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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07I wish I had copied that passage from "The Table Talk" in large round hand, and set it before my father at breakfast, the morn preceding that fatal eve in which Uncle Jack persuaded him to tell...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06Reader, Mr. Trevanion has been half an hour seated in our little drawing-room. He has received two cups of tea from my mother's fair hand; he has made himself at home. With Mr. Trevanion has come another...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05In setting off the next morning, the Boots, whose heart I had won by an extra sixpence for calling me betimes, good-naturedly informed me that I might save a mile of the journey, and have a very...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning, day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and purity and freshness. The youth of Nature is contagious, like the gladness...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 03The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 03It was a beautiful summer afternoon when the coach set me down at my father's gate. Mrs. Primmins herself ran out to welcome me; and I had scarcely escaped from the warm clasp of her friendly hand...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 02The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 02When I had reached the age of twelve, I had got to the head of the preparatory school to which I had been sent. And having thus exhausted all the oxygen of learning in that little receiver,...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 01The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 01If it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight, the...
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The ReverberatorThe Reverberator I guess my daughters in here, the old man said leading the way into the little salon de lecture. He was not of the most advanced age, but that is the way George Flack considered him, and indeed he looked older than...
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Crucial InstancesCrucial InstancesHave you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house, that motionless mask, smooth, mute, equivocal as the face of a priest behind which buzz the secrets of the confessional? Other houses declare the activities they shelter; they are the...
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Count Alarcos a TragedyCount Alarcos; a Tragedy As there is no historical authority for the events of the celebrated Ballad on which this Tragedy is founded, I have fixed upon the thirteenth century for the period of their occurrence. At that time the kingdom of Castille had...
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Contes à NinonContes à NinonAVENTURES DU GRAND SIDOINE ET DU PETIT MDRIC I. Mes hros II. Ils se mettent en campagne III. Lger aperu sur les momies IV. Les poings de Sidoine V. Le discours de Mdric VI. Mdric mange des mres VII. O Sidoine devient...
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The Countess of EscarbagnasThe Countess of Escarbagnas'La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas' was acted before the Court at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on December 2, 1671, and in the theatre of the Palais Royal on July 8, 1672. It was never printed during Molire's lifetime, but for the first time only in 1682....
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The Resources of Quinola: A Comedy in a Prologue and Five ActsThe Resources of Quinola: A Comedy in a Prologue and Five ActsHad the author of the following play written it merely for the purpose of winning for it the universal praise which the journals have lavished upon his romances, and which perhaps transcended their...
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The ThirteenThe Thirteen In the Paris of the Empire there were found Thirteen men equally impressed with the same idea, equally endowed with energy enough to keep them true to it, while among themselves they were loyal enough to keep faith even when their interests...
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The Life of the Right Honorable Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1The papers from which the following Memoir is written were left to my exclusive care because for twenty-five years I was intimately associated with Sir Charles Dilke's home and work and life. Before...
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Chantry HouseChantry HouseThe united force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain...
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Lifted Masks storiesLifted Masks; stories N'avez-vous pas she was bravely demanding of the clerk when she saw that the bulky American who was standing there helplessly dangling two flaming red silk stockings which a copiously coiffured young woman assured him were bien chic was edging nearer...
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The Albany Depot : a FarceThe Albany Depot : a Farce Mrs. Roberts, with many proofs of an afternoons shopping in her hands and arms, appears at the door of the ladies room, opening from the public hall, and studies the interior with a searching gaze, which develops a...
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Archibald MalmaisonArchibald MalmaisonWhen I was a child, I used to hope my fairy-stories were true. Since reaching years of discretion, I have preferred acknowledged fiction. This inconsistency, however, is probably rather apparent than real. Experience has taught me that the greater the fairy-story the less...
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Home Lyrics: A Book of PoemsHome Lyrics: A Book of Poems This second volume of HOME LYRICS has been published since the death of the authoress, and in fulfilment of her last wishes, by her children, and is by them dedicated to the memory of the dearest of mothers,...
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