CHAPTER 14. ALL HEROES BUT ONE As we rode up the slope of Buckskin, the sunrise glinted red-gold through the aisles of frosted pines, giving us a hunter's glad greeting. With all due respect...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 1: Tom Tit Tot Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the...
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle...
-BOOK SECOND. CHAPTER III. KISSES FOR BLOWS. When Pierre Gringoire arrived on the Place de Greve, he was paralyzed. He had directed his course across the Pont aux Meuniers, in order to avoid the...
CHAPTER 5 THE REMARKABLE ROCKET The King's son was going to be married, so there were general rejoicings. He had waited a whole year for his bride, and at last she had arrived. She was a...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XVII. "Your cousin the Countess called on mother while you were away," Janey Archer announced to her brother on the evening of his...
CHAPTER LIX. The Bulletin. The Duc de Beaufort wrote to Athos. The letter destined for the living only reached the dead. God had changed the address. "MY DEAR COMTE," wrote the...
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CHAPTER 29 "The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest, Achilles thus the king of men addressed." --Pope's Illiad Cora stood foremost among the prisoners, entwining...