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Prize MoneyPrize Money - Sailor's Knots, Part 10. The old man stood by the window, gazing at the frozen fields beyond. The sign of the Cauliflower was stiff with snow, and the breath of a pair of waiting horses in a wagon beneath ascended in...
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Double DealingDouble Dealing - Sailor's Knots, Part 11. Mr. Fred Carter stood on the spacious common, inhaling with all the joy of the holiday-making Londoner the salt smell of the sea below, and regarding with some interest the movements of a couple of men who...
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Peter's PencePeter's Pence - Sailor's Knots, Part 8. Sailormen don't bother much about their relations, as a rule, said the night-watchman; sometimes because a railway-ticket costs as much as a barrel o' beer, and they ain't got the money for both, and sometimes because most...
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The Head of the FamilyThe Head of the Family - Sailor's Knots, Part 9. Mr. Letts had left his ship by mutual arrangement, and the whole of the crew had mustered to see him off and to express their sense of relief at his departure. After some years...
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The Toll-HouseThe Toll-House - Sailor's Knots, Part 7. "It's all nonsense," said Jack Barnes. "Of course people have died in the house; people die in every house. As for the noiseswind in the chimney and rats in the wainscot are very convincing to a nervous...
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Sentence DeferredSentence Deferred - Sailor's Knots, Part 4. Fortunately for Captain Bligh, there were but few people about, and the only person who saw him trip Police-Sergeant Pilbeam was an elderly man with a wooden leg, who joined the indignant officer in the pursuit. The...
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Odd Man OutOdd Man Out - Sailor's Knots, Part 6. The night watchman pursed up his lips and shook his head. Friendship, he said, decidedly, is a deloosion and a snare. I've 'ad more friendships in my life than most peopleowing to being took a fancy...
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Matrimonial OpeningsMatrimonial Openings - Sailor's Knots, Part 5. Mr. Dowson sat by the kitchen fire smoking and turning a docile and well- trained ear to the heated words which fell from his wife's lips. "She'll go and do the same as her sister Jenny done,"...
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Self-HelpSelf-Help - Sailor's Knots, Part 3. The night-watchman sat brooding darkly over life and its troubles. A shooting corn on the little toe of his left foot, and a touch of liver, due, he was convinced, to the unlawful cellar work of the landlord...
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Homeward BoundHomeward Bound - Sailor's Knots, Part 2. Mr. Hatchard's conversation for nearly a week had been confined to fault- finding and grunts, a system of treatment designed to wean Mrs. Hatchard from her besetting sin of extravagance. On other occasions the treatment had, for...
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DesertedDeserted - Sailor's Knots, Part 1. "Sailormen ain't wot you might call dandyfied as a rule," said the night- watchman, who had just had a passage of arms with a lighterman and been advised to let somebody else wash him and make a good...
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Probable SonsProbable Sons "Children! They are a nuisance to everyonemy abomination, as you know, Jack. Why on earth they can not be kept out of sight altogether till they reach a sensible age is what puzzles me! And I suppose if anything could make the...
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Only an IncidentOnly an Incident 1883 Joppa was the very centre of all things. That was the opening clause in the creed of every well-educated and right-thinking Joppite. Geographically, however, it was not the centre of any thing, being considerably off from the great lines of...
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Recits d'un soldatRécits d'un soldat: Une armée prisonnière; Une campagne devant ParisLes pages qu'on va lire sont extraites d'un cahier de notes crites par un engag volontaire. Il n'y faut point chercher de graves tudes sur les causes qui ont amen les dsastres sous lesquels notre...
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Impressions of Theophrastus SuchImpressions of Theophrastus Such Itis my habit to give an account to myself of the characters I meet with: can I give any true account of my own? I am a bachelor, without domestic distractions of any sort, and have all my life been...
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The Broken RoadThe Broken RoadIt was the Road which caused the trouble. It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders...
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Between WhilesBetween WhilesWho buys? Who buys? 'Tis like a market-fair; The hubbub rises deafening on the air: The children spend their honest money there; The knaves prowl out like foxes from a lair. Who buys? Who sells? Alas, and still alas! The children sell their...
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Thoughts in HeadsМислите в главите - . . , - . , - . , . . , . - ! - . , - . , , - . . , , - - , ! ! , , , . , . , ....
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — FictionI remember my first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon as clearly as if it had been yesterday, though it is now more than a dozen years ago. When you had passed into his back garden, you...
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Boule de SuifBoule de SuifPendant plusieurs jours de suite des lambeaux d'arme en droute avaient travers la ville. Ce n'tait point de la troupe, mais des hordes dbandes. Les hommes avaient la barbe longue et sale, des uniformes en guenilles, et ils avanaient d'une allure molle,...
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