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Agnes Sorel: A NovelAgnes Sorel: A NovelEntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, by GEORGE P. R. JAMES, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. How strange the sensation...
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No SubstitutionsNo SubstitutionsPutting people painlessly to sleep is really a depressing job. It keeps me awake at night thinking of all those bodies I have sent to the vaults, and it interferes to a marked extent with my digestion. I thought before Councilman Coleman came...
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Voyage to Far N'jurdVoyage to Far N'jurd"I hope he does; I jest hope he does. He's th' one that's a-keepin' us all from our Reward, an' I jest hope he does heyar me, so he'll know I'm a-gittin' mighty tyird uv waitin'." The captain, in the officer's...
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Citizen JellCitizen JellNone of his neighbors knew Mr. Jell's great problem. None of his neighbors, in truth, knew Mr. Jell at all. He was only an odd old man who lived alone in a little house on the riverbank. He had the usual little mail...
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What is POSAT?What is POSAT?Most readers passed it by with scarcely a glance. It was, after all, similar to the many that had appeared through the years under the name of that same society. Other readers, as their eyes slid over the familiar format of the...
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L'autre monde ou, Histoire comique des Etats et Empires de la LuneL'autre monde; ou, Histoire comique des Etats et Empires de la LuneLecteur, je te donne louvrage dun mort, qui ma charg de ce soin, pour te faire connatre quil nest pas un mort du commun, quil ne samuse point faire de vaines plaintes, renverser...
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The Man OutsideThe Man OutsideNobody in the neighborhood was surprised when Martin's mother disappeared and Ninian came to take care of him. Mothers had a way of disappearing around those parts and the kids were often better off without them. Martin was no exception. He'd never...
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Fresh Air FiendFresh Air FiendHe rolled over to look at the plants. They were crinkled and dead and useless in the narrow flower box across the hut. He tried to draw his arm under his body to force himself erect. The reserve oxygen began to hiss...
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Swenson, DispatcherSwenson, DispatcherThe dingy office was on the ground floor and Swenson was a tall man. When he came in the window, the distraught Acme Board of Directors realized that they had something unusual in the way of determined drunks to deal with. While the...
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I Am a NucleusI Am a NucleusWhen I got home from the office, I was not so much tired as beaten down, but the effect is similar. I let myself into the apartment, which had an absentee-wife look, and took a cold shower. The present downtown temperature,...
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Prime DifferencePrime DifferenceUnderstand nowI've got nothing against marriage or any thing like that. Marriage is great. It's a good old red-blooded American Institution. Except that it's got one defect in it big enough to throw a cat through, especially when you happen to be married...
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Break a LegBreak a LegIf there is anything I am afraid of, and there probably is, it is having a rookie Accident Prone, half-starved from the unemployment lines, aboard my spaceship. They are always so anxious to please. They remember what it is like to live...
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The Prisoner of the Mill or, Captain Hayward's "Body Guard"The Prisoner of the Mill; or, Captain Hayward's "Body Guard"War! Oh! how much of misery is expressed in that one word! It tells its own tale of woe, of blood, of broken hearts and desolated homes, of hopes blighted, of poverty and crime, of...
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In Bad Company, and other storiesIn Bad Company, and other storiesBill Hardwick was as fine a specimen of an Australian as you could find in a day's march. Active as a cat and strong withal, he was mostly described as 'a real good all-round chap, that you couldn't put...
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Make Me An OfferMake Me An OfferWell, boys, this is going to be rather an informal communication because I think there's a serious lesson for you in a situation we had here recently. I might as well be the first to tell you about it. You'll hear...
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La chanson des vieux épouxLa chanson des vieux épouxEn langue nipponne, Toto et Kaka sont des mots trs doux qui signifient pre et mre dans la bouche des enfants. A cause sans doute de leur grand ge, tout le monde les appelait ainsi; et en ce pays dexcessive...
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My Lady GreensleevesMy Lady GreensleevesHis name was Liam O'Leary and there was something stinking in his nostrils. It was the smell of trouble. He hadn't found what the trouble was yet, but he would. That was his business. He was a captain of guards in Estates-General...
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A Touch of E FlatA Touch of E FlatMost people can find something wrong with the world, and some make a practice of it, but few people ever get the chance to do something about itand those few usually go down in history with a resounding crash. From...
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This House to LetThis House to Let Very early on a July morning in 1919 Constable Brown was on his beat in Kensington, in the immediate neighbourhood of Cathcart Square. Cathcart Square was an old-fashioned backwater of this highly respectable suburb. It had not been built on...
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A Dog Day or, The Angel in the HouseA Dog Day; or, The Angel in the HouseWoke up feeling rather below par, owing to disturbed rest. Hardly enough energy to stretch myself. In the middle of the night a strange man came in by the kitchen window, very quietly, with a bag....
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