Bulgaria

She ran into the passage in her terror, but, on recovering herself a little, wished to help Peter. In vain! The door had slammed...

“Have I said anything wrong?”“No, dear, no; you are right. When one loves one marries. It is difficult to awaken love,” and she sighed...

There was something else that he feared, too — something that further prevented him from visiting the empress. The brain-storms no longer attacked him,...

The Emperor’s Tonsure52. The emperor, before the decease of his body, sought another more spiritual, change. He disdained the imperial rank which he was...

They chattered about this, that and the other among the rest about various marvels and strange things. Well, they saw something; it would have...

But this afternoon he lay stretched out in an armchair, one leg crossed over the other, a book in his hand, with the fixed...

This he did, partly by the despatch of envoys, partly by bribery, partly by annual displays of military strength. Thanks to these precautions neither...

His respiration was laboured already and he was beginning to breathe his last, so he again went to his couch and lay down. For...

After a hardworking month or year, the normal thing is to think of a way to relax. Many and different the ways are but...

We shall take a trip through Italy, but without haste, taking short journeys, enjoying every comfort, stopping where we please, seeing even the most...