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The Woman-HatersThe Woman-Haters A story of mine called, like this, The Woman-Haters, appeared recently in one of the magazines. That story was not this one, except in partthe part dealing with John Brown and Miss Ruth Graham. Readers of the former tale who perhaps imagine...
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Sir GibbieSir GibbieNote from electronic text creator: I have compiled a word list with definitions of most of the Scottish words found in this work at the end of the book. This list does not belong to the original work, but is designed to help...
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The Angel and the Author, and OthersThe Angel and the Author, and OthersI had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad that I...
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One of OursOne of OursClaude rose and dressed,a simple operation which took very little time. He crept down two flights of stairs, feeling his way in the dusk, his red hair standing up in peaks, like a cock's comb. He went through the kitchen into the...
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The Beldonald HolbeinThe Beldonald HolbeinMrs. Munden had not yet been to my studio on so good a pretext as when she first intimated that it would be quite open to meshould I only care, as she called it, to throw the handkerchiefto paint her beautiful sister-in-law....
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The Princess De MontpensierThe Princess De Montpensier This story was written by Madame de Lafayette and published anonymously in 1662. It is set in a period almost 100 years previously during the sanguinary wars of the counter-reformation, when the Catholic rulers of Europe, with the encouragement of...
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Active ServiceActive ServicePlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for each...
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The Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the Sands A word about the origin and authorship of this book. In October last (1902), my friend Carruthers visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of the adventure described in...
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Incognita Or, Love and Duty Reconcil'dIncognita; Or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd Reader, Some Authors are so fond of a Preface, that they will write one tho there be nothing more in it than an Apology for its self. But to show thee that I am not one of those,...
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Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) It was late in November, 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake...
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The After HouseThe After House By the bequest of an elder brother, I was left enough money to see me through a small college in Ohio, and to secure me four years in a medical school in the East. Why I chose medicine I hardly know....
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Tommy & CoTommy and Co.Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as getting a little thin on the top, sir, but arranged...
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Tea-Table TalkTea-Table TalkI believe a volume of assorted love-letters would sell well, said the Girton Girl; written by the same hand, if you like, but to different correspondents at different periods. To the same person one is bound, more or less, to repeat oneself. Or...
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John Halifax, GentlemanJohn Halifax, Gentleman My father and I both glanced round, surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets: but when the lad addressed turned, fixed his eyes on each of us for a moment, and made way for us, we ceased to wonder. Ragged, muddy,...
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The Adventure of the Devil's FootThe Adventure of the Devil's Foot In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own...
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His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock HolmesHis Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm...
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The Adventure of the Dying DetectiveThe Adventure of the Dying Detective Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity...
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The Disappearance of Lady Frances CarfaxThe Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax "By the way, Holmes," I added, "I have no doubt the connection between my boots and a Turkish bath is a perfectly self-evident one to a logical mind, and yet I should be obliged to you if you...
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The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington PlansThe Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to...
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The Adventure of the Red CircleThe Adventure of the Red Circle "Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter. I really have other things to engage...
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