The dragon

It is the eye that begets and conceives: suddenly by the hap and fecundity of glances which meet a child is summoned from the place of dumbness, and hears, and quickens, and ari...

Three days after the battle Li Ku Yu departed; for, though the Prince declined to tell how he had got his injuries, the whole thing had been anxiously probed to the bottom. Inde...

The carriages that rolled to the Buckingham Palace ball about a year later rolled through snow, and snow was falling when, some minutes after Her Majesty had danced the square-d...

Those of his enemies who had been captured were set free unpunished; those who had fled in all directions one by one crept back, and, to their utter astonishment, were left unpu...

Two months later the _rapprochement_ of Russia and Japan was a _fait accompli_; and at the same time a new 18,000,000 Chinese loan was on the counters of the Deutsche-Asiatische...

England, meanwhile, remained careless of face, with faith in the old luck; and men did their business, saying little of the knell in their inwards. There were distraints for ren...

When the night began to lift a little at five bells in the morning watch, the _Mauretania_ was in longitude 10° 37′, and, in the centre a hall all vault and water, was vaulting...

At that morning hour of the sea-fight the half-caste Oyone and her dagger were already at Chinnery’s in the Horseferry Road—a common old house, whose door was as often open as s...

Late in the day of the Prince’s visit to Chinnery, London was again agaze at the boat in the air: for Oyone had forced the ever-pliant Chinnery to take her over Harrow, and this...

The half-caste descended upon a path between two coppices on hill-sides, and rushing about the bush of one with a lantern, discovered the boats and bodies all within an area of...

Germany had some 854,000 tons at Emden—53 capital ships—which the British sought to blockade and contain, lying in a long curve beyond Borkum (the island that lies before Emden).

The spot of drab looked black as soot; she hated; and on the day that the Princess Elizabeth said to her: “Ah, Your Majesty, you have seen yourself—there is a life between Teddy...

The next morning she had a letter: “Since I am very perplexed, please, dear, relieve me. I must see you to-morrow night at nine for five minutes ... the Piccadilly Fountain....”

But the wound proved “not dangerous,” though “grave,” and though accompanied in its “history” by some delirium; and meantime the most detested of men was the dead Alexis, since...

If Eulalia had really seen, then, all was up—the hoard gone—the prison cell—the English scaffold. What hissing luck! Were there gods who saw, and maliciously managed chances to...

The Queen lay on a bed to which none had access save the Princess Elizabeth and one maid-of-honour—for Her Majesty would see no doctor. It was nine in the night, a reddish shine...

All that morning Britain was rent by a civil war of placards, “Too Ill,” “An Hour Will Decide,” “He Will Be Present—Special,” “The Doctors Forbid,” “Hope Abandoned,” “Prince Lea...

But days before this Lord Percy Burnett, sent to search for Eulalia’s body, had managed to get back—with tidings on his tongue! for, though it was known in Britain that Oriental...

These were days of scanty house-room, and of a care for half-pence among Kings. Sandringham, first closed, had then been handed over, half to the Imperial Family of Russia, half...

Of forty-three super-Dreadnoughts docked to be overhauled, twenty-three only were ready, _plus_ ten American just come, three Brazilian, two Argentine, one Austrian, three Spani...

There in Eulalia’s chamber lay the ray ready for Oyone to enter and take; but, as to finding Chinnery, at the time of her start from France Chinnery was where she would never fi...

Now, then, for some days was the _régime_ of air-boats, Chinnery’s body still lying in its coffin in Buckingham Palace when twenty boats lay in the Park, the Prince and Sturge t...

“The Princess Elizabeth and I,” said Her Majesty in a high-up chamber on the west palace-side, “are both clever with our needles, so we have plotted together to make you up some...

At three in the afternoon of Friday, the ninth, fewer words probably were being spoken over the breadth of Britain than ever in a populous country before. Hundreds of thousands...

That next (Sunday) night, the night before the comet crossed our orbit, Her Majesty and His Royal Highness argued long together, wrestling together, alone in that Newmarket Parl...