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Franklin KaneFranklin KaneMiss Althea Jakes was tired after her long journey from Basle. It was a brilliant summer afternoon, and though the shutters were half closed on the beating Parisian sunlight, the hotel sitting-room looked, in its brightness, hardly shadowed. Unpinning her hat, laying it...
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Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)The word maja has no exact equivalent in English or in any of the modern languages. Literally, it means "bedecked," "showy," "gaudily attired," "flashy," "dazzling," etc., and it was applied at the end of the eighteenth century and at the...
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The White SisterThe White SisterThe Marchesa protested. It was only a very small matter, she said, a something in the eyes, or in the angle of the left eyebrow, or in the turn of the throat; she could not tell where it was, but it gave...
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Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And IronPrisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And IronFay stood on her balcony, and looked over the ilexes of her villa at Frascati; out across the grey-green of the Campagna to the little compressed city which goes by the great name of Rome. She gazed at...
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The Heart's KingdomThe Heart's Kingdom"A beautiful woman is intended to create a heaven on earth and she has no business wasting herself making imaginary excursions into any future paradise. The present is her time for action; and again, Charlotte, I ask you to name the day...
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Molly Make-BelieveMolly Make-BelieveThe morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make ita dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fireplace; a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm...
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From the HousetopsFrom the HousetopsMr. Templeton Thorpe was soon to be married for the second time. Back in 1860 he married a girl of twenty-two, and now in the year 1912 he was taking unto himself another girl of twenty-two. In the interim he had achieved...
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The Second LatchkeyThe Second Latchkey CHAPTER I. A White Rose CHAPTER II. Smiths and Smiths CHAPTER III. Why She Came CHAPTER IV. The Great Moment CHAPTER V. The Second Latchkey CHAPTER VI. The Beginningor the End? CHAPTER VII. The Countess de Santiago CHAPTER VIII. The Blue...
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Our Elizabeth: A Humour NovelOur Elizabeth: A Humour Novel Elizabeth is not a type; she is an individuality. Signs and omens at her birth no doubt determined her sense of the superstitious; but I trace her evolution as a figure of fun to some sketches of mine in...
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Vera NevillVera Nevill - Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance CHAPTER I.The Vicar's Family CHAPTER II. Kynaston Hall CHAPTER III. Fanning Dead Ashes CHAPTER IV. The Lay Rector CHAPTER V. "Little Pitchers" CHAPTER VI. A Soire at Walpole Lodge CHAPTER VII. Evening Reveries CHAPTER VIII. The Member...
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The Shield of SilenceThe Shield of SilenceUnlike, and separated by every circumstance that, according to the expected, should have kept them apartthey still had the same problem to confront and the solution had its beginning in that pleasant home for Episcopal Sisters which clings so enchantingly along...
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The Trumpeter SwanThe Trumpeter Swan There were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of themtwo in adjoining sections in the middle of the car, a third in the drawing-room, a fourth an intermittent occupant of a berth at the end. They had gone to...
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Manon LescautManon LescautQuoique j'eusse pu faire entrer dans mes Mmoires les aventures du chevalier des Grieux, il m'a sembl que n'y ayant point un rapport ncessaire, le lecteur trouverait plus de satisfaction les voir sparment. Un rcit de cette longueur aurait interrompu trop longtemps le...
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The Trumpeter SwanThe Trumpeter SwanThere were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of themtwo in adjoining sections in the middle of the car, a third in the drawing-room, a fourth an intermittent occupant of a berth at the end. They had gone to bed...
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Nora: Näytelmä kolmessa näytöksessäNora: Näytelmä kolmessa näytöksessä(Soma ja kauniisti vaikkei rikkaasti sisustettu huone. Oikealla puolella perll oleva ovi vie etuhuoneesen; toinen vasemmalla puolella perll oleva vie Helmerin tyhuoneesen. Nitten molempien ovien vlill on piano. Vasemmalla sivulla on keskell sein ovi ja edempn ikkuna. Lhell ikkunaa on ympyriinen...
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PrincessPrincessWhen the idea of a removal to Virginia was first mooted in the family of General Percival Smith, ex-Brigadier in the United States service, it was received with consternation and a perfect storm of disapproval. The young ladies, Norma and Blanche, rose as one...
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The Princess ElopesThe Princess Elopes It is rather difficult in these days for a man who takes such scant interest in foreign affairstrust a whilom diplomat for that!to follow the continual geographical disturbances of European surfaces. Thus, I can not distinctly recall the exact location of...
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Pepita JiménezPepita JiménezEl seor den de la catedral de..., muerto pocos aos ha, dej entre sus papeles un legajo, que, rodando de unas manos en otras, ha venido a dar en las mas, sin que, por extraa fortuna, se haya perdido uno solo de los...
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Sally Bishop: A RomanceSally Bishop: A RomanceAmongst the many things which I anticipate in the reception of this book, is the shrug-shoulder smile of critics at my sub-titlea Romance. There are canons and rubrics to be observed, it would seem, in the slightest action that a man...
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An Eye for an EyeAn Eye for an EyeAt a private asylum in the west of England there lives, and has lived for some years past, an unfortunate lady, as to whom there has long since ceased to be any hope that she should ever live elsewhere. Indeed,...
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