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Old Christmas But is old, old, good old Christmas gone? Nothing but the hair of his good, gray, old head and beard left? Well, I will have that, seeing that I cannot have more of him. There is nothing in England that exercises a...

The Yellow Crayon It was late summer-time, and the perfume of flowers stole into the darkened room through the half-opened window. The sunlight forced its way through a chink in the blind, and stretched across the floor in strange zigzag fashion. From without came...

Montezuma's Daughter Strange as were the adventures and escapes of Thomas Wingfield, once of this parish, whereof these pages tell, your own can almost equal them in these latter days, and, since a fellow feeling makes us kind, you at least they may move...

Songs, Merry and Sad John Charles McNeill was born in Scotland County, near Laurinburg, North Carolina, on 26 July 1874, and died on 17 October 1907 (when he was 33 years old). He only produced this one volume before he died, though he planned...

The Vision Splendid Of all the remote streams of influence that pour both before and after birth into the channel of our being, what an insignificant fewand these only the more obviousare traceable at all. We swim in a sea of environment and heredity,...

Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up...

The Scholemaster[Transcriber's Note: I have omitted signature designations, have transcribed Greek characters but not italicized them, and have expanded the usual Renaissance contractions for "m" and "n" as well as the abbreviation for Latin terminal "que"; marginalia are separated from textual line by //...

Vera, the Medium Happy in the hope that the news was exclusive, the Despatch had thrown the name of Stephen Hallowell, his portrait, a picture of his house, and the words, At Point of Death! across three columns. The announcement was heavy, lachrymose, bristling...

Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar BOOK I. CHAPTER I. A FTE AT THE NEW PALACE CHAPTER II. RUSSIANS AND TARTARS CHAPTER III. MICHAEL STROGOFF MEETS THE CZAR CHAPTER IV. FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNI-NOVGOROD CHAPTER V. THE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS CHAPTER VI. BROTHER...

Z. Marcas I never saw anybody, not even among the most remarkable men of the day, whose appearance was so striking as this mans; the study of his countenance at first gave me a feeling of great melancholy, and at last produced an almost...

The Financier: A Novel The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories. Many of the things that we and...

Other Things Being Equal A humming-bird dipped through the air and lit upon the palm-tree just below the open window; the long drowsy call of a crowing cock came from afar off; the sun spun down in the subdued splendor of a hazy veil....

A New Voyage to Carolina - Containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc....

The Prince and the Pauper I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like manner had it of HIS fatherand so...

The Case of the Golden Bullet Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor...

The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive...

The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority...

The Case of the Registered Letter Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor...

The Case of the Lamp That Went Out Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock...

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