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Excerpt from Dick's Wandering, Vol. 3 of 3 She told herself that she had let him go coldly, and though she had repented her want of tenderness, she feared that her repentance might be too late. Then in her fear she would betake herself to prayer, and at such times the loss of the land, and of all the tangible good things of the world, had seemed as nothing in comparison with the loss of love. And thus it happened that, when Dick ran up the st...

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Excerpt from A Book of Song I must not send out this little book without a line of thanks to Messrs. Blackwood for their permission to print again some twenty of these songs which were first published in their Magazine many years ago. And, seeing that in courtesy I must write this, perhaps I may be pardoned for adding a few words more, to this effect indeed - that I have made songs all my life at happy moments when the mood was mine. The firs...

Excerpt from Comedy of a Country House, Vol. 1 of 2 A young man came over the hill. He was walking on one of those public field-paths which lead the landless wayfarer through the homely beauties of England, and make him too for his little hour a lord of the happy land. He went with long strides and with the vigour of youth, but without the elasticity of the first morning hours. One would have known from his gait that he had been walking all d...

Excerpt from Comedy of a Country House, Vol. 2 of 2 There was no doubt that Lord Hackbut had dined well, he seemed to show it iu every crease of his face and of his clothing. He had clean forgotten the threatening gout, he felt expansive, he put a great arm on the back of his chair and looked down the table at Sir Villiers Hickory. "Villiers, " he said, "this is good wine. It is too good for these boys." "It belongs to one of them, " said S...

Excerpt from Count Julian: A Spanish Tragedy Spring. Scene. - A Place of Arms in the Palace of Roderick, King of Spain. Martinez is alone. To him enters Diego. Martinez. Well? Has he come? Diego. Most noble Don Martinez, Count Julian hath this instant arrived at court. By Herc'les' might, I am well content that I shall see this potent count! Martinez. Ah! One stout fellow loves to look on another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books ...

Excerpt from Little ComediesI say nothing with Hamlet. Heaven defend me from such presumption and besides, Hamlet was a bore, and thought too much of himself.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 ...

Excerpt from Little Comedies: Old and New It is spring-time in Borne, and one of the first hot days. In the veiled light of his studio Claud Huntley is painting Lady Roedale's picture. He likes to talk as he works. Claud. Then why did you offer to sit to me? Lady Roedale. Why? Why? Its too hot to give reasons. Perhaps because your studio is the coolest place in Rome. Or shall I merely say that I sit to you because I choose? Cl. That's bett...

Excerpt from A Master of Fortune It was after twelve, and the river lay in a blaze of summer light when Carteret and Seafeld rowed up in their pair-oar to bathe at the weir. A melancholy brooded on the stream in spite of all the dancing of myriads of sunbeams, in spite of the glad voices of younger boys sporting in and out of the water at "Upper Hope" and at "Athens, " names eloquent of the future and of the past. About the Publisher Forgot...

Excerpt from Dick's Wandering, Vol. 1 of 3Without an oath, who would not stick through thick and thin to his own ¿esh and blood. In Mr Kirby himself the family blood was of the reddest, and the family ¿esh bountiful and firm. Too luxurious a diet was not good for him and so it may be said that the second cause of his con tentment on this April evening was the care which he had taken of himself since the end of last year's session. He had been ...

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Excerpt from John Maidment, Vol. 2 of 2Now it happened that John Maidment at his club fell in with one of those young men who represent most clearly the reaction from he languid swells of twenty years ago or more. This was a very smart and sanguine young man, who was charged with an excess of vivacity, who prided himself on being on familiar terms with all sorts of people, and called almost all his male acquaintance by their Christian names.Ab...

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Excerpt from Dick's Wandering, Vol. 2 of 3The next minute he had made the necessary effort, and begun to speak. He stood look ing out of the window, and he tried to telly her of his next visit to his lawyer and of the formal deed which he was going to execute, as he had told her a thousand times of some small plan for the morrow. When he had finished, he still looked out of the window, but he saw nothing he was intent on listening, and it seem...

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Originally published in 1901, here is Julian Sturgis's romantic novel, STEPHEN CALILNARI.