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Derval Hampton: A Story of the Sea, Volume 1 (of 2)Derval Hampton: A Story of the Sea, Volume 1 (of 2) "Do not say this, Greville, dearest; it is not for us to judge; we have but to suffer and endure, and be thankful for life, for health, and that we are not worse...
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The Dazzling Miss DavisonThe Dazzling Miss DavisonA roomy, comfortable, old-fashioned house in Bayswater, with high windows, big rooms, and little balconies just big enough to hold a wealth of flowers in summer and a very pretty show of evergreens when the season for flowers was past. On...
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Daughters of MenDaughters of MenOf your kindly interpretation of the laughter here and there in this volume, purporting to be a picture of modern Greek life, I have no doubt. You at least know that I lack neither friendship nor sympathy with your race. We like...
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Pastorals of DorsetPastorals of DorsetSome of these stories have already appeared in The Cornhill Magazine, Longmans Magazine, Temple Bar, Punch, The Times Weekly and The Illustrated London News; and are reprinted by kind permission of the Editors of these periodicals. Farmer Joyce walked meditatively up the...
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Wit, Humor, and Shakspeare: Twelve EssaysWit, Humor, and Shakspeare: Twelve EssaysThis subject is best reached from the point of reflecting that, of all the animals, man alone appears to be capable of laughter. If, as so many naturalists now claim, man has ascended by successive evolutions of varieties from...
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Sir Isumbras at the FordSir Isumbras at the FordMaster AnneM. le Comte Anne-Hilarion de Flavignygave a little sigh from the bed. "I have tried . . . if you would say 'Noroway,' perhaps? . . . Say 'Noroway-over-the-foam,' Elspeth, je vous en prie!" Elspeth Saunders grunted, for there...
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Disappeared From Her Home: A NovelDisappeared From Her Home: A Novel 200 REWARD. Disappeared from her home, Amy, only daughter of Stephen Warden, Esq., of the High Elms, Harleyford. Age, 17; height, 5ft. Dark hair and eyes, oval face, small nose, mouth, and chin; remarkably small hands and feet;...
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The Joss: A ReversionThe Joss: A Reversion I had had an aggravating day. In everything luck had been against me. I had got down late, and been fined for that. Then when I went into the shop I found I had forgotten my cuffs, and Mr. Broadley,...
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Men, Women, and BooksMen, Women, and BooksOf writing books about Dean Swift there is no end. I make no complaint, because I find no fault; I express no wonder, for I feel none. The subject is, and must always remain, one of strange fascination. We have no...
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In Exitu Israel: An Historical Novel, Volume 1 (of 2)In Exitu Israel: An Historical Novel, Volume 1 (of 2)There is a side to the History of the French Revolution which is too generally overlookedits ecclesiastical side. Under the ancien rgime, the disadvantages of an Establishment produced a strong party of liberal Catholics prepared...
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The Magnetic GirlThe Magnetic Girl It was the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to anyone. I really hardly know how to begin to tell about it. I was doing my hair before the looking-glass in my bedroomand I could not help noticing that it was...
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The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of FigaroThe Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro - A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de BeaumarchaisStage directions were usually right-aligned with varying indentation on the left, sometimes beginning on the same...
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La cité de l'épouvantable nuitLa cité de l'épouvantable nuitUne illustration du Graphic une porte de musique ou les propos lgers dun ami qui arrive du pays, peuvent la faire flamboyer cette sensation qui a sa source dans ce que nous savons de notre paradis perdu de Londres. Au...
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The goddess: a demonThe goddess: a demon I was sure that I had seen Edwin Lawrence juggle with the pack. As I lay there wide awake in bed it all came back to me. I wondered how I could have been such an unspeakable idiot. We had...
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An Arnold Bennett calendar: A quotation from Arnold Bennett for every day in the yearThe Arnold Bennett CalendarEnoch Arnold Bennett was born at Hanley-in-the-Potteries (one of the Five Towns frequently appearing in his writings) on 27th May 1867. He was educated at the endowed Middle School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and matriculated in the London University. From school he went into...
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The Other ManThe Other Man I N. H. C. II A Business Consultation III In Which a Certain Momentous Question is Asked IV Which Relates to a Newspaper Suicide V Count Poltavo Offers His Services VI A Stranger Comes to Burgos VII Some Disappearances VIII The...
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The Real Lady Hilda: A SketchThe Real Lady Hilda: A SketchToo early for the lamp, I suppose, and yet too dark to read a line. And my stepmother closed her novel, with an impatient snap, as she added, This is the worst of these horrid, poky lodgings; one never...
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In Trust: The Story of a Lady and Her LoverIn Trust: The Story of a Lady and Her LoverAnne, you are very positive and self-opinionated, but you cannotit is not possibleset up your judgment against mine on such a point. You, an inexperienced, prejudiced girl, a rustic with no knowledge of the world!...
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Little Dinners With the Sphinx, and Other Prose FanciesLittle Dinners With the Sphinx, and Other Prose FanciesTHE Sphinx and I had not met for quite a long time. We hadnt dined together forO I should thinkfour years; and it was strange to both of us to be sitting opposite to each other...
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Jane Seton or, The King's Advocate: A Scottish Historical RomanceJane Seton; or, The King's Advocate: A Scottish Historical Romance The genius of a monarch is said to stamp a character upon his time; but this can scarcely be said to have been the good fortune of the sovereign in whose reign I have...
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