When I came home to dinner my uncle had not yet been home. Still it was early. I sat staring at the clock for some ti
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"It's well for you," she said. "If I go," I said, "I will bring you something."
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set
"Gentlemen," I said at last, as the party ascended the steps, "I delight to have allayed your suspicio
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For a purpose such as this the cellar was well adapted. Its walls were loosely constructed, and had lately been plast
With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a
For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated;
In the meantime the cat slowly recovered. The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, b
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed
"Now hear it?--yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long--long --long--many minutes, many hours, many days, have I
I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain fo
Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet un
I well remember that suggestions arising from this ballad led us into a train of thought wherein there became manifes
V. But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never
One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend, partaking not so rigidly of the spirit of abstraction, may be sha