Tell the boy to carry them to the house three doors away, the house of Mr.Winsett, the dark gentleman who dined here.His wife is ill—they may give her pleasure……The boy is out, you say?Then, my dear one, run yourself;here, put my cloak over you and fly.I want the thing ...
At midnight’s hour, when on the fragile bridge The wanderer quakes. I hear thee, when yon billows rise on high, With murmur deep. To tread the silent grove oft wander I, When all’s asleep. I’m near thee, though thou far away mayst be— Thou, too, art near ! The sun then se...
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are,among other natural curiosities,two unusual formations of land.Twenty miles f...
It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom15 boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet16 tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful17 spiciness18 in the air and music of bird calls...
"Now go away," said the little prince. "I want to get down from the wall." I dropped my eyes, then, to the foot of the wall-- and I leaped into the air. There before me, facing the little prince, was one of those yellow snakes that take just thirty seconds to bring your life...
“I hate it,”she said.“All the unkindness that has come between you and me comes from here.” 18 - He said nothing to this, but rose and went to the table for a cigar. Something went through her as he slammed the lid of the box. 19 - “Are you going with me to-morr...
When Mr. Leivers called loudly outside to the horse, that was reaching over to feed on the rose-bushes in the garden, the girl started, looked round with dark eyes, as if something had come breaking in on her world. There was a sense of silence inside the house and out. Miriam ...
There was nothing but a flash of yellow close to his ankle. He remained motionless for an instant. He did not cry out. He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound, because of the sand. *** And now six years have already gone by... ...
Mrs. Thomas said that they were a pair of babies and as poor as church mice. They went to live in a weeny-teeny little yellow house in Bolingbroke. I’ve never seen that house, but I’ve imagined it thousands of times. I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor6 window ...
The house was perfectly still.She had never known it to be so silent before. She heard neither voices nor footsteps, and wondered if everybody had got well of the cholera and all the trouble was over. She wondered also who would take care of her now her Ayah was dead.There would be ...