Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
There was an account of an execution item that met my eyes in glancing over the columns of a newspaper. It made no more impression upon me at the time than such paragraphs make upon you or any of us. My glance slided over that to the next items, chronicling in order the succes...
There was an account of an execution item that met my eyes in glancing over the columns of a newspaper. It made no more impression upon me at the time than such paragraphs make...
2. CHAPTER II.Life is before ye! Oh, if ye would look Into the secrets of that sealed book, Strong as ye are in youth and hope and faith, Ye would sink down and falter, "Give us Death!"--FANN...
3. CHAPTER III.Oh! that men should put an enemy in Their mouths to steal away their brains; that we Should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, Transform ourselves into beasts! Oh! thou...
4. CHAPTER IV.Habitual evils change not on a sudden, But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And wor...
5. CHAPTER V.It had been arranged, as the best plan for all parties, under present circumstances, that Fannie should retain her situation as shop-woman at Leroux's hair-dressing and fancy st...
6. CHAPTER VI.The look, the air that frets thy sight, May be a token that below, The soul has closed in deadly fight With some eternal fiery foe, Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace,...
7. CHAPTER VII.I pray thee take thy fingers from my throat: For though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand!--SHAKES...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Ye seem to look on me with asking eyes! Listen! and I will tell a fearful story! Since I remember aught about myself, A strange heart sickness almost like to death, A deep remor...
9. CHAPTER IX.You few that love me, And dare be bold to weep for such as I-- My gentle friends and fellows, whom to leave Is only bitter to me, only dying-- Go with me, like good angels, to m...
10. CHAPTER X.When Valentine's little family circle received information of the verdict that laid low their last hopes, Phaedra met the misfortune with that sad resignation which we often see...
11. CHAPTER I.The spring following Carrie Howard's death Rice Corner was thrown into a commotion by the astounding fact that Captain Howard was going out West, and had sold his farm to a gent...
12. CHAPTER II.As yet I had only seen Nellie in the distance, and was about despairing of making her acquaintance when accident threw her in my way. Directly opposite our house, and just acros...
13. CHAPTER III.Down our long, green lane, and at the further extremity of the narrow footpath which led to the "old mine," was another path or wagon road which wound along among the fern bushe...
14. CHAPTER IV.On the first Monday in June our school commenced, and long before breakfast Lizzie and I were dressed and had turned inside out the little cupboard over the fireplace where our...
15. CHAPTER V.About six weeks after the close of Mabel's school we were one day startled with the intelligence that she was going to be married, and to Mr. Sherwood, too. He had become tired...
16. CHAPTER VI.And now, in the closing chapter of this brief sketch of the Gilberts, I come to the saddest part--the fate of poor Nellie, the dearest playmate my childhood knew, she whom the l...