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...

“Because,” he said sternly, “it is too late--or too early. “This was stolen in the night.” “How, stolen,” I asked in wonder, “since you have it now?” ...

He looked very sad at this, so I said that he must clear out some of them, at all events. He cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same ti...

But a learned man, a philosopher, is nothing if not a philosopher, when he keeps his ideas calm and collected; and certainly the Professor possessed t...

He extended a thin white hand and spoke in almost a complaining tone. The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain ...