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The Beautiful White DevilThe Beautiful White Devil"Mr. Boothby never allows the interest of their doings to drop from first page to last: and he tells his tale in a pleasant, brisk fashion that carries the reader along, and is as convincing a vehicle as could be chosen...
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Sentiment, IncSentiment, Inc.The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a "change of heart" comes about sheerly from a change in...
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A Crooked MileA Crooked MileLady Tasker had missed her way in the Tube. She had been on, or rather under known ground on the Piccadilly Railway as far as Leicester Square, but after that she had not heard, or else had forgotten, that in order to...
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The BeautyThe BeautyIf the proper statistics of bachelorhood were accurately tabulated they would show that at certain fixed and recurring periods, a confirmed old bachelor, say one in every ten, casts his dearly-bought experience, his hard-won knowledge of the world and women to the four...
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The BuildersThe BuildersTHE train was late that day, and when the old leather mail pouch was brought in, dripping wet, by Jonas, the negro driver, Mrs. Meade put down the muffler she was knitting, and received it reluctantly. While she unbuckled the clammy straps, her...
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Object: matrimonyObject: matrimony"Why don't you do this?" Mr. Feldman suggested. "Why don't you go to the second mortgagee and tell him you'll convey the houses to him in satisfaction of the mortgage? Those houses will never bring even the amount of the first mortgage in...
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Reigen: Zehn DialogeReigen: Zehn DialogeSchreibweise und Interpunktion des Originaltextes wurden bernommen; lediglich offensichtliche Druckfehler wurden korrigiert. nderungen sind im Text so gekennzeichnet. Der Originaltext erscheint beim berfahren mit der Maus. Eine Liste der vorgenommenen nderungen findet sich am Ende des Textes. Ein Weg, der vom Wurstelprater...
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The BigamistThe BigamistIn the handsome room, softly lighted with shaded electric lamps, a man sat in a low chair, his legs stretched out compass-wise, his brow resting on his hand. He had the appearance of being asleep, save that every now and again the fingers...
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Jane OglanderJane OglanderIt was a little after four o'clockon the bridge perhaps the quietest time of the working daybut a ceaseless stream of human beings ebbed to and fro. She herself came from the Surrey side of the river, and now and again she stayed...
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The TigressThe TigressHe was slow to reassure her, and she was impatient. "Because," she explained, "I never know just what to say or do when they weep. I'm never at a loss at other times; but" "It isn't unusual," she explained. "Sometimes they storm. I've...
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The Adventures of a Widow: A NovelThe Adventures of a Widow: A NovelIt is not long ago that the last conservative resident of Bond Street, proud of his ancient possessorship and no doubt loving the big brick structure with arched doorway and dormer windows in which he first saw the...
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Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five ActsAriadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five ActsLike almost everything else written by Vernon Lee there is to be found that insistent little touch which is her sign-manual when dealing with Italy or its makers of forgotten melodies. In other words, the music of...
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Judith Trachtenberg: A NovelJudith Trachtenberg: A NovelAbout sixty years ago, during the reign of the Emperor Francis the First, there lived in a small town in Eastern Galicia an excellent man, who had been greatly favored by fortune. His name was Nathaniel Trachtenberg; his occupation was that...
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A Son of the SaharaA Son of the Sahara A beach of white sand, the whisper of palms answering the murmuring moonlit sea, the fragrance of orange blossoms, the perfume of roses and syringa,that is Grand Canary, a bit of Heaven dropped into the Atlantic; overlooked by writers...
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Schach von WuthenowSchach von Wuthenow - Erzählung aus der Zeit des Regiments GensdarmesSchreibweise und Interpunktion des Originaltextes wurden bernommen; lediglich offensichtliche Druckfehler wurden korrigiert. nderungen sind im Text so gekennzeichnet. Der Originaltext erscheint beim berfahren mit der Maus. Eine Liste der vorgenommenen nderungen findet sich am...
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The Sea BrideThe Sea BrideThey were to be married before the open fire, in the big living-room of the old house on the hill. Upstairs, Bess Holt was helping Faith dress. Faith sat before the old, veneered dressing table with its little mirror tilting on the...
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The BruteThe BruteEvery evening, almost, Donald Rogers and his wife Edith sat in a plain little living-room in their apartment in Harlem, and worked until ten or eleven oclock. By that time they were both ready to go to bed. It was not very exciting....
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Monsieur VénusMonsieur VénusNous donnons nos lecteurs une rdition dfinitive de Monsieur Vnus, ce roman singulier qui a tant piqu la curiosit, propos duquel ont t faites les suppositions les plus tranges et que beaucoup de personnes croient condamn par les tribunaux de la Belgique. Mlle...
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A Man's HearthA Man's HearthThe man who had taken shelter in the stone pavilion hesitated before taking a place on the curved bench before him. He had the air of awaiting some sign of welcome or dismissal from the seat's occupant; receiving none, he sat down...
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The SalamanderThe SalamanderPrecarious the lot of the author who elects to show his public what it does not know, but doubly exposed he who in the indiscreet exploration of customs and manners publishes what the public knows but is unwilling to confess! In the first...
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