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Lucretia — Volume 06Lucretia — Volume 06We have now arrived at that stage in this history when it is necessary to look back on the interval in Lucretia's life,between the death of Dalibard, and her reintroduction in the second portion of our tale. One day, without previous...
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Lucretia — Volume 05Lucretia — Volume 05That Mr. Grabman slept calmly that night is probable enough, for his gin- bottle was empty the next morning; and it was with eyes more than usually heavy that he dozily followed the movements of Beck, who, according to custom, opened...
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Lucretia — Volume 02Lucretia — Volume 02The next day Sir Miles did not appear at breakfast,not that he was unwell, but that he meditated holding certain audiences, and on such occasions the good old gentleman liked to prepare himself. He belonged to a school in which, amidst...
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Lucretia — Volume 04Lucretia — Volume 04The century has advanced. The rush of the deluge has ebbed back; the old landmarks have reappeared; the dynasties Napoleon willed into life have crumbled to the dust; the plough has passed over Waterloo; autumn after autumn the harvests have glittered...
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Lucretia — Volume 03Lucretia — Volume 03Dalibard had undertaken to get Lucretia from the house,in fact, her approaching marriage rendered necessary a communication with Mr. Parchmount, as executor to her uncle's will, relative to the transfer of her portion; and she had asked Dalibard to accompany her...
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Lucretia — Volume 01Lucretia — Volume 01"Lucretia; or, The Children of Night," was begun simultaneously with "The Caxtons: a Family Picture." The two fictions were intended as pendants; both serving, amongst other collateral aims and objects, to show the influence of home education, of early circumstance and...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12In the heart of the forest land in which Hilda's abode was situated, a gloomy pool reflected upon its stagnant waters the still shadows of the autumnal foliage. As is common in ancient forests...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11It was the eve of the 5th of Januarythe eve of the day announced to King Edward as that of his deliverance from earth; and whether or not the prediction had wrought its own...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — CompleteHarold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete The author of an able and learned article on MABILLON 6 in the Edinburgh Review, has accurately described my aim in this work; although, with that generous courtesy which characterises the true scholar, in...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10The good Bishop Alred, now raised to the See of York, had been summoned from his cathedral seat by Edward, who had indeed undergone a severe illness, during the absence of Harold; and that...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08Some days after the tragical event with which the last chapter closed, the ships of the Saxons were assembled in the wide waters of Conway; and on the small fore-deck of the stateliest vessel,...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09William, Count of the Normans, sate in a fair chamber of his palace of Rouen; and on the large table before him were ample evidences of the various labours, as warrior, chief, thinker, and...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07The sun had just cast his last beams over the breadth of water into which Conway, or rather Cyn-wy, "the great river," emerges its winding waves. Not at that time existed the matchless castle,...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06There was great rejoicing in England. King Edward had been induced to send Alred the prelate [139] to the court of the German Emperor, for his kinsman and namesake, Edward Atheling, the son of...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05Harold, without waiting once more to see Edith, nor even taking leave of his father, repaired to Dunwich [124], the capital of his earldom. In his absence, the King wholly forgot Algar and his...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02Four meals a day, nor those sparing, were not deemed too extravagant an interpretation of the daily bread for which the Saxon prayed. Four meals a day, from earl to ceorl! "Happy times!" may...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04While Harold sleeps, let us here pause to survey for the first time the greatness of that House to which Sweyn's exile had left him the heir. The fortunes of Godwin had been those...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 03Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 03And all went to the desire of Duke William the Norman. With one hand he curbed his proud vassals, and drove back his fierce foes. With the other, he led to the altar Matilda,...
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Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01The author of an able and learned article on MABILLON [6] in the "Edinburgh Review," has accurately described my aim in this work; although, with that generous courtesy which characterises the true scholar, in...
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Devereux — Volume 05Devereux — Volume 05MYSTERIOUS impulse at the heart, which never suffers us to be at rest, which urges us onward as by an unseen yet irresistible lawhuman planets in a petty orbit, hurried forever and forever, till our course is run and our light...
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