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The Disowned — Volume 08The Disowned — Volume 08Plot on thy little hour, and skein on skein Weave the vain mesh, in which thy subtle soul Broods on its venom! Lo! behind, before, Around thee, like an armament of cloud, The black Fate labours onwardANONYMOUS. The dusk of...
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The Disowned — Volume 07The Disowned — Volume 07Forgive me, dearest Lady Westborough, for my violence: you know and will allow for the infirmities of my temper. I have to make you and Lady Flora one request, which I trust you will not refuse me. Do not see...
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The Disowned — Volume 06The Disowned — Volume 06One evening in autumn, about three years after the date of our last chapter, a stranger on horseback, in deep mourning, dismounted at the door of the Golden Fleece, in the memorable town of W. He walked into the taproom,...
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The Disowned — Volume 05The Disowned — Volume 05It is somewhat remarkable that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable of legacies, the doctrines of a philosophy he had acquired, perhaps too late to practise, Glendower was carrying those very doctrines, so far as his...
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The Disowned — Volume 04The Disowned — Volume 04"Cheer up, my dear boy," said Talbot, kindly, "we must never despair. What though Lady Westborough has forbidden you the boudoir, a boudoir is a very different thing from a daughter, and you have no right to suppose that the...
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The Disowned — Volume 03The Disowned — Volume 03Mrs. Trinket. What d'ye buy, what d'ye lack, gentlemen? Gloves, ribbons, and essences,ribbons, gloves, and essences. ETHEREGE. "And so, my love," said Mr. Copperas, one morning at breakfast, to his wife, his right leg being turned over his left, and...
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The Disowned — Volume 02The Disowned — Volume 02We left Clarence safely deposited in his little lodgings. Whether from the heat of his apartment or the restlessness a migration of beds produces in certain constitutions, his slumbers on the first night of his arrival were disturbed and brief....
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The Disowned — Volume 01The Disowned — Volume 01It was the evening of a soft, warm day in the May of 17. The sun had already set, and the twilight was gathering slowly over the large, still masses of wood which lay on either side of one of...
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Pelham — CompletePelham — Complete Ou peut-on etre mieux quau sein de sa famille?French Song. [Where can one be better than in the bosom of ones family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother...
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Pelham — Volume 08Pelham — Volume 08 Say. Ay, but I hope your Highness shall have his. 2nd Part of Henry IV. Punctual to his appointment, the next morning came Mr. Job Jonson. I had been on the rack of expectation for the last three hours previous...
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Pelham — Volume 07Pelham — Volume 07I rose at my usual early hour; sleep had tended to calm, and, I hope, also, to better my feelings. I had now leisure to reflect, that I had not embraced my party from any private or interested motive; it was...
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Pelham — Volume 06Pelham — Volume 06The whole country was in confusion at the news of the murder. All the myrmidons of justice were employed in the most active research for the murderers. Some few persons were taken up on suspicion, but were as instantly discharged. Thornton...
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Pelham — Volume 05Pelham — Volume 05My pamphlet took prodigiously. The authorship was attributed to the most talented member of the Opposition; and though there were many errors in style, and (I now think) many sophisms in the reasoning, yet it carried the end proposed by all...
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Pelham — Volume 04Pelham — Volume 04How well I can remember the feelings with which I entered London, and took possession of the apartments prepared for me at Mivart's. A year had made a vast alteration in my mind; I had ceased to regard pleasure for its...
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Pelham — Volume 03Pelham — Volume 03I had received for that evening (my last at Paris) an invitation from the Duchesse de B. I knew that the party was to be small, and that very few besides the royal family would compose it. I had owed the...
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Pelham — Volume 02Pelham — Volume 02I dined the next day at the Freres Provencaux; an excellent restaurateur's, by-the-by, where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English. After dinner, I strolled into the various gambling houses, with which the Palais Royal abounds. In one of these,...
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Pelham — Volume 01Pelham — Volume 01I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig, and gave sumptuous dinners; Lady Frances was a woman...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — CompleteThe Caxtons: A Family Picture — Complete If it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight, the...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 18The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 18Adieu, thou beautiful land, Canaan of the exiles, and Ararat to many a shattered ark! Fair cradle of a race for whom the unbounded heritage of a future that no sage can conjecture, no prophet divine, lies...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 17The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 17The stage-scene has dropped. Settle yourselves, my good audience; chat each with his neighbor. Dear madam in the boxes, take up your opera- glass and look about you. Treat Tom and pretty Sal to some of those...
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