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Excerpt from My Love, Vol. 1 of 3 It was a foolish thing to do, but when was happy youth aught but foolish? And he was so happy! so happy! He could not find fitting vent for his joy, nor adequate expression by which to inform the world at large how great was his divine delight. 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...

Excerpt from Witch Stories IN offering the following collection of witch stories to the public, I do not profess to have exhausted the sub ject, or to have made so complete a summary as I might have done, had I been admitted into certain private libraries, which contain, I believe, many concealed riches. But I had no means of introduction to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from My Love, Vol. 3 of 3 Here! - of all places in the world, this! The widow started at the sound of Colonel Moneypenny's voice as if he had been a spirit called from out the infinite by the spell of her desire. She looked up with a frightened and bewildered face. The guard which she usually maintained with so much care was suddenly broken down, and she was as confused and overcome as any other woman might have been. Had she been a m...

Excerpt from Ione, Vol. 1 of 2 My dear Mr. Swinburne, One of my earliest novels was dedicated to my beloved "Father, " Walter Savage Landor. This, which must of necessity be among my latest, I dedicate to you, his faithful and loyal friend - as indeed you are the faithful and loyal friend of all to whom you have once given your trust and affection. I deeply feel the honour you do me in classing me among the number of those in whose sincerit...

Excerpt from Through the Long Night, Vol. 2 of 3 Was it from ignorance or design that Anthony Harford dispensed with the formalities usual among civilized people, as touching guest and host, and set out for Hindfleet without notice given or time appointed? Even proud folk sometimes condescend to small ruses, and Anthony, though prouder than most, had thus condescended. He wanted to take his old friends unawares, so that he might test them by...

Excerpt from Through the Long Night, Vol. 1 of 3 Preaching down a daughter's heart was not a difficult task to a mother like Mrs. Clanricarde. Circumstances compelled her conduct and character strengthened her resolve, and, when conditions and feelings are in accord, there we have that triple wall of brass which no human power can break down. We will enumerate the conditions and circumstances which made the mother preach down her daughter's ...

Excerpt from Through the Long Night, Vol. 3 of 3 Gone! Gone like a stone in the water, like the path of a bird in the air. Gone, and no trace left by which to track her, no clue by which to find her. Had the earth opened and swallowed her up, or had a fiery chariot taken her to heaven, she could not have disappeared more wholly from the world, nor more completely have effaced her path. She had gone, and no one could say when, nor where, nor h...

Excerpt from With a Silken Thread and Other Stories, Vol. 2 of 3 It was in the dusk of a dull winter's evening, when business men were hurrying westwards from the city, and fine ladies were driving home from the parks, that Charles Lanfear, leaving the office where he too had been doing his day's work like the rest, turned up the darkening streets to his lodgings in Bloomsbury. He was not a man to attract attention by any outward peculiarity,...

Excerpt from With a Silken Thread and Other Stories, Vol. 3 of 3 There were few people more respected in the neighbourhood than Mattie Todhunter, of Loanin' Head. Left a widow while still almost a young woman, with a large family of boys and girls to bring up and but a poor hungry farm of many acres and small produce to do it on, she had proved both her prudence and her skill in that she had settled up things quite as well as, if not better t...

Excerpt from Grasp Your Nettle, Vol. 2: A Novel In a small apartment in the Rue Saint Antoine sat a dark-haired, pretty little woman of about thirty-five years of age, but so beautifully dressed and so cleverly made up, that she did not look more than twenty-five at most - unless you took her in a cross light, and then you could see the blanc de perle and the rouge de Vénus lying in the tracings by which time had begun to tell the world that ...

Excerpt from Dulcie Everton, Vol. 1 of 2Good-tempered and unselfish, contented with home and not longing for change with a conscience kept scrupulously bright, yet not morbidly introspective nor afraid 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 an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to ...

Excerpt from The Storm's Gift Encouraged by the success of my book the "Earthmotor, " I am again in print. So much of book is true history of pioneer times, the reviewers of the M. S. S. claim for it a place among the historical records of Oregon. As many of the characters are still living, it was necessary to use ficticious names, however numbers of Oregon pioneers will recognize the characters under the assumed names. The South Sea Island s...

Excerpt from The True History of Joshua Davidson: Christian and Communist IT would be affectation in me were I to pretend any longer to keep up the anony mity of the authorship of joshua david son. The secret has become known, as such secrets always do become known, and in one or two instances I myself was obliged to reveal it for the sake of truth and honesty. Now I come forward in my own person, prepared to take the full couse quences of Wh...

Excerpt from With a Silken Thread and Other Stories, Vol. 1 of 3 Doubtless the story of King Cophetua reads well. The picture of the Royal lover condescending to the maid of low estate - lifting beggary to a seat on the Imperial throne and covering rags with the Royal purple - thrills the hearts of all those who prize love more than conventional laws and who hold that social distinctions should be subordinated to human emotion. But the thing ...

Excerpt from Grasp Your Nettle, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel "Well, Aura, this is good news!" said Mrs. Escott, the wife of the Rector of Clive Yale, bustling into the drawing-room with a broad smile upon her round, red face. "Croft is really taken at last, I am so glad I cannot tell you." "So am I, mamma, it has been so long empty, and it is such a lovely place, " said Aura, smiling too from sympathy. "Do you know who has taken it?" About the Publ...

Excerpt from Sowing the Wind, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Those bright days to come seemed to have already partially dawned upon the widow, for since her first unlucky loss, and the wide blank of friendlessness into which she had plunged on her arrival, she had not had to bear either poverty or loneliness. Richard Norton's mysterious supplies kept her well provided, so that at least the bitter pang of immediate want was spared her, and she was too w...

Excerpt from The Girl of the Period, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Social Essays The gushing man is the very pabulum of sharks and sharpers, and it is he Whose impressibility and gullible good-nature supply Wind for the sails of half the rotten schemes a¿oat. F ull of faith in his fellows, and of belief in a brilliant future to be had by good luck and not by hard work, he cannot bring himself to doubt either men or measures unless indeed his gushing...

Excerpt from About Ireland I am conscious that I ought to make some kind of apology for rushing into print on a subject which I do not half know. But I do know just a little more than I did when I was an ardent Home Ruler, influenced by the seductive charm of sentiment and abstract principle only, and I think that perhaps the process by which my own blindness has been couched may help to clear the vision of others who see as I did. All of us ...

Patricia Kemball - A Novel is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes...

The true History of Joshua Davidson is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly ...