The emperor also confers on him some public mark of his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud...

It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was,...

“I have been a governess for five years,” said she, “in the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel received an appointment at ...

That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they h...

You will tell him, because I would, if I were in your place, certainly tell Arthur. A woman ought to tell her husband everything--don’t you think so, ...

He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands. He said to me:-- “I can do this, all ...

They saw few or no churches, but the prophet’s mansion, the court-house, and the arsenal, blue-brick houses with verandas and porches, surrounded by g...

I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, th...

All these—the sort of people that lived in these houses, and all those damn little clerks that used to live down _that_ way—they’d be no good. They ha...

“It’s a pity they make themselves so unapproachable,” he said. “It would be curious to know how they live on another planet; we might learn a thing or...