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The American lost his way and was blandly introduced to a singularly artistic-looking man of middle age. The next morning the porter met him with a mysterious air, dismissed him, and showed him all...

Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, a venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof, and a painting represented a cat playing rackets. The young man had his peculiarities, including white...

The wind was charged with moist, salt spray and caused the rocks to rumble angrily and the trees to rustle. A man with a black beard and a brigand's dark eyes was gazing at the Crucifix with a...

The finest work of man is not poetry, nor painted pictures, nor music, nor castles, nor statues, be they carved never so well, nor rowing, nor sailing galleys, but children. Children are the flower...

Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, was isolated during his life by his egoism, and died in final impenitence, as do many noble geniuses. Horace...

The enchanting poem about the Glugs who live in Gosh, a land of adventures and magic.

The learned gentleman who examined the archives of the Cathedral of Southminster agreed that it was not earlier than the Perpendicular period, but Dean Burscough was very set on the Gothic...

Tommaso Tonelli was rich but his heart was still young, but he was a fickle lover. Tonelli's life on holidays was varied. She dined with the notary, and her parrot had almost as much freedom as...

The two girls took the farm together, but were left alone. March gave them their hot food at night, but from. One evening, March was walking slowly after Banford when she became aware that Banford...

Father Felipe read the announcement that Don Jose Sepulvida would preside over the Board of Education in Jonesville. Don Jose Sepulvida, sitting alone in the same apartment, beheld to his...

The papa was on a visit to the grandfather and he lay quiet a while before saying, "It's about a Prince and a Princess". The fairy godmother of Prince was so severe with the dirt she found that she...

Captain and Big George stumbled onto the little camp in the early winter and ate three meals and more daily of bacon, beans, and baking-powder bread. As the two maintained their practice, the camp...