A Terribly Strange Bed part 6
Just as the ex-brave ended his oration in very lachrymose tones, the coffee came in, ready poured out in two cups. My attentive friend handed me one of the cups with a bow. I...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 5
“Ex-brave of the French Army!” cried I, in a mad state of exhilaration, “I am on fire! how are you? You have set me on fire! Do you hear, my hero of Austerlitz? Let...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 4
And I did go on—went on at such a rate, that in another quarter of an hour the croupier called out, “Gentlemen, the bank has discontinued for to-night.” All the notes, and all the...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 3
If I left everything to luck, and staked without any care or consideration, I was sure to win—to win in the face of every recognized probability in favor of the bank. At first some...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 2
We had come to see blackguards; but these men were something worse. There is a comic side, more or less appreciable, in all blackguardism : here there was nothing but tragedy—mute, weird tragedy. The...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 1
Wilkie Collins (1824—1889)William Wilkie Collins was born at London in 1824. Like his friend Dickens, he was a voluminous writer of novels and tales, an editor and a dramatist. He was rather more interested...
The Shipwreck of Simonides 2
A lerned man has always a fund of riches in himself.Simonides, who wrote such excellent lyric poems, the more easily to support his poverty, began to make a tour of the celebrated cities of...
The Prodigal Son 1
The Prodigal Son (From the New Testament, Luke XV)The prodigal is a parable, spoken by Jesus in praise of forgiveness. It is one of the great stories of the world, and is justly regarded...
The Jewish Mother 1
Biblical LiteratureIt is not surprising that the stories scattered so profusely through the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Talmud, should be mostly moral tales. They were told in order to illustrate a theological or...
The History of Susanna 1
The History of Susanna (From The Apocrypha)Susanna was originally a part of the Book of Daniel, but was set apart as apocryphal, because it “was not in Hebrew.” It is none the less a...
