“See here, you’d best lose the bitch–till tomorrow, anyway. She ain’t the sight to please a strict man, ... Read more
Literary Criticism Short Stories
Total Stories: 123
AN OLD MAID’S GHOST-STORY “Yes,” said Miss Le Petyt, gazing into the deep fireplace and letting her hands ... Read more
From Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches. I. THE AFFAIR OF BLEAKIRK-ON-SANDS. [The events, which took place ... Read more
[Or so much as is told of her by Paschal Tonkin, steward and major-domo to the lamented John ... Read more
From Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches. High and low, rich and poor, in Troy Town there ... Read more
I My Dear Violet,–So you “gather from the tone of two or three recent letters that my spirit ... Read more
Once upon a time there was born a man-child with a magic shadow. His case was so rare ... Read more
A late hansom came swinging round the corner into Lennox Gardens, cutting it so fine that the near ... Read more
From Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches. One of these days I hope to write a treatise ... Read more
A rough track–something between a footpath and a water course–led down the mountain-side through groves of evergreen oak, ... Read more
[The events which are to be narrated happened in the spring of 1803, and just before the rupture ... Read more
At Madeira seven of us were added to the first-class passengers of the Cambuscan, homeward bound from Cape ... Read more