Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

In looking back, after a long lapse of years, I can not refrain from a feeling of astonishment, to think how little remembrance I possess of the occurrences of that day--one of...

The courage of Lettice, as I have told you, was strong, and her nerves good, but in spite of this, assisted by the best resolutions in the world, she _did_ find it a hard matter...

One evening, as the two sisters were hastening along the road through the woods on their way homeward, a young farmer drove up in his spring-cart, cast a look at them, stopped,...

Since trifles make the sum of human things.... Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence, A small unkindness is a great offense: Large favors to bestow we strive in vain, Bu...

There is no really beautiful part of this kingdom so little known as the Peak of Derbyshire. Matlock, with its tea-garden trumpery and mock-heroic wonders; Buxton, with its blea...

As I gained the street, at a considerable distance from the "Place," I was able to increase my speed; and I did so with an eagerness as if the world depended on my haste. At any...

At the time of which I write, there was but one motive-principle throughout France--"TERROR." By the agency of terror and the threat of denunciation was every thing carried on,...

The success which followed this my first enterprise in life had already worked a wondrous change in all my feelings. Instead of looking up to the poor Curé for advice and guidan...

We must pass over the painful and dreadful particulars of that night, and of a long time to come; the maniacal rage of the father, the shattered heart and feelings of the mother...