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A METAMORPHOSIS MORE SURPRISING THAN ANY IN OVID. "In want of money!" pushing back his chair as from a suddenly-disclosed man-trap or crater. "Yes," naïvely assented the cosmopoli…
SHOWING THAT THE AGE OF MAGIC AND MAGICIANS IS NOT YET OVER. While speaking or rather hissing those words, the boon companion underwent much such a change as one reads of in fairy-books. Out of old m…
WHICH MAY PASS FOR WHATEVER IT MAY PROVE TO BE WORTH. But ere be given the rather grave story of Charlemont, a reply must in civility be made to a certain voice which methinks I hear, that, in view o…
IN WHICH THE COSMOPOLITAN TELLS THE STORY OF THE GENTLEMAN MADMAN. "Charlemont was a young merchant of French descent, living in St. Louis—a man not deficient in mind, and possessed of that ster…
IN WHICH THE COSMOPOLITAN STRIKINGLY EVINCES THE ARTLESSNESS OF HIS NATURE. "Well, what do you think of the story of Charlemont?" mildly asked he who had told it. "A very strange one,&…
IN WHICH THE COSMOPOLITAN IS ACCOSTED BY A MYSTIC, WHEREUPON ENSUES PRETTY MUCH SUCH TALK AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED. As, not without some haste, the boon companion withdrew, a stranger advanced, and touch…
THE MYSTICAL MASTER INTRODUCES THE PRACTICAL DISCIPLE. "Both, the subject and the interlocutor," replied the stranger rising, and waiting the return towards him of a promenader, that moment…
THE DISCIPLE UNBENDS, AND CONSENTS TO ACT A SOCIAL PART. In the master's presence the disciple had stood as one not ignorant of his place; modesty was in his expression, with a sort of reverenti…
THE HYPOTHETICAL FRIENDS. "Charlie, I am going to put confidence in you." "You always have, and with reason. What is it Frank?" "Charlie, I am in want—urgent want of money.&q…
IN WHICH THE STORY OF CHINA ASTER IS AT SECOND-HAND TOLD BY ONE WHO, WHILE NOT DISAPPROVING THE MORAL, DISCLAIMS THE SPIRIT OF THE STYLE. "China Aster was a young candle-maker of Marietta, at th…
