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Love and Mr. LewishamLove and Mr. Lewisham The opening chapter does not concern itself with Loveindeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the thirdand Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the...
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The Reflections of Ambrosine: A NovelThe Reflections of Ambrosine: A NovelIn thanking the readers who were kind enough to appreciate my "Visits of Elizabeth," I take this opportunity of saying that I did not write the two other books which appeared anonymously. The titles of those works were so...
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MadcapMadcapTitine glanced at the parted curtains and empty bed, then at the clock, and yawned. It was not yet eight o'clock. From the look of things, she was sure that Miss Challoner had arisen and departed for a morning ride before the breaking of...
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Fort comme la mortFort comme la mortLe jour tombait dans le vaste atelier par la baie ouverte du plafond. C'tait un grand carr de lumire clatante et bleue, un trou clair sur un infini lointain d'azur, o passaient, rapides, des vols d'oiseaux. Mais peine entre dans la...
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Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three EpisodesSacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes The Novelist For Whom Man And Nature Are Inseparable With Profound Respect For The Classical Dignity Of His Aim And Equal Admiration For The Austere Splendour Of His Performance How I have wept, the long...
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The Happiest Time of Their LivesThe Happiest Time of Their Lives" and then he added in a less satisfied tone: "But friendship is so uncertain. You don't make any announcement to your friends or vows to each other, unless you're at an age when you cut your initials in...
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No HeroNo Hero Has no writer ever dealt with the dramatic aspect of the unopened envelope? I cannot recall such a passage in any of my authors, and yet to my mind there is much matter for philosophy in what is always the expressionless shell...
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A Man of MarkA Man of Mark In the year 1884 the Republic of Aureataland was certainly not in a flourishing condition. Although most happily situated (it lies on the coast of South America, rather to the northI mustnt be more definite), and gifted with an extensive...
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The Port of AdventureThe Port of AdventureOn a great ship a woman sailed away from the Old World, wishing to forget. In her mind was the thought of a far-off place toward which she was travelling. There were no figures in this mental picture. She painted it...
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The Claim Jumpers: A RomanceThe Claim Jumpers: A RomanceIn a fifth-story sitting room of a New York boarding house four youths were holding a discussion. The sitting room was large and square, and in the wildest disorder, which was, however, sublimated into a certain system by an illuminated...
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LudvigsbakkeLudvigsbakke[Det havde oprindelig vret Herman Bangs Hensigt at tilegne Ludvigsbakke til de Sygeplejersker, der havde vret gode og krlige imod ham under et srgeligt og pinagtigt Hospitalsophold. Men saa dde netop hans trofaste Ven, Redaktr Emil Bjerring, og han tilegnede Bogen hans Minde. Men...
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Only an IncidentOnly an Incident 1883 Joppa was the very centre of all things. That was the opening clause in the creed of every well-educated and right-thinking Joppite. Geographically, however, it was not the centre of any thing, being considerably off from the great lines of...
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Hilda LesswaysHilda LesswaysThe Lessways household, consisting of Hilda and her widowed mother, was temporarily without a servant. Hilda hated domestic work, and because she hated it she often did it passionately and thoroughly. That afternoon, as she emerged from the kitchen, her dark, defiant face...
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The WestcotesThe Westcotes 1. Words which may seem to be transcriber's typos, or otherwise suspect, but which are reproduced faithfully (archaic spellings, printer's typossometimes I couldn't tell): Ch. I: befel, undigged Ch. III: chaperon Ch. IV: babby, mun, valtz Ch. V: zounded, dimpsey, after'n, ax'n,...
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Mercy Philbrick's ChoiceMercy Philbrick's ChoiceTo one who found us on a starless night, All helpless, groping in a dangerous way, Where countless treacherous hidden pitfalls lay, And, seeing all our peril, flashed a light To show to our bewildered, blinded sight, By one swift, clear, and...
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The Powers and MaxineThe Powers and MaxineHe had asked me to sit out two dances, and that made me think he really must want to be with me, not just because I'm the "pretty girl's sister," but because I'm myself, Lisa Drummond. I don't know if Ivor...
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Gunman's ReckoningGunman's ReckoningThe fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there...
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TenterhooksTenterhooksBecause Edith had not been feeling very well, that seemed no reason why she should be the centre of interest; and Bruce, with that jealousy of the privileges of the invalid and in that curious spirit of rivalry which his wife had so often...
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Bertha GarlanBertha GarlanShe was walking slowly down the hill; not by the broad high road which wound its way towards the town, but by the narrow footpath between the trellises of the vines. Her little boy was with her, hanging on to her hand and...
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The Torrents of SpringThe Torrents of Spring At two oclock in the night he had gone back to his study. He had dismissed the servant after the candles were lighted, and throwing himself into a low chair by the hearth, he hid his face in both hands....
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