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Lucretia — CompleteLucretia — Complete It is somewhere about four years since I appeared before the public as the writer of a fiction, which I then intimated would probably be my last; but bad habits are stronger than good intentions. When Fabricio, in his hospital, resolved...
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Lucretia — Volume 06Lucretia — Volume 06We have now arrived at that stage in this history when it is necessary to look back on the interval in Lucretia's life,between the death of Dalibard, and her reintroduction in the second portion of our tale. One day, without previous...
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Lucretia — Volume 05Lucretia — Volume 05That Mr. Grabman slept calmly that night is probable enough, for his gin- bottle was empty the next morning; and it was with eyes more than usually heavy that he dozily followed the movements of Beck, who, according to custom, opened...
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Lucretia — Volume 04Lucretia — Volume 04The century has advanced. The rush of the deluge has ebbed back; the old landmarks have reappeared; the dynasties Napoleon willed into life have crumbled to the dust; the plough has passed over Waterloo; autumn after autumn the harvests have glittered...
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Lucretia — Volume 03Lucretia — Volume 03Dalibard had undertaken to get Lucretia from the house,in fact, her approaching marriage rendered necessary a communication with Mr. Parchmount, as executor to her uncle's will, relative to the transfer of her portion; and she had asked Dalibard to accompany her...
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Lucretia — Volume 02Lucretia — Volume 02The next day Sir Miles did not appear at breakfast,not that he was unwell, but that he meditated holding certain audiences, and on such occasions the good old gentleman liked to prepare himself. He belonged to a school in which, amidst...
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Lucretia — Volume 01Lucretia — Volume 01"Lucretia; or, The Children of Night," was begun simultaneously with "The Caxtons: a Family Picture." The two fictions were intended as pendants; both serving, amongst other collateral aims and objects, to show the influence of home education, of early circumstance and...
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What Will He Do with It? — CompleteWhat Will He Do with It? — Complete It was a summer fair in one of the prettiest villages in Surrey. The main street was lined with booths, abounding in toys, gleaming crockery, gay ribbons, and gilded ginger bread. Farther on, where the street...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 12What Will He Do with It? — Volume 12In the letter which George told Waife he had received from his uncle, George had an excuse for the delicate and arduous mission he undertook, which he did not confide to the old man, lest it...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 11What Will He Do with It? — Volume 11I pass over the joyous meeting betwen Waife and Sophy. I pass over George's account to his fair cousin of the scene he and Hartopp had witnessed, in which Waife's innocence had been manifested and his...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10We left Jasper Losely resting for the night at the small town near Fawley. The next morning he walked on to the old Manor-house. It was the same morning in which Lady Montfort had held her...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 09What Will He Do with It? — Volume 09It was a serene noonday in that melancholy interlude of the seasons when autumn has really ceasedwinter not yet visibly begun. The same hired vehicle which had borne Lionel to Fawley more than five years ago,...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 08What Will He Do with It? — Volume 08Guy Darrell resumed the thread of solitary life at Fawley with a calm which was deeper in its gloom than it had been before. The experiment of return to the social world had failed. The resolutions...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07"Many years since," resumed Darrell, with reflective air, "I read Miss Edgeworth's novels; and in conversing with Miss Honoria Vipont, methinks I confer with one of Miss Edgeworth's heroinesso rational, so prudent, so well-behavedso free from...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 Etchings of Hyde Park in the month of June, which, if this history escapes those villains the trunk-makers, may be of inestimable value to unborn antiquarians.Characters, long absent, reappear and give some account of themselves....
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05When leaves fall and flowers fade, great people are found in their country-seats. Look!that is Montfort Court,a place of regal magnificence, so far as extent of pile and amplitude of domain could satisfy the pride of...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04 In the kindliest natures there is a certain sensitiveness, which, when wounded, occasions the same pain, and bequeaths the same resentment, as mortified vanity or galled self-love. It is exactly that day week, towards the...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Certes, the lizard is a shy and timorous creature. He runs into chinks and crannies if you come too near to him, and sheds his very tail for fear, if you catch it by the...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 02What Will He Do with It? — Volume 02 Primitive character of the country in certain districts of Great Britain.Connection between the features of surrounding scenery and the mental and moral inclinations of man, after the fashion of all sound ethnological historians.A charioteer, to...
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01 In which the history opens with a description of the social manners, habits, and amusements of the English People, as exhibited in an immemorial National Festivity.Characters to be commemorated in the history, introduced and graphically...
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