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Returning HomeReturning HomeIt is generally supposed that people who live at home,good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever warm,it is generally supposed that these are the people who value home the most, and best appreciate all...
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A Ride Across PalestineA Ride Across PalestineCircumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of the Sepulchre alone. I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious animal, or, perhaps, rather one of those...
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A Daughter of the LandA Daughter of the Land Kate Bates followed the narrow footpath rounding the corner of the small country church, as the old minister raised his voice slowly and impressively to repeat the command he had selected for his text. Fearing that her head would...
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The Mistletoe BoughThe Mistletoe BoughThe point in dispute was one very delicate in its nature, hardly to be discussed in all its bearings, even in fiction, and the very mention of which between mother and daughter showed a great amount of close confidence between them. It...
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George Walker at SuezGeorge Walker at SuezOf all the spots on the worlds surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt, at the head of the Red Sea, is by far the vilest, the most unpleasant, and the least interesting....
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The Parson's Daughter of Oxney ColneThe Parson's Daughter of Oxney ColneThe prettiest scenery in all Englandand if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say in all Europeis in Devonshire, on the southern and south-eastern skirts of Dartmoor, where the rivers Dart, and Avon, and Teign form themselves,...
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Mrs. General TalboysMrs. General TalboysWhy Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained her purposes, soon after her arrival at the Eternal City, by declaring, in her own enthusiastic manner,...
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The Parenticide ClubThe Parenticide Club Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the jury, the judge of the Court of Acquittal remarked that it was one of the most ghastly...
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Aaron TrowAaron TrowI would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional geographers take me up, and say that no...
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The Chateau of Prince PolignacThe Chateau of Prince PolignacFew Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It is the capital of the old province of Le Velay, which also is now but little known, even to French ears, for it is in...
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The Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of AntwerpThe Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of AntwerpThat Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces and parliament of its own, is known to all the world....
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The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four MillionThe Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million Of course there are two sides to the question. Let us look at the other. We often hear shop-girls spoken of. No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make...
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An Unprotected Female at the PyramidsAn Unprotected Female at the PyramidsIn the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its...
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Love EternalLove Eternal You, whose privilege it is by instruction and example to strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees of many, may perhaps care to read of one whose human love led her from darkness into light and on to the gates...
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The Valiant RunawaysThe Valiant Runaways Roldan Castanada walked excitedly up and down the verandah of his father's house, his thumbs thrust into the red silk sash that was knotted about his waist, his cambric shirt open at the throat as if pulled impatiently apart; the soft...
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Happy HawkinsHappy Hawkins I wasn't really a Westerner an' that's why I'm so different from most of 'em. Take your regular bonie fide Westerner an' when he dies he don't turn to dust, he turns to alkali; but when it comes my turn to settle,...
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Foul PlayFoul Play THERE are places which appear, at first sight, inaccessible to romance; and such a place was Mr. Wardlaw's dining-room in Russell Square. It was very large, had sickly green walls, picked out with aldermen, full length; heavy maroon curtains; mahogany chairs; a...
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The Courtship of Susan BellThe Courtship of Susan BellJohn Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. He had thriven well as long as thrift and thriving on this earth had been allowed to him. But the Almighty...
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Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, JamaicaMiss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, JamaicaThere is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their decadence. I am not aware that the latter misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part of...
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The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last CrusadeThe Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last CrusadeIn these days of exactness even a childs historical romance must point to what the French term its pices justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de...
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