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Heartsease Or, The Brother's WifeHeartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old...
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Legends and TalesLegends and Tales The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular incident I am...
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Urban SketchesUrban Sketches As I glance across my table, I am somewhat distracted by the spectacle of a venerable head whose crown occasionally appears beyond, at about its level. The apparition of a very small handwhose fingers are bunchy and have the appearance of being...
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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other StoriesMrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories The sun was rising in the foot-hills. But for an hour the black mass of Sierra eastward of Angel's had been outlined with fire, and the conventional morning had come two hours before with the down coach from...
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume IIIThe Forsyte Saga, Volume III. - Awakening Through the massive skylight illuminating the hall at Robin Hill, the July sunlight at five o'clock fell just where the broad stairway turned; and in that radiant streak little Jon Forsyte stood, blue-linen-suited. His hair was shining,...
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Ramsey MilhollandRamsey Milholland The old man and the little boy, his grandson, sat together in the shade of the big walnut tree in the front yard, watching the Decoration Day Parade, as it passed up the long street; and when the last of the veterans...
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume IIThe Forsyte Saga, Volume II. - Indian Summer of a Forsyte In the last day of May in the early nineties, about six oclock of the evening, old Jolyon Forsyte sat under the oak tree below the terrace of his house at Robin Hill....
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The Modern Regime, Volume 2The Modern Regime, Volume 2 "To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like our own encounters in this milieu, such was the program of the last5101 section of...
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The Modern Regime, Volume 1The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Neither lips nor heart are capable of pronouncing the above invigorating and conclusive phrase after a silence of 30 years. That local society ought to be a private association, does not interest those who are concerned, while the legislator...
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On the FrontierOn the Frontier It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines against the steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter of the Pacific Ocean. The weary...
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On the Decay of the Art of LyingOn the Decay of the Art of LyingObserve, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruptionno, for the Lie, as a Virtue, A Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge...
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Two Men of Sandy Bar: A DramaTwo Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama MISS MARY MORRIS.. The schoolmistress of Red Gulch, in love with Sandy, and cousin of Alexander Morton, sen. ALEXANDER MORTON ("SANDY").First dress: Mexican vaquero; black velvet trousers open from knee, over white trousers; laced black velvet jacket,...
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The Three PartnersThe Three Partners The sun was going down on the Black Spur Range. The red light it had kindled there was still eating its way along the serried crest, showing through gaps in the ranks of pines, etching out the interstices of broken boughs,...
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume IThe Forsyte Saga, Volume I. - The Man Of Property The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called The Man of Property; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged...
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Mr. Jack Hamlin's MediationMr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation At nightfall it began to rain. The wind arose too, and also began to buffet a small, struggling, nondescript figure, creeping along the trail over the rocky upland meadow towards Rylands's rancho. At times its head was hidden in what...
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Under the RedwoodsUnder the Redwoods As night crept up from the valley that stormy afternoon, Sawyer's Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but presently reappeared in little nebulous star-like points along the mountain side, as the straggling cabins of the settlement...
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Droll Stories — Volume 3Droll Stories — Volume 3Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an instalment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with...
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Tales of Trail and TownTales of Trail and Town It must be admitted that the civilizing processes of Rough and Ready were not marked by any of the ameliorating conditions of other improved camps. After the discovery of the famous Eureka lead, there was the usual influx of...
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The Doom of the GriffithsThe Doom of the Griffiths I have always been much interested by the traditions which are scattered up and down North Wales relating to Owen Glendower (Owain Glendwr is the national spelling of the name), and I fully enter into the feeling which makes...
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The Poor ClareThe Poor Clare December 12th, 1747.My life has been strangely bound up with extraordinary incidents, some of which occurred before I had any connection with the principal actors in them, or indeed, before I even knew of their existence. I suppose, most old men...
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