Love Stories Books
Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress
George Randolph ChesterAbout the time the winner of the Baltimore Handicap flashed under the wire, Johnny Gamble started to tear up a bundle of nice pink tickets on Lady S. Just then Ashley Loring came by swiftly in the dir..
The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne
Kathleen Thompson NorrisLittle Mrs. George Carew, flushed and excited, crossed the pantry as she spoke, and pushed open the swinging door that connected it with the kitchen. She was a pretty woman, even now when her hair, al..
Beulah
Augusta J. EvansA January sun had passed the zenith, and the slanting rays flamed over the window panes of a large brick building, bearing on its front in golden letters the inscription "Orphan Asylum." The structure..
The Real Lady Hilda - A Sketch
B. M. CrokerA smart coupé from the Coupé Company, called every afternoon, and took us out shopping and into the park; Emma’s ideas were apparently as magnificent as of yore. I was fitted out by “Ninette,” her own..
A Gentleman of Leisure
P. G. WodehouseJimmy Pitt had now definitely ousted Love, the Cracksman, as a topic of conversation. Everybody present knew him. Most of them had known him in his newspaper days; and though every man there would hav..
John, A Love Story; vol. 1 of 2
Mrs. OliphantIt was nearly a week before Kate was permitted to leave her bed, and during that time she had learned a great deal about the economy of Fanshawe Regis. She lay among the pillows every day a little hig..
John, A Love Story; vol. 2 of 2
Mrs. OliphantJohn was nothing loath to commit himself now to anything she asked of him; and as they strayed on under the dark rustling lime-trees, with nobody within sight or sound, and the darkness enclosing them..
Jean Craig Grows Up
Kay LyttletonDoris stared at the long, low couch on one side of the open fireplace. It was over four weeks since her father had lain on it. Early the previous fall he had come home after two and a half years in th..