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The UnderpupThe UnderpupThe Penguins were always breaking out with something. Miss Thornton, who had run Camp Happy Warriors for years and still believed there was good in everyone, said it was merely their age. The Penguins were older than the Peewits, who still trailed attenuated...
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The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet PimpernelThe Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel AN APOLOGY THE PROLOGUE THE ADVENTURE CHAPTER I New Year's Eve CHAPTER II The Fracas by the Postern Gate CHAPTER III An Interlude CHAPTER IV Watch-night CHAPTER V Brother and Sister CHAPTER...
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Plashers Mead: A NovelPlashers Mead: A NovelThe slow train puffed away into the unadventurous country; and the bees buzzing round the wine-dark dahlias along the platform were once again audible. The last farewell that Guy Hazlewood flung over his shoulder to a parting friend was more casual...
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Satan Absolved: A Victorian MysterySatan Absolved: A Victorian MysteryIn publishing this poem, the Author feels that some apology is needed. It deals with matters of a kind not usually treated in modern verse, and which ask to be approached, if at all, with dignity and reverence. He trusts...
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The Book of This and ThatThe Book of This and ThatSuspicion is a beast with a thousand eyes, but most of them are blind, or colour-blind, or askew, or rolling, or yellow. It is a beast with a thousand ears, but most of them are like the ears of...
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A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and CracksmanA Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksmanf I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but go back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals. In so...
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Young's Night ThoughtsYoung's Night Thoughts - With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory NotesBetween the period of George Herbert, and that of Edward Young, some singular changes had taken place in British poetry as well as in British manners, politics, and religion. There had passed over the...
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A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of EnglandA Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of EnglandAs a Briton, this tribute I pay to my Queen, Who late fell a martyr to malice and spleen; To add to her sorrows in this fleeting life, Misfortune had made her...
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The Independent Statesmen, and Liberal LandlordThe Independent Statesmen, and Liberal Landlord - or a respectful tribute to T. W. Coke, M.P. for the County of NorfolkIn this candid address, Sir we beg to express, Our concern in observing the kingdoms distress; In the senate we know sir you are...
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Helena Brett's CareerHelena Brett's Career In these thin-skinned days when the words libel and traitor drift on every breeze, it may be "wise" (I am told at the last), to make it plain that my Author, Publisher, and Artist do not represent real people! So be...
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Years of PlentyYears of Plenty Life seemed to Martin Leigh, as he gazed at the wooden walls of his cubicle, very overwhelming: there were so many things to remember. He had lived through his first day as a boarder at a public school and at length...
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The Cutting of an AgateThe Cutting of an AgateThe Lonely returns to the Lonely, the Divine to the Divinity.Proclus While this work was passing through the press Mr. J. M. Synge died. Upon the morning of his death one friend of his and mine, though away in the...
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The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death A Romantic CommentaryThe Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic CommentaryNOTE: This is an age of Trilogies and Sequels. The title at the beginning of this book, "The Rising City: I," may lead nervous readers to fear yet another attempt in that extended and...
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Discoveries: A Volume of EssaysDiscoveries: A Volume of EssaysThe little theatrical company I write my plays for had come to a west of Ireland town and was to give a performance in an old ball-room, for there was no other room big enough. I went there from a...
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The Admirable Bashville; Or, Constancy UnrewardedThe Admirable Bashville; Or, Constancy Unrewarded - Being the Novel of Cashel Byron's Profession Done into a Stage Play in Three Acts and in Blank Verse, with a Note on Modern Prize FightingBEING THE NOVEL OF CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION DONE INTO A STAGE PLAY...
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Jack Hinton: The GuardsmanJack Hinton: The Guardsman Very few words of preface will suffice to the volume now presented to my readers. My intention was to depict, in the early experiences of a young Englishman in Ireland, some of the almost inevitable mistakes incidental to such a...
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A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. PopeA Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope[1] Not even the winner of the contest has been beyond dispute. 150 years afterward, Robert W. Lowe, Supplementary Chapter to Colley Cibbers Apology in his edition of An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian,...
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Sir Jasper Carew: His Life and ExperienceSir Jasper Carew: His Life and Experience CHAPTER I. SOME NOTICES OF MY FATHER AND MOTHER CHAPTER II. THE ILLUSTRATION OF AN ADAGE CHAPTER III. A FATHER AND DAUGHTER CHAPTER IV. A BREAKFAST AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER V. JOE RAPER CHAPTER VI. TWO FRIENDS...
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Stevenson's Perfect Virtues, as Exemplified by Leigh HuntStevenson's Perfect Virtues, as Exemplified by Leigh HuntStevenson was right. There is not a more admirable trait in ones character than that of cheerfulness. Combined with that other virtue named by Stevenson, gentleness, and what more is needed to make a companionable and a...
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Her Season in Bath: A Story of Bygone DaysHer Season in Bath: A Story of Bygone Days CHAPTER I. COIFFEUR CHAPTER II. THE TIDE OF FASHION CHAPTER III. ANOTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE CHAPTER IV. MUSIC CHAPTER V. GRISELDA! GRISELDA! CHAPTER VI. GRAVE AND GAY CHAPTER VII. THE VASE OF PARNASSUS CHAPTER...
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