That Akers Girl.
Miss Cabell had just finished breakfast. A tall mulatto in a turban brought in a pan of hot water and a supply of white towels, and Miss Cabell proceeded, after the custom of housewives in Delaware, to wash the dainty cups and spoons…
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following text offers the original serialized version of "A Story of To-Day" with comparative annotations of revisions for the book version, Margret Howth. The only instance in which revisions are not shown is the change in…
“At Bay”
By the Author of “The Second Life,” Etc., Etc.
CHAPTER 1.
A hot day in Lyons, fifty years ago; the untampered light staring down between the steep, gambrel roofs into the close, dirty streets; the air, when it moved, heavy with the smell…
“The Barred Acres: The Doctor’s Story”
Chapter I.
I do not know a single well-authenticated ghost story. Besides ghost-stories are the poorest prentice work in literature, if we tell the truth about them. They always fall stale and flat, no matter…
”The Plague Spot of America”
THE Prince of Wales, it is said, is at the head of a movement to honor the memory of Father Damien[1], the hero priest of Molokai[2], by erecting a hospital for lepers in London. There are reported to be about twenty…
“MESMERISM vs. COMMON SENSE.”
CHAPTER I.
Miss Wynn followed her brother out of his new house, and stood on the verandah. She looked down at the slope of forest and farm land.
“You ought to be a satisfied man, Stephen,” she said, in her full, hearty…
DOCTOR WARRICK’S DAUGHTERSCHAPTER I
DOCTOR SAMUEL WARRICK was a surgeon in a Federal regiment from the beginning to the end of the Civil War. His wife, in the meantime, lived with her children in the old Warrick homestead near Luxborough in eastern…
"At the Races." Youth's Companion, 26 Nov. 1874, p. 393.
“John!”
“I hear you, mother.”
“John, I—I wish to speak seriously to you, my son.”
“Very well. I’m listening.”
Little Mrs. Thurlow stood up, to give her words more weight. They did not seem to…
