At last in strode the captain, slammed the door behind him, without looking to the right or left, and marched straight across the room to wh...

A cry of alarm rang out above our heads, and when I looked up, I saw a face peering down at us, half lit by the lantern. The expression on t...

He decided to finish the business, although not so hastily that it might work against him. Besides, there was no point in complicating his l...

He knew that Saldaña was as placid as an ox in all matters but those concerning his wife. Then passion blinded him. Any jokes about how she ...

"Go to the riverside, ask for the brig Sund , and give this letter to the captain; he will convey you to a little port, where certainly...

"Monsieur, you appear to be in great haste?" "No one can be more so, monsieur." "I am sorry for that," said ...

"They are coming ashore in long boats!" exclaimed the child. "Oh, my Lady, I am afraid! How the sun strikes fire from their p...

"Quick as a weasel, but you'll die like the pig you are!" Don Filberto snarled when he saw what had happened and gathered hims...

"The Lord of Camerino's fortunes do not wear so prosperous a look, eh?" Malipiero's glance shunned the Duke's; his f...

He turned to look around the room. This was Cazalla's quarters, richly furnished. A dark-haired girl was in the bed. She looked at him i...

Gottfried was already on his way to the embrasures. He too had heard before the terrible soul-shaking shout of the charging Janizaries. Sule...

It was clear that the Italian was doing very well. He could have killed the wounded man any number of times, but he was satisfied to harass ...

The hour having come, they went with their four lackeys to a spot behind the Luxembourg given up to the feeding of goats. Athos threw a piec...

I played with him a little while, watching the sweat gather on his brow, and the shadow of the church tower fall deeper and deeper, like the...

He set about reloading the pistol he had fired, with quick sure hands in the dark. It consumed the last grain of powder in the flask. The wh...

They were returning home from a trip to Genoa when one evening as they were standing off Minorca in the Balearic Isles they were surprised b...

Suddenly, with a loud huzza, a little cloud of pirates leaped from the woods on the north side, and ran straight on the stockade. At the sam...

Subtly, something changed. At first Michael couldn't figure out what it was. Both men were smiling twin wolfish grins, their lips par...

Jumping onto the bad guy's horse and knocking him off is awesome; missing, hitting the ground, and getting trampled isn't. On the ot...

"Damnation!" he muttered. "The accursed ones have ridden ahead of their fire. They've stolen on the village in the dark -...