He didn't understand it. He didn't try to reason it out. He was filled with a great awe and humiliation. Awe that he had been saved in a way he didn't understand, humiliation that he had ever got himself into such jeopardy. Then he came to himself and began to walk. Straig...
She slipped around behind. Oh, joy! There was a short ladder reaching up to a sloping roof, and above the roof was a window, it was high, but perhaps she could reach it from the roof. There was much hay bulging from the window, but surely she could force her way around the hay somehow and get dow...
she tried to say briskly, trying not to seem in a panic, “I thought you were asleep, Miss Cole – Madam!” “Don't MADAM me!” was the sharp retort. “I asked you how long you had known that young man. I know you thought I was asleep. You thought I didn't see down there in the office, too, but I’m no...
All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. —Robert Browning CLAUDE Winthrop had paid little attention to his business since the night his wife was taken ill. He had sent a message down to the office to the effect that ...
So does a tiny, sharp sound strike upon our senses and bring them into life again from sleep, making us aware of a state of things that has been going on for some time perhaps without our realization. The sound that roused him may have been the click of the stateroom latch as Gordon opened the do...
And that wasn't like Paul, for it was natural for him to be rather grave and serious. But he hadn't been home but once since he left in the fall, and he had been working very hard. "It's great to be here again," he exclaimed, after he had paid his taxi and set down his bag...
Tilford would tell her about it at once probably, but it didn't matter. Out in the hall she met the nurse with a hot-water bottle in her hand. "Your father's feet are so cold," she explained in a whisper. "I'm afraid he's getting a nervous chill. Yo...
The picture of Christ was his constant companion. At first shyly and then openly he grew to make a confidant of it. He studied the lines of the face, and fitted them to the lines of the life depicted in the New Testament, and without his knowing it his own face was changing. The lines of reckless...
The line of smoke that floated away from his costly cigar followed the line of smoke from the steamer as if it were doing honest work to help get Mr. Stanley to New York. The sea in the distance was sparkling and monotonous and the horizon line empty and bright, but Mr. Stanley seemed to see befo...