Short stories around 98 minutes

Peter was a man who understood life, knew men, wore good and yet exceedingly mussy clothes, and loved life. He pitied ignorance and necessity, and was intense, nervous, rapid-talking,...

I met my prospective host in his stables, which contained every type of fashionable vehicle and sixty or seventy of the worst horses. A lean and haughty-looking individual walked in and remarked...

A traveller went to Mugby Junction in the black hours of the four-and-twenty, where a shadowy train went by him. A gentleman instantly closed with a proposal. Barbox Brothers eyed me with great...

The little housemaid is awakened from her reverie by her friend Jane Adams to see the breakfast table spread forth in state, and tears have given place to smiles. Two young children are among the...

A young gentleman with a velvet-like countenance overset his bread and spoke to two or three young ladies of his acquaintance. At a quadrille party, the bashful young gentleman always remains near...

Williams had worked his way up to stand easily among the first half-dozen;. Cover, but he scorned the Hensig case. The two reporters followed the warder down the flagged corridor, where they found...

While on a canoe trip down the Danube River, two friends encounter some mysterious, hostile entities.

The difference between a good and a bad economist is whether they take account of the visible effect. A member of the assembly proposes to disband a hundred thousand men, but the assembly maintains...

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...

Nature has her freaks in the making of a man's mind, and Government works harmoniously with Society to develop young intelligence. The cashier of one of the largest banks in Paris was still at his...

Richard Trevlyn looked up and threw by the book, then led Lady Trevlyn back to her couch and folded her shawls. Sir Richard lay in his shroud, his little daughter in her cradle, and Hester was...

Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov took seven hundred rubles from his strong box and ordered Nikita to harness the horse. Nikita's wife Martha did not urge Nikita to live at home. Nikita took the driver's...