感人故事，不由想起昨天看的《当幸福来敲门》A Thanksgiving StoryIt was the day before Thanksgiving -- the first one my three children and I would be spending without their father, who had left several months before. Now the...Full Article
The four men ahead and across are holding a loud conversation in Arabic. One of them makes gestures with the hand motions of a flamenco dancer, and it is difficult to tell if he is arguing or just tel...Full Article
She was glad of the lake. Its soft, dark water helped to soothe and quiet her mind. It took her away from the noisy, squawkish world of the cat-walk and let her lie untroubled at its side, listening o...Full Article
She lay quite still; watching him. The reflection in the wardrobe mirror showed him to her. A tall, lean young man without the paunchiness of middle-age or even the mature rou...Full Article
II had been dining with Erskine in his pretty little house in Birdcage Walk, and we were sitting in the library over our coffee and cigarettes, when the question of literary forgeries happened to turn...Full Article
A note of admirationUnless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosa...Full Article
I had always thought Jack Gisburn rather a cheap genius -- though a good fellow enough -- so it was no great surprise to me to hear that, in the height of his glory, he had dropped his painting, marri...Full Article
I The marriage law of the new dispensation will be: THOU SHALT NOT BE UNFAITHFUL -- TO THYSELF. A discreet murmur of approval filled the studio, and through the haze of cigare...Full Article
IWaythorn, on the drawing-room hearth, waited for his wife to come down to dinner. It was their first night under his own roof, and he was surprised at his thrill of boyish ag...Full Article
IAbove all, the letter ended, dont leave Siena without seeing Doctor Lombards Leonardo. Lombard is a queer old Englishman, a mystic or a madman (if the two are not synonymous), and a devout student of...Full Article
It was on an impulse hardly needing the arguments he found himself advancing in its favor, that Thursdale, on his way to the club, turned as usual into Mrs. Vervains street. T...Full Article
The view from Mrs. Mansteys window was not a striking one, but to her at least it was full of interest and beauty. Mrs. Manstey occupied the back room on the third floor of a New York boardinghouse, i...Full Article
This is the story that, in the dining-room of the old Beacon Street house (now the Aldebaran Club), Judge Anthony Bracknell, of the famous East India firm of Bracknell & Saulsbee, when the ladies ...Full Article
There are glitches in every story. The magic of disappearing. Ivan and Cheryls love lay hopeful in the context of a Donovan song - Colours. They heard it first the day they met. They sat, his brother ...Full Article
CHAPTER IYou told a LIE? You confess it - you actually confess it - you told a lie! CHAPTER IIThe family consisted of four persons: Margaret Lester, widow, aged thirty six; He...Full Article
When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-brokers clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wit...Full Article
You have heard from a great many people who did something in the war, is it not fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it but didnt? Thousands entered...Full Article
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any...Full Article
CHAPTER IIn the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said: Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others. And be wary, chose wisely; oh, choose wisely! for only...Full Article
Thirty-five years ago I was out prospecting on the Stanislaus, tramping all day long with pick and pan and horn, and washing a hatful of dirt here and there, always expecting to make a rich strike, an...Full Article
