OLD SOUP
The following curious anecdote is from a book about elephants, written by a French gentleman,…
THE PETERKINS ARE OBLIGED TO MOVE.
Agamemnon had long felt it an impropriety to live in a house that was called…
PARISIAN CHILDREN.
FAMILY Parisians adore the sunshine. On a sunny day the many squares and parks are…
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…
THE SECOND TALE FROM “THE ANTIQUARY”
I. LOVEL FIGHTS A DUEL THE Antiquary, to whom Lovel told his dream, promptly pulled…
THE THIRD TALE FROM “THE ANTIQUARY”
I. THE EARL’S SECRET ON the seashore not far from the mansion-house of Monkbarns stood…
A FIRST TALE FROM “GUY MANNERING”
I. WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY THROUGH storm and darkness a young Oxford scholar came to the…
THE SECOND TALE FROM “GUY MANNERING”
I. HAPPY DOMINIE SAMPSON IT was seventeen long years after the murder of Frank Kennedy…
THE THIRD TALE FROM “GUY MANNERING”
THE RETURN OF DIRK HATTERAICK ONE event deeply stirred all Solway-side in the year of…