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THE HUNTER OF THE DIDIMA

... aloud. The tale has often been told, but never the whole of it, for it is shameful for a man to relate how he wept like a woman and begged for his life. But now all the others are dead and, for myself, why, I am only an old man of no account who will ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4090 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN

... wardrobes of the sad men who live at clubs and whose socks and shirts show the need of a woman's needle and thread. The darning of damask is an art in which some of her army excel, and it is a great thing to have at hand a place where the cruel dilapidations ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2233 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN

... THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN DEAR MOLLY,-- I yesterday visited the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street; it was founded in 1852, and was the first children's hospital in the kingdom. Now, because people forget its daily needs, it is in danger of having ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1826 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LAURELS OF THE BRAVE

... present you with the symbol of fame ha ha Pretty idea, isn't it he he Mrs. Long-Adder sug gested it ha ha woman of ideas Mrs. Long- Adder a woman of ideas! Hum ha! We shall have a collection for 'Tommy's Gal' in Mrs. Long-Adder's hat after your poem has ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7424 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

CHLORIS OF THE ISLAND

... spoken of his Irish blood, and there was the fount of this treachery. Away upon the coast of the Pas de Calais lay the vast army of the Emperor which had been gathered for the destruction of England. He waited there upon his fleet, but he was known to ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5064 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

CHLORIS OF THE ISLAND

... Fie, no never quarrel, Mr. Carmichael. There is none worth it, not even a woman. This is no woman, said Philip, fixing his admiring gaze on her. Yet I can think of a woman to fight over. But, Lord, I don't know why we should fight. He is too stiff ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5550 | Page: 19 | Tags: Illustrations 

A NOVEL IN A NUTSHELL: THE LUCK OF BERNARD ESCOTT

... had to get the proper deeds for the land, and then the trouble there was later when the man who is now my partner tried to upset them. However, all that is past. That land was my Luck, or rather, not so much the land itself as the stream that tumbled through ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3743 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LAST BULLET: A STORY OF THE FALL OF PEKIN

... She had a strangely stately manner as she carried a very heavy child 011 one arm and supported a hysterical, half- fainting woman with the other. But, after staring devouringly at her as long as he dared, Charleton pretended that he heard a call in another ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1829 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

IN THE PALACE OF THE KING: A Love Story of Old Madrid

... Spain. He would there fore give the King the letter unopened, unless, believing it to be a love message from some foolish woman, he chose to tear it up unread. The wretched jester knew that either would mean his own disgrace and death, and he quivered ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5235 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: The Queen and the Heir-Apparent

... wizard. But Sir Walter does not seem to have been aware of the very curious local tradition which declares that the man or woman bold enough to interfere in any way with the sym metry of Goblin Hall shall come to an untimely end a prophecy strictlv fulfilled ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8254 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Our Bookshelf: THE SERIOUS WOOING

... big, and self-assertive, and over-bearing in short, he is the very type of the male to fascinate the delicate Dresden china woman, Rosabel Lady Southcombe; to carry her off her feet, and to toss her from horn to horn till she reaches the ecstatic point ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2774 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE DARK OF THE MOON: THE STABLE-CAVERNS

... Silver Sand, and, I venture to compute, of nine-tenths of the men and women who read this over-true chronicle. Yet a woman any woman might have done as I did and never been blamed. Nay, more, she would have been applauded for her proper pride. She but ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5773 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations