Old Is Gold
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The ChaperonThe ChaperonAn old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression...
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Nona VincentNona VincentI wondered whether you wouldnt read it to me, said Mrs. Alsager, as they lingered a little near the fire before he took leave. She looked down at the fire sideways, drawing her dress away from it and making her proposal with a...
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The Real Thing and Other TalesThe Real Thing and Other TalesWhen the porters wife (she used to answer the house-bell), announced A gentlemanwith a lady, sir, I had, as I often had in those days, for the wish was father to the thought, an immediate vision of sitters. Sitters...
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Long Live the King!Long Live the King! LONG LIVE THE KING! CHAPTER I. THE CROWN PRINCE RUNS AWAY CHAPTER II. AND SEES THE WORLD CHAPTER III. DISGRACED CHAPTER IV. THE TERROR CHAPTER V. AT THE RIDING-SCHOOL CHAPTER VI. THE CHANCELLOR PAYS A VISIT CHAPTER VII. TEA IN...
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A Drift from Redwood CampA Drift from Redwood Camp They had all known him as a shiftless, worthless creature. From the time he first entered Redwood Camp, carrying his entire effects in a red handkerchief on the end of a long-handled shovel, until he lazily drifted out of...
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A Phyllis of the SierrasA Phyllis of the Sierras Where the great highway of the Sierras nears the summit, and the pines begin to show sterile reaches of rock and waste in their drawn-up files, there are signs of occasional departures from the main road, as if the...
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Sally DowsSally Dows What had been in the cool gray of that summer morning a dewy country lane, marked only by a few wagon tracks that never encroached upon its grassy border, and indented only by the faint footprints of a crossing fox or coon,...
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The Argonauts of North LibertyThe Argonauts of North Liberty The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless on the seventh, when the Sabbath sun, after vainly trying...
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Medical Essays, 1842-1882Medical Essays, 1842-1882 These Essays are old enough now to go alone without staff or crutch in the shape of Prefaces. A very few words may be a convenience to the reader who takes up the book and wishes to know what he is...
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A Mortal AntipathyA Mortal Antipathy Pray, do you remember, when there was an accession to the nursery in which you have a special interest, whether the new-comer was commonly spoken of as a baby? Was it not, on the contrary, invariably, under all conditions, in all...
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Jeff Briggs's Love StoryJeff Briggs's Love Story It was raining and blowing at Eldridge's Crossing. From the stately pine-trees on the hill-tops, which were dignifiedly protesting through their rigid spines upward, to the hysterical willows in the hollow, that had whipped themselves into a maudlin fury, there...
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A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other StoriesA Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories The steamer Silveropolis was sharply and steadily cleaving the broad, placid shallows of the Sacramento River. A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening...
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The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other StoriesThe Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories Where the North Fork of the Stanislaus River begins to lose its youthful grace, vigor, and agility, and broadens more maturely into the plain, there is a little promontory which at certain high stages of water lies...
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BurlesquesBurlesques THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., THE TREMENDOUS ADVENTURES OF MAJOR GAHAGAN. In the Morning of Life the Truthful wooed the Beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother's ravishing smile;...
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The Poet at the Breakfast-TableThe Poet at the Breakfast-Table It is now nearly twenty years since this book was published. Being the third of the Breakfast-Table series, it could hardly be expected to attract so much attention as the earlier volumes. Still, I had no reason to be...
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The Professor at the Breakfast-TableThe Professor at the Breakfast-Table This book is one of those which, if it lives for a number of decades, and if it requires any Preface at all, wants a new one every ten years. The first Preface to a book is apt to...
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The Story of a MineThe Story of a Mine UDO BRACHVOGEL, Esq., Whose clever translations of my writings have helped to introduce me to the favor of his countrymen, both here and in Germany, this little volume is heartily dedicated. It was a steep trail leading over the...
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Du côté de chez SwannDu côté de chez Swann Longtemps, je me suis couch de bonne heure. Parfois, peine ma bougie teinte, mes yeux se fermaient si vite que je navais pas le temps de me dire: Je mendors. Et, une demi-heure aprs, la pense quil tait temps...
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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 THIS work has been undertaken principally from a conviction that it is the performance of a duty which, to the best of my ability, it is incumbent on me to fulfil. Though even on this ground...
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John Leech's Pictures of Life and CharacterJohn Leech's Pictures of Life and Character We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was Boydell's Shakspeare, black and...
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