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year it can have no superior although the vegetation to the in december and january there is seldom a day when the weather is warm on the in thirteen successive years the and on the during those months this is several degrees warmer than nice or most of the i found a in the air that acted like medicine to my tired nerv... | 1 |
and said she could not help expressing a hope that i would find pleasure in a country she had so much admired i wish you had told me your destination she said for having passed a whole winter in that section i might have been able to tell you something of value this will probably reach you too late to be of service all... | 1 |
a continental european seldom knows how to distinguish us from the english he showed a deep interest in my country and overwhelmed me with questions about it he said he had long wished to cross the atlantic and believed he should soon do so then you will not return to i remarked innocently i hope not he exclaimed and i... | 1 |
an attempt on the life of a brother officer the fact was as stated in the complaint i did my best to kill him had i succeeded i might not be sitting here talking with you luckily as i now view it the bullet i fired did not penetrate as deeply as i intended it should i was surprised at this confession which i had not in... | 1 |
who spoke english had been known by my new acquaintance in had been insulted by his brother officer and the officer had been wounded of what did the insult consist a thousand possibilities filled my brain my theory became so fascinating that i feared to ask anything more in relation to it lest it should by the first re... | 1 |
to sur a place i would advise you to visit the next time you go abroad i shall make but few stops on my way north and spend not more than a day or two in a place unless it be at where i intend to see some old friend out of by the name of whose son louis was badly wounded some time ago in i wondered if you knew of the c... | 1 |
surprise could hardly be exceeded when i saw the signature of at the end she had just arrived and wished to see me without delay in her private parlor myself to my companion i fancied a shade of came into her ruddy countenance i went at once to miss s rooms the familiar face met my eyes as soon as the door was opened t... | 1 |
with a glance at i have acquaintances here from america a certain lady of whom i spoke to when we were in spain flushed visibly at my statement he seemed ill at ease and turning abruptly to his brother alluded to an engagement that they were on the way to keep when my presence interrupted their walk it is eleven o cloc... | 1 |
equally ignorant i think of the most beautiful tongue f well he is a pretty fellow and i am infinitely obliged to you as he was apparently through with his inspection i took to the maid who was in waiting outside my door and delivered him into her what is that name you called him asked when i returned he repeated strug... | 1 |
cannot be too strong to express my surprise that two persons who had both given me to understand that a cordial dislike kept them apart should be walking in the most friendly manner along that path at ten o clock at night and miss so far as i knew with any foreign tongue was trying to converse in french proving that sh... | 1 |
walk about town with him under the moonlight walk with him she exclaimed with such well astonishment that nothing but my own would have made me doubt her certainly i said i was not upon you but i saw you distinctly anyone could have seen you for you made no attempt at concealment i shall not admit that i am mistaken fo... | 1 |
i beg your pardon i said but i am going to take the same trip to morrow and i shall be more than pleased if you will honor me with your company the frenchman hesitated me with some surprise you are extremely kind he replied as i was saying i dislike these lonely journeys are you is there anyone else to go with you no i... | 1 |
a bit of to bring the lady to a sensible view of her natural destiny and it would have been successful but for the fact that father had his suspicions aroused and refused to finish the work he had begun as it was the dinner hour i suggested that we our steps which we did walking slowly you never saw anything progress b... | 1 |
to say i was sorry that any had arisen for i had begun to like the fellow and had contemplated the ride with him on the morrow with the greatest satisfaction i could not get very angry as i knew nothing that should cause the frenchman s change toward me and yet i did not like the tone he used there is a misunderstandin... | 1 |
am sure who could say as much i could not help thinking how much greater was the fault of the american lady judged by the standard of the world than that of the english one the latter had at least no living evidence of her in the face of all who cared to know i had taken pains on my own account to give the impression t... | 1 |
that she a visit to a firmly believes in not a yielding to passionate instinct the crossed himself again so innocent she looked he exclaimed ah how little one can tell by the faces of these women one came here from only the other day of whom the most dreadful things are said and before i knew i had remarked to one of o... | 1 |
laughed at her fears saying the priest told you they had never heard of anyone being hurt by the natives or of having anything stolen it was the universal custom to leave all windows and doors wide open both day and night no matter what were inside as the evening was warm and the rooms stifling if tightly closed i deci... | 1 |
unfortunately the attendant replied his had taken the train shortly before for some point in the interior he would be back in a day or two exactly when he could not say it was very i had been within sight of the information i sought and had stood waiting until just too late to find it out miss was still ill that night ... | 1 |
only thing to do a great clue exploded m that i will see him here was my reply to the who brought the card a few minutes later i admitted to my a frenchman of about forty years of age of medium height and a most manner sallow as if from a long residence under tropical pale as might be expected from the wound he had rec... | 1 |
despatch a gentleman left for with the apparent intention of upon you a serious injury there was a sarcastic curl to the frenchman s lip his touched by the you have hardly made the point plain yet he remarked i will do so i answered the gentleman s name was do you understand now not in the least he replied promptly i c... | 1 |
m had made a similar discovery and that both these gentlemen were at or on the way there lost in admiration of the excellent qualities of these individuals i inquired how they had obtained possession of all these facts by a free use of said a to and its answer proved that you had left there another to showed that m had... | 1 |
arm on the back of a heavy chair for the support i was beginning to need he bowed politely ask anything you wish he said when and where did this marriage take place in december three years ago at the of the where did the couple go then to the fort where the husband was confinement i began to wonder if i was not dreamin... | 1 |
of a man i most dread to meet she wrote and see no way of escape but to take the railway to some other point on the coast he undoubtedly knows i am by to night s steamer and this will throw him off my track i shall go to if i can if not straight to i wish to get out of french territory as speedily as possible and shall... | 1 |
to learn of his errand yesterday and the telegraph played another part in the affair this husband of yours is now satisfied it appears that his friend louis has committed no against him or you if you had given me the least confidence i concluded in my own none of these things could have happened miss nodded to show tha... | 1 |
sea m came upon the deck where i was he looked surprised i thought annoyed and made no attempt to intrude himself upon me asked about him and that was the first time we learned his name he was it appeared a french gentleman of fortune who had travelled and now held a commission in the army at we lost him while we remai... | 1 |
semi civilized land i had and besides my own strength and courage and i felt sure at that time that m was one of the out of most perfect gentlemen that ever breathed during the next month my journey was made as agreeable as possible every point of interest was visited and under such circumstances as few travellers enjo... | 1 |
speak a perceptible thrill passed over her body his english was ery good but strongly marked with the french ascent his voice was low and sweet his that ef a man who has no higher wish than to speak the truth when i remembered that he had learned the language within three years i thought he did remarkably well i hardly... | 1 |
said m adieu murmured miss as soon as the frenchman had left the deck which he did immediately with his brother begged me to assist her to her her strength had left her completely the maid who had sat but a little way from us came to carry the child and i had to do almost as much for its mother she leaned nearly her wh... | 1 |
new york and finally an answer came to this letter stating that and he would sail on the on a date not far distant seemed to have forgotten her intention of securing a divorce now that she had the sea between her and her lord her life was spent in the old way mainly with her son i took dinner with them generally by a s... | 1 |
a month later i entered the house with came forward to greet us m in a wonderfully self possessed mood and introduced him to dr and mrs drew as my friend m that you have heard me speak of so often the frenchman much acknowledged the that he received and himself admirably if did not fall in love with him she was the onl... | 1 |
who might have had rich miss asking so of both parties nobody was surprised at old mr s shutting his doors for ever against the young couple or wasted much thought on the te of the fine young man and the beautiful girl after the first excitement of astonishment was over except dr the of and he was second sin to henry ... | 2 |
will be quite soon enough quite my dear love and i am glad to be the task as i must go to see poor who is ill mrs scarcely his parting but a moment after he had quitted hie house she recovered from her reverie and desired one of her little boys to run his papa and inquire whether he meant to drink tea at mr green way s... | 2 |
there was too much green every where round them already green hedges green trees green one would think they had sore eyes and to be sure mrs s did look rather blood shot would have been cheaper and twice as cheerful her took leave with a threat that she should not be able to call again for some time however the morning... | 2 |
its present order offered to take on his knee for which he was rewarded with a push and asked for one of her which were finer than any in his own garden i think mamma said timidly when their visitor was gone mr seems a person whom we shall learn to like in time at first i was almost sorry and i am afraid rather envious... | 2 |
were i said dead not deaf oh was it so my dear i am thinking if you took as much pains to pronounce your as your i should hear you perfectly well you have got into rather an indistinct way of speaking the last year or two well i never to lay the fault of your hardness of hearing to my my dear i hear perfectly well yes... | 2 |
bear than the restraint on her activity and noisy spirits which had formerly called forth her childish tears there were other methods of making her feel dependent and degraded every year mrs now made a point of sending her sister a silk gown no very great gift certainly considering the of her own circumstances but were... | 2 |
thoughtless of beauty she was beauty s self it might be said of her features that they reminded you of the though not strictly to it and they completely with the calm pure and spirit that shone through them her countenance if seldom radiant with vivacity was generally smiling and tranquil and her dark blue eyes if they... | 2 |
and modern romance for like s spirits they did not come when she did call for them at one time from the of mr s visits she really began him of intending to make an offer on which she immediately discovered him to be endowed with a thousand good qualities to which she had heretofore been blind he was not so very old aft... | 2 |
around might even be heard the distant tone of s girlish voice as she sat at her work beneath the tree such was the scene which mr loved full well to contemplate and which one fine july evening after some hours of close study he stepped forth to enjoy the valley was in all its beauty the sun threw its beams on the vari... | 2 |
more that never can be taught he must understand moral as well as physical i mean the rent forms in which passions express themselves so as to be able to represent human beings under their influence what laborious thought and practice this and when balls labour has won victory tke b of the traces of that the over the... | 2 |
it is and the graceful mantle of trailing plants flung over it the owes the latter attraction said mr to those who were prevented from the reward of its beauty mrs and miss planted the and s just before i came to enjoy the improvements which resulted from their taste miss repeated that was the young lady we met to day ... | 2 |
actual or not to her sister who replied with perfect simplicity yes i am very fond of poetry though i hope i do not allow it to become my pursuit pursuit oh then you write oh dear no nor your sister inquired he looking towards who with a little colour and little laugh replied in the negative after all said mr we must... | 2 |
nothing worth seeing and with a mixture of dread and self she spread her little collection before the artist was surprised to see instead of the formal mounted copies which are found in young ladies drawing books a variety of original designs some on scraps of card or drawing paper some on letter backs varying in their... | 2 |
s offering to engage him as a teacher though he offered to teach you ah the case is plain you are kindred souls and hav fallen over head and ears into love at first sight oh i am not to be laughed out of my opinion in that way j nor need you miss look so arch i shall be grateful to mr as long as i live for having intr... | 2 |
but the helps which are given to piety are and real piety wants none a miserable chorus of charity children often a preacher always a bad clerk are the chosen for the majestic trains of priests and melodious who presided over the worship of the surely continued he more earnestly and stooping as he spoke to gather a of ... | 2 |
way with beauties they think they may whom they like and themselves upon it till are obliged to sit down with worse luck than their mind that young ladies but it s of no use for old folks to talk for young folks won t mind them there was mr read us a fine chapter yesterday about young women not clothing themselves in p... | 2 |
you like does it seem very oh beyond every thing the hero is a black i mean a red a red indian i what do you think of that v how frightful not at all he is very handsome so lowering his voice that is the mr you were telling me of ho seems a lively little fellow how he is running on to he makes himself quite at home t... | 2 |
else have you sat apart like milton s angels without to listen to the innocent trifles at which miss and miss holland have been in the midst of their mirth and of my i not help glancing occasionally towards this bow window where i you were entertaining thoughts more and holding debate on what shall i say not on fate ... | 2 |
walked beside mrs and proposed seeing them home and who led the way with soon left the more leisurely behind what a pleasant this has been said famous said i only wish sam good had been with us i am sure i wish no such thing said sam is a good fellow replied though i allow not to this mr and yet we might have been as m... | 2 |
up and letting her seed i bought half his remaining stock luckily mr was here so that he told me which were worth buying and which were not the boy was quite a y b model for a painter was he not t mr had a great mind to take his likeness and he talked to him for some time in italian i was so sorry i did not understand ... | 2 |
the young ladies intended to favour her with her company reasons well known to herself had decided on walking and she said so much more than the occasion required about being an excellent never feeling tired donkey c that without more took the vacant seat and the party set off mr his arm to walked next to her on the op... | 2 |
you like a little sometimes it is impossible to be out of temper with you long together out of temper he do you j s so much give me thy hand come answer as did heart with it i will put no unfair interpretation on the words i promise b you you well then i must say that are ft very odd sort of person too and that it is... | 2 |
leaves from interrupting the light delighted with the romance and novelty of the plan the more so that it had been suggested by the painter himself thought of many little improvements which she effected with great ingenuity and self approval behold then the artist lover the shade his the sun and air the ready dry s of ... | 2 |
did you not mean to paint only a minute this afternoon and to be occupied another minute in washing your now laughed gaily the fact is said he that it is impossible to take note of time in the society ah mr i dare say you use all your just as perhaps i do when they me equally i leave you to decide how often that is l... | 2 |
read his precious stuff about friendship love and matrimony myself but mr what do you mean by that not to me i hope you know we are and i do not mean to my privilege of calling you i assure you and i hope vou i shall always be as i was in old times dear old times i was going to call them but they were not very dear to ... | 2 |
are talking of mr hunter i thought you speaking of artists in general heaven forbid tliat i should accuse or suspect a man of whom i know nothing and who may be better than myself it would be ill bred as well as for me to pretend to judge of mr hunter mr i beg his pardon of mr s merits or what do i know of him by the... | 2 |
some message which i should have thought of great importance if i had known it had been for you replied he i would have paid more attention to her certainly but i thought she had merely been giving me some to prevent my starving on the road has always so many last words when i am on the point of setting out on a ride e... | 2 |
positively shall not have that rose it is the only one i have any other that you will moss or china with all my heart said a rose gathered by myself would do only to smell twice or thrice and throw over the hedge whereas one presented by you will have an value it is a spanish compliment you know to give a rose to a str... | 2 |
greatly by the admiration criticism and small talk of the by the charm of variety however he knew would soon cease and than he should be left in comparative quiet till that period arrived he postponed the luxury of painting s portrait and occupied himself with his study of this flattered her imagination and awoke both ... | 2 |
mere of the ground as had no tolerable pretence for remaining at longer than a fortnight or three weeks this plan seemed beyond the patience of a mortal to bear and he devoutly wished he could find some london acquaintance who had a pretence for taking out a writ of against the artist if were thus alternately in by s a... | 2 |
that is of answering cried just like mr why rosy said good first you accuse me of sam good next next mr to hear you talk one would think i up all the cast off bad habits of the parish have i learnt any thing of hey bill she blushed and well does news re late to f none of the present company said sam good v no the miss ... | 2 |
neat becomes a is assuredly in love ladies i who does that apply to said looking round not to me i am sure said meeting his eye securely i never was a oh nor i cried miss holland i would not be a for all the world well we will try again said taking up another book perhaps the random shot may hit some of ua more closel... | 2 |
s movements first he started at hearing the well known but continued turning over the hen he paused with eyes fixed on uie before him but evidently not thinking of it then he hastily looked round but a side view of resumed his original position still however intently listening at length when the second verse commenced ... | 2 |
very replied with strong emphasis milton might well call woman a mischief come come said mr don t go to your pillow in wrath the fault was not all the lady s led her on you mean i if no i i just yet interrupted his friend i did not mean i was thinking of yourself i what have i done i will tell you you have by your a... | 2 |
very foolish wish my dear observed mrs happiness depends on the moderation and gratification of our desires not on the number of years we have told but suppose mamma those desires should be for a con ol youth beauty and admiration then i should say the person that had formed them was very weak and as much an object of ... | 2 |
sense i think you now and then discover sense said hark there is calling to us beneath the window said running to the will some of you come down cried he we cannot we are dressing wait a little while i cannot wait he replied i have run down the lane to tell you i shall not be able to go with you to mrs a old has sent o... | 2 |
won t have much objection to that will he he likes going to yes it was a disappointment nevertheless what sort of people are oh i only know them from seeing the young men and women ride about on horseback they are very rich and live in an old house something like a tea i have seen it in my rides i asked a whose house... | 2 |
us is that bad miss miss i beg you will not encourage him by laughing charles sets up for a fine gentleman which he will never be as long as he makes bad a is on a level with a prove it prove it maria nay i have dr johnson s authority for saying so i leave proofs for gentlemen assertion is enough for ladies luckily fo... | 2 |
she shut her eyes clenched her hands ha ha and thought every moment would her into eternity at every tack she nearly fell into and at length ha ha ha at length ho ho a overtook us she set up one to match it ho i ho t ho and was launched into the shocking cried mrs and what became of her her continued he her o... | 2 |
my throat and like the mai in the old song never a word could i say i am of it said for i would not owe any change in her manner to interference no let her feel and e for herself though i wish to heaven we were fairly rid of that sly malicious double faced my dear interrupted mr i cannot hear poor thus abused it is no... | 2 |
very grand for a lady to a river and for a gentleman to bring her out again but it to be plain matter of fact there are many little things which a takes care to leave out and which i am afraid give the whole business rather a ridiculous air if that is the case said every one was too much alarmed to notice it mrs was a... | 2 |
should be one i can hardly think that looked at her earnestly there was no covert meaning to be detected in her face meeting his eyes however and perceiving their penetrating expression slightly blushed at the idea of having possibly said too much mrs entered at the same moment followed by who shook heartily by the han... | 2 |
within the last month you have been kind enough to bestow much attention upon me but that does not necessarily oblige me to return your affection does it nay ar our affections in our power i am sure they are not accompanied her silently for some time and then as if to himself rather than her murmured is all the counse... | 2 |
is more unpleasant than a sick headache when one is expected to be merry and well said mr good we must not here any longer at all events or we shall arrive at the g end of the dinner and i am one of those who love the latter end of a and the beginning of a feast he offered his arm to his wife as he spoke and the two s... | 2 |
and for mr good and myself and ball for the ladies to render the whole group fit for to this it might be objected said with a smile that the would be utterly useless that nobody could play on the that in ball dresses we should catch cold and that mr good s cheerful countenance quite in keeping with his blue coat and ha... | 2 |
by means of and they succeeded in securing their dresses from injury some little time and trouble however were expended in their arrangements and a few little at temper were afforded to the keen young artist i declare my silk slippers will be spoilt for ever and ever said miss brown i told you how it would be said ther... | 2 |
her whether they might not as well go home at once why inquired who was stooping to tie her and consequently did not perceive s uneasiness we are very wet and your cold may be made worse you know i think we might as well go we have been et you mean we are not wet now and my cold is quite gone oh i think we had bet... | 2 |
her consciousness alas i how much was wasted mr joseph all illusion by saying a letter miss touched his hat and was gone felt a pang of disappointment she recognized s hand writing and hastening to the most sheltered part of the garden she tore open the letter and read as follows if there had been the slightest word ... | 2 |
r of ct account from and bits and from consequently s lively sketch combined novelty with amusement had no want of deference to complain of to day the earnest admirer had sunk into the industrious artist and no sooner was the laid than grasping the rest stick and as jove might seize his he plunged into his task and nev... | 2 |
i shall have pleasure in sending for my italian books from i think said mrs will hardly have leisure or perseverance surely i am not wanting in perseverance with a air you know mamma miss reads italian and perhaps when i am at the she will me a little instruction i may not have such another opportunity are you going fr... | 2 |
f written pages they began with come with me the trees were never a falsehood which nothing but the difficulty of finding a rhyme could have excused from this era the scrap book assumed a different character idleness had caused it to be laid aside till had become in the family and to sam good s verses succeeded some c... | 2 |
it was to he quite she sighed as she pinned and placed the sleeve of a frock which she was the sleeve was into the wrong and made up inside so all her work had to be done over again and while she was over her stupidity she forgot to think of mr then when all was once more in a fair train her thoughts were no sooner off... | 2 |
persons of whose station and opinion she stood less in awe she saw miss receive attention and admiration without displaying any or self conceit she heard folly as freely in the wealthy and as in the cant she heard and conscientious of expenses praised she heard girls laughed at for dressing beyond their station and dom... | 2 |
s passion attracted by the appearance of the books which he had sent for and rather ashamed of her sister s of purpose said she should attempt to make use of them herself and eagerly offered himself as her teacher meanwhile was beginning her acquaintance with the language under the direction of miss but the progress of... | 2 |
have had charming weather during your visit to mrs s said playing with s i suppose you had a walk every day a drive every day a drive ah true i forgot what grand ladies i was i of a carriage is a fine thing however laughing i doubt not whether we have not the most enjoyment after all have not is better than had not cer... | 2 |
with these words he walked off and set out on a long ride from which he has not yet returned leaving me convinced that he or you might clear up a good deal of mystery if you chose have you quarrelled do tell me if that is the case has the sweetest disposition in the world but he is a little warm sometimes and he may h... | 2 |
to morrow evening rosy nor the next nor the next it will be a good while before we shall meet again and how many things may happen in the mean time i shall i find you all such as i left you that is more than you can tell or i either i if this is to be my brother in law after all or not do you wish he should be upon my ... | 2 |
were not quite so pleased with each other as before silently mr of and mr thinking s opinions too free mr had not been often at the white cottage lately one morning soon after s he called and found sitting to for her picture mrs reading mr good s daily paper and one of s illustrations of the greek which had been lent h... | 2 |
done the last two why because if you do you must be a very fellow in your demands to make your profession pay tolerably laughed i certainly have taken this picture very leisurely but my time has not been wasted for i have made many sketches which will ber very useful to me hereafter i have painted the head of my landla... | 2 |
leads us to them all the divine are contained in a very small portion of the little volume which i grasp in my hand the laws of our country mr fill some hundreds of volumes and employ some thousands of brains in comprehend ing them yet are good citizens nowhere found and does the spirit of hunger which makes a man ste... | 2 |
admire his ingenuity at the same time nay the pen fell from his hand while his wandering thoughts pursued a channel as ill adapted as could well be imagined to the for whom he was a sermon white remarked that master had never been so hard to please or she might say so impossible to please at all for if she sent up his ... | 2 |
oh i can ive you my authorities mrs good and mrs and will your be kind enough to tell us what day they have fixed on for s wedding that s the very question mrs good asked me this m oh then it appears that every body does not it is a settled thing but wishes to know when it it will be a settled thing you need not make y... | 2 |
provoked with mrs for with such on his having been the as a for s honour he had indeed early satisfied on this score by writing a letter of inquiry to his cousin frank but after vainly expecting an answer for several weeks he learnt that frank had set off some time before on a tour through ere his letter could have rea... | 2 |
the afternoon when observed how very oddly mr had behaved in the morning and indeed how strange and unaccountable he had been for some time mrs smiled with great significance and his conduct really w is unaccountable unless he were i love and on s exclaiming surely that would be too ridiculous her mother with the obser... | 2 |
burn when he hears how she died and how she was buried he never will returned mysteriously depend on it his days were cut short long since by what cried the stranger the chapter ii a journey it is night pitch dark and cold a lamp throws its yellow wavering light on the blue pinched features of a government official who... | 2 |
perhaps her sensations or possibly feeling impatient on his own account sprang out and set his shoulder to one of the wheels and with the s help urged the carriage out of the hollow then he resumed his seat and they pursued their journey but more slowly and noiselessly than before so that the wolves could still be occa... | 2 |
present you to the emperor yet if you merely want access to him i will lend you a a carriage and my own servants shall announce you by my name knelt at the s feet and gratefully accepted the offer and the succeeded the emperor hearing the announced advanced to meet her but stopped short on perceiving a stranger sprang... | 2 |
river not yet frozen across only with many blocks of ice they embarked on and board a large passage boat which also received the the urged it along with long poles which aided them also in oflf the ice they were constantly running from one end of the boat to the other was glad to find a poor woman on board the wife of ... | 2 |
am i to do sir am i to return if you do it will be at your own expense and peril what am i to import you for nothing what then is to be done you may remain at fifteen hundred no sir i cannot i have left a and mother whom i dearly love solely that i might contribute to her well in consideration of that i will make it si... | 2 |
maid mine is a professed lady s maid trained by a french at st and called though her russian name is very pretty very clever and very good in the main is deeply in love with her but of course i shall not let her marry him as i should then lose her services nor will my father hear of s his freedom he puts him off with f... | 2 |
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