I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy...

And I assert that I watched them closely time after time, and that I have seen four, five, and (once) six of them sluggishly performing the most elabo...

“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.” “What should not you mind?” “I sho...

Stuart, Fallentin, Sullivan, Flanagan, and Ralph, after consulting each other. “The train leaves for Dover at a quarter before nine. I will take it.” ...

Being proposed to is all very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know lov...

There was a general disappointment among the passengers, who, without reckoning the delay, saw themselves compelled to trudge fifteen miles over a pla...

It was indeed the ancient abode of Proteus, the old shepherd of Neptune’s flocks, now the Island of Scarpanto, situated between Rhodes and Crete. I sa...

“What on earth can be the matter with him?” I asked. “He is looking up at the numbers of the houses.” “I believe that he is coming here,” said Holmes,...

Elizabeth, with nothing offensive, nothing_ viraginous, _nothing of the “New Woman” about her, has by nature what the best modern (not “new”) women ha...

He arranges the business just as he pleases.” “And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least great pleasure in the power of ch...