JoeyLLM/Project_Gutenberg_Australia · Datasets at Hugging Face

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The above paragraph was read with very different feelings by different readers. To the four conspirators, and to the public at large, it only made the mystery more profound. One man alone read in it nothing more than the final closing of a painful chapter. Laying down the paper, that man--a simple, white-haired bargema...	[ 791, 3485, 14646, 574, 1373, 449, 1633, 2204, 16024, 555, 2204, 13016, 13, 2057, 279, 3116, 22236, 3046, 11, 323, 311, 279, 586, 520, 3544, 11, 433, 1193, 1903, 279, 23347, 810, 28254, 13, 3861, 893, 7636, 1373, 304, 433, 4400, 810, ...
Joe always had hated to dine with his mother alone. Fortunately there was a bottle of not-so-bad Madeira. Joe's mother drank two-thirds of it. Joe kept filling her glass; she sometimes became good-tempered when she drank too much--she even let pass opportunities to poison hope with cynicism. So he kept on pouring and d...	[ 41444, 2744, 1047, 38674, 311, 66207, 449, 813, 6691, 7636, 13, 42536, 1070, 574, 264, 16893, 315, 539, 34119, 1481, 329, 19332, 9008, 13, 13142, 596, 6691, 54244, 1403, 45726, 315, 433, 13, 13142, 8774, 21973, 1077, 9168, 26, 1364, 717...
The dwarf in that pause had leaned again against the parapet. The ordinary traffic of London was going on, but as if Lester's pause had affected it, there came at the moment a lull and a silence. Through it there toddled slowly along an elderly gentleman, peering through his glasses at an evening paper. Lester, shyly a...	[ 791, 50561, 304, 430, 18579, 1047, 55939, 1578, 2403, 279, 1370, 391, 295, 13, 578, 19664, 9629, 315, 7295, 574, 2133, 389, 11, 719, 439, 422, 83758, 596, 18579, 1047, 11754, 433, 11, 1070, 3782, 520, 279, 4545, 264, 326, 620, 323, ...
There was nothing for it: Lou had to buy herself a horse and ride at her mother's side, for very decency's sake. Mrs. Witt was so like a smooth, levelled, gunmetal pistol, Lou had to be a sort of sheath. And she really looked pretty, with her clusters of dark, curly, New Orleans hair, like grapes, and her quaint brown ...	[ 3947, 574, 4400, 369, 433, 25, 9928, 1047, 311, 3780, 11937, 264, 15580, 323, 12141, 520, 1077, 6691, 596, 3185, 11, 369, 1633, 99370, 596, 25491, 13, 18083, 13, 83276, 574, 779, 1093, 264, 11113, 11, 2237, 839, 11, 6166, 55108, 40536...
Charlie sent the maid back to the house, and then sat down in the straight-backed chair before the dressing-table. The sole illumination in the little room came from two pink-shaded lamps, one on either side of the mirror. Thoughtfully he stared into the glass where, dimly reflected, he caught occasional glimpses of an...	[ 73728, 3288, 279, 43165, 1203, 311, 279, 3838, 11, 323, 1243, 7731, 1523, 304, 279, 7833, 46128, 10716, 1603, 279, 32623, 17203, 13, 578, 13612, 77052, 304, 279, 2697, 3130, 3782, 505, 1403, 18718, 7666, 14589, 50552, 11, 832, 389, 3060...
Throughout the hardships of the journey and now amidst the throng and scurry of the railway platform, the woman prisoner preserved a calm that had in it still that same slight touch of mockery. Of course it was not her place to worry about the train or the White advance; if the latter arrived before the former, the adv...	[ 60105, 279, 96322, 315, 279, 11879, 323, 1457, 65904, 279, 8983, 647, 323, 1156, 40956, 315, 279, 40106, 5452, 11, 279, 5333, 42950, 34683, 264, 19858, 430, 1047, 304, 433, 2103, 430, 1890, 8275, 5916, 315, 99254, 13, 5046, 3388, 433, ...
I have, however, one advantage over the Elizabethans. I write in full view of the Middle Ages, which may be said to have been rediscovered in the middle of the nineteenth century after an eclipse of about four hundred and fifty years. The Renascence of antique literature and art in the sixteenth century, and the lust...	[ 40, 617, 11, 4869, 11, 832, 9610, 927, 279, 21393, 598, 13, 220, 358, 3350, 304, 2539, 1684, 315, 279, 12877, 50093, 11, 902, 1253, 387, 1071, 311, 617, 1027, 21540, 21468, 304, 279, 6278, 315, 279, 66089, 9478, 1306, 459, 56528, 31...
The Frenchman rushed over to Duff and grasped his hand. "I am so happy for this meeting. Me, I am a fond admirer of Scotland Yard. I beg of you that you will not judge harshly in this case, Monsieur Duff. Consider if you will the stupidity with which we have been faced. Is the body left as it fell? No. Is the pistol pe...	[ 791, 8753, 1543, 33341, 927, 311, 423, 1386, 323, 50087, 7018, 813, 1450, 13, 330, 40, 1097, 779, 6380, 369, 420, 6574, 13, 2206, 11, 358, 1097, 264, 21901, 63698, 261, 315, 19627, 39337, 13, 358, 2197, 315, 499, 430, 499, 690, 539,...
Then they marched on, camping again in the afternoon until the moon should rise. That night, about one o'clock, they came to the Sweet Wells, and stopped to give the camels drink and to fill their water-bags. Rupert had arranged to arrive here at this hour when he thought that the sheik Ibrahim would be asleep and not ...	[ 12487, 814, 59761, 389, 11, 33873, 1578, 304, 279, 13658, 3156, 279, 18266, 1288, 10205, 13, 3011, 3814, 11, 922, 832, 297, 63510, 11, 814, 3782, 311, 279, 27687, 37958, 11, 323, 10717, 311, 3041, 279, 6730, 2053, 7172, 323, 311, 5266...
JUAN--(losing control of himself--raging) Fool! You are like those dullards who, when Columbus said the earth was round, brayed at him for blaspheming! Listen to me! I do not believe Nano; I believe in Nature. Nature is part of God. She can perform miracles. Since this land was discovered have we not found wonde...	[ 41, 52, 1111, 313, 7, 18310, 2585, 315, 5678, 313, 4193, 287, 8, 220, 72635, 0, 220, 1472, 527, 1093, 1884, 41630, 2402, 889, 11, 994, 32917, 1071, 279, 9578, 574, 4883, 11, 1437, 43995, 520, 1461, 369, 49677, 61041, 287, 0, 220, ...
He reined the horses and looked along the road. It was empty. He fingered his moustache, grinned, shook his head, and finally drove back past the iron gates. There were the camphor-laurels, close to the fence at the bottom of the lane dividing the garden from a banana plantation. He glanced about. You could leave ...	[ 1548, 312, 1619, 279, 27928, 323, 7111, 3235, 279, 5754, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 4384, 13, 220, 1283, 14654, 291, 813, 296, 26169, 1815, 11, 88379, 11, 36014, 813, 2010, 11, 323, 5616, 23980, 1203, 3347, 279, 11245, 35634, 13, 220, 2684, ...
"There is not much," said the Jewess, "and I think, myself, that you can do nothing for us. But I have said to her that I would plead with you for him. This woman is the wife of Edward Davis. He married her in London, spent her money, and abandoned her. Mr. Delane rescued her from the harbour on the night that he escap...	[ 25938, 374, 539, 1790, 1359, 1071, 279, 8117, 434, 11, 330, 438, 358, 1781, 11, 7182, 11, 430, 499, 649, 656, 4400, 369, 603, 13, 2030, 358, 617, 1071, 311, 1077, 430, 358, 1053, 73293, 449, 499, 369, 1461, 13, 1115, 5333, 374, 27...
I proceeded to make ready the fishing-tackle, but at the same time kept a close watch on my colleague's proceedings. And very curious proceedings they were. First he dipped up a little water from the river in the rubber mixing bowl with which he mixed a bowlful of plaster, and into this he stirred a few pinches of burn...	[ 40, 45374, 311, 1304, 5644, 279, 20543, 2442, 52622, 11, 719, 520, 279, 1890, 892, 8774, 264, 3345, 3821, 389, 856, 37444, 596, 29407, 13, 1628, 1633, 22999, 29407, 814, 1051, 13, 5629, 568, 73307, 709, 264, 2697, 3090, 505, 279, 1514...
With the pagan influx began the mysterious disappearance of small valuables from the premises of Michael Doyle, licensed victualler. Sedate, fluffy old hens, hitherto noted for their strict propriety and regular hours, would leave the place at dead of night, and return from their nocturnal rambles never more; stay-at-h...	[ 2409, 279, 84902, 53952, 6137, 279, 26454, 52979, 315, 2678, 94031, 4893, 505, 279, 35022, 315, 8096, 66309, 11, 16383, 5310, 84, 14283, 13, 36378, 349, 11, 68661, 2362, 305, 729, 11, 305, 411, 14200, 10555, 369, 872, 7452, 21744, 2676,...
Doremus's hardest job was the translation of items from the press in Germany, which was most favorable to the Corpos. Sweating, even in the March coolness in Buck's high basement, Doremus leaned over a kitchen table, ruffling through a German-English lexicon, grunting, tapping his teeth with a pencil, scratching the t...	[ 35, 13475, 355, 596, 37554, 2683, 574, 279, 14807, 315, 3673, 505, 279, 3577, 304, 10057, 11, 902, 574, 1455, 37849, 311, 279, 4563, 981, 13, 220, 37326, 1113, 11, 1524, 304, 279, 5587, 7155, 2136, 304, 27156, 596, 1579, 31741, 11, ...
So the Lord Juss did according to the word of that fair Queen, and they rowed her up the lake by moonlight. None spake, and the Queen sate apart in the bows of the boat, in earnest supplication to the blessed Gods. When they were come to the head of the lake they went ashore on a little spit of silver sand. The April n...	[ 4516, 279, 10425, 622, 1892, 1550, 4184, 311, 279, 3492, 315, 430, 6762, 16657, 11, 323, 814, 2872, 291, 1077, 709, 279, 22553, 555, 18266, 4238, 13, 2290, 993, 731, 11, 323, 279, 16657, 274, 349, 10980, 304, 279, 82565, 315, 279, 1...
"Say rather the serpents it has nourished in its bosom," rejoined Lanyere. "But to my case. Years ago, a gentleman possessed of noble estates in Norfolk, was unfortunate enough to have some dealings with these two usurers, who thus becoming acquainted with his circumstances, marked him for their prey. He borrowed a lar...	[ 1, 46864, 4856, 279, 1446, 79, 812, 433, 706, 46798, 3384, 304, 1202, 43746, 316, 1359, 48041, 1619, 445, 3852, 486, 13, 330, 4071, 311, 856, 1162, 13, 23116, 4227, 11, 264, 46229, 43890, 315, 35482, 84075, 304, 59792, 11, 574, 34707,...
"I feel infinitely refreshed," he remarked. "Eleanor, my good wife, are you all ready upstairs? That is well. My little packing here can be completed in ten minutes--my travelling-dress assumed in ten minutes more. What remains before the agent comes?" He looked about the room, and noticed the cage with his white mi...	[ 7189, 2733, 72600, 66229, 1359, 568, 61414, 13, 220, 330, 36, 77780, 11, 856, 1695, 7555, 11, 527, 499, 682, 5644, 50007, 30, 3011, 374, 1664, 13, 220, 3092, 2697, 36813, 1618, 649, 387, 8308, 304, 5899, 4520, 313, 2465, 31829, 1773, ...
"Well," replied Willoughby, and he hesitated uncomfortably. "I was going to ask a great favor of you. I was wondering if you would lend it to me. It's like this," he went on quickly, "I want to go into Port Pirie. My heart was pretty crook in the night, and I want to go and see my own quack and get him to pass the rule...	[ 56084, 1359, 20592, 4946, 1409, 1729, 11, 323, 568, 20365, 33337, 27824, 2915, 13, 330, 40, 574, 2133, 311, 2610, 264, 2294, 4799, 315, 499, 13, 358, 574, 20910, 422, 499, 1053, 39580, 433, 311, 757, 13, 1102, 596, 1093, 420, 1359, ...
As the days went on the unseen but audible guns began each to assume a distinct personality. There were the two batteries of Russian 75-mm. guns which fired from close in our rear and which somehow evoked in my mind the picture of a fat man hitting a golf-ball. These were the first Russian guns I had seen--or heard, ra...	[ 2170, 279, 2919, 4024, 389, 279, 64233, 719, 80415, 16766, 6137, 1855, 311, 9855, 264, 12742, 17743, 13, 2684, 1051, 279, 1403, 27360, 315, 8690, 220, 2075, 49675, 13, 16766, 902, 14219, 505, 3345, 304, 1057, 14981, 323, 902, 17354, 372...
He heard them through in moody silence, and turned to Smith. "From the time of our landing here, on this cursed rock, I have avoided all interference with any of you. You have made slaves of these Tahitians, who are better than any white man on the island except yourself and Young. If they retaliate upon you, it will b...	[ 1548, 6755, 1124, 1555, 304, 4647, 1094, 21847, 11, 323, 6656, 311, 9259, 13, 330, 3915, 279, 892, 315, 1057, 20948, 1618, 11, 389, 420, 63971, 7091, 11, 358, 617, 31890, 682, 32317, 449, 904, 315, 499, 13, 1472, 617, 1903, 32760, 3...
Tingling with my recent fear, I stood at my door, peering through the night with the discordant cry of the fugitives still ringing in my ears. At that moment a vivid flash of lightning illuminated the whole landscape and made it as clear as day. By its light I saw far away upon the hillside two dark figures pursuing ea...	[ 51, 287, 2785, 449, 856, 3293, 8850, 11, 358, 14980, 520, 856, 6134, 11, 1069, 4776, 1555, 279, 3814, 449, 279, 32141, 519, 16106, 315, 279, 49184, 51454, 2103, 68143, 304, 856, 25212, 13, 2468, 430, 4545, 264, 43120, 8381, 315, 33538...
So now, with the utmost confidence, Baker waited beside the road. The approaching lights were only a couple of hundred yards away. At the proper instant he would raise his lantern, the car would stop, its occupants would protest and then the county would add a mite to its general fund for making the roads even better a...	[ 4516, 1457, 11, 449, 279, 54711, 12410, 11, 29492, 30315, 30488, 279, 5754, 13, 578, 31047, 13001, 1051, 1193, 264, 5743, 315, 7895, 14006, 3201, 13, 2468, 279, 6300, 9888, 568, 1053, 4933, 813, 74265, 11, 279, 1841, 1053, 3009, 11, 1...
Maxwell disappeared into the darkness and made his way by the back lane into Piccadilly. The streets were quiet now and very few people about. It was no far cry to the chambers occupied by General Maxgregor, and no time would be lost by going to the house of Countess Saens. Maxwell paused before it a moment. The dining...	[ 6102, 9336, 29496, 1139, 279, 27394, 323, 1903, 813, 1648, 555, 279, 1203, 21971, 1139, 26987, 35555, 14722, 13, 578, 14708, 1051, 11594, 1457, 323, 1633, 2478, 1274, 922, 13, 1102, 574, 912, 3117, 16106, 311, 279, 53279, 25366, 555, 33...
He raised the tapestry, but only a smooth, solid wall was visible behind it. It had seemed so real, and the beautiful face had been turned upon him so beseechingly, and so prayerfully, that until now he had not really thought of an incorporeal spirit. But when the bare wall met his gaze, with no door nor aperture to be...	[ 1548, 9408, 279, 17401, 4720, 11, 719, 1193, 264, 11113, 11, 6573, 7147, 574, 9621, 4920, 433, 13, 1102, 1047, 9508, 779, 1972, 11, 323, 279, 6366, 3663, 1047, 1027, 6656, 5304, 1461, 779, 9234, 2176, 331, 11559, 11, 323, 779, 23788, ...
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races, and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings. It was, indeed, a prominent feature of the elaborate ceremonial magic, with its rituals for the evocation of dæmons and spectres, which flourished from prehisto...	[ 55324, 21914, 8818, 8111, 439, 459, 25795, 315, 279, 30758, 98969, 315, 682, 21234, 11, 323, 374, 64568, 4147, 304, 279, 1455, 5438, 62488, 5041, 7819, 11, 27076, 4440, 11, 323, 32442, 43422, 13, 1102, 574, 11, 13118, 11, 264, 21102, ...
The table stood in a dark corner of the room, and Lewis gathered up the sheets of paper and took them to the window-ledge and began to read, amazed at certain phrases that had caught his eye. But the manuscript was in disorder; as if the dead man who had written it had not been equal to the task of gathering the leaves...	[ 791, 2007, 14980, 304, 264, 6453, 9309, 315, 279, 3130, 11, 323, 21256, 20802, 709, 279, 25112, 315, 5684, 323, 3952, 1124, 311, 279, 3321, 12, 4995, 323, 6137, 311, 1373, 11, 46304, 520, 3738, 32847, 430, 1047, 10791, 813, 8071, 13, ...
Shortly after eleven o'clock on the morning of Thursday, May 4, Miss Danbury was found dead, sitting in the drawing-room of apartments she was temporarily occupying in a big family hotel on Beacon Street. She was richly gowned, just as she had come from the opera the night before; her marble-white bosom and arms aglitt...	[ 79143, 1306, 45314, 297, 63510, 389, 279, 6693, 315, 7950, 11, 3297, 220, 19, 11, 9083, 11824, 20176, 574, 1766, 5710, 11, 11961, 304, 279, 13633, 48840, 315, 32729, 1364, 574, 28191, 72280, 304, 264, 2466, 3070, 9689, 389, 59720, 6825,...
"It's this way, boys: there's no danger for any of us three; our neighbours are the ones who are in trouble and stand in need of help; but as for that, you realize as well as I do that we wouldn't have a very pleasant future ahead of us, either, if they were chased away from here. . . . Now, you're a pretty good talke...	[ 12348, 596, 420, 1648, 11, 13305, 25, 1070, 596, 912, 8137, 369, 904, 315, 603, 2380, 26, 1057, 36956, 527, 279, 6305, 889, 527, 304, 12544, 323, 2559, 304, 1205, 315, 1520, 26, 719, 439, 369, 430, 11, 499, 13383, 439, 1664, 439, ...
In the spacious hall, which he never entered without the feeling that he comprised a whole invading army, he found his elder son, Duncan, a dark, morose, and inscrutable young man. In France, where he had served with ardour in the last year of the war, Duncan had lost not only his health, but all the amiable pretences...	[ 644, 279, 33236, 14321, 11, 902, 568, 2646, 10862, 2085, 279, 8430, 430, 568, 40056, 264, 4459, 83631, 13695, 11, 568, 1766, 813, 22916, 4538, 11, 42409, 11, 264, 6453, 11, 4411, 974, 11, 323, 1672, 5192, 6047, 3995, 893, 13, 220, 7...
One day Dr. Bowlby had come down from a visit to Mr. Worsley, and was strolling, as he often did, about the garden with Helen. She had been confessing her relief at the withdrawal of an elderly Captain Worsley and his wife, distant cousins, who had been spending a week at the Manor, and who had seemed to Helen two of ...	[ 4054, 1938, 2999, 13, 20904, 1729, 1047, 2586, 1523, 505, 264, 4034, 311, 4491, 13, 468, 1105, 3258, 11, 323, 574, 357, 16608, 11, 439, 568, 3629, 1550, 11, 922, 279, 13863, 449, 43881, 13, 220, 3005, 1047, 1027, 48466, 287, 1077, 1...
Two years later he was at Fort Qu'appelle and held a pow-wow with the chiefs of a neighbouring reserve and heard their grievances. One of them was the Sioux, Standing Buffalo, with whose intelligence he was much impressed, and he listened patiently to the tale of their woes. The foremost was the suppression of their tr...	[ 11874, 1667, 3010, 568, 574, 520, 11246, 3489, 53149, 6853, 323, 5762, 264, 7019, 72632, 449, 279, 68802, 315, 264, 62027, 21137, 323, 6755, 872, 88036, 13, 3861, 315, 1124, 574, 279, 82693, 11, 46327, 32489, 11, 449, 6832, 11478, 568, ...
Still there was no quarantine, no official admission. Inchcape Jones vomited feeble proclamations of the inadvisability of too- large public gatherings, and wrote to London to inquire about Haffkine's prophylactic, but to Sir Robert Fairlamb he protested, "Honestly, there's only been a few deaths and I think it's all ...	[ 24205, 1070, 574, 912, 71489, 11, 912, 4033, 26360, 13, 220, 55692, 5443, 12201, 22752, 1639, 11307, 901, 463, 566, 309, 811, 315, 279, 304, 329, 2749, 2968, 315, 2288, 12, 3544, 586, 66237, 11, 323, 6267, 311, 7295, 311, 68270, 922, ...
It is solitary in its habits, conceals itself in the grass very closely, and flies with great reluctance. I doubt if there is anywhere a bird with such a sounding flight as this; and I can only compare the whirr of its wings to the rattling of a light vehicle driven at great speed over a hard road. From the moment it r...	[ 2181, 374, 58229, 304, 1202, 26870, 11, 20245, 1147, 5196, 304, 279, 16763, 1633, 15499, 11, 323, 38204, 449, 2294, 84050, 13, 358, 10712, 422, 1070, 374, 12660, 264, 12224, 449, 1778, 264, 49227, 11213, 439, 420, 26, 323, 358, 649, 1...
The grocer's business next door to the Pratts was also a thriving and long-established one. From a business point of view, 'Tarman's' had one advantage over the Stores, for while the draper's depended chiefly on the middle state of village society, the poor not being able to afford to buy their models and the gentry de...	[ 791, 10707, 3913, 596, 2626, 1828, 6134, 311, 279, 2394, 21658, 574, 1101, 264, 53414, 323, 1317, 64868, 832, 13, 5659, 264, 2626, 1486, 315, 1684, 11, 364, 63833, 1543, 596, 6, 1047, 832, 9610, 927, 279, 39402, 11, 369, 1418, 279, ...
It was no exaggeration to say that since his uncle's death Arthur Wilmot had lived under a strain that he thought at times would drive him mad. Neither his character nor his training fitted him for the ordeal through which he was passing. He had inherited from his mother, a highly strung, nervous woman, that weakness o...	[ 2181, 574, 912, 39030, 367, 311, 2019, 430, 2533, 813, 38594, 596, 4648, 28686, 468, 9672, 354, 1047, 12439, 1234, 264, 26800, 430, 568, 3463, 520, 3115, 1053, 6678, 1461, 13088, 13, 25215, 813, 3752, 6463, 813, 4967, 29441, 1461, 369, ...
"Emphatically not, Mr. Walton," Wilder said. "I don't doubt for a moment that Goss was telling the truth when he said that he had no ticket in that lottery. That he boasted he had is beyond all doubt, and I have no reason to disbelieve his statement that he made money out of his boast. But that is not the point. I feel...	[ 1, 2321, 764, 7167, 539, 11, 4491, 13, 71509, 1359, 13944, 261, 1071, 13, 330, 40, 1541, 956, 10712, 369, 264, 4545, 430, 480, 3746, 574, 11890, 279, 8206, 994, 568, 1071, 430, 568, 1047, 912, 11989, 304, 430, 39339, 13, 3011, 568, ...
Mrs. LaGrange, who, as housekeeper, had remained at Fair Oaks, seemed, as the last carriage disappeared from view, to be on the verge of collapse from nervous prostration. No one knew the mental excitement or the terrible nervous strain which she had undergone during those last few days. Many at the funeral had noted...	[ 50329, 13, 5034, 6600, 853, 11, 889, 11, 439, 3838, 19393, 11, 1047, 14958, 520, 14930, 75356, 11, 9508, 11, 439, 279, 1566, 52547, 29496, 505, 1684, 11, 311, 387, 389, 279, 59818, 315, 18678, 505, 23418, 463, 55681, 13, 220, 2360, ...
One great difference between ourselves and most primitive minds is that, while in us all motives are fully conscious, fully open to introspection, in them scarcely any of their more complex motives are ever brought fully to light. Thus when the explorer is following some train of action in a primitive mind, he very oft...	[ 4054, 2294, 6811, 1990, 13520, 323, 1455, 28694, 20663, 374, 430, 11, 1418, 304, 603, 682, 52140, 527, 7373, 17371, 11, 7373, 1825, 311, 26609, 16463, 11, 304, 1124, 80987, 904, 315, 872, 810, 6485, 52140, 527, 3596, 7263, 7373, 311, ...
Randal Holles the elder had been Monk's dearest friend. Both natives of Potheridge in Devon, they had grown to manhood together. And though political opinions then divided them--for Monk was a King's man in those far-off days, whilst the older Holles had gone to Parliament a republican--yet their friendship had remaine...	[ 49, 17086, 16071, 645, 279, 22916, 1047, 1027, 76781, 596, 409, 15795, 4333, 13, 11995, 68473, 315, 393, 1605, 6614, 304, 60434, 11, 814, 1047, 15042, 311, 893, 5812, 3871, 13, 1628, 3582, 5054, 18463, 1243, 18255, 1124, 313, 2000, 7678...
Adela said no more. Burton would have his own way, and seemed so sure of his ground, so absolutely certain of his reception, that she could offer no further opposition. He strode gaily along by the side of the others, chatting in his light and clever way. It was almost impossible that this well-dressed, well-spoken, li...	[ 2654, 8458, 1071, 912, 810, 13, 54755, 1053, 617, 813, 1866, 1648, 11, 323, 9508, 779, 2771, 315, 813, 5015, 11, 779, 11112, 3738, 315, 813, 23991, 11, 430, 1364, 1436, 3085, 912, 4726, 14076, 13, 1283, 31511, 451, 342, 5179, 3235, ...
I would willingly have gone back with him, but I felt that I could be of no particular use. While he was gone I pondered a good deal over the situation. Twice, at least, previously some one had pilfered jewellery from stores, leaving in its place worthless imitations. Twice the evidence had been so conflicting that no ...	[ 40, 1053, 73652, 617, 8208, 1203, 449, 1461, 11, 719, 358, 6612, 430, 358, 1436, 387, 315, 912, 4040, 1005, 13, 6104, 568, 574, 8208, 358, 48883, 291, 264, 1695, 3568, 927, 279, 6671, 13, 94666, 11, 520, 3325, 11, 8767, 1063, 832, ...
Arriving at the Justice Room, he was introduced into a large chamber, reserved for special occasions, where, ranged around a long table, a dozen or fourteen gentlemen, composing the city magistracy, were sitting in full solemnity, the Lord Mayor of the day being at its head, and on one side, standing near the wall, was...	[ 9014, 2299, 520, 279, 12007, 10637, 11, 568, 574, 11784, 1139, 264, 3544, 25199, 11, 4694, 369, 3361, 25975, 11, 1405, 11, 41829, 2212, 264, 1317, 2007, 11, 264, 21030, 477, 63360, 58909, 11, 76978, 279, 3363, 4983, 3843, 2826, 11, 10...
At night when you lay on your back in the dark you thought about being born and about arithmetic and God. The sacred number three went into eighteen sixty-nine and didn't come out again; so did seven. She liked numbers that fitted like that with no loose ends left over. Mr. Sippett said there were things you could do w...	[ 1688, 3814, 994, 499, 11203, 389, 701, 1203, 304, 279, 6453, 499, 3463, 922, 1694, 9405, 323, 922, 35884, 323, 4359, 13, 578, 32442, 1396, 2380, 4024, 1139, 63134, 53474, 86703, 323, 3287, 956, 2586, 704, 1578, 26, 779, 1550, 8254, 13...
Cecilia turned away with her skirts held high, as if fearful of contamination. She had never beaten her worthless husband quite so low as this before. He felt himself aggrieved, there were tears of maudlin self-pity in his eyes. He found a woodside public-house, where he ate a meal of sorts and talked like a landed pro...	[ 34, 762, 25045, 6656, 3201, 449, 1077, 77305, 5762, 1579, 11, 439, 422, 63757, 315, 47810, 13, 3005, 1047, 2646, 31394, 1077, 66121, 10177, 5115, 779, 3428, 439, 420, 1603, 13, 1283, 6612, 5678, 51120, 83712, 11, 1070, 1051, 24014, 315,...
In the fall the work on the dam was shut down, and the store was closed. The partners couldn't remove their unsaleable goods, so the whole stock was sold at junk prices among the nearest villages. Jim found himself with about three hundred dollars in the world, and the long Canadian winter to get through. The fall on...	[ 644, 279, 4498, 279, 990, 389, 279, 3824, 574, 9495, 1523, 11, 323, 279, 3637, 574, 8036, 13, 220, 578, 8717, 7846, 956, 4148, 872, 7120, 1604, 481, 11822, 11, 779, 279, 4459, 5708, 574, 6216, 520, 30774, 7729, 4315, 279, 24379, 338...
Payderson was one. He fairly revered property and power. To him Butler and Mollenhauer and Simpson were great men--reasonably sure to be right always because they were so powerful. This matter of Cowperwood's and Stener's defalcation he had long heard of. He knew by associating with one political light and another just...	[ 21243, 67, 1293, 574, 832, 13, 1283, 14470, 85761, 3424, 323, 2410, 13, 2057, 1461, 38325, 323, 386, 33389, 71, 28196, 323, 35766, 1051, 2294, 3026, 313, 20489, 2915, 2771, 311, 387, 1314, 2744, 1606, 814, 1051, 779, 8147, 13, 1115, 5...
"Just before the policeman came along he went back to his bicycle and rode away, but after the policeman had passed he came back again and stood leaning on the gate until the front door of Mayfield opened. Then he sort of slunk back to his bicycle and rode in the opposite direction--I mean opposite to the way he had co...	[ 97232, 1603, 279, 79680, 3782, 3235, 568, 4024, 1203, 311, 813, 36086, 323, 41761, 3201, 11, 719, 1306, 279, 79680, 1047, 5946, 568, 3782, 1203, 1578, 323, 14980, 49448, 389, 279, 18618, 3156, 279, 4156, 6134, 315, 3297, 2630, 9107, 13,...
Scarcely a word was spoken as hour after hour Craig sat with the receiver to his ear, connected with the coils down in the storeroom. "You might call this an electric detective," he had explained to Spencer. "For example, if you suspected that anything out of the way was going on in a room anywhere this would report mu...	[ 3407, 8362, 989, 264, 3492, 574, 22066, 439, 6596, 1306, 6596, 29517, 7731, 449, 279, 14291, 311, 813, 2487, 11, 8599, 449, 279, 71860, 1523, 304, 279, 34789, 2382, 316, 13, 330, 2675, 2643, 1650, 420, 459, 9249, 45259, 1359, 568, 104...
'"I will not attempt to describe the feelings with which I received this communication, nor will it be necessary to say anything of what passed at the few interviews which took place before Francis quitted X--. The evening immediately previous to that of his departure he passed in this house, and, before we separated, ...	[ 15260, 40, 690, 539, 4879, 311, 7664, 279, 16024, 449, 902, 358, 4036, 420, 10758, 11, 6463, 690, 433, 387, 5995, 311, 2019, 4205, 315, 1148, 5946, 520, 279, 2478, 19905, 902, 3952, 2035, 1603, 26184, 934, 3847, 1630, 313, 13, 578, ...
At this time there was a very definite prejudice among the regular nurses against V.A.D.s. They were regarded as painted society girls, attracted to nursing by the prospect of sitting on the officers' beds and holding their hands. The V.A.D.s were rapidly disabused of this idea, and, if they were lucky, were finally gr...	[ 1688, 420, 892, 1070, 574, 264, 1633, 44870, 48786, 4315, 279, 5912, 37465, 2403, 650, 885, 920, 516, 13, 2435, 1051, 27458, 439, 24937, 8396, 7724, 11, 29123, 311, 28456, 555, 279, 22199, 315, 11961, 389, 279, 9808, 6, 28036, 323, 10...
Thus lay the count upon his bed, weak and faint, but at present almost free from pain, and an old woman was his only attendant, the priest having just left. It was just after noon. The dying man had just taken a powerful stimulating draft, though it was against the injunctions of the priest, as he said that by such mea...	[ 45600, 11203, 279, 1797, 5304, 813, 4950, 11, 7621, 323, 38678, 11, 719, 520, 3118, 4661, 1949, 505, 6784, 11, 323, 459, 2362, 5333, 574, 813, 1193, 65022, 11, 279, 28185, 3515, 1120, 2163, 13, 1102, 574, 1120, 1306, 38245, 13, 578, ...
"Dr. Bennett said that undoubtedly the letter had been meant for him, that Mr. Ralston had been one of his oldest friends and had recently consulted him for what he might describe roughly as insomnia and bad dreams. Mr. Ralston had, in fact, been his guest at dinner the night before. He had wanted Mr. Ralston to spend ...	[ 1, 9023, 13, 39386, 1071, 430, 38048, 279, 6661, 1047, 1027, 8967, 369, 1461, 11, 430, 4491, 13, 432, 278, 7876, 1047, 1027, 832, 315, 813, 24417, 4885, 323, 1047, 6051, 61302, 1461, 369, 1148, 568, 2643, 7664, 17715, 439, 83511, 323,...
Of course all this strange story soon found its way into the newspapers, and many were the rapturous congratulations which Edith received, even from persons with whom she had the very smallest acquaintance. Meanwhile the lawyers had again been in communication with their agent, who was established at Wady-Halfa. A seco...	[ 2173, 3388, 682, 420, 15234, 3446, 5246, 1766, 1202, 1648, 1139, 279, 32594, 11, 323, 1690, 1051, 279, 436, 2756, 55709, 82644, 902, 3279, 411, 4036, 11, 1524, 505, 11434, 449, 8884, 1364, 1047, 279, 1633, 25655, 82407, 13, 26982, 279, ...
He had flung down a bone, and in the scuffle that ensued for its possession two men grabbed different ends of the bone, and as neither would admit that the other had priority of claim, Rashleigh was asked to decide who should have it. He suggested dividing it, but the famished wretches would not agree, and at last he d...	[ 1548, 1047, 1344, 2234, 1523, 264, 17685, 11, 323, 304, 279, 1156, 13511, 430, 96763, 369, 1202, 19243, 1403, 3026, 30418, 2204, 10548, 315, 279, 17685, 11, 323, 439, 14188, 1053, 17113, 430, 279, 1023, 1047, 10844, 315, 3802, 11, 60483...
On examining the Dagysa's which were taken yesterday, several small animals were found Lodgd in the hollow parts of their bodys, and some in the very substance of the flesh, which seems to be their food, as many of the dagysas were full of scars which had undoubtedly been the Lodgment of these animals some time before;...	[ 1966, 38936, 279, 78127, 1065, 64, 596, 902, 1051, 4529, 13985, 11, 3892, 2678, 10099, 1051, 1766, 89040, 29684, 304, 279, 42902, 5596, 315, 872, 30111, 1065, 11, 323, 1063, 304, 279, 1633, 20278, 315, 279, 26000, 11, 902, 5084, 311, ...
But the Coroner was able to produce a witness whose evidence carried the matter on still farther. A policeman in full uniform testified next, and after explaining that his beat led him from Madison Avenue to Third on Twenty-seventh Street, went on to say that as he was coming up this street on Tuesday evening some few ...	[ 4071, 279, 4563, 27674, 574, 3025, 311, 8356, 264, 11550, 6832, 6029, 11953, 279, 5030, 389, 2103, 43726, 13, 362, 79680, 304, 2539, 14113, 39873, 1828, 11, 323, 1306, 26073, 430, 813, 9567, 6197, 1461, 505, 31015, 17569, 311, 21530, 38...
Harroway was walking down Regent-street, about four o'clock one afternoon, ruminating on a thousand things, and wishing for the morrow, that he might be once more on the road towards his wife. Harroway was in one of those moods when the eye sees, but observes not; and although he looked in the face of nearly every man ...	[ 39, 6172, 352, 574, 11689, 1523, 3263, 306, 5594, 3829, 11, 922, 3116, 297, 63510, 832, 13658, 11, 436, 10318, 1113, 389, 264, 16579, 2574, 11, 323, 46227, 369, 279, 4411, 654, 11, 430, 568, 2643, 387, 3131, 810, 389, 279, 5754, 711...
"DEAR MISS LYLE,--"I am writing this in great distress and in great terror. I cannot explain more. I have a powerful enemy and he is dogging my steps and watching my actions. The time is not yet ripe or I could turn the tables on him; but the day will come, and until it comes I throw myself on your mercy. Do not, I pra...	[ 1, 1170, 946, 63847, 445, 25784, 11, 313, 1, 40, 1097, 4477, 420, 304, 2294, 35104, 323, 304, 2294, 8818, 13, 358, 4250, 10552, 810, 13, 358, 617, 264, 8147, 9354, 323, 568, 374, 5679, 3252, 856, 7504, 323, 10307, 856, 6299, 13, 5...
...You will hear all the details of the Great Duke's state funeral from the papers much better than I can tell you them. I went to the Cathedral [St Paul's] and had the good fortune to get a capital seat--in front, close to the great door by which every one entered. It was bitter cold, a keen November wind blowing righ...	[ 1131, 2675, 690, 6865, 682, 279, 3649, 315, 279, 8681, 27453, 596, 1614, 32079, 505, 279, 16064, 1790, 2731, 1109, 358, 649, 3371, 499, 1124, 13, 358, 4024, 311, 279, 57829, 510, 626, 7043, 596, 60, 323, 1047, 279, 1695, 33415, 311, ...
It was whilst living on the shores of this lagoon that I received a very extraordinary commission from a neighbouring tribe. Not long after my arrival I heard a curious legend, to the effect that away on the other side of the lagoon there was an "evil spirit" infesting the waters, which terrified the women when they w...	[ 2181, 574, 24797, 5496, 389, 279, 63263, 315, 420, 326, 68513, 430, 358, 4036, 264, 1633, 24674, 12396, 505, 264, 62027, 34671, 13, 220, 2876, 1317, 1306, 856, 19163, 358, 6755, 264, 22999, 13314, 11, 311, 279, 2515, 430, 3201, 389, 2...
Mrs. Lewis told, too, of the coming of their piano from England. It sailed all round Cape Horn and was the first piano to come into the Colony of British Columbia. It landed at Esquimalt Harbour and was carried on the backs of Indians in relays of twenty at a time through a rough bush trail from Esquimalt to Langford. ...	[ 50329, 13, 21256, 3309, 11, 2288, 11, 315, 279, 5108, 315, 872, 27374, 505, 9635, 13, 1102, 76844, 682, 4883, 29715, 27206, 323, 574, 279, 1176, 27374, 311, 2586, 1139, 279, 82946, 315, 8013, 19326, 13, 1102, 27212, 520, 9419, 447, 29...
"MURDER. 100 POUNDS REWARD.--Whereas a murder was committed on the thirtieth September, 1877, at the Hand-in-Hand Inn, in the village of Zeeland, Hampshire, the above reward will be paid to any person or persons whose exertions shall lead to the arrest and conviction of the suspected murderer. Name not known. Supposed ...	[ 74627, 1539, 11645, 13, 220, 1041, 393, 64153, 3680, 29266, 33501, 9241, 300, 264, 10102, 574, 11411, 389, 279, 270, 2154, 72, 774, 6250, 11, 220, 9674, 22, 11, 520, 279, 8704, 3502, 12, 2367, 17382, 11, 304, 279, 14458, 315, 10120, ...
When, on the other hand, I viewed the lively appearance of the camp, the employments of the women, and the ridiculous dilemmas into which they were every moment thrown by the novelty of their situations, I smiled, and inwardly admiring the pliability of mind, which enables us to accomodate ourselves to the vicissitudes...	[ 4599, 11, 389, 279, 1023, 1450, 11, 358, 19894, 279, 49277, 11341, 315, 279, 3190, 11, 279, 3539, 1392, 315, 279, 3278, 11, 323, 279, 27873, 44261, 90636, 1139, 902, 814, 1051, 1475, 4545, 15338, 555, 279, 67409, 315, 872, 15082, 11, ...
Who should tell friend from foe in that ravine at night? There would be no moon for a long time, and then only at intervals between the racing clouds. No word of command could carry against or across the wind, and to that would be added the din of rifle-firing and the yells of excited hillmen. Yet, if we should postpon...	[ 15546, 1288, 3371, 4333, 505, 53077, 304, 430, 43643, 483, 520, 3814, 30, 2684, 1053, 387, 912, 18266, 369, 264, 1317, 892, 11, 323, 1243, 1193, 520, 28090, 1990, 279, 22019, 30614, 13, 2360, 3492, 315, 3290, 1436, 6920, 2403, 477, 40...
For the first time I began to feel that it was possible that my mother might live without me, otherwise than for me, a separate life. She was going to stay with my father, whose existence it may have seemed to her that my feeble health, my nervous excitability complicated somewhat and saddened. This separation made me ...	[ 2520, 279, 1176, 892, 358, 6137, 311, 2733, 430, 433, 574, 3284, 430, 856, 6691, 2643, 3974, 2085, 757, 11, 6062, 1109, 369, 757, 11, 264, 8821, 2324, 13, 3005, 574, 2133, 311, 4822, 449, 856, 7126, 11, 6832, 14209, 433, 1253, 617, ...
The lore which he was believed to pass his days brooding upon so that it had rapt him from the companionship of youth was only a garner of slender sentences from Aristotle's poetics and psychology and a SYNOPSIS PHILOSOPHIAE SCHOLASTICAE AD MENTEM DIVI THOMAE. His thinking was a dusk of doubt and self-mistrust, lit up ...	[ 791, 52322, 902, 568, 574, 11846, 311, 1522, 813, 2919, 2967, 3785, 5304, 779, 430, 433, 1047, 436, 2756, 1461, 505, 279, 41957, 2200, 315, 12822, 574, 1193, 264, 47201, 315, 73342, 23719, 505, 79001, 596, 3273, 25265, 323, 31018, 323, ...
"I am here compelled to admit that a certain event which happened between the time of my going to my room and my appearance in the drawing-room a few minutes after eight is withheld from this narration. In the face of death and disgrace, it must remain for ever locked in my breast. All that I can say is, that the event...	[ 7189, 1097, 1618, 48984, 311, 17113, 430, 264, 3738, 1567, 902, 7077, 1990, 279, 892, 315, 856, 2133, 311, 856, 3130, 323, 856, 11341, 304, 279, 13633, 48840, 264, 2478, 4520, 1306, 8223, 374, 77103, 505, 420, 86180, 13, 763, 279, 366...
"As for that, my child," she said, "he is an Englishman, and all Englishmen are fools until they are married, and then they are what their wives choose to make of them. What was it that you said--'that as yet he had not looked at you'? Bah! The poor man, he has not had the chance. This afternoon he will be here. He wil...	[ 48240, 369, 430, 11, 856, 1716, 1359, 1364, 1071, 11, 330, 383, 374, 459, 6498, 1543, 11, 323, 682, 6498, 5794, 527, 84742, 3156, 814, 527, 12502, 11, 323, 1243, 814, 527, 1148, 872, 39720, 5268, 311, 1304, 315, 1124, 13, 3639, 574,...
"I will go and see this chief," he said. "Abiboo, do you run the boat's nose into the soft sand of the bank, covering the street with the Maxim whilst I go ashore." He landed without opposition; neither gun banged nor spear flew as he walked swiftly up the broad street. The girl lay before the chief's hut quite dead, v...	[ 7189, 690, 733, 323, 1518, 420, 10388, 1359, 568, 1071, 13, 330, 5953, 581, 2689, 11, 656, 499, 1629, 279, 15688, 596, 19689, 1139, 279, 8579, 9462, 315, 279, 6201, 11, 18702, 279, 8761, 449, 279, 56625, 24797, 358, 733, 24767, 461, ...
LUBOV. Yes, but it ought to be said differently, differently. ... [Takes another handkerchief, a telegram falls on the floor] I'm so sick at heart to-day, you can't imagine. Here it's so noisy, my soul shakes at every sound. I shake all over, and I can't go away by myself, I'm afraid of the silence. Don't judge me hars...	[ 43, 4594, 40057, 13, 7566, 11, 719, 433, 22525, 311, 387, 1071, 22009, 11, 22009, 13, 2564, 510, 51, 2094, 2500, 1450, 7197, 62626, 11, 264, 68644, 17503, 389, 279, 6558, 60, 358, 2846, 779, 14363, 520, 4851, 311, 11477, 11, 499, 64...
"But not only had the wound bled: the blood had trickled down in two streams at right angles to one another. First, in the order of time as shown by the appearance of the stream, it had trickled down the side of the face and dropped on the collar. The second stream ran from the wound to the back of the head. Now, you k...	[ 42513, 539, 1193, 1047, 279, 27653, 293, 839, 25, 279, 6680, 1047, 14397, 839, 1523, 304, 1403, 23914, 520, 1314, 27030, 311, 832, 2500, 13, 5629, 11, 304, 279, 2015, 315, 892, 439, 6982, 555, 279, 11341, 315, 279, 4365, 11, 433, 10...
"A catastrophy like that," said Griselda, "would certainly cause me inexpressible pain, but to view the matter in a proper, sensible light, there is no earthly reason why it should take place. Your brother has done me the high honor to ask my hand in marriage, and though I am grateful, I still claim the right of freely...	[ 30233, 35205, 58175, 1093, 430, 1359, 1071, 2895, 285, 38008, 11, 330, 41450, 7995, 5353, 757, 304, 14107, 1260, 6784, 11, 719, 311, 1684, 279, 5030, 304, 264, 6300, 11, 38761, 3177, 11, 1070, 374, 912, 90495, 2944, 3249, 433, 1288, 1...
"The first chapter of the tragedy opened with the painful death of the prepossessing handmaiden--suicide, poor creature. She didn't appear one morning and the flat was full of the reek of gas. With great promptitude the master threw all the windows open and called up the porter. They burst open the door of the little b...	[ 10227, 1176, 12735, 315, 279, 31926, 9107, 449, 279, 26175, 4648, 315, 279, 864, 9007, 434, 287, 1450, 1764, 12770, 313, 28149, 14842, 11, 8009, 17661, 13, 3005, 3287, 956, 5101, 832, 6693, 323, 279, 10269, 574, 2539, 315, 279, 312, 1...
Several days elapsed before Wolfert could summon courage enough to prosecute the enterprise, so much had he been dismayed by the apparition, whether living or dead, of the grisly buccaneer. In the meantime, what a conflict of mind did he suffer! He neglected all his concerns, was moody and restless all day, lost his ...	[ 35862, 2919, 26401, 1603, 26296, 531, 1436, 28645, 25775, 3403, 311, 66943, 279, 20790, 11, 779, 1790, 1047, 568, 1027, 73082, 291, 555, 279, 34388, 684, 11, 3508, 5496, 477, 5710, 11, 315, 279, 86930, 398, 1048, 641, 2194, 261, 13, 2...
But like a butterfly James fluttered over his fabrics. He was a tyrant to his shop-girls. No French marquis in a Dickens' novel could have been more elegant and _raffiné_ and heartless. The girls detested him. And yet, his curious refinement and enthusiasm bore them away. They submitted to him. The shop attracted much ...	[ 4071, 1093, 264, 56269, 7957, 74883, 291, 927, 813, 53054, 13, 1283, 574, 264, 43049, 519, 311, 813, 8221, 63970, 82, 13, 2360, 8753, 3678, 9383, 304, 264, 93999, 6, 11775, 1436, 617, 1027, 810, 26861, 323, 721, 969, 544, 258, 978, ...
"I shall have to go back a bit," Nita said. "You knew me ages ago when I was a child and you were a child, and the world was a pleasant place to live in. We did not realise in those days that we were being brought up in an atmosphere that was full of cold calculated dishonesty. Then I regarded my father as everything a...	[ 7189, 4985, 617, 311, 733, 1203, 264, 2766, 1359, 452, 6388, 1071, 13, 330, 2675, 7020, 757, 17051, 4227, 994, 358, 574, 264, 1716, 323, 499, 1051, 264, 1716, 11, 323, 279, 1917, 574, 264, 24729, 2035, 311, 3974, 304, 13, 1226, 1550...
They sat in silence for some time, while the train-wheels jog jogged over the uneven track, across a world that was but a white desert meeting a grey and infinite horizon. A.J. was puzzled still, but less apprehensive; it was queer how the fellow's charm could melt away even deepest misgivings. More than queer--there w...	[ 7009, 7731, 304, 21847, 369, 1063, 892, 11, 1418, 279, 5542, 2695, 73610, 31225, 31225, 3640, 927, 279, 61437, 3839, 11, 4028, 264, 1917, 430, 574, 719, 264, 4251, 24521, 6574, 264, 20366, 323, 24746, 35174, 13, 362, 3587, 13, 574, 87...
It was Schryhart who, in pumping and digging at Stackpole when he finally arrived there, managed to extract from him the truth in regard to his visit to Cowperwood. As a matter of fact, Schryhart himself had been guilty this very day of having thrown two thousand shares of American Match on the market unknown to his c...	[ 2181, 574, 5124, 894, 47489, 889, 11, 304, 53226, 323, 42200, 520, 14619, 69172, 994, 568, 5616, 11721, 1070, 11, 9152, 311, 8819, 505, 1461, 279, 8206, 304, 5363, 311, 813, 4034, 311, 22607, 716, 6798, 13, 220, 1666, 264, 5030, 315, ...
What else was there to do? But he was growing devilish inside himself. However, he went: and Harriet accompanied him to the town. The recruiting place was a sort of big Sunday School--you went down a little flight of steps from the road. In a smallish ante-room like a basement he sat on a form and waited while all his ...	[ 3923, 775, 574, 1070, 311, 656, 30, 2030, 568, 574, 7982, 38736, 819, 4871, 5678, 13, 4452, 11, 568, 4024, 25, 323, 5340, 65670, 24895, 1461, 311, 279, 6424, 13, 578, 32959, 2035, 574, 264, 3460, 315, 2466, 7418, 6150, 313, 9514, 40...
A little later, news was brought to the bed-chamber door that old Mr. Clare had come alone to the house, and was waiting in the hall below, to hear what the physician said. Miss Garth was not able to go down to him herself: she sent a message. He said to the servant, "I'll come and ask again, in two hours' time"--and w...	[ 32, 2697, 3010, 11, 3754, 574, 7263, 311, 279, 4950, 11843, 15578, 6134, 430, 2362, 4491, 13, 62140, 1047, 2586, 7636, 311, 279, 3838, 11, 323, 574, 8748, 304, 279, 14321, 3770, 11, 311, 6865, 1148, 279, 28378, 1071, 13, 9083, 12471, ...
Auntie Cha's lady-friend had a son, and he was beckoned to next and there was more whispering. But he was engaged to be married, and of course preferred to dance with his fiancee. When he came and bowed--to oblige his mother--he looked quite grumpy, and didn't trouble to say all of "May I have the pleasure?" but just "...	[ 32, 3935, 648, 28821, 596, 17240, 2269, 5147, 1047, 264, 4538, 11, 323, 568, 574, 92186, 20262, 311, 1828, 323, 1070, 574, 810, 35955, 287, 13, 2030, 568, 574, 17045, 311, 387, 12502, 11, 323, 315, 3388, 15236, 311, 15612, 449, 813, ...
"S-u-r-e! That's what should be done, by all means, in this case. But these worthless Pipers haven't a dime. They never paid a doctor's bill in their lives. I've attended the arrival of all the children, and the total proceeds were a couple of hams and a few gallons of blackberries. I advised the X-ray, of course, ...	[ 67410, 46481, 3880, 5773, 0, 220, 3011, 596, 1148, 1288, 387, 2884, 11, 555, 682, 3445, 11, 304, 420, 1162, 13, 2030, 1521, 66121, 393, 59935, 9167, 956, 264, 74953, 13, 220, 2435, 2646, 7318, 264, 10896, 596, 4121, 304, 872, 6439, ...
As for Paul, he ran down the hill whistling the "Soldiers' Chorus" from <i>Faust</i>, looking wildly behind him now and then to see whether some of his teachers were not there to writhe under his lightheartedness. As it was now late in the afternoon and Paul was on duty that evening as usher at Carnegie Hall, he decid...	[ 2170, 369, 7043, 11, 568, 10837, 1523, 279, 24898, 421, 380, 2785, 279, 330, 55112, 4918, 6, 921, 30969, 1, 505, 366, 72, 47560, 64, 592, 524, 72, 8226, 3411, 48295, 4920, 1461, 1457, 323, 1243, 311, 1518, 3508, 1063, 315, 813, 1363...
So far as I'm concerned a little poetry goes a long way. But it's a curious fact that I rather like hearing old Porteous reading it aloud. There's no question that he reads well. He's got the habit, of course--used to reading to classes of boys. He'll lean up against something in his lounging way, with his pipe bet...	[ 4516, 3117, 439, 358, 2846, 11920, 264, 2697, 32349, 5900, 264, 1317, 1648, 13, 220, 2030, 433, 596, 264, 22999, 2144, 430, 358, 4856, 1093, 11011, 2362, 5896, 34172, 5403, 433, 71511, 13, 220, 2684, 596, 912, 3488, 430, 568, 16181, 1...
His eyes were still downcast, solely concerned with the floor, and the floor, as it happened, presented at that moment the interesting study of a palimpsest. Recent events were recorded on it on top of events less recent. There were bare patches on the carpet, holes, cigar ash and the crumbs and litter of the day; noth...	[ 16366, 6548, 1051, 2103, 1523, 3914, 11, 21742, 11920, 449, 279, 6558, 11, 323, 279, 6558, 11, 439, 433, 7077, 11, 10666, 520, 430, 4545, 279, 7185, 4007, 315, 264, 11091, 40527, 267, 13, 35390, 4455, 1051, 12715, 389, 433, 389, 1948,...
Inspector Chippenfield, who had come into prominence in the newspapers as the man who had caught the gang who had stolen Lady Gladville's jewels--which included the most costly pearl necklace in the world--was placed in charge of the case. It was to his success in this famous case that he owed his promotion to Inspecto...	[ 47330, 32013, 2821, 2630, 11, 889, 1047, 2586, 1139, 71199, 304, 279, 32594, 439, 279, 893, 889, 1047, 10791, 279, 13481, 889, 1047, 23130, 21270, 52741, 8078, 596, 86131, 313, 8370, 5343, 279, 1455, 34348, 70723, 55547, 304, 279, 1917, ...
"Anyway, you need n't be more of a hypocrite than you can help," grumbled Thompson. "If you want a problem to work out, just consider that God constructed cattle for living on grass, and the grass for them to live on, and that, last night, and to-night, and to-morrow night, and mostly every night, we've a choice betwe...	[ 1, 49388, 11, 499, 1205, 308, 956, 387, 810, 315, 264, 67586, 1269, 1109, 499, 649, 1520, 1359, 1099, 26902, 26224, 13, 220, 330, 2746, 499, 1390, 264, 3575, 311, 990, 704, 11, 1120, 2980, 430, 4359, 20968, 36952, 369, 5496, 389, 16...
It had seemed fine when he was mustered out After Bull Run, to wear a veteran air, And tell pink Ellen Baker about war And how, as soon as he could re-enlist He'd do it where he got a chance to fight-- Wet mouth of tears--he hadn't wanted to kiss her At first, but it was easier later on. Why had he ever gone out to Chi...	[ 2181, 1047, 9508, 7060, 994, 568, 574, 2011, 12616, 704, 4740, 22353, 6588, 11, 311, 10051, 264, 21487, 3805, 11, 1628, 3371, 18718, 47685, 29492, 922, 4208, 1628, 1268, 11, 439, 5246, 439, 568, 1436, 312, 21430, 1638, 1283, 4265, 656, ...
Newland Archer prided himself on his knowledge of Italian art. His boyhood had been saturated with Ruskin, and he had read all the latest books: John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee's "Euphorion," the essays of P. G. Hamerton, and a wonderful new volume called "The Renaissance" by Walter Pater. He talked easily of Bott...	[ 3648, 1974, 59979, 550, 4591, 5678, 389, 813, 6677, 315, 15155, 1989, 13, 220, 5414, 8334, 5812, 1047, 1027, 50585, 449, 42076, 8148, 11, 323, 568, 1047, 1373, 682, 279, 5652, 6603, 25, 3842, 2758, 4910, 11629, 51058, 11, 60237, 12336, ...
He stood, presently, and watched her go, a finger to her lips and her eyes still smiling; then through the orchard himself went away, dumb and grateful for pleasure as the beasts that perish, and drunk with triumph like a god. The day had changed and darkened with the heat. The sky had an airless brooding aspect; fli...	[ 1548, 14980, 11, 50801, 11, 323, 15746, 1077, 733, 11, 264, 14654, 311, 1077, 23726, 323, 1077, 6548, 2103, 37163, 26, 1243, 1555, 279, 41245, 569, 5678, 4024, 3201, 11, 30355, 323, 26259, 369, 17069, 439, 279, 57536, 430, 83217, 11, ...
He carefully disposed of his bicycle behind a clump of broom and entered the modest demesne of Knockraw. This was easy enough, for only a wire fence separated it from the road. The moon was up by now, the Hunters' Moon shining in a clear sky, and it guided him through the beechwood and a plantation of young spruces t...	[ 1548, 15884, 26655, 315, 813, 36086, 4920, 264, 1206, 1538, 315, 2967, 316, 323, 10862, 279, 27946, 2486, 288, 818, 315, 64894, 1059, 13, 220, 1115, 574, 4228, 3403, 11, 369, 1193, 264, 9244, 25675, 19180, 433, 505, 279, 5754, 13, 220...
In the early days it appears that a young man did not marry until he was twenty-five or thirty years of age. His parents, deciding that it was about time for him to have a wife, either arranged with the parents of some maiden or, as was more often the case, confided in some friendly elder and entrusted the matter to hi...	[ 644, 279, 4216, 2919, 433, 8111, 430, 264, 3995, 893, 1550, 539, 32918, 3156, 568, 574, 17510, 36399, 477, 27219, 1667, 315, 4325, 13, 5414, 6699, 11, 30230, 430, 433, 574, 922, 892, 369, 1461, 311, 617, 264, 7555, 11, 3060, 28902, ...
In every reading lesson which you took when you were children; in every speech of cultured men and women to whom you listened, getting it perhaps at the third or fourth hand, you heard an echo of Homer or Shakespeare, Dante or Goethe. In every building at which you look in walking through the streets of a city you can ...	[ 644, 1475, 5403, 18228, 902, 499, 3952, 994, 499, 1051, 2911, 26, 304, 1475, 8982, 315, 89948, 3026, 323, 3278, 311, 8884, 499, 34793, 11, 3794, 433, 8530, 520, 279, 4948, 477, 11999, 1450, 11, 499, 6755, 459, 1722, 315, 66805, 477, ...
Then taking me by the hand and bowing his head most courteously he continued, in a soft and gentle singing voice, 'No doubt, my dear young man, it would be an unpardonable breach of courtesy and politeness if I were to proceed to express, in plain and unmistakable terms, and wide all the energy at my command, my desire...	[ 12487, 4737, 757, 555, 279, 1450, 323, 15631, 287, 813, 2010, 1455, 74999, 7162, 568, 8738, 11, 304, 264, 8579, 323, 22443, 26139, 7899, 11, 364, 2822, 10712, 11, 856, 25237, 3995, 893, 11, 433, 1053, 387, 459, 22355, 46396, 481, 3147...
But scarcely had Cuffy breathed again, when he was plunged into a fresh confusion. Men came to shut down the coffin; and then, while Mamma was waying good-bye to Papa, she suddenly burst out crying--oh, simply DREADFULLY! He felt himself blush over his whole body, to hear her-- HIS Mamma!--going on like this in front o...	[ 4071, 80987, 1047, 356, 30977, 92266, 1578, 11, 994, 568, 574, 75803, 1139, 264, 7878, 22047, 13, 11258, 3782, 311, 9495, 1523, 279, 78766, 26, 323, 1243, 11, 1418, 386, 13400, 574, 1648, 287, 1695, 1481, 9188, 311, 65673, 11, 1364, 1...
The five daughters--all assembled in a homely sitting-room--were nothing less than formidable. Plain, soft-spoken, not ill educated, they seemed to live in perfect harmony, and to derive satisfaction from pursuits independent of external society. In the town they were seldom seen; few families called upon them; and onl...	[ 791, 4330, 30968, 313, 543, 35105, 304, 264, 5105, 989, 11961, 48840, 313, 52898, 4400, 2753, 1109, 54829, 13, 44299, 11, 8579, 23032, 1713, 11, 539, 5986, 33142, 11, 814, 9508, 311, 3974, 304, 4832, 26348, 11, 323, 311, 43530, 24617, ...
IT is noteworthy that in our time the discussion of the freedom or non-freedom of the will has lost something of the impassioned tone that distinguished the hot controversies on the subject prevailing forty or fifty years ago. The vehemence of the dispute in those days was due to the humiliation and despair so widely f...	[ 964, 374, 67479, 430, 304, 1057, 892, 279, 10430, 315, 279, 11542, 477, 2536, 2269, 265, 8944, 315, 279, 690, 706, 5675, 2555, 315, 279, 96689, 97657, 16630, 430, 39575, 279, 4106, 86893, 389, 279, 3917, 61129, 36498, 477, 33517, 1667, ...
"Fall in on parade," shouted Corporal Marshall, putting his head through the door; and divesting themselves for the moment of this latest encumbrance, they turned out into the twilight. This time it was Captain Thompson, with the R. S. M. in attendance, and he went through a list of the things the men would be expecte...	[ 1, 50872, 304, 389, 37604, 1359, 44543, 11095, 278, 30508, 11, 10917, 813, 2010, 1555, 279, 6134, 26, 323, 3512, 60955, 5694, 369, 279, 4545, 315, 420, 5652, 3289, 372, 1347, 685, 11, 814, 6656, 704, 1139, 279, 93722, 13, 220, 1115, ...
For the main criminal I have no hope Except in such a suddenness of fate. I stood at Naples once, a night so dark I could have scarce conjectured there was earth Anywhere, sky or sea or world at all: But the night's black was burst through by a blaze-- Thunder struck blow on blow, earth groaned and bore, Through her wh...	[ 2520, 279, 1925, 9337, 358, 617, 912, 3987, 38267, 304, 1778, 264, 11210, 2136, 315, 25382, 13, 358, 14980, 520, 83721, 3131, 11, 264, 3814, 779, 6453, 358, 1436, 617, 59290, 87015, 3149, 1070, 574, 9578, 5884, 2940, 11, 13180, 477, 9...

The above paragraph was read with very different feelings by different readers. To the four conspirators, and to the public at large, it only made the mystery more profound. One man alone read in it nothing more than the final closing of a painful chapter. Laying down the paper, that man--a simple, white-haired bargema...

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Joe always had hated to dine with his mother alone. Fortunately there was a bottle of not-so-bad Madeira. Joe's mother drank two-thirds of it. Joe kept filling her glass; she sometimes became good-tempered when she drank too much--she even let pass opportunities to poison hope with cynicism. So he kept on pouring and d...

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The dwarf in that pause had leaned again against the parapet. The ordinary traffic of London was going on, but as if Lester's pause had affected it, there came at the moment a lull and a silence. Through it there toddled slowly along an elderly gentleman, peering through his glasses at an evening paper. Lester, shyly a...

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There was nothing for it: Lou had to buy herself a horse and ride at her mother's side, for very decency's sake. Mrs. Witt was so like a smooth, levelled, gunmetal pistol, Lou had to be a sort of sheath. And she really looked pretty, with her clusters of dark, curly, New Orleans hair, like grapes, and her quaint brown ...

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Charlie sent the maid back to the house, and then sat down in the straight-backed chair before the dressing-table. The sole illumination in the little room came from two pink-shaded lamps, one on either side of the mirror. Thoughtfully he stared into the glass where, dimly reflected, he caught occasional glimpses of an...

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Throughout the hardships of the journey and now amidst the throng and scurry of the railway platform, the woman prisoner preserved a calm that had in it still that same slight touch of mockery. Of course it was not her place to worry about the train or the White advance; if the latter arrived before the former, the adv...

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I have, however, one advantage over the Elizabethans. I write in full view of the Middle Ages, which may be said to have been rediscovered in the middle of the nineteenth century after an eclipse of about four hundred and fifty years. The Renascence of antique literature and art in the sixteenth century, and the lust...

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The Frenchman rushed over to Duff and grasped his hand. "I am so happy for this meeting. Me, I am a fond admirer of Scotland Yard. I beg of you that you will not judge harshly in this case, Monsieur Duff. Consider if you will the stupidity with which we have been faced. Is the body left as it fell? No. Is the pistol pe...

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Then they marched on, camping again in the afternoon until the moon should rise. That night, about one o'clock, they came to the Sweet Wells, and stopped to give the camels drink and to fill their water-bags. Rupert had arranged to arrive here at this hour when he thought that the sheik Ibrahim would be asleep and not ...

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JUAN--(losing control of himself--raging) Fool! You are like those dullards who, when Columbus said the earth was round, brayed at him for blaspheming! Listen to me! I do not believe Nano; I believe in Nature. Nature is part of God. She can perform miracles. Since this land was discovered have we not found wonde...

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He reined the horses and looked along the road. It was empty. He fingered his moustache, grinned, shook his head, and finally drove back past the iron gates. There were the camphor-laurels, close to the fence at the bottom of the lane dividing the garden from a banana plantation. He glanced about. You could leave ...

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"There is not much," said the Jewess, "and I think, myself, that you can do nothing for us. But I have said to her that I would plead with you for him. This woman is the wife of Edward Davis. He married her in London, spent her money, and abandoned her. Mr. Delane rescued her from the harbour on the night that he escap...

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I proceeded to make ready the fishing-tackle, but at the same time kept a close watch on my colleague's proceedings. And very curious proceedings they were. First he dipped up a little water from the river in the rubber mixing bowl with which he mixed a bowlful of plaster, and into this he stirred a few pinches of burn...

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With the pagan influx began the mysterious disappearance of small valuables from the premises of Michael Doyle, licensed victualler. Sedate, fluffy old hens, hitherto noted for their strict propriety and regular hours, would leave the place at dead of night, and return from their nocturnal rambles never more; stay-at-h...

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Doremus's hardest job was the translation of items from the press in Germany, which was most favorable to the Corpos. Sweating, even in the March coolness in Buck's high basement, Doremus leaned over a kitchen table, ruffling through a German-English lexicon, grunting, tapping his teeth with a pencil, scratching the t...

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So the Lord Juss did according to the word of that fair Queen, and they rowed her up the lake by moonlight. None spake, and the Queen sate apart in the bows of the boat, in earnest supplication to the blessed Gods. When they were come to the head of the lake they went ashore on a little spit of silver sand. The April n...

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"Say rather the serpents it has nourished in its bosom," rejoined Lanyere. "But to my case. Years ago, a gentleman possessed of noble estates in Norfolk, was unfortunate enough to have some dealings with these two usurers, who thus becoming acquainted with his circumstances, marked him for their prey. He borrowed a lar...

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"I feel infinitely refreshed," he remarked. "Eleanor, my good wife, are you all ready upstairs? That is well. My little packing here can be completed in ten minutes--my travelling-dress assumed in ten minutes more. What remains before the agent comes?" He looked about the room, and noticed the cage with his white mi...

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"Well," replied Willoughby, and he hesitated uncomfortably. "I was going to ask a great favor of you. I was wondering if you would lend it to me. It's like this," he went on quickly, "I want to go into Port Pirie. My heart was pretty crook in the night, and I want to go and see my own quack and get him to pass the rule...

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As the days went on the unseen but audible guns began each to assume a distinct personality. There were the two batteries of Russian 75-mm. guns which fired from close in our rear and which somehow evoked in my mind the picture of a fat man hitting a golf-ball. These were the first Russian guns I had seen--or heard, ra...

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He heard them through in moody silence, and turned to Smith. "From the time of our landing here, on this cursed rock, I have avoided all interference with any of you. You have made slaves of these Tahitians, who are better than any white man on the island except yourself and Young. If they retaliate upon you, it will b...

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Tingling with my recent fear, I stood at my door, peering through the night with the discordant cry of the fugitives still ringing in my ears. At that moment a vivid flash of lightning illuminated the whole landscape and made it as clear as day. By its light I saw far away upon the hillside two dark figures pursuing ea...

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So now, with the utmost confidence, Baker waited beside the road. The approaching lights were only a couple of hundred yards away. At the proper instant he would raise his lantern, the car would stop, its occupants would protest and then the county would add a mite to its general fund for making the roads even better a...

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Maxwell disappeared into the darkness and made his way by the back lane into Piccadilly. The streets were quiet now and very few people about. It was no far cry to the chambers occupied by General Maxgregor, and no time would be lost by going to the house of Countess Saens. Maxwell paused before it a moment. The dining...

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He raised the tapestry, but only a smooth, solid wall was visible behind it. It had seemed so real, and the beautiful face had been turned upon him so beseechingly, and so prayerfully, that until now he had not really thought of an incorporeal spirit. But when the bare wall met his gaze, with no door nor aperture to be...

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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races, and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings. It was, indeed, a prominent feature of the elaborate ceremonial magic, with its rituals for the evocation of dæmons and spectres, which flourished from prehisto...

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The table stood in a dark corner of the room, and Lewis gathered up the sheets of paper and took them to the window-ledge and began to read, amazed at certain phrases that had caught his eye. But the manuscript was in disorder; as if the dead man who had written it had not been equal to the task of gathering the leaves...

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Shortly after eleven o'clock on the morning of Thursday, May 4, Miss Danbury was found dead, sitting in the drawing-room of apartments she was temporarily occupying in a big family hotel on Beacon Street. She was richly gowned, just as she had come from the opera the night before; her marble-white bosom and arms aglitt...

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"It's this way, boys: there's no danger for any of us three; our neighbours are the ones who are in trouble and stand in need of help; but as for that, you realize as well as I do that we wouldn't have a very pleasant future ahead of us, either, if they were chased away from here. . . . Now, you're a pretty good talke...

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In the spacious hall, which he never entered without the feeling that he comprised a whole invading army, he found his elder son, Duncan, a dark, morose, and inscrutable young man. In France, where he had served with ardour in the last year of the war, Duncan had lost not only his health, but all the amiable pretences...

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One day Dr. Bowlby had come down from a visit to Mr. Worsley, and was strolling, as he often did, about the garden with Helen. She had been confessing her relief at the withdrawal of an elderly Captain Worsley and his wife, distant cousins, who had been spending a week at the Manor, and who had seemed to Helen two of ...

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Two years later he was at Fort Qu'appelle and held a pow-wow with the chiefs of a neighbouring reserve and heard their grievances. One of them was the Sioux, Standing Buffalo, with whose intelligence he was much impressed, and he listened patiently to the tale of their woes. The foremost was the suppression of their tr...

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Still there was no quarantine, no official admission. Inchcape Jones vomited feeble proclamations of the inadvisability of too- large public gatherings, and wrote to London to inquire about Haffkine's prophylactic, but to Sir Robert Fairlamb he protested, "Honestly, there's only been a few deaths and I think it's all ...

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It is solitary in its habits, conceals itself in the grass very closely, and flies with great reluctance. I doubt if there is anywhere a bird with such a sounding flight as this; and I can only compare the whirr of its wings to the rattling of a light vehicle driven at great speed over a hard road. From the moment it r...

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The grocer's business next door to the Pratts was also a thriving and long-established one. From a business point of view, 'Tarman's' had one advantage over the Stores, for while the draper's depended chiefly on the middle state of village society, the poor not being able to afford to buy their models and the gentry de...

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It was no exaggeration to say that since his uncle's death Arthur Wilmot had lived under a strain that he thought at times would drive him mad. Neither his character nor his training fitted him for the ordeal through which he was passing. He had inherited from his mother, a highly strung, nervous woman, that weakness o...

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"Emphatically not, Mr. Walton," Wilder said. "I don't doubt for a moment that Goss was telling the truth when he said that he had no ticket in that lottery. That he boasted he had is beyond all doubt, and I have no reason to disbelieve his statement that he made money out of his boast. But that is not the point. I feel...

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Mrs. LaGrange, who, as housekeeper, had remained at Fair Oaks, seemed, as the last carriage disappeared from view, to be on the verge of collapse from nervous prostration. No one knew the mental excitement or the terrible nervous strain which she had undergone during those last few days. Many at the funeral had noted...

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One great difference between ourselves and most primitive minds is that, while in us all motives are fully conscious, fully open to introspection, in them scarcely any of their more complex motives are ever brought fully to light. Thus when the explorer is following some train of action in a primitive mind, he very oft...

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Randal Holles the elder had been Monk's dearest friend. Both natives of Potheridge in Devon, they had grown to manhood together. And though political opinions then divided them--for Monk was a King's man in those far-off days, whilst the older Holles had gone to Parliament a republican--yet their friendship had remaine...

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Adela said no more. Burton would have his own way, and seemed so sure of his ground, so absolutely certain of his reception, that she could offer no further opposition. He strode gaily along by the side of the others, chatting in his light and clever way. It was almost impossible that this well-dressed, well-spoken, li...

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I would willingly have gone back with him, but I felt that I could be of no particular use. While he was gone I pondered a good deal over the situation. Twice, at least, previously some one had pilfered jewellery from stores, leaving in its place worthless imitations. Twice the evidence had been so conflicting that no ...

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Arriving at the Justice Room, he was introduced into a large chamber, reserved for special occasions, where, ranged around a long table, a dozen or fourteen gentlemen, composing the city magistracy, were sitting in full solemnity, the Lord Mayor of the day being at its head, and on one side, standing near the wall, was...

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At night when you lay on your back in the dark you thought about being born and about arithmetic and God. The sacred number three went into eighteen sixty-nine and didn't come out again; so did seven. She liked numbers that fitted like that with no loose ends left over. Mr. Sippett said there were things you could do w...

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Cecilia turned away with her skirts held high, as if fearful of contamination. She had never beaten her worthless husband quite so low as this before. He felt himself aggrieved, there were tears of maudlin self-pity in his eyes. He found a woodside public-house, where he ate a meal of sorts and talked like a landed pro...

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In the fall the work on the dam was shut down, and the store was closed. The partners couldn't remove their unsaleable goods, so the whole stock was sold at junk prices among the nearest villages. Jim found himself with about three hundred dollars in the world, and the long Canadian winter to get through. The fall on...

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Payderson was one. He fairly revered property and power. To him Butler and Mollenhauer and Simpson were great men--reasonably sure to be right always because they were so powerful. This matter of Cowperwood's and Stener's defalcation he had long heard of. He knew by associating with one political light and another just...

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"Just before the policeman came along he went back to his bicycle and rode away, but after the policeman had passed he came back again and stood leaning on the gate until the front door of Mayfield opened. Then he sort of slunk back to his bicycle and rode in the opposite direction--I mean opposite to the way he had co...

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Scarcely a word was spoken as hour after hour Craig sat with the receiver to his ear, connected with the coils down in the storeroom. "You might call this an electric detective," he had explained to Spencer. "For example, if you suspected that anything out of the way was going on in a room anywhere this would report mu...

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'"I will not attempt to describe the feelings with which I received this communication, nor will it be necessary to say anything of what passed at the few interviews which took place before Francis quitted X--. The evening immediately previous to that of his departure he passed in this house, and, before we separated, ...

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At this time there was a very definite prejudice among the regular nurses against V.A.D.s. They were regarded as painted society girls, attracted to nursing by the prospect of sitting on the officers' beds and holding their hands. The V.A.D.s were rapidly disabused of this idea, and, if they were lucky, were finally gr...

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Thus lay the count upon his bed, weak and faint, but at present almost free from pain, and an old woman was his only attendant, the priest having just left. It was just after noon. The dying man had just taken a powerful stimulating draft, though it was against the injunctions of the priest, as he said that by such mea...

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"Dr. Bennett said that undoubtedly the letter had been meant for him, that Mr. Ralston had been one of his oldest friends and had recently consulted him for what he might describe roughly as insomnia and bad dreams. Mr. Ralston had, in fact, been his guest at dinner the night before. He had wanted Mr. Ralston to spend ...

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Of course all this strange story soon found its way into the newspapers, and many were the rapturous congratulations which Edith received, even from persons with whom she had the very smallest acquaintance. Meanwhile the lawyers had again been in communication with their agent, who was established at Wady-Halfa. A seco...

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He had flung down a bone, and in the scuffle that ensued for its possession two men grabbed different ends of the bone, and as neither would admit that the other had priority of claim, Rashleigh was asked to decide who should have it. He suggested dividing it, but the famished wretches would not agree, and at last he d...

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On examining the Dagysa's which were taken yesterday, several small animals were found Lodgd in the hollow parts of their bodys, and some in the very substance of the flesh, which seems to be their food, as many of the dagysas were full of scars which had undoubtedly been the Lodgment of these animals some time before;...

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But the Coroner was able to produce a witness whose evidence carried the matter on still farther. A policeman in full uniform testified next, and after explaining that his beat led him from Madison Avenue to Third on Twenty-seventh Street, went on to say that as he was coming up this street on Tuesday evening some few ...

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Harroway was walking down Regent-street, about four o'clock one afternoon, ruminating on a thousand things, and wishing for the morrow, that he might be once more on the road towards his wife. Harroway was in one of those moods when the eye sees, but observes not; and although he looked in the face of nearly every man ...

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"DEAR MISS LYLE,--"I am writing this in great distress and in great terror. I cannot explain more. I have a powerful enemy and he is dogging my steps and watching my actions. The time is not yet ripe or I could turn the tables on him; but the day will come, and until it comes I throw myself on your mercy. Do not, I pra...

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...You will hear all the details of the Great Duke's state funeral from the papers much better than I can tell you them. I went to the Cathedral [St Paul's] and had the good fortune to get a capital seat--in front, close to the great door by which every one entered. It was bitter cold, a keen November wind blowing righ...

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It was whilst living on the shores of this lagoon that I received a very extraordinary commission from a neighbouring tribe. Not long after my arrival I heard a curious legend, to the effect that away on the other side of the lagoon there was an "evil spirit" infesting the waters, which terrified the women when they w...

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Mrs. Lewis told, too, of the coming of their piano from England. It sailed all round Cape Horn and was the first piano to come into the Colony of British Columbia. It landed at Esquimalt Harbour and was carried on the backs of Indians in relays of twenty at a time through a rough bush trail from Esquimalt to Langford. ...

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"MURDER. 100 POUNDS REWARD.--Whereas a murder was committed on the thirtieth September, 1877, at the Hand-in-Hand Inn, in the village of Zeeland, Hampshire, the above reward will be paid to any person or persons whose exertions shall lead to the arrest and conviction of the suspected murderer. Name not known. Supposed ...

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When, on the other hand, I viewed the lively appearance of the camp, the employments of the women, and the ridiculous dilemmas into which they were every moment thrown by the novelty of their situations, I smiled, and inwardly admiring the pliability of mind, which enables us to accomodate ourselves to the vicissitudes...

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Who should tell friend from foe in that ravine at night? There would be no moon for a long time, and then only at intervals between the racing clouds. No word of command could carry against or across the wind, and to that would be added the din of rifle-firing and the yells of excited hillmen. Yet, if we should postpon...

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For the first time I began to feel that it was possible that my mother might live without me, otherwise than for me, a separate life. She was going to stay with my father, whose existence it may have seemed to her that my feeble health, my nervous excitability complicated somewhat and saddened. This separation made me ...

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The lore which he was believed to pass his days brooding upon so that it had rapt him from the companionship of youth was only a garner of slender sentences from Aristotle's poetics and psychology and a SYNOPSIS PHILOSOPHIAE SCHOLASTICAE AD MENTEM DIVI THOMAE. His thinking was a dusk of doubt and self-mistrust, lit up ...

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"I am here compelled to admit that a certain event which happened between the time of my going to my room and my appearance in the drawing-room a few minutes after eight is withheld from this narration. In the face of death and disgrace, it must remain for ever locked in my breast. All that I can say is, that the event...

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"As for that, my child," she said, "he is an Englishman, and all Englishmen are fools until they are married, and then they are what their wives choose to make of them. What was it that you said--'that as yet he had not looked at you'? Bah! The poor man, he has not had the chance. This afternoon he will be here. He wil...

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"I will go and see this chief," he said. "Abiboo, do you run the boat's nose into the soft sand of the bank, covering the street with the Maxim whilst I go ashore." He landed without opposition; neither gun banged nor spear flew as he walked swiftly up the broad street. The girl lay before the chief's hut quite dead, v...

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LUBOV. Yes, but it ought to be said differently, differently. ... [Takes another handkerchief, a telegram falls on the floor] I'm so sick at heart to-day, you can't imagine. Here it's so noisy, my soul shakes at every sound. I shake all over, and I can't go away by myself, I'm afraid of the silence. Don't judge me hars...

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"But not only had the wound bled: the blood had trickled down in two streams at right angles to one another. First, in the order of time as shown by the appearance of the stream, it had trickled down the side of the face and dropped on the collar. The second stream ran from the wound to the back of the head. Now, you k...

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"A catastrophy like that," said Griselda, "would certainly cause me inexpressible pain, but to view the matter in a proper, sensible light, there is no earthly reason why it should take place. Your brother has done me the high honor to ask my hand in marriage, and though I am grateful, I still claim the right of freely...

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"The first chapter of the tragedy opened with the painful death of the prepossessing handmaiden--suicide, poor creature. She didn't appear one morning and the flat was full of the reek of gas. With great promptitude the master threw all the windows open and called up the porter. They burst open the door of the little b...

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Several days elapsed before Wolfert could summon courage enough to prosecute the enterprise, so much had he been dismayed by the apparition, whether living or dead, of the grisly buccaneer. In the meantime, what a conflict of mind did he suffer! He neglected all his concerns, was moody and restless all day, lost his ...

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But like a butterfly James fluttered over his fabrics. He was a tyrant to his shop-girls. No French marquis in a Dickens' novel could have been more elegant and _raffiné_ and heartless. The girls detested him. And yet, his curious refinement and enthusiasm bore them away. They submitted to him. The shop attracted much ...

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"I shall have to go back a bit," Nita said. "You knew me ages ago when I was a child and you were a child, and the world was a pleasant place to live in. We did not realise in those days that we were being brought up in an atmosphere that was full of cold calculated dishonesty. Then I regarded my father as everything a...

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They sat in silence for some time, while the train-wheels jog jogged over the uneven track, across a world that was but a white desert meeting a grey and infinite horizon. A.J. was puzzled still, but less apprehensive; it was queer how the fellow's charm could melt away even deepest misgivings. More than queer--there w...

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It was Schryhart who, in pumping and digging at Stackpole when he finally arrived there, managed to extract from him the truth in regard to his visit to Cowperwood. As a matter of fact, Schryhart himself had been guilty this very day of having thrown two thousand shares of American Match on the market unknown to his c...

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What else was there to do? But he was growing devilish inside himself. However, he went: and Harriet accompanied him to the town. The recruiting place was a sort of big Sunday School--you went down a little flight of steps from the road. In a smallish ante-room like a basement he sat on a form and waited while all his ...

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A little later, news was brought to the bed-chamber door that old Mr. Clare had come alone to the house, and was waiting in the hall below, to hear what the physician said. Miss Garth was not able to go down to him herself: she sent a message. He said to the servant, "I'll come and ask again, in two hours' time"--and w...

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Auntie Cha's lady-friend had a son, and he was beckoned to next and there was more whispering. But he was engaged to be married, and of course preferred to dance with his fiancee. When he came and bowed--to oblige his mother--he looked quite grumpy, and didn't trouble to say all of "May I have the pleasure?" but just "...

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"S-u-r-e! That's what should be done, by all means, in this case. But these worthless Pipers haven't a dime. They never paid a doctor's bill in their lives. I've attended the arrival of all the children, and the total proceeds were a couple of hams and a few gallons of blackberries. I advised the X-ray, of course, ...

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As for Paul, he ran down the hill whistling the "Soldiers' Chorus" from <i>Faust</i>, looking wildly behind him now and then to see whether some of his teachers were not there to writhe under his lightheartedness. As it was now late in the afternoon and Paul was on duty that evening as usher at Carnegie Hall, he decid...

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So far as I'm concerned a little poetry goes a long way. But it's a curious fact that I rather like hearing old Porteous reading it aloud. There's no question that he reads well. He's got the habit, of course--used to reading to classes of boys. He'll lean up against something in his lounging way, with his pipe bet...

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His eyes were still downcast, solely concerned with the floor, and the floor, as it happened, presented at that moment the interesting study of a palimpsest. Recent events were recorded on it on top of events less recent. There were bare patches on the carpet, holes, cigar ash and the crumbs and litter of the day; noth...

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Inspector Chippenfield, who had come into prominence in the newspapers as the man who had caught the gang who had stolen Lady Gladville's jewels--which included the most costly pearl necklace in the world--was placed in charge of the case. It was to his success in this famous case that he owed his promotion to Inspecto...

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"Anyway, you need n't be more of a hypocrite than you can help," grumbled Thompson. "If you want a problem to work out, just consider that God constructed cattle for living on grass, and the grass for them to live on, and that, last night, and to-night, and to-morrow night, and mostly every night, we've a choice betwe...

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It had seemed fine when he was mustered out After Bull Run, to wear a veteran air, And tell pink Ellen Baker about war And how, as soon as he could re-enlist He'd do it where he got a chance to fight-- Wet mouth of tears--he hadn't wanted to kiss her At first, but it was easier later on. Why had he ever gone out to Chi...

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Newland Archer prided himself on his knowledge of Italian art. His boyhood had been saturated with Ruskin, and he had read all the latest books: John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee's "Euphorion," the essays of P. G. Hamerton, and a wonderful new volume called "The Renaissance" by Walter Pater. He talked easily of Bott...

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He stood, presently, and watched her go, a finger to her lips and her eyes still smiling; then through the orchard himself went away, dumb and grateful for pleasure as the beasts that perish, and drunk with triumph like a god. The day had changed and darkened with the heat. The sky had an airless brooding aspect; fli...

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He carefully disposed of his bicycle behind a clump of broom and entered the modest demesne of Knockraw. This was easy enough, for only a wire fence separated it from the road. The moon was up by now, the Hunters' Moon shining in a clear sky, and it guided him through the beechwood and a plantation of young spruces t...

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In the early days it appears that a young man did not marry until he was twenty-five or thirty years of age. His parents, deciding that it was about time for him to have a wife, either arranged with the parents of some maiden or, as was more often the case, confided in some friendly elder and entrusted the matter to hi...

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In every reading lesson which you took when you were children; in every speech of cultured men and women to whom you listened, getting it perhaps at the third or fourth hand, you heard an echo of Homer or Shakespeare, Dante or Goethe. In every building at which you look in walking through the streets of a city you can ...

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Then taking me by the hand and bowing his head most courteously he continued, in a soft and gentle singing voice, 'No doubt, my dear young man, it would be an unpardonable breach of courtesy and politeness if I were to proceed to express, in plain and unmistakable terms, and wide all the energy at my command, my desire...

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But scarcely had Cuffy breathed again, when he was plunged into a fresh confusion. Men came to shut down the coffin; and then, while Mamma was waying good-bye to Papa, she suddenly burst out crying--oh, simply DREADFULLY! He felt himself blush over his whole body, to hear her-- HIS Mamma!--going on like this in front o...

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The five daughters--all assembled in a homely sitting-room--were nothing less than formidable. Plain, soft-spoken, not ill educated, they seemed to live in perfect harmony, and to derive satisfaction from pursuits independent of external society. In the town they were seldom seen; few families called upon them; and onl...

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IT is noteworthy that in our time the discussion of the freedom or non-freedom of the will has lost something of the impassioned tone that distinguished the hot controversies on the subject prevailing forty or fifty years ago. The vehemence of the dispute in those days was due to the humiliation and despair so widely f...

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"Fall in on parade," shouted Corporal Marshall, putting his head through the door; and divesting themselves for the moment of this latest encumbrance, they turned out into the twilight. This time it was Captain Thompson, with the R. S. M. in attendance, and he went through a list of the things the men would be expecte...

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For the main criminal I have no hope Except in such a suddenness of fate. I stood at Naples once, a night so dark I could have scarce conjectured there was earth Anywhere, sky or sea or world at all: But the night's black was burst through by a blaze-- Thunder struck blow on blow, earth groaned and bore, Through her wh...

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