Category: Short Stories
In these volumes the word _adventure_ has been used in its broadest sense to cover not only strange happenings in strange places but also love and life and death--all things that have to do with the great adventure of living. Questions as to the fitness of a story were settled...
Moreover, he suddenly felt for Bill, this grimy sheep-herder, some deep form of idolatry. Bill was dying, and the dignity of last defeat, this superiority of him who stands in h...
2. Part 2"'It is good,' he went on gaily, 'that you should happen to have this happy disposition, for I fear that, no later than to-morrow, I may have to absent myself from home. I have...
5. Part 5At the banquet table, in the hearing of all the guests, this monk now said, for he was fearless and thought that his words would have more effect if they were heard by many, "Pe...
10. Part 10The spacious kitchen was lighted by two or three wicks in cups of melted fat, and by a great fire in the middle of the clay floor that cast crowds of dancing shadows on the wall...
3. Part 3"'Who is the woman with the white hair?' I asked. Then, in the fragmentary style approved of by ultra-fashionable young men--this earnest-languid mode of speech presents curious...
8. Part 8Oliver Giles, John Pitcher the dairyman, the parish-clerk, the engaged man of fifty, the row of young women against the wall seemed lost in thought not of the gayest kind. The s...
9. Part 9Then Chicken knew that he must make one of those desperate, nerve-shattering plunges into speculation that fortune sometimes requires of those who would win her favour. Five cen...
7. Part 7The guests had arrived before the rain began to fall, and they were all now assembled in the chief or living-room of the dwelling. A glance into the apartment at eight o'clock o...
6. Part 6Hard by the shore of the bay, and half hidden by a drifting sand-hill, stood a low nondescript structure, to whose composition sea and shore had equally contributed. It was buil...
1. Part 1In these volumes the word _adventure_ has been used in its broadest sense to cover not only strange happenings in strange places but also love and life and death--all things tha...
11. Part 11"In truth I have seen them. I was one of those unfortunates who first opposed them, and most of the friends who were with me are now food for wild dogs. Where our houses stood t...