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BROTHERLY LOVE. “You have no right, Pascal, to command me to marry a man whom I do not love.” The speaker was a young girl not more than eighteen years of age. As she spoke, the flashing of her eyes…
“A MAN MUST HAVE A WIFE.” The Countess Mont d’Oro and her son Napier sat at dinner together. They rarely spoke on such occasions, and the meal was nearly over before the Countess looked at him inqui…
“PYLADES AND ORESTES.” “Are you going, Vic?” “Of course I am going. I have been ordered to join Admiral Sir Hugh Walter’s flagship, which sails for Halifax in a week.” “I do not mean that. What I wa…
“BUCKHOLME.” Jack De Vinne , with all the impatience of youth, was at the railway station half an hour before the starting time of the train which was to bear him to the woman he loved. He walked imp…
THE EARL OF NOXTON. Saturday morning was cloudy. “I am so glad the sun is not shining to-day,” remarked Jack, as the little party took their seats at the breakfast table. “Why so?” asked Bertha, and…
DUAL LIVES. “Do you see that ‘that’?” The speaker was Mr. B. Gorham Potts, head reader for the great London publishing firm of Johnson, Johnson, Smythe & Johnson, and as he uttered the words he …
BERTHA’S ESCAPE. As Jennie anticipated, Mr. Thomas Glynne was very much pleased when he saw the growing intimacy between his son and ward. “It isn’t so hard, Clarence, to come out from London every …
A SORROW AND A SOLACE. The next morning after breakfast, during which not a word was spoken by either of the three gentlemen, Clarence was commanded by his father to follow him into the library. He …
NEWS OF THE FUGITIVES. “Do you think it shows a proper regard for the memory of your dead brother to go to Paris and take part in its frivolities?” The question was asked by the Earl of Noxton. “I a…
“LA GRANDE PASSION.” After Jennie’s departure, the Countess gave herself up entirely to the pleasure which she found in the company of her young guest. “I knew your father, Oscar Renville, I may say…
