BOOK IV - THE REWARD: CHAPTER 2Odo, on his return to Pianura, had taken it for granted that de Cruciswould remain in his service.There had been little talk between the two on the way. The one was deepin his own wretchedness, and the other had too fine a tact to intrude onit; but Odo felt the nearness...
BY LORD BROUGHAM. A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. The question which has more than, any other harassed metaphysical reasoners, but especially theologians, and upon which it is probable that no very satisfactory conclusion will ever be reached by the human faculties, is the Origin and Sufferance...
CHAPTER XXIVDouglas' hard campaign was ended when we arrived in Springfield. His humorous remark was that he had the constitution of the United States. He was never so wholly fatigued that a drink or a meal would not pull him up to a zest and a capacity for a further task. A little sleep restored him...
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CHAPTER II. THE AGENTThe Major hunted up the real estate dealer's former letter as soon as he reached his office next morning. The printed letter-head, somewhat blurred, because too much ink had been used, read as follows:Marshall McMahon McNutt, Real Estate Dealer & Horses to Pasture by the week or...
CHAPTER XIITwo happy, eventful years passed.One evening, as they sat in the long library, John happened to mention Rosemary Sussex,--and the old parsonage his boyhood had been spent, untenanted now--in disrepair. Sir Peter asked a casual question or two. For the rest of the evening he schemed in silence.Shortly...
CHAPTER XI. SKIRMISHINGOn the following morning the gentlemen at Fair Oaks were astir at an unusually early hour, and immediately after breakfast held a brief conference. It was decided to offer a heavy reward for the apprehension of the murderer of Hugh Mainwaring, while a lesser reward was to be offered...
CHAPTER XIV. THRASHING AN AMBULANCE CASE!"I want you to stand right where you are until some of my friends come," Dick made answer. Then he braced himself for the violent assault that, he felt, was sure to come. To his intense astonishment, however, Tag heaved a sigh of dejection, then muttered: "I...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. GUARDIAN ANGELS ARE RIDING POINT They plunged into darkness again, rode at a half trot over smooth, hard sand, Bud trusting himself wholly to Marian and to the sagacity of the two horses who could see, he hoped, much better than he himself could. His keen hearing had caught a faint...
CHAPTER XXErnestine walked from Lincoln's Inn to the office of the Hour she stayed until nearly four. Then, having finished her day's work, she made her way homewards. Davenant was waiting for her in her rooms. She greeted him with some surprise. "You told me that I might come to tea," he reminded her....
Upon the couch of death, The champion of the free,Gave, with his parting breath, This solemn legacy:--"Sheathed be the battle-blade, "And hushed the cannons' thunder:"The glorious UNION GOD hath made, "Let no man put asunder!"War banish from the land, "Peace cultivate with all!"United you must stand,...
AU LARGE CHAPTER VII. 'THANASE'S VIOLINHad Marguerite gone to New Orleans the better to crush Claude out of her heart? No, no! Her mother gave an explanation interesting and reasonable enough, and at the same time less uncomfortably romantic. Marguerite had gone to the city to pursue studies taught better...
PART I. OF WAR-TIME CHAPTER IX. "THE DOG IT WAS THAT DIED"Until the great war was over I had no idea that some of us who stayed at home made the great sacrifice. My friend Harburn is, or rather was, a Northumbrian, or some kind of Northerner, a stocky man of perhaps fifty, with close-clipped grizzled...
At an hour early the next morning I was not surprised to see Colonel Newcome at my chambers, to whom Clive had communicated Bayham's important news of the night before. The Colonel's object, as any one who knew him need scarcely be told, was to rescue his brother-in-law; and being ignorant of lawyers,...
THE FIFTH PART. THE TALE OF THE QUEST'S ENDING CHAPTER XIII. BIRDALONE BETHINKS HER TO FULFIL THE PROMISE MADE UNTO ATRAAgain wore a week, and once more came the messenger, and did them of the castle to wit that there had been nought more done at the Red Hold, save skirmishing at the barriers in few...
Ich bin der alte Ahasuér. I am the old Ahasuér; I wander here, I wander there. My rest is gone, My heart is sair;...
Once upon a time, some Dutch hunters went to Africa, hoping to capture a whole family of lions. In this they succeeded. With a pack of hounds and plenty of aborigines to poke the jungle with sticks, they drove a big male lion, with his wife and four whelps, out of the undergrowth into a circle. In the...
CHAPTER XXIII. DOWN!Meanwhile Tim Brophy found himself in the hottest quarters of his life. Inspired by the same desperate thought of his friend, he strove, with all the energy he possessed, to widen the space between himself and his pursuers. Less fleet of foot than they, it took but a few seconds to...
FIRST ACT SCENE IV(The Preceding. INGEBORG and the Bridesmaids come over the bridge.)INGEBORG. (Still in the background.) Why do you run away from me? What good will that do? There can be no wedding anyway before I come.INGEBORG. (Notices LADY KIRSTEN and her retinue.) Lady Kirsten! you here? Well, I...
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To my sister on her day,On whom my love long has shone:May your wish and world be one,Your want your wind, your will your way.So may you find happinessIn being loved and loving well,So long as choice and chance may tell,Turning time to tenderness.Each day may both of you againRejoice in what this day...
CHAPTER IIThe multitude of legs, engaged by the pair in the service of Valentine, King & Co., were distinguished from each other by a bit of house slang. I was known as "last legs" among my companions for some time after my initiation to the warehouse. At first I was inclined to resent the reduction...
CHAPTER SIX. DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES--PERPETUAL DAY--PERPLEXITIES ABOUT BED-TIME-- CONFUSION OF MINDThe scene is changed. We are on board the _Snowflake and out once more among the thousands of islands off the coast far beyond the Arctic Circle now. This is the region where the sun does not set night...
CHAPTER VII. AFTERMATHCato at my bedside with basin, towel, and razor, a tub of water on the floor, and the sun shining on my chamber wall. These, and a stale taste on my tongue, greeted me as I awoke. First to wash teeth and mouth with orris, then to bathe, half asleep still; and yet again to lie a-thinking...
During a part of the year London does not see the clouds. Not to see the clear sky might seem her chief loss, but that is shared by the rest of England, and is, besides, but a slight privation. Not to see the clear sky is, elsewhere, to see the cloud. But not so in London. You may go for a week or...
CHAPTER XLVII. HOW MY DOUBTING WAS RESOLVED FOR METhe sun being high-risen and myself famished with hunger, I set off for our habitation by paths well-hid from observation and yearning mightily to find my lady there. Having scaled the cliff I reached the little plateau, and parting the bushes, recoiled...
Dear Harp of my Country! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long,(1)When proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song!The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness Have wakened thy fondest, thy liveliest...
There was once upon a time a soldier who for many years had served the king faithfully, but when the war came to an end could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received. The king said to him: 'You may return to your home, I need you no longer, and you will not receive any more money,...
Chapter XXIXEllen rose without a word, and fled out of the room and out of the house. It seemed to her, after what had happened, after what her mother and grandmother had said and insinuated, after what she herself had thought and felt, that she must. She longed to see Robert Lloyd, to hear him speak,...
CHAPTER IV. MORANMeanwhile Charlie had brought the "Bertha Millner" up to within hailing distance of the bark, and had hove her to. Kitchell ordered Wilbur to return to the schooner and bring over a couple of axes. "We'll have to knock holes all through the house, and break in the skylights and let the...
A coach was a strange monster in those days, and the sight of one put both horse and man into amazement. Some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the Pagan temples in which the Cannibals adored the divell. TAYLOR, THE WATER POET.I have made casual mention,...
CHAPTER XXXIVA minute or two after the boat in which Arthur was being piloted to the shore, under the guidance of the manager of Miles' Hotel, had left the side of the vessel, Mrs. Carr's steam-launch shot up alongside of them, its brass-work gleaming in the sunlight like polished gold. On the deck,...
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ENEMY SHOWS HIS HANDAfter returning from supper, Marsh sat down to look over the evening paper. The Merton case, which had replaced the Sheridan Road mystery in editorial esteem, was now retired to an inner page. He read the usual short notice that the police expected to have the guilty...
Marianna sat down again, but without raising her eyes to Andrea, who hesitated before speaking. "And will not Signor Gambara's confidence entitle me to his wife's?" he said in agitated tones. "Can the fair Marianna refuse to tell me the story of her life?" "My life!" said Marianna. "It is the life of...
My trade was old when the world was new, Ere the pyramids rose by the NileMen quitted their wives, and gave me their goods For the warmth of my kiss, and my smile.For never was wife who could hold her man By the honeymoon's afterglowDid I veil mine eyes and beckon to him, God's truth, and 'tis you...
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIAOn the afternoon following the capture of Aboukir Castle, an Arab was seen riding at full speed towards the British left. He was pursued by some French cavalry, and another party endeavoured to cut him off. The general happened to be at the time watching the troops...
Book XVII. Chapter V.Mrs Miller and Mr Nightingale visit Jones in the prison.When Mr Allworthy and his nephew went to meet Mr Western, Mrs Miller set forwards to her son-in-law's lodgings, in order to acquaint him with the accident which had befallen his friend Jones; but he had known it long before...
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CHAPTER LX. THE REFORM BILL.--A VERY SHORTThis reconciliation was not so short-lived as matters of the kind frequently are. There is a Chinese proverb which says: "How near are two hearts when there is no deceit between them!" And the misunderstanding of their mutual sentiments being removed, their affection...
CHAPTER V. MR. ARBUTON MAKES HIMSELF AGREEABLEThe first care of Colonel Ellison had been to call a doctor, and to know the worst about the sprained ankle, upon which his plans had fallen lame; and the worst was that it was not a bad sprain, but Mrs. Ellison, having been careless of it the day before,...
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PART II. CHAPTER TWO.A sigh under the flaming blue, a shiver of the sleeping sea, a cool breath as if a door had been swung upon the frozen spaces of the universe, and with a stir of leaves, with the nod of boughs, with the tremble of slender branches the sea breeze struck the coast, rushed up the river,...
ITHE clinkum-clank o' Sabbath bellsNoo to the hoastin' rookery swells,Noo faintin' laigh in shady dells,Sounds far an' near,An' through the simmer kintry tellsIts tale o' cheer.IIAn' noo, to that melodious play,A deidly awn the quiet sway -A' ken their solemn holiday,Bestial an' human,The singin' lintie...
TO the great relief of Mr. Truefitt's imagination, his sister suddenly ceased from all comment upon the irregularity of his hours. Unprepared, by the suddenness of the change, he recited mechanically, for the first day or two, the reasons he had invented for his lateness, but their reception was of so...
There was once a poor man too ill to work, and he had no one to give him food. The chow of the province heard of him and sent for him to come to his house. When the man reached the house of the chow, the chow gave him a bow and arrow, saying, "Shoot upward toward the sky. When the arrow falls to the...
BOOK IV CHAPTER IVThe village clock struck five as Mr. Millbank and his guest entered the gardens of his mansion. Coningsby lingered a moment to admire the beauty and gay profusion of the flowers. 'Your situation,' said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, 'is absolutely poetic.' 'I try...
BY COUNT ALBERT VON SCHLIPPENBACH. Ein Heller und ein Batzen Die waren beide mein, Der Heller ward zu Wasser, Der Batzen ward zu Wein. A farthing and a sixpence, And both of them were mine; The farthing went for water, And the sixpence...
