When his old mother received his body, carried home by bystanders, she did not weep, but for a long time stayed motionless, looking at it; then, stretching ou...
Benita Clifford, half English, some Dutch, and more than a quarter Portuguese, is one of Rider Haggard's most exciting heroines. She is the central character ...
No one knew what the picture on the wall of the Province House had once portrayed - it was so shrouded in the gloom of ages. But when the destiny of the city ...