Category: Adventure
I, José de la Mancha y O'Brien, was born on the ninth day of November, 1865, in Spain, of an Irish mother and a Spanish sire. Ten years later my parents entered the service of God, my father from a battle-field, my mother living in a convent.
I, José de la Mancha y O'Brien, was born on the ninth day of November, 1865, in Spain, of an Irish mother and a Spanish sire. Ten years later my parents entered the service of G...
2. CHAPTER IIRain was a little brown hen-angel, the half-grown, all fluffy chicken of a seraph, with a tang of earth about her, just deceptively human and alluring enough to tear my heart-st...
3. CHAPTER IIIBefore I left Fort French on my way to regimental headquarters I promised old Wormy to lead a better life. The first duty then was to provide for my Brat in hospital; so I raffl...
4. CHAPTER IVTwo human lives flow sparkling down childhood's merry rapids, and more sedately across the sadder years, to draw together, then to run apart, until at last they meet midway upon...
5. CHAPTER VThis job of writing puzzles me. I am like a merchant selling a pearl necklace: will you have my string or my pearls? My threadbare story is that of an obscure man, but illustrat...
6. CHAPTER VIMy Brat had been frozen in the spring of 1884, losing the toes of the right foot. When I got back to Fort French in the fall of 1886, his wound was still open, although he wore...
7. CHAPTER VIIIf I were a painter I should make three pictures. For the painting of _Life_ I should dip my brushes only in sunlight and starlight. That it contrast with the darkness his figur...
8. CHAPTER VIII"Women, and wine, and war. War, and wine, and love! With a sword to wear and a horse to ride And a wench to love--give me nought beside, But a bottle or so at the even-tide! Wom...
9. CHAPTER IXMr. Otto Rams. His point of view revealed to him a stony broke inventor by the name of Burrows, to be smoothly cheated out of certain patents for extracting gold from rock. This...
10. CHAPTER XThe husband who shows suspicions of his wife gives everybody to hope that she is dissolute. I never showed or felt suspicion concerning the Señora de la Mancha. While a ship's p...
11. CHAPTER XIThe European has goods to add up, neighbors from whom he subtracts, estates to multiply, and fortune to divide. For this arithmetic he needs machinery of the brain which widens...
12. CHAPTER XIII am the Inspector Buckie mentioned in the foregoing text, and to me is entrusted the editing and completion of this biography. I feel that in this conventional world so very un...