Category: Short Stories
NEVER having had much book-learning in my time, having entered into that state of life into which it pleased them above to call me, more than fifty years before the piano began to be taught in Board-schools, with part singing on the cistern of the tonic sofas, as to hear Cheev...
NEVER having had much book-learning in my time, having entered into that state of life into which it pleased them above to call me, more than fifty years before the piano began...
2. Part 2The night was very fine and still, and the great, wide river ran under the arches, as silently as Time itself rolls on to meet the eternal sea. Black barges and hulks lay quiet...
3. Part 3The sense of that dog! On the nights he was told off to do duty and take care of Nan, there he was ready, and he trotted by her side, every nerve in his body alert with watchful...
4. Part 4At last, when I was almost inclined to give up the chase, who should I come upon, outside the Aldgate Station, but my gentleman himself, leaning—as free and easy as you like—aga...
5. Part 5Our journey was in a big transport—a three-masted, full-rigged ship, fitted up with quarters for the “lags,” as they call ’em; a good strong warder guard; and a company of Her M...
6. Part 6She was all by herself, but she didn’t seem lonely; and she didn’t seem to want to talk. I’d watch her on deck, reading and working by the hour together, and sometimes just thin...
7. Part 7He must have had a bad heart, indeed, not to be touched by the way she begged him, to be true to anything that was good in him, and to turn over a new leaf, and lead a worthy li...
8. Part 8I have seen bad and bitter scenes in St. Stephen’s, but never a worse, never a bitterer scene than on that night. Men who, I know, in their hearts did not associate the name of...
9. Part 9Inside, the Yule logs sparkled on the hearth, the old oak parlour was decorated with holly and laurel and arbutus and mistletoe. The table was laden with the good things of this...