The Massacre of the Innocents part 1
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
Maurice Maeterlinck was born at Ghent in 1862. He studied for the law, but left for Paris after a short career as...
Chivalry part 7
Salvador did not leave his patient, encouraging her with cheering words to bear her pains with fortitude. Pedro, ill at ease, was watching die...
Chivalry part 6
The house was full of gossipers of the neighborhood, who had come in armed with infallible remedies which they were anxious to apply to...
Chivalry part 5
Five minutes afterwards the fugitive was sleeping like a log. The night came on without Salvador`s awakening from the deep slumber into which he...
Chivalry part 4
At three o`clock he passed through Atenas and at six in the morning he and his companion arrived at the gates of San Mateo....
Chivalry part 3
Salvador Moreno was a high-strung, refined man to whom the brutality of force was repugnant. At the same time his indomitable and lofty spirit...
Chivalry part 2
The present version, translated by Gray Casement, from the volume, Costa Rican Tales, copyright, 1905, by Burrows Co., Cleveland, is here reprinted by permission...
Chivalry part 1
South America
Introduction
From the very earliest years following the conquest of Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century there have been Spanish- American writers, and though...
What Vasile Saw part 10
But what was it that the Son of God was bearing on his shoulders— something dark and heavy and enormously large.
His Cross! Christ too...
What Vasile Saw part 9
Why war? why suffering and cold and sacrifices when life might be easy—why? why? Why a God in the Heavens… too far off? Why...
