Jasper Lyle

It was a bright autumn day in Kafirland. Eleanor was borne out into the garden. They laid her on a couch on the sunny side of the cottage; the lime-trees and acacias met over he...

From the head-quarters of Sir Adrian Fairfax, I most transport you, my reader, to one of the most lonely and romantic districts in Southern Africa, where Sir John Manvers, with...

When the heart is very full, it is difficult to know how or where to begin a recital, which it is due to you as well as to myself to lay before you. It would harass you, nay, I...

I have said that the salute of the horsemen who advanced to meet Vander Roey's band was answered by a corresponding movement from the latter. Each party moved along its path in...

Perseverance and the instinct of self-preservation will effect much that, under ordinary circumstances, would be abandoned as impossible. By working at night within the cave, an...

It was in the month of December, 18--, that Lee and Martin Gray established themselves as traders at Umlala's kraal, in Kafirland. The reader has been given to understand that L...

On the day when our friends Frankfort and Ormsby were introduced to my reader with the tempest warring round them, as they stood shelterless with May upon the open plain, a soli...

Noontide in Kafirland! what a glow! A bold but popular authoress was severely rated lately for the passage, "made twilight undulate." Truly, in an African noon the atmosphere fl...

I have no intention of giving you a detailed account of this part of their expedition, since they are not presented to the reader in the character of mere sportsmen--indeed such...

Meanwhile, guided by Doda, Lee, or, as we may now call him, Lyle, threaded his way through some of those innumerable defiles which, cleaving the great mountains of the Amakosa c...

The little bushman, whom we have introduced as the attendant of our English officers, must be more particularly described ere we advance in a story in which he will frequently m...

The kind uncle referred to by Mrs Daveney was imprudent enough to speculate, and lost a large sum; but, wiser or better-principled than most men who gamble, he forswore speculat...

It is a beautiful land, with its open savannahs, its wooded glens, its heathy mountains, its green and undulating parks--nature's plantations! Pleasant to the eye is the sight o...

It was, like most of these retreats, a deep recess in the rocks. The walls were ornamented with grotesque drawings, poorly executed in coloured clay, of men and animals, the fig...

The selfish woman who had thus brought disgrace on her husband, herself, and the man she had infatuated by her art, lost all prudence in her ungovernable state of excitement, an...

That unearthly cry was a relief to his paralysed heart: he started up, his host and Ormsby lifted the latch of the door as he put his hand upon it to go forth. Mrs Daveney and M...

It is time to give our reader some further insight into the circumstances which had brought these two sleepers to their present condition, for they will occupy a prominent and p...

Anxious as Frankfort was concerning the fate of his attendants, thoughts of his host's daughter Eleanor _would_ rise as he rode silently beside Mr Daveney on the expedition in s...

Ormsby was thoroughly discomfited by his accident, and his impatience, and unwillingness to apply the remedies prescribed by Fitje, duly aggravated the inflammation: he would wa...

I recovered myself in the arms of kind Mrs Trail. Oh! the repose of a quiet darkened room after such a night! My friend laid me on her bed, and, giving me a sedative, left me to...

Rumour began, with bold and busy tongue, to talk more openly of "scandalous reports" from the frontier concerning Mrs Rashleigh. Lady Amabel, always charitable, put them down to...