Lilith

By his side, on a stand covered with white damask, stood a basket of luscious strawberries in a nest of their own leaves; also a vase of fragrant spring flowers—hyacinths, tulip...

Hereward was suffering from terrible excitement. We said a little while since that his soul seemed dead within him. And as resuscitation is always more distressing than asphyxia...

Rise! If the past detain you, Her sunshine and storms forget; No chains so unworthy to hold you As those of a vain regret. Sad or bright, it is lifeless ever, Cast its phantom a...

Early next morning Mr. Cave, in accordance with the request of Dr. Kerr, went to the Cliffs to spend the day with Tudor Hereward. He found the young man too ill to leave his roo...

Do you think, because you fail me And draw back your hand to-day, That from out the heart I gave you My strong love can fade away? It will live. No eyes may see it; In my soul i...

Lilith sat in one corner of the Pullman car, with her chair wheeled around, her shoulders to all her fellow-passengers, and her face fronting the large mirror on the wall. She s...

Perhaps in some long twilight hour, Like those we have known of old, When past shadows round you gather, And your present friends grow cold, You may stretch your hands out towar...

My life you ask for? You must know My little life can ne’er be told; It has been full of joy and woe, Though I am but a few years old. _A. A. Proctor._

Nor dare to blame God’s gifts for incompleteness; In that want their beauty lies. They roll Towards some infinite depth of love and sweetness, Bearing onward man’s reluctant sou...

Madame Von Bruyin grew very fond of Lilith and would have had her new favorite with her every day, or even had her to come and live at the hotel.

How am I changed? My hopes were once like fire; I loved and I believed that life was love. How am I lost? How high did I aspire! Above heaven’s winds, my spirit once did move Al...

Up to this time she had been almost unconsciously sustained by the recognized uncertainty of human affairs; by the deep-seated hope that “something might happen” to delay the vo...

There was a time when meadow, grove and spring The earth and every common sight, To her did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not...

The baroness was very kind to her young companion, and very delicate in making the gradual change she had determined upon in her case. She never said to the young creature in so...

The memory of things precious keepeth warm The heart that once did hold them. They are poor That have lost nothing; they are poorer far Who, losing, have forgotten; they most po...

“A deplorable instance of the conviction of an innocent man, under false circumstantial evidence, of a crime that first consigned him to the scaffold, and afterward, by the comm...

Look forward what’s to come, and back what’s past; Thy life will be with praise and prudence graced; What loss or gain may follow thou mayst guess; Then wilt thou be secure of t...

The next morning, while Madame Von Bruyin, Lilith Hereward, and Monsieur Le Grange were seated at breakfast together, a card was brought in on a silver waiter and offered to Lil...

Doubt is the effect of fear or jealousy, Two passions which to reason give the lie; For fear torments and never doth assist; And jealousy is love lost in a mist. Both hoodwink t...

“I think it is something about you, honey. Indeed, I feel sure of it!” said the old lady to her young favorite; and in fact she was right, as the event proved.

Each in the other can descry The tone constrained, the altered eye; They know that each to each can seem No longer as of yore; And yet, while thus estranged, I deem Each loves t...

“Nor has any one else told me, nor do I even surmise its nature; in a word, Lilith, I know no more of that mystery now than I knew on that dreadful day when it parted us! And ye...

“Madame, I have to add to my congratulations the most heartfelt and grateful acknowledgments. Words cannot thank you for the boon you have given me in the restoration of this lo...

Zuniga, with his slight, elegant and graceful form, his dark complexion—darker still with his luxuriant black curls—fine black eyes, shadowed with black eyelashes, and arched by...

“Just now the whole neighborhood was excited over the situation at the Hall. Young Mr. James Hawkhurst, nephew and heir of Squire Hawkhurst, was a sort of Prince Hal, in his way...

“But notwithstanding the promise that the big brother had extorted from each of the unhappy little pair, that they would control their feelings and behave themselves, no sooner...

“The docket was an unusually full one for this term, and many cases had to be tried before that of John Weston, charged with the murder of John Ketcham, was called.

“Joseph Wyvil, who had heard the verdict, was not able to get near the unfortunate boy, who had been hurried from the dock to the prison van by the officers in attendance. And t...

“Ah, poor Joseph Wyvil! And poor Lil! The doctor might as reasonably have recommended a yacht to the Mediterranean Sea and a palace on the coast of Sicily for this impoverished...

And all the time they hunted me, From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And justice hounding far and wide Her bloodhounds through the country side, Breathed hot and instant on m...

The Herewards, Señor Zuniga and Mrs. Downie, according to arrangement, lived on in the house in the Champs Elysées during the month of the Prince and Princess Gherardini’s brida...