been defective of late years, occasions her some difficulty in calculating distances. Three days ag...
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left me?" She smiled and blushed. "I am so surprised," she answered, "I don't know what to say." ...
accounting for the suspicions which kept his neighbors aloof from him, was quite satisfactory. Love...
wife. She tried faintly to free her hands--gave up the attempt--smiled--made an effort to look gra...
days that were yet to come. The doctor was in excellent spirits, and almost oppressively hospitabl...
"I trusted you, as an honest man, downstairs, and I find you, like a thief, up here," returned the ...
No man of us ever knew that he was not being overlooked at home, or followed when he went out, by a...
"What a time that fellow is gone!" he exclaimed gayly. "Perhaps I had better go and get the book my...
"Tell me first how the doctor managed to make a hole in the floor just in the nick of time." "What...
Tassel. In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot o...
Van Ripper, and it was altogether such an apparition as is seldom to be met with in broad daylight....
gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water, bordered by high trees, between which, pe...
with a violence that he verily feared would cleave him asunder. An opening, in the trees now cheere...
A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins INTRODUCTORY WORDS. The following pages were written more than t...
respectable friends. Nor did my miseries end with the morning calls. I was commanded to attend all ...