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The Honour of Savelli: A RomanceThe Honour of Savelli: A RomanceVanity Fair, 12th October, 1893. "I do not drink with a thief!" D'Entrangues spoke in clear, distinct tones, that rose above the hum of voices, and every one caught the words. In an instant the room was still. The...
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Paddy-The-Next-Best-ThingPaddy-The-Next-Best-Thing Paddy Adair, the next-best-thing, as she was fond of calling herself, and the reason for which will appear hereafter, sat at the table, and spread all around her were little square books of patterns for blouses, from which she was vainly endeavouring to...
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The Old Yellow Book: Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the BookThe Old Yellow Book: Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the BookSome years before his death Browning promised to leave the Old Yellow Book, together with other books and manuscripts, to Balliol College, Oxford, and his son carried out the promise soon after...
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Shireen and her Friends: Pages from the Life of a Persian CatShireen and her Friends: Pages from the Life of a Persian CatYes, this little preface is written for the Reviewer and nobody else. Indeed, the public seldom bother to read prefaces, and small blame to them. Reading the preface to a book is just...
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The Making of William Edwards or, The Story of the Bridge of BeautyThe Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of BeautyIt was a sad day for Mrs. Edwards, of Eglwysilan,[1] when her well-loved husband, on his return from Llantrissant market one sultry Friday in the autumn of 1721, in attempting to cross...
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Kenneth McAlpine: A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and SeaKenneth McAlpine: A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and SeaScene: A Highland mountain, clad almost to the summit in purple heather. On the right a ravine, half hidden by drooping birch trees. On the left a pine forest. Sheep grazing in the foreground. Smoke upcurling...
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The OutcasteThe Outcaste CHIRAPORE . . . . . . Chief Town of Chirakul. ANANDA. . . . . . . . . A Convert to Christianity. BOPAUL. . . . . . . . . . Friend of Ananda, and of the same Caste....
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Amusement OnlyAmusement Only"Send him up." When Knowles had gone, and he was alone, his Grace showed signs of being slightly annoyed. He looked at his watch. "I told her she'd better be in by four. She says that she's not feeling well, and yet one...
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The SailorThe Sailor A large woman in a torn dress stood at the gate of a rag and bone dealer's yard. The season was November, the hour midnight, the place a slum in a Midland textile town. Hanging from the wall of the house beyond...
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A Woman PerfectedA Woman PerfectedTHE ROMANCE OF A MAID OF HONOUR ADA VERNHAM, ACTRESS CURIOS: SOME STRANGE ADVENTURES OF TWO BACHELORS MRS. MUSGRAVE AND HER HUSBAND MISS ARNOTT'S MARRIAGE THE MAGNETIC GIRL CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG LADY THE GARDEN OF MYSTERY UNDER ONE FLAG Donald Lindsay...
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The Passionate ElopementThe Passionate ElopementTHE meagre sun that for thirteen pallid February days had shone with no more brilliance than a rushlight stuck amid the cobwebs of a garret, poured down at last his profuse glories, and Curtain Wells woke up to a fine morning and...
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The Stronger InfluenceThe Stronger InfluenceAmong the passengers which the train disgorged on to the little platform at Coerney, the station from which visitors to the Zuurberg proceeded on their journey up the steep mountain road by cart, were an elderly woman and her husband; a middle-aged...
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The Heath Hover MysteryThe Heath Hover MysteryThe room was of medium size, partly panelled, and partly hung with dark red papering. It was low ceiled, and the bending beams between the strips of whitewash were almost black. This added to the gloominess of the apartment whether by...
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ImprudenceImprudenceNow came still evening on. The fading light, warm and faintly glowing from the last rays of the May sun, lay with a lingering mellowness upon the fields, upon the light green of leafing trees, upon a white froth of late blackthorn blossoming in...
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Grit LawlessGrit LawlessThe speaker, who was known as the Colonel, took the cigar he was smoking from his mouth the better to emphasise his words, and looked gravely into the serious faces of his audience. It comprised a man of middle-age, bearded, secretive, calculating; and...
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From Veldt Camp FiresFrom Veldt Camp Fires Many are the stories told at the outspan fires of the South African transport riderssome weird, some romantic, some of native wars, some of fierce encounters with the wild beasts of the land. Often have we stopped for a chat...
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A Master of DeceptionA Master of DeceptionWhen Rodney Elmore was eleven years old, placards appeared on the walls announcing that a circus was coming to Uffham. Rodney asked his mother if he might go to it. Mrs. Elmore, for what appeared to her to be sufficient reasons,...
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A Hero of RomanceA Hero of RomanceIt was about as miserable an afternoon as one could wish to see. May is the poet's month, but there was nothing of poetry about it then. True, it was early in the month, but February never boasted weather of more...
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A Second ComingA Second ComingThe servants were serving the entrees. Their breeding failed them. They stopped to stare at Chisholm. The guests stared too, those at the end leaning over the board to see him better. He looked like a man newly startled out of dreaming,...
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Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's LettersTwo Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. - The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)Even though the disasters which overtook John Stubbs and William Prynne in the days of Elizabeth and Charles I no longer faced the pamphleteer, the eighteenth century saw many an...
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