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An Unprotected Female at the PyramidsAn Unprotected Female at the PyramidsIn the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its...
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Love EternalLove Eternal You, whose privilege it is by instruction and example to strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees of many, may perhaps care to read of one whose human love led her from darkness into light and on to the gates...
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The Valiant RunawaysThe Valiant Runaways Roldan Castanada walked excitedly up and down the verandah of his father's house, his thumbs thrust into the red silk sash that was knotted about his waist, his cambric shirt open at the throat as if pulled impatiently apart; the soft...
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Happy HawkinsHappy Hawkins I wasn't really a Westerner an' that's why I'm so different from most of 'em. Take your regular bonie fide Westerner an' when he dies he don't turn to dust, he turns to alkali; but when it comes my turn to settle,...
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Foul PlayFoul Play THERE are places which appear, at first sight, inaccessible to romance; and such a place was Mr. Wardlaw's dining-room in Russell Square. It was very large, had sickly green walls, picked out with aldermen, full length; heavy maroon curtains; mahogany chairs; a...
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The Courtship of Susan BellThe Courtship of Susan BellJohn Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. He had thriven well as long as thrift and thriving on this earth had been allowed to him. But the Almighty...
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Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, JamaicaMiss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, JamaicaThere is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their decadence. I am not aware that the latter misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part of...
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The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last CrusadeThe Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last CrusadeIn these days of exactness even a childs historical romance must point to what the French term its pices justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de...
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Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical NovelLouisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel The population of Vienna was paralyzed with terror; a heavy gloom weighed down all minds, and the strength of the stoutest hearts seemed broken. Couriers had arrived today from the camp of the army, and...
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The Ruby of KishmoorThe Ruby of Kishmoor Before embarking upon his later career of infamy, he was, in the beginning, very well known as a reputable merchant in the island of Jamaica. Thence entering, first of all, upon the business of the African trade, he presently, by...
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Mr. Crewe's Career — CompleteMr. Crewe's Career — Complete BOOK 1. CHAPTER I. THE HONOURABLE HILARY VANE SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT CHAPTER II. ON THE TREATMENT OF PRODIGALS CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF LAW CHAPTER IV. "TIMEO DANAOS CHAPTER V. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS CHAPTER VI....
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Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3The burden of the valley of vision: woe to the Honourable Adam B. Hunt! Where is he all this time? On the porch of his home in Edmundton, smoking cigars, little heeding the rising of the waters; receiving visits...
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Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2It is certainly not the function of a romance to relate, with the exactness of a House journal, the proceedings of a Legislature. Somebody has likened the state-house to pioneer Kentucky, a dark and bloody ground over which the...
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Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 1Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 1I may as well begin this story with Mr. Hilary Vane, more frequently addressed as the Honourable Hilary Vane, although it was the gentleman's proud boast that he had never held an office in his life. He belonged to...
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JonahJonah One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the other, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare, crowded and jostled under the lights. It was...
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On Our SelectionOn Our Selection To You "Who Gave Our Country Birth;" to the memory of You whose names, whose giant enterprise, whose deeds of fortitude and daring were never engraved on tablet or tombstone; to You who strove through the silences of the Bush-lands and...
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Die Versuchung des PescaraDie Versuchung des Pescara "Eine furchtbare Ziffer!" seufzte der Herzog und entsetzte sich vor der Summe, welche die mit Eile betriebenen Festungsarbeiten verschlungen hatten. "Wie viele Schweitropfen meiner armen hungernden Lombarden!" Und um dem Anblick der verhngnisvollen Zahl zu entrinnen, lie er die melancholischen...
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The Dragon and the Raven Or, The Days of King AlfredThe Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun...
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The Firefly of FranceThe Firefly of France The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the...
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Christie Johnstone: A NovelChristie Johnstone: A Novel THIS story was written three years ago, and one or two topics in it are not treated exactly as they would be if written by the same hand to-day. But if the author had retouched those pages with his colors...
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