Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
_The doublet with the missing button--The dark mansion in the walled park--The tailor meets the tall black man and his fair daughter--The Black Prince tells his story--Eight tailors who could not sew on a single button--The tailor is visited by a hideous old woman--The jolly m...
“The itching palms!” said he. “I have handled the dead leaves all my life; and because I have handled them my palms itch, itch, all day and night, without ever a moment’s peace....
10. Part 10She put down the ladle and the bowl, and stood motionless, as if waiting. A change began to come over her. Her back straightened; she grew taller; the wrinkles left her face; he...
4. Part 4I noticed, in the course of time, a slight change in the manner of my customers and friends. The former transacted their business briefly, without an unnecessary word; and the l...
6. Part 6In due time we made our way to the city of Fadz on the seacoast, where we took ship for Oogh; and for some two weeks we sailed the Great Sea with favorable winds. At the end of...
9. Part 9“O quivering seas that sever, O quivering severing sea! And I would I could sing forever The sorrows that sleep in me,-- The soundless sundering sorrows, The shuddering secret s...
5. Part 5When I reached the village at the foot of the mountain, my first thought was of the child whom my horse had injured earlier in the day. I dismounted, and after a few moments’ in...
11. Part 11There was a movement at the door. A crowd of the castle people poured into the room, and parting, opened a lane for a young man, a stranger, who advanced rapidly from the door;...
3. Part 3At night, dressed in my spangled coat, and with a bundle under my arm, I sat in the shop waiting for my stranger. I was too wise to take with me the true doublet, and you may be...
8. Part 8I knelt beside him, and found around his neck a noose of the slenderest thread, extremely tough; and the end of this thread the boy was holding in his hand. I took it from him a...
2. Part 2We seated ourselves at the table. My host clapped his hands four times, and four serving men entered, bearing the first course. They were black, like the four I had already seen...
7. Part 7“Ah!” cried the Blind Bowler. “Only six down that time! Not so easy, when you’ve no eyes to see with! But keep everlastingly at it, that’s the word! What did you say?”
13. Part 13There was a moment’s hesitation, but the anguish of their affliction was too great; the people whispered together, doubtless remarking that they would soon get back their leaves...
14. Part 14I crossed the open space before the door, and as I did so I noticed, clinging to the trunk and lower branches of a tree at the side of the clearing, what appeared to be a wasp’s...
1. Part 1_The doublet with the missing button--The dark mansion in the walled park--The tailor meets the tall black man and his fair daughter--The Black Prince tells his story--Eight tai...