the presence in the smoking-room, and under an obvious disguise, of the loiterer from Box Court con...
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"I must ask you to explain," said he. "Do you mean to turn me out into the rain? My good man, I sus...
to render me a dangerous and delicate service; dangerous because you may run the hazard of your liv...
soundest views. There was something so striking in this man's attitude at a moment of deadly peril...
Harry Hartley had received the ordinary education of a gentleman. At that period, he manifested a r...
that of the husband. Once or twice in every year exposure and ruin seemed imminent, and Harry kept ...
thought worse than nothing of your Lady Vandeleur; and if you had an eye in your head you might see...
dallied with every diamond that he handled. At last, however, it was done; and, concealing the band...
Harry had scarcely comprehended this insulting address before the General was down upon him with an...
content with his acquired respectability, and with no care but to support it solemnly. Are we to co...
hard favour of the heroine strikes me, I had almost said with pain; the villain's scowl no longer t...
heroine will too often start the trick of "getting ugly;" and no disease is more difficult to cure....
poetry. One and all, at least, and each with his particular fancy, we read story-books in childhood...
highest art of all, since it combines the greatest mass and diversity of the elements of truth and ...
distresses never man knew less. A great romantic - an idle child. CHAPTER XVI. A HUMBLE REMONSTRANC...