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NeroNeroSENECA . . . . . . . . . . . . ) ) BURRUS . . . . . . . . . . . . ) ) Ministers of State. TIGELLINUS . . . . . . . . . ....
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"Unto Caesar""Unto Caesar"Arminius Quirinius, the censor, was dead. He had died by his own hand, and thus was a life of extortion and of fraud brought to an ignominious end through the force of public opinion, and by the decree of that same Csar who...
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The Pirate's Pocket BookThe Pirate's Pocket BookHe was so celebrated that the newspapersof that timealways said nice things about him, and always knew what he was doing before he did himself. As he was a very truthful man, he did the things, so that the editors might...
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The Opal SerpentThe Opal SerpentSimon Beecot was a country gentleman with a small income, a small estate and a mind considerably smaller than either. He dwelt at Wargrove in Essex and spent his idle hoursof which he possessed a daily and nightly twenty-fourin snarling at his...
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Jack O' JudgmentJack O' JudgmentThey picked up the young man called "Snow" Gregory from a Lambeth gutter, and he was dead before the policeman on point duty in Waterloo Road, who had heard the shots, came upon the scene. When they got him to the mortuary...
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The World Peril of 1910The World Peril of 1910In Clifden, the chief coast town of Connemara, there is a house at the end of a triangle which the two streets of the town form, the front windows of which look straight down the beautiful harbour and bay, whose...
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The Rivals: A ComedyThe Rivals: A ComedyA preface to a play seems generally to be considered as a kind of closet-prologue, in whichif his piece has been successfulthe author solicits that indulgence from the reader which he had before experienced from the audience: but as the scope...
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The Valley of the KingsThe Valley of the Kings The mother of Iskender held the doorway of her little house in a posture of spitting defiance. Rancour, deep-rooted and boundless, ranged in her guttural snarl. Her black eyes burned to kill, their thick brows quite united by the...
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Mary, MaryMary, MaryIf any of James Stephens' books might be thought to have need of an Introduction it would be the delightful story that is called "Mary, Mary" on one side of the Atlantic Ocean and "The Charwoman's Daughter" on the other. It was written...
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Alroy: RomaniAlroy: RomaniKun oleskelin Jerusalemissa vuonna 1831 ja kvin Israelin kuninkaitten tarun-omaisissa hautakammioissa, ajatukseni palasivat ersen henkiln, jonka ihmeellinen elmn-juoksu oli jo nuoruudessani kiinnittnyt huomiotani, koska se oli tynn mit runsaimpia aiheita runolliseen teokseen. Silloin min aloitin tt kertomusta, jonka oli mr silytt Alroy'n muistoa....
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The God of LoveThe God of LoveThis is the book of Lappo Lappi, called by his friends the careless, the happy-go-lucky, the devil-may-take-it, the God-knows-what. Called by his enemies drinker, swinker, tumbler, tinker, swiver. Called by many women that liked him pretty fellow, witty fellow, light fellow,...
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"Old Mary""Old Mary" - 1901 Early one morning, just as the trade wind began to lift the white mountain mist which enveloped the dark valleys and mountain slopes of the island, Denison, the supercargo of the trading schooner Palestine, put off from her side and...
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"Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging in the Pacific"Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging in the Pacific - 1901 I had ridden all day through an endless vista ot ghostly grey gums and ironbarks, when I came in sight of the long wavering line of vivid green foliage which showed me that I...
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"Martin of Nitendi"; and The River of Dreams"Martin of Nitendi"; and The River of Dreams - 1901 Half-way up the side of the mountain which overlooked the waters of the little land-locked harbour there was a space clear of timber. Huge, jagged rocks, whose surfaces were covered with creepers and grey...
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The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream of AustraliaThe Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream of Australia - 1901 A writer in the Sydney Evening News last year gave that journal some amusing extracts from the visitors' book at Longwood, St. Helena. If the extracts are authentic copies...
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A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British NavyA Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British NavyI had just dismounted before the rather imposing main entrance to Delamere Hall, situate close to the west Dorset coast, and had handed over my horse to Tom Biddlecome, the groom who had...
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Through Veld and Forest: An African StoryThrough Veld and Forest: An African StoryThe blazing midsummer sun of South Africa had sunk to within a hands breadth of the ridge of the southern spur of the Tandjes Berg, softly outlined in blue some forty miles distant on the western horizon, when...
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The Lowest RungThe Lowest Rung - Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The UnderstudyI have been writing books for five-and-twenty years, novels of which I believe myself to be the author, in spite of the fact that I have been assured...
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Loss and Gain: The Story of a ConvertLoss and Gain: The Story of a ConvertMy dear Dr. Russell,Now that at length I take the step of printing my name in the Title-Page of this Volume, I trust I shall not be encroaching on the kindness you have so long shown to...
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The Path to HonourThe Path to Honour * * * * * * * * * * * * The time was towards the close of the 'forties of the nineteenth century, and the place the city of Ranjitgarh, capital of the great native state of Granthistan,...
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