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"You shall have your wish then, for a time at least," said Raoul, with a sudden quick resolve: "your knowledge of languages answers to one great requirement of my present position. I have so much correspondence on my hands that I was thinking only yesterday of applying for a secretary to assist me. For one month I will...	[ 22336, 4985, 617, 701, 6562, 1243, 11, 369, 264, 892, 520, 3325, 1359, 1071, 18989, 11206, 11, 449, 264, 11210, 4062, 9006, 25, 330, 22479, 6677, 315, 15823, 11503, 311, 832, 2294, 16686, 315, 856, 3118, 2361, 13, 358, 617, 779, 1790,...
The Pleiades are seven sisters, as usual, the dimmed ones having been dulled because on earth Wurrunnah seized them and tried to melt the crystal off them at a fire; for, beautiful as they were with their long hair, they were ice-maidens. But he was unsuccessful beyond dulling their brightness, for the ice as it melted...	[ 791, 33540, 72, 3536, 527, 8254, 30393, 11, 439, 13783, 11, 279, 5213, 2106, 6305, 3515, 1027, 82627, 839, 1606, 389, 9578, 468, 324, 6236, 39230, 31589, 1124, 323, 6818, 311, 30099, 279, 26110, 1022, 1124, 520, 264, 4027, 26, 369, 11...
We called ourselves 'Intrusive' as a band; for we meant to break into the accepted halls of English foreign policy, and build a new people in the East, despite the rails laid down for us by our ancestors. Therefore from our hybrid intelligence office in Cairo (a jangling place which for its incessant bells and bustle a...	[ 1687, 2663, 13520, 364, 644, 376, 22784, 6, 439, 264, 7200, 26, 369, 584, 8967, 311, 1464, 1139, 279, 11928, 52473, 315, 6498, 7362, 4947, 11, 323, 1977, 264, 502, 1274, 304, 279, 6460, 11, 8994, 279, 43700, 17551, 1523, 369, 603, 5...
Molly Pentreath was given a cloak, and refused it, and had it placed upon her shoulders by Roland's insisting hands. He led them out to look at the white figures of his statues, and the shadows cast by them upon the moonlit stones, and at the well-head with its circle of blackness. Christopher stood beside the figure...	[ 44, 8788, 23458, 265, 589, 574, 2728, 264, 62494, 11, 323, 16436, 433, 11, 323, 1047, 433, 9277, 5304, 1077, 28004, 555, 58906, 596, 60727, 6206, 13, 220, 1283, 6197, 1124, 704, 311, 1427, 520, 279, 4251, 12678, 315, 813, 59002, 11, ...
Lady Stella imparted her information in a charmingly confidential undertone. "The eye-glass," she murmured, "is--I am going to spell it--F.R.E.D.D.Y. M.U.S.H. Taste. Good taste. He is awfully clever at finding out young poets and all that sort of literary thing. And he's Rupert's secretary. If there is a literary Acade...	[ 76702, 75698, 70772, 291, 1077, 2038, 304, 264, 35509, 398, 27285, 19165, 606, 13, 330, 791, 8071, 2427, 448, 1359, 1364, 87651, 3149, 11, 330, 285, 313, 40, 1097, 2133, 311, 13141, 433, 313, 37, 2056, 5253, 920, 920, 7659, 13, 386, ...
She had benefited immensely by her trip. She was a little sunburned certainly, but there was a healthy sparkle n the dear blue eyes that gave her whole face an animated appearance. She was at times delightfully piquant and her brisk manner was a source of pleasure to her father and Aunt Jo. But her repartees, her fearl...	[ 8100, 1047, 56128, 63689, 555, 1077, 8577, 13, 3005, 574, 264, 2697, 7160, 22464, 291, 7995, 11, 719, 1070, 574, 264, 9498, 96170, 308, 279, 25237, 6437, 6548, 430, 6688, 1077, 4459, 3663, 459, 11625, 11341, 13, 3005, 574, 520, 3115, ...
Governor Young adroitly turned the discovery of gold to the advantage of his own colony by establishing an escort between Bendigo and Adelaide; and, as this was remarkably well equipped, many of the diggers sent their gold by this route rather than to Melbourne, thus giving to South Australia some of the advantages of ...	[ 78706, 269, 13566, 1008, 69596, 398, 6656, 279, 18841, 315, 6761, 311, 279, 9610, 315, 813, 1866, 42036, 555, 31692, 459, 6286, 1990, 48838, 7992, 323, 50301, 26, 323, 11, 439, 420, 574, 49723, 1664, 19167, 11, 1690, 315, 279, 4170, 1...
A month ago she had been heart-whole and young, a simple child. The same prejudices and generous beliefs had been hers, but held loosely with a child's comprehension. But now this old world had been awakened to arms against a dazzling new world of love and pleasure. She was led captive by emotion, but the cold rook of ...	[ 32, 2305, 4227, 1364, 1047, 1027, 4851, 56432, 1286, 323, 3995, 11, 264, 4382, 1716, 13, 578, 1890, 99876, 323, 28771, 21463, 1047, 1027, 11074, 11, 719, 5762, 63557, 449, 264, 1716, 596, 62194, 13, 2030, 1457, 420, 2362, 1917, 1047, ...
Everything was the same as it had always been. Cummins, when she was not handling dishes or clearing away plates, stood by the Hepplewhite sideboard. The same portraits of the same St. Georges looked down from the walls upon mother and son. "Waterloo St. George," in his guardsman's coat, smiled that half-ironical sm...	[ 36064, 574, 279, 1890, 439, 433, 1047, 2744, 1027, 13, 220, 32678, 47796, 11, 994, 1364, 574, 539, 11850, 26863, 477, 33850, 3201, 25485, 11, 14980, 555, 279, 1283, 604, 273, 5902, 3185, 2541, 13, 220, 578, 1890, 59234, 315, 279, 1890...
Or I'd like, if I may put the imagery another way, to be a spirit and appear in the office of a business man, one of the kind called executives, who can't digest anything and live on toast. I'd be a spirit and I'd appear in his office just about one o'clock. He could see me but no one else could. His stenographer could...	[ 2244, 358, 4265, 1093, 11, 422, 358, 1253, 2231, 279, 41545, 2500, 1648, 11, 311, 387, 264, 9090, 323, 5101, 304, 279, 5274, 315, 264, 2626, 893, 11, 832, 315, 279, 3169, 2663, 29509, 11, 889, 649, 956, 21552, 4205, 323, 3974, 389, ...
And his last word on the matter, as he nodded and went his way, may well be mine; for one need be no criminologist, much less a member of the Criminologists' Club, to remember what Raffles did with the robes and coronet of the Right Hon. the Earl of Thornaby, K.G. He did with them exactly what he might have been expect...	[ 3112, 813, 1566, 3492, 389, 279, 5030, 11, 439, 568, 36065, 323, 4024, 813, 1648, 11, 1253, 1664, 387, 10705, 26, 369, 832, 1205, 387, 912, 1589, 61334, 16549, 11, 1790, 2753, 264, 4562, 315, 279, 4656, 61334, 22012, 6, 10349, 11, 3...
Read in the light of this exaltation, there was a new meaning in the words which her mother had penciled upon the card attached to the bunch of anemones. The door of the house in the Cromwell Road opened; gloomy vistas of passage and staircase were revealed; such light as there was seemed to be concentrated upon a silv...	[ 4518, 304, 279, 3177, 315, 420, 506, 3223, 367, 11, 1070, 574, 264, 502, 7438, 304, 279, 4339, 902, 1077, 6691, 1047, 66374, 2230, 5304, 279, 3786, 12673, 311, 279, 15860, 315, 459, 336, 3233, 13, 578, 6134, 315, 279, 3838, 304, 279...
She let him look at her for a moment, because he had something that he wanted to express. And she, from pure natural curiosity, would have been glad to know what it was. And so their eyes dwelt upon one another just long enough for each to be almost ashamed of leaving off; and in that short time they seemed to be ple...	[ 8100, 1095, 1461, 1427, 520, 1077, 369, 264, 4545, 11, 1606, 568, 1047, 2555, 430, 568, 4934, 311, 3237, 13, 220, 1628, 1364, 11, 505, 10748, 5933, 41328, 11, 1053, 617, 1027, 16089, 311, 1440, 1148, 433, 574, 13, 220, 1628, 779, 87...
"Lo, I slew a dugpa," said the Sikh. " What of it? I have slain many whose time had come to die, but who were worthier to live than that one. Consider: I followed Jimgrim in search of the woman. She beckoned us over that ridge we crossed a while ago, and we came to a cave, which she entered, bidding Jimgrim follow....	[ 1, 4357, 11, 358, 60132, 264, 44120, 6733, 1359, 1071, 279, 83662, 13, 220, 330, 3639, 315, 433, 30, 220, 358, 617, 70286, 1690, 6832, 892, 1047, 2586, 311, 2815, 11, 719, 889, 1051, 5922, 1291, 311, 3974, 1109, 430, 832, 13, 220, ...
"Yes, I think you're right, James," he said. "But there will be two points to consider. I don't want anybody in this except you and myself. There is no third party I can trust, but I think, with a little rehearsing, that the business can be managed. The lawyers say time is the essence of the contract. When I say time, ...	[ 58841, 11, 358, 1781, 499, 2351, 1314, 11, 7957, 1359, 568, 1071, 13, 330, 4071, 1070, 690, 387, 1403, 3585, 311, 2980, 13, 358, 1541, 956, 1390, 21739, 304, 420, 3734, 499, 323, 7182, 13, 2684, 374, 912, 4948, 4717, 358, 649, 7095,...
There are some general traits, however, in which the languages are known to agree. On the east of the Bay of Bengal, a new constituent of language is met in intonation. The signification of the same vowels and consonants are changed by a change of tone. Thus _myan_ in Burmese is "to be swift," but with a heavy falling ...	[ 3947, 527, 1063, 4689, 25022, 11, 4869, 11, 304, 902, 279, 15823, 527, 3967, 311, 7655, 13, 1952, 279, 11226, 315, 279, 9332, 315, 50120, 11, 264, 502, 75164, 315, 4221, 374, 2322, 304, 528, 91983, 13, 578, 1879, 2461, 315, 279, 189...
Her glance returned to me, and in that instant I gave her an answering look, which, quite involuntarily on my part, meant a grave and serious offer of my best and bravest efforts in her behalf. Disingenuous she might be, untruthful she might be, yes, even a criminal she might be, but in any case I was her sworn ally f...	[ 21364, 34522, 6052, 311, 757, 11, 323, 304, 430, 9888, 358, 6688, 1077, 459, 36864, 1427, 11, 902, 11, 5115, 4457, 3935, 6751, 389, 856, 961, 11, 8967, 264, 25165, 323, 6129, 3085, 315, 856, 1888, 323, 76813, 478, 9045, 304, 1077, 1...
"I send you a little gold necklace that was taken from the mummy of a dead princess of the nineteenth dynasty," wrote Dean. "Her name was Mena and it said in her epitaph that she was 'sweet of heart.' So I think she fared well in the Hall of Judgment and that the dread old gods smiled indulgently upon her. This littl...	[ 7189, 3708, 499, 264, 2697, 6761, 55547, 430, 574, 4529, 505, 279, 296, 8742, 315, 264, 5710, 40688, 315, 279, 66089, 67946, 1359, 6267, 25028, 13, 220, 330, 21364, 836, 574, 386, 7304, 323, 433, 1071, 304, 1077, 67422, 1366, 430, 136...
"Very true," answered Job, "and if it be possible to give Bess the slip, we will. However, let us not lose what we may get by grasping at what we may not; let us have the confession first, and we'll try for the release afterwards. I have another reason for this, Sir, which, if you knew as much of penitent prigs as I do...	[ 1, 26840, 837, 1359, 19089, 12280, 11, 330, 438, 422, 433, 387, 3284, 311, 3041, 426, 434, 279, 21818, 11, 584, 690, 13, 4452, 11, 1095, 603, 539, 9229, 1148, 584, 1253, 636, 555, 50087, 10194, 520, 1148, 584, 1253, 539, 26, 1095, ...
The rest of that day was very beastly. Beastly was the ride in the Black Maria, which, inside, was like nothing so much as a miniature public lavatory, with tiny cubicles down each side, into which you were locked and in which you had barely room to sit down. Beastlier yet was the long wait in one of the cells adjoini...	[ 791, 2800, 315, 430, 1938, 574, 1633, 32236, 398, 13, 220, 34282, 398, 574, 279, 12141, 304, 279, 5348, 23880, 11, 902, 11, 4871, 11, 574, 1093, 4400, 779, 1790, 439, 264, 57863, 586, 30583, 5382, 11, 449, 13987, 19250, 4440, 1523, ...
Well, this ended it. He could not picture himself going on living there with a nervous eye eternally cocked at Mary to see how she was comporting herself, or how what she did struck the wretched group of snobs he had been fool enough to dump her down amongst; the while he winced at idiosyncrasies he yet grudged to admi...	[ 11649, 11, 420, 9670, 433, 13, 1283, 1436, 539, 6945, 5678, 2133, 389, 5496, 1070, 449, 264, 23418, 8071, 1880, 944, 750, 11523, 291, 520, 10455, 311, 1518, 1268, 1364, 574, 52962, 287, 11937, 11, 477, 1268, 1148, 1364, 1550, 17948, 2...
"You come at an interesting time," he said. "You find us in transition. Before the War, and almost until the end of it, most Arabs believed in the German destiny. English gold commanded the allegiance of an Arab army, but every last man in that army was ready to follow the German standard at the proper time. That o...	[ 22336, 2586, 520, 459, 7185, 892, 1359, 568, 1071, 13, 220, 330, 2675, 1505, 603, 304, 9320, 13, 220, 13538, 279, 5111, 11, 323, 4661, 3156, 279, 842, 315, 433, 11, 1455, 58709, 11846, 304, 279, 6063, 47176, 13, 220, 6498, 6761, 547...
I had selected for my residence a well-known principal hotel, situated in what was once a fashionable portion of the city proper, but long since abandoned to wharves, warehouses, and strictly mercantile purposes. In the good old days when Sydney was a green- swarded town, with a growing coast and island trade, and abou...	[ 40, 1047, 4183, 369, 856, 22423, 264, 1664, 22015, 12717, 9689, 11, 31183, 304, 1148, 574, 3131, 264, 60423, 13651, 315, 279, 3363, 6300, 11, 719, 1317, 2533, 23838, 311, 421, 277, 2396, 11, 83273, 11, 323, 26549, 16888, 519, 458, 100...
The words broke from him like a sudden groan, when some old wound is rudely touched. Both of the young men started, both laid back the relics they had taken up, and turned their eyes from Thorn's face, across which swept a look of shame and sorrow, too significant to be misunderstood. Their silence assured him of their...	[ 791, 4339, 14760, 505, 1461, 1093, 264, 11210, 10707, 276, 11, 994, 1063, 2362, 27653, 374, 68330, 989, 24891, 13, 11995, 315, 279, 3995, 3026, 3940, 11, 2225, 17551, 1203, 279, 99516, 814, 1047, 4529, 709, 11, 323, 6656, 872, 6548, 5...
They sauntered through the big room, which was just then crowded with a curious company, as Clifford said. I suppose there was every kind of man and miner under the sun. Not many women, but what there was not a little out of the way in looks and manners. We kept on working away all the time. It helped to stop us fro...	[ 7009, 829, 30259, 291, 1555, 279, 2466, 3130, 11, 902, 574, 1120, 1243, 39313, 449, 264, 22999, 2883, 11, 439, 86783, 1071, 13, 220, 358, 23289, 1070, 574, 1475, 3169, 315, 893, 323, 48263, 1234, 279, 7160, 13, 220, 2876, 1690, 3278, ...
It was a nightmare time, but he was not unhappy, for a veil seemed to be lifting from his horizon. He had recaptured his own country. The most alien sights and scents were translated into the idiom of home. As he lay in the hot tamarisk at midday he smelled thyme and bracken, and under a sky of glittering stars he co...	[ 2181, 574, 264, 38911, 892, 11, 719, 568, 574, 539, 43251, 11, 369, 264, 59355, 9508, 311, 387, 33510, 505, 813, 35174, 13, 220, 1283, 1047, 1421, 81328, 813, 1866, 3224, 13, 578, 1455, 20167, 42266, 323, 1156, 812, 1051, 25548, 1139,...
"You will wonder how I came to be in London. I went up, with a return ticket (from Saturday to Monday), about that matter in dispute at our agent's. We had a tough fight; but, curiously enough, a point occurred to me just as I got up to go; and I went back to my chair, and settled the question in no time. Of course I s...	[ 22336, 690, 5895, 1268, 358, 3782, 311, 387, 304, 7295, 13, 358, 4024, 709, 11, 449, 264, 471, 11989, 320, 1527, 7884, 311, 7159, 705, 922, 430, 5030, 304, 26086, 520, 1057, 8479, 596, 13, 1226, 1047, 264, 11292, 4465, 26, 719, 11, ...
The north-west winds prevailing for the next four days, we only managed to cross a great bay, and then anchored in another secure harbour. I accompanied the Captain in a boat to the head of a deep creek. On the way the number of seals which we saw was quite astonishing: every bit of flat rock and parts of the beach wer...	[ 791, 10411, 38702, 29592, 61129, 369, 279, 1828, 3116, 2919, 11, 584, 1193, 9152, 311, 5425, 264, 2294, 23542, 11, 323, 1243, 78219, 304, 2500, 9966, 75742, 13, 358, 24895, 279, 22022, 304, 264, 15688, 311, 279, 2010, 315, 264, 5655, ...
"Gentlemen, I have shown patience up till now, because I saw that you had something on your minds which it might be better for you and possibly for me to be rid of. This affair of Miss Willett's death is, as all must acknowledge, baffling enough to strain even to the point of folly any effort made to explain it. I had ...	[ 90299, 306, 42407, 11, 358, 617, 6982, 30401, 709, 12222, 1457, 11, 1606, 358, 5602, 430, 499, 1047, 2555, 389, 701, 20663, 902, 433, 2643, 387, 2731, 369, 499, 323, 11000, 369, 757, 311, 387, 9463, 315, 13, 1115, 31017, 315, 9083, ...
"Perhaps I ought not to ask," said Norton, "and I shouldn't ask, if I was not on the whole more interested in Walter than I am in anyone else. He has got a great charm, quite irresistible. But then, as you say, he is a mystery. I feel that he wants setting free somehow. He seems to me like the prince in the Arabian...	[ 1, 32576, 358, 22525, 539, 311, 2610, 1359, 1071, 60364, 11, 330, 438, 358, 13434, 956, 2610, 11, 422, 358, 574, 539, 389, 279, 4459, 810, 8173, 304, 33305, 1109, 358, 1097, 304, 5606, 775, 13, 220, 1283, 706, 2751, 264, 2294, 32353...
"Darling, how gloomy you are," she said. "Is this what comes of making blizzards and trying to kill your own Nancy's own father? Perhaps there's a way everywhere without hurting anyone--unless," she added, with a touch of sadness clouding the full gaiety that had seized her, "unless they insist on being hurt. But let's...	[ 1, 53773, 2785, 11, 1268, 14015, 5650, 499, 527, 1359, 1364, 1071, 13, 330, 3957, 420, 1148, 4131, 315, 3339, 1529, 8934, 2402, 323, 4560, 311, 5622, 701, 1866, 35336, 596, 1866, 7126, 30, 19292, 1070, 596, 264, 1648, 17277, 2085, 483...
I didn't take long to guess what it was. It was an aerodrome, and a secret one. The place had been most cunningly chosen. For suppose anyone were watching an aeroplane descending here, he would think it had gone over the hill beyond the trees. As the place was on the top of a rise in the midst of a big amphitheatre...	[ 40, 3287, 956, 1935, 1317, 311, 8101, 1148, 433, 574, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 459, 34548, 347, 6786, 11, 323, 264, 6367, 832, 13, 220, 578, 2035, 1047, 1027, 1455, 81779, 398, 12146, 13, 220, 1789, 23289, 5606, 1051, 10307, 459, 34548, ...
I certainly did love these people, and knew I should feel it much whenever I should part from them. No doubt I have omitted many things relating to them which I ought to have described and may think of at some future time, but I do not think I have flattered them. Some day perhaps an expedition may be fitted out to try...	[ 40, 7995, 1550, 3021, 1521, 1274, 11, 323, 7020, 358, 1288, 2733, 433, 1790, 15716, 358, 1288, 961, 505, 1124, 13, 2360, 10712, 358, 617, 40542, 1690, 2574, 23343, 311, 1124, 902, 358, 22525, 311, 617, 7633, 323, 1253, 1781, 315, 520,...
For my part, when I read the story over again as an adult and as a professional critic to boot, I felt the disappointment so keenly that I have been ever since in the condition of the musician who, when he had gone to bed, heard somebody play an unresolved discord, and could not go to sleep until he had risen to play t...	[ 2520, 856, 961, 11, 994, 358, 1373, 279, 3446, 927, 1578, 439, 459, 6822, 323, 439, 264, 6721, 9940, 311, 10677, 11, 358, 6612, 279, 41698, 779, 27989, 398, 430, 358, 617, 1027, 3596, 2533, 304, 279, 3044, 315, 279, 39844, 889, 11, ...
"Not then." He shook his head. "I can't say whether she had such thoughts or not; but she took the notion that her mother wanted the child with her. . . . The rest came later." Per Hansa pulled himself together with a strong effort. . . . "It will be two years this summer; it happened toward evening, one day when ...	[ 82255, 1243, 1210, 220, 1283, 36014, 813, 2010, 13, 220, 330, 40, 649, 956, 2019, 3508, 1364, 1047, 1778, 11555, 477, 539, 26, 719, 1364, 3952, 279, 23035, 430, 1077, 6691, 4934, 279, 1716, 449, 1077, 13, 662, 662, 662, 220, 578, 28...
'Look here, we ought to have settled more about what we're to say when we're asked questions. I chose a quiet-looking shop, but it turned out to be a sort of inn, where they were drinking pink gin--all very friendly, as usual, and I found myself under a fire of questions. I said we were on our way back to England. Ther...	[ 6, 10596, 1618, 11, 584, 22525, 311, 617, 23183, 810, 922, 1148, 584, 2351, 311, 2019, 994, 584, 2351, 4691, 4860, 13, 358, 14896, 264, 11594, 31348, 8221, 11, 719, 433, 6656, 704, 311, 387, 264, 3460, 315, 6301, 11, 1405, 814, 1051...
She had to humour his great happiness and his passion to express it in movement. No longer was he a legless creature, but a man-child setting out to possess a new world, and exulting in it. "O, Kit, I can hardly believe it." She made him lean upon the back of his wheeled chair and push it before him. "You can rest ...	[ 8100, 1047, 311, 58469, 813, 2294, 23871, 323, 813, 11939, 311, 3237, 433, 304, 7351, 13, 220, 2360, 5129, 574, 568, 264, 2531, 1752, 17661, 11, 719, 264, 893, 24384, 6376, 704, 311, 15575, 264, 502, 1917, 11, 323, 506, 495, 287, 30...
'In short,' said Mr. Grewgious, 'this betrothal is a wish, a sentiment, a friendly project, tenderly expressed on both sides. That it was strongly felt, and that there was a lively hope that it would prosper, there can be no doubt. When you were both children, you began to be accustomed to it, and it HAS prospered. But...	[ 6, 644, 2875, 2965, 1071, 4491, 13, 480, 4361, 70, 1245, 11, 364, 576, 1297, 299, 31392, 374, 264, 6562, 11, 264, 27065, 11, 264, 11919, 2447, 11, 28682, 398, 13605, 389, 2225, 11314, 13, 3011, 433, 574, 16917, 6612, 11, 323, 430, ...
Part of her story, he reflected, must be true. She had produced Sir Horace's revolver, and, still more important, a handkerchief which he had clutched in his dying struggles. It was obvious that she or some other woman had been at Riversbrook the night of the murder, and in the room with the murdered man before he died...	[ 5920, 315, 1077, 3446, 11, 568, 27000, 11, 2011, 387, 837, 13, 3005, 1047, 9124, 17177, 15083, 580, 596, 98898, 11, 323, 11, 2103, 810, 3062, 11, 264, 1450, 7197, 62626, 902, 568, 1047, 1206, 332, 2454, 304, 813, 23069, 28970, 13, 1...
At noon that day the hens had not been heard from. After dinner Jake and Otto, their damp clothes now dried on them, stretched their stiff arms and plunged again into the drifts. They made a tunnel through the snow to the hen-house, with walls so solid that grandmother and I could walk back and forth in it. We found...	[ 1688, 38245, 430, 1938, 279, 305, 729, 1047, 539, 1027, 6755, 505, 13, 220, 4740, 14177, 33172, 323, 66991, 11, 872, 41369, 15447, 1457, 32720, 389, 1124, 11, 41398, 872, 31161, 11977, 323, 75803, 1578, 1139, 279, 34738, 82, 13, 220, ...
But Beatrice was not thinking about the strange events of the evening, for her mind had gone back to the time when she first met Wilfrid Mercer in London. He had been introduced by common friends, and from that time Beatrice had contrived to see a good deal of him. From the first she had liked him, perhaps because he w...	[ 4071, 27894, 23994, 574, 539, 7422, 922, 279, 15234, 4455, 315, 279, 11714, 11, 369, 1077, 4059, 1047, 8208, 1203, 311, 279, 892, 994, 1364, 1176, 2322, 10785, 1658, 307, 81111, 304, 7295, 13, 1283, 1047, 1027, 11784, 555, 4279, 4885, ...
All of these works were written and published in Norwegian. They were brought out under the imprint of the Augsburg Publishing House, of Minneapolis, and circulated only among those Norwegian- Americans who had retained the language of the old country. The reason why none of them had reached publication in Norway is ...	[ 2460, 315, 1521, 4375, 1051, 5439, 323, 4756, 304, 45721, 13, 220, 2435, 1051, 7263, 704, 1234, 279, 79967, 315, 279, 5033, 91201, 37933, 4783, 11, 315, 42958, 11, 323, 63973, 1193, 4315, 1884, 45721, 12, 9053, 889, 1047, 35363, 279, ...
"Well, it was a pretty lonely life in those days, only seeing a ship once a year; but I was making money, as I said, hand over fist, and didn't worry much. My wife--not the present one, you know--was a Bonin Island half-bred Portugee woman, and as she generally talked to me in English, and had no native ways to speak ...	[ 56084, 11, 433, 574, 264, 5128, 40666, 2324, 304, 1884, 2919, 11, 1193, 9298, 264, 8448, 3131, 264, 1060, 26, 719, 358, 574, 3339, 3300, 11, 439, 358, 1071, 11, 1450, 927, 40902, 11, 323, 3287, 956, 11196, 1790, 13, 220, 3092, 7555,...
At the font they had been given the pretty, old-fashioned names of Prudence and Ruth, but for business purposes, as they explained, they had exchanged them for the more high-sounding and up-to-date ones of Pearl and Ruby. The new names passed into currency sooner than might have been expected, for few of their customer...	[ 1688, 279, 3381, 814, 1047, 1027, 2728, 279, 5128, 11, 2362, 64369, 5144, 315, 2394, 74193, 323, 42893, 11, 719, 369, 2626, 10096, 11, 439, 814, 11497, 11, 814, 1047, 48501, 1124, 369, 279, 810, 1579, 1355, 13900, 323, 709, 4791, 1892...
Shaxton flashed back at Daunt. "She was struck on you, too," he went on, as if there had been no interruption; "I think this very sour of you, Superintendent. You want a better bile. You're rather cynical--aren't you! Here you are squeezing her through--for a friend--with a lavender pad! Poor piece!" (He smiled malignl...	[ 2059, 710, 783, 70939, 1203, 520, 14569, 3935, 13, 330, 8100, 574, 17948, 389, 499, 11, 2288, 1359, 568, 4024, 389, 11, 439, 422, 1070, 1047, 1027, 912, 75103, 26, 330, 40, 1781, 420, 1633, 20897, 315, 499, 11, 68984, 13, 1472, 1390...
"This will do, Harris; wait here," he said a little later. He knew that there were trees above and wide open spaces on both sides. The station lay just beyond, and from the station to Arling Avenue was a negligible step. Even at that hour Arling Avenue might have been awake to the intrusion of an alien car of rather no...	[ 22244, 690, 656, 11, 21750, 26, 3868, 1618, 1359, 568, 1071, 264, 2697, 3010, 13, 1283, 7020, 430, 1070, 1051, 12690, 3485, 323, 7029, 1825, 12908, 389, 2225, 11314, 13, 578, 8216, 11203, 1120, 7953, 11, 323, 505, 279, 8216, 311, 1676...
I have spoken before of the flowers of Palestine, but never in any other spot did I see their equal for loveliness and frequency. It is scarcely too much to say that here for whole miles it would have been difficult to throw a shilling at hazard without its falling on some beauteous bloom. Everywhere the turf was carpe...	[ 40, 617, 22066, 1603, 315, 279, 19837, 315, 42034, 11, 719, 2646, 304, 904, 1023, 7858, 1550, 358, 1518, 872, 6273, 369, 781, 899, 1918, 323, 11900, 13, 1102, 374, 80987, 2288, 1790, 311, 2019, 430, 1618, 369, 4459, 8931, 433, 1053, ...
"Here," and The Thinking Machine arose and went to Miss Winthrop's desk,--"here is an extension telephone with the receiver on the hook. It just happens that the little silver box which you gave Miss Winthrop is tall enough to support this receiver clear of the hook, and the minute the receiver is off the hook the line...	[ 1, 8586, 1359, 323, 578, 53389, 13257, 51063, 323, 4024, 311, 9083, 12468, 98643, 596, 18496, 11, 313, 1, 6881, 374, 459, 9070, 21186, 449, 279, 14291, 389, 279, 9903, 13, 1102, 1120, 8741, 430, 279, 2697, 15310, 3830, 902, 499, 6688,...
In his article already referred to on "'The Devastated Art of France" A. Kingsley Porter, special commissioner of the French government and member of the _Commission des Monuments Historiques_, said that the striking thing about the art around Soissons was its inexhaustibility, "inexhaustibility, I mean not onl...	[ 644, 813, 4652, 2736, 14183, 311, 389, 7326, 791, 6168, 561, 660, 5277, 315, 256, 9822, 1, 362, 13, 24980, 3258, 39037, 11, 3361, 41443, 315, 279, 8753, 256, 3109, 323, 4562, 315, 279, 721, 74850, 951, 3206, 2901, 22425, 8467, 7022, ...
"It was so beautiful last Friday," she said, "that I determined I must go there." So she had gone off to Waterloo on her great undertaking--to visit Hampton Court--alone. Naturally, but perhaps foolishly, one pitied her for the thing she never asked pity for (indeed she was reticent habitually, speaking of her health o...	[ 12348, 574, 779, 6366, 1566, 6740, 1359, 1364, 1071, 11, 330, 9210, 358, 11075, 358, 2011, 733, 1070, 1210, 2100, 1364, 1047, 8208, 1022, 311, 77475, 389, 1077, 2294, 49326, 313, 998, 4034, 64774, 7301, 313, 32676, 13, 60842, 11, 719, ...
In the weeks that followed Pat felt as if her heart were bleeding drop by drop. She seemed to be alone in her anguish. Sid rather hoped dad wouldn't go west but was not terribly cut up about it. Joe frankly hoped he WOULD go. Winnie thought it might be fun. Mother SEEMED quite indifferent to it, in her usual calm, g...	[ 644, 279, 5672, 430, 8272, 7281, 6612, 439, 422, 1077, 4851, 1051, 35763, 6068, 555, 6068, 13, 220, 3005, 9508, 311, 387, 7636, 304, 1077, 96022, 13, 220, 34989, 4856, 26253, 18233, 8434, 956, 733, 9909, 719, 574, 539, 50136, 4018, 70...
A single sweep of its majestic wing brings it above the glade. There, poised on tremulous pinions, with eyes turned to earth, it scans both the open space and the chapparal that surrounds it. In the former it beholds that which may, perhaps, be gratifying to its glance a man thrown from his horse that runs neighing aro...	[ 32, 3254, 24021, 315, 1202, 81389, 20611, 12716, 433, 3485, 279, 2840, 1037, 13, 2684, 11, 54946, 389, 18659, 13850, 9160, 919, 11, 449, 6548, 6656, 311, 9578, 11, 433, 43739, 2225, 279, 1825, 3634, 323, 279, 523, 680, 277, 278, 430, ...
"Africa," he was saying, "is a country of surprises. Attra seems to be a city of hopeless exile for all white people. Last time I was there I used to notice every day a very old man making a pretence of working in a kitchen garden attached to a little white mission-house--a Basle Society depot. He always seemed to be l...	[ 30233, 30980, 1359, 568, 574, 5605, 11, 330, 285, 264, 3224, 315, 46540, 13, 2468, 2221, 5084, 311, 387, 264, 3363, 315, 75323, 61087, 369, 682, 4251, 1274, 13, 8155, 892, 358, 574, 1070, 358, 1511, 311, 5406, 1475, 1938, 264, 1633, ...
"I want you to know of certain developments here at the ranch. As I've told you before, Martin Thorn and I have been on very bad terms for the past year. This afternoon the big blow-off finally arrived, and I dismissed him from my service. Tomorrow morning I'm going with him to Pasadena, and when we get there, we part ...	[ 7189, 1390, 499, 311, 1440, 315, 3738, 26006, 1618, 520, 279, 39161, 13, 1666, 358, 3077, 3309, 499, 1603, 11, 11826, 78024, 323, 358, 617, 1027, 389, 1633, 3958, 3878, 369, 279, 3347, 1060, 13, 1115, 13658, 279, 2466, 12523, 12744, 5...
The house was bright with curtains and wall-paintings and handsome pieces of furniture. It was bright--and modern and dead. At once Rosamund detested two persons in the house: one was Captain Winterset, whom she remembered from her old visit; the other was Phineas Thatcher, whom Philip had engaged after Henry Herries...	[ 791, 3838, 574, 10107, 449, 54499, 323, 7147, 2320, 1673, 826, 323, 44877, 9863, 315, 14891, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 10107, 313, 438, 6617, 323, 5710, 13, 220, 2468, 3131, 16870, 309, 1263, 3474, 10185, 1403, 11434, 304, 279, 3838, 25, 83...
He stood aside and bowed her through the door with a mockery that made her wince. She saw that he was coatless and his cravat hung down on either side of his open collar. His shirt was open down to the thick mat of black hair on his chest. His hair was rumpled and his eyes bloodshot and narrow. One candle burned on...	[ 1548, 14980, 16038, 323, 85473, 1077, 1555, 279, 6134, 449, 264, 99254, 430, 1903, 1077, 289, 1736, 13, 220, 3005, 5602, 430, 568, 574, 23724, 1752, 323, 813, 1589, 402, 266, 18799, 1523, 389, 3060, 3185, 315, 813, 1825, 37204, 13, 22...
This lady and Ormond were exposed to mutual examination. The latter was not unaffected by the radiance that environed this girl, but her true character was easily discovered, and he was accustomed to regard her merely as an object charming to the senses. His attention to her was dictated by this principle. When she sun...	[ 2028, 17240, 323, 2582, 12669, 1051, 15246, 311, 27848, 24481, 13, 578, 15629, 574, 539, 78622, 555, 279, 12164, 685, 430, 50026, 291, 420, 3828, 11, 719, 1077, 837, 3752, 574, 6847, 11352, 11, 323, 568, 574, 53184, 311, 5363, 1077, 1...
"Well, we got on pretty well with the codes, and read the intercepted enemy messages, cables and wireless, with considerable ease and precision. It was mostly diplomatic stuff, and not very important. The more valuable stuff was in cypher, and that was another pair of shoes. With a code you can build up the interpre...	[ 56084, 11, 584, 2751, 389, 5128, 1664, 449, 279, 14236, 11, 323, 1373, 279, 70474, 9354, 6743, 11, 37172, 323, 21401, 11, 449, 24779, 14553, 323, 16437, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 10213, 34616, 6392, 11, 323, 539, 1633, 3062, 13, 220, 578, ...
Then for days we hoped for more news as good as this or better. Has von Kluck been surrounded? Not to-day, but perhaps he will be surrounded to-morrow. But the days became weeks, the weeks drew out to months; the battle in the west seemed frozen. Now and again things were done that seemed hopeful, with promise of event...	[ 12487, 369, 2919, 584, 26253, 369, 810, 3754, 439, 1695, 439, 420, 477, 2731, 13, 11697, 6675, 29041, 1983, 1027, 23712, 30, 2876, 311, 11477, 11, 719, 8530, 568, 690, 387, 23712, 311, 1474, 7924, 13, 2030, 279, 2919, 6244, 5672, 11, ...
The canny old man left forlornly at Santa Fé had long made it his study to get along with the viceregal authorities at Mexico, whoever they might be. He had made himself invaluable to them; to Don José de Iturrigaray; and in due course to Archbishop Lizana. Don Luis was now holding his government in the name of Ferdin...	[ 791, 649, 3919, 2362, 893, 2163, 369, 75, 1540, 398, 520, 16376, 89250, 1047, 1317, 1903, 433, 813, 4007, 311, 636, 3235, 449, 279, 32531, 486, 16876, 11527, 520, 12550, 11, 39371, 814, 2643, 387, 13, 220, 1283, 1047, 1903, 5678, 5619...
But his habits and conduct were in marked contrast to those of the average Oriental who attends an American university. These others, studious seekers after knowledge, had come to work. Mr. Wang, a lazy and good-humoured wastrel with more money than he could spend, had come to play. And play he did, with a whole-hea...	[ 4071, 813, 26870, 323, 6929, 1051, 304, 13160, 13168, 311, 1884, 315, 279, 5578, 72051, 889, 75112, 459, 3778, 12374, 13, 220, 4314, 3885, 11, 1707, 1245, 50433, 1306, 6677, 11, 1047, 2586, 311, 990, 13, 220, 4491, 13, 29346, 11, 264,...
However on this occasion we were destined to see but little of Port Said, since the vessel that was to take us on to Cyprus, named the /Flora/, would sail as soon as we had transhipped her mails. Accordingly, bidding farewell to the /Isis/ and her kind commander, we took a boat and rowed across to the /Flora/, a small ...	[ 11458, 389, 420, 13402, 584, 1051, 51687, 311, 1518, 719, 2697, 315, 5896, 51224, 11, 2533, 279, 27274, 430, 574, 311, 1935, 603, 389, 311, 57784, 11, 7086, 279, 611, 3968, 6347, 35645, 1053, 30503, 439, 5246, 439, 584, 1047, 1380, 22...
April 18th. To-day I found an enormous increase in the moon's apparent bulk, and the evidently accelerated velocity of my descent began to fill me with alarm. It will be remembered that, in the earliest stage of my speculations upon the possibility of a passage to the moon, the existence in its vicinity of an atmospher...	[ 29146, 220, 972, 339, 13, 2057, 11477, 358, 1766, 459, 23205, 5376, 304, 279, 18266, 596, 10186, 20155, 11, 323, 279, 67170, 49858, 15798, 315, 856, 38052, 6137, 311, 5266, 757, 449, 17035, 13, 1102, 690, 387, 27569, 430, 11, 304, 279...
It was the first time in her life she had ever been out with a man, and she was rather inclined to blame herself for having so readily fallen in with his suggestion. She knew by instinct that here was a man she could trust and she knew by the same instinct that his feelings for her were something more than friendly. Bu...	[ 2181, 574, 279, 1176, 892, 304, 1077, 2324, 1364, 1047, 3596, 1027, 704, 449, 264, 893, 11, 323, 1364, 574, 4856, 43131, 311, 19065, 11937, 369, 3515, 779, 31368, 21536, 304, 449, 813, 24710, 13, 3005, 7020, 555, 31655, 430, 1618, 574...
I can't write much these days. I'm too nervous. I can hardly hold a pen. I'm all right in the air, as calm as a cucumber, but on the ground I'm a wreck and I get panicky. Nobody in the squadron can get a glass to his mouth with one hand after one of these decoy patrols except Cal and he's got no nerve--he's made of che...	[ 40, 649, 956, 3350, 1790, 1521, 2919, 13, 358, 2846, 2288, 23418, 13, 358, 649, 20781, 3412, 264, 5869, 13, 358, 2846, 682, 1314, 304, 279, 3805, 11, 439, 19858, 439, 264, 66032, 11, 719, 389, 279, 5015, 358, 2846, 264, 36850, 323, ...
A washing of dirty linen would help no one. The B.O.T. had passed that ship as in all respects fit for sea in every sense of the word, with sufficient margin of safety for everyone on board. Now the B.O.T. was holding an enquiry in to the loss of that ship--hence the whitewash brush. Personally, I had no desire that bl...	[ 32, 28786, 315, 19108, 55115, 1053, 1520, 912, 832, 13, 578, 426, 8548, 844, 13, 1047, 5946, 430, 8448, 439, 304, 682, 43666, 5052, 369, 9581, 304, 1475, 5647, 315, 279, 3492, 11, 449, 14343, 4850, 315, 7296, 369, 5127, 389, 4580, 1...
"Pretty as she is, she is no spring chicken now," said Susan firmly, "and it would be far better for her to make a choice and settle down. Look at her Aunt Eudora . . . SHE said she didn't intend to marry till she got through flirting, and behold the result. Even yet she tries to flirt with every man in sight though ...	[ 1, 53040, 439, 1364, 374, 11, 1364, 374, 912, 10683, 16553, 1457, 1359, 1071, 31033, 32620, 11, 330, 438, 433, 1053, 387, 3117, 2731, 369, 1077, 311, 1304, 264, 5873, 323, 25760, 1523, 13, 220, 9372, 520, 1077, 71322, 469, 664, 6347, ...
"Oh, no, you don't!" he said, and brought his heel down on Brat's hand. Brat grabbed the foot with his other hand and hung on, his fingers in the opening of the shoe. Simon brought his knife down on Brat's wrist and Brat yelled, but continued to hang on. He dragged his right hand from under Simon's shoe and caught him ...	[ 55005, 11, 912, 11, 499, 1541, 956, 9135, 568, 1071, 11, 323, 7263, 813, 35428, 1523, 389, 3320, 266, 596, 1450, 13, 3320, 266, 30418, 279, 4579, 449, 813, 1023, 1450, 323, 18799, 389, 11, 813, 19779, 304, 279, 8736, 315, 279, 30077...
Up and down the country the royal brothers had marched striking at the rebellion. King Edward was not by nature suspicious, so put a deep trust in a Neville, the Marquis Montacute, Warwick's brother, who commanded the greater part of his army at Doncaster. While the Plantagenets at Doncaster sent out proclamations to a...	[ 2378, 323, 1523, 279, 3224, 279, 30336, 20820, 1047, 59761, 21933, 520, 279, 53848, 13, 6342, 22653, 574, 539, 555, 7138, 32427, 11, 779, 2231, 264, 5655, 7095, 304, 264, 82335, 11, 279, 2947, 9383, 9995, 32590, 11, 78202, 596, 10868, ...
But they were happy. It was strange, in a way; they had hardly any money and so far no jobs, and they were half scared of every knock on the door, because a daily visit to the newsroom of the free library revealed that the police were still probing what had already attained some small renown as "the Fulverton case." ...	[ 4071, 814, 1051, 6380, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 15234, 11, 304, 264, 1648, 26, 814, 1047, 20781, 904, 3300, 323, 779, 3117, 912, 7032, 11, 323, 814, 1051, 4376, 27207, 315, 1475, 14459, 389, 279, 6134, 11, 1606, 264, 7446, 4034, 311, 279...
"As he was trying to identify the house, his colleague came out on to the doorstep and beckoned him in and this was the story that he told. He had recognised the house by the big lamp-standard; and as the place was all dark, he had gone into the entry and tried the office door. Finding it unlocked, he had entered the c...	[ 48240, 568, 574, 4560, 311, 10765, 279, 3838, 11, 813, 37444, 3782, 704, 389, 311, 279, 76977, 323, 92186, 20262, 1461, 304, 323, 420, 574, 279, 3446, 430, 568, 3309, 13, 1283, 1047, 39764, 279, 3838, 555, 279, 2466, 29062, 54920, 26,...
"Well, here it is. I'm-um-um--Nothing particular there. 'London hateful, fog and cold and snow--My business is finally completed. I'm heartily thankful. I'll have to go out to India sooner than I expected, but I'll have a time in the old country first. I trust poor Miss Callaghan is getting over that terrible shock. Ho...	[ 56084, 11, 1618, 433, 374, 13, 358, 2846, 12, 372, 12, 372, 313, 24714, 4040, 1070, 13, 364, 40672, 76815, 11, 31349, 323, 9439, 323, 12056, 313, 5159, 2626, 374, 5616, 8308, 13, 358, 2846, 4851, 1570, 43788, 13, 358, 3358, 617, 311...
Sir Philip took the casket, and with it directions for use, which he did not detail. He then spoke to Haroun about Louis Grayle, who had inspired him with a mingled sentiment of admiration and abhorrence, of pity and terror. And Haroun answered thus, repeating the words ascribed to him, so far as I can trust, in rega...	[ 51290, 26241, 3952, 279, 272, 9746, 11, 323, 449, 433, 18445, 369, 1005, 11, 902, 568, 1550, 539, 7872, 13, 220, 1283, 1243, 12570, 311, 5340, 1656, 922, 12140, 24255, 273, 11, 889, 1047, 14948, 1461, 449, 264, 73259, 839, 27065, 315,...
Wednesday, 8th. All is well. At 10 last night came Namoud. We fell on each other's necks, metaphorically speaking, and swore friendship and he left with the prospect of good talks next day. It was awfully cold in the night. After waking several times I had to get up and put on all my clothes. To-day was delicious, cold...	[ 41619, 11, 220, 23, 339, 13, 2052, 374, 1664, 13, 2468, 220, 605, 1566, 3814, 3782, 31074, 3023, 13, 1226, 11299, 389, 1855, 1023, 596, 13272, 82, 11, 46450, 2740, 12365, 11, 323, 92307, 27607, 323, 568, 2163, 449, 279, 22199, 315, ...
Outside, in the street, a military band went by, playing an air from The Mikado, followed by the tramp of sixteen-year-old boys-for such the British soldiers mostly seem to be in these days. Through the window we could see black-veiled Moslem women elbowing flirtatious, unveiled Levantines, and men of every shade of cr...	[ 42465, 11, 304, 279, 8761, 11, 264, 6411, 7200, 4024, 555, 11, 5737, 459, 3805, 505, 578, 43342, 2172, 11, 8272, 555, 279, 490, 1141, 315, 59139, 4771, 6418, 13305, 15548, 1778, 279, 8013, 15201, 10213, 2873, 311, 387, 304, 1521, 2919...
This led us to look upon the tall, grey spire of Hereford Cathedral and the waters of the Wye; when Bishop Alcock took up his parable and told of Herefordian lore and great antiquities. He discoursed upon the murder of St. Ethelbert, when he came courting at King's Sutton to King Offa's daughter; and how a church of st...	[ 2028, 6197, 603, 311, 1427, 5304, 279, 16615, 11, 20366, 993, 556, 315, 5810, 8350, 57829, 323, 279, 21160, 315, 279, 468, 9188, 26, 994, 34342, 1708, 38253, 3952, 709, 813, 1370, 481, 323, 3309, 315, 5810, 8350, 1122, 52322, 323, 229...
Out of these visits Bob fashioned a hope. He might break down some portion of the barrier, lie in waiting for Shuter, attack him, throw him into the shaft perhaps, and utilise his rope ladder to regain the tunnel. Seeking about the drive he had found under a small heap of loose reef a battered pick head. He had seized ...	[ 2729, 315, 1521, 21728, 14596, 68556, 264, 3987, 13, 1283, 2643, 1464, 1523, 1063, 13651, 315, 279, 22881, 11, 10457, 304, 8748, 369, 1443, 29051, 11, 3440, 1461, 11, 2571, 1461, 1139, 279, 31468, 8530, 11, 323, 69152, 813, 34520, 36865...
"I had about fourteen hives," said Mitchell -- "we used to call them `swarms', no matter whether they were flying or in the box -- when I left home first time. I kept them behind the shed, in the shade, on tables of galvanised iron cases turned down on stakes; but I had to make legs later on, and stand them in pans of...	[ 7189, 1047, 922, 63360, 305, 1924, 1359, 1071, 31038, 1198, 330, 906, 1511, 311, 1650, 1124, 1595, 2332, 16293, 518, 912, 5030, 3508, 814, 1051, 16706, 477, 304, 279, 3830, 1198, 994, 358, 2163, 2162, 1176, 892, 13, 220, 358, 8774, 11...
To THE SAME. I'm very sorry to leave my darling Siena: in spite of the pouring rain on Sunday, she has been very seductive this year. Yesterday we practically gave up the whole day to St. Catherine! First we went down to her house which on this day of the year is completely thrown open to the public, all the little ch...	[ 1271, 3247, 84590, 13, 220, 358, 2846, 1633, 14931, 311, 5387, 856, 76745, 328, 87751, 25, 304, 34781, 315, 279, 51513, 11422, 389, 7418, 11, 1364, 706, 1027, 1633, 11163, 59923, 420, 1060, 13, 61133, 584, 32367, 6688, 709, 279, 4459, ...
"It was the old tale over again--his love for me, the power of destiny, the futility of my resistance. For I have always resisted him, Mickey. I hate him even as I fear him. And to-day I felt stronger, for I knew you were on your way and would help me. We were there in all that wild storm. He raved and swore and I grew...	[ 12348, 574, 279, 2362, 24162, 927, 1578, 313, 26301, 3021, 369, 757, 11, 279, 2410, 315, 47176, 11, 279, 282, 32000, 315, 856, 13957, 13, 1789, 358, 617, 2744, 67414, 1461, 11, 57659, 13, 358, 12491, 1461, 1524, 439, 358, 8850, 1461, ...
'And how's my little friend, the Kid?' continued Watson, stepping to the door and noting, with a breath of relief, the colour fade out of Dolly's cheeks and the familiar, hunted look he knew so well steal over both their faces. 'No, you don't!' he continued, suddenly whiping out a revolver and presenting it at Tony, wh...	[ 6, 3112, 1268, 596, 856, 2697, 4333, 11, 279, 32666, 20837, 8738, 32580, 11, 36567, 311, 279, 6134, 323, 27401, 11, 449, 264, 11745, 315, 16337, 11, 279, 12745, 15366, 704, 315, 423, 8788, 596, 54888, 323, 279, 11537, 11, 80269, 1427,...
You will not be able to go far, in the central part of any of the big cities, without hearing the deafening clatter of riveters, for although the Florida boom went to pieces in 1926, and the boom in suburban developments--which has been filling up the open spaces in the outskirts of the cities with Cotswold Terraces an...	[ 2675, 690, 539, 387, 3025, 311, 733, 3117, 11, 304, 279, 8792, 961, 315, 904, 315, 279, 2466, 9919, 11, 2085, 11011, 279, 47842, 6147, 1206, 1683, 315, 44229, 2481, 11, 369, 8051, 279, 9784, 30845, 4024, 311, 9863, 304, 220, 5926, 2...
"Dios!" thought Don Luis. "Who would ever have thought THAT? To his own grandfather! Impossible! No, true! Yes, it MUST have been Maria's child. Here was the receipt by the old merchant for the little madonna and his own ten gold pieces. Even the black bag and the cloak. Hers!" He felt her cold hands in his ow...	[ 62528, 3614, 9135, 3463, 4418, 34297, 13, 220, 330, 15546, 1053, 3596, 617, 3463, 26336, 30, 220, 2057, 813, 1866, 38950, 0, 220, 83752, 0, 220, 2360, 11, 837, 0, 220, 7566, 11, 433, 28832, 617, 1027, 23880, 596, 1716, 13, 220, 5810...
John had already made several visits to the philosopher's rooms in Cambridge, when he received a note from the astronomer. I should have explained that a young schoolmaster in a London suburb was allowing John to use his flat as a postal address. The astronomer asked John to come and meet "another very wide-awake boy,"...	[ 13379, 1047, 2736, 1903, 3892, 21728, 311, 279, 55475, 596, 12295, 304, 24562, 11, 994, 568, 4036, 264, 5296, 505, 279, 46382, 261, 13, 358, 1288, 617, 11497, 430, 264, 3995, 2978, 13943, 304, 264, 7295, 52265, 574, 10923, 3842, 311, ...
"Does it really? It seems to me there is very little to tell. I was rather a lonely boy, and had no special gifts or talents. Life here, too, was not eventful. Most of my days were spent on the sea, rowing, sailing, fishing, climbing crags for birds' eggs, watching the seals, growing weather-wise in the matter of storm...	[ 1, 22186, 433, 2216, 30, 1102, 5084, 311, 757, 1070, 374, 1633, 2697, 311, 3371, 13, 358, 574, 4856, 264, 40666, 8334, 11, 323, 1047, 912, 3361, 21258, 477, 35032, 13, 9601, 1618, 11, 2288, 11, 574, 539, 1567, 1285, 13, 7648, 315, ...
Nothing had been said about Mumby, for Merton had an impression that he had tracked Roff to the homestead and was only awaiting an opportunity to make his report; and Roff, though wavering for some time, had at last concluded that it would be better not to mention what he had seen, as so doing would delay him a week an...	[ 24714, 1047, 1027, 1071, 922, 67937, 1729, 11, 369, 386, 37733, 1047, 459, 21455, 430, 568, 1047, 34156, 432, 1885, 311, 279, 5105, 73437, 323, 574, 1193, 45088, 459, 6776, 311, 1304, 813, 1934, 26, 323, 432, 1885, 11, 3582, 54907, 47...
He arose and approached me courteously. "You are doing what you consider to be your duty," said he. "In other words than my mother used, I simply add, on _our_ heads must be the consequences." And his grave look, at once half-sad and half-determined, impressed me for the first time with a certain sort of sympathy for t...	[ 1548, 51063, 323, 25735, 757, 74999, 7162, 13, 330, 2675, 527, 3815, 1148, 499, 2980, 311, 387, 701, 14523, 1359, 1071, 568, 13, 330, 644, 1023, 4339, 1109, 856, 6691, 1511, 11, 358, 5042, 923, 11, 389, 721, 414, 62, 14971, 2011, 38...
In the meantime, Governor James H. Hawley, one of the attorneys prosecuting Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone, came to Wallace, had his name entered for the prosecution, and had the case in Boise continued. It seemed evident to us that the State representatives were anxious to get a conviction of Steve Adams so that, in o...	[ 644, 279, 33953, 11, 24245, 7957, 473, 13, 12897, 3258, 11, 832, 315, 279, 31434, 98274, 386, 42219, 11, 18276, 6798, 11, 323, 83596, 581, 606, 11, 3782, 311, 39956, 11, 1047, 813, 836, 10862, 369, 279, 32699, 11, 323, 1047, 279, 11...
The hill on which the palace stood seemed to smoke like a volcano, for the little dignitaries came without cessation, each expecting the salute of cannon due to his rank. Between the roars of the ordnance, strains of uncouth music would break from the red walls, and presently some officer of the court would ride out of...	[ 791, 24898, 389, 902, 279, 44439, 14980, 9508, 311, 16603, 1093, 264, 66306, 11, 369, 279, 2697, 28677, 275, 5548, 3782, 2085, 83460, 11, 1855, 23132, 279, 71211, 315, 49499, 4245, 311, 813, 7222, 13, 28232, 279, 938, 1590, 315, 279, ...
Further, it annoyed and wounded him to be considered "queer." He exulted in his popularity among the students, his heart pounded with pride under all the pins and emblems, but he resented being considered an eccentric, and he envied those of his fellows who were elected to office for their solid golden mediocrity. He...	[ 31428, 11, 433, 57130, 323, 28593, 1461, 311, 387, 6646, 330, 593, 261, 1210, 220, 1283, 506, 495, 291, 304, 813, 23354, 4315, 279, 4236, 11, 813, 4851, 95579, 449, 22519, 1234, 682, 279, 28042, 323, 991, 22442, 11, 719, 568, 594, 1...
The passenger from Scotland Yard suddenly laughed outright. He was picturing this 'vivacious French brunette' imported into the service of an honest middle-class English family. She had brushed by him with short, quick, studied steps, and with an air of unconsciousness that was delightfully artificial. How pleasant, he...	[ 791, 24023, 505, 19627, 39337, 15187, 32627, 40228, 13, 1283, 574, 72829, 1711, 420, 364, 85, 344, 19995, 8753, 49217, 6, 25973, 1139, 279, 2532, 315, 459, 10978, 6278, 15144, 6498, 3070, 13, 3005, 1047, 62639, 555, 1461, 449, 2875, 11,...
Narahdarn, the bat, wanted honey. He watched until he saw a Wurranunnah, or bee, alight. He caught it, stuck a white feather between its hind legs, let it go and followed it. He knew he could see the white feather, and so follow the bee to its nest. He ordered his two wives, of the Bilber tribe, to follow him with wirr...	[ 45, 43518, 67, 1923, 11, 279, 16120, 11, 4934, 26828, 13, 1283, 15746, 3156, 568, 5602, 264, 468, 324, 6713, 15278, 1494, 11, 477, 38328, 11, 453, 492, 13, 1283, 10791, 433, 11, 16075, 264, 4251, 50876, 1990, 1202, 48419, 14535, 11, ...
Justin was not the sort of boy to misinterpret the smile that had beamed upon the faces of his examiners, affable and circumspect men, when the "tangent" had addressed him by his name, with a wink of old acquaintance, at each of his last two orals; nor yet the tone of social and at the same time learned conversation in...	[ 64464, 574, 539, 279, 3460, 315, 8334, 311, 5906, 17324, 279, 15648, 430, 1047, 387, 3690, 5304, 279, 12580, 315, 813, 7151, 40799, 11, 3611, 481, 323, 4319, 6370, 1002, 3026, 11, 994, 279, 330, 83, 67551, 1, 1047, 20669, 1461, 555, ...
Sir Percival spoke to me this afternoon about what had passed in Laura's room. He assured me that the unparalleled trust she had placed in him had awakened such an answering conviction of her innocence and integrity in his mind, that he was guiltless of having felt even a moment's unworthy jealousy, either at the time...	[ 51290, 52726, 4023, 12570, 311, 757, 420, 13658, 922, 1148, 1047, 5946, 304, 30928, 596, 3130, 13, 220, 1283, 28478, 757, 430, 279, 71257, 7095, 1364, 1047, 9277, 304, 1461, 1047, 90347, 1778, 459, 36864, 29191, 315, 1077, 57311, 323, 1...
In this new life there was almost no leisure, no time for reading, music, writing. Contact with the world beyond the hills was at a minimum. Expeditions to sheep sales were rare excitements. On these occasions both Sirius and Plaxy would accompany Pugh, she as Pugh's unofficial land-girl. The bustle, the babble of Wels...	[ 644, 420, 502, 2324, 1070, 574, 4661, 912, 41308, 11, 912, 892, 369, 5403, 11, 4731, 11, 4477, 13, 9359, 449, 279, 1917, 7953, 279, 35231, 574, 520, 264, 8187, 13, 64412, 6055, 311, 33012, 6763, 1051, 9024, 3521, 1224, 812, 13, 1952...
Stretton worked hard during the next three days, and the colour and the smell of the autumn woods were very much with him. He was strangely conscious of the world which surrounded both him and her, or as his brother would have put it, "Burnt Heath had become sexed." In his sensitive way Stretton had gone back to drea...	[ 626, 2171, 783, 6575, 2653, 2391, 279, 1828, 2380, 2919, 11, 323, 279, 12745, 323, 279, 22843, 315, 279, 42774, 33633, 1051, 1633, 1790, 449, 1461, 13, 220, 1283, 574, 70706, 17371, 315, 279, 1917, 902, 23712, 2225, 1461, 323, 1077, 1...
It was precisely at that moment that an incredible and amazing thing happened--seen first, to Samara's preservation, by Catherine. Scarcely fifteen feet from them was hung a boat, covered by a tight canvas covering. There was hardly a breath of wind, and yet Catherine's attention had been attracted by the inexplicable...	[ 2181, 574, 24559, 520, 430, 4545, 430, 459, 15400, 323, 8056, 3245, 7077, 313, 29412, 1176, 11, 311, 8388, 5169, 596, 46643, 11, 555, 42663, 13, 2522, 8362, 989, 37755, 7693, 505, 1124, 574, 18799, 264, 15688, 11, 9960, 555, 264, 1050...
Sturt's first year in Australia altered his whole life: the change from the rigid conventions of army and county life to the exciting freedom of an unknown continent bred in his active mind a complex of impulses--a love of exploration for its own sake, a desire for the "credit" it would bring, a search for economic sec...	[ 626, 5757, 596, 1176, 1060, 304, 8494, 29852, 813, 4459, 2324, 25, 279, 2349, 505, 279, 33956, 45593, 315, 13695, 323, 14189, 2324, 311, 279, 13548, 11542, 315, 459, 9987, 32843, 55187, 304, 813, 4642, 4059, 264, 6485, 315, 87633, 313, ...
With a trembling, but eager gripe, he seized the paper, as a miser would seize the deeds of an estate on which he has a mortgage. He smoothed the folds, looked complacently at the well-known hand, smiled--a ghastly smile! and then placed the letter under his pillow, and sank down; they left him alone. He did not wake f...	[ 2409, 264, 93088, 11, 719, 24450, 23854, 375, 11, 568, 31589, 279, 5684, 11, 439, 264, 98310, 1053, 51085, 279, 54811, 315, 459, 12675, 389, 902, 568, 706, 264, 21515, 13, 1283, 93939, 279, 61607, 11, 7111, 4684, 582, 4501, 520, 279, ...
A pair of coarse, cynical laughs which Topper would have preferred not to hear, came from across the table as Topper once more wearily raised his body. He was now in the position of a man unable to sit down at his own breakfast table. Marion's voice had thrilled him, but the situation was working him up to a pitch. He ...	[ 32, 6857, 315, 50347, 11, 70779, 49336, 902, 7054, 716, 1053, 617, 15236, 539, 311, 6865, 11, 3782, 505, 4028, 279, 2007, 439, 7054, 716, 3131, 810, 584, 6751, 9408, 813, 2547, 13, 1283, 574, 1457, 304, 279, 2361, 315, 264, 893, 121...

"You shall have your wish then, for a time at least," said Raoul, with a sudden quick resolve: "your knowledge of languages answers to one great requirement of my present position. I have so much correspondence on my hands that I was thinking only yesterday of applying for a secretary to assist me. For one month I will...

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The Pleiades are seven sisters, as usual, the dimmed ones having been dulled because on earth Wurrunnah seized them and tried to melt the crystal off them at a fire; for, beautiful as they were with their long hair, they were ice-maidens. But he was unsuccessful beyond dulling their brightness, for the ice as it melted...

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We called ourselves 'Intrusive' as a band; for we meant to break into the accepted halls of English foreign policy, and build a new people in the East, despite the rails laid down for us by our ancestors. Therefore from our hybrid intelligence office in Cairo (a jangling place which for its incessant bells and bustle a...

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Molly Pentreath was given a cloak, and refused it, and had it placed upon her shoulders by Roland's insisting hands. He led them out to look at the white figures of his statues, and the shadows cast by them upon the moonlit stones, and at the well-head with its circle of blackness. Christopher stood beside the figure...

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Lady Stella imparted her information in a charmingly confidential undertone. "The eye-glass," she murmured, "is--I am going to spell it--F.R.E.D.D.Y. M.U.S.H. Taste. Good taste. He is awfully clever at finding out young poets and all that sort of literary thing. And he's Rupert's secretary. If there is a literary Acade...

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She had benefited immensely by her trip. She was a little sunburned certainly, but there was a healthy sparkle n the dear blue eyes that gave her whole face an animated appearance. She was at times delightfully piquant and her brisk manner was a source of pleasure to her father and Aunt Jo. But her repartees, her fearl...

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Governor Young adroitly turned the discovery of gold to the advantage of his own colony by establishing an escort between Bendigo and Adelaide; and, as this was remarkably well equipped, many of the diggers sent their gold by this route rather than to Melbourne, thus giving to South Australia some of the advantages of ...

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A month ago she had been heart-whole and young, a simple child. The same prejudices and generous beliefs had been hers, but held loosely with a child's comprehension. But now this old world had been awakened to arms against a dazzling new world of love and pleasure. She was led captive by emotion, but the cold rook of ...

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Everything was the same as it had always been. Cummins, when she was not handling dishes or clearing away plates, stood by the Hepplewhite sideboard. The same portraits of the same St. Georges looked down from the walls upon mother and son. "Waterloo St. George," in his guardsman's coat, smiled that half-ironical sm...

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Or I'd like, if I may put the imagery another way, to be a spirit and appear in the office of a business man, one of the kind called executives, who can't digest anything and live on toast. I'd be a spirit and I'd appear in his office just about one o'clock. He could see me but no one else could. His stenographer could...

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And his last word on the matter, as he nodded and went his way, may well be mine; for one need be no criminologist, much less a member of the Criminologists' Club, to remember what Raffles did with the robes and coronet of the Right Hon. the Earl of Thornaby, K.G. He did with them exactly what he might have been expect...

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Read in the light of this exaltation, there was a new meaning in the words which her mother had penciled upon the card attached to the bunch of anemones. The door of the house in the Cromwell Road opened; gloomy vistas of passage and staircase were revealed; such light as there was seemed to be concentrated upon a silv...

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She let him look at her for a moment, because he had something that he wanted to express. And she, from pure natural curiosity, would have been glad to know what it was. And so their eyes dwelt upon one another just long enough for each to be almost ashamed of leaving off; and in that short time they seemed to be ple...

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"Lo, I slew a dugpa," said the Sikh. " What of it? I have slain many whose time had come to die, but who were worthier to live than that one. Consider: I followed Jimgrim in search of the woman. She beckoned us over that ridge we crossed a while ago, and we came to a cave, which she entered, bidding Jimgrim follow....

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"Yes, I think you're right, James," he said. "But there will be two points to consider. I don't want anybody in this except you and myself. There is no third party I can trust, but I think, with a little rehearsing, that the business can be managed. The lawyers say time is the essence of the contract. When I say time, ...

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There are some general traits, however, in which the languages are known to agree. On the east of the Bay of Bengal, a new constituent of language is met in intonation. The signification of the same vowels and consonants are changed by a change of tone. Thus _myan_ in Burmese is "to be swift," but with a heavy falling ...

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Her glance returned to me, and in that instant I gave her an answering look, which, quite involuntarily on my part, meant a grave and serious offer of my best and bravest efforts in her behalf. Disingenuous she might be, untruthful she might be, yes, even a criminal she might be, but in any case I was her sworn ally f...

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"I send you a little gold necklace that was taken from the mummy of a dead princess of the nineteenth dynasty," wrote Dean. "Her name was Mena and it said in her epitaph that she was 'sweet of heart.' So I think she fared well in the Hall of Judgment and that the dread old gods smiled indulgently upon her. This littl...

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"Very true," answered Job, "and if it be possible to give Bess the slip, we will. However, let us not lose what we may get by grasping at what we may not; let us have the confession first, and we'll try for the release afterwards. I have another reason for this, Sir, which, if you knew as much of penitent prigs as I do...

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The rest of that day was very beastly. Beastly was the ride in the Black Maria, which, inside, was like nothing so much as a miniature public lavatory, with tiny cubicles down each side, into which you were locked and in which you had barely room to sit down. Beastlier yet was the long wait in one of the cells adjoini...

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Well, this ended it. He could not picture himself going on living there with a nervous eye eternally cocked at Mary to see how she was comporting herself, or how what she did struck the wretched group of snobs he had been fool enough to dump her down amongst; the while he winced at idiosyncrasies he yet grudged to admi...

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"You come at an interesting time," he said. "You find us in transition. Before the War, and almost until the end of it, most Arabs believed in the German destiny. English gold commanded the allegiance of an Arab army, but every last man in that army was ready to follow the German standard at the proper time. That o...

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I had selected for my residence a well-known principal hotel, situated in what was once a fashionable portion of the city proper, but long since abandoned to wharves, warehouses, and strictly mercantile purposes. In the good old days when Sydney was a green- swarded town, with a growing coast and island trade, and abou...

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The words broke from him like a sudden groan, when some old wound is rudely touched. Both of the young men started, both laid back the relics they had taken up, and turned their eyes from Thorn's face, across which swept a look of shame and sorrow, too significant to be misunderstood. Their silence assured him of their...

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They sauntered through the big room, which was just then crowded with a curious company, as Clifford said. I suppose there was every kind of man and miner under the sun. Not many women, but what there was not a little out of the way in looks and manners. We kept on working away all the time. It helped to stop us fro...

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It was a nightmare time, but he was not unhappy, for a veil seemed to be lifting from his horizon. He had recaptured his own country. The most alien sights and scents were translated into the idiom of home. As he lay in the hot tamarisk at midday he smelled thyme and bracken, and under a sky of glittering stars he co...

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"You will wonder how I came to be in London. I went up, with a return ticket (from Saturday to Monday), about that matter in dispute at our agent's. We had a tough fight; but, curiously enough, a point occurred to me just as I got up to go; and I went back to my chair, and settled the question in no time. Of course I s...

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The north-west winds prevailing for the next four days, we only managed to cross a great bay, and then anchored in another secure harbour. I accompanied the Captain in a boat to the head of a deep creek. On the way the number of seals which we saw was quite astonishing: every bit of flat rock and parts of the beach wer...

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"Gentlemen, I have shown patience up till now, because I saw that you had something on your minds which it might be better for you and possibly for me to be rid of. This affair of Miss Willett's death is, as all must acknowledge, baffling enough to strain even to the point of folly any effort made to explain it. I had ...

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"Perhaps I ought not to ask," said Norton, "and I shouldn't ask, if I was not on the whole more interested in Walter than I am in anyone else. He has got a great charm, quite irresistible. But then, as you say, he is a mystery. I feel that he wants setting free somehow. He seems to me like the prince in the Arabian...

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"Darling, how gloomy you are," she said. "Is this what comes of making blizzards and trying to kill your own Nancy's own father? Perhaps there's a way everywhere without hurting anyone--unless," she added, with a touch of sadness clouding the full gaiety that had seized her, "unless they insist on being hurt. But let's...

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I didn't take long to guess what it was. It was an aerodrome, and a secret one. The place had been most cunningly chosen. For suppose anyone were watching an aeroplane descending here, he would think it had gone over the hill beyond the trees. As the place was on the top of a rise in the midst of a big amphitheatre...

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I certainly did love these people, and knew I should feel it much whenever I should part from them. No doubt I have omitted many things relating to them which I ought to have described and may think of at some future time, but I do not think I have flattered them. Some day perhaps an expedition may be fitted out to try...

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For my part, when I read the story over again as an adult and as a professional critic to boot, I felt the disappointment so keenly that I have been ever since in the condition of the musician who, when he had gone to bed, heard somebody play an unresolved discord, and could not go to sleep until he had risen to play t...

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"Not then." He shook his head. "I can't say whether she had such thoughts or not; but she took the notion that her mother wanted the child with her. . . . The rest came later." Per Hansa pulled himself together with a strong effort. . . . "It will be two years this summer; it happened toward evening, one day when ...

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'Look here, we ought to have settled more about what we're to say when we're asked questions. I chose a quiet-looking shop, but it turned out to be a sort of inn, where they were drinking pink gin--all very friendly, as usual, and I found myself under a fire of questions. I said we were on our way back to England. Ther...

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She had to humour his great happiness and his passion to express it in movement. No longer was he a legless creature, but a man-child setting out to possess a new world, and exulting in it. "O, Kit, I can hardly believe it." She made him lean upon the back of his wheeled chair and push it before him. "You can rest ...

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'In short,' said Mr. Grewgious, 'this betrothal is a wish, a sentiment, a friendly project, tenderly expressed on both sides. That it was strongly felt, and that there was a lively hope that it would prosper, there can be no doubt. When you were both children, you began to be accustomed to it, and it HAS prospered. But...

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Part of her story, he reflected, must be true. She had produced Sir Horace's revolver, and, still more important, a handkerchief which he had clutched in his dying struggles. It was obvious that she or some other woman had been at Riversbrook the night of the murder, and in the room with the murdered man before he died...

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At noon that day the hens had not been heard from. After dinner Jake and Otto, their damp clothes now dried on them, stretched their stiff arms and plunged again into the drifts. They made a tunnel through the snow to the hen-house, with walls so solid that grandmother and I could walk back and forth in it. We found...

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But Beatrice was not thinking about the strange events of the evening, for her mind had gone back to the time when she first met Wilfrid Mercer in London. He had been introduced by common friends, and from that time Beatrice had contrived to see a good deal of him. From the first she had liked him, perhaps because he w...

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All of these works were written and published in Norwegian. They were brought out under the imprint of the Augsburg Publishing House, of Minneapolis, and circulated only among those Norwegian- Americans who had retained the language of the old country. The reason why none of them had reached publication in Norway is ...

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"Well, it was a pretty lonely life in those days, only seeing a ship once a year; but I was making money, as I said, hand over fist, and didn't worry much. My wife--not the present one, you know--was a Bonin Island half-bred Portugee woman, and as she generally talked to me in English, and had no native ways to speak ...

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At the font they had been given the pretty, old-fashioned names of Prudence and Ruth, but for business purposes, as they explained, they had exchanged them for the more high-sounding and up-to-date ones of Pearl and Ruby. The new names passed into currency sooner than might have been expected, for few of their customer...

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Shaxton flashed back at Daunt. "She was struck on you, too," he went on, as if there had been no interruption; "I think this very sour of you, Superintendent. You want a better bile. You're rather cynical--aren't you! Here you are squeezing her through--for a friend--with a lavender pad! Poor piece!" (He smiled malignl...

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"This will do, Harris; wait here," he said a little later. He knew that there were trees above and wide open spaces on both sides. The station lay just beyond, and from the station to Arling Avenue was a negligible step. Even at that hour Arling Avenue might have been awake to the intrusion of an alien car of rather no...

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I have spoken before of the flowers of Palestine, but never in any other spot did I see their equal for loveliness and frequency. It is scarcely too much to say that here for whole miles it would have been difficult to throw a shilling at hazard without its falling on some beauteous bloom. Everywhere the turf was carpe...

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"Here," and The Thinking Machine arose and went to Miss Winthrop's desk,--"here is an extension telephone with the receiver on the hook. It just happens that the little silver box which you gave Miss Winthrop is tall enough to support this receiver clear of the hook, and the minute the receiver is off the hook the line...

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In his article already referred to on "'The Devastated Art of France" A. Kingsley Porter, special commissioner of the French government and member of the _Commission des Monuments Historiques_, said that the striking thing about the art around Soissons was its inexhaustibility, "inexhaustibility, I mean not onl...

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"It was so beautiful last Friday," she said, "that I determined I must go there." So she had gone off to Waterloo on her great undertaking--to visit Hampton Court--alone. Naturally, but perhaps foolishly, one pitied her for the thing she never asked pity for (indeed she was reticent habitually, speaking of her health o...

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In the weeks that followed Pat felt as if her heart were bleeding drop by drop. She seemed to be alone in her anguish. Sid rather hoped dad wouldn't go west but was not terribly cut up about it. Joe frankly hoped he WOULD go. Winnie thought it might be fun. Mother SEEMED quite indifferent to it, in her usual calm, g...

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A single sweep of its majestic wing brings it above the glade. There, poised on tremulous pinions, with eyes turned to earth, it scans both the open space and the chapparal that surrounds it. In the former it beholds that which may, perhaps, be gratifying to its glance a man thrown from his horse that runs neighing aro...

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"Africa," he was saying, "is a country of surprises. Attra seems to be a city of hopeless exile for all white people. Last time I was there I used to notice every day a very old man making a pretence of working in a kitchen garden attached to a little white mission-house--a Basle Society depot. He always seemed to be l...

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"I want you to know of certain developments here at the ranch. As I've told you before, Martin Thorn and I have been on very bad terms for the past year. This afternoon the big blow-off finally arrived, and I dismissed him from my service. Tomorrow morning I'm going with him to Pasadena, and when we get there, we part ...

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The house was bright with curtains and wall-paintings and handsome pieces of furniture. It was bright--and modern and dead. At once Rosamund detested two persons in the house: one was Captain Winterset, whom she remembered from her old visit; the other was Phineas Thatcher, whom Philip had engaged after Henry Herries...

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He stood aside and bowed her through the door with a mockery that made her wince. She saw that he was coatless and his cravat hung down on either side of his open collar. His shirt was open down to the thick mat of black hair on his chest. His hair was rumpled and his eyes bloodshot and narrow. One candle burned on...

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This lady and Ormond were exposed to mutual examination. The latter was not unaffected by the radiance that environed this girl, but her true character was easily discovered, and he was accustomed to regard her merely as an object charming to the senses. His attention to her was dictated by this principle. When she sun...

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"Well, we got on pretty well with the codes, and read the intercepted enemy messages, cables and wireless, with considerable ease and precision. It was mostly diplomatic stuff, and not very important. The more valuable stuff was in cypher, and that was another pair of shoes. With a code you can build up the interpre...

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Then for days we hoped for more news as good as this or better. Has von Kluck been surrounded? Not to-day, but perhaps he will be surrounded to-morrow. But the days became weeks, the weeks drew out to months; the battle in the west seemed frozen. Now and again things were done that seemed hopeful, with promise of event...

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The canny old man left forlornly at Santa Fé had long made it his study to get along with the viceregal authorities at Mexico, whoever they might be. He had made himself invaluable to them; to Don José de Iturrigaray; and in due course to Archbishop Lizana. Don Luis was now holding his government in the name of Ferdin...

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But his habits and conduct were in marked contrast to those of the average Oriental who attends an American university. These others, studious seekers after knowledge, had come to work. Mr. Wang, a lazy and good-humoured wastrel with more money than he could spend, had come to play. And play he did, with a whole-hea...

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However on this occasion we were destined to see but little of Port Said, since the vessel that was to take us on to Cyprus, named the /Flora/, would sail as soon as we had transhipped her mails. Accordingly, bidding farewell to the /Isis/ and her kind commander, we took a boat and rowed across to the /Flora/, a small ...

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April 18th. To-day I found an enormous increase in the moon's apparent bulk, and the evidently accelerated velocity of my descent began to fill me with alarm. It will be remembered that, in the earliest stage of my speculations upon the possibility of a passage to the moon, the existence in its vicinity of an atmospher...

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It was the first time in her life she had ever been out with a man, and she was rather inclined to blame herself for having so readily fallen in with his suggestion. She knew by instinct that here was a man she could trust and she knew by the same instinct that his feelings for her were something more than friendly. Bu...

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I can't write much these days. I'm too nervous. I can hardly hold a pen. I'm all right in the air, as calm as a cucumber, but on the ground I'm a wreck and I get panicky. Nobody in the squadron can get a glass to his mouth with one hand after one of these decoy patrols except Cal and he's got no nerve--he's made of che...

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A washing of dirty linen would help no one. The B.O.T. had passed that ship as in all respects fit for sea in every sense of the word, with sufficient margin of safety for everyone on board. Now the B.O.T. was holding an enquiry in to the loss of that ship--hence the whitewash brush. Personally, I had no desire that bl...

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"Pretty as she is, she is no spring chicken now," said Susan firmly, "and it would be far better for her to make a choice and settle down. Look at her Aunt Eudora . . . SHE said she didn't intend to marry till she got through flirting, and behold the result. Even yet she tries to flirt with every man in sight though ...

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"Oh, no, you don't!" he said, and brought his heel down on Brat's hand. Brat grabbed the foot with his other hand and hung on, his fingers in the opening of the shoe. Simon brought his knife down on Brat's wrist and Brat yelled, but continued to hang on. He dragged his right hand from under Simon's shoe and caught him ...

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Up and down the country the royal brothers had marched striking at the rebellion. King Edward was not by nature suspicious, so put a deep trust in a Neville, the Marquis Montacute, Warwick's brother, who commanded the greater part of his army at Doncaster. While the Plantagenets at Doncaster sent out proclamations to a...

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But they were happy. It was strange, in a way; they had hardly any money and so far no jobs, and they were half scared of every knock on the door, because a daily visit to the newsroom of the free library revealed that the police were still probing what had already attained some small renown as "the Fulverton case." ...

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"As he was trying to identify the house, his colleague came out on to the doorstep and beckoned him in and this was the story that he told. He had recognised the house by the big lamp-standard; and as the place was all dark, he had gone into the entry and tried the office door. Finding it unlocked, he had entered the c...

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"Well, here it is. I'm-um-um--Nothing particular there. 'London hateful, fog and cold and snow--My business is finally completed. I'm heartily thankful. I'll have to go out to India sooner than I expected, but I'll have a time in the old country first. I trust poor Miss Callaghan is getting over that terrible shock. Ho...

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Sir Philip took the casket, and with it directions for use, which he did not detail. He then spoke to Haroun about Louis Grayle, who had inspired him with a mingled sentiment of admiration and abhorrence, of pity and terror. And Haroun answered thus, repeating the words ascribed to him, so far as I can trust, in rega...

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Wednesday, 8th. All is well. At 10 last night came Namoud. We fell on each other's necks, metaphorically speaking, and swore friendship and he left with the prospect of good talks next day. It was awfully cold in the night. After waking several times I had to get up and put on all my clothes. To-day was delicious, cold...

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Outside, in the street, a military band went by, playing an air from The Mikado, followed by the tramp of sixteen-year-old boys-for such the British soldiers mostly seem to be in these days. Through the window we could see black-veiled Moslem women elbowing flirtatious, unveiled Levantines, and men of every shade of cr...

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This led us to look upon the tall, grey spire of Hereford Cathedral and the waters of the Wye; when Bishop Alcock took up his parable and told of Herefordian lore and great antiquities. He discoursed upon the murder of St. Ethelbert, when he came courting at King's Sutton to King Offa's daughter; and how a church of st...

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Out of these visits Bob fashioned a hope. He might break down some portion of the barrier, lie in waiting for Shuter, attack him, throw him into the shaft perhaps, and utilise his rope ladder to regain the tunnel. Seeking about the drive he had found under a small heap of loose reef a battered pick head. He had seized ...

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"I had about fourteen hives," said Mitchell -- "we used to call them `swarms', no matter whether they were flying or in the box -- when I left home first time. I kept them behind the shed, in the shade, on tables of galvanised iron cases turned down on stakes; but I had to make legs later on, and stand them in pans of...

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To THE SAME. I'm very sorry to leave my darling Siena: in spite of the pouring rain on Sunday, she has been very seductive this year. Yesterday we practically gave up the whole day to St. Catherine! First we went down to her house which on this day of the year is completely thrown open to the public, all the little ch...

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"It was the old tale over again--his love for me, the power of destiny, the futility of my resistance. For I have always resisted him, Mickey. I hate him even as I fear him. And to-day I felt stronger, for I knew you were on your way and would help me. We were there in all that wild storm. He raved and swore and I grew...

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'And how's my little friend, the Kid?' continued Watson, stepping to the door and noting, with a breath of relief, the colour fade out of Dolly's cheeks and the familiar, hunted look he knew so well steal over both their faces. 'No, you don't!' he continued, suddenly whiping out a revolver and presenting it at Tony, wh...

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You will not be able to go far, in the central part of any of the big cities, without hearing the deafening clatter of riveters, for although the Florida boom went to pieces in 1926, and the boom in suburban developments--which has been filling up the open spaces in the outskirts of the cities with Cotswold Terraces an...

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"Dios!" thought Don Luis. "Who would ever have thought THAT? To his own grandfather! Impossible! No, true! Yes, it MUST have been Maria's child. Here was the receipt by the old merchant for the little madonna and his own ten gold pieces. Even the black bag and the cloak. Hers!" He felt her cold hands in his ow...

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John had already made several visits to the philosopher's rooms in Cambridge, when he received a note from the astronomer. I should have explained that a young schoolmaster in a London suburb was allowing John to use his flat as a postal address. The astronomer asked John to come and meet "another very wide-awake boy,"...

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"Does it really? It seems to me there is very little to tell. I was rather a lonely boy, and had no special gifts or talents. Life here, too, was not eventful. Most of my days were spent on the sea, rowing, sailing, fishing, climbing crags for birds' eggs, watching the seals, growing weather-wise in the matter of storm...

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Nothing had been said about Mumby, for Merton had an impression that he had tracked Roff to the homestead and was only awaiting an opportunity to make his report; and Roff, though wavering for some time, had at last concluded that it would be better not to mention what he had seen, as so doing would delay him a week an...

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He arose and approached me courteously. "You are doing what you consider to be your duty," said he. "In other words than my mother used, I simply add, on _our_ heads must be the consequences." And his grave look, at once half-sad and half-determined, impressed me for the first time with a certain sort of sympathy for t...

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In the meantime, Governor James H. Hawley, one of the attorneys prosecuting Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone, came to Wallace, had his name entered for the prosecution, and had the case in Boise continued. It seemed evident to us that the State representatives were anxious to get a conviction of Steve Adams so that, in o...

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The hill on which the palace stood seemed to smoke like a volcano, for the little dignitaries came without cessation, each expecting the salute of cannon due to his rank. Between the roars of the ordnance, strains of uncouth music would break from the red walls, and presently some officer of the court would ride out of...

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Further, it annoyed and wounded him to be considered "queer." He exulted in his popularity among the students, his heart pounded with pride under all the pins and emblems, but he resented being considered an eccentric, and he envied those of his fellows who were elected to office for their solid golden mediocrity. He...

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The passenger from Scotland Yard suddenly laughed outright. He was picturing this 'vivacious French brunette' imported into the service of an honest middle-class English family. She had brushed by him with short, quick, studied steps, and with an air of unconsciousness that was delightfully artificial. How pleasant, he...

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Narahdarn, the bat, wanted honey. He watched until he saw a Wurranunnah, or bee, alight. He caught it, stuck a white feather between its hind legs, let it go and followed it. He knew he could see the white feather, and so follow the bee to its nest. He ordered his two wives, of the Bilber tribe, to follow him with wirr...

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Justin was not the sort of boy to misinterpret the smile that had beamed upon the faces of his examiners, affable and circumspect men, when the "tangent" had addressed him by his name, with a wink of old acquaintance, at each of his last two orals; nor yet the tone of social and at the same time learned conversation in...

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Sir Percival spoke to me this afternoon about what had passed in Laura's room. He assured me that the unparalleled trust she had placed in him had awakened such an answering conviction of her innocence and integrity in his mind, that he was guiltless of having felt even a moment's unworthy jealousy, either at the time...

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In this new life there was almost no leisure, no time for reading, music, writing. Contact with the world beyond the hills was at a minimum. Expeditions to sheep sales were rare excitements. On these occasions both Sirius and Plaxy would accompany Pugh, she as Pugh's unofficial land-girl. The bustle, the babble of Wels...

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Stretton worked hard during the next three days, and the colour and the smell of the autumn woods were very much with him. He was strangely conscious of the world which surrounded both him and her, or as his brother would have put it, "Burnt Heath had become sexed." In his sensitive way Stretton had gone back to drea...

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It was precisely at that moment that an incredible and amazing thing happened--seen first, to Samara's preservation, by Catherine. Scarcely fifteen feet from them was hung a boat, covered by a tight canvas covering. There was hardly a breath of wind, and yet Catherine's attention had been attracted by the inexplicable...

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Sturt's first year in Australia altered his whole life: the change from the rigid conventions of army and county life to the exciting freedom of an unknown continent bred in his active mind a complex of impulses--a love of exploration for its own sake, a desire for the "credit" it would bring, a search for economic sec...

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With a trembling, but eager gripe, he seized the paper, as a miser would seize the deeds of an estate on which he has a mortgage. He smoothed the folds, looked complacently at the well-known hand, smiled--a ghastly smile! and then placed the letter under his pillow, and sank down; they left him alone. He did not wake f...

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A pair of coarse, cynical laughs which Topper would have preferred not to hear, came from across the table as Topper once more wearily raised his body. He was now in the position of a man unable to sit down at his own breakfast table. Marion's voice had thrilled him, but the situation was working him up to a pitch. He ...

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