Scarcalico

It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we discuss our present imperfections, to release ourselves from practical difficulties and the tangle of ways and means. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it

Pantherpear

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.

Questerwild

The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light–house, a three–legged thing erect on a mud–flat, shone strongly. Mustangsunrise.

And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.

She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened.