Short Stories - Volume VIII

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature language: English abstract: To Be Read at Dusk One two three four five. There were five of them.Five couriers sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland looking at the remote heights stained by the setting sun as if a mighty quantity of red wine had been broached upon the mountain top and had not yet had time to sink into the snow.[...]***The Trial for Murder I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage even among persons of superior intelligence and culture as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. [...]***A Walk in a Workhouse On a certain Sunday I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With the exception of the clergyman and clerk and a very few officials there were none but paupers present. [...]***What Christmas Is as We Grow Older Time was with most of us when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments affections and hopes; grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire; and made the little picture shining in our bright young eyes complete.[...]***The Wreck of the Golden Mary THE WRECKI was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject.[...]***A Message from the Sea CHAPTER I - THE VILLAGEAnd a mighty sing'lar and pretty place it is as ever I saw in all the days of my life! said Captain Jorgan looking up at it.Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it for the village was bui