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IT was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of WILDBAD.
The history of little more than the events of one year, out of the twenty-four years of my life.
THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick.
I HAVE taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far asI know, has at least the merit of not having been used before....
THE DEAD SECRET made its first appeal to readers, in periodical portions, week by week. On its completion, it was reprinted in two volumes. The edition so produced having been exhausted, the story makes its public appearance in the present form.
HEART all right, said the doctor. Lungs all right. No organic disease that I can discover. Philip Lefrank, don't alarm yourself. You are not going to die yet. The disease you are suffering from is - overwork. The remedy in your case is - rest.
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.
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