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The Lively Poll: A Tale of the North SeaThe Lively Poll: A Tale of the North SeaWith rough pilot coat and sou-wester, scarred and tarred hands, easy, rolling gait, and boots from heel to hip, with inch-thick soles, like those of a dramatic buccaneer, he bore as little resemblance to the popular...
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Mrs. Dud's SisterMrs. Dud's Sister They were having tea on the terrace. As Varian strolled up to the group he wished that Hunter could see the picture they madeHunter, who had not been in America for thirty years, and who had been so honestly surprised when...
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Julia The ApostateJulia The Apostate Young for youpar exemple! I should say not, her niece replied, perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her aunt's head. Carolyn used par exemple as a good cook uses oniona hint of it in everything. There were those who...
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The courting of Lady JaneThe courting of Lady Jane The colonel entered his sister's room abruptly, sat down on her bed, and scattered a drawerful of fluffy things laid out for packing. You don't seem to think about my side of the matter, he said gloomily. What am...
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In The Valley Of The ShadowIn The Valley Of The Shadow TO Belden, pacing the library doggedly, the waiting seemed interminable, the strain unnecessarily prolonged. A half-hour ago quick feet had echoed through the upper halls, windows had opened, doors all but slammed, vague whisperings and drawn breaths had...
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A PhilanthropistA Philanthropist I suspected him from the first, said Miss Gould, with some irritation, to her lodger. She spoke with irritation because of the amused smile of the lodger. He bowed with the grace that characterized all his lazy movements. He looked very much...
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A Reversion To TypeA Reversion To Type She had never felt so tired of it all, it seemed to her. The sun streamed hot across the backs of the shining seats into her eyes, but she was too tired to get the window-pole. She watched the incoming...
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A Midnight FantasyA Midnight Fantasy It was close upon eleven o'clock when I stepped out of the rear vestibule of the Boston Theatre, and, passing through the narrow court that leads to West Street, struck across the Common diagonally. Indeed, as I set foot on the...
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Quite SoQuite So Of course that was not his name. Even in the State of Maine, where it is still a custom to maim a child for life by christening him Arioch or Shadrach or Ephraim, nobody would dream of calling a boy Quite So....
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Mademoiselle Olympe ZabriskiMademoiselle Olympe Zabriski We are accustomed to speak with a certain light irony of the tendency which women have to gossip, as if the sin itself, if it is a sin, were of the gentler sex, and could by no chance be a masculine...
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Père Antoine's Date-PalmPère Antoine's Date-Palm Near the Leve, and not far from the old French Cathedral in the Place dArmes, at New Orleans, stands a fine date-palm, thirty feet in height, spreading its broad leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous roots...
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Miss Mehetabel's SonMiss Mehetabel's Son You will not find Greenton, or Bayley's Four-Corners, as it is more usually designated, on any map of New England that I know of. It is not a town; it is not even a village; it is merely an absurd hotel....
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Our New Neighbors At PonkapogOur New Neighbors At Ponkapog When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, on the Old Bay Road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest structure was set well back from the road, among...
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A Rivermouth RomanceA Rivermouth Romance At five o'clock on the morning of the tenth of July, 1860, the front door of a certain house on Anchor Street, in the ancient seaport town of Rivermouth, might have been observed to open with great caution. This door, as...
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A Struggle For LifeA Struggle For Life One morning as I was passing through Boston Common, which lies between my home and my office, I met a gentleman lounging along The Mall. I am generally preoccupied when walking, and often thread my way through crowded streets without...
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The Magic FishboneThe Magic Fishbone - A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is the second of four stories entitled Holiday Romance and was published originally in a childrens magazine...
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Sisar RosaSisar Rosa"Hyvin kiitollinen, kunnioitettava vanha ystvni, niin hauskasta ja odottamattomasta vastauksesta minun kysymykseeni. Siihen katsoen ett min olen herra Danville'n palvelija, hnen, joka nyttelee tuota trket sulhasen osaa siin pikku hkomediassa, jota tarkoitatte, luulen voivani vakuuttaa teille, ilman loukkaamatta, ett uutisenne on, mikli se...
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IndirectionIndirectionElwar Forell leaned back in his chair, looking about the small dining salon. The usual couples were there, he noticed. Of course, the faces were different from those of last evening, but the poses were similar. And the people were there for the same...
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One Day At ArleOne Day At Arle One day at Arlea tiny scattered fishing hamlet on the northwestern English coastthere stood at the door of one of the cottages near the shore a woman leaning against the lintel-post and looking out: a woman who would have been...
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"Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame""Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame" It was Madame who first entered the box, and Madame was bright with youthful bloom, bright with jewels, and, moreover, a beauty. She was a little creature, with childishly large eyes, a low, white forehead, reddish-brown hair, and...
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