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Alpheus and Eleusa, Thessalian Greeks, travelled in their old age, to escape poverty and misfortune, which had surely taken joint lease with themselves of a certain hut among the hills, and managed both household and flock.
At midnight the sleepless girl stole from her couch, and laid on the altar beyond the village heavy clusters of grapes and the richest fruits from her store of dainties. "Hylas!...
9. Chapter 9"A Musical _soirée_? Famous, my boy!" said Easelmann, as he sat, smoking as usual, in his fourth-story _atelier_ with Greenleaf, watching the sun go down. "Making progress, I se...
12. Chapter 12A quiet, maiden-like place was Mary's little room. The window looked out under the overarching boughs of a thick apple-orchard, now all in a blush with blossoms and pink-tipped...
11. Chapter 11As I before remarked, Mrs. Katy Scudder had invited company to tea. Strictly speaking, it is necessary to begin with the creation of the world, in order to give a full account o...
10. Chapter 10When one has a story to tell, one is always puzzled which end of it to begin at. You have a whole corps of people to introduce that _you_ know and your reader doesn't; and one t...
7. Chapter 7Mr. Sandford was a bachelor, and resided in a pleasant street at the West End,--his sister being housekeeper. His house was simply furnished,--yet the good taste apparent in the...
6. Chapter 6There was an exhibition of pictures in an upper room on Washington Street. The artists had collected their unsold productions, and proposed to offer them at auction. There were...
8. Chapter 8Miss Marcia Sandford, after breakfast, was sitting in her chamber with her widowed sister-in-law, who had come to spend a few months with her late husband's family. The widow no...
2. Chapter 2The days which the exiles passed in solitude were not unhappy. The child Evadne pruned the large-leaved vines, and gave the rugged cheeks of certain melons to the sun. The conti...
1. Chapter 1Alpheus and Eleusa, Thessalian Greeks, travelled in their old age, to escape poverty and misfortune, which had surely taken joint lease with themselves of a certain hut among th...
4. Chapter 4"You have willingly followed us into our exile," he said, "nor have you ever inquired whither we lead you. Listen to me; I shall confide to you a secret, so that, if evil befall...
3. Chapter 3When Evadne returned to Alpheus and to her foster-mother, she was silent concerning her discovery, and it seemed the more sweet to her for being secret. Her thoughts made pilgri...