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I cannot resist sitting down to write the history of the first steps in my career, thoughI might very well abstain from doing so.. ..I know one thing for certain:I shall never again sit down to write my autobiography even ifI live to be a hundred. One must be too...
It was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders it was her task to see that all...
Neither life nor the lawn-tennis club was so full at Natterley that the news of Harry Sterling's return had not some importance.
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the...
Next morning he saw her again.
Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.
IT had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday...
Some royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the name Henry. Henry I was poisoned, Henry II was killed in a tournament, Henry III and Henry IV were assassinated. As to Henry V, for whom the past is so fatal already, God alone knows what the...
The reply of Maximilian to the wealthy courtier who tendered him a goodly purse of gold for a title of nobility, was worthy of that emperor: I can enrich thee, he said, but only thy own virtue can enoble thee All true grandeur, excellence, and dignity, are the offspring...
It is Ascension Day in a village of the West. In the low panelled hall-sittingroom of the BURLACOMBE'S farmhouse on the village green, MICHAEL STRANGWAY, a clerical collar round his throat and a dark Norfolk jacket on his back, is playing the flute before a very large...
Several times during my long residence in Hong Kong I endeavoured to read through the Narrative of Fa-hien; but though interested with the graphic details of much of the work, its columns bristled so constantly now with his phonetic representations of Sanskrit words,...
Jonathan Wild, born about 1682 and executed at Tyburn in 1725, was one of the most notorious criminals of his age. His resemblance to the hero in Fielding's satire of the same name is general rather than particular. The realJonathan (whose legitimate business was that...
I once read a short story, in which a Slav author had all the lilies and bells in a forest bending toward each other, whispering and resounding softly the words: Glory! Glory! Glory! until the whole forest and then the whole world repeated the song of flowers.
It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an important historical document. To the historian it bristles with errors not errors of fact, but errors of interpretation. Looking back across the seven centuries that have lapsed since Avis Everhard completed her...
The restaurant of the Grand Hotel in Rome was filling up. People were dining rather late - it was the end of May and the entertainments were lessening, so they could dawdle over their repasts and smoke their cigarettes in peace.
The wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across its surface. Then the wind pushed the edges of the ripples until they became waves, and shoved the waves around until they became billows.The billows rolled dreadfully high: higher even than...
The king sat in his private garden in the shade of a potted orange tree, the leaves of which were splashed with brilliant yellow. It was high noon of one of those last warm sighs of passing summer which now and then lovingly steal in between the chill breaths of...
WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits' end what to do with her.
The subject discussed in the following pages is one of great importance, and especially so to the people of this country.The views presented for consideration differ widely from those generally entertained, both as regards the cause of evil and the mode of cure; but it...
THE following pages were written by request. They claim to give an accurate and impartial narrative of my four years' life while a cadet at West Point, as well as a general idea of the institution there. They are almost an exact transcription of notes taken at various...
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