Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor

I know you love me, Kathleen, dear, Your heart was ever fond and true, I always feel when you are near That life holds nothing dear but you. Oh, I will take you back, Kathleen,...

People always wondered why old Cooper ever built his saw-mill in so wild a place as that lonely glen; but the scene, the crazy old building, and the strange old man, all seemed...

Do not ask me why I love him! Love's cause is to love unknown; Faithless as the past has proved him, Once his heart appeared mine own. LETITIA E. LANDON.

Kathleen, by one of those strange psychological conditions sometimes induced by severe mental strain or shock, passed from her swoon into a state of coma or trance. Through the...

Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glist...

'Tis strange to think if we could fling aside The mask and mantle that love wears from pride, How much would be we now so little guess, Deep in each heart's undreamed, unsought...

I've thought of thee--I've thought of thee, Through change that teaches to forget; Thy face looks up from every sea, In every star thine eyes are set. N. P. WILLIS.

So he did not observe a pretty and showily-dressed blonde beauty who was walking restlessly up and down the room, evidently bent on attracting attention to herself and her dress...

Kathleen seemed suddenly to grow well and strong at the wonderful discovery that it was her own cousin who had saved her life, and that the sweet, lovely woman who had cared for...

As that exquisite voice--timid at first, and faltering, but gradually gaining strength and volume--rose upon the night air the young girl was at once surrounded by a wondering a...

"Why, aren't you my cousin Teddy's friend? and isn't he one of the best boys in the world? and didn't I promise his dead mother that I would always be kind to the boy she was le...

Oh, that those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine--thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood so...

It seemed almost as if there was a fate in it that poor Daisy Lynn, whose life-path had so strangely crossed Kathleen's, should again become a figure on the scene of her destiny.

"They do not care for me, and I must not expect anything of them," she sighed, and the thought came to her that now she had been at Mrs. Stone's six weeks, and grown well and st...

He was anxious to get Kathleen away from Boston, where Ralph Chainey was playing every night to crowded houses. It would seem as if Uncle Ben had as vigorous a dislike for actor...

Alpine Belmont, all in a flutter of surprise and delight, was making herself beautiful, with her maid's assistance, for the eyes of a caller who was waiting for her in the drawi...

Kathleen lay still and white under the starless sky, like one dead, and there was no one to come to her rescue, for the telegraph operator, busy at his instrument, dreamed not o...

He was so much like her dead father in his voice and looks that he won Kathleen's heart at once, and when he expressed his love and sympathy for her in moving terms, the unhappy...

Oh, my heart, my heart is sick, a-wishing and awaiting: * * * * * I looked out for his coming as a prisoner through the grating Looks and longs and longs and wishes for its open...

I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms that a cottage was near And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might...

We love but once. A score of times, perchance, We may be moved in fancy's fleeting fashion-- May treasure up a word, a tone, or glance-- But only once we feel the soul's great p...

Helen Fox was a very bright girl. She did not tell Kathleen that Ralph Chainey frequently visited the house, nor did she mention to him that Kathleen was to be her guest. Yet sh...

You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave and find you On wastes of water and desert plain. ELLA...

So dearly loved, so deeply false, Ah, why should I regret thee? 'Twas fatal to my peace of mind The hour when first I met thee! MRS. A. MCV. MILLER.

"We must love and unlove and forget, dear, Fashion and shatter the spell Of how many a love in a life, dear, Ere we learn to love once and love well."

"There's no harm done, my dear, and you need not look so conscience-stricken. Bless you, I don't mean to keep it a secret, although he prays me here to do so. Why, Teddy Darrell...

"Love is sweet, but, oh, how sad it is, too!" she sighed. "Oh, how cruel it is to love and be beloved again, yet be severed from one's love by so strange and cruel a fate as mine."

The first act had indeed begun when Mrs. Carew with her two daughters entered their box at the theater; but absorbing as was the interest in the popular play, "Prince Karl," man...

"I wish I knew where she lived: I would find out more about her," he thought; and fell to watching for the bright, steel-blue eyes and golden hair every day.

The world says now I am dead; but, oh, Lean down and listen. 'Tis all in vain! Again in my heart bleeds the cruel blow; Again I am mad with the old-time pain! CARLOTTA PERRY.

"The young village maid, when with flowers she dresses Her dark, flowing hair for some festival day, Will think of thy face till, neglecting her tresses, She mournfully turns fr...

Teddy Darrell kept his promise to Kathleen. He took her immediately to the home of his cousin, a widow lady of about thirty-eight years--a woman of good circumstances and social...

She went her way with a strong step and slow-- Her pressed lip arched, and her clear eye undimmed, As if it were a diamond--and her form held proudly up. N. P. WILLIS.

It was the day following Kathleen's petulant rejection of her cousin's love, and the young girl, embarrassed by Chester's grieved and dejected looks, had gone to her room to nur...

"Would you bring disgrace on yourselves by having me sent to prison to save a paltry four thousand dollars?" he demanded, with the air of one who is master of the situation.

"My dear girl, how fortunate you are to have caught Teddy Darrell!" she exclaimed, after Kathleen had told her the story of her adventures, save and excepting about Fedora's cla...

How murderers walk the earth, Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes And flames about their brain; For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting...

It is a common fate--a woman's lot-- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but can not Repay the interest, and much less the whole. ELLA WH...

"Oh, my dear, how ill you look this morning. Surely you did not sleep well!" Helen Fox exclaimed, gazing in surprise and pain at Kathleen's pale cheeks and heavy, somber eyes.

Mrs. Carew did not appear at breakfast the next morning and Alpine, with a reproachful glance at Kathleen, said that mamma was sick. She had been so worried last night that she...

"I wonder what has detained Jack Wren? He promised to be here this evening at five o'clock sharp. Here it is six," Teddy Darrell said, impatiently, as he looked at his watch, th...

My idol is dead--my queen! I stand by her frozen clay, And bitterly wail, "Kathleen, Come back to my heart, I pray!" But only the moaning storm winds sigh, "Come back, come back...

Despite the message, Mrs. Carew, who went at once to Kathleen's room in a rage at her impertinence, found the young girl still in her ball-dress and jewels, sitting dreamily in...

Oh! you tangled my life in your hair; 'Twas a silken and golden snare, But so gentle the bondage my soul did implore The right to continue your slave evermore. MILES O'REILLY.

An exquisite face--patrician in style; Note the lashes, how black, and their sweep-- The arch of the brows, and the proud lip's smile, The flash of the eyes dark and deep.

Kathleen was waiting for them in the little parlor--Kathleen with shut eyes and pallid lips and folded, waxen hands--so unlike the brilliant beauty they remembered, with this aw...

Let me see him once more, for a moment or two; Let him tell me himself of his purpose, dear, do; Let him gaze in these eyes while he lays out his plan To escape me, and then he...

Even now, I tell you, I wonder Whether this woman called Estelle Is flesh and blood, or a beautiful lie Sent up from the depths of hell. EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.

"They could not take you if they did," he answered; and then he unfolded to her, gently and tenderly, his wish to make her his wife at once, and asked her if she would consent....

"I can not tell you mamma, what I have suffered since I went away last spring. The recital would be enough to melt a heart of stone. You never loved me, I know, but you would ha...

As I came through the Valley of Despair, As I came through the valley, on my sight, More awful than the darkness of the night, Shone glimpses of a past that had been fair. E. W....

It matters not its history; love has wings Like lightning, swift and fatal, and it springs Like a wild flower, where it is least expected, Existing whether cherished or rejected...

"Get a good rest, that's a dear! and in the morning you shall see them all," she said, wheedlingly; and giving Kathleen a cold little kiss on the cheek, she retreated, leaving h...

How was any one to know That those eyes had looked just so On a hundred other women with a glance as light and strange? There are men who change their passions Even oftener than...

Kathleen sat down in front of a bright coal fire, and leaned her curly head back against the easy-chair. In doing so, her upraised eyes encountered over the mantel the picture o...

"Yes, it is strange. There is something very mysterious about this affair. But go to her, Miss Belmont, and no doubt she will give you her confidence. Be her friend, if she need...

As I came through the Valley of Despair-- As I came through the valley, on my sight, More awful than the darkness of the night, Shone glimpses of a past that had been fair. E. W...

She was dead by her own hand, the beautiful child-wife of Vincent Carew, the millionaire--dead in her youth and beauty, leaving behind her all that life held for a worshipped wi...

Kathleen gained her own room, locked the door, and fell prostrate on the floor in a passion of blinding grief and jealous anger. Tears came to her relief, and rained down her ch...

The snow lies white and the moon gives light, I'll out to the freezing mere, And I'll tell my mind to the friendly wind Because I have loved her so. INGELOW.

"So you are come to at last? I began to think you were dead, child. Here! smell this, and you'll soon be better," she exclaimed, vivaciously, as she held a bottle of camphor und...

Roses have thorns, and love is thorny, too; And this is love's sharp thorn that guards its flower, That our beloved has the cruel power To hurt us deeper than all others do. SAR...

My head is wild with weeping for a grief Which is the shadow of a gentle mind. I walk into the air; but no relief To seek--or, haply, if I sought, to find. SHELLEY.

Oh! when shall the grave hide forever my sorrow? Oh! when shall the soul wing her flight from this clay? The present is hell, and the coming to-morrow But brings with new tortur...

The morning papers had not had anything so exciting to chronicle for a long time as the news that Ralph Chainey, the great actor, and the idol of the hour, had been secretly mar...

Doctor Beard was an enthusiast in his art, and his fine eyes shone with eager interest as he realized the delicate and dangerous operation that lay before him and his colleague,...

Kathleen remained a week longer with her relatives; but such importunate letters came to her from Mrs. Stone and Helen Fox that she decided to go home to Boston, promising her g...

I would have rather been a slave In tears, in bondage, by his side, Than shared in all, if wanting him, This world had power to give beside. L. E. LANDON.

"Kathleen, you and Uncle Ben must come to me soon for a visit. It is such a little time now before your marriage, and I can never have you to myself again after that!" exclaimed...