Short Stories

The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1

Dawson, W. J. (William James), 1854-1928 [Editor]; Brown, John, 1810-1882 [Contributor]; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 [Contributor]; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Contributor]; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 [Contributor]; Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 [Contributor]; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 [Contributor]; Hogg, James, 1770-1835 [Contributor]; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 [Contributor]; James, Henry, 1843-1916 [Contributor]; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 [Contributor]; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Contributor]; Stockton, Frank R., 1834-1902 [Contributor]; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 [Contributor]; Dawson, Coningsby, 1883-1959 [Editor]· 3 chapters· 52,329 words

"Why--it did not seem altogether right to leave the interior blank--that would have been insulting. D----, at Vienna once, did me an evil turn, which I told him, quite good-humoredly, that I should remember. So, as I knew he would feel some curiosity in regard to the identity...

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was right there in the garret! And so it was: it was Sadie's voice, and she was crying; my name was falling from her lips all broken, poor thing, and I could not believe my ears...

1. Chapter 1

"Why--it did not seem altogether right to leave the interior blank--that would have been insulting. D----, at Vienna once, did me an evil turn, which I told him, quite good-humo...

2. Chapter 2

Then came the winter. One day I was standing a watch in the nursery. That is to say, I was asleep on the bed. The baby was asleep in the crib, which was alongside the bed, on th...