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A First Family of TasajaraA First Family of Tasajara As if to accent the words of the speaker a heavy gust of wind at that moment shook the long light wooden structure which served as the general store of Sidon settlement, in Contra Costa. Even after it had...
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Morning StarMorning Star Only a friendship extending over many years emboldened me, an amateur, to propose to dedicate a Romance of Old Egypt to you, one of the worlds masters of the language and lore of the great people who in these latter days arise...
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Eric BrighteyesEric Brighteyes Eric Brighteyes is a romance founded on the Icelandic Sagas. What is a saga? Is it a fable or a true story? The answer is not altogether simple. For such sagas as those of Burnt Njal and Grettir the Strong partake both...
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The Pension BeaurepasThe Pension BeaurepasI was not richon the contrary; and I had been told the Pension Beaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had a fancy for a literary career,...
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Nona VincentNona VincentI wondered whether you wouldnt read it to me, said Mrs. Alsager, as they lingered a little near the fire before he took leave. She looked down at the fire sideways, drawing her dress away from it and making her proposal with a...
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Greville FaneGreville FaneComing in to dress for dinner, I found a telegram: Mrs. Stormer dying; can you give us half a column for to-morrow evening? Let her off easy, but not too easy. I was late; I was in a hurry; I had very little...
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The ChaperonThe ChaperonAn old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression...
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The Real Thing and Other TalesThe Real Thing and Other TalesWhen the porters wife (she used to answer the house-bell), announced A gentlemanwith a lady, sir, I had, as I often had in those days, for the wish was father to the thought, an immediate vision of sitters. Sitters...
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Sir Dominick FerrandSir Dominick FerrandThere are several objections to it, but Ill take it if youll alter it, Mr. Lockets rather curt note had said; and there was no waste of words in the postscript in which he had added: If youll come in and see...
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Maiwa's Revenge Or, The War of the Little HandMaiwa's Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand It may be well to state that the incident of the Thing that bites recorded in this tale is not an effort of the imagination. On the contrary, it is plagiarized. Mandara, a well-known chief...
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Long Live the King!Long Live the King! LONG LIVE THE KING! CHAPTER I. THE CROWN PRINCE RUNS AWAY CHAPTER II. AND SEES THE WORLD CHAPTER III. DISGRACED CHAPTER IV. THE TERROR CHAPTER V. AT THE RIDING-SCHOOL CHAPTER VI. THE CHANCELLOR PAYS A VISIT CHAPTER VII. TEA IN...
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The Man Who Was AfraidThe Man Who Was Afraid OUT of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a...
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A Drift from Redwood CampA Drift from Redwood Camp They had all known him as a shiftless, worthless creature. From the time he first entered Redwood Camp, carrying his entire effects in a red handkerchief on the end of a long-handled shovel, until he lazily drifted out of...
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Louise de la ValliereLouise de la Valliere In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier...
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A Phyllis of the SierrasA Phyllis of the Sierras Where the great highway of the Sierras nears the summit, and the pines begin to show sterile reaches of rock and waste in their drawn-up files, there are signs of occasional departures from the main road, as if the...
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ColombaColomba Early in the month of October, 181-, Colonel Sir Thomas Nevil, a distinguished Irish officer of the English army, alighted with his daughter at the Hotel Beauveau, Marseilles, on their return from a tour in Italy. The perpetual and universal admiration of enthusiastic...
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The Bravo of Venice: A RomanceThe Bravo of Venice: A RomanceMatthew Gregory Lewis, who professed to have translated this romance out of the German, very much, I believe, as Horace Walpole professed to have taken The Castle of Otranto from an old Italian manuscript, was born in 1775 of...
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The Argonauts of North LibertyThe Argonauts of North Liberty The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless on the seventh, when the Sabbath sun, after vainly trying...
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The Lion's SkinThe Lion's Skin THE LION'S SKIN CHAPTER I. THE FANATIC CHAPTER II. AT THE ADAM AND EVE CHAPTER III. THE WITNESS CHAPTER IV. Mr. GREEN CHAPTER V. MOONSHINE CHAPTER VI. HORTENSIA'S RETURN CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON CHAPTER VIII. TEMPTATION CHAPTER IX. THE CHAMPION...
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Moby Dick Or, The WhaleMoby Dick; Or, The Whale The pale Usherthreadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of...
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