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Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and OthersWalking Shadows: Sea Tales and OthersThe position of a light-house keeper, in a sea infested by submarines, is a peculiar one; but Peter Ramsay, keeper of the Hatchets' Light, had reasons for feeling that his lonely tower, six miles from the mainland, was the...
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Die schwarzen Brüder: Eine abentheuerliche Geschichte. 3/3Die schwarzen Brüder: Eine abentheuerliche Geschichte. 3/3 Man las weiland so gern die wundervollen Mrchen des Orients, und konnte sich nicht mde hren an den Plaudereien der schwatzhaften Scheherazade. Aladins magische Lampe und seine ebentheuerliche Bewerbung um die schne Prinzessin Badrulbudur entzckten mich, als...
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HathercourtHathercourtHathercourt Church is not beautiful, though the internal evidence in favour of its having at one time been so is considerable. It has suffered sorely at the hands of plasterers and white-washers; yet the utmost efforts of these misguided people have not altogether succeeded...
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Die schwarzen Brüder: Eine abentheuerliche Geschichte. 2/3Die schwarzen Brüder: Eine abentheuerliche Geschichte. 2/3 Sagt ichs nicht gleich voraus, da man mich misverstehen wrde? Da deutelt der eine ber den Zwek meines Bchleins hierhin, der andre dahin, und keiner hat mich recht verstanden und verstehen wollen. Was in diesen Blttern mit...
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Die schwarzen Brüder: Eine abentheuerliche Geschichte. 1/3Die schwarzen Brüder: Eine abentheuerliche Geschichte. 1/3 Und fragen Sie tausendmal warum ich nichts bessers, nichts allgemeinnzzigeres, als einen Roman geschrieben habe, so bekommen Sie doch immer eine und eben dieselbe Antwort, da ich nmlich just einen Roman schreiben wollte, er mgte so abentheuerlich...
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Hugh Crichton's RomanceHugh Crichton's RomanceThe sunshine of a summer evening was bathing Civita Bella with an intensity of beauty rare even in that fair Italian town. When the shadows are sharp, and the lights clear, and the sky a serene and perfect blue, even fustian and...
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Jeri: Erään koiran seikkailuja EtelämerelläJeri: Erään koiran seikkailuja EtelämerelläMonen romaaninkirjoittajan onnettomuudeksi runous ja eptosi yleisesti merkitsevt ihmisille samaa. Useita vuosia sitten julkaisin ern kertomuksen Etelmerelt. Salomonin saaret olivat tapahtumapaikkana. Arvostelijat ja kirjallisuuskatsausten kirjoittajat kiittivt kertomusta sangen kunnioitettavaksi mielikuvituksen tuotteeksi. Mutta todellisuutta, he sanoivat, siin ei ollut siteiksikn. Tiesihn...
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Unawares: A Story of an Old French TownUnawares: A Story of an Old French TownYes, indeed. What is the good of knowing if you keep it to yourself? cried a younger woman, impatiently, placing, as she spoke, her basket of herbs and vegetables upon the broad stone edge of the fountain...
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Two StudiosTwo StudiosArt, in London, has many unexpected hiding-places. In the great palace-like houses of her successful followers she makes, it is true, at times an imposing show; but other votaries, less successful or more indifferent to outward glitter, find curious homes in which to...
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Kingsworth or, The Aim of a LifeKingsworth; or, The Aim of a LifeKingsworth was a moderate-sized old-fashioned house, standing amid bare undulating downs above a low line of chalky cliffs and looking over the sea. It was enclosed in a piece of barren down, which young half-grown trees were struggling...
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The Swing of the PendulumThe Swing of the PendulumThe shallow North Sea had been fretted by a northerly gale, and the voyage from Hull even more than usually unpleasant, when the passengers on board the Eldorado struggled up to see the low-lying land which forms the entrance to...
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Thorpe RegisThorpe RegisNowadays the word change, when applied to a place, seems so naturally to carry in itself the ideas of growth, enlargement, and progress, that we find a certain difficulty in adopting the word in its retrograde sense, or of recognising other steps than...
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Donna TeresaDonna TeresaIt was sirocco in Rome; sirocco which, as every one knows, brings out a damp ooze on the pavement, and makes the hills yet more slippery for the overladen horses and mules; sirocco which disposes man and woman to take peevish views of...
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An InterloperAn InterloperMonsieur Raoul, in his carriage, was making the round of the estates. To a certain extent, this was a frequent custom, but there were times when it was attended by a more deliberate ceremony and purpose, and such was the case this morning....
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The Career of ClaudiaThe Career of ClaudiaShe was, it must be owned, rather surprised that no one had come to meet her at the station. Certainly she had assured them in her last letter that it was unnecessary, and that she could manage very well by herself;...
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CartoucheCartoucheThe call came from a young Englishman, who, having just walked through the streets of Florence on his way from the station, now found himself before a small house which stood not far from the Cascine in an open space, pleasantly planted with trees,...
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WaynfleteWaynfleteAt ten oclock at night on the 4th of October, 1785, the master of Waynflete Hall sat playing at cards with Mr Maxwell of Ouseley, his neighbour and his enemy. By the fireside sat Waynfletes brother, the parson of the parish, and over the...
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An English SquireAn English SquireIn bringing this tale in a complete form before the public, I should wish it to be understood that it arose out of a series of conversations with a friend who suggested the character of Alvar Lester, to the original invention of...
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The Riddle of the Purple EmperorThe Riddle of the Purple EmperorPurple Emperor, a big violet-coloured diamond looted from an Indian temple, and set as a pendant. She comes of age at 18, until when she is left in the charge of his eccentric sister, The Honourable Miss Cheyne, a...
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The Girl and Her FortuneThe Girl and Her FortuneBrenda and Florence had both finished their school life. No pains had been spared to render them up to date in every particular. They had gone through the usual curriculum of a girls education. Brenda was a little cleverer than...
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