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Children of the NightChildren of the Night CONTENTS The Children of the Night Three Quatrains The World An Old Story Ballade of a Ship Ballade by the Fire Ballade of Broken Flutes Ballade of Dead Friends Her Eyes Two Men Villanelle of Change John Evereldown Luke Havergal...
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Before AdamBefore Adam These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we crawl up out of the...
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Rhymes of a Rolling StoneRhymes of a Rolling Stone CONTENTS RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE A Rolling Stone The Soldier of Fortune The Gramaphone at Fond-Du-Lac The Land of Beyond Sunshine The Idealist Athabaska Dick Cheer The Return The Junior God The Nostomaniac Ambition To Sunnydale The Blind...
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Bunner SistersBunner Sisters In the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy...
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the...
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Three Elephant Power, and Other StoriesThree Elephant Power, and Other Stories Them things, said Alfred the chauffeur, tapping the speed indicator with his fingers, them things are all right for the police. But, Lord, you can fix 'em up if you want to. Did you ever hear about Henery,...
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Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other VersesRio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses The verses in this collection have appeared in papers in various parts of the world"Rio Grande" in London; most of the war verses in Bloemfontein; others in Sydney. A. B. Paterson. The City of Dreadful Thirst The...
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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2 The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting...
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The Count's MillionsThe Count's Millions It was a Thursday evening, the fifteenth of October; and although only half-past six oclock, it had been dark for some time already. The weather was cold, and the sky was as black as ink, while the wind blew tempestuously, and...
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The Ballad of Reading GaolThe Ballad of Reading Gaol You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt...
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Tales from Two HemispheresTales from Two Hemispheres ON the second day of June, 186, a young Norseman, Halfdan Bjerk by name, landed on the pier at Castle Garden. He passed through the straight and narrow gate where he was asked his name, birthplace, and how much money...
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The FlirtThe Flirt Valentine Corliss walked up Corliss Street the hottest afternoon of that hot August, a year ago, wearing a suit of white serge which attracted a little attention from those observers who were able to observe anything except the heat. The coat was...
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The Market-PlaceThe Market-Place THE battle was over, and the victor remained on the fieldsitting alone with the hurly-burly of his thoughts. His triumph was so sweeping and comprehensive as to be somewhat shapeless to the view. He had a sense of fascinated pain when he...
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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 You ought to buy it, said my host; its just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The...
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The Cash BoyThe Cash Boy The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care...
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The Captain of the Polestar, and Other TalesThe Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of Cornhill, Temple Bar, Belgravia, London Society, Cassells, and The Boys Own Paper. September 11th.Lat. 81 degrees 40...
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Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of HomeBeauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home We are about to relate a story of mingled fact and fancy. The facts are borrowed from the Russian author, Petjerski; the fancy is our own. Our task will chiefly be to soften the outlines of...
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The Golden AgeThe Golden Age 'T IS OPPORTUNE TO LOOK BACK UPON OLD TIMES, AND CONTEMPLATE OUR FOREFATHERS. GREAT EXAMPLES GROW THIN, AND TO BE FETCHED FROM THE PASSED WORLD. SIMPLICITY FLIES AWAY, AND INIQUITY COMES AT LONG STRIDES UPON US." SIR THOMAS BROWNE Looking back...
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Paul Prescott's ChargePaul Prescott's Charge PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE is presented to the public as the second volume of the Campaign Series. Though wholly unlike the first volume, it is written in furtherance of the same main idea, that every boy's life is a campaign, more or...
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The Stark Munro LettersThe Stark Munro Letters - Being series of twelve letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884 The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form...
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