Category: Short Stories
It was a radiant June morning, and the fashionable watering-place--Beachbourne--was looking its best in the brilliant sunshine. Smart carriages dashed past, well-dressed cyclists careered gaily along, and the High Street shops were thronged with fashionable customers.
She had turned towards him as irresistibly as the needle to the pole. But at his words a quick shiver ran through her. Her eyes turned from him and darkened. Her head drooped.
6. CHAPTER VI.When bright-faced Lulu had returned home, brief though her visit had been, Harold missed her inexpressibly. To vary the monotony of his dreary rooms, he paid his promised call i...
10. CHAPTER IV.Ishbel might have thought of these words, if she had known them, on the morrow and on many morrows that followed. For Rory MacPhee was not the man to come back, or to speak ligh...
11. CHAPTER XIII."It would be surprising if she didn't, Kitty"--looking at her with brotherly fondness. "Do you know, Kitty, I used to like you because you were pretty, and couldn't help being c...
12. CHAPTER XIV.But as the days passed the happiness which Pamela had expected did not come. Perhaps at first the atmosphere of approval in which she lived made a species of false happiness; bu...
9. CHAPTER III."Duncan, Duncan, but I hef promised!" It was the next night, and Ishbel stood before the cottage in her dark wincey skirt and green cotton jacket, her face turned up to her cous...
1. CHAPTER I.It was a radiant June morning, and the fashionable watering-place--Beachbourne--was looking its best in the brilliant sunshine. Smart carriages dashed past, well-dressed cyclist...
2. CHAPTER II.Doris was never allowed to partake of meals with Miss Waller, who disliked having to regulate her conversation according to inquisitive childish ears. The little girl lived in t...
3. CHAPTER III."Do you mind my smoking?" began Mr. Lang, after a moment's keen scrutiny of the graceful figure beside him. Hardly waiting for permission, he produced a gold case and lighted a...
7. CHAPTER I.One is pretty safe to address a man in Skye as Macdonald! If that fails, then try MacLeod, and if this produces no result, then there is still Nicolson to fall back on. An error...
5. CHAPTER V.Arrived at his rooms, Harold did the honours; not without fears lest May should miss the luxuries of her home. But she enjoyed the change of surroundings with all the zest of a...
4. CHAPTER IV.Whit Sunday--which was late that year--was simply glorious, the heat being tempered by a delicious sea breeze. A vivacious, dark-eyed girl, who accompanied Harold Inglis along t...
8. CHAPTER II."It is no use at all to go against the lass. I hef said so before now. And there are many lasses in Skye, as good as she, and with, maybe, a cow or two, or a few pounds to bring...