IRREMEDIABLE
(Monochromes, London: John Lane, 1893) A young man strolled along a country road one August…
‘THAT THERE MASON’
I was in Ramsgate, in the pier-yard, and noticed the figure of a boatman leaning…
THE GLENMUTCHKIN RAILWAY,
[The following tale appeared in “Blackwood’s Magazine” for October, 1845. It was intended by the…
“THE HEATHER LINTIE”
Janet Balchrystie lived in a little cottage at the back of the Long Wood of…
THE LOVE OF CLOTILDE
In the dressing-room of Clotilde, leading actress of one of the most important theaters in…
MARIQUITA THE BALD
It is as sorry a matter to use words of whose meaning one is ignorant…
The Torture by Hope
Many years ago, as evening was closing in, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d’Espila, sixth prior…
The Miracle of Zobéide
Always wise and prudent, Zobéide cautiously put aside the myrtle branches and peeped through to…
WHO WAS SHE?
Come, now, there may as well be an end of this! Every time I meet…
AN OPERATION IN MONEY.
I. In an elegant and lofty bank-parlor there sat in council, on an autumn morning,…