Category: Novels
"The merry homes of England! Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light! There, woman's voice flows forth in song Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old."
On this grand gipsy-tour of ours we had reason to be thankful every day for a good many things. First and foremost, that our horses were so sturdy, strong, and willing; that the...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT."Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, One moment now may give us more Than fifty years of reason; Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the...
4. CHAPTER FOUR."Come to the woods, in whose mossy dells, A light all made for the poet dwells; A light, coloured softly by tender leaves, Whence the primrose a mellower glow receives.
3. CHAPTER THREE."O! Nature, a' thy shows and forms To feeling pensive hearts have charms, Whether the summer kindly warms Wi' life and light, Or winter howls in gusty storms The lang dark night."
6. CHAPTER SIX."Why, ye tenants of the lake, For me your wat'ry haunts forsake? Tell me, fellow-creatures, why At my presence thus you fly? Conscious, blushing for our race, Soon, too soon, yo...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN."A little water, chaff and hay, And sleep, the boon of Heaven; How great return for these have they, To your advantage, given! And yet the worn-out horse or ass. Who makes your...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN."Between these banks we in abundance find, Variety of trouts of many different kind; Upon whose sides, within the water clear, The yellow specks like burnished gold appear. And...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN."We have wandered in our glee With the butterfly and bee, We have climbed o'er heathery swells, We have wound through forest dells: Mountain-moss has felt our tread. Woodland st...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.But for a long time all in vain, and I was beginning to think the events of last evening must all have taken place in dreamland, when, emerging from the trees, the stalwart form...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.The scenery around us was desolate in the extreme, for no vestige of human life, no house, no hut, not even a patch of cultivated land, was anywhere to be seen around us. Above...
2. CHAPTER TWO."If you will take a map of the world," began Frank, "and with a pin or a needle to direct you, follow one of the lines of longitude running south and north through England, up t...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.This was a remark I made an evening or two after Frank had told us all about his friends the Arctic bears. I was looking at the fire as I spoke, as one does who is in deep thought.
12. CHAPTER TWELVE."Shall noble fidelity, courage, and love, Obedience and conscience--all rot in the ground? No room be found for them beneath or above, Nor anywhere in all the Universe round? I...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.It was no wonder that, with the snow lying deep around our dwelling, and the storm-wind rattling our windows of a night, and howling and "howthering" around the chimnies, both F...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN."Lo! in the painted oriel of the west, Whose panes the sunken sun incardines, Like a fair lady at her casement shines The Evening Star, the star of love and rest."
9. CHAPTER NINE."Thro'out the annals of the land, Tho' he may hold himself the least, That man I honour and revere, Who, without favour, without fear, In the great city dares to stand The frien...
1. CHAPTER ONE."The merry homes of England! Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light! There, woman's voice flows forth in song Or childhood'...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.One of the sunniest memories to all of us is the time we spent on the cliff-tops of romantic old Dunbar. There is nothing more calculated to give pleasure to a true Briton, unle...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN."Just like our Tiny!" said little Ada Mair when she first saw the subject of my present sketch. "Just like our Tiny!" repeated her wee sister Ailie, going directly up, throwing...