Saksagan
Maese Pfirez the Organist part 4
Nevertheless, several minutes passed before the celebrant appeared. The multitude commenced to murmur impatiently; the knights exchanged words with each other in a low...
Maese Pfirez the Organist part 3
`But why need I try to tell you about what you are going to hear lo-night? It is enough for you to see that...
War with the Scyths part 12
Now in the ancient historians, no mention is made of a Hunnish army ever having come there, but during the Emperor Alexius’ reign the...
The Bet part 6
The banker took the sheet from the table and read:
“Tomorrow at twelve o`clock midnight, I shall obtain my freedom and the right to mix...
The Bet part 2
“If you mean it seriously,” replied the lawyer, “then I bet I`ll stay not five but fifteen.”
“Fifteen! Done!” cried the banker. “Gentlemen, I stake...
The Bet part 3
During the first year of imprisonment, the lawyer, as far as it was possible to judge from his short notes, suffered terribly from loneliness...
The Bet part 4
During the last two years of his confinement the prisoner read an extraordinary amount, quite haphazard. Now he would apply himself to the natural...
The Bet part 5
“If I have the courage to fulfil my intention,” thought the old man, “the Suspicion will fall on the watchman first of all.”
In the...
King Rhampsinitus and the Thief 1
Herodotus (484—424 B.C.)
Herodotus, the Father of History, is celebrated as a teller of tales. These he introduced into his History partly for purposes of...
Maese Pfirez the Organist part 2
“But what`s that? They`ve left off. What`s that light? Torches! a litter! It`s the bishop himself! God preserve him in his office as many...
