One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation.

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens

A man, with thin brown hair and a pale face, half ran, half walked, along the road that wound from the south to the town of Sligo. Many called him Cumhal, the son of Cormac, and many called him the Swift, Wild Horse

This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures.

Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men of the village were sitting on Samhain Eve.

MY DEAR BROTHER,—I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill...

FROM THE REIGN OF HENRY THE 4TH TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES THE 1ST...BY A PARTIAL, PREJUDICED, AND IGNORANT HISTORIAN.

 “Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.”

Leaving l'Abbaye, I walked straight across the Place Turenne to the Rue Tournon, where I had lodgings, when I heard a woman scream for help.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men...

After dark on Saturday night one could stand on the first tee of the golf-course and see the country-club windows as a yellow expanse over a very black and wavy ocean.

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at—nothing—at nothing, simply.

Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet.

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous--nor wished to be.

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

July 16, 1833.--This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year!

It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before.

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.

It was Paul's afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburg High School to account for his various misdemeanors.

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks…

“HALLOA! Below there!” When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole…

In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and…

In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long…

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An…