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Honor Edgeworth Or, Ottawa's Present TenseHonor Edgeworth; Or, Ottawa's Present TenseEntered according to Act of Parhament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, by A S WOODBURN, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa. In these days of plenty, when...
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The Enormous RoomThe Enormous Room FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE AGAIN; HE WAS LOST; AND IS FOUND. He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the French Government....
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Look Back on HappinessLook Back on HappinessNot because I am offended about anything, or very unhappy about men's evil ways; but since the forest will not come to me, I must go to it. That is all. I have not gone this time as a slave and...
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The Mysteries of Montreal: Being Recollections of a Female PhysicianThe Mysteries of Montreal: Being Recollections of a Female Physician During a long practice of over thirty years I have seen many things enacted here in this city of Montreal which, if told with the skill of a Dumas or a Collins, might not...
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Between FriendsBetween Friends Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself. Through the chambers of his...
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Men in WarMen in War The time was late in the autumn of the second year of the war; the place, the garden of a war hospital in a small Austrian town, which lay at the base of wooded hills, sequestered as behind a Spanish wall,...
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The Path of LifeThe Path of Life In introducing this new writer to the English-speaking public, I may be permitted to give a few particulars of himself and his life. Stijn Streuvels is accepted not only in Belgium, but also in Holland as the most distinguished Low-Dutch...
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The Sturdy OakThe Sturdy Oak - A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be...
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"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and BeautyThe aim of these stories is not historical exactitude nor unbending accuracy in dates or juxtaposition. They are rather an attempt to re-create the personalities of a succession of charming women, ranging from Elizabeth Pepys, wife...
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The MountebankThe MountebankOn the occasion of our last meeting when I kept you up to an ungodly hour of the morning with the story of my wretched affairs to which you patiently listened without seeming bored, you were good enough to suggest that I might...
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Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His PaladinsMohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. - Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia. from the Mss. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest. On the wall over the mantel-piece, here in my quiet study at Eagles-Nest, are two...
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Young People's Pride: A NovelYoung People's Pride: A Novel It is one of Johnny Chipman's parties at the Harlequin Club, and as usual the people the other people have been asked to meet are late and as usual Johnny is looking hesitatingly around at those already collected with...
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The Gentleman: A Romance of the SeaThe Gentleman: A Romance of the Sea 1908 The Sea! the Sea! Our own home-land, the Sea! 'Tis, as it always was, and still, please God, will be, When we are gone, Our own, Possessing it for Thee, Ours, ours, and ours alone, The...
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Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble PetticoatPtomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat On a Pittsburgh block, where three generations ago might have been heard Indian war-whoopsyes, and the next generation wore hoops, tooa girl child stood, in evident relief, far below the murky gray of the Pittsburgh sky. She...
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HungerHunger This PG edition is based upon the eighth printing, published in September 1921 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. This edition is a bowdlerised version of the original 1899 translation, also by George Egerton. Since the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly...
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The Short Line WarThe Short Line War His great-grandfather, Ashbel Weeks, was born in Connecticut in 1748; he migrated to New York in '70, and settled among the Oneida Indians on the Upper Mohawk. It was the kind of life he was built for; he sniffed at...
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Pauline's Passion and PunishmentPauline's Passion and Punishment To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left...
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Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake PlainsCanadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains Sarah Campbell, of Windsor, who was lost in the woods on the 11th of August, 1848, returned to her home on the 31st, having been absent twenty-one days. A friend has sent us a circumstantial...
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Monsieur MauriceMonsieur Maurice The events I am about to relate took place more than fifty years ago. I am a white-haired old woman now, and I was then a little girl scarce ten years of age; but those times, and the places and people associated...
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The Water Ghost and OthersThe Water Ghost and Others"'WELCOME TO BANGLETOP'" A DEPARTING COOK THE BARON'S BREAKFAST WAS NOT PAY-DAY TERWILLIGER TO THE RESCUE "COOK!" HE WHISPERED THE PRESENCE HAD ASSUMED SHAPE "'NO TALKERS,' RETORTED THE GHOST" THEY SHOOK HANDS AND PARTED THE H'EARL, OF MUGLEY "'TO ARIADNE,...
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