Category: Novels
We have known many prettier girls than Mary Gresley, and many handsomer women--but we never knew girl or woman gifted with a face which in supplication was more suasive, in grief more sad, in mirth more merry. It was a face that compelled sympathy, and it did so with the convi...
We have known many prettier girls than Mary Gresley, and many handsomer women--but we never knew girl or woman gifted with a face which in supplication was more suasive, in grie...
5. PART II.--THE RESULT.During the next month we saw a good deal of Mr. Julius Mackenzie, and made ourselves quite at home in Mrs. Grimes’s bed-room. We went in and out of the Spotted Dog as if we had...
2. PART I.--HOPE.We hardly feel certain that we are justified in giving the following little story to the public as an Editor’s Tale, because at the time to which it refers, and during the circu...
4. PART I.--THE ATTEMPT.“I write to you for literary employment, and I implore you to provide me with it if it be within your power to do so. My capacity for such work is not small, and my acquirements...
3. PART II.--DESPAIR.A fortnight had been given to us to prepare our matter, and during that fortnight I saw none of my colleagues. I purposely kept myself apart from them in order that I might thus...