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Ancient Ballads and Legends of HindustanAncient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan"I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved, more than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style."...
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Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of WomanPosthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of WomanThe following Letters may poibly be found to contain the finet examples of the language of entiment and paion ever preented to the world. They bear a triking reemblance to the celebrated...
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For Love of the King: A Burmese MasqueFor Love of the King: A Burmese MasqueThe very interesting and richly coloured masque or pantomimic play which is here printed in book form for the first time, was invented sometime in 1894 or possibly a little earlier. It was written, not for publication,...
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The Red RoomThe Red Room The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open. Ay, she broke in; and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. Theres a many things to see, when...
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The Roll-Call Of The ReefThe Roll-Call Of The Reef "Yes, sir," said my host, the quarryman, reaching down the relics from their hook in the wall over the chimneypiece; "they've hung here all my time, and most of my father's. The women won't touch 'em; they're afraid of...
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The White Chief: A Legend of Northern MexicoThe White Chief: A Legend of Northern MexicoOn the north a chaos of mountains, that continues on through thirty parallels to the shores of the Arctic Sea! On the south, the same mountains,here running in separate sierras, and there knotting with each other. On...
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The Eyes of AsiaThe Eyes of Asia From Bishen Singh Saktawut, Subedar Major, 215th Indurgurh [Todd's] Rajputs, now at Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England, this letter is sent to Madhu Singh, Sawant, Risaldar Major [retired] 146th [Dublana] Horse, on his fief which he holds under the Thakore Sahib of...
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The Albert Gate MysteryThe Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister DetectiveReginald Brett, barrister-at-law and amateur detective, had seldom been more at peace with the world and his own conscience than when he entered the dining-room of his cosy flat this bright October...
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The McBridesThe McBrides - A Romance of ArranCrotal, lichen. "A traill," you sluggard. Cleiteadh mor, big ridge of rocks. Bothanairidh, summer sheiling. Birrican, a place name. Rhuda ban, white headland. Bealach an sgadan, Herring slap. Skein dubh, black knife. Crubach, lame. Mo ghaoil, my darling....
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In Search of El DoradoIn Search of El DoradoThe Everest, newly launched, the biggest and fastest boat in the Trans-Atlantic services, was on her maiden voyage to New York. The fortunes of that voyage concern our story simply from the fact that it brought our two adventurers together...
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The Island TreasureThe Island TreasureSharply shouted out in quick succession came these orders from Captain Snaggs, the hoarse words of command ringing through the ship fore and aft, and making even the ringbolts in the deck jinglealbeit they were uttered in a sort of drawling voice,...
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Olla PodridaOlla PodridaReader, did you ever feel in that peculiarly distressing state of mind in which one oppressing idea displaces or colours every other, absorbing, intermingling with, empoisoning, and, like the filth of the harpy, turning every thing into disgustwhen a certain incubus rides upon...
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The Death Shot: A Story RetoldThe Death Shot: A Story RetoldLong time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was suffering severe affliction, both physically and mentallythe result of a gun-wound that brought him...
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Principle and Practice: The Orphan FamilyPrinciple and Practice: The Orphan FamilyLet none sit down to read this little tale, whose interest can only be excited by the relation of uncommon circumstances, of romantic adventures, of poetical perplexities, or of picturesque difficulties. No beauties of this kind will be here...
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The King's Esquires Or, The Jewel of FranceThe King's Esquires; Or, The Jewel of FranceHis Most Christian Majesty King Francis the First had a great preference for his Palace of Fontainebleau among the many places of residence from which he could choose, and it is interesting to glance into that magnificent...
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Julian HomeJulian HomeIt was Speech-day at Harton. From an early hour handsome equipages had been dashing down the street, and depositing their occupants at the masters houses. The perpetual rolling of wheels distracted the attention every moment, and curiosity was keenly on the alert to...
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The Lady of the Basement FlatThe Lady of the Basement FlatAt three oclock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland, with my hands full of ridiculous little silver shoes and horseshoes, and a...
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Our Little LadyOur Little Lady - Six Hundred Years AgoThe afternoon service was over in Lincoln Cathedral, and the congregation were slowly filing out of the great west door. But that afternoon service was six hundred years ago, and both the Cathedral and the congregation would...
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A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern SeasA Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern SeasA furious gust of wind tore down the chimney, blowing the smoke out into the small but cosily-furnished sitting-room of the little cottage at Kingston-on-Thames, and sending a shower of sparks hissing and spluttering on...
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A Forgotten Hero Or, Not for HimA Forgotten Hero; Or, Not for HimClarice, with another courtesy and a murmur of thanks, took her seat in the recess of the window, where her mother was already sitting. For these two were mother and daughter; a middle-aged, comfortable-looking mother, with a mixture...
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