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Falk: A ReminiscenceFalk: A Reminiscence Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the...
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One BasketOne Basket Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad womanso bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and down Main Street, from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks, without once having a man...
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RezanovRezanov A long list of works Gertrude Atherton has to her credit as a writer. She is indisputably a woman of genius. Not that her genius is distinctively feminine, though she is in matters historical a passionate partisan. Most of the critics who approve...
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In the Bishop's CarriageIn the Bishop's Carriage When the thing was at its hottest, I bolted. Tom, like the darling he is(Yes, you are, old fellow, you're as precious to me asas you are to the policeif they could only get their hands on you)well, Tom drew...
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The WoodlandersThe Woodlanders The rambler who, for old association or other reasons, should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of...
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The Conquest of CanaanThe Conquest of Canaan A dry snow had fallen steadily throughout the still night, so that when a cold, upper wind cleared the sky gloriously in the morning the incongruous Indiana town shone in a white harmonyroof, ledge, and earth as evenly covered as...
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The CostThe Cost Pauline Gardiner joined us on the day that we, the Second Reader class, moved from the basement to the top story of the old Central Public School. Her mother brought her and, leaving, looked round at us, meeting for an instant each...
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"Undo": A Novel"Undo": A NovelThis novel may be freely distributed as long as there is no charge for its distribution. You may read this novel, make copies of it, and distribute it exactly as it is, unchanged, via any media, as long as you do not...
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The Bride of LammermoorThe Bride of Lammermoor The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of...
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The House Behind the CedarsThe House Behind the Cedars Time touches all things with destroying hand; and if he seem now and then to bestow the bloom of youth, the sap of spring, it is but a brief mockery, to be surely and swiftly followed by the wrinkles...
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The Duchesse of LangeaisThe Duchesse of Langeais The Duchesse of Langeais is the second part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferragus and part three is The Girl with the Golden Eyes. The three stories are frequently combined under the title The Thirteen. In a Spanish...
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Manon LescautManon Lescaut Just about six months before my departure for Spain, I first met the Chevalier des Grieux. Though I rarely quitted my retreat, still the interest I felt in my child's welfare induced me occasionally to undertake short journeys, which, however, I took...
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The Princess of ClevesThe Princess of Cleves Grandeur and gallantry never appeared with more lustre in France, than in the last years of Henry the Second's reign. This Prince was amorous and handsome, and though his passion for Diana of Poitiers Duchess of Valentinois, was of above...
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and...
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The White PeopleThe White People TO LIONEL The stars come nightly to the sky; The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from me. Perhaps the things which happened could only have happened to me....
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The Dawn of a To-morrowThe Dawn of a To-morrowThere are always two ways of looking at a thing, frequently there are six or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quite enough. When it is thick and yellow in the streets and stings a...
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The Quest of the Golden Girl: A RomanceThe Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance When the knell of my thirtieth birthday sounded, I suddenly realised, with a desolate feeling at the heart, that I was alone in the world. It was true I had many and good friends, and I...
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The Price She PaidThe Price She Paid HENRY GOWER was dead at sixty-onethe end of a lifelong fraud which never had been suspected, and never would be. With the world, with his acquaintances and neighbors, with his wife and son and daughter, he passed as a generous,...
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Emma McChesney and CoEmma McChesney and Co. The door marked "MRS. MCCHESNEY" was closed. T. A. Buck, president of the Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, coming gaily down the hall, stopped before it, dismayed, as one who, with a spicy bit of news at his tongue's end, is...
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The Shadow Line: A ConfessionThe Shadow Line: A Confession To Borys And All Others Who, Like Himself, Have Crossed In Early Youth The Shadow-Line Of Their Generation With Love Only the young have such moments. I dont mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking,...
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