Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
Free DownloadTranslated by William Patten.The Brigade Commander by J. W. Deforest Who Was She? by Bayard Taylor Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Brother Sebastian's Friendship by Harold Frederic A Good-For-Nothing by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen The Idyl Of Red Gulch by Bret Harte Crutch, The Page by George Alfred Townsend (''Gath'') In Each Other's Shoes by George Parsons Lathrop The Denver Express by A. A. Hayes Jaune D'antimoine by Thomas Allibone Janvier Ole 'Stracted by Thomas Nelson Page Our Consul At Carlsruhe by F. J. Stimson (''J. S. Of Dale'')
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veness which seemed both loving and melancholy.
Few persons, at all events few women, who looked upon him ever looked
beyond his eyes. They were very fascinating, and in a man's countenance
very strange. They were the kind of eyes which reveal passionate
romances, and which make them.
By his side stood a boy, a singularly interesting and beautiful boy, fair-haired and blue-eyed, and delicate in color. When this boy saw the stranger approach he turned as pale as marble, slid away from the brigade commander's side, and disappeared behind a group of staff officers and orderlies. The new-comer also became deathly white as he glanced after the retreating youth. Then he dismounted, touched his cap slightly and, as if mechanically, advanced a few steps, and said hoarsely, "I believe this is Colonel Waldron. I am Captain Fitz Hugh, of the --th Delaware."
Waldron put his hand to his revolver, withdrew it instantaneously, and stood motionless.
"I am on leave of absence from my regiment, Colonel," continued Fit
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