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Sweet Mace: A Sussex Legend of the Iron TimesSweet Mace: A Sussex Legend of the Iron TimesToo soon for sweet macea bunch for sweet Mace, said Gil Carr as he bent down amongst the sedges to pick the bright blue scorpion grass, its delicate flowers relieved with yellow, so she must have...
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The Rosery FolkThe Rosery FolkSpeak gently! how can a man speak gently? The things are of no value, but it worries me, Ive taken such pains with them, through the cold weather, to bring them on. Thank you kindly, my lady, said John Monnick, the old...
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The Prime MinisterThe Prime MinisterHaving resolved to employ myself, during a prolonged residence in Portugal, in writing some work of fiction on that country, it struck me that the Times of the Marquis of Pombal would afford a good subject, untouched, as it is, by any...
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The Admirable Lady Biddy FaneThe Admirable Lady Biddy Fane - Her Surprising Curious Adventures In Strange Parts & Happy Deliverance From Pirates, Battle, Captivity, & Other Terrors; Together With Divers Romantic & Moving Accidents As Set Forth By Benet Pengilly (Her Companion In Misfortune & Joy), & Now...
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Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master DetectiveChristopher Quarles: College Professor and Master DetectiveThe houses, though maintaining some uniformity, possessed individuality, and in the season were gay with window-boxes and flowers; the garden in the center was not too stereotyped in its arrangement, and plenty of sunlight found its way into...
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Adventures and EnthusiasmsAdventures and Enthusiasms PAGE The Perfect Guest 13 The Sparrows' Friend 17 The Golden Eagle 20 A Morning Call 26 The True Wizard of the North 30 Innocence and Impulse 42 Possessions 45 Drake and His Game 49 Admirals AllTo be 56 A Study...
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ΜάκβεθΜάκβεθNote: The tonic system has been changed from polytonic to monotonic, otherwise the spelling of the book has not been changed. Bold words are included in &. Two footnotes in the Notes section have been converted to endnotes. The book I have in my...
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Alas! A NovelAlas! A Novel PART I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER...
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Johnstone of the BorderJohnstone of the BorderSable Lake shone like a mirror among the ragged pines, as it ran back between the rocks, smooth as oil except where a puff of wind streaked its flashing surface with faint blue wrinkles. Behind it the lonely woods rolled on,...
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For the Allinson HonorFor the Allinson HonorIt was a hot autumn afternoon. Mrs. Olcott, a young and attractive woman, reclined in a canvas chair beside a tea-table on the lawn in front of the cottage she had lately taken in the country. Her thin white dress displayed...
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The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert ImlayThe Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay Of Mary Wollstonecrafts ancestors little is known, except that they were of Irish descent. Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, was the son of a prosperous Spitalfields manufacturer of Irish birth, from whom he inherited the...
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The Beautiful Miss BrookeThe Beautiful Miss BrookeThe opening bars of a waltz sounded through the house above the irregular murmur of conversation, bearing their promise and summons along festal corridors and into garlanded nooks and alcoves. Paul Middleton drew a breath of relief as the girl to...
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Mrs. FitzMrs. Fitz Joseph Jocelyn De Vere Vane-Anstruther was in rather smart kit. It was December the First, and the houndsthere is only one pack in the United Kingdomwere about to pay an annual visit to the country of a neighbour. With conscious magnificence my...
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Ephemera Critica Or, Plain Truths About Current LiteratureEphemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current LiteratureIt is time for some one to speak out. When we compare the condition and prospects of Science in all its branches, its organization, its standards, its aims, its representatives with those of Literature, how deplorable and...
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VeraVeraWhen the doctor had gone, and the two women from the village he had been waiting for were upstairs shut in with her dead father, Lucy went out into the garden and stood leaning on the gate staring at the sea. Her father had...
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Ivanhoe (3/4)Ivanhoe (3/4) - Le retour du croiséToujours de son dpart il faisait les apprts, Prenait cong sans cesse, et ne partait jamais. (Trad. de Prior.) Pendant que les scnes que nous venons de dcrire se passaient dans divers points du chteau, la juive Rbecca...
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Ivanhoe (2/4)Ivanhoe (2/4) - Le retour du croiséToujours de son dpart il faisait les apprts, Prenait cong sans cesse, et ne partait jamais. (Trad. de Prior.) Notre gardien de pourceaux n'tait pas la fin de ses aventures nocturnes, et il commenait en effet s'en douter,...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.PThe Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P.In this collection of the Author's Poems will be found some not before printed, and some entirely re-written from the more imperfect productions of earlier years. Few, if any, that have previously appeared, have escaped...
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A Mysterious DisappearanceA Mysterious DisappearanceAlice, Lady Dyke, puckered her handsome forehead into a thoughtful frown as she drew aside the window-curtains of her boudoir and tried to look out into the opaque blackness of a November fog in London. Behind her was cheerfulnessin front uncertainty. Electric...
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Vanitas: Polite StoriesVanitas: Polite StoriesWe had a conversation once, walking on your terrace, with the wind-rippled olives above and the quietly nodding cypress tufts belowabout such writings as you chose to compare with carved cherry-stones. We disagreed, for it seemed to me that the world needed...
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