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Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the 16th CenturyConstance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century I had not thought to write the story of my life; but the wishes of those who have at all times more right to command than occasion to entreat aught at my hands, have in a...
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The City of MasksThe City of MasksTHE Marchioness carefully draped the dust-cloth over the head of an andiron and, before putting the question to the parlour-maid, consulted, with the intensity of a near-sighted person, the ornate French clock in the centre of the mantelpiece. Then she brushed...
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Miss Stuart's LegacyMiss Stuart's LegacyAn Indian railway station in the first freshness of an autumn dawn, with a clear decision of light and shade, unknown to northern latitudes, lending a fictitious picturesqueness to the low-arched buildings festooned with purple creepers. There was a crispness in the...
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Red RowansRed RowansA small brown hand pointed peremptorily to a finished drawing on a sketcher's easel hard by, and a pair of blue eyes frowned somewhat imperiously at a young man, who, with one knee on the ground, was busily searching in the long grass...
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On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the MutinyOn the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the MutinyA word of explanation is needed for this book, which, in attempting to be at once a story and a history, probably fails in either aim. That, however, is for the reader to say....
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The Mercy of the LordThe Mercy of the LordCraddock was polishing the brass of his safety valve and singing the while at high pressure between set teeth: his choice of a ditty determined by one of his transitory lapses into conventional righteousness. The cause of which in the...
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The Cock and AnchorThe Cock and Anchor "The Cock and Anchor: a Chronicle of Old Dublin City," was first published in Dublin in three volumes in 1845, with the joint imprints of William Curry, Junior, & Co., Dublin; Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London; and Fraser &...
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Missy: A NovelMissy: A Novel"But I think you have begun to be impatient too soon," said her mother, glancing up. "That clock is several minutes fast, and Peters always drives slower after dusk. Besides, you know he has the heavy carriage. I think it would be...
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Edith and John: A Story of PittsburghEdith and John: A Story of PittsburghFog and smoke and grime hung over the city of Pittsburgh: a thickening blanket, soggy in its cumbrous pall. The rain came down like gimlets; the air was savage, miserably embracing; the streets were sodden, muddy, filthy, with...
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Fashion and FamineFashion and FamineWhat shall I say in this Preface to my book? Shall I make the usual half-sincere, half-affected apology of haste and inexperience, with hints of improvement in future efforts? Indeed I cannot, for though this volume really is the first novel ever...
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Tales of Secret EgyptTales of Secret EgyptTHE duhr, or noonday call to prayer, had just sounded from the minarets of the Mosques of Kalan and En-Nasr, and I was idly noting the negligible effect of the adan upon the occupants of the neighboring shopscoppersmiths for the most...
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In Silk Attire: A NovelIn Silk Attire: A Novel"By the way, did you hear of the dinner at old Thornhill's on Tuesday? I declare everybody was drunk but the dogs; and they were turned out at night to find their way home by themselves. The Squire got very,...
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Tobias o' the Light: A Story of Cape CodTobias o' the Light: A Story of Cape CodOld Winter wrapped in his grave clothes stalked the flats and sand dunes about the Twin Rocks Light. Spring had smiled at the grim old fellow only the day before. She would flutter back again anon...
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Denry the AudaciousDenry the AudaciousEdward Henry Machin first saw the smoke on the 27th May, 1867, in Brougham Street, Bursley, the most ancient of the Five Towns. Brougham Street runs down from St. Luke's Square straight into the Shropshire Union Canal, and consists partly of buildings...
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The Passion for LifeThe Passion for LifeI am in a restless mood to-night. There seems nothing to explain this, except that perhaps I am growing tired of the life I am leading, or it may be that there are influences at work of which I have no...
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Mollie's Prince: A NovelMollie's Prince: A NovelIn this age of transition and progress, when the pleasure-seeker, like the Athenian of old, is for ever searching for things new and strange; when old landmarks are ruthlessly demolished, and respectable antiquities are shelved in outer darkness; then to some...
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Mal Moulée: A NovelMal Moulée: A NovelIt is more than two years since the outline of this simple story first suggested itself to me, and since the first chapters were written. Many times since then, conscious that I possessed no talent as a novelist, I have resolved...
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Wanderfoot (The Dream Ship)Wanderfoot (The Dream Ship)The Bavaric had been four fine September days at sea, and it was time for the vague pain and melancholy that always haunted Westenra after leaving Ireland to pass; yet it stayed with him as never before it had stayed. The...
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Voices in the NightVoices in the NightThe new year was already some hours old, but the world to which it had come was still dark. Dark with a curious obscurity, that was absolutely opaque yet faintly luminous, because of the white fog which lay on all things...
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The Princess DehraThe Princess DehraFor the first time in a generation the Castle of Lotzen was entertaining its lord. He had come suddenly, a month before, and presently there had followed rumors of strange happenings in Dornlitz, in which the Duke had been too intimately concerned...
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