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Wanderings of French EdWanderings of French EdThe beginning of life is like the morning of a spring day and dreams are to one's soul what sunshine is to that dayoften too brilliant to last; but human nature needs a stimulant, and that stimulant is the ideal which...
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The Third VolumeThe Third VolumeWhen Spenser Tait took his seat at the breakfast table, he cast a look around, according to custom, to see that all was as orderly as he could wish. The neatest and most methodical of men, he was positively old maidish in...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10)The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) - Poetry - Volume 2This text uses UTF-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure...
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A Madeira PartyA Madeira PartySometime early in the second quarter of the century, in the City of Penn, and in what was then known as Delaware-Fourth street, soon after dusk in the evening, occurred the unimportant events of which I shall speak. The room was paneled...
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Afterwards, and Other StoriesAfterwards, and Other StoriesHe received the telegram in a garden where he was gazing on a vision of blue, set in the fronds of a palm, and listening to the song of the fishers, as it floated across the bay. You look so utterly...
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HathercourtHathercourtHathercourt Church is not beautiful, though the internal evidence in favour of its having at one time been so is considerable. It has suffered sorely at the hands of plasterers and white-washers; yet the utmost efforts of these misguided people have not altogether succeeded...
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Two StudiosTwo StudiosArt, in London, has many unexpected hiding-places. In the great palace-like houses of her successful followers she makes, it is true, at times an imposing show; but other votaries, less successful or more indifferent to outward glitter, find curious homes in which to...
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Kingsworth or, The Aim of a LifeKingsworth; or, The Aim of a LifeKingsworth was a moderate-sized old-fashioned house, standing amid bare undulating downs above a low line of chalky cliffs and looking over the sea. It was enclosed in a piece of barren down, which young half-grown trees were struggling...
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Thorpe RegisThorpe RegisNowadays the word change, when applied to a place, seems so naturally to carry in itself the ideas of growth, enlargement, and progress, that we find a certain difficulty in adopting the word in its retrograde sense, or of recognising other steps than...
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An InterloperAn InterloperMonsieur Raoul, in his carriage, was making the round of the estates. To a certain extent, this was a frequent custom, but there were times when it was attended by a more deliberate ceremony and purpose, and such was the case this morning....
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The Career of ClaudiaThe Career of ClaudiaShe was, it must be owned, rather surprised that no one had come to meet her at the station. Certainly she had assured them in her last letter that it was unnecessary, and that she could manage very well by herself;...
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WaynfleteWaynfleteAt ten oclock at night on the 4th of October, 1785, the master of Waynflete Hall sat playing at cards with Mr Maxwell of Ouseley, his neighbour and his enemy. By the fireside sat Waynfletes brother, the parson of the parish, and over the...
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An English SquireAn English SquireIn bringing this tale in a complete form before the public, I should wish it to be understood that it arose out of a series of conversations with a friend who suggested the character of Alvar Lester, to the original invention of...
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A London Baby: The Story of King RoyA London Baby: The Story of King RoyI first saw King Roy on a lovely summers evening near Hyde Park. It was a Sunday evening, and I recollect there was a light pleasant breeze, which just tempered the heat, and once in a playful...
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Jill: A Flower GirlJill: A Flower GirlThe London season was at its height. The weather was warm and sultry, the days were at their longest. The shops were gay with beautiful dresses, richly trimmed bonnets, gloves, parasols, hatsthe thousand and one pretty articles of usefulness and beauty...
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Imogen Or, Only EighteenImogen; Or, Only EighteenGrey Fells Hall was, I believe, the real name of the old housethe name by which it was described in the ancient deeds and documents, some of them so ancient as to be perfectly illegible, of which more than one chestful...
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The Laurel WalkThe Laurel WalkThere was a chemists shop at Craig Bay, quite a smart chemists shop, with plate-glass windows and the orthodox purple and other coloured jars of Rosamund fame. It was one of the inconsistencies of the place, of which there were several. For...
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Blanche: A Story for GirlsBlanche: A Story for GirlsAbout a quarter of a century ago, a young English girlAnastasia Fenning by namewent to pay a visit of a few weeks to friends of her family, whose home was a comfortable old house in the pleasantest part of France....
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Amethyst: The Story of a BeautyAmethyst: The Story of a BeautyWell, my dear Annabel, very glad to see you. You dont often give me a chance of entertaining you. Come and have some luncheon; one cant talk business on an empty stomach. Miss Annabel Haredale did not like champagne...
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White TurretsWhite TurretsFor the concert was one for a benevolent object, not seemingly a very popular one, or possibly merely but little known. It had been difficult to collect the performers, more difficult to obtain the lady patronesses, most difficult of all to sell the...
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