... WORKING-MAN’S PLAIN STORY It is a common saying that corporations have no souls. Like most sweeping statements, this is not true. Men are pretty much alike, no matter into what sort of bodies they may be organised. Cases of generosity and humanity on ...

... trunk of a fallen tree, near which tree the poor animal was found lying dead, having his neck broken; and the rider lay a short distance off, to all appearance dead, with his head covered with blood from a deep wound on his forehead. While speaking, Edward ...

... sad story. He’s an extraordinary actor. To see the plans he carries out one would think he was the mer* riest soul in England; but when he takes to his room, and thinks of Lucy, he sinks into despair. To give you an idea, Mantelet. We had a short time ...

... asked her mother’s consent out of courtesy, and her refusal did not in the least affect his intentions. Well, to cut a long story short, she told me that by some means or other this man had acquired a tremendous power over her daughter, and was forcing her ...

... who gave his youthful namesake a fair amount of travelling charges. Now, we give here brief and truthful summary of Edmund’s story, as promised— Ballybrack is a pretty hamlet on the Irish coast adjacent to Bray, County Wicklow. Some years ago it was a f ...

... numerous appeals to devote the space at our disposal for tales to the work of Irish writers ; and, from the specimens of short stories then in our hands, we judged that, if the merit of these characterised those succeeding, we should, by complying with these ...

... regions are perhaps well known to some of our readers, to supply with serial tale of five or six instalments, which with a short story to be completed in one issue, which Miss Eva M. Henry will supply, will bring us up to the first of July, from which date ...

... invent a process which these two occasions shall coincide. No more could the maidens of Trevenna, so they received the story as story, and never dreamt of bothering their heads to find out the truth of it, until Lucy Poldere saw ia it a possible way out ...

... XSuddoolc, Author o* Prom Bosom of the Deep,” “As the Shadows Fall.” A Wlavlsasa The Shadow Hun tar,” ■'xho Daad Kan's Seorot,” “Stories Weird and Wonderful,” 80. “They sin who tell Love can die.”—Southey. CHAPTER I. HENRY, LORD DELACOURT. THE shadows were l ...

... ended by marrying her. Thus in the short space of a year the chairman of l, and easy became the rage of London society, the husband of the richest heiress, and the *most successful dramatist of his time. Throughout the story many characters are introduced ...

... and adjoined his bedroom, bathroom, and dressing-room, which were en suite. A French window gave access to a verandah,and a short flight of steps led down into the grounds Mr Hagger frequently sat n this verandah, and enjoyed a cigar after the household ...

... and gentlemen’s doubles we were treated to a walk over, H. R. Jones and Miss Stanuell scoring in the absence of J. B. Story and Miss Story. In the Ladies’ Handicap Singles we had practically another walk over, as Miss Butler in receipt of 15, could make ...