The Man Who Came Back
by Edna Ferber There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and
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by Edna Ferber There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and
by P. G. Wodehouse There were three distinct stages in the evolution of Annette Brougham’s attitude towards the knocking in the room above. In the
by H.G. Wells It is doubtful whether the gift was innate. For my own part, I think it came to him suddenly. Indeed, until he
by Richard Harding Davis The Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. So blindly were they in love, that they considered
by P. G. Wodehouse It was Harold who first made us acquainted, when I was dining one night at the Cafe Britannique, in Soho. It
by Jerome K. Jerome He got in at Ipswich with seven different weekly papers under his arm. I noticed that each one insured its reader
by Anthony Trollope I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine of the Via Mala.
by Algernon Blackwood (A Nightmare) 1 Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew it were his assistant,
by Jerome K. Jerome The first time we met, to speak, he was sitting with his back against a pollard willow, smoking a clay pipe.
by Robert Barr “The well-sworn Lie, franked to the world with all The circumstance of proof, Cringes abashed, and sneaks along the wall At the
by Rudyard Kipling Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks his shirt in. As an Oriental he
by Rudyard Kipling The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to
by Jerome K. Jerome I first met Jack Burridge nearly ten years ago on a certain North-country race-course. The saddling bell had just rung for
by Edward Everett Hale FROM THE INGHAM PAPERS. This story was written in the summer of 1863, as a contribution, however humble, towards the formation
by Jerome K. Jerome It has been told me by those in a position to know—and I can believe it—that at nineteen months of age
by Jack London Jacob Kent had suffered from cupidity all the days of his life. This, in turn, had engendered a chronic distrustfulness, and his
by Katherine Mansfield He stood at the hall door turning the ring, turning the heavy signet ring upon his little finger while his glance travelled
by P. G. Wodehouse Students of the folk-lore of the United States of America are no doubt familiar with the quaint old story of Clarence
by Sherwood Anderson I stated it as definitely as I could. I was in a room with them. They had tongues like me, and hair
by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “These Mappin Terraces at the Zoological Gardens are a great improvement on the old style of wild-beast cage,” said Mrs. James
by O. Henry The policeman was standing at the corner of Twenty-fourth Street and a prodigiously dark alley near where the elevated railroad crosses the
by Virginia Woolf Published in 1921, The Mark on the Wall was one of eight short stories in her short story collection, Monday or Tuesday.
by Rudyard Kipling Your Gods and my Gods-do you or I know which are the stronger? Native Proverb. EAST of Suez, some hold, the direct
by O. Henry Without knowing it, Old Bill Bascom had the honor of being overtaken by fate the same day with the Marquis of Borodale.