Life

“No; I have quite enough weapons and instruments of carnage;—I want a small figure, something which will suit me as a paper-weight; for I...

Upon the denticulated shelves of several sideboards glittered im¬mense Japanese dishes with red and blue designs relieved by gilded hatching; side by side with...

Theophile Gautier (1811—1872)Thophile Gautier was born at Tarbes in the south of France in 1811. He came to Paris as an infant. In 1830...

The smothering canopy was then lowered, but not so noiselessly as I had seen it lowered. When I mentioned this to the Sub-prefect, his...

Away we went through the streets, the Sub-prefect cross-examining and congratulating me in the same breath as we marched at the head of our...

To some men the means of escape which I had discovered might have seemed difficult and dangerous enough—to me the prospect of slipping down...

But ere long all thought was again suspended by the sight of the mur-derous canopy moving once more. After it had remained on the...

Without stopping to draw my breath, without wiping the cold sweat from my face, I rose instantly on my knees to watch the bed-top....

Looking for what?Good God! the man had pulled his hat down on his brows! No! the hat itself was gone! Where was the conical...

This picture put a kind of constraint upon me to look upward too— at the top of the bed. It was a gloomy and...