Category: Poetry
On the return to Kilkenley I placed my guest beside Father O’Dowd in the car, as I saw that the former was bursting with impatience to get at the Home-Rule question. During the luncheon he had made several ineffectual attempts at drawing out the priest, which were deftly shunt...
“Moida! Moida! you were right; you knew him better than I did: Conrad Seinsheim has already proposed,” were Walburga’s first words as she entered her home in Fingergasse, where...
5. CHAPTER II.On the way home Walburga stepped into the cathedral, the grand old Frauen Kirche, and remained a short while on her knees before the high altar. There Conrad and all that he had...
9. CHAPTER III.“Exactly, chères enfants!” said Mme. Léopold, with a smile at both her _protégées_; but it was Pearl’s hand she pressed, it was Pearl’s forehead that she stooped to kiss, in ans...
2. book vii.:“The faint winds breathe about the night, the moon shines clear and kind; Beneath the quivering, shining road the wide seas gleaming lie.... The fowl that love the river-bank an...
4. CHAPTER IV.I was received at Clonacooney with an enthusiasm that sent the hot blood surging through my veins in prideful throbs. At the entrance to the village I was presented with an addr...
8. CHAPTER II.“Heaven knows I wish Darrell a long life and a happy one,” said Colonel Redacre, heaving a sigh from the bottom of his heart; “but when one sees how he suffers from this terribl...
3. CHAPTER I.Among the many beautiful paintings by world-known artists which adorn the old Pinakothek in Munich is one symbolizing Innocence, by Carlo Dolce. It represents a lovely, rosy-che...
1. CHAPTER III.On the return to Kilkenley I placed my guest beside Father O’Dowd in the car, as I saw that the former was bursting with impatience to get at the Home-Rule question. During the...
7. CHAPTER I.The Redacres were at home on Saturday evening—at home in the pleasant, simple way that used to be the fashion in Paris some twenty, or even ten, years ago. They lived in an entr...