When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister’s address in Van Buren Street, and four dollar in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years or age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth...

I Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign,Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain,Conquered the land, and won the western main,Now no fortress against him doth remain,No city walls are left for him to gain,Save Sarraguce, that sits on high mountain.Marsile its King, who feareth not God’s name,Mahumet’s man, he invokes Apollin’s aid,Nor wards off ills that shall to him attain.AOI...

A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell. All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine...

Enter MYCETES, COSROE, MEANDER, THERIDAMAS, ORTYGIUS, CENEUS, MENAPHON, with others. MYCETES. Brother Cosroe, I find myself agriev’d; Yet insufficient to express the same, For it requires a great and thundering speech: Good brother, tell the cause unto my lords; I know you have a better wit than I...

Dramatis Personae Persons in the InductionA LORDCHRISTOPHER SLY, a tinkerHOSTESSPAGEPLAYERSHUNTSMENSERVANTS BAPTISTA MINOLA, a rich eman of PaduaVINCENTIO, an old gentleman of PisaLUCENTIO, son to Vincentio; in love with BiancaPETRUCHIO, a gentleman of Verona; suitor to Katherina Suitors to BiancaGREMIOHORTENSIO Servants to LucentioTRANIOBIONDELLO Servants to PetruchioGRUMIOCURTIS PEDANT, set up to personate Vincentio Daughters to BaptistaKATHERINA, the shrewBIANCA WIDOW Tailor, Haberda...

had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale...

TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth...

DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONSO, King of NaplesSEBASTIAN, his BrotherPROSPERO, the right Duke of MilanANTONIO, his Brother, the usurping Duke of MilanFERDINAND, Son to the King of NaplesGONZALO, an honest old counsellorADRIAN, LordFRANCISCO,LordCALIBAN, a savage and deformed SlaveTRINCULO, a JesterSTEPHANO, a drunken ButlerMASTER OF A SHIPBOATSWAINMARINERS MIRANDA, Daughter to Prospero ARIEL, an airy Spirit IRIS, presented by SpiritsCERES, presented by SpiritsJUNO, presented by SpiritsNYMPHS, pres...

On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular...

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares...