CHAPTER 12 "Clo.--I am gone, sire, And anon, sire, I'll be with you again." --Twelfth Night The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band....
CHAPTER XXI Roses of Yesterday The fortnight Anne spent in Bolingbroke was a very pleasant one, with a little under current of vague pain and dissatisfaction running through it whenever she thought...
CHAPTER 16. KITTY It seemed my eyelids had scarcely touched when Jones's exasperating, yet stimulating, yell aroused me. Day was breaking. The moon and stars shone with wan luster. A white,...
-BOOK SEVENTH. CHAPTER V. THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK. The personage who entered wore a black gown and a gloomy mien. The first point which struck the eye of our Jehan (who, as the reader will...
CHAPTER 1 It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more than any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each man's humour. His own, at the moment,...
Book the Second: The Golden Thread Chapter IX. The Gorgon's Head It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone...
CHAPTER IV FIRST WEEKS ON THE ISLAND When I waked it was broad day, the weather clear, and the storm abated, so that the sea did not rage and swell as before. But that which surprised me most was,...