“Love! It began with a glance, Grew with the growing flowers, Smiled in a dreamful trance, Recked not the passage of hours. “Grief! ...

Mr. and Mrs. Craven Black, summoning the indispensable Mrs. Artress to a private conference, passed some hours in their own room in ...

"Their black hair, thick and lowering, Above their wild eyes hung, And about their frowning foreheads Like wreaths of night-shade ...

Sir Harold Wynde, Baronet, was standing upon the pier head at Brighton, looking idly seaward, and watching the play of the sunset rays ...

From a cottage window, embowered in azure morning glories, a girl’s sweet voice sang blithely: “My heart with joy would thrill if you ...

“Oh! I have grown so tired of this continual round of parties, calls, and theater-going; I do wish something would happen to break the ...

“John is a wild renegade and a shame to the colony,” exclaimed Captain Richard Bonyton, in a burst of unfatherly indignation. It was ...

It was a magnificent evening, in balmy June, on the far-famed St. Lawrence. The steamer "St. Lawrence" was making her nightly ...

A warm day in the southern part of West Virginia was fast drawing to a close; the heat during the day had been almost intolerable under ...

BOTH GIRLS WERE SO STUNNINGLY PRETTY, AND WORE SUCH ODD, BEWITCHING COSTUMES ON THEIR TANDEM, THAT THE PEOPLE WHO STOPPED TO WATCH THE ...

The grey mist of an autumn morning lay upon forest and field. Through its shadowy vapors, a swarm of birds was sweeping by, on their ...

It was five o'clock on a raw, gusty February afternoon. All that day and all the night before it had been snowing hard. New York lay ...

The monster department store of Messrs. Denton, Day & Co. was thronged with shoppers, although the morning was still young. Scores of ...