'Farmiloe. Chemist by Examination.' So did the good man proclaim himself to a suburb of a city in the West of England. It was ...

The ordinary West-End Londoner--who is a citizen of no city at all, but dwells amid a mere conglomerate of houses at a certain distanc...

CHAPTER I On a summer afternoon two surly men sat together in a London lodging. One of them occupied an easy-chair, smoked a cigarette...

It was market day in the little town; at one o'clock a rustic company besieged the table of the Greyhound, lured by savoury odours...

Strong and silent the tide of Thames flowed upward, and over it swept the morning tide of humanity. Through white autumnal mist yellow...

It was not easy for Mr. Daffy to leave his shop for the whole day, but an urgent affair called him to London, and he breakfasted early...

It was in the drawing-room, after dinner. Mrs. Charman, the large and kindly hostess, sank into a chair beside her little friend Mrs. ...

'I possess a capital of thirty thousand pounds. One-third of this is invested in railway shares, which bear interest at three and ...

A young woman of about eight-and-twenty, in tailor-made costume, with unadorned hat of brown felt, and irreproachable umbrella; a youn...

Harvey Munden had settled himself in a corner of the club smoking-room, with a cigar and a review. At eleven o'clock on a Saturday...

The school was assembled for evening prayers, some threescore boys representing for the most part the well-to-do middle class of a man...

It was five o'clock on a June morning. The dirty-buff blind of the lodging-house bedroom shone like cloth of gold as the sun's...

For a score of years the Rocketts had kept the lodge of Brent Hall. In the beginning Rockett was head gardener; his wife, the daughter...

It was twenty years ago, and on an evening in May. All day long there had been sunshine. Owing, doubtless, to the incident I am about ...

'I must be firm,' said Miss Shepperson to herself, as she poured out her morning tea with tremulous hand. 'I must really b...

Among the men whom I saw occasionally at the little club in Mortimer Street,--and nowhere else,--was one who drew my attention before ...