Lamia's Winter-Quarters

‘An irrepressible longing. It was first aroused in me, I think, by reading, in tender years, Arnold’s _History of Rome_, whereby I believed as firmly in the Palatine she-wolf, t...

‘If Will by long succession be Not arbiter of Fate, Assail its majesty, and see If it doth abdicate. Chains that do the body bind Cannot manacle the mind. What fetters may the h...

‘I doubt it,’ said the Poet, ‘for Veronica has a fine sense of the fitness of things, and her tastes are sufficiently flexible for her to distinguish between Northern and Southe...

‘I am sure,’ said Lamia, apologetically, ‘you would not scold me if you had seen Perfetta’s delight, and heard her expression of it. If one gives a gown to one’s English maid, o...

There was no reason why, if there was anything new or wonderful to behold, Lamia and the Poet should have a monopoly of the spectacle; so, arraying myself as rapidly as I could,...

Surely it is true, is it not, that accidental experiences have a sharper savour and leave behind them a more enduring reminiscence than projected ones? What one expects but rare...

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As the time drew nearer and nearer for leaving the Tuscan home where we had been so happy, Veronica began to manifest a certain solicitude, in consequence of our leisurely and u...

If people love their home, there is no wrong time for coming back to it; and, were it not for the delight of returning, I doubt if it would be wise, save under compulsion, ever...