Holy Happiness/ Mark Twain

Hadleyburg village woke up world-celebrated—astonished—happy—vain.  Vain beyond imagination.  Its nineteen principal citizens and their wives went about shaking hands with each other, and beaming, and smiling, and congratulating, and saying this thing adds a new word to the dictionary—Hadleyburg, synonym for incorruptible—destined to live in dictionaries for ever!  And the minor and unimportant citizens and their wives […]

Looking Pretty / Ernest Hemingway

Looking Pretty / Ernest Hemingway

  Mrs. Macomber stayed in the camp. It was too hot to go out, she said, and she was going with them in the early morning. As they drove off Wilson saw her standing under the big tree, looking pretty rather than beautiful in her faintly rosy khaki, her dark hair drawn back off her […]