Category: Short Stories
THE GHOST OF CHARLOTTE CRAY THE INVISIBLE TENANTS OF RUSHMERE AMY’S LOVER LITTLE WHITE SOULS STILL WATERS CHIT-CHAT FROM ANDALUSIA THE SECRET OF ECONOMY “MOTHER” IN THE HEART OF THE ARDENNES A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHTMARE
THE GHOST OF CHARLOTTE CRAY THE INVISIBLE TENANTS OF RUSHMERE AMY’S LOVER LITTLE WHITE SOULS STILL WATERS CHIT-CHAT FROM ANDALUSIA THE SECRET OF ECONOMY “MOTHER” IN THE HEART OF...
2. Part 2“It looks like it, Hewetson, but it cannot be. I tell you it is an impossibility! Miss Cray died last month, and I have seen not only her grave, but the doctor and nurse who att...
3. Part 3“What on earth is your reason for leaving us?” I demanded angrily; for I knew what a blow her decision would be to Jane. “What have you to find fault with?”
4. Part 4It was weary waiting. I heard one and then two sound from the big clock in the hall; still there was no other noise to break the silence. I began to relapse into my first belief...
5. Part 5“That means I’m off my head; but if it wasn’t for my head, I wonder where the business would go to. No, sir--if you’ll believe me, when I entered the room, there was the old man...
6. Part 6“Lizzie, my dear, are you not well?” inquired Mrs. Rodwell, presently. The friendly interrogation saved me. I had just been relapsing into a state of weakness which might have r...
7. Part 7As we meet her, she is seated in a lounging chair in her own drawing-room, at Mudlianah, with a decided look of discontent or unhappiness upon her countenance. The scene around...
8. Part 8And then he walks off to breakfast with the Lawlesses, though his heart is rather heavy, and his spirits are rather dull for several days after his wife starts for the castle on...
9. Part 9She wears out Ethel’s patience at last, for the young mother is depressed and feeble and longs for sleep. So she orders the nurse to lay her little infant on her arm, and to go...
10. Part 10Well, I was not the one to judge them, nor to bring them to judgment; but I thought very hard things of Sir Harry’s cousin during the dressing hour, and pitied my poor niece, wh...
11. Part 11I believe that Justina has made an ample apology for her rudeness to Lady Amabel and Mr. Warden Scott. I know I represented that it was her duty to do so, and that she promised...
12. Part 12And, as a rule, I believe few women would like to be lightened of their trouble in this respect. The sex is uncommonly fond of a “little brief authority,” and even those who hav...
13. Part 13“_Afraid!_” The sweet serious eyes she turned upon me as she ejaculated the word were just about to deprecate so monstrous an idea, when they caught sight of an approaching figu...
14. Part 14“Be silent,” I said in a loud authoritative voice. “Were you twenty times my mother I would not permit you to speak as you are speaking now. If it is true that you were my fathe...
15. Part 15Returning homeward by the lower part of the town, we pass a _maison religieuse_ dedicated to St. Joseph, and in the garden see the good little sisters joining their pupils, to t...
16. Part 16“My husband and I have been in charge of it for years, and are permitted to occupy the lower floor in consideration of keeping the upper rooms (which are only used as offices in...
17. Part 17“Oh, Jane!” said the old woman, half falling upon her knees, “don’t come a-nigher me, for mercy’s sake! I never kept nothing of yourn back from the children except the old blue...