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The Prospector: A Tale of the Crow's Nest PassThe Prospector: A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass It was one of November's rare days. The kindly air, vital with the breath of the north wind and mellow with the genial sun, was full of purple haze; the grass, still vividly green, gave...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3Occasionally the art of narrative may be improved by borrowing the method of the movies. Another night has passed, and we are called upon to imagine the watery sunlight of a mild winter afternoon filtering through bare...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2At certain moments during the days that followed the degree of tension her relationship with Ditmar had achieved tested the limits of Janet's ingenuity and powers of resistance. Yet the sense of mastery at being able to...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — CompleteThe Dwelling Place of Light — Complete In this modern industrial civilization of which we are sometimes wont to boast, a certain glacier-like process may be observed. The bewildered, the helplessand there are manyare torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1In this modern industrial civilization of which we are sometimes wont to boast, a certain glacier-like process may be observed. The bewildered, the helplessand there are manyare torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left...
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Who Cares? A Story of AdolescenceWho Cares? A Story of Adolescence Birds called. Breezes played among branches just bursting into green. Daffodils, proud and erect, stood in clumps about the dazzling lawn. Young, pulsing, eager things elbowed their way through last year's leaves to taste the morning sun; the...
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The Garden of AllahThe Garden of Allah The fatigue caused by a rough sea journey, and, perhaps, the consciousness that she would have to be dressed before dawn to catch the train for Beni-Mora, prevented Domini Enfilden from sleeping. There was deep silence in the Hotel de...
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Poor Miss FinchPoor Miss Finch More than one charming blind girl, in fiction and in the drama, has preceded "Poor Miss Finch." But, so far as I know, blindness in these cases has been always exhibited, more or less exclusively, from the ideal and the sentimental...
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Mother: A StoryMother: A Story As years ago we carried to your knees The tales and treasures of eventful days, Knowing no deed too humble for your praise, Nor any gift too trivial to please, So still we bring, with older smiles and tears, What gifts...
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The Guilty RiverThe Guilty River FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being aloneand, as a means of getting through my idle time, I was quite content to...
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Jezebel's DaughterJezebel's Daughter The first part of that story has, through circumstances connected with the various forms of publications adopted thus far, addressed itself to a comparatively limited class of readers in England. When the book is finally reprinted in its cheapest formthen, and then...
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The TitanThe Titan When Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyhood was ended. His youth was gone, and with it had been lost the great business prospects...
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Peg O' My HeartPeg O' My Heart Up to the time of publication, December 1922, "Peg o' My Heart" has been played as a comedy in English in the United States and Canada in excess of 8000 times, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
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The Duke's ChildrenThe Duke's ChildrenNo one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend, the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months...
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Cousin MaudeCousin Maude "If you please, marm, the man from York State is comin' afoot. Too stingy to ride, I'll warrant," and Janet, the housekeeper, disappeared from the parlor, just as the sound of the gate was heard, and an unusually fine-looking middle-aged man was...
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The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County MayoThe O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo - From "Tales from All Countries"I shall never forget my first introduction to country life in Ireland, my first days hunting there, or the manner in which I passed the evening afterwards. Nor shall I ever cease...
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John Bull on the GuadalquivirJohn Bull on the Guadalquivir - From "Tales from All Countries"I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I think, be well pleased were any one to insinuate that she were other than an Englishwoman;...
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Tomorrow?To-morrow? "Cras te victurum, cras dicis Postume semper Dic mihi cras istud, Postume quando venit? Quam longe cras istud, ubi est? aut unde petendum? Cras istud quanti dic mihi, possit emi? Cras vives? hodie jam vivere, Postume, serum est Ille sapit, quisquis Postume, vixit...
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The Daisy Chain, or AspirationsThe Daisy Chain, or Aspirations No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the tale for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both. Begun...
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Antonina Or, The Fall of RomeAntonina; Or, The Fall of Rome In preparing to compose a fiction founded on history, the writer of these pages thought it no necessary requisite of such a work that the principal characters appearing in it should be drawn from the historical personages of...
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