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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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Back HomeBack Home GENTLE READER:Let me make you acquainted with my book, Back Home. (Your right hand, Book, your right hand. Pity's sakes! How many times have I got to tell you that? Chest up and forward, shoulders back and down, and turn your toes...
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ClarenceClarence As Clarence Brant, President of the Robles Land Company, and husband of the rich widow of John Peyton, of the Robles Ranche, mingled with the outgoing audience of the Cosmopolitan Theatre, at San Francisco, he elicited the usual smiling nods and recognition due...
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Roundabout PapersRoundabout Papers I had occasion to pass a week in the autumn in the little old town of Coire or Chur, in the Grisons, where lies buried that very ancient British king, saint, and martyr, Lucius,* who founded the Church of St. Peter, on...
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The Pigeon PieThe Pigeon PieEarly in the September of the year 1651 the afternoon sun was shining pleasantly into the dining-hall of Forest Lea House. The sunshine came through a large bay-window, glazed in diamonds, and with long branches of a vine trailing across it, but...
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Heartsease Or, The Brother's WifeHeartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old...
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Legends and TalesLegends and Tales The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular incident I am...
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Urban SketchesUrban Sketches As I glance across my table, I am somewhat distracted by the spectacle of a venerable head whose crown occasionally appears beyond, at about its level. The apparition of a very small handwhose fingers are bunchy and have the appearance of being...
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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other StoriesMrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories The sun was rising in the foot-hills. But for an hour the black mass of Sierra eastward of Angel's had been outlined with fire, and the conventional morning had come two hours before with the down coach from...
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume IIIThe Forsyte Saga, Volume III. - Awakening Through the massive skylight illuminating the hall at Robin Hill, the July sunlight at five o'clock fell just where the broad stairway turned; and in that radiant streak little Jon Forsyte stood, blue-linen-suited. His hair was shining,...
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Ramsey MilhollandRamsey Milholland The old man and the little boy, his grandson, sat together in the shade of the big walnut tree in the front yard, watching the Decoration Day Parade, as it passed up the long street; and when the last of the veterans...
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume IIThe Forsyte Saga, Volume II. - Indian Summer of a Forsyte In the last day of May in the early nineties, about six oclock of the evening, old Jolyon Forsyte sat under the oak tree below the terrace of his house at Robin Hill....
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