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The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself after starting from midnight slumber! By unclosing your eyes so suddenly, you seem to have surprised the personages of your dream...
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The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") Methinks, for a person whose instinct bids him rather to pore over the current of life, than to plunge into its tumultuous waves, no undesirable retreat were a toll-house beside some thronged thoroughfare of the land....
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Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales")Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales") What is Guilt? A stain upon the soul. And it is a point of vast interest, whether the soul may contract such stains, in all their depth and flagrancy, from deeds which may have been plotted and resolved...
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The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") [This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart, related in Dunlaps History of the Arts of Design,a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply interesting one, we should think, to the artist.] But...
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Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales")Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales") O! I have climbed high, and my reward is small. Here I stand, with wearied knees, earth, indeed, at a dizzy depth below, but heaven far, far beyond me still. O that I could soar up...
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A Rill from the Town PumpA Rill from the Town Pump (SCENE.--The corner of two principal streets.--[Essex and Washington Streets, Salem.]--The Town Pump talking through its nose.) NOON, by the North clock! Noon, by the east! High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my...
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Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales")Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales") The town crier has rung his bell, at a distant corner, and little Annie stands on her father's doorsteps, trying to hear what the man with the loud voice is talking about. Let me listen too. O,...
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Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales")Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales") Every Sabbath morning in the summer time I thrust back the curtain, to watch the sunrise stealing down a steeple, which stands opposite my chamber-window. First, the weathercock begins to flash; then, a fainter lustre gives the...
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The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of SlickvilleThe Clockmaker; Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of SlickvilleThe name "Sam Slick" has passed into popular use as standing for a somewhat conventional Yankee, in whom sharpness and verdancy are combined in curious proportions; but the book which gave rise to...
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The Slave of the LampThe Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, Young Mistley, in 1888, when he was twenty-six years old. Messrs. Bentley's reader, in his critique on the book, spoke of its powerful situations and unconventionality of treatment: and, while dwelling at...
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The Greater InclinationThe Greater Inclination Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at once; but that, of course, was absurd, since he had seen no portrait of hershe affected a strict anonymity, refusing even her photograph to the most privilegedand from Mrs....
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The Angel of Lonesome Hill A Story of a PresidentThe Angel of Lonesome Hill; A Story of a PresidentIt was a handful of people in the countrya simple-hearted handful. There was no railroadonly a stage which creaked through the gullies and was late. Once it had a hot-box, and the place drifted through...
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Henry Dunbar: A NovelHenry Dunbar: A Novel The house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby, East India bankers, was one of the richest firms in the city of Londonso rich that it would be quite in vain to endeavour to describe the amount of its wealth. It was...
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The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present DayThe Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day The night set in with heavy and unceasing rain, and, though the month was August, winter itself could not have made the streets less inviting than they looked to Thomas...
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VilletteVillette My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Her husbands family had been residents there for generations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplaceBretton of Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor had...
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The Bride of the MistletoeThe Bride of the Mistletoe Any one about to read this work of fiction might properly be apprised beforehand that it is not a novel: it has neither the structure nor the purpose of The Novel. It is a story. There are two charactersa...
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The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 PARIS BY EMILE ZOLA FOR some reason of his own Guillaume was bent upon witnessing the execution of Salvat. Pierre tried to dissuade him from doing so; and finding his efforts vain, became somewhat anxious. He accordingly...
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The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteThe Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris WITH the present work M. Zola completes the Trilogy of the Three Cities, which he began with Lourdes and continued with Rome; and thus the adventures and experiences of Abb Pierre Froment, the doubting...
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The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, CompleteThe Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete WITH the present work M. Zola completes the Trilogy of the Three Cities, which he began with Lourdes and continued with Rome; and thus the adventures and experiences of Abbe Pierre Froment, the doubting Catholic priest who failed...
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The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3 PARIS BY EMILE ZOLA ON the Wednesday preceding the mid-Lent Thursday, a great charity bazaar was held at the Duvillard mansion, for the benefit of the Asylum of the Invalids of Labour. The ground-floor reception rooms, three...
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