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The HillmanThe HillmanLouise, self-engrossed, and with a pleasant sense of detachment from the prospective inconveniences of the moment, was leaning back among the cushions of the motionless car. Her eyes, lifted upward, traveled past the dimly lit hillside, with its patchwork of wall-enclosed fields, up...
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Deep Moat GrangeDeep Moat Grange I was only a young fellow when these things began to happen among us, but I remember very well the morning when it first came out about the Bewick carrier. He was postman, too, but had got permission to keep a...
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Rachel RayRachel RayThere are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary;who, in their growth, will bend and incline themselves towards some such prop for their life, creeping with their...
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The Spy in BlackThe Spy in Black If any one had been watching the bay that August night (which, fortunately for us, there was not), they would have seen up till an hour after midnight as lonely and peaceful a scene as if it had been some...
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The Bondman: A New SagaThe Bondman: A New SagaObvious punctuation errors have been corrected without comment. Word errors have been corrected and a list of corrections can be found after the book. A table of contents has been added below to ease navigation. The central date of this...
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Where the Path BreaksWhere the Path BreaksIn dim twilight a spark of life glittered, glinted like a bit of mica catching the sun, on a vast face of gray cliff above a dead gray sea. There was nothing else in the world but the vastness and the...
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To Win the Love He SoughtTo Win the Love He Sought - The Great Awakening: Volume 3 CHAPTER I. The Meeting CHAPTER II. "She Is a Singer" CHAPTER III. "Better Thou Wert Dead Before Me" CHAPTER IV. "Down Into Hell To Win the Love He Sought" CHAPTER V. Treachery...
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Love Works Wonders: A NovelLove Works Wonders: A NovelIt was a strange place for an intelligence office, yet Madame Selini evidently knew what she was doing when she established her office in an aristocratic neighborhood, and actually next door to the family mansion of the Countess Dowager of...
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Miscellaneous Aphorisms The Soul of ManMiscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of ManBeauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. In old days nobody pretended to...
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Miss Million's Maid: A Romance of Love and FortuneMiss Million's Maid: A Romance of Love and FortuneNow all those eighty-five neat gardens up and down the leafy road are one exactly like the other, with the same green strip of lawn just not big enough for tennis, the same side borders gay...
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The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. IThe Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. IIn committing the following sheets to the press, I have acted in compliance with the partial wishes of a few friends. I am aware that my story has many imperfections; but it being a first essay, and having been written...
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Witching HillWitching Hill CHAPTER I. UNHALLOWED GROUND CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE WITH RED BLINDS CHAPTER III. A VICIOUS CIRCLE CHAPTER IV. THE LOCAL COLOUR CHAPTER V. THE ANGEL OF LIFE CHAPTER VI. UNDER ARMS CHAPTER VII. THE LOCKED ROOM CHAPTER VIII. THE TEMPLE OF BACCHUS...
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The Man Who Rose AgainThe Man Who Rose AgainThe central idea of this story is based upon an incident in real life, related to me by C. Hagberg Wright, Esq., LL.D., of the London Library, to whom I wish to express my grateful acknowledgment and sincere thanks. CHAPTER...
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Αντώνιος και ΚλεοπάτραΑντώνιος και Κλεοπάτρα - Τραγωδία εις πράξεις 5Note: The tonic system has been changed from polytonic to monotonic, otherwise the spelling of the book has not been changed. Bold words are indicated by &. Words in italics are included in _. Footnotes have been...
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The Cabinet Minister: A farce in four actsThe Cabinet Minister: A farce in four actsIt is well known that Mr. Pinero holds decided views of his own as to the nature and function of farce; indeed, he claims for it a wider scope and a more comprehensive purpose than have ever...
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The Unknown SeaThe Unknown SeaA solitary fisher ploughed the lively blue of a southern sea. Strength of limb, fair hair, and clear grey eyes told of a northern race, though his skin had been tanned to a red-brown, dark as the tint of the slender, dark-eyed,...
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Beatrice Boville and Other StoriesBeatrice Boville and Other StoriesThat, according to Mr. Tennyson's lately-published opinion, is the devoir of that deeply-to-be-pitied individual, l'homme mari. Possibly in the times of which the Idyls treat, Launcelot and Gunevere might have been the sole, exceptional mauvais sujets in the land, and...
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The Wonderful VisitThe Wonderful VisitOn the Night of the Strange Bird, many people at Sidderton (and some nearer) saw a Glare on the Sidderford moor. But no one in Sidderford saw it, for most of Sidderford was abed. All day the wind had been rising, so...
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Beggars on HorsebackBeggars on HorsebackArchie Lethbridge arrived in Provence thoroughly satisfied with life. He had just sold a big picture; was contemplating, with every prospect of success, giving a "one-man-show" in London of the work he would do in Provence; and the girl he loved had...
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One-Act Plays by Modern AuthorsOne-Act Plays by Modern AuthorsThe one-act play is a new form of the drama and more emphatically a new form of literature. Its possibilities began to attract the attention of European and American writers in the last decade of the nineteenth century, those years...
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