Daily Archives: June 2, 2019

At last my quadrille came. The band played the symphony, and the dancers hastened to seek their partners. My heart almost burst from my dress when I saw my dancer approach and, bowing low,...

Unfortunately, I was engaged. What would I not have given at that moment had a courier entered to call away my dancer!“Perhaps the next one?” said the Captain, seating himself beside me.I do not...

“Ah, mamma, why, officers are not allowed to marry in time of war,” I reminded her, laughing.On this, she scolded me still more, called me a little goose, and told me I should find...

I showed him the room, and without the slightest consideration as to whether it was proper to wake them, after being two whole days without rest, he walked coolly into the room. I expected...

“Indeed,” I exclaimed, “it must have been very uncomfortable to have been obliged to sleep on a divan, or even in a camp-bed for six entire weeks!”They both laughed. “On the bare ground—on the...

As I was left quite alone, I thought the best thing I could do was to lay out the table with every sort of eatable and wine I could find, that at least these...

Maurus Jokai (1825-1904)Jokai is the most famous of all Hungarian novelists. It has been said that “if all the persons whom he has called to life in his novels were to appear… the multitude...

VenezuelaRufino Blanco-Fombona (1874-1944)Blanco-Fombona was born at Caracas, in Venezuela, in 1874. He came of an old and aristocratic family of Spanish descent. His extraordinary activities, not only as a writer, but as politician, revolutionary...

The mortgagee, suspecting it was the same money that had been offered him by Erh-ch`eng, cut the pieces in halves, and saw that it was all silver of the purest quality. Accordingly he accepted...

Shan-hu was the next to go, and she found the hole full of silver bullion; and then Ta-ch`eng repaired to the spot and saw that there was no mistake about it. Not thinking it...