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An Old-Fashioned GirlAn Old-Fashioned Girl AS a preface is the only place where an author can with propriety explain a purpose or apologize for shortcomings, I venture to avail myself of the privilege to make a statement for the benefit of my readers. As the first...
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The Elusive PimpernelThe Elusive Pimpernel Chapter I: Paris: 1793 Chapter II: A Retrospect Chapter III: Ex-Ambassador Chauvelin Chapter IV: The Richmond Gala Chapter V: Sir Percy and His Lady Chapter VI: For the Poor of Paris Chapter VII: Premonition Chapter VIII: The Invitation Chapter IX: Demoiselle...
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The Trampling of the LiliesThe Trampling of the Lilies PART I. THE OLD RULE CHAPTER I. MONSIEUR THE SECRETARY CHAPTER II. LORDS OF LIFE AND DEATH CHAPTER III. THE WORD OF BELLECOUR CHAPTER IV. THE DISCIPLES OF ROUSSEAU PART II. THE NEW RULE CHAPTER V. THE SHEEP TURNED...
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Just So StoriesJust So Stories IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate...
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The Good SoldierThe Good Soldier THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacyor, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good...
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The Four MillionThe Four Million Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For there was Katie Mahorner, his sweetheart, of County Sligo, lost since she started for...
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Jewel: A Chapter in Her LifeJewel: A Chapter in Her Life JEWEL CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER...
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Cabbages and KingsCabbages and Kings They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution; and that...
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FraternityFraternity In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190-, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington. This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue...
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The PatricianThe Patrician Light, entering the vast rooma room so high that its carved ceiling refused itself to exact scrutinytravelled, with the wistful, cold curiosity of the dawn, over a fantastic storehouse of Time. Light, unaccompanied by the prejudice of human eyes, made strange revelation...
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The Country HouseThe Country House The year was 1891, the month October, the day Monday. In the dark outside the railway-station at Worsted Skeynes Mr. Horace Pendyce's omnibus, his brougham, his luggage-cart, monopolised space. The face of Mr. Horace Pendyce's coachman monopolised the light of the...
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CleopatraCleopatra In the recesses of the desolate Libyan mountains that lie behind the temple and city of Abydus, the supposed burying place of the holy Osiris, a tomb was recently discovered, among the contents of which were the papyrus rolls whereupon this history is...
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The Island PhariseesThe Island Pharisees Each man born into the world is born like Shelton in this bookto go a journey, and for the most part he is born on the high road. At first he sits there in the dust, with his little chubby hands...
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The World's DesireThe World's Desire The period in which the story of The Worlds Desire is cast, was a period when, as Miss Braddon remarks of the age of the Plantagenets, anything might happen. Recent discoveries, mainly by Dr. Schliemann and Mr. Flinders Petrie, have shown...
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The Red AcornThe Red Acorn The name given this story is that made glorious by the valor and achievements of the splendid First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers, and...
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Benita, an African romanceBenita, an African romance It was said about five-and-twenty or thirty years ago that an adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century...
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The BrethrenThe Brethren R.M.S. Mongolia, 12th May, 1904 Mayhap, Ella, here too distance lends its enchantment, and these gallant brethren would have quarrelled over Rosamund, or even had their long swords at each others throat. Mayhap that Princess and heroine might have failed in the...
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The Man in the Iron MaskThe Man in the Iron Mask In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a...
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The Golden DogThe Golden Dog In the year 1877 the first edition of The Golden Dog (Le Chien d'Or) was brought out in the United States, entirely without my knowledge or sanction. Owing to the inadequacy of the then existing copyright laws, I have been powerless...
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A Tale of Three LionsA Tale of Three Lions Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the party that discovered King Solomons mines some little time ago, and who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry Curtis. He...
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