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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 03The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 03He was still sleeping; so the curate asked the niece for the keys of the room where the books, the authors of all the mischief, were, and right willingly she gave them. They all went in,...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01 Idle reader: thou mayest believe me without any oath that I would this book, as it is the child of my brain, were the fairest, gayest, and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could...
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JessJess The day had been very hot even for the Transvaal, where the days still know how to be hot in the autumn, although the neck of the summer is brokenespecially when the thunderstorms hold off for a week or two, as they do...
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Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight ExpressDyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express Nell was a pretty girl of twenty, with midnight hair and eyes, almost in direct contrast with her brother, the famous detective, whose deeds of cunning and daring were the theme of...
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Her Weight in GoldHer Weight in Gold Nearly all of the stories presented in this volume appeared separately in various magazines. The author desires to acknowledge his thanks to the publications for courtesies extended by their editors: The National Magazine, Short Stories, the Saturday Evening Post, The...
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Castle RichmondCastle RichmondThe value of the story is rather documentary than literary. It contains several graphic scenes descriptive of the great Irish famine. Trollope observed carefully, and on the whole impartially, though his powers of discrimination were not quite fine enough to make him an...
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The Honor of the Big SnowsThe Honor of the Big SnowsThe words came in a gentle whisper from the woman's lips. One white, thin hand lifted itself weakly to the rough face of the man who was kneeling beside her bed, and the great dark eyes from which he...
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FarewellFarewell Come, Deputy of the Centre, come along! We shall have to mend our pace if we mean to sit down to dinner when every one else does, and thats a fact! Hurry up! Jump, Marquis! Thats it! Well done! You are bounding over...
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Cashel Byron's ProfessionCashel Byron's Profession Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon. One wet spring afternoon the sky was full of broken clouds, and the common was swept by...
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Green FancyGreen Fancy A solitary figure trudged along the narrow road that wound its serpentinous way through the dismal, forbidding depths of the forest: a man who, though weary and footsore, lagged not in his swift, resolute advance. Night was coming on, and with it...
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Michael's CragMichael's Crag Then you dont care for the place yourself, Tyrrel? Eustace Le Neve said, musingly, as he gazed in front of him with a comprehensive glance at the long gray moor and the wide expanse of black and stormy water. Its bleak, of...
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YollopYollop In the first place, Mr. Yollop knew nothing about firearms. And so, after he had overpowered the burglar and relieved him of a fully loaded thirty-eight, he was singularly unimpressed by the following tribute from the bewildered and somewhat exasperated captive: "Say, ain't...
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The FlyersThe Flyers A cold, thick drizzle, blown by a biting wind that sent chills to the marrow, marred the early spring night, and kept indoors the few hardy members who had haunted the clubhouse since the season's opening a week before. Not more than...
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The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"The Baroness Volterra drove to the Palazzo Conti in the heart of Rome at nine o'clock in the morning, to be sure of finding Donna Clementina at home. She had tried twice to telephone, on...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 7Sketches New and Old, Part 7.I had never seen him before. He brought letters of introduction from mutual friends in San Francisco, and by invitation I breakfasted with him. It was almost religion, there in the silver-mines, to precede such a meal with whisky...
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The Young Step-Mother Or, A Chronicle of MistakesThe Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes Have you talked it over with her? said Mr. Ferrars, as his little slender wife met him under the beeches that made an avenue of the lane leading to Fairmead vicarage. I cannot say I expected...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 5Sketches New and Old, Part 5.I do not wish to write of the personal habits of these strange creatures solely, but also of certain curious details of various kinds concerning them, which, belonging only to their private life, have never crept into print. Knowing...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 6Sketches New and Old, Part 6."Now that corpse," said the undertaker, patting the folded hands of deceased approvingly, was a brick-every way you took him he was a brick. He was so real accommodating, and so modest-like and simple in his last moments. Friends...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 4Sketches New and Old, Part 4.This party was one of those persons whom they call Philosophers. He was twins, being born simultaneously in two different houses in the city of Boston. These houses remain unto this day, and have signs upon them worded in...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 3Sketches New and Old, Part 3.What a commentary is this upon human justice! What sad prominence it gives to our human disposition to tyrannize over the weak! San Francisco has little right to take credit to herself for her treatment of this poor boy....
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