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The Watchers: A NovelThe Watchers: A NovelI had never need to keep any record either of the date or place. It was the fifteenth night of July, in the year 1758, and the place was Lieutenant Clutterbuck's lodging at the south corner of Burleigh Street, Strand. The...
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The TurnstileThe TurnstileAt the first glance it looked as if the midnight chimes of a clock in an old city of the Midlands might most fitly ring in this history. But we live in a very small island, and its inhabitants have for so long...
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The TruantsThe TruantsThere were only two amongst all Pamela Mardale's friends who guessed that anything was wrong with her; and those two included neither her father nor her mother. Her mother, indeed, might have guessed, had she been a different woman. But she was a...
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Parson KellyParson KellyThe authors wish to say that the proceedings of Lady Oxford are unhistorical. Swift mentions a rumour that there was such a lady, but leaves her anonymous. "What mighty quarrels rise from trivial things!" So wrote Mr. Alexander Pope, whom Nicholas Wogan remembers...
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Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three ActsGreen Stockings: A Comedy in Three ActsCAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that "GREEN STOCKINGS," being fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the British Empire, including the Dominion of Canada, and all the other countries of the...
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Miranda of the Balcony: A StoryMiranda of the Balcony: A StoryThe discovery made a great stir amongst the islands, and particularly at St. Mary's. In the square space before the Customs' House, on the little stone jetty, among the paths through the gorse of the Garrison, it became the...
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Hoof and ClawHoof and ClawCopyright, 1913, by The Illustrated Sunday Magazine and by The Cosmopolitan Magazine. Copyright, 1914, by The Pictorial Review Company, by The Illustrated Sunday Magazine, by The National Sunday Magazine, by the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and by John Adams Thayer Corporation. The gaunt, black...
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For JacintaFor JacintaIt was about seven o'clock in the evening when sobrecargo Austin boarded the little mail-boat Estremedura as she lay rolling at anchor on the long, moon-lit heave that worked into the roadstead of Santa Cruz, Palma. Sobrecargo means much the same thing as...
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The Affair at the Semiramis HotelThe Affair at the Semiramis HotelMr. Ricardo, when the excitements of the Villa Rose were done with, returned to Grosvenor Square and resumed the busy, unnecessary life of an amateur. But the studios had lost their savour, artists their attractiveness, and even the Russian...
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The Courtship of Morrice Buckler: A RomanceThe Courtship of Morrice Buckler: A RomanceIt chanced that as I was shifting the volumes in my library this morning, more from sheer fatigue of idleness than with any set intention--for, alas! this long time since I have lost the savour of books--a little...
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The Four Corners of the WorldThe Four Corners of the WorldMr. Twiss was a great walker, and it was his habit, after his day's work was done, to walk from his pleasant office in the Adelphi to his home at Hampstead. On an afternoon he was detained to a...
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The Life of George BorrowThe Life of George BorrowThere is a substantial biography of George Borrow in two large volumes by the late Dr. Knapp, an American professor who gave many years of devotion to the subject. But I have had the singular advantage over Dr. Knapp in...
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The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)The prints and engraved sequences of William Hogarth (1697-1764) inspired a wide range of dramatic entertainments throughout the eighteenth century. The types include comedy of manners (The Clandestine Marriage, 1766), burletta with tableau vivant (Ut...
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Love Among the Lions: A Matrimonial ExperienceLove Among the Lions: A Matrimonial ExperienceIn the following pages will be found the only authentic account of an affair which provided London, and indeed all England, with material for speculation and excitement for a period of at least nine days. So many inaccurate...
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Such Things Are: A Play, in Five ActsSuch Things Are: A Play, in Five ActsThe travels of an Englishman throughout Europe, and even in some parts of Asia, to soften the sorrows of the Prisoner, excited in the mind of the Author the subject of the following pages, which, formed into...
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Rambles in Dickens' LandRambles in Dickens' LandThe great majority of English readerson both sides of the Atlanticclaim personal acquaintance with Samivel Weller, Mark Tapley, Oliver Twist, and many more besides: the old companions of our schoolboy days. We cherish pleasant remembrance of the familiar green leaves of...
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The Honour of the ClintonsThe Honour of the Clintons Out of the smiling peace of the country-side came puffing the busy little branch-line train. It came to and fro half a dozen times a day, making a rare contact between the outside world and this sunny placid corner...
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The Eldest SonThe Eldest Son CHAPTER IThe Squire Is Infernally Worried IIA Question of Matrimony IIIExit Miss Bird IVThe Dower-House VLady George VIBlaythorn Rectory VIIThe Squire Puts His Foot Down VIIIThe Squire Feels Trouble Coming IXDick Pays a Sunday Visit XThe Meet at Apthorpe Common XIDick...
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Delilah of the SnowsDelilah of the SnowsThe tennis match was over, and Walter Ingleby stood swinging his racket impatiently beside an opening in the hazel hedge that overhung the lane. Wisps of hay were strewn about it, but already the nut bushes were sprinkled with the honeysuckle's...
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The Story of Charles Strange: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3)The Story of Charles Strange: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3)MR. SERJEANT STILLINGFAR sat at dinner in his house in Russell Square one Sunday afternoon. A great cause, in which he was to lead, had brought him up from circuit, to which he would...
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