CONTENTS*THE TWELVE ADVENTURERS1AN ADVENTURE IN IRELAND19*THE SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS25THE ADVENTURES OF ERNEST ALEMBERT45ALBION AND MARINA75*THE RIVALS95THE FAIRY GIFT105*LOVE AND JEALOUSY121*NAPOLEON AND THE SPECTRE137*THE TRAGEDY AND THE ESSAY145*A PEEP INTO A PICTURE BOOK161*MINA LAURY—I181*MINA LAURY—II193The stories marked with an asterisk (*) are nowpublished for the first time.I amalone; it is the dead of night;I am not gone to rest, because my mindIs too much raised for sleep. The silent lightOf the dim taper streams its unseen wind,And quite as voiceless, on the hearth, burns brightThe ruddy ember: now no ear can findA sound, however faint, to break the lullOf which the shadowy realm of dreams is full.Charlotte Brontë
The stories marked with an asterisk (*) are nowpublished for the first time.
I amalone; it is the dead of night;I am not gone to rest, because my mindIs too much raised for sleep. The silent lightOf the dim taper streams its unseen wind,And quite as voiceless, on the hearth, burns brightThe ruddy ember: now no ear can findA sound, however faint, to break the lullOf which the shadowy realm of dreams is full.
Charlotte Brontë