Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
“What I have written may appeal to you because of our friendship, and because, when you come to read them, you will seek to grasp, in these apparent confidences, an inner meaning that to the end will elude you. If you think others, not the many but the few, might find here any...
“What I have written may appeal to you because of our friendship, and because, when you come to read them, you will seek to grasp, in these apparent confidences, an inner meanin...
2. Part 2That is not exactly reassuring, especially when you like to leave your doors and windows open, and sleep in the dark. I thank him, and he goes away, having entirely destroyed my...
3. Part 3There is an empty one-roomed hut of brown palm-leaves on this most lonely peak. One pushes the mat window upwards and supports it on a stick,--beneath the window is a primitive...
4. Part 4One looks for a sunset in the west, does one not? and that is the direction in which to find it here as elsewhere; but to-night the marvellous effects of the setting sun were, f...
5. Part 5The other day a friend, writing to me, said, with admirable candour, “Do not think my heart is so small that it can only contain love for one man,” and I know that she means one...
6. Part 6I do not pretend that there are not many exceptions; but the daughters who are the victims of parental zeal, or parental repression, are so numerous that, in England at any rate...
7. Part 7After an absence which cannot be measured by days--not at least days of twenty-four hours, but rather by spaces of longing and regret,--I am back again in a house where everythi...
8. Part 8It was, of course, imperative that the proceedings should be conducted with secrecy, and the meeting was arranged to take place on the outskirts of a distant town, to which it w...
9. Part 9I suppose it is a book with a purpose, and, unlike a Scotch sermon, it is divided into only two heads. As to one, I could imagine the reply might be in the form of another book...
10. Part 10“It would not interest you to describe our failures--how the man outwitted us; how, just when we thought we had him, he would slip through our fingers, partly by his own skill,...
11. Part 11I observed the moth had a large, dark, cigar-shaped body, with two longish _antennæ_, much stouter than the proboscis, and infinitely shorter. After pursuing its researches into...
12. Part 12“It was a night like this, and I was going with my mother, my wife, and child to a neighbouring island to visit some relatives. We were travelling by a small steamer, and in the...
13. Part 13The original discovery was purely the result of accident, and his first researches had to be conducted in secrecy, without assistance, otherwise the _trouvaille_ would have beco...
14. Part 14Whilst we dream of life’s big possibilities, its little duties drive us where they will. We were parted, and, if I do not now remind you of that time, it is because I know that...
15. Part 15When eye can look into eye, when the stretched-out hand meets a responsive touch,--timid and uncertain, or confident with the knowledge of passionate love passionately returned,...
16. Part 16Do I know? I think I do. You see, if the future contains nothing for me, I have still the past--and, in that past, I have learnt to implicitly trust you, and you have let me see...
17. Part 17The Lark. BOOK THE FIRST. Containing Nos. 1 to 12. BOOK THE SECOND. Containing Nos. 13 to 24. With numerous Illustrations by GELETT BURGESS and Others. Small 4to. 25s. net, the...