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The Firefly of FranceThe Firefly of France The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the...
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Christie Johnstone: A NovelChristie Johnstone: A Novel THIS story was written three years ago, and one or two topics in it are not treated exactly as they would be if written by the same hand to-day. But if the author had retouched those pages with his colors...
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Peg WoffingtonPeg Woffington To T. Taylor, Esq., my friend, and coadjutor in the comedy of Masks and Faces, to whom the reader owes much of the best matter in this tale: and to the memory of Margaret Woffington, falsely summed up until to-day, this Dramatic...
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A Woman-HaterA Woman-Hater Italics are indicated by the underscore character. Accent marks are indicated by a single quote (') after the vowel for acute accents and before the vowel for grave accents. Other accent marks are ignored. THE Golden Star, Homburg, was a humble hotel,...
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Wolfville DaysWolfville Days "No, sir, even onder spur an' quirt, my mem'ry can only canter back to one uprisin' of labor in Wolfville; that was printers." At this the Old Cattleman looked unduly sagacious, refreshed himself with a puff or two at his pipe, and...
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Andreas Hofer: An Historical NovelAndreas Hofer: An Historical NovelThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do...
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YvetteYvette A restless crowd was moving along the boulevard, that throng peculiar to summer nights, drinking, chatting, and flowing like a river, filled with a sense of comfort and joy. Here and there a cafe threw a flood of light upon a knot of...
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The Girl from Keller'sThe Girl from Keller's It was getting dark when Festing stopped at the edge of a ravine on the Saskatchewan prairie. The trail that led up through the leafless birches was steep, and he had walked fast since he left his work at the...
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Out of the Triangle: A Story of the Far EastOut of the Triangle: A Story of the Far East So, for four centuries, since the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, had priestesses of Ceres walked and called aloud their admonitions through this city; though of late years men had come to know that what...
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The RosaryThe Rosary The peaceful stillness of an English summer afternoon brooded over the park and gardens at Overdene. A hush of moving sunlight and lengthening shadows lay upon the lawn, and a promise of refreshing coolness made the shade of the great cedar tree...
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The Prospector: A Tale of the Crow's Nest PassThe Prospector: A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass It was one of November's rare days. The kindly air, vital with the breath of the north wind and mellow with the genial sun, was full of purple haze; the grass, still vividly green, gave...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3Occasionally the art of narrative may be improved by borrowing the method of the movies. Another night has passed, and we are called upon to imagine the watery sunlight of a mild winter afternoon filtering through bare...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2At certain moments during the days that followed the degree of tension her relationship with Ditmar had achieved tested the limits of Janet's ingenuity and powers of resistance. Yet the sense of mastery at being able to...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — CompleteThe Dwelling Place of Light — Complete In this modern industrial civilization of which we are sometimes wont to boast, a certain glacier-like process may be observed. The bewildered, the helplessand there are manyare torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left...
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The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1In this modern industrial civilization of which we are sometimes wont to boast, a certain glacier-like process may be observed. The bewildered, the helplessand there are manyare torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left...
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Who Cares? A Story of AdolescenceWho Cares? A Story of Adolescence Birds called. Breezes played among branches just bursting into green. Daffodils, proud and erect, stood in clumps about the dazzling lawn. Young, pulsing, eager things elbowed their way through last year's leaves to taste the morning sun; the...
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The Garden of AllahThe Garden of Allah The fatigue caused by a rough sea journey, and, perhaps, the consciousness that she would have to be dressed before dawn to catch the train for Beni-Mora, prevented Domini Enfilden from sleeping. There was deep silence in the Hotel de...
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Poor Miss FinchPoor Miss Finch More than one charming blind girl, in fiction and in the drama, has preceded "Poor Miss Finch." But, so far as I know, blindness in these cases has been always exhibited, more or less exclusively, from the ideal and the sentimental...
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Mother: A StoryMother: A Story As years ago we carried to your knees The tales and treasures of eventful days, Knowing no deed too humble for your praise, Nor any gift too trivial to please, So still we bring, with older smiles and tears, What gifts...
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The Guilty RiverThe Guilty River FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being aloneand, as a means of getting through my idle time, I was quite content to...
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