion, yet if you mean it to apply universally, and not to the family of the Dales in particular, it is not one...
7. Chapter III.Parson Dale and Squire Hazeldean parted company; the latter to inspect his sheep, the former to visit some of his parishioners, including Lenny Fairfield, whom the donkey had de...
9. Chapter V.“A thousand pardons!” replied Dr. Riccabocca, with all the urbanity of an Italian; “but it seems to me, that if you had given the sixpence to the _fanciullo_—that is, to this go...
10. Chapter VI.The Tinker was a stout swarthy fellow, jovial and musical withal, for he was singing a stave as he flourished his staff, and at the end of each _refrain_ down came the staff on...
11. Chapter VII.“Four o’clock,” cried the Parson, looking at his watch; “half-an-hour after dinner-time, and Mrs. Dale particularly begged me to be punctual, because of the fine trout the Squir...
12. Chapter VIII.While the Parson and his wife are entertaining their guest, I propose to regale the reader with a small treatise apropos of that “Charles dear,” murmured by Mrs. Dale;—a treatis...