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The Sicilian BanditThe Sicilian Bandit - From the Volume "Captain Paul" It is with cities as with menchance presides over their foundation; and the topographical situation of the first, and the social position of the latter, exercise a beneficial or an evil influence over their entire...
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Captain PaulCaptain Paul The admirers of The Pilot, one of the most magnificent of Coopers novels, have evinced a general feeling of regret, in which we ourselves have deeply participated, that the book, once finished, we altogether lose sight of the mysterious being whom we...
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 01La Comédie humaine - Volume 01Balzac naquit Tours le 16 mai 1799, le jour de la fte de saint Honor, dont on lui donna le nom, qui parut bien sonnant et de bon augure. Le petit Honor ne fut pas un enfant prodige; il...
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The Eve of All-Hallows Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 1 of 3The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 1 of 3It was upon a dark and lowering afternoon, the 30th day of October, one thousand six hundred andthe day preceding The Eve of All-Hallows, when the Rev. Doctor [Pg 2]M'Kenzie, at that time...
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Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 6Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 6 "Indeed will I. My very position requires it. There's no room for a scruple. She expects to live on my fortune; thinks to make a great catch of the rich Dutchman. Instead of that I shall spend her salary....
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other StoriesThe Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories"In 'The Diary of a Superfluous Man,'" says one well-known Russian critic, "we have to deal with the end of the pathological process upon the body of Russian society. In Turgnieff's productions which followed it we...
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Self-control: A NovelSelf-control: A NovelYou would smile to hear the insect of a day pay the tribute of its praise to the lasting oak which aided its first feeble soaringSmile then;for a person whom nature, fortune, and inclination, alike, have marked for obscurity, one whose very...
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Jenifer's PrayerJenifer's Prayer He and she stood in a room in an inn in the town of Hull--and how she wept! Crying as a child cries, with a woman's feelings joining exquisite pain to those tears; which tears, in a way wonderful and peculiar to...
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This House to LetThis House to LetCathcart Square was an old-fashioned backwater of this highly respectable suburb. It had not been built on any regular lines. Small, narrow houses nestled comfortably by the side of what might be called mansions. At the entrance to the Square itself,...
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Chronicles of Dustypore: A Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian SocietyChronicles of Dustypore: A Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian SocietyAny one who knows or cares anything about Indiathat is, say, one Englishman in a hundred thousandis familiar with the train of events which resulted in the conquest of the Sandy Tracts, the incorporation of that...
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A Book o' Nine TalesA Book o' Nine Tales.He lay upon an old-fashioned bedstead whose carved quaintness would once have pleased him, but to which he was now indifferent. He rested upon his back, staring at the ceiling, on whose white surface were twinkling golden dots and lines...
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Narcissa, or the Road to Rome In VeronaNarcissa, or the Road to Rome; In VeronaNarcissa was sitting in the doorway, feeding the young turkeys. It was the back door of the old gray house,no one would have thought of sitting in the front doorway,and there were crooked flagstones leading up to...
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Sant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and SpyingSant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and SpyingTo those who, like myself, have moved in the Continental underworld of spies and spying, the name of Sant of the Secret Service is synonymous with all that is ingenious, resourceful, and daring. In...
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Mrs. Maxon ProtestsMrs. Maxon ProtestsMrs. Maxon leant back as far as the unaccommodating angles of the office chair allowed, looking at her friend and counsellor with a faint yet rather mischievous smile on her pretty face. In the solicitor's big, high, bare room she seemed both...
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The Voice from the Void: The Great Wireless MysteryThe Voice from the Void: The Great Wireless MysteryThe congregation had dispersed into the winter darkness, wandering slowly and piously through the churchyard and out by the old lych-gate and down the hill, and old Morley, the verger, had already turned out the lights....
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Whither Thou GoestWhither Thou GoestThe Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a penniless nobody, and announced that he would marry her against all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he persuaded an influential friend...
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The Arab's Pledge: A Tale of Marocco in 1830The Arab's Pledge: A Tale of Marocco in 1830This little Tale, which the Author has given permission to be published, was written more than five-and-twenty years ago, after a residence of six years in Marocco. The story is founded on tragical facts, which occurred...
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To Him That HathTo Him That HathThe Reverend Philip Morton, head of St. Christopher's Mission, had often said that, in event of death or serious accident, he wished David Aldrich to be placed in charge of his personal affairs; so when at ten o'clock of a September...
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John Ermine of the YellowstoneJohn Ermine of the Yellowstone AddamsThe Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. BaileyThe Country Life Movement in the United States. Bailey & HunnThe Practical Garden Book. CampbellThe New Theology. ClarkThe Care of a House. ConyngtonHow to Help: A Manual of Practical Charity. CoolidgeThe...
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The White Scalper: A Story of the Texan WarThe White Scalper: A Story of the Texan WarWith the conclusion of the present series of GUSTAVE AIMARD'S tales, it may be advisable to inform the readers in what succession the eleven volumes already published should be read. It is as follows; Encouraged by...
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