I Mr Morfe and Mary Morfe, his sister, were sitting on either side of their drawing-room fire, on ... Read more
English Short Stories
Total Stories: 71
I On a Saturday afternoon in late October Edward Coe, a satisfactory average successful man of thirty-five, was ... Read more
I “Have you heard about Tommy Chadwick?” one gossip asked another in Bursley. “No.” “He’s a tram-conductor now.” ... Read more
I As he hurried from his brougham through the sombre hall to his study, leaving his secretary far ... Read more
I Perhaps it was because I was in a state of excited annoyance that I did not recognize ... Read more
Eheu fugaces! How that air carries me back, that air ground away so unmercifully, sans tune, sans time on a hopelessly discordant ... Read more
During five years of an almost daily association with Michael Garth, in a solitude of Chili, which threw ... Read more
1st October, 188— Hotel du Lys, Bruges. After all, few places appeal to my imagination more potently than this ... Read more
I It was in Brittany, and the apples were already acquiring a ruddier, autumnal tint, amid their greens ... Read more
I At my dining-place in old Soho—I call it mine because there was a time when I became ... Read more
This thing is so rare in all its circumstances, and on so good authority, that my reading and ... Read more