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[Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo.
In the Calle Las Gabias - one of those by-streets of Lisbon below St. Catherine - there occurred one New Year a little event in the Synagogue there worth a mention in this history of Richard, Lord of the Sea.
I Law, order, and restraint had carved Frederick Travers' face. It was the strong, firm face of one used to power and who had used power with wisdom and discretion. Clean living had made the healthy skin, and the lines graved in it were honest lines. Hard and devoted...
Dr. Lavendar, said William King, some time when Goliath is doing his 2.40 on a plank road, don't you want to pull him up at that house on the Perryville pike where the Grays used to live, and make a call? An old fellow called Roberts has taken it; he is a -
They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long...
THE Golden Star, Homburg, was a humble hotel, not used by gay gamblers, but by modest travelers.
On a moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested...
There, I've done every bit I can do! I'm going to see what o'clock it is.
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Notice the words: /The man of distinction to whom this book is dedicated/. Need I say: You are that man. THE AUTHOR.
Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being the relationship of my wife's cousin to a certain...
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray...
That all Defoe's novels, with the exception of Robinson Crusoe, should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that three generations or so...
THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerso
There is one little dream of a beautiful drum
Every normal boy loves a motor-boat, but words fail to express his enthusiasm when that boat is also a racer. Behind the events recorded in this story are certain facts, so that the tale is largely true. The author will be glad if the account of life in the open, the...
I DEDICATE THIS EFFORT OF PRIMEVAL AND TROGLODYTE IMAGINATION THIS RECORD OF BAREFACED AND FLAGRANT ADVENTURE
The following is a modern English version of a curious French memoir, or fragment of autobiography, apparently written about the year 1620 by Anne, Vicomte de Caylus, and brought to this country if, in fact, the original ever existed in England by one of his...
A number of years ago the author of this story set out to depict life among the boys of a great city, and especially among those who had to make their own way in the world. Among those already described are the ways of newsboys, match boys, peddlers, street musicians,...
It was the Road which caused the trouble.It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by...
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