My Dear Father: My first duty, as it is my highest pleasure, is to comply with your command to write you as soon as I should arrive at ...

"Man's importunity is God's opportunity." "O fair, O fine, O lot to be desired! Early and late my heart appeals to me, And says, 'O ...

In an easy chair of the spacious and handsome library of his townhouse, sat William, Earl of Mount Severn. His hair was gray, the ...

"Ho, my boy! do you wish to make a dollar?" "I do, sir—indeed I do." "What is your name?" "Will, sir." "Well, Will, can you keep ...

“To all such meetings as these!” cried Densham, lifting his champagne glass from under the soft halo of the rose-shaded electric lights. ...

“Mr. David Hume.” Reginald Brett, barrister-detective, twisted around in his easy chair to permit the light to fall clearly on the card ...

“Mr. Ridgway, ma’am.” The young woman who was giving the last touches to the very effective picture framed in her long looking glass ...

There could be no more fitting introduction to this most amazing narrative from the pen of James Peter Munn than that article in the ...

"It's so hard for working girls to get acquainted. They never meet a rich young man, and they don't want a poor one. It seems to me that ...

"The island lies nine leagues away, Along its solitary shore Of craggy rock and sandy bay No sound but ocean's roar, Save where the ...

“Eight days I have haunted this beehive fought my way through the multitude, looked into tens of thousands of faces, and yet failed to ...

"Mother!" exclaimed Mr. Smithers, as he came into the parlor about supper time one winter evening, "that boy's a fool." Mrs. Smithers, ...

“And besides, you know, my dear Mrs. Rose, there is generally something wrong about a woman who dresses so very well.” So spoke Mrs. ...

The great bough of a spreading maple tree was swaying to and fro in the summer wind, a shapely bough covered with green leaves. On it ...

When Dallas Bain and Royall Sherwood, with the dashing young widow, Mrs. Fleming, drove down the village street in their fine landau ...

Fractiousness was the keynote of the mental atmosphere in a certain substantial-looking South Kensington house on a certain Monday ...

“Brownie! Brownie Douglas, wait a moment.” Time—three o’clock in the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1876. Place—vestibule of the ...

“Fair Fielding, I heard something about you last night,” said one of the sewing girls in an uptown factory in New York to her nearest ...

The sultry September day was drawing to a close, and as the sun went down, a dark thunder-cloud came slowly up from the west, muttering ...

“Guilty!” The deep, sonorous voice of the foreman of the jury sounded out upon the solemn stillness of the crowded courtroom like the ...