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When a Man MarriesWhen a Man Marries Chapter I. AT LEAST I MEANT WELL Chapter II. THE WAY IT BEGAN Chapter III. I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN IT Chapter IV. THE DOOR WAS CLOSED Chapter V. FROM THE TREE OF LOVE Chapter VI. A MIGHTY POOR JOKE Chapter...
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The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's JockThe Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock This is another little story from The Keepsake of 1828. It was told to me many years ago by the late Miss Anna Seward, who, among other accomplishments that rendered her an amusing inmate in...
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My Aunt Margaret's MirrorMy Aunt Margaret's Mirror The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of ANNUAL, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while...
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The Golden AsseThe Golden Asse And unto the Readers of this Book That I to thee some joyous jests may show in gentle gloze, And frankly feed thy bended eares with passing pleasant prose: So that thou daine in seemly sort this wanton booke to view,...
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Derrick Vaughan, NovelistDerrick Vaughan, Novelist Nothing fills a childs mind like a large old mansion; better if un- or partially occupied; peopled with the spirits of deceased members of the county and Justices of the Quorum. Would I were buried in the peopled solitude of one,...
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The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion...
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Scenes from a Courtesan's LifeScenes from a Courtesan's Life PREPARERS NOTE: The story of Lucien de Rubempre begins in the Lost Illusions trilogy which consists of Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, and Eve and David. The action in Scenes From A Courtesans Life commences directly after...
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The Girl with the Golden EyesThe Girl with the Golden Eyes PREPARERS NOTE: The Girl with the Golden Eyes is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferragus and part two is The Duchesse de Langeais. The three stories are frequently combined under the title The...
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The God of His Fathers: Tales of the KlondykeThe God of His Fathers: Tales of the KlondykeThe God of His Fathers The Great Interrogation Which Make Men Remember Siwash The Man with the Gash Jan, the Unrepentant Grit of Women Where the Trail Forks A Daughter of the Aurora At the Rainbows...
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An Unsocial SocialistAn Unsocial Socialist In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. A braid of her hair had fallen forward as...
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The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, PassengerThe Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passenger CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1869.It is high tide, and three oclock in the afternoon when we leave the Battery-quay; the ebb carries us off shore, and as Captain Huntly has hoisted both main and top...
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Roads of DestinyRoads of Destiny Roads of Destiny -- The Guardian of the Accolade -- The Discounters of Money -- The Enchanted Profile -- "Next to Reading Matter" -- Art and the Bronco -- Phoebe -- A Double-dyed Deceiver -- The Passing of Black Eagle --...
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The Mystery of OrcivalThe Mystery of Orcival By On Thursday, the 9th of July, 186-, Jean Bertaud and his son, well known at Orcival as living by poaching and marauding, rose at three o'clock in the morning, just at daybreak, to go fishing. There was no tree...
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Ferragus, Chief of the DévorantsFerragus, Chief of the Dévorants Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one...
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The Adventures of GerardThe Adventures of Gerard I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of...
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The Foolish VirginThe Foolish Virgin LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY THE FOOLISH VIRGIN CHAPTER I. A FRIENDLY WARNING CHAPTER II. TEMPTATION CHAPTER III. FATE CHAPTER IV. DOUBTS AND FEARS CHAPTER V. WINGS OF STEEL CHAPTER VI. BESIDE THE SEA CHAPTER VII. A VAIN APPEAL CHAPTER VIII....
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A Monk of FifeA Monk of Fife - Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of Pitcullo, Concerning Marvellous Deeds That Befell in the Realm of France, in the Years of Our Redemption, MCCCCXXIX-XXXINorman Leslie of Pitcullo, whose narrative the reader has in his hands, refers more...
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The Brick Moon, and Other StoriesThe Brick Moon, and Other StoriesTO read these stories again, thirty and more years after they were written, is to recall many memories, sad or glad, with which this reader need not be interrupted. But I have to make sure that they are intelligible...
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Little NovelsLittle Novels THE course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself....
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After DarkAfter Dark I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before. The pages entitled Leahs...
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