He's a handsome lad, and one any woman might be proud to call her son," said Hester to Bedford, the stately butler, as they lingered at the h...
Four years had passed, and Lillian was fast blooming into a lovely woman: proud and willful as ever, but very charming, and already a belle in the lit...
To no one but her mother and Hester did Lillian confide the discovery she had made. None of the former servants but old Bedford remained with them, an...
"Is Lady Trevlyn at home, Bedford?" asked Paul, as he presented himself at an early hour next day, wearing the keen, stern expression which ...
"A Gentleman, my lady."Taking a card from the silver salver on which the servant offered it, Lady Trevlyn read, "Paul Talbot," and...
AS a preface is the only place where an author can with propriety explain a purpose or apologize for shortcomings, I venture to avail myself of the pr...
"I'M going to school this morning; so come up and get ready," said Fanny, a day or two after, as she left the late breakfast-table."...
POLLY soon found that she was in a new world, a world where the manners and customs were so different from the simple ways at home, that she felt like...
"IT'S time to go to the station, Tom.""Come on, then.""Oh, I'm not going; it's too wet. Should n't have a cri...
"IT'S so wainy, I can't go out, and evwybody is so cwoss they won't play with me," said Maud, when Polly found her fretting on t...