Excerpt from Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason than to assist several well-established heroes down from their pedestals. Great Charlemagne might come to earth's level, his patriarchal, flowing beard might drop from his face, and we might see him as he really was - a plucked and toothless old savage, with no more Christianity than Jacob, and with all of Jacob's greed. Richard of England,...
Excerpt from Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen ima...
Excerpt from The Touchstone of Fortune: Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful, Reign of the So-Called Merry, Monarch, Charles II Goddess Fortune seems to delight in smiling on a man who risks his all, including life, perhaps, on a desperate chance of, sat one to one hundred. If her Ladyship frowns and he loses, his friends call him a fool; if he wins, they say he is a lucky devil and are pleased to share his prosperity if he happens to be of a giving disposition. Lucky? No He has simply minted his courage. The most remarkable illustration of...
Excerpt from The Touchstone of Fortune: Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful, Reign of the So-Called Merry, Mo...
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Excerpt from When Knighthood Was in Flower
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Excerpt from Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall I draw the wizard's circle upon the sands, and blue flames spring from its circumference. I describe an inner circle, and green flames come responsive to my words of magic. I touch the common centre of both with my wand, and red flames, like adders' tongues, leap from the earth. Over these flames I place my caldron filled with the blood of a new-killed doe, and as it boils I speak my incantations and make my mystic signs and passes, watching the blood-red mist as it rises to meet the Spirits of Air. I chant my conjurations as I learned them from...
Excerpt from Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall I draw the wizard's circle upon the sands, and blue flames spring from its circumference. I describe an...
Excerpt from A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties A Strenuous sense of justice is the most disturbing of all virtues, and those persons in whom it predominates are usually as disagreeable as they are good. Any one who assumes the high plane of "justice to all, and confusion to sinners," may easily gain a reputation for goodness simply by doing nothing bad. Look wise and heavenward, frown severely but regretfully upon other's faults, and the world will whisper, "Ah, how good he is " And you will be good - as the sinless, prickly pear. If the virtues of omission constitute...
Excerpt from A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties A Strenuous sense of justice is the most disturbing of all virtues, and those p...