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,...
