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The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, ClairvoyantThe House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant In a Boston and Albany parlor-car, east bound through the Berkshires, sat a young man respectfully, but intently studying a young woman. Now and then, from the newspapers heaped in...
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The Pretty LadyThe Pretty Lady"Virtue has never yet been adequately represented by any who have had any claim to be considered virtuous. It is the sub-vicious who best understand virtue. Let the virtuous people stick to describing vicewhich they can do well enough." The piece was...
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A Spinner in the SunA Spinner in the SunThe little house was waiting, as it had waited for many years. Grey and weather-worn, it leaned toward the sheltering hillside as though to gather from the kindly earth some support and comfort for old age. Five-and-twenty Winters had broken...
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MarriageMarriage"Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessitiesin the performance of daily dutiesin the removal of small inconveniencesin the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as...
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Consuelo, Tome 1 (1861)Consuelo, Tome 1 (1861)Ce long roman de Consuelo, suivi de la Comtesse de Rudolstadt et accompagn, lors de sa publication dans la Revue indpendante, de deux notices sur Jean Ziska et Procope le Grand, forme un tout assez important comme apprciation et rsum de...
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The Vertical CityThe Vertical CityBy that same architectural gesture of grief which caused Jehan at Agra to erect the Taj Mahal in memory of a dead wife and a cold hearthstone, so the Bon Ton hotel, even to the pillars with red-freckled monoliths and peacock-backed lobby...
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The Roll-CallThe Roll-CallIn the pupils' room of the offices of Lucas & Enwright, architects, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, George Edwin Cannon, an articled pupil, leaned over a large drawing-board and looked up at Mr. Enwright, the head of the firm, who with cigarette and stick was...
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Spanish DoubloonsSpanish DoubloonsNever had life seemed more fair and smiling than at the moment when Aunt Jane's letter descended upon me like a bolt from the blue. The fact is, I was taking a vacation from Aunt Jane. Being an orphan, I was supposed to...
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A Happy BoyA Happy Boy"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjornson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfectly artless simplicity...
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)Daniel De Foe was descended from a respectable family in the county of Northampton, and born in London, about the year 1663. His father, James Foe, was a butcher, in the parish of St. Giless, Cripplegate, and...
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Contes d'AmériqueContes d'AmériqueBah! subissons encore cette petite corve et nous aurons, en revanche, le plaisir d'entrevoir Mlles Kate et Lizzie L'une d'elles, je crois, ne dplat pas celui de nous qui ne lui prfre pas sa soeur? Tout rappelle l'Allemagne, du reste, dans cette rgion...
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Around Old Bethany: A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary DavisAround Old Bethany: A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary DavisThis small volume was first published in the year of 1925, but it has been out of print for many years. The present reprint edition is in response to requests for it...
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Lyhyitä kertomuksiaLyhyitä kertomuksiaHn oli kyln lemmikki. Vanhat hnt suosivat, nuoret hnt ihaelivat ja lapset hnt ystvnns rakastivat. Ei ollut aatetta niin ylev, jot'ei sydmens olisi omistanut, ei mr niin korkeata, jonka saavuttamisesta olisi epillyt. Poikana heilui hn korkeimpien puiden latva-oksilla, nuorukaisena taisteli hn metsn vkevin...
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Get Next!Get Next!"Get the saw, Pete, and cut it," I said; "it's many a long day since I've been a Patsy for the ponies. Once they stung me so hard that for months my bank account looked like a porous plaster, so I took the...
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The RegentThe RegentThe first two words of this disturbing meditation had reference to the fact that, by telephoning twice to his stockbrokers at Manchester, he had just made the sum of three hundred and forty-one pounds in a purely speculative transaction concerning Rubber Shares. (It...
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Back to the Woods: The Story of a Fall from GraceBack to the Woods: The Story of a Fall from GraceJust how I happened to join the Dream Builders' Association I don't know, but for several weeks I was Willie the Wild Boy at the race track and I kept all the Bookmakers busy...
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You Can Search MeYou Can Search Me"I must dig up a few old shoes and have a plate of cold rice pudding on the doorstep," I went on. "It's going to afford me a bunch of keen delight to soak you in the midriff with a rusty...
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Ylösnousemus IIYlösnousemus IIKahden viikon kuluttua saattoi asia tulla esitellyksi senaatissa ja tksi ajaksi aikoi Nehljudof matkustaa Pietariin. Ellei olisi menestyst senaatissa, jttisi hn anomuksen Keisarilliselle Majesteetille, kuten asianajaja oli neuvonut. Siin tapauksessa ettei nyt valitus tulisi otetuksi huomioon, mihin asianajajan mielest oli valmistuminen, koska kassatsiooniaiheet...
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The Purple HeightsThe Purple Heights PETER CHAMPNEYS: Of Riverton, South Carolina, and Paris, France. MARIA CHAMPNEYS: His Mother. CHADWICK CHAMPNEYS: The God in the Machine. EMMA CAMPBELL: A Colored Woman. ANNE CHAMPNEYS, NE NANCY SIMMS: Cinderella. MRS. JOHN HEMINGWAY: Peter's First Teacher. JOHN HEMINGWAY: An American....
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The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English HistoryThe Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History Ursus and Homo were fast friends. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf. Their dispositions tallied. It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his own name. Having found...
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