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The Crisis — CompleteThe Crisis — Complete THE CRISIS BOOK I. CHAPTER I. WHICH DEALS WITH ORIGINS CHAPTER. II. THE MOLE CHAPTER III. THE UNATTAINABLE SIMPLICITY CHAPTER IV. BLACK CATTLE CHAPTER V. THE FIRST SPARK PASSES CHAPTER VI. SILAS WHIPPLE CHAPTER VII. CALLERS CHAPTER VIII. BELLEGARDE CHAPTER...
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The Crisis — Volume 08The Crisis — Volume 08Mr. Brinsmade and the Doctor were the first to leave the little room where Silas Whipple had lived and worked and died, Mr. Brinsmade bent upon one of those errands which claimed him at all times. He took Shadrach with...
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The Crisis — Volume 06The Crisis — Volume 06A cordon of blue regiments surrounded the city at first from Carondelet to North St. Louis, like an open fan. The crowds liked best to go to Compton Heights, where the tents of the German citizen-soldiers were spread out like...
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The Crisis — Volume 07The Crisis — Volume 07We are at Memphis,for a while,and the Christmas season is approaching once more. And yet we must remember that war recognizes no Christmas, nor Sunday, nor holiday. The brown river, excited by rains, whirled seaward between his banks of yellow...
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The Crisis — Volume 05The Crisis — Volume 05God alone may count the wives and mothers who listened in the still hours of the night for the guns of Sumter. One sultry night in April Stephen's mother awoke with fear in her heart, for she had heard them....
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The Crisis — Volume 04The Crisis — Volume 04I am going ahead two years. Two years during which a nation struggled in agony with sickness, and even the great strength with which she was endowed at birth was not equal to the task of throwing it off. In...
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The Crisis — Volume 03The Crisis — Volume 03Summer, intolerable summer, was upon the city at last. The families of its richest citizens had fled. Even at that early day some braved the long railroad journey to the Atlantic coast. Amongst these were our friends the Cluymes, who...
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The Crisis — Volume 02The Crisis — Volume 02Miss Virginia Carvel came down the steps in her riding-habit. And Ned, who had been waiting in the street with the horses, obsequiously held his hand while his young mistress leaped into Vixen's saddle. Leaving the darkey to follow upon...
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The Crisis — Volume 01The Crisis — Volume 01Faithfully to relate how Eliphalet Hopper came try St. Louis is to betray no secret. Mr. Hopper is wont to tell the story now, when his daughter-in-law is not by; and sometimes he tells it in her presence, for he...
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The Celebrity, CompleteThe Celebrity, Complete I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I shall have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some...
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The Celebrity, Volume 04The Celebrity, Volume 04I am convinced that Mr. Cooke possessed at least some of the qualities of a great general. In certain campaigns of past centuries, and even of this, it has been hero-worship that impelled the rank and file rather than any high...
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The Celebrity, Volume 03The Celebrity, Volume 03That evening I lighted a cigar and went down to sit on the outermost pile of the Asquith dock to commune with myself. To say that I was disappointed in Miss Thorn would be to set a mild value on my...
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A Modern Chronicle — Volume 08A Modern Chronicle — Volume 08Spring came to Highlawns, Eden tinted with myriad tender greens. Yellow-greens, like the beech boughs over the old wall, and gentle blue-greens, like the turf; and the waters of the lake were blue and white in imitation of the...
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The Celebrity, Volume 02The Celebrity, Volume 02It was small wonder, said the knowing at Asquith, that Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen should be attracted by Irene Trevor. With the lake breezes of the north the red and the tan came into her cheeks, those boon companions of the...
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The Celebrity, Volume 01The Celebrity, Volume 01I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I shall have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some...
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A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07All morning she had gazed on the shining reaches of the Hudson, their colour deepening to blue as she neared the sea. A gold-bound volume of Shelley, with his name on the fly-leaf, lay in her lap. And two...
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A Modern Chronicle — CompleteA Modern Chronicle — Complete A MODERN CHRONICLE BOOK I. WHAT'S IN HEREDITY CHAPTER I. WHAT'S IN HEREDITY CHAPTER II. PERDITA RECALLED CHAPTER III. CONCERNING PROVIDENCE CHAPTER IV. OF TEMPERAMENT CHAPTER V. IN WHICH PROVIDENCE BEEPS FAITH CHAPTER VI. HONORA HAS A GLIMPSE OF...
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A Modern Chronicle — Volume 04A Modern Chronicle — Volume 04In the religious cult of Gad and Meni, practised with such enthusiasm at Quicksands, the Saints' days were polo days, and the chief of all festivals the occasion of the match with the Banbury Hunt Club Quicksands's greatest rival....
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A Modern Chronicle — Volume 06A Modern Chronicle — Volume 06According to the ordinary and inaccurate method of measuring time, a fortnight may have gone by since the event last narrated, and Honora had tasted at last the joys of authorship. Her name was not to appear, to be...
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A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05The sphere we have left, which we know is sordid, sometimes shines in the retrospect. And there came a time, after the excitement of furnishing the new house was over, when our heroine, as it were, swung for a...
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