The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine

Berthe was holding a council about bonnets with her maid and Mme. Augustine when I went in. The complexion of the sky, it would seem, was a grave complication of the question at...

Summer had come, and was nearly gone. Paris was deserted. As autumn approached, lifting its fiery finger over the city, the _flaneurs_ disappeared. All those who could flee, fle...

“Great news! Extra! Three sous!” The newsvender, a ragged little urchin who nearly collapsed under the weight and volume of his extras, was shouting out these three startling fa...

“Hélène de Karodel’s. Her character is sweeter still than her face. I have fallen quite in love with her,” said Berthe. And she related the story of their meeting at the _réunio...

The four millions of the balcony are at present standing before two suits of male apparel of the kind worn by the working class, contemplating them with an interest one would sc...

of the Assyrians. He does not forget to extol her chastity as intimately connected with her success; indeed, this praise seems to supersede the blessings with which she is haile...

As Dick Rowan gained strength in those first days of convalescence, Edith perceived that he had changed toward her. The manifestations of this change were slight, she was not su...

Sombre spirits flitted about the head of the young man with the blooming cheeks and light eyes. He was unable to rid himself of a feeling of depression; for he had taken a step...

The family had come to Boston, and were settled in their old home. The change had not been effected without emotion, and, to the surprise of all, the one most moved was Mr. York...

Fleurange hesitated a moment, then followed her natural impulse, which was always straightforward and courageous. She resolutely entered the salon by the terrace window, and whe...

The banker was seated at his office table working for his chance in the wager with the industry of a thorough business man. Whilst he was engaged in writing notes, a smile indic...

The second summer after their return to Boston, Clara went down to spend in Seaton with Hester; and, late in July, the ship _Edith Yorke_, Captain Cary, came sailing up Seaton R...

It is spring again, and ten years have passed since that sunny April day when we saw Carl Yorke come home from his travels--ten years lacking a month, for it is early in March....

Mesdames Folibel occupied a double set of rooms _au premier_ on the Boulevard des Italiens. On a door to the right a large brass plate announced that Madame Augustine Folibel pr...

“I wanted to intimate that thousands swear allegiance to the banner of progress without comprehending its nature. Very many imagine progress to be a struggle in behalf of German...

Hans Shund returned home from business in high feather. Something unusual must have happened him, for his behavior was exceptional. Standing before his desk, he mechanically dre...

It is well for us that faith is able to decipher what De Quincey calls “the hieroglyphic meanings of human suffering”; and that, though the interpretation should not at once be...

When Dick Rowan came home the first time after his mother’s marriage, both she and her husband had desired him to select a chamber in their house which should always be his. He...

It was rather late when Mr. Yorke came down Sunday morning. The storm was yet violent, and he did not mean to go out; and besides, he had been tormented all night with disagreea...

The balcony of the _palais_ Greifmann contains three persons who together represent four million florins. It is not often that one sees a group of this kind. The youthful landho...

In the opinion of their old friends in Boston, the Yorke family had lost something during their sojourn in the wilderness. It was not that they were less charming, less kind, le...