E. R. Punshon CHAPTER I THE LONE PASSENGER That evening the down train from London deposited at the little country station of Ramsdon but a single passenger, a man of middle height, shabbily dressed, ...

Translated Sir Edwin Arnold Dedication TO INDIA So have I read this wonderful and spirit-thrilling speech, By Krishna and Prince Arjun held, discoursing each with each; So have I writ its wisdom here,...

Henry James CHAPTER I Mrs. Munden had not yet been to my studio on so good a pretext as when she first intimated that it would be quite open to me--should I only care, as she called it, to throw the h...

Thackeray CHAPTER I. OF THE LOVES OF MR. PERKINS AND MISS GORGON, AND OF THE TWO GREAT FACTIONS IN THE TOWN OF OLDBOROUGH. "My dear John," cried Lucy, with a very wise look indeed, "it must and shall ...

by Edgar Rice Burroughs To Joan Burroughs CHAPTER 1 Kidnapped "The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot. "I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special ag...

Henry James CHAPTER I What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention--spoken as...

by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood CHAPTER ONE THE SHADOW OF THE BAT "You've got to get him, boys - get him or bust!" said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detective...

G.K. Chesterton DEDICATION Of great limbs gone to chaos, A great face turned to night-- Why bend above a shapeless shroud Seeking in such archaic cloud Sight of strong lords and light? Where seven sun...

HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Clara Bell To Henri de Balzac, his brother Honore. The Comte de Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligenc...

W. S. Gilbert Ballad: Captain Reece Of all the ships upon the blue, No ship contained a better crew Than that of worthy CAPTAIN REECE, Commanding of THE MANTELPIECE. He was adored by all his men, For ...