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The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's ServantThe Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's ServantThe schooner Seamew, of London, Captain Wilson master and owner, had just finished loading at Northfleet with cement for Brittlesea. Every inch of space was packed. Cement, exuded from the cracks, imparted to the hairy faces of...
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The Moving FingerThe Moving Finger Hiheyhold up there, mare, will you? What did you say, mister? A light? Yes. That s Trotting Cob, that is. The missus ll give us a cup of tea, but thats about all. Devil fly away with the mare. What is...
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba of IspahanThe Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan In the first decade of the present century Persia was for a short time the pivot of the Oriental interest of English and Indian statesmen. But little known and scarcely visited during the preceding century, it suddenly...
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Doom CastleDoom Castle It was an afternoon in autumn, with a sound of wintry breakers on the shore, the tall woods copper-colour, the thickets dishevelled, and the nuts, in the corries of Ardkinglas, the braes of Ardno, dropping upon bracken burned to gold. Until he...
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The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)Five o'clock in the afternoon. Rain ever since the morning, a gray sky, so low that one can touch it with one's umbrella, dirty weather, puddles, mud, nothing but mud, in thick pools, in gleaming streaks along the edge...
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Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of RichmondBefore the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of RichmondFor the rhyming pun, given by a member of The Mosaic Club, and quoted in the third chapter of this book, the author is indebted to T. C. DeLeon's "Four Years in Rebel Capitals." A...
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Glyn Severn's SchooldaysGlyn Severn's SchooldaysSlegge said it was all bosh; for fifty years ago a boy at school had not learned to declare that everything which did not suit his taste was rot. So Slegge stood leaning up against the playground wall with a supercilious sneer...
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Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian MutinyBegumbagh: A Tale of the Indian MutinyIve waited all these years, expecting some one or another would give a full and true account of it all; but little thinking it would ever come to be my task. For its not in my way; but...
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Charge! A Story of Briton and BoerCharge! A Story of Briton and BoerWhats the matter? I said excitedly, for my brother Bob came tearing down to the enclosure, sending the long-legged young ostriches scampering away towards the other side; and I knew directly that something unusual must be on the...
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Os Bravos do MindelloOs Bravos do Mindello - Romance HistoricoSeria salva do castello, ou vinha navio de Lisboa confirmar as aprehenses dos sonhos agitados em que Maria se esquivava sempre ao caloroso enlace dos seus braos, e um subito quebranto o impossibilitava de perseguil-a, e um sobresalto,...
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$500, or, Jacob Marlowe's secretFive Hundred Dollars; or, Jacob Marlowe's SecretSlowly through the village street walked an elderly man, with bronzed features and thin gray hair, supporting his somewhat uncertain steps by a stout cane. He was apparently tired, for, seeing a slight natural elevation under a branching...
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The Black CrossThe Black Cross It was night in St. Petersburg. The moon was high in the heavens, and the domes, crowned with a fresh diadem of snow, glittered with a dazzling whiteness. In the side streets the shadows were heavy, the faades of the great...
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ClayhangerClayhangerEdwin Clayhanger stood on the steep-sloping, red-bricked canal bridge, in the valley between Bursley and its suburb Hillport. In that neighbourhood the Knype and Mersey canal formed the western boundary of the industrialism of the Five Towns. To the east rose pitheads, chimneys, and...
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The MadigansThe MadigansShe felt so virtuous already that the carrying out of her intentions seemed really supererogatory. When she went to Irene to have her button her dress in the back, she had such a sensation of holiness, such a consciousness of a forbearing, pure,...
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The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of TheeThe Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee - (In the Reign of Queen Anne)Madamand nothing else, her dependants would have thought it an impertinence to call her Mrs Furnival. Never was Empress of all the Russias more despotic in her...
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"All's Well" or, Alice's Victory"All's Well"; or, Alice's VictoryTruly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads new jerkins. The speakers were two women, both on the younger side of middle age, who met on the road between Staplehurst and Cranbrook, the former coming...
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Shenac's Work at HomeShenac's Work at HomeA long time ago, something very sad happened in one of the districts of Scotland. I cannot tell you how it all came about, but a great many people were obliged to leave their homes where they and their forefathers had...
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The CarbonelsThe CarbonelsThe time was the summer of 1822. The place was a garden, somewhat gone to waste, with a gravel drive running round a great circle of periwinkles with a spotted aucuba in the middle. There was a low, two-storied house, with green shutters,...
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The Armourer's PrenticesThe Armourer's PrenticesThe home of the Birkenholt family was not one of the least delightful. It stood at the foot of a rising ground, on which grew a grove of magnificent beeches, their large silvery boles rising majestically like columns into a lofty vaulting...
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A Voice in the WildernessA Voice in the WildernessIt occurred to her, as she swung her heavy suit-case down the rather long step to the ground, and then carefully swung herself after it, that it was strange that neither conductor, brakeman, nor porter had come to help her...
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