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Debts of HonorDebts of HonorIn rendering into English this novel of Dr. Jkai's, which many of his countrymen consider his masterpiece, I have been fortunate enough to secure the collaboration of my friend, Mr. Zoltn Dunay, a former colleague, whose excellent knowledge of the English language...
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The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried TreasureThe Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried TreasureIt was a dismal, sodden morning, with heavy clouds banked in the western sky. Rain had sloshed down since midnight so that the gutter in front of me was a turbid little river....
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Fair HarborFair HarborFAIR HARBOR GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT THE PORTYGEE "SHAVINGS" MARY-'GUSTA CAP'N DAN'S DAUGHTER THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINE THE POSTMASTER THE WOMAN HATERS KEZIAH COFFIN CY WHITTAKER'S PLACE CAP'N ERI EXTRICATING OBADIAH THANKFUL'S INHERITANCE MR. PRATT MR. PRATT'S PATIENTS KENT KNOWLES: "QUAHAUG" CAP'N WARREN'S...
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John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told ThereinJohn Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told ThereinThe garden did not belong to John Gayther; he merely had charge of it. At certain busy seasons he had some men to help him in his work, but for the greater part of the year he...
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Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New YorkTin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York - A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many SingularMr. Ricketty is composed of angles. From his high silk hat worn into dulness, through his black frock coat worn into brightness, along each leg of his...
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The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of RussiaThe Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of RussiaAfter the issue to the public of the curious chronicle of "Rasputin the Rascal Monk," based upon official documents, and its translation into a number of languages, I received from the same sources...
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The Cold SnapThe Cold Snap - 1898 In the extremes of winter and summer, when the weather is either extraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar sense of helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a trifling additional rise or fall...
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A Love Story ReversedA Love Story Reversed - 1898 The golden hands of the parlor clock point glimmeringly to an hour after midnight, and the house is still. The gas is turned almost out, but the flickering of the dying sea-coal fire in the grate fitfully illumines...
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DesertedDeserted - 1898 What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be, if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter! Would n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the...
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With The Eyes ShutWith The Eyes Shut - 1898 Railroad rides are naturally tiresome to persons who cannot read on the cars, and, being one of those unfortunates, I resigned myself, on taking my seat in the train, to several hours of tedium, alleviated only by such...
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LostLost - 1898 The 25th of May, 1866, was no doubt to many a quite indifferent date, but to two persons it was the saddest day of their lives. Charles Randall that day left Bonn, Germany, to catch the steamer home to America, and...
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At Pinney's RanchAt Pinney's Ranch - 1898 John Lansing first met Mary Hollister at the house of his friend Pinney, whose wife was her sister. She had soft gray eyes, a pretty color in her cheeks, rosy lips, and a charming figure. In the course of...
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A Positive RomanceA Positive Romance - 1898 My friend Hammond is a bachelor, and lives in chambers in New York. Whenever we meet on my occasional visits to the city, he insists on my spending the night with him. On one of these occasions we had...
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The Old Folks' PartyThe Old Folks' Party - 1898 And now what shall we do next Wednesday evening? said Jessie Hyde, in a business-like tone. It is your turn, Henry, to suggest. Jessie was a practical, energetic young lady, whose blue eyes never relapsed into the dreaminess...
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Two Days' Solitary ImprisonmentTwo Days' Solitary Imprisonment - 1898 Mr. Joseph Kilgore was suffering from one of those spring influenzas which make a man feel as if he were his own grandfather. His nose had acquired the shape of a turnip and the complexion of a beet....
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A Summer Evening's DreamA Summer Evening's Dream - 1898 It is a village street, with great elms on either side, while along the middle stands another row set in a narrow strip of grassy common, so that the street and roadway are in reality double. The dwellings...
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Potts's Painless CurePotts's Painless Cure - 1898 Pouting lips and delicate brows fretted in pretty importunity over the troubled eyes enforced the pleading tones, and yet the young man to whom they were addressed found strength to reply: I 'm afraid I can't get rid of...
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Hooking WatermelonsHooking Watermelons - 1898 The train slackened, a brakeman thrust his head in at the door and shouted Bah,a mysterious formality observed on American trains as they enter towns,and an elderly lady, two drummers, and a young man with a satchel got out, followed...
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To Whom This May ComeTo Whom This May Come - 1898 It is now about a year since I took passage at Calcutta in the ship Adelaide for New York. We had baffling weather till New Amsterdam Island was sighted, where we took a new point of departure....
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An Echo Of AntietamAn Echo Of Antietam - 1898 The air was tremulous with farewells. The regiment, recruited within sight of the steeples of Waterville, and for three months in camp just outside the city, was to march the next morning. A series of great battles had...
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