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A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.

The Miami Indians were Aztecs in the ages before history began, and the Frenchmen who visited them were sent by the governor of Canada to lay claim to the Ohio valley for his king. The Miamis...

A man becomes lost on a moor in heavy snow and is rescued by a strange, reclusive academic.

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...

Lu-san went to bed without any supper, dressed herself, and climbed the ladder leading to the deck to save herself. A tiny soapstone image of the goddess Kwan-yin was found by Lu-san, who hated the...

Percinet falls in love with a princess called Graciosa, and shows her true love.

A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.

A couple are in agreement on the ethics of marriage but personal feelings, inevitably, intrude.

A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.

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...

An advocate named Avenelles lent his house intended to carry off the king, and placed his wife under the guardianship and pursuing eye of an old servant. He picked out a good gentleman, lover of...

Richard Watts founded a charity for six poor Travellers in the Old City of Rochester, which is a clean white house of a staid and venerable air. The Board Room is where the gentlemen meet, and the...