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by W.C. Morrow Four of the five men who sat around the card-table in the cabin of the “Merry Witch” regarded the fifth man with

A Gentleman Friend by Anton Chekhov THE charming Vanda, or, as she was described in her passport, the “Honourable Citizen Nastasya Kanavkin,” found herself, on

A Gentleman of Bayou Têche by Kate Chopin It was no wonder Mr. Sublet, who was staying at the Hallet plantation, wanted to make a

by Rudyard Kipling Pleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods, When great Jove nods;But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakesIn missing the hour

by Henry Lawson Steelman and Smith had been staying at the hotel for several days in the dress and character of bushies down for what

by Guy de Maupassant We were speaking of sequestration, alluding to a recent lawsuit. It was at the close of a friendly evening in a

by W. W. Jacobs The elders of the Tidger family sat at breakfast–Mrs. Tidger with knees wide apart and the youngest Tidger nestling in the

by Mark Twain I took a large room, far up Broadway, in a huge old building whose upper stories had been wholly unoccupied for years

by Lucy Maud Montgomery The land dropped abruptly down from the gate, and a thick, shrubby growth of young apple orchard almost hid the little

by Elia W. Peattie THERE was only one possible objection to the drawing-room, and that was the occasional presence of Miss Carew; and only one

by T.S. Arthur Two boys, named Jacob Peters and Ralph Gilpin were passing along Chestnut Street one evening about ten years ago, when one of

by Henry van Dyke There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse and heavy; but

by Stephen Crane “It looks as if it might rain this afternoon,” remarked the lieutenant of artillery. “So it does,” the infantry captain assented. He

A Happy Man by Anton Chekhov THE passenger train is just starting from Bologoe, the junction on the Petersburg-Moscow line. In a second-class smoking compartment

A Happy Ending by Anton Chekhov LYUBOV GRIGORYEVNA, a substantial, buxom lady of forty who undertook matchmaking and many other matters of which it is

by W. W. Jacobs A waterman’s boat was lying in the river just below Greenwich, the waterman resting on his oars, while his fare, a

A Harbinger by Kate Chopin Bruno did very nice work in black and white; sometimes in green and yellow and red. But he never did

by O. Henry Mrs. Fink had dropped into Mrs. Cassidy’s flat one flight below. “Ain’t it a beaut?” said Mrs. Cassidy. She turned her face

by Algernon Blackwood The following events occurred on a small island of isolated position in a large Canadian lake, to whose cool waters the inhabitants

by Virginia Woolf Published in 1921, A Haunted House was one of eight short stories in her collection, Monday or Tuesday. Whatever hour you woke

by Mark Twain Once or twice a year I get a letter of a certain pattern, a pattern that never materially changes, in form and

by P. G. Wodehouse It was to Wilson, his valet, with whom he frequently chatted in airy fashion before rising of a morning, that Rollo

by Louisa May Alcott Published in The Louisa Alcott Reader: A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School (1908). PART I. If any one

A Holy Terror by Ambrose Bierce I There was an entire lack of interest in the latest arrival at Hurdy-Gurdy. He was not even christened