At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes. I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased. The...

Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.” I listened to my father in silence and remained for some...

Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him that it really seems as though we had lost a father. I never knew either fath...

Well, on we went, and as the fog didn’t let up for five days I joost let the wind carry us; for if the Deil wanted to get somewheres--well, he would f...

Fix was on the point of entering another carriage, when an idea struck him which induced him to alter his plan. I’ve got my man.” Just then the locomo...

Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.” He chuckled to himself and rubbed h...

The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to ...

My occasional delirium prevented me from counting time. I was weeks recovering from that awful starvation adventure; and yet what was that to the hide...

He ate and drank impulsively in heavy meals at long intervals. As the days wore on, his utter carelessness of any consideration so intensified our dis...

I stretched out my hand to him and cried, “Are you then safe—and Elizabeth—and Ernest?” My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endea...