The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866, page 89 by Various Authors
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, and its effect on a family represented by the way in which the members of the family regard this dark-clad and sad-browed inmate.
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A story to show how we are all wronged and wrongers, and avenge one another.
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To personify winds of various characters.
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A man living a wicked life in one place, and simultaneously a virtuous and religious one in another.
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An ornament to be worn about the person of a lady,--as a jewelled heart. After many years, it happens to be broken or unscrewed, and a poisonous odor comes out.
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Lieutenant F. W---- of the navy was an inveterate duellist and an unerring shot. He had taken offence at Lieutenant F----, and endeavored to draw him into a duel, following him to the Mediterranean for that purpose, and harassing him intolerably. At last, both parties being in Massachusetts, F---- determined to fight, and applied to Lieutenant A---- to be his second. A---- examined into the merits of the quarrel, and came to the conclusion that F---- had not given F. W---- justifiable cause for driving him to a duel, and that he ought not to be shot. He instructed F---- in the use of the pistol, and, before the meeting, warned him, by all means, to get the first fire; for that, if F. W---- fired first, he, F----, was infallibly a dead man, as his antagonist could shoot to a hair's breadth. The parties met; and F----, firing immediately on the word's being given, shot F. W---- through the heart. F. W----, with a most savage expression of countenance, fired, after the bullet had gone through his heart, and when the blood had entirely left his face, and shot away one of F----'s side-locks. His face probably looked as if he were already in the infernal regions; but afterwards it assumed an angelic calmness and repose.
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A company of persons to drink a certain medicinal preparation, which would prove a poison, or the contrary, according to their different characte