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You are here invited to read the story of an Event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since.
FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being alone - and, as a means of getting through my idle time, I was quite content to be occupied in catching insects.
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times.
MR. DAVID GLENNEY CONSULTS HIS MEMORY AND OPENS THE STORY
AT the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison during the earlier period of my appointment as Governor.
FOR after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any...
ON a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay.
The night had come to an end.The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on land - the silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea....
OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap.
The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy - the year of the war between France and Germany.
THE main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader's interest in a subject which has been the theme of some of the greatest writers, living and dead - but which has never been, and can never be, exhausted, because it is a subject eternally interesting to all...
In preparing to compose a fiction founded on history, the writer of these pages thought it no necessary requisite of such a work that the principal characters appearing in it should be drawn from the historical personages of the period. On the contrary, he felt that...
WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits' end what to do with her.
THE gentlemen of the jury retired to consider their verdict.
I address these lines - written in India - to my relatives in England.
THE GUEST WRITES AND TELLSTHE STORY OFTHE DINNER PARTY....
The date is between twenty and thirty years ago.The place is an English sea-port.The time is night. And the business of the moment is - dancing....
Outside the bedroom the night was black and still.
I AM going to try ifI can't write something about myself. My life has been rather a strange one. It may not seem particularly useful or respectable; but it has been, in some respects, adventurous; and that may give it claims to be read, even in the most prejudiced...
Dans une Angleterre où les mariages sont arrangés en fonction des appartenances sociales, il est interdit à George et Mary de s'aimer. Le père de George, outré des sentiments que porte son fils à une femme d'une classe sociale inférieure à la sienne, décide de faire...
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