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Sally Bishop: A RomanceSally Bishop: A RomanceAmongst the many things which I anticipate in the reception of this book, is the shrug-shoulder smile of critics at my sub-titlea Romance. There are canons and rubrics to be observed, it would seem, in the slightest action that a man...
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An Eye for an EyeAn Eye for an EyeAt a private asylum in the west of England there lives, and has lived for some years past, an unfortunate lady, as to whom there has long since ceased to be any hope that she should ever live elsewhere. Indeed,...
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The ClarionThe Clarion Between two flames the man stood, overlooking the crowd. A soft breeze, playing about the torches, sent shadows billowing across the massed folk on the ground. Shrewdly set with an eye to theatrical effect, these phares of a night threw out from...
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Lucrezia FlorianiLucrezia FlorianiJe n'ai point dire ici sous l'empire de quelles ides littraires j'ai crit ce roman, puisqu'il est accompagn d'une prface qui rsume mes opinions d'alors, et que ces opinions n'ont pas chang. Mais je tiens bien dire ce que j'ai seulement indiqu dans...
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Miss McDonaldMiss McDonaldI have been out among my flowers all the morning, digging, weeding, and transplanting, and then stopping a little to rest. Such perfect successes as my roses are this year, while my white lilies are the wonder of the town, and yet my...
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A Man's WomanA Man's WomanThe following novel was completed March 22, 1899, and sent to the printer in October of the same year. After the plates had been made notice was received that a play called "A Man's Woman" had been written by Anne Crawford Flexner,...
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AngelinaAngelina - (novela mexicana)Con este libro obtuvo el gran novelista mexicano el ms sonado xito; con l hemos querido propagar en Amrica su nombre[*]. En sus armoniosas pginas reconocemos un acento nuestro. All revive y se prolonga la musical historia de Mara. No s...
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The Rejuvenation of Aunt MaryThe Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary The first time that Jack was threatened with expulsion from college his Aunt Mary was much surprised and decidedly vexedmainly at the college. His family were less surprised, viewing the young man through a clearer atmosphere than his Aunt...
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The Firing LineThe Firing LineYoung Hamil, resting on his oars, gazed absently into the creeping mist. Under it the ocean sparkled with subdued brilliancy; through it, shoreward, green palms and palmettos turned silvery; and, as the fog spread, the sea-pier, the vast white hotel, bathing-house, cottage,...
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The Pilot and His WifeThe Pilot and His WifeOn the stern, pine-clad southern coast of Norway, off the picturesquely-situated town of Arendal, stand planted far out into the sea the white walls of the Great and Little Torungen Lighthouses, each on its bare rock-island of corresponding name, the...
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Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great ExperimentParadise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great ExperimentIt might be better if Jerry Benham wrote his own memoir, for no matter how veracious, this history must be more or less colored by the point of view of one irrevocably committed to an ideal,...
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A Doll's HouseA Doll's House (SCENE.A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to the left leads to Helmer's study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of the left-hand...
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The Real AdventureThe Real Adventure"Indeed," continued the professor, glancing demurely down at his notes, "if one were the editor of a column ofer advice to young girls, such as I believe is to be found, along with the household hints and the dress patterns, on the...
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The Notorious Mrs. EbbsmithThe Notorious Mrs. EbbsmithThe Scene is a room in the Palazzo Arconati, on the Grand Canal, Venice. The room itself is beautiful in its decayed grandeur, but the furnishings and hangings are either tawdry and meretricious or avowedly modern. The three windows at the...
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Le voleurLe voleurCette dclaration faite, on pourra supposer premire vue, la lecture du titre, que le manuscrit m'en a t remis en dpt par un ministre dchu, confi son lit de mort par un notaire infidle, ou lgu par un caissier prvaricateur. Mais ces hypothses...
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Salomy JaneSalomy JaneOnly one shot had been fired. It had gone wide of its mark,the ringleader of the Vigilantes,and had left Red Pete, who had fired it, covered by their rifles and at their mercy. For his hand had been cramped by hard riding, and...
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The Honorable PercivalThe Honorable Percival The Honorable Percival Hascombe came aboard the Pacific liner about to sail from San Francisco, preceded by a fur coat, a gun-case, two pigskin bags, a hat-box, and a valet. He was tall and slender, and moved with an air of...
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NocturneNocturne But do I see afore me, him as I ever sported with in his times of happy infancy? And may Imay I? This May I, meant might he shake hands? DICKENS, Great Expectations. I do not know why I should be so overpoweringly...
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The Brimming CupThe Brimming CupLounging idly in the deserted little waiting-room was the usual shabby, bored, lonely ticket-seller, prodigiously indifferent to the grave beauty of the scene before him and to the throng of ancient memories jostling him where he stood. Without troubling to look at...
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The Tinder-BoxThe Tinder-BoxAll love is a gas, and it takes either loneliness, strength of character, or religion to liquefy it into a condition to be ladled out of us, one to another. There is a certain dangerously volatile state of it; and occasionally people, especially...
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