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A Mortality. What is guilt? A stain upon the soul. And it is a point of vast interest whether the soul may contract such stains…

We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern, held In midnight by the…

The Mermaid of Zennor (A Legend From Cornwall) Once, long ago, off the coast of Cornwall, a mermaid sat upon a rock combing seashells from…

And the years went on as the years must do; But our great Diana was always new Fresh, and blooming, and blonde, and fair, With…

What You Want by O. Henry Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted…

She’d paid good money to see the inevitable… and then had to work to make it happen! There were two important things one, that she…

The Huntsman by Anton Chekhov A SULTRY, stifling midday. Not a cloudlet in the sky. . . . The sun-baked grass had a disconsolate, hopeless…

Up and down, back and forth, up and down. First the quick flite skyward, gradually slowing, reaching the pinnacle of the curve, poising a moment,…

The Policeman rode through the Himalayan forest, under the moss-draped oaks, and his orderly trotted after him. ‘It’s an ugly business, Bhere Singh,’ said the…

“And some are sulky, while some will plunge (So ho! Steady! Stand still, you!) Some you must gentle, and some you must lunge. (There! There!…

The Spanish war has probably produced a richer crop of lies than any event since the Great War of 1914-18, but I honestly doubt, in…

“An officer and a gentleman.” His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was…