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The CollaboratorsThe Collaborators - 1896 Why shouldnt we collaborate? said Henley in his most matter-of-fact way, as Big Ben gave voice to the midnight hour. Everybody does it nowadays. Two heads may be really better than one, although I seldom believe in the truth of...
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"Fin Tireur""Fin Tireur" - 1905 Two years ago I was travelling by diligence in the Sahara Desert on the great caravan route, which starts from Beni-Mora and ends, they say, at Tombouctou. For fourteen hours each day we were on the road, and each evening...
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Desert AirDesert Air - 1905 On an evening of last summer I was dining in London at the Carlton with two men. One of them was an excellent type of young England, strong, healthy, athletic, and straightforward. The other was a clever London doctor who...
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The Folly Of EustaceThe Folly Of Eustace - 1896 Some men deliberately don a character in early youth as others don a mask before going to an opera ball. They select it not without some care, being guided in their choice by the opinion they have formed...
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The Desert DrumThe Desert Drum - 1905 I am not naturally superstitious. The Saharaman is. He has many strange beliefs. When one is at close quarters with him, sees him day by day in his home, the great desert, listens to his dramatic tales of desert...
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The Mission Of Mr. Eustace GreyneThe Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne - 1905 Mrs. Eustace Greyne (pronounced Green) wrinkled her foreheadthat noble, that startling forehead which had been written about in the newspapers of two hemisphereslaid down her American Squeezer pen, and sighed. It was an autumn day, nipping...
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The Figure In The MirageThe Figure In The Mirage - 1905 On a windy night of Spring I sat by a great fire that had been built by Moors on a plain of Morocco under the shadow of a white city, and talked with a fellow-countryman, stranger to...
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Halima And The ScorpionsHalima And The Scorpions - 1905 In travelling about the world one collects a number of those trifles of all sorts, usually named curiosities, many of them worthless if it were not for the memories they recall. The other day I was clearing out...
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The Princess And The Jewel DoctorThe Princess And The Jewel Doctor - 1905 In St. Petersburg society there may be met at the present time a certain Russian Princess, who is noted for her beauty, for an ugly defectshe has lost the forefinger of her left handand for her...
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The SpinsterThe Spinster - 1905 I had arrived at Inley Abbey that afternoon, and was sitting at dinner with Inley and his pretty wife, whom I had not seen for five years, since the day I was his best man, when we all heard faintly...
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Smaïn; and Safti's Summer DaySmaïn; and Safti's Summer Day - 1905 Far away in the desert I heard the sound of a flute, pure sound in the pure air, delicate, sometimes almost comic with the comicality of a child who bends women to kisses and to nonsense-words. We...
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Look! We Have Come Through!Look! We Have Come Through! Some of these poems have appeared in the "English Review" and in "Poetry," also in the "Georgian Anthology" and the "Imagist Anthology" THESE poems should not be considered separately, as so many single pieces. They are intended as an...
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The True Life of Betty IrelandThe True Life of Betty Ireland - With Her Birth, Education, and Adventures. Together with Some Account of Her Elder Sister Blanch of Britain. Containing Sundry Very Curious ParticularsIt is agreed on all Hands, that Betty Ireland was a younger Daughter by a second...
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The Hours of FiammettaThe Hours of Fiammetta - A Sonnet SequenceThere are two great traditions of womanhood. One presents the Madonna brooding over the mystery of motherhood; the other, more confusedly, tells of the acolyte, the priestess, the clairvoyante of the unknown gods. This latter exists complete...
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The Lively Poll: A Tale of the North SeaThe Lively Poll: A Tale of the North SeaWith rough pilot coat and sou-wester, scarred and tarred hands, easy, rolling gait, and boots from heel to hip, with inch-thick soles, like those of a dramatic buccaneer, he bore as little resemblance to the popular...
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Sisar RosaSisar Rosa"Hyvin kiitollinen, kunnioitettava vanha ystvni, niin hauskasta ja odottamattomasta vastauksesta minun kysymykseeni. Siihen katsoen ett min olen herra Danville'n palvelija, hnen, joka nyttelee tuota trket sulhasen osaa siin pikku hkomediassa, jota tarkoitatte, luulen voivani vakuuttaa teille, ilman loukkaamatta, ett uutisenne on, mikli se...
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Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the PriestLavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the PriestLavengro made its first appearance more than one and twenty years ago. It was treated in anything but a courteous manner. Indeed, abuse ran riot, and many said that the book was killed. If by killed was meant...
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The White Rose of LangleyThe White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden TimeThe woman addressed languidly roused herself from the half-sheltered nook of the forest in which she and her child had taken refuge. She was leaning with her back supported by a giant oak,...
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Feats on the FiordFeats on the Fiord - The third book in "The Playfellow"Every one who has looked at the map of Norway must have been struck with the singular character of its coast. On the map it looks so jagged, such a strange mixture of land...
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The Peasant and the PrinceThe Peasant and the PrinceOne fine afternoon in April, 1770, there was a good deal of bustle in the neighbourhood of the village of Saint Menehould, in the province of Champagne, in France. The bride of the Dauphin of France,the lady who was to...
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