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YollopYollop In the first place, Mr. Yollop knew nothing about firearms. And so, after he had overpowered the burglar and relieved him of a fully loaded thirty-eight, he was singularly unimpressed by the following tribute from the bewildered and somewhat exasperated captive: "Say, ain't...
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The FlyersThe Flyers A cold, thick drizzle, blown by a biting wind that sent chills to the marrow, marred the early spring night, and kept indoors the few hardy members who had haunted the clubhouse since the season's opening a week before. Not more than...
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The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"The Baroness Volterra drove to the Palazzo Conti in the heart of Rome at nine o'clock in the morning, to be sure of finding Donna Clementina at home. She had tried twice to telephone, on...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 7Sketches New and Old, Part 7.I had never seen him before. He brought letters of introduction from mutual friends in San Francisco, and by invitation I breakfasted with him. It was almost religion, there in the silver-mines, to precede such a meal with whisky...
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The Young Step-Mother Or, A Chronicle of MistakesThe Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes Have you talked it over with her? said Mr. Ferrars, as his little slender wife met him under the beeches that made an avenue of the lane leading to Fairmead vicarage. I cannot say I expected...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 5Sketches New and Old, Part 5.I do not wish to write of the personal habits of these strange creatures solely, but also of certain curious details of various kinds concerning them, which, belonging only to their private life, have never crept into print. Knowing...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 6Sketches New and Old, Part 6."Now that corpse," said the undertaker, patting the folded hands of deceased approvingly, was a brick-every way you took him he was a brick. He was so real accommodating, and so modest-like and simple in his last moments. Friends...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 4Sketches New and Old, Part 4.This party was one of those persons whom they call Philosophers. He was twins, being born simultaneously in two different houses in the city of Boston. These houses remain unto this day, and have signs upon them worded in...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 3Sketches New and Old, Part 3.What a commentary is this upon human justice! What sad prominence it gives to our human disposition to tyrannize over the weak! San Francisco has little right to take credit to herself for her treatment of this poor boy....
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Sketches New and Old, Part 2Sketches New and Old, Part 2."MORAL STATISTICIAN."I don't want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 1Sketches New and Old, Part 1.My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to...
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Recalled to LifeRecalled to Life It may sound odd to say so, but the very earliest fact that impressed itself on my memory was a scene that took placeso I was toldwhen I was eighteen years old, in my fathers house, The Grange, at Woodbury. My...
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The MoneychangersThe Moneychangers Ollie's been telling everybody about her, said Reggie. It sounds really wonderful. But I fear he must have exaggerated. People seem to develop a tendency to exaggeration, said Montague, when they talk about Lucy. Allan Montague looked at him and smiled. There...
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The Courage of the CommonplaceThe Courage of the Commonplace The girl and her chaperon had been deposited early in the desirable second-story window in Durfee, looking down on the tree. Brant was a senior and a "Bones" man, and so had a leading part to play in the...
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The Gilded Age, Part 7The Gilded Age, Part 7.He accompanied Miss Hawkins to New York at her request, supposing she was coming in relation to a bill then pending in Congress, to secure the attendance of absent members. Her note to him was here shown. She appeared to...
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The Gilded Age, Part 4The Gilded Age, Part 4.Whatever may have been the language of Harry's letter to the Colonel, the information it conveyed was condensed or expanded, one or the other, from the following episode of his visit to New York: He called, with official importance in...
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The Gilded Age, Part 3The Gilded Age, Part 3.Mr. Harry Brierly drew his pay as an engineer while he was living at the City Hotel in Hawkeye. Mr. Thompson had been kind enough to say that it didn't make any difference whether he was with the corps or...
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The Gilded Age, Part 6The Gilded Age, Part 6.Philip left the capitol and walked up Pennsylvania Avenue in company with Senator Dilworthy. It was a bright spring morning, the air was soft and inspiring; in the deepening wayside green, the pink flush of the blossoming peach trees, the...
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The Gilded Age, Part 5The Gilded Age, Part 5."Even if that were the case it could not affect you, Miss Hawkins," said the chairman gallantly. "Fame does not place you in the list of ladies who rank below perfection." This happy speech delighted Mr. Buckstone as much as...
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The Gilded Age, Part 2The Gilded Age, Part 2.Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral, when something happened which was to change the drift of Laura's life somewhat, and influence in a greater or lesser degree the formation of her character. Major Lackland had once...
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