A CLOUD ON THE MOUNTAIN
by: Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)
The following story is reprinted from In Exile and Other Stories. Mary Hallock Foote. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894.
Ruth Mary stood on the high river bank, looking along the beach below to see if her small brother Tommy was lurking anywhere under the willows with his fishing-pole. He had been sent half an hour before to the earth cellar for potatoes, and Ruth Mary's father, Mr. Tully, was waiting for his dinner.
ALL OVER
by: Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
The following story is reprinted from Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories. Guy de Maupassant. London: Classic Publishing Company, 1911.
Comte de Lormerin had just finished dressing. He cast a parting glance at the large mirror which occupied an entire panel in his dressing-room and smiled.
He was really a fine-looking man still, although quite gray. Tall, slight, elegant, with no sign of a paunch, with a small mustache of doubtful shade, which might be called fair, he had a walk, a nobility, a "chic," in short, that indescribable something which establishes a greater difference between two men than would millions of money. He murmured: