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Two on a TowerTwo on a TowerThis slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might...
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The Dove in the Eagle's NestThe Dove in the Eagle's NestIn sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytags first series of pictures of...
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The Rise of Roscoe PaineThe Rise of Roscoe Paine I'm going up to the village, I told Dorinda, taking my cap from the hook behind the dining-room door. What for? asked Dorinda, pushing me to one side and reaching for the dust-cloth, which also was behind the door....
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Their PilgrimageTheir Pilgrimage I. FORTRESS MONROE II. CAPE MAY, ATLANTIC CITY III. THE CATSKILLS IV. NEWPORT V. NARRAGANSETT PIER AND NEWPORT AGAIN; MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND PLYMOUTH VI. MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, ISLES OF SHOALS VII. BAR HARBOR VIII. NATURAL BRIDGE, WHITE SULFUR IX. OLD SWEET AND WHITE SULFUR...
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The Wanderer's NecklaceThe Wanderer's Necklace In memory of Oodnadatta and many wanderings oversea I offer these pictures from the past, my dear Vincent, to you, a lover of the present if an aspirant who can look upon the future with more of hope than fear. Your...
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The Lady of the ShroudThe Lady of the ShroudA strange story comes from the Adriatic. It appears that on the night of the 9th, as the Italia Steamship Companys vessel Victorine was passing a little before midnight the point known as the Spear of Ivan, on the coast...
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Red EveRed Eve For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side by side, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a means whereby our coasts may be protected from the outrageous flowing surges of the sea (I quote the jurists of...
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Eight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonEight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon P h y j s l y d d q f d z x g a s g z z q q e h x g k f n d r x u j u g I o...
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The ReturnThe Return The churchyard in which Arthur Lawford found himself wandering that mild and golden September afternoon was old, green, and refreshingly still. The silence in which it lay seemed as keen and mellow as the lightthe pale, almost heatless, sunlight that filled the...
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The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Hound of the BaskervillesMr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which...
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A Changed Man, and Other TalesA Changed Man, and Other TalesPrefatory Note A Changed Man The Waiting Supper Alicias Diary The Grave by the Handpost Enter a Dragoon A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork What the Shepherd Saw A Committee Man of The Terror Master John Horseleigh, Knight The...
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Wessex TalesWessex Tales An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large...
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An Open-Eyed Conspiracy An Idyl of SaratogaAn Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of SaratogaThe day had been very hot under the tall trees which everywhere embower and stifle Saratoga, for they shut out the air as well as the sun; and after tea (they still have an early dinner at all...
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A Group of Noble DamesA Group of Noble DamesThe pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a cluethe faintest tradition...
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Life's Little IroniesLife's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery. Under the black beaver hat, surmounted by its...
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The Last Chronicle of BarsetThe Last Chronicle of Barsetcan never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors'...
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Desperate RemediesDesperate Remedies PREFATORY NOTE I. THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS II. THE EVENTS OF A FORTNIGHT III. THE EVENTS OF EIGHT DAYS IV. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY V. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY VI. THE EVENTS OF TWELVE HOURS VII. THE EVENTS OF...
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The Tavern KnightThe Tavern Knight THE TAVERN KNIGHT CHAPTER I. ON THE MARCH CHAPTER II. ARCADES AMBO CHAPTER III. THE LETTER CHAPTER IV. AT THE SIGN OF THE MITRE CHAPTER V. AFTER WORCESTER FIELD CHAPTER VI. COMPANIONS IN MISFORTUNE CHAPTER VII. THE TAVERN KNIGHT'S STORY CHAPTER...
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The Last StetsonThe Last Stetson A MIDSUMMER freshet was running over old Gabe Bunch's water-wheel into the Cumberland. Inside the mill Steve Marcum lay in one dark corner with a slouched hat over his face. The boy Isom was emptying a sack of corn into the...
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A Mountain EuropaA Mountain EuropaThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the...
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