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VV1-todhunter-inn

XML   PDF A CONCERT AT CLIFFORD’S INN.     (Since this paper was written the destruction of the old Hall, which then seemed imminent, has been…

VV1-thompson-marriage

XML   PDF MARRIAGE IN TWO MOODS.                                              1             Love that’s loved from day to day            Loves itself into decay:            He that eats one daily fruit            Shrivels hunger at…

VV1-syrett-villiers

XML   PDF POOR LITTLE MRS. VILLIERS.     “Where is little Mrs. Villiers” demanded Miss Hooley. The question was prefaced by a disconcerting gaze directed towards…

VV1-phillips-martyrs

XML   PDF EARTH’S MARTYRS.         Many have hymned Thy Martyrs, Earth, of old,        Who fell on red flames, as on flowers cold;        But we, Thy poets, in…

VV1-meynell-householder

XML   PDF TO ANY HOUSEHOLDER.     Some general instinct has remained with men, so that the consensus of nations has been in favour of light…

VV1-masefield-mirror

XML   PDF WHEN BONY DEATH HAS CHILLED HER GENTLE BLOOD. When bony Death has chilled her gentle blood    And dimmed the brightness of her wistful…

VV1-masefield-blindness

XML   PDF BLINDNESS.         Since I have learned Love’s shining alphabet,        And spelled in ink what’s writ in me in flame,        And borne her sacred image richly…

VV1-marriott-sesame

XML   PDF OPEN SESAME.     Interested strangers who tried to talk to Mr. Trembath about the West Country were apt to be disappointed because, although…

VV1-hunt-gem

XML   PDF THE GEM AND ITS SETTING.                                         PERSONS.                        EVE GRIEVE, 3o, a widow.                        MAY DAY, 18, an unmarried girl.                        JAMES KNIGHT, 40, a bachelor.                        A RECEPTIVE FRIEND.    Scene:—Mrs. Grieve’s…