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The Parisians — Volume 03The Parisians — Volume 03The next day the guests at the Morleys' had assembled when Vane entered. His apology for unpunctuality was cut short by the lively hostess. "Your pardon is granted without the humiliation of asking for it; we know that the characteristic...
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The Parisians — Volume 02The Parisians — Volume 02In a somewhat spacious apartment on the ground-floor in the quiet locality of the Rue d'Anjou, a man was seated, very still and evidently absorbed in deep thought, before a writing-table placed close to the window. Seen thus, there was...
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The Parisians — Volume 01The Parisians — Volume 01"The Parisians" and "Kenelm Chillingly" were begun about the same time, and had their common origin in the same central idea. That idea first found fantastic expression in "The Coming Race;" and the three books, taken together, constitute a special...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 06Paul Clifford — Volume 06When the irreverent Mr. Pepper had warmed his hands sufficiently to be able to transfer them from the fire, he lifted the right palm, and with an indecent jocularity of spirits, accosted the ci-devant ornament of "The Asinaeum" with a...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 07Paul Clifford — Volume 07O Fortuna, viris invida fortibus Quam non aqua bonis praemia dividis. SENECA. . . . . . . . . . . . . And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at...
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Paul Clifford — CompletePaul Clifford — Complete Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-education in which this Novel was composed. The contrast between conventional frauds, received as component parts of...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 03Paul Clifford — Volume 03When the moon rose that night, there was one spot upon which she palely broke, about ten miles distant from Warlock, which the forewarned traveller would not have been eager to pass, but which might not have afforded a bad...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 05Paul Clifford — Volume 05 The Two Gentlemen of Verona. On leaving the scene in which he had been so unwelcome a guest, Clifford hastened to the little inn where he had left his horse. He mounted and returned to Bath. His thoughts were...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 04Paul Clifford — Volume 04 Cato, the Thessalian, was wont to say that some things may be done unjustly, that many things may be done justly.LORD BACON (being a, justification of every rascality). Although our three worthies had taken unto themselves a splendid lodging...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 02Paul Clifford — Volume 02 Begirt with many a gallant slave, Apparelled as becomes the brave, Old Giaffir sat in his divan: . . . . . . . Much I misdoubt this wayward boy Will one day work me more annoy. Bride of...
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The Last of the Barons — CompleteThe Last of the Barons — Complete This was the first attempt of the author in Historical Romance upon English ground. Nor would he have risked the disadvantage of comparison with the genius of Sir Walter Scott, had he not believed that that great...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 01Paul Clifford — Volume 01This novel so far differs from the other fictions by the same author that it seeks to draw its interest rather from practical than ideal sources. Out of some twelve Novels or Romances, embracing, however inadequately, a great variety of...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 12The Last of the Barons — Volume 12Edward and his army reached St. Alban's. Great commotion, great joy, were in the Sanctuary of Westminster! The Jerusalem Chamber, therein, was made the high council-hall of the friends of York. Great commotion, great terror, were in...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 11The Last of the Barons — Volume 11The Chronicles inform us, that two or three days after the entrance of Warwick and Clarence,namely, on the 6th of October,those two leaders, accompanied by the Lords Shrewsbury, Stanley, and a numerous and noble train, visited the...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 10The Last of the Barons — Volume 10Fair are thy fields, O England; fair the rural farm and the orchards in which the blossoms have ripened into laughing fruits; and fairer than all, O England, the faces of thy soft-eyed daughters! From the field...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 09The Last of the Barons — Volume 09Hilyard was yet asleep in the chamber assigned to him as his prison, when a rough grasp shook off his slumbers, and he saw the earl before him, with a countenance so changed from its usual open...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 07The Last of the Barons — Volume 07"And what news?" asked Hastings, as he found himself amidst the king's squires; while yet was heard the laugh of the tymbesteres, and yet gliding through the trees might be seen the retreating form of Sibyll. To...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 08The Last of the Barons — Volume 08It was some weeks after the date of the events last recorded. The storm that hung over the destinies of King Edward was dispersed for the hour, though the scattered clouds still darkened the horizon: the Earl...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 06The Last of the Barons — Volume 06We must pass over some months. Warwick and his family had returned to London, and the meeting between Edward and the earl had been cordial and affectionate. Warwick was reinstated in the offices which gave him apparently...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 04The Last of the Barons — Volume 04The day after the events recorded in the last section of this narrative, and about the hour of noon, Robert Hilyard (still in the reverend disguise in which he had accosted Hastings) bent his way through the...
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