Category: Short Stories
PAGE. The Mother’s Jewel. By the Author of “The Brothers” 5 Sweet Stream 10 Stanzas. By Miss E. M. ALLISON 12 The Would-be-Genteel Lady. By Mrs. CHARLES SEDGWICK 15 At Home. By Mrs. ANNA BACHE 62 To the Whip-poor-will 73 The Child’s best Friend 75 Napoleon and the Iron Crown....
PAGE. The Mother’s Jewel. By the Author of “The Brothers” 5 Sweet Stream 10 Stanzas. By Miss E. M. ALLISON 12 The Would-be-Genteel Lady. By Mrs. CHARLES SEDGWICK 15 At Home. By...
2. Part 2But, notwithstanding her extreme anxiety to do the honors of her house, in what she supposed the most approved manner, she was utterly incapable of performing the most important...
3. Part 3Still her natural equanimity came in aid of her maidenly reserve to conceal from her lover the true state of her heart, and he felt by no means certain that his love was requite...
4. Part 4I was a bride, a happy bride, My gentle Malcolm’s joy and pride. Though poverty was in our cot, Love dwelt there, and we fear’d her not. But sickness came—our daily toil Alone h...
5. Part 5My first attempt was to _swop_ it away; but as none of the boys had such a knife as I wanted, this could not be done. I next called my younger brother Dick to me, and asked him...
6. Part 6“The good man and his wife were not long in removing the poor Indian woman and the child to the house, and, for some time, the poor creature did not appear to know what was pass...
7. Part 7“It was a bright afternoon in September, and Mary had taken her knitting-work and was sitting beside her mother’s arm-chair at the door of their cottage; but she could not work,...
8. Part 8“As she lifted her head at the sound of foot steps, the golden curls swept back from her face, and as she looked upon her father her eye filled with tears; and there was somethi...
9. Part 9“Condy came into the county about the year 1770, and opened a school. He was a true son of Erin, fond of fun, the bottle, and the girls, and seemed to have been, by nature, desi...
10. Part 10The spot on which her pearly sandals stay’d, Was that green islet, that might well be made Shrine for her footsteps: but I may not tell Of half the loveliness that lent its aid...
11. Part 11The lady Antonia appeared at Rome before the commencement of the carnival, and, as she was rich and a celebrated beauty, her arrival at the eternal city was soon known and talke...
12. Part 12Eriphyle, the wife of Amphiaraus the prophet, who, bribed by a rich necklace, prevailed on her husband to be one of the seven chiefs against Thebes, under Adrastus, although she...