Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

The Storm (1898) was much more popular than its prequel, At the 'Cadian Ball (1892). "So the storm passed and every one was happy."

In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle.

This is one of the stories of Alfred. There are many of them still floating around the West, for Alfred was in his time very well known.