Harper's New Monthly Magazine
On a hot and sultry day of June, I found myself seated in a country cart, and under the guard of two mounted dragoons, wending my way toward Kuffstein, a Tyrol fortress, to which I was sentenced as a prisoner. A weary journey was it; for in addition to my now sad thoughts, I h...
The general was as good as his word, and I now enjoyed the most unrestricted liberty; in fact the officers of the garrison said truly, that they were far more like prisoners tha...
15. CHAPTER XXV."Already!" said Helen, with faltering accents, as she crept to Miss Starke's side while Leonard rose and bowed. "I am very grateful to you, madam," said he, with the grace that...
1. CHAPTER XXXVIII.On a hot and sultry day of June, I found myself seated in a country cart, and under the guard of two mounted dragoons, wending my way toward Kuffstein, a Tyrol fortress, to whic...
8. CHAPTER XVIII.On the following Monday, Dr. Morgan's shabby man-servant opened the door to a young man, in whom he did not at first remember a former visitor. A few days before, embrowned with...
13. CHAPTER XXIII.John Burley was the only son of a poor clergyman, in a village near Ealing, who had scraped, and saved, and pinched, to send his son to an excellent provincial school in a north...
3. CHAPTER XIII.Leonard and Helen settled themselves in two little chambers in a small lane. The neighborhood was dull enough--the accommodation humble; but their landlady had a smile. That was...
4. CHAPTER XIV.Leonard went out the next day with his precious MSS. He had read sufficient of modern literature to know the names of the principal London publishers; and to these he took his w...
11. CHAPTER XXI.The room! And the smoke-reek, and the gas glare of it. The whitewash of the walls, and the prints thereon of the actors in their mime-robes, and stage postures; actors as far ba...
9. CHAPTER XIX.Leonard did not appear at the shop of Mr. Prickett that day. Needless it is to say where he wandered--what he suffered--what thought--what felt. All within was storm. Late at ni...
6. CHAPTER XVI.Mr. Prickett was a believer in homeopathy, and declared to the indignation of all the apothecaries round Holborn, that he had been cured of a chronic rheumatism by Dr. Morgan. T...
10. CHAPTER XX.At first, Leonard had always returned home through the crowded thoroughfares--the contact of numbers had animated his spirits. But the last two days, since his discovery of his...
14. CHAPTER XXIV.Now behold them seated in the arbor--a perfect bower of sweets and blossoms; the wilderness of roof-tops and spires stretching below, broad and far; London seen dim and silent,...
12. CHAPTER XXII.Well, Leonard, this is the first time thou hast shown that thou hast in thee the iron out of which true manhood is forged and shaped. Thou hast _the power to resist_. Forth, une...
7. CHAPTER XVII.It will often happen that what ought to turn the human mind from some peculiar tendency produces the opposite effect. One would think that the perusal in the newspaper of some c...
5. CHAPTER XV.Before he went, the Doctor wrote a line to Mr. Prickett, bookseller, Holborn, and told Leonard to take it, the next morning, as addressed. "I will call on Prickett myself, to-ni...