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Excerpt from The Soul of the Bishop, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel, In Two VolumesIN presenting The Soul of the Bishop to the world, I feel that it is necessary for me to make some explanation to my readers as to the reason which has made me choose this unlikely theme as the motive of this story. I use the word unlikely advisedly, because I am aware that I have the reputation of being a writer of light stories, of pretty trifles pour passer le temps - ...

Excerpt from A Summer Jaunt: Being a Rambling Autobiography of John Strange WinterWith something of a start I came back from the thought of a particularly smart hussar, who had been having a good time in Scotland among the grouse and girls.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 u...

Excerpt from A Matter of SentimentMine said the other man, mine He cast his eyes over the glowing Californian land scape, looked slowly round over the familiar scene, and then, fixing his eyes on the distant hills, he apparently fell into deep thought.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. Forgo...

Excerpt from The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker: A NovelIf the period in which she lived had been that of to-day, I think Regina Brown would have entered herself at any hospital that would have accepted her and would have trained for a nurse, but, in the early seventies, nursing was not, as now, the almost regu lation answer to the question, What shall we do with our girls?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

Excerpt from WedlockMary Hamilton stared open-eyed at her mother. Dear mother, she said, gently I am tired tonight - the children were very troublesome to-day and the rooms seemed more stuffy than usual. I feel confused. Do tell me just what Captain Conway did suggest to you.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 importan...

Excerpt from A Seventh Child: A NovelTruth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we dld no more than recall it to our memory.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 reconstruc...

Excerpt from The Soul of the Bishop, Vol. 2 of 2: A NovelThere is always a hope, in the storm or the calm, There is always a hope, and a comforting balm. - shirley hibberd.How long Will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces With words - Job.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...

Excerpt from A Blameless WomanAbout 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 imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as...

Excerpt from Marty: A NovelI used to get my lunch years ago, but I gave it up, for I never was able to enjoy it without getting up three or four times. So now I have just a sandwich and a glass of stout and it doesn't matter if I eat that standing or not.Well, as I said, Mrs Benyon was seated near to the fire in her little drawing-room, looking over the newspaper, and enjoying her tea and toast, when the door opened and Marty came in.Ah, is th...

Excerpt from Love and TwentyThe evening. Was as yet young. The long row of Officers on the left of the entrance to the ballroom was still unbroken, the Colonel was hard at work opposite to them receiving the incoming guests. To me, this part of such an entertainment is always highly interesting as affording an indication of character and of the age and probable length of service of each individual of that brilliant line. You have the seniors, ...

Excerpt from Those GirlsI don't think Madame will eat me, she said, quietly, you are so fanciful, Helen, always making a mountain out of a mole-hill. How ever, I will go and see what is the matter with her.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 Other Man's WifeThe child ¿ourished and throve apace the nurse who had charge of him was in time succeeded by a governess and the governess by a tutor, and when Jack Trevor was a little over twelve years Old the Bishop, after many months of intense suffering, died, and no other mistress had ever come to take the place of the gentle middle aged bride who had come home to the Palace nearly fifteen years before.About the Publishe...

Excerpt from Little Gervaise: And Other StoriesFor a moment Ger vaise stood looking at him, her eyes blazing with indignation. Would he never give her credit for what she did: would he never put her upon a level with himself, would he always despise her, wound her, jeer at her, would it always be the same? Would she go on year after year until she was a grown woman, and would Paul, whom she loved so much, whom she looked up to and almost rever...

Excerpt from The Major's Favourite a NovelSome years ago I wrote a little story called Mignon's Secret. It was in tended to show the grown-up mind something of the intense bitterness of the sorrows of childhood, sorrows which to us may seem trivial, but which to the child's heart and brain are immeasur able in the depth of their intensity. My public have taken Mignon's Secret to their heart, and apparently mean to keep it there - judging from ...

Excerpt from Cavalry Life, Vol. 1 of 2: Or Sketches and Stories in Barracks and OutI have received orders from my publishers to write a Preface to the collection of sketches now to be offered to the public.A Preface! What an order! I would as soon write another volume, it certainly would be the easier task of the twain. It has to be done, of course, but how, I don't know. I never wrote a Preface in my life. I have not the least idea how to set...

Excerpt from Experiences of a Lady HelpAnd then, when I was about twelve years old, something happened, something that affected us very greatly - Mrs. Danvers at the Church House went and died.Well, she was very old, and she was very well off, too. She was Meta's godmother, and left her five hundred pounds as a remembrance. And besides that she left the Church House to the living, with a sum of two thousand pounds, either to be spent on the im...

Excerpt from Beautiful Jim, of the Blankshire RegimentAnd yet it was such a pleasant phiz, clean-shaven and ill-assorted as to features, though the blue eyes had a merry twinkle in them which made you forget that they might have been larger with considerable advantage, and the white teeth disclosed every minute or two by the merrier smile quite made you forget also that the mouth was a good deal too wide for its owner to fairly sustain the nam...

Excerpt from Cavalry Life, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Sketches and Stories in Barracks and OutDick Carter stood in front of the ante-room fire, with his hands behind his back. It was Christmas-eve, and on the last day of the year the regiment was to sail for India's coral strand. For his part, Dick wished India's coral strand was at the deuce, but then, since neither his nor any other Cuirassier's wishes could alter either the position of India's coral s...

Excerpt from He Went for a SoldierCome in, cried a voice, then added, Hallo, Shaver, is that you 2 Yes, are you busy? Not a bit. Thank the Lord I'm on leave, Darrell replied.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,...

Excerpt from In Quarters With the 25th (the Black Horse) DragoonsIt was on a blithe and bonny June morning that a decided spirit of discontent entered the anteroom and turned over the papers lying on the big round table.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...