Category: Novels
On this report, the bare head, which had been slightly raised while the interrogation was taking place, fell back into the hollow it had made for itself on an old sail which was both couch and pillow. A well-worn sporting coat lay between the rough cloth and the golden-brown h...
The tide is now almost at its lowest point. Over a mile of shining flat beach lay between the sea and Pierre Island rising into the bright air like an immense tower or castle. O...
16. CHAPTER XVI.As the coming of Frank Winslow to Pierre Island had been the cause of so many changes and important events in the lives of several individuals, so the period of his absence, on...
4. CHAPTER IV."Where are the hands to guide the waiting plow, To sway the lumbering oxen with a stroke, Now waiting at the bars for band and yoke?-- An exile curst as with a branded brow. The...
1. CHAPTER I.On this report, the bare head, which had been slightly raised while the interrogation was taking place, fell back into the hollow it had made for itself on an old sail which was...
5. CHAPTER V."Along my father's dykes I roam again, Among the willows by the river side, These miles of green I know from hill to tide, And every creek and river's ruddy stain. Neglected lon...
8. CHAPTER VIII."Dark was thy coming and with fire and dearth; Internal shudderings and voiceless throes; When from the burning depths thy form arose To lie all black and shapeless on the earth."
14. CHAPTER XIV.Affairs had moved along very rapidly during the last few days on Pierre Island. It had become the field, and Marie the focal point, of interest in the lives of Grace Gaston and...
3. CHAPTER III.Marie had now joined her father near the head of the cove, and was an interested though silent spectator of the events that were transpiring. The intensity of her feeling was sh...
7. CHAPTER VII.To Marie Gotro the last few weeks had been filled with events which would influence her whole existence. Every tendency of her life, every inherent impulse of her nature, every...
10. CHAPTER X."Beneath a cliff wrenched from the inner earth, All seamed and blackened in an ancient war, I saw rich crystals marking many a scar, Healed when the world was recent from its bi...
11. CHAPTER XI."And then I found that Art was but a song, A pulse of life that beats away the years; For while I touched the strings that trembling died A voice came into mine and made it stro...
12. CHAPTER XII.Pierre welcomed Winslow heartily and with every evidence of pleasure. The old man had not returned home till he had been driven in by the tide, and Winslow came to the island, a...
9. CHAPTER IX."Grim warders of the everlasting crags, To whose bleak avenues the eagle steers; Holding an endless conclave of the peers, Where often Time lays down his blade and lags; Ye are...
13. CHAPTER XIII."Dear Love, I am grown mad with gazing long Into thy eyes, moveless, and ever sweet; Upon thy lips that never smile and greet; That rule my soul and make my passion strong."
17. CHAPTER XVII.From that moment a new light came into the life of Marie. New and pleasant duties became hers. Miss Gaston, who heard from her a few days after Winslow's arrival, realized the c...
6. CHAPTER VI.Again the cry was borne up to Bluff Castle from the shore. In a few minutes Pierre and Winslow, followed shortly after by Marie and Suzanne, hurried down the road. The tide was...
15. CHAPTER XV."Along my father's dykes I roam again, Among the willows by the river-side. These miles of green I know from hill to tide And every creek and river's ruddy stain. Neglected long...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.For some time matters at Pierre Island went forward pleasantly. There was nothing to mar the serenity of the days, and no distracting element or disturbing condition to break th...