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The Outspan: Tales of South AfricaThe Outspan: Tales of South AfricaIt was a remark dropped by a forgotten someone in a prospectors hut one night, years and years ago, when we had exhausted snakes and hunting, lucky strikes and escapes, and had got away into coincidences. One of the...
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Pink Gods and Blue DemonsPink Gods and Blue DemonsKimberley was once the most famous diamond diggings in the world. Rhodes founded his fortunes there, and the friendships that backed him throughout his career. In the tented camps, hundreds of men became millionaires, and hundreds of others went to...
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CaybiganCaybiganWe were sitting around the big centre table in the sala of the "House of Guests" in Ilo-Ilo. We were teachers from Occidental Negros. It was near Christmas; we had left our stations for the holidaysthe cholera had just swept them and the aftermath...
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The City of Numbered DaysThe City of Numbered DaysIt was not characteristic of Brouillardthe Brouillard Grislow knew bestthat he should suffer the purely technical talk of dams and reservoirs, bed-rock anchorages, and the latest word in concrete structural processes to languish and should drift into personal reminiscences over...
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Jane OglanderJane OglanderIt was a little after four o'clockon the bridge perhaps the quietest time of the working daybut a ceaseless stream of human beings ebbed to and fro. She herself came from the Surrey side of the river, and now and again she stayed...
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Stories and PicturesStories and PicturesMy heartfelt thanks are due to all those who, directly or indirectly, have helped in the preparation of this book of translations; among the former, to Professor Israel Abrahams, for invaluable help and advice at various junctures; and to Mr. B. B.,...
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Kitty's ConquestKitty's ConquestThe incidents of this little story occurred some twelve years ago, and it was then that the story was mainly written. If it meet with half the kindness bestowed upon his later work it will more than fulfil the hopes of CHAPTER I....
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Trotzkopf's BrautzeitTrotzkopf's BrautzeitIlse und Leo saen lustig plaudernd auf der Veranda vor dem Macketschen Hause. Der warme Mittagssonnenschein eines heiteren Oktobertages stahl sich durch das dichte Blttergewirr des herbstlich gefrbten Weinlaubes zu ihnen herein. Leo Gontrau erzhlte soeben von seinem Leben in der kleinen Stadt,...
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The TigressThe TigressHe was slow to reassure her, and she was impatient. "Because," she explained, "I never know just what to say or do when they weep. I'm never at a loss at other times; but" "It isn't unusual," she explained. "Sometimes they storm. I've...
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The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of LebrennThe Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn - A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848THE GOLD SICKLE; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. THE BRASS BELL; or, The Chariot of Death. THE IRON COLLAR; or, Faustine and Syomara....
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Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 20Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 20It is now about twenty years sin' I first raised my voice in the desk o' the kirk o' St Fillan's, in the parish o' that name, and He wha out o' the mouths o'...
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Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young LadyOlinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young LadyA standard modern history of the English novel speaks ofi "the appearance of the novel round about 1700. Nothing that preceded it in the way of prose fiction can explain it."1 Though today many scholars would...
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The Argus PheasantThe Argus Pheasant Ah, God, for a man with a heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone Forever and ever by; One still, strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call himwhat care I? Aristocrat, democrat, autocratone Who can...
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The WayfarersThe Wayfarers There is no sight more uninspiring than a ferry-boat crowded with human beings at a quarter of six oclock in the evening, when the great homeward rush from the offices and commercial houses sets in. At that time, although there are some...
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The RanchmanThe Ranchman Even the electric fans futilely combated the heat; their droning hum bespoke terrific revolutions which did not materially lessen the discomfort of the occupants of the coach; and the dry, dead dust of the desert, the glare of a white-hot sun, the...
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Le Roman de Léonard de Vinci: La résurrection des DieuxLe Roman de Léonard de Vinci: La résurrection des DieuxNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Dans la...
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The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1The wars described in The Deluge are the most complicated and significant in the whole career of the Commonwealth, for the political motives which came into play during these wars had their origin...
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The Main ChanceThe Main ChanceThe president of the Clarkson National Bank ignored the question and rolled his cigar from one side of his mouth to the other, as he waited for his words to make their full impression upon his visitor. "No, sir;" the banker continued,...
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The Return of the SoldierThe Return of the SoldierAH, don't begin to fuss!" wailed Kitty. "If a woman began to worry in these days because her husband hadn't written to her for a fortnight! Besides, if he'd been anywhere interesting, anywhere where the fighting was really hot, he'd...
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The Adventures of a Widow: A NovelThe Adventures of a Widow: A NovelIt is not long ago that the last conservative resident of Bond Street, proud of his ancient possessorship and no doubt loving the big brick structure with arched doorway and dormer windows in which he first saw the...
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