The girl from nowhere

The sense that every struggle brings defeat, Because Fate holds no prize to crown success: That all the oracles are dumb, or cheat, Because they have no secret to express:-- Tha...

In her utter helplessness Sent forth a sudden sharp and bitter cry, As of a wild thing, taken in a trap, Which sees the trapper coming through the wood. --TENNYSON.

In after days, whenever he was sleeping badly, or felt ill or feverish, Felix was able to recapture the exact feeling of that moment when he stood, with the defenseless girl, in...

Bordered by cities, and hoarse With a thousand cries, is its stream. And we on its breast, our minds Are confused as the cries which we hear, Changing and shot as the sights tha...

For a minute or two the possibility that Denzil's aunt might recognize him rose up and flooded out everything else in the mind of Felix. That would be the culminating point of s...

When the drunken comrade mutters and the great guard-lantern gutters, And the horror of our fall is written plain, Every secret, self-revealing, on the aching, whitewashed ceili...

In all his well-conducted life Denzil Vanston had never stood at the bedside of a beautiful young girl. His staid imagination had not foreshadowed anything like this maiden, wit...

"This son of mine was a self-willed youth, always too ready to utter his unchastised fancies.... He got the spur when he should have had the rein.... He, therefore, helped to fi...

Spring is here, with the wind in her hair And the violets under her feet. All the forests have found her fair, Lovers have found her sweet. Spring's a girl in a lovely gown, Lit...

Then all the horns were blown in town; And to the ramparts clanging down, All the giants leaped to horse, And charged behind us, through the gorse. --ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

The scene as Felix entered the parlor of the hotel was of a most unusually animated description. The models had all been taken out of "_consigne_" earlier in the day, and Vronsk...

"Lady," he said, "your lands lie burnt And waste: to meet your foe All fear: this have I seen and learnt. Say that it shall be so, And I will go."

But on a day whereof I think One shall dip his hand to drink In that still water of thy soul, And its imaged tremors race Over thy joy-troubled face... From the hovering wing of...

--You have taken from me The Present, and I murmur not, nor moan; The Future too, with all her glorious promise; But do not leave me utterly alone! Spare me the Past. --ADELAIDE...

Does every man who names love in our lives Become a power, for that? Is love's true thing So much best to us, that what personates love Is next best? ... My soul is not a pauper...

--I ventured to remind her, I suppose with a voice of less steadiness Than usual, for my feeling exceeded me, --Something to the effect that I was in readiness Whenever God shou...

O thou young man, the air of Heaven is soft, And warm and pleasant; but the grave is cold! Heaven's air is better than the cold dead grave. --MATTHEW ARNOLD.

--I found it a terrible thing. These villains set on me, and I beginning to resist, they gave but a call, and in came their master. I would, as the saying is, have given my life...

The Governor, his daughter, and Miss Forester were all at breakfast, in a charming room into which the sunshine was streaming, when, unannounced, Vronsky staggered into the room...

Elle songeait--"C'en est fini de la vie heureuse!--Quelle est donc cette loi cruelle qui régit le monde? Pourquoi l'homme ne peut il vivre avec la femme ou même la voir simpleme...

But did she love him?--what and if she did? ... Love has no spell can scorching winds forbid, Or bring the help which tarries near to hand, Or spread a cloud for curtaining fadi...

Miss Rawson had frequently before been left, while Denzil was away, in sole charge at Normansgrave. She was a woman of courage, and it had never occurred to her before to be ner...

I should have cleaved to her who did not dwell In splendor, was not hostess unto kings, But lived contented among simple things, And had a heart, and loved me long and well. --W...

And so I look upon your face again. What have the years done for me since we met? Which has prevailed, the joy of life or pain? Do you recall our parting, or forget?

You saw her fair, none else being by, Herself poised with herself, in either eye: But in that crystal scales let there be weighed Your lady's love against some other maid That I...

She looked upon him with an almost smile And held to him a hand that faltered not.... She did not sigh, she never said "Alas!" Although he was her friend. --JEAN INGELOW.

Aunt Bee had insisted upon supplying Veronica, when she started upon her perilous enterprise in the wilderness, with all kinds of medicaments; and she was able to assure Felix t...

Ye are not bound! The soul of things is sweet, The Heart of being is celestial rest, Stronger than woe is will: that which was good Doth pass to better--best. --EDWIN ARNOLD.

--Blame or praise What was the use then? Time would tell, And the end declare what man for you, What woman for me was the choice of God. --ROBERT BROWNING.

Vronsky had reluctantly decided, in spite of the young girl's own wishes, that it would not be well for Veronica to stay at Savlinsky, all unchaperoned as she was. The Governor'...