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So of course, wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, there was nothing for it but to leave.
During the severe winter of 1860 the river Oise was frozen over and the plains of Lower Picardy were covered with deep snow. On Christmas Day, especially, a heavy squall from the north-east had almost buried the little city of Beaumont. The snow, which began to fall...
If you please, mum, said the voice of a domestic from somewhere round the angle of the door, "number three is moving in.
The Door Keeper's Daughters The Horoscopes Mdlle. Roman...
The consequences of folly seldom end with its originator, said Lord Earle to his son. Rely upon it, Ronald, if you were to take this most foolish and unadvisable step, you would bring misery upon yourself and every one connected with you. Listen to reason.
Signs are taken for wonders. We would see a sign
In this volume I have collected all the essays on Wild Bees scattered through the Souvenirs entomologiques, with the exception of those on the Chalicodomae, or Mason-bees proper, which form the contents of a separate volume entitled The Mason-bees.
If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, firstly, to return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland, whose...
A small railway station near London. Time: Ten years ago.
In 1814, while Napoleon was banished in the island of Elba, the Empress Marie Louise and her grandmother, Marie Caroline, Queen of Naples, happened to meet at Vienna. The one, who had been deprived of the French crown, was seeking to be put in possession of her new...
Record made by Ernest Roger Halbard Melton, law-student of the Inner Temple, eldest son of Ernest Halbard Melton, eldest son of Ernest Melton, elder brother of the said Roger Melton and his next of kin.
O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea,O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I? All night long the water is crying...
THERE it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast and compelling a summons. For the thousandth time vainly he tried to...
The sufferings of the long war still continued; still stood Frederick the Great with his army in the field; the tremendous struggle between Prussia and Austria was yet undecided, and Silesia was still the apple of discord for which Maria Theresa and Frederick II. had...
Between the grey walls of its bath so like its cradle and its coffin lay one of those small and lonely creatures which inhabit the surface of the earth for seventy years.
It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of Voyages Imaginaires, the three great types should have all been created in England. Utopia, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver, illustrating respectively the philosophical, the...
It was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom a tiny coat of arms three caltrops gules upon a field argent let into the...
An Address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden
The day broke gray and dull.The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a...
An interval of five years has elapsed since the termination of my engagement in the service of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, to suppress the slave-hunters of Central Africa, and to annex the countries constituting the Nile Basin, with the object of opening those...
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