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Excerpt from Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the EmpireMy dear nephew Louis, ' said the letter, 'now that your father is dead, and that you are alone in the world, I am sure that you will not wish to carry on the feud which has existed between the two halves of the family. At the time of the troubles your father was drawn towards the Side of the King, and I towards that of the people, and it ended, as you know, by his having to ¿y from the country, ...

Excerpt from The Parasite: A Story I can see it without, and I can feel it Within. We also have our spring when the little arterioles dilate, the lymph ¿ows in a brisker stream, the glands work harder, winnowing and straining. Every year nature readjusts the whole machine. I can feel the fer ment in my blood at this very moment, and as the cool sunshine pours through my window I could dance about in it like a gnat. SO I should, only that Char...

Excerpt from The Captain of the Pole-Star For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of "Cornhill, " "Temple Bar, " "Belgravia, " "London Society, " "Cassell's", and "The Boy's Own Paper." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Boo...

Excerpt from A Duet: With an Occasional Chorus MY dearest frank: I am sure that you are right in thinking that it would be as well not to have the ceremony too near, the date of Uncle Percival' s arrival in England. We should be so sorry to hurt his feelings in any way! Mother has been down to Madame Mortimer's about the dresses, and she thinks that everything could be hurried up so as to be ready by July 7 th. She is so Obliging, and her ski...

Excerpt from The Great Shadow It is strange to me, Jock Calder of West Inch, to feel that though now, in the very centre of the nineteenth century, I am but five-and-fifty years of age, and though it is only once in a week perhaps that my wife can pluck out a little grey bristle from over my ear, yet I have lived in a time when the thoughts and the ways of men were as different as though it were another planet from this. For when I walk in my...

Excerpt from The Croxley Master: A Great Tale of the Prize Ring His trouble was deeper and more personal. The winter session was approaching. He should be back again at the University completing the last year which would give him his medical de gree, but alas! He had not the money with which to pay his class fees, nor could he imagine how he could procure it. Sixty pounds were wanted to make his career, and it might have been as many thousand...

Excerpt from The Refugees, Vol. 3: A Tale of Two Continents Thanks to the early tidings which the guardsman had brought with him, his little party was now ahead of the news. As they passed through the village of Louvier in the early morning they caught a glimpse of a naked corpse upon a dunghill, and were told by a grinning watchman that it was that of a Huguenot who had died impenitent, but that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publish...

Excerpt from The Firm of Girdlestone, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance of the Unromantic The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated Who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question. Close to the comer of a broad and busy street, within a couple of hundred yards of Fenchurch Street Station, a narrow doorway opens into a long whitewashed passage. On o...

Excerpt from Rodney StoneI am also much indebted to my friends Mr. J. C. Parkinson and Robert Barr for information upon the subject of the ring.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original forma...

Excerpt from The Refugees, Vol. 2: A Tale of Two Continents From the side of how it would effect himself, that it had never struck him that his long suffering family, who had always yielded to him the absolute obedience which he claimed as his right, would venture to offer any opposi tion to his new resolution. He was surprised, therefore, when his brother demanded a private interview that afternoon, and entered his presence without the compl...

Excerpt from The Firm of Girdlestone, Vol. 2 of 2: A Romance of the Unromantic In spite of John Girdlestone's temporary satisfaction and the stoical face which he presented to the world, it is probable that in the whole of London there was no more unhappy and heart-weary man. The long fight against impending misfortune had shattered his iron constitution and weakened him both in body and in mind. It was remarked upon 'Change how much he had a...

Excerpt from The War in South Africa: Its Cause Conduct For some reason, which may be either arrogance or apathy, the British are very slow to state their case to the world. At present the reasons for our actions and the methods which we have used are set forth in many Blue-books, tracts, and lea¿ets, but have never, so far as I know, been collected into one small volume. In view of the persistent slanders to which our politicians and our sol...

Excerpt from Beyond the City "If you please, mum, " said the voice of a domestic from somewhere round the angle of the door, "number three is moving in." Two little old ladies, who were sitting at either side of a table, sprang to their feet with ejaculations of interest, and rushed to the window of the sitting-room. "Take care, Monica dear, " said one, shrouding herself in the lace curtain, "don't let them see us." "No, no. Bertha. We mus...

Excerpt from The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents Ir was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom a tiny coat of arms - three caltrops gules upon a field argent - let into the diamond-paned glass. Outside there projected a stout iron rod, from which hung a gilded miniature of a bale of wool which ...

Excerpt from Songs of Action The men were bred in England The bowmen - the yeomen, The lads of dale and fell. Here 's to you - and to you! To the hearts that are true And the land where the true hearts dwell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Excerpt from Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life'then why write of it, you may ask? If a subject is painful, why treat it at all? I answer that it is the province of fiction to treat painful things as well as cheerful ones. The story which wiles away a weary hour fulfils an obviously good pur pose, but not more so, I hold, than that which helps to emphasise the graver Side of life. A tale which may startle the reader out...

Excerpt from The Refugees, Vol. 1: A Tale of Two Continents Were the teller of an old tale to acknowledge all his sources he would have to burden his book with a bibliography. No man, however, can, without ¿agrant injustice, write upon the end of the seventeenth century at the French Court without acknowledging his indebted ness to Miss Julia Pardoe, nor can he treat American history Of the same date without owing much to Mr. Francis Parkman....

Excerpt from The Green Flag: And Other Stories of War and SportIes homogeneous, but these have this in common: that they concern themselves with war and sport - a fact which may commend them to the temper of the times. Such as they are I have chosen them as the fittest survivors out of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of ...

Excerpt from Strange SecretsHere's my card - Swaleclifi'e Castle. Book to Wood End, Great Western line. Don't forget.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfec...

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