It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under circumstances which the writer herself would have regarded as all-commanding, urges that they should now be given to […]
Book Excerpt Kathlyn with evasions. Frowning, he replaced the order in the box, which he put away in a drawer. It was all arrant nonsense, anyhow; nothing could possibly happen; if there did, he would feel certain that he no longer dwelt in a real workaday world. The idle whim of a sardonic old man; […]
Book Excerpt re I could turn away from the view; and said to papa that he feared his little girl was tired as well as cold–and so spoiled all my pleasure. I looked back afterwards as papa and I drove down: he was walking by Clare’s carcole and they were laughing heartily.And that was the […]
Two American girls, sojourning with their father at a little Dutch watering place, unintentionally become involved in a diplomatic intrigue which threatens the peace of Europe. A situation, humorous at first, rapidly becomes dramatic, and moves on to a breathless climax. There is also an absorbing, moving love story, in which Cupid, with the aid […]
Notices in the personal column of the London Daily Mail, that romantic institution popularly called “The Agony Column,” afford a medium for the introduction of the lovely girl and the hero in the opening of this story. A maze of perplexing circumstances follow, and throughout there is the same originality of treatment that one finds […]
Pamela describes the sufferings, trials, and vicissitudes undergone by a poor, but beautiful and innocent, country girl who enters the service of a rich gentleman.
Amusing mystery story, its melodramatic plot unwinding against the charming background of a South Carolina townlet stirred to its depths by the passing of an historic mansion, through a spite will, to the possession of “a Yankee woman named Smith.”
One of the sweetest stories of New England life ever written; one full of the love and tenderness made possible by honest Christian living among pure, wholehearted and broad-minded country folks. Founded on the very successful play of the same title by Lottie Blair Parker, made into a movie by D.W. Griffiths.