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The Grand Babylon Hôtel Chapter One. THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE WAITER Chapter Two. HOW MR RACKSOLE OBTAINED HIS DINNER Chapter Three. AT THREE A.M. Chapter Four. ENTRANCE OF THE PRINCE Chapter Five. WHAT OCCURRED TO REGINALD DIMMOCK Chapter Six. IN THE GOLD ROOM Chapter...

Letters of Marcus Tullius CiceroPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Letters of Pliny GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, usually known as Pliny the Younger, was born at Como in 62 A. D. He was only eight years old when his father Caecilius died, and he was adopted by his uncle, the elder Pliny, author of...

Main-Travelled Roads An interesting phase of fiction, at present, is the material prosperity of the short story, which seems to have followed its artistic excellence among us with uncommon obedience to a law that ought always to prevail. Until of late the publisher has...

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3, 106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property and belonged to the class of...

To Have and to Hold TO HAVE AND TO HOLD CHAPTER I. IN WHICH I THROW AMBS-ACE CHAPTER II. IN WHICH I MEET MASTER JEREMY SPARROW CHAPTER III. IN WHICH I MARRY IN HASTE CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH I AM LIKE TO REPENT AT...

The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred Civilians in his Province, all the...

With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil WarMy Dear Lads: The Great War between the Northern and Southern States of America possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because it was a struggle between two sections of a people akin...

Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is no moral to this story. Rose is...

The Rise of David LevinskyPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Ramona IT was sheep-shearing time in Southern California, but sheep-shearing was late at the Senora Moreno's. The Fates had seemed to combine to put it off. In the first place, Felipe Moreno had been ill. He was the Senora's eldest son, and since his...

The Commonwealth of Oceana JAMES HARRINGTON, eldest son of Sir Sapcotes Harrington of Exton, in Rutlandshire, was born in the reign of James I, in January, 1611, five years before the death of Shakespeare. He was two or three years younger than John Milton....

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for...

Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country Early in the last century the hardy wood-choppers began to come west, out of Vermont. They founded their homes in the Adirondack wildernesses and cleared their rough acres with the axe and the charcoal pit. After...

The Queen of the Pirate Isle I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humor, deprecated...

The Wolves and the Lamb Scene.MILLIKEN'S villa at Richmond; two drawing-rooms opening into one another. The late MRS. MILLIKEN'S portrait over the mantel-piece; bookcases, writing-tables, piano, newspapers, a handsomely furnished saloon. The back-room opens, with very large windows, on the lawn and pleasure-ground; gate,...

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush I was born in the year one, of the present or Christian hera, and am, in consquints, seven-and-thirty years old. My mamma called me Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush, in compliment to several noble families, and to...

Bob, Son of Battle PART I. THE COMING OF THE TAILLESS TYKE Chapter I. THE GRAY DOG Chapter II. A SON OF HAGAR Chapter III. RED WULL Chapter IV. FIRST BLOOD PART II. THE LITTLE MAN Chapter V. A MAN'S SON Chapter VI. A...

Found at Blazing Star The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers...

Flip: A California Romance Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the...