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Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st SeriesChronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series [It has been suggested to the Author that it might be well to reprint here a detailed account of the public dinner alluded to in the foregoing Introduction, as given in the newspapers of the time; and the...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a quarter of...
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SarrasineSarrasine I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproarious festivities. The clock on the Elysee-Bourbon had just struck midnight. Seated in a window recess and concealed behind...
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The Adventures of Reddy FoxThe Adventures of Reddy Fox I. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a Scare II. Granny Shows Reddy a Trick III. Bowser the Hound Isn't Fooled IV. Reddy Fox Grows Bold V. Reddy Grows Careless VI. Drummer the Woodpecker Drums in Vain VII. Too Late Reddy...
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Peace ManoeuvresPeace Manoeuvres The scout stood where three roads cut three green tunnels in the pine woods, and met at his feet. Above his head an aged sign-post pointed impartially to East Carver, South Carver, and Carver Centre, and left the choice to him. The...
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The Make-Believe ManThe Make-Believe Man I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enoughI was twenty-five last Octoberand have always gone half-way to meet them, adventures...
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The AmateurThe Amateur It was February off the Banks, and so thick was the weather that, on the upper decks, one could have driven a sleigh. Inside the smoking-room Austin Ford, as securely sheltered from the blizzard as though he had been sitting in front...
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A Charmed LifeA Charmed Life She loved him so, that when he went away to a little war in which his country was interested she could not understand, nor quite forgive. As the correspondent of a newspaper, Chesterton had looked on at other wars; when the...
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A Wasted DayA Wasted Day When its turn came, the private secretary, somewhat apologetically, laid the letter in front of the Wisest Man in Wall Street. From Mrs. Austin, probation officer, Court of General Sessions, he explained. Wants a letter about Spear. Hes been convicted of...
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The MessengersThe Messengers When Ainsley first moved to Lone Lake Farm all of his friends asked him the same question. They wanted to know, if the farmer who sold it to him had abandoned it as worthless, how one of the idle rich, who could...
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The SpyThe Spy My going to Valencia was entirely an accident. But the more often I stated that fact, the more satisfied was everyone at the capital that I had come on some secret mission. Even the venerable politician who acted as our minister, the...
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A Question of LatitudeA Question of Latitude Of the school of earnest young writers at whom the word muckraker had been thrown in opprobrium, and by whom it had been caught up as a title of honor, Everett was among the younger and less conspicuous. But, if...
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TattineTattine Whether you happen to be four or five, or six, or seven, or even older than that, no doubt you know by this time that a great many things need to be learned in this world, everything, in fact, and never more things...
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The Boys' Life of Abraham LincolnThe Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln's forefathers were pioneersmen who left their homes to open up the wilderness and make the way plain for others to follow them. For one hundred and seventy years, ever since the first American Lincoln came from...
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The Agony ColumnThe Agony Column Two years ago, in July that historic summer was almost unbearably hot. It seems, looking back, as though the big baking city in those days was meant to serve as an anteroom of torturean inadequate bit of preparation for the hell...
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A Man of BusinessA Man of Business The word lorette is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to supply a definition out...
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A Prince of BohemiaA Prince of Bohemia My dear friend, said Mme. de la Baudraye, drawing a pile of manuscript from beneath her sofa cushion, will you pardon me in our present straits for making a short story of something which you told me a few weeks...
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Massimilla DoniMassimilla Doni As all who are learned in such matters know, the Venetian aristocracy is the first in Europe. Its Libro dOro dates from before the Crusades, from a time when Venice, a survivor of Imperial and Christian Rome which had flung itself into...
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A Second HomeA Second Home The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an...
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Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced BorderBucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border I write your name on this page that you may know we hold you not less in our thoughts because you have heard and answered again the call of the frozen North, have for the time...
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