Social Llife & Customs Books

He that will not when he may - vol. I

Mrs. Oliphant

Almost exactly coincident with this sigh the door of the drawing-room opened far down in the dim outer part, and two men came in. The house was so entirely given up to this innocent sway of youth, tha..

He that will not when he may - Vol. II

Mrs. Oliphant

Bell made no reply, but ran out of the way, and they reached the schoolroom window in time to see what was going to happen. At the door stood some one waiting. “A little gentleman” in light-coloured c..

He that will not when he may - Vol. III

Mrs. Oliphant

He walked and walked, till he was footsore with fatigue. He went past the Markham Arms in the dark, and saw his supplanter through the inn window talking—to whom?—to Fairfax. What had Fairfax to do wi..

From the Land of the Snow-Pearls - Tales from Puget Sound

Ella Higginson

Demaris moved about the room stiffly, as if every muscle in her body were in rebellion. She took from a closet filled with drugs the big camphor bottle with its cutglass stopper, the little bottle lab..

The Trap - Pilgrimage, Volume

Dorothy M. Richardson

Though the air cleared as they mounted the stairs, it had now a new smell, meeting and mingling with the thinned odours coming up from below, the smell of long-lying London dust. A staircase window, f..

Our Little Cuban Cousin

Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

Largest of all the fair West Indian Islands which lie in our open doorway is Cuba. The great south doorway to the United States and all North America, you know, is the Gulf of Mexico.But recently, as ..

Lodore, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Henry Fitzhenry was spoken of by a few of the last generation, as having been a fine, bold, handsome boy—generous, proud, and daring; he was remembered, when as a youth he departed for the continent, ..

Lodore, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

These enthusiastic words were spoken with so calm a manner, and in so equable a voice, that there seemed nothing strange nor exaggerated in them. It is vanity and affectation that shock, or any manife..