I From the drawer of his table desk Jasper Holt took a pane of window glass. He laid ... Read more
Social Commentary Short Stories
Total Stories: 87
I It was clear that the sleigh from Weymore had not come; and the shivering young traveller from ... Read more
CHAPTER I UNCLE TOM AND LITTLE HARRY ARE SOLD Very many years ago, instead of having servants to ... Read more
Many and many a reader has asked that. When the story first came out, in the New England ... Read more
I “Oh, there is one, of course, but you’ll never know it.” The assertion, laughingly flung out six ... Read more
SOCIETY CALLED HIM HANDSOME SIGNOLES. HIS NAME was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles. An orphan, and possessed of an ... Read more
THE DUCHESS AT PRAYER Have you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house, that ... Read more
I For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which ... Read more
I Waythorn, on the drawing-room hearth, waited for his wife to come down to dinner. It was their ... Read more
It was three o’clock in the morning, and the cotillion was at its height, when Woburn left the ... Read more
The view from Mrs. Manstey’s window was not a striking one, but to her at least it was ... Read more
She was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip ... Read more
