The Prodigals and Their Inheritance; vol. 1

“It was unnecessary, quite unnecessary. What has he to do with dog-carts or any luxury? He should have been left to find his way as best he could. It is not many dog-carts he wi...

The sound of the brougham rolling along down the avenue, and of the closing of the great door upon the departing guest, came to Winifred, as she sat alone, with a dreary sound....

In family troubles such as that which we have indicated, it is generally a woman who is the chief sufferer. She stands between the conflicting parties, and, whether she is mothe...

Miss Farrell did not add to her pupil’s trouble. When she heard the state of affairs, she gave up with noble magnanimity her intention of going away. “You must not ask me to mee...

A threatened life is said to last long. Winifred Chester lived in great alarm and misery for a week or two, watching every movement and every look of her father, expecting almos...

It was scarcely in nature that the appearance of her betrothed, coming so suddenly in the midst of her thoughts, should be disagreeable to Winifred, but it was an embarrassment...

“Why don’t you come to the house and have your talk out? She has got her feet wet, and if she does not look sharp, we shall all be caught in the rain--a doctor should know bette...

Winifred, it will be divined, was not without affairs of her own, which were indeed kept in the background by the more urgent complications of her family life, but yet were alwa...

Miss Farrell came home next day from her visit. She was a little old lady of the period when people became old early, and assumed the dress and the habits of age before it was a...

They were little, and he was tall; they were slight of form, and he was massive and big--a vigorous man with a great “wind of going” about him, like one who could push through e...