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The Prince and the Pauper, Part 7The Prince and the Pauper, Part 7.Once more 'King Foo-foo the First' was roving with the tramps and outlaws, a butt for their coarse jests and dull-witted railleries, and sometimes the victim of small spitefulness at the hands of Canty and Hugo when the...
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The Prince and the Pauper, Part 5The Prince and the Pauper, Part 5.The next day the foreign ambassadors came, with their gorgeous trains; and Tom, throned in awful state, received them. The splendours of the scene delighted his eye and fired his imagination at first, but the audience was long...
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The Prince and the Pauper, Part 2The Prince and the Pauper, Part 2.Tom Canty, left alone in the prince's cabinet, made good use of his opportunity. He turned himself this way and that before the great mirror, admiring his finery; then walked away, imitating the prince's high-bred carriage, and still...
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The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4.As soon as Miles Hendon and the little prince were clear of the mob, they struck down through back lanes and alleys toward the river. Their way was unobstructed until they approached London Bridge; then they ploughed into...
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The Prince and the Pauper, Part 1The Prince and the Pauper, Part 1.In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On...
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The Prince and the Pauper, Part 3The Prince and the Pauper, Part 3.About five o'clock Henry VIII. awoke out of an unrefreshing nap, and muttered to himself, "Troublous dreams, troublous dreams! Mine end is now at hand: so say these warnings, and my failing pulses do confirm it." Presently a...
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Elder Conklin and Other StoriesElder Conklin and Other Stories As soon as the Elder left the supper-table his daughter and the new schoolmaster went out on the stoop or verandah which ran round the frame-house. The day had been warm, but the chilliness of the evening air betokened...
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Cecilia Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 Scarce less unhappy in her decision than in her uncertainty, and every way dissatisfied with her situation, her views and herself, Cecilia was still so distressed and uncomfortable, when Delvile called the next morning, that...
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Clelia: Il governo dei preti - Romanzo storico politicoClelia: Il governo dei preti - Romanzo storico politicoL'originale italiano pass in Inghilterra, dove noi lo abbiamo acquistato; e col il titolo principale sotto cui si stava pubblicando la traduzione, era IL GOVERNO DEL MONACO (The rule of the Monck) e noi l'abbiamo seguito....
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While the Billy BoilsWhile the Billy Boils You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school how we were sometimes startled by a bearded apparition, who smiled kindly down on us, and whom our mother introduced, as we raked off our hats, as An old...
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Cecilia Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Unable to relieve herself from this perplexity, Cecilia, to divert her chagrin, again visited Miss Belfield. She had then the pleasure to hear that her brother was much recovered, and had been able, the preceding...
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Suburban SketchesSuburban Sketches It was on a morning of the lovely New England May that we left the horse-car, and, spreading our umbrellas, walked down the street to our new home in Charlesbridge, through a storm of snow and rain so finely blent by the...
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The Purple LandThe Purple Land - Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in The Banda Orientál, in South America, as Told By Himself This work was first issued in 1885, by Messrs. Sampson Low, in two slim volumes, with the longer, and to most...
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MalcolmMalcolm"'Deed, I aye had eneuch adu to du the thing I had to du, no to say the thing 'at naebody wad du but mysel'. I hae had nae leisur' for feelin's an' that," insisted Miss Horn. "Watty, whan ye fess the bit boxie,...
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Knock, Knock, Knock and Other StoriesKnock, Knock, Knock and Other StoriesI am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me in the 'thirties ... forty years ago as you see. I will be brief--and don't you interrupt me. I was living at the time...
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The Dolliver RomanceThe Dolliver RomanceIn "The Dolliver Romance," only three chapters of which the author lived to complete, we get an intimation as to what would have been the ultimate form given to that romance founded on the Elixir of Life, for which "Septimius Felton" was...
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What Maisie KnewWhat Maisie KnewThe litigation seemed interminable and had in fact been complicated; but by the decision on the appeal the judgement of the divorce-court was confirmed as to the assignment of the child. The father, who, though bespattered from head to foot, had made...
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Erema Or, My Father's SinErema; Or, My Father's Sin The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. These are the words that have followed me always. This is the curse which has fallen on my life. If...
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Candido, o El OptimismoCandido, o El OptimismoEn la quinta del Seor baron de Tunderten-tronck, ttulo de la Vesfalia, vivia un mancebo que habia dotado de la ndole mas apacible naturaleza. Vase en su fisonoma su alma: tenia bastante sano juicio, y alma muy sensible; y por eso...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the LastAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the LastIN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The...
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