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A mysterious feeling of terror crept over and helped to sober him. How long had he lain asleep? By degrees he seemed to remember that two or three times he had awakened far enough...

He, too, had attended M. Xaupi `s ball, in his own way and in his proper character, being drawn to the place for the pleasure of seeing the fine ladies arrive and float in,...

He turned and moved slowly away in the direction of Water Street, where she lived; and she, taking up her basket, shuffled .across the market-place towards Cheapside, muttering to herself the while:“I come mighty...

She was dressed with perfect neatness. A red and yellow Madras kerchief was bound about her head in a high coil, and another was crossed over the bosom of her stiffly starched and smoothly...

In one corner of his sensual mouth rested the stump of a cigan. Once during the proceedings he had produced another, lighted it, and continued quietly smoking. If he took to himself any shame...

“Thank you!” cried the sheriff, cheerily. “One precinc ` heard from ne dollah! I am offahed one dollah foh ole King Sol `mon. One dollah the king! Make it a half. One dollah an...

“Stop, gentlemen, stop!” cried the sheriff, who had watched the rising tide of good-humor, and now saw his chance to float in on it with spreading sails. “You `re running the price in the...

He stood on the topmost of the courthouse steps, and for a moment looked down on the crowd with the usual air of official severity.“Gentlemen,” he then cried out sharply, “by an ordah of...

Down on Water Street, near where now stands a railway station, Hugh Lonney, urging that the fear of cholera was not the only incentive to cleanliness, had just fitted up a sumptuous bathhouse, where...

James Lane Allen (1849-1925)James Lane Allen was born near Lexington, Ky., in 1849. He was largely self-educated, and began writing at a comparatively early age. His novels and stories are the expression for the...