Stories by English Authors: England
Stories by English Authors: England
THE BOX TUNNEL BY CHARLES READEMINIONS OF THE MOON BY F. W. ROBINSONTHE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS BY AMELIA B. EDWARDSTHE WRONG BLACK BAG BY ANGELO LEWISTHE THREE STRANGERS BY THOMAS HARDYMR. LISMORE AND THE WIDOW BY WILKIE COLLINSTHE PHILOSOPHER IN THE APPLE ORCHARD BY ANTHONY HOPE
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h! but stay; then you could not have been so very angry with me, love. Why, dearest, then you brought that action against me."
Mrs. Dolignan looked down.
"I was afraid you were forgetting me! George, you will never forgive me?"
"Sweet angel! why, here is the Box Tunnel!"
Now, reader--fie! no! no such thing! you can't expect to be indulged in this way every time we come to a dark place. Besides, it is not the thing. Consider--two sensible married people. No such phenomenon, I assure you, took place. No scream in hopeless rivalry of the engine--this time!
MINIONS OF THE MOON
BY F. W. ROBINSON
Our story is of the time when George III was king, and our scene of action lies only at an old farm-house six miles or so from Finchley --a quaint, ramshackle, commodious, old-fashioned, thatched farm-house that we see only in pictures now, and which has long since been improved off the face of the earth.
It was a farm estate that was flourishing bravely in
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