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Post Time for the 2012 Preakness Stakes – The Halfway Point in the Triple Crown Racing Series

Kentucky Derby Post Time – Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 6:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time will mark the Post Time for the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby, the oldest continuously held sporting event in all of North American sports history.  NBC will be broadcasting the most exciting two minutes in sports, which will be […]

Why do you ask

`Why do you ask?’ `Because I hope, for my own sake, there is one Baronet that you don’t know.’ `Will you tell me his name?’ `I can’t — I daren’t — I forget myself when I mention it.’ She spoke loudly and almost fiercely, raised her clenched hand in the air, and shook it passionately; […]

Will you promise?

The loneliness and helplessness of the woman touched me. The natural impulse to assist her and to spare her got the better of the judgment, the caution, the worldly tact, which an older, wiser, and colder man might have summoned to help him in this strange emergency. `You may trust me for any harmless purposes,’ […]

I turned on the instant

I turned on the instant, with my fingers tightening round the handle of my stick. There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road — there, as If it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven — stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot […]

I made my arrangements

The next morning I sent my testimonials to the professor’s employer in Portland Place. Three days passed, and I concluded, with secret satisfaction, that my papers had not been found sufficiently explicit. On the fourth day, however, an answer came. It announced that Mr Fairlie accepted my services, and requested me to start for Cumberland […]