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Hewson was confronted with an apparition and dramatized the scene at breakfast. He got hardily back into bed and waited for the repetition. Hewson came up to the cottage and perceived a...

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...

Jim Shorthouse's private secretaryship was never clear to me. Mr. Jonas B. Sidebotham watched him narrowly and struck a match. The two men talked in low voices for another hour, and then the silent...

Medina navigates her morning routine, reminisces about her marriage, and deals with household issues like cockroaches and financial stress.

San Francisco preserved an intensely material and practical attitude, and I can recall myself wandering along the City Front or through the Spanish Quarter, and experiencing a fearful joy in the...

Everett was a healthy, clean-minded enthusiast who soon discovered that passengers not in the service of that king held aloof from the Belgians. Dr. Stewart rode his bicycle into a native village,...

On a wet and windy night, three strangers turn up at a young girl's christening party.

Rulledge said that it's easy to see what Wanhope does his high thinking on, and continued smoking his cigar. Minver ran after him, and Rulledge felt like another boy. Ormond saw the figure of Death...

When Max was killed and buried and a shallow grave, he thought his troubles would be over. He was wrong. He’s just realized he’s a vampire, and he sucks at it.

Aristid Kuvalda had a two-storied house at the end of the main street, where the captain passed most of his time sitting on a kind of bench or else in the eating-house of Egor Yavilovitch. The...

Mr. & Mrs. Lee were going off for the day & left their two children John 10 yrs old & Alice 2 yrs old. The younger Lees went down cellar & began to rummage among the rubbish little...

I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. Our fireplaces are on opposite sides, but our flue is separate throughout. The main reason of this style of chimney building is...