The Necklace part 3
But, by a violent effort, she had conquered her grief, and she replied, with a calm voice, while she wiped her wet cheeks:
“Nothing. Only...
The Necklace part 2
When she sat down to dinner, before the round table covered with a table-cloth three days old, opposite her husband, who uncovered the soup...
The Necklace part 1
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
De Maupassant was born at the Chateau de Miromesnil in 1850. Distinguished though he is as a master of the novel...
How Lazaro Served a Bulero part 4
While this was proceeding, my sainted master was on his knees in the pulpit, his hands and eyes turned towards heaven, apparently filled with...
How Lazaro Served a Bulero part 3
Many respectable people, to prevent the scandal of the thing pro-ceeding further, wished to turn the Alguazil out of the church, but the reverend...
How Lazaro Served a Bulero part 2
He had preached two or three days, at a place near Toledo, and had not neglected his usual offerings; but he found his indulgences...
How Lazaro Served a Bulero part 1
Diego Hurtado De Mendoza (1503-1574)
Born of a noble family at Granada, Mendoza was primarily a man of action. We are told that he joined...
The White Trout part 2
Well, when he thought that side was done he turns it agin, and lo and behold you, the divil a taste more done that...
The White Trout part 1
Samuel Lover (1797?—1868)
Samuel Lover was born in Dublin of an English Protestant family. He studied painting at an early age, and though he continued...
The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple part 5
One of the marginal notes ascribed to William Dunlop applies to the above lines. “She had betrothed herself to Lord Rutherford under horrid imprecations,...
