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"May 1. Received a visit from about thirty Karens, with whom I had some conversation on religion. Their remarks confirmed the opinion I had previously entertained, that, _as a people_, the Karens are atheists in the fullest, largest sense of the word--that they acknowledge no being whatever as an object of worship. Som... | [
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"I So then I decided it was time to tell the old villain just what I thought of his grinding men down to the last penny and insulting every decent girl that ever worked for him. He got as black in the face as if he was smoking already on the fiery furnace that's waiting for him below, please God, and called the shrimp ... | [
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Mademoiselle admitted the truth of this conjecture: according to her, 'ces paysannes anglaises étaient tout insupportables.' What would she not give for some 'bonne cuisinière anversoise,' with the high cap, short petticoat, and decent sabots proper to her class--something better, indeed, 'thin an insolent coquette in ... | [
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"Now, which knows more about husbands, you or me? And here's Master Baby come to see his auntie. Isn't he a beautiful boy, Phoebe, isn't he? And doesn't he sit up strong and straight? Wouldn't you be proud of him if you were me? And not six months old yet," and the proud young mother took him out of his nurse's arms an... | [
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To be truthful, however, it was not only the elephants that took me to these parts, guessing, as I did, that if I found them it might be of little avail, since probably ivory in bulk would prove impossible to carry. No, it was rather the desire to look upon new things, to discover the Unknown which is so strong a part... | [
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The lady scarcely touched anything. Her husband, on the contrary, ate and drank with keen enjoyment of the good fare, assisted by an equally excellent digestion. Nell found herself once more compassionating the feeble anæmic-looking creature whom melancholy and suffering seemed to have marked for their own. The rude he... | [
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Maurice shouted to his little group, they jumped out of the trench and stumbled forward. Now came the moment that he always dreaded, when the group broke and one straggled forward singly, one little mannikin in a world of malignant danger. Through the noise as of cannon-balls rolling down sheets of iron, there was th... | [
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Nevertheless, because of the perennial interest which attaches to all murder trials, the Norwich Assizes Court was filled with spectators on the dull drizzling November day when the case was heard, and the fact that the accused was young and good-looking and of gentle birth probably accounted for the sprinkling of well... | [
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The camaron is a fresh water creature like a cray-fish. It is regarded here as the world's chiefest delicacy--and certainly it is good. Guards patrol the streams to prevent poaching it. A fine of Rs.200 or 300 (they say) for poaching. Bait is thrown in the water; the camaron goes for it; the fisher drops his loop i... | [
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Five days after his visit to Mr. Wembly-Jones, Reynolds received a letter from that gentleman, informing him that Mrs. Reynolds had left Canterbury in October, 1896, and taken a situation as governess at Margate. She was there in August, 1897. He had written to her at Margate, but down to the present had received no re... | [
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"I woke in excellent spirits, thinking what a good story I should have to tell when I returned to Larristane. My plan was to get off as soon as possible, take the train to Langshiels, and then hire. I could see that McGowan was sorry to part with me, but he agreed that it was too unhealthy a countryside for me to dall... | [
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Paul de Sénanges was a handsome young fellow, frank, high-spirited, and of a brisk and happy temperament; which, however, modified by the many misfortunes he had undergone, was not permanently changed. He had plenty of capacity for enjoyment in him still; and as his position was very isolated, and his mind had become e... | [
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'Presumably this is the Atlantean woman referred to in the first message as Mona, and if we may take her as a sample they are indeed a race worth reintroducing to earth. She is dark in complexion, beautifully clear-cut and high-bred in feature, with long black hair, and magnificently hazel eyes which looked round her p... | [
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He almost wished that he had not come, he felt so very small and helpless; he wondered whether he could find his way out again, and looking back, he was for a moment terrified to see that the stream of people behind him shut him in so that he could not see the stile, nor the wooden barrier, nor the red-faced man. Pushe... | [
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Rhys's men who had made their choice without much hesitation when the wind had blown the sickness out of them were sleeping by the midship arrow-engines, ready for Orwic to captain them when an engagement should begin. The catapults were useless in the dark, but every Northman had a bow within reach in addition to his ... | [
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"Then my friend learned from the director that, whereas the books of the bank showed Mr. Black's known income and ordinary expenditure, there was evidence of his having paid away large sums of money on gambling transactions, always in cash--mostly five-pound notes; that these sums greatly exceeded his known income, and... | [
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"It is good sense, after all," he thought, and realised that even in the days when he was being made to suffer horrors, and in the face of the fact that Jane McPherson's long, hard role was just being played out to the end, the farmer in the field was sowing his corn, Valmore was beating upon his anvil, and John Telfer... | [
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Congress has not yet voted the thanks the President requested for Hancock. There is a reason, but it has not leaked into print yet, I believe; nor yet into common conversation. But that reason is a potent one, and may possibly hold back the vote of thanks for all time. The facts, as they exist behind the scenes are the... | [
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A mother and daughter on truly affectionate terms soon understand each other, and these two at once came to an arrangement. It was promised, on the mother's side, that no notice should be taken at present of what had occurred; that all the family, and the Corporal in particular, should remain in complete ignorance of R... | [
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And, as they left by one door, in at the other Tumbled the neighbours--for the shrieks had pierced To the mill and the grange, this cottage and that shed. Soon followed the Public Force: pursuit began Though Guido had the start and chose the road: So, that same night was he, with the other four, Overtaken near Baccano,... | [
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The latter was now seventeen, very big for his age, and had already contracted the two habits, common to most seamen, of drinking and smokingin his case both in very strict moderation. And, considering his opportunities, it would have been a miracle if he had not done so. But from many points of view Torre was not an ... | [
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At this critical moment the unexpected happened. My mother walked into the room. A look of surprise immediately spread over her face. Neither my father nor I had expected this. The dear lady could make neither head nor tail of the picture which presented itself. What looked like a tramp was kneeling in the center of he... | [
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Constance walked away from the bed to the dressing-table and began to loose her hair and brush it, holding back her head, shaking it, and bending forward, in the changeless gesture of that rite. She was so disturbed that she had unconsciously reversed the customary order of the toilette. After a moment Sophia slipped o... | [
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"The 'ead 'ad 'ands, sir," explained Howlett, "'ands that 'eld a painted stick,--like that, sir. 'Owlett, thinks I to meself this 'ere's queer, so I jumps it an' runs, but the beggar 'e seen me an' w'en I comes alongside of David, 'e was gone. "'Ello, 'Owlett,' sez David, 'what the 'ell--I beg pardon, sir,---"ow did yo... | [
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I have been much impressed lately by the way in which the habit of "scathing denunciation," back and forward across the Atlantic, is growing in the press. Every time when international news gets a little slack somebody lands off a steamer and says something about British Education or about American women that sets the... | [
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Orion was deeply moved by what he thus heard, and it was some moments ere he could speak. He not only felt sadly annoyed by the robbery, but he feared that some deep evil had since befallen his charge. The clerk could tell him nothing at all of the widow's movements since she left the Mission, so he arose and concluded... | [
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I took his hand limply, but made no reply. The shock of the sudden encounter was slowly passing off and giving place to a sort of benumbed indifference mingled with vague curiosity. I felt as if I had been drugged or were walking abroad in a hypnotic trance, half conscious and waiting with dull expectancy to see what w... | [
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For his character was primitive as Alberique's was complex. He was one of those men of natural purity who, oppressed with disappointment and temptation, are not led away by the allurements of _Venus vulgivaga_, but cling to their first ideal and exalt it with all the devotion of their simple nature. And in the interval... | [
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But the replacement of the manorial system by individual farming in fenced fields was attended by some grave disadvantages. The large profits obtained from the sale of wool, for example, while they enriched the few, led to a new conception of agriculture. The profit motive began to rule the farmer; farming ceased to be... | [
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When, therefore, Arthur Dexter asked me if I would like to go to one of Delaunay's dramatic classes at the Conservatoire, I could hardly believe my luck. It was not easy to obtain permission to assist at any of these classes, and to be admitted to Delaunay's was particularly difficult; but being much attached to Dexter... | [
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You seem surprised at our extensive housekeeping, but in fact there is none here. It would be distracting if we had to keep house for the entire station. Every dray that comes brings its load of flour, tea, sugar and minor luxuries and necessaries, and everything is stowed away in the store, a large building at the bac... | [
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The general face of the country is certainly pleasing, being diversified with gentle ascents, and little winding vallies, covered for the most part with large spreading trees, which afford a succession of leaves in all seasons. In those places where trees are scarce, a variety of flowering shrubs abound, most of them e... | [
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I am writing this only because you must not, YOU MUST NOT, dearest Judith, take the wrong path also. Return to your own life, take your boy, have nothing to do with the fortunes of our family. For such as you and I there can never be any happiness in Herries affairs. They are ruin and damnation to us. They deprive ... | [
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The prince-deer now bounded into the garden and at once sought some way of escape. It found none, and it joined the other deer, which soon made it their leader. Now, although the prince had been transformed into the form of a deer, he kept his man's heart and mind. He said to himself, 'Thank heaven that the Lady Lat... | [
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"Don't laugh, John,--I couldn't help it; and don't think I'm not sincere, for I am,--I am; and I will prove it by growing good enough to be your friend. That debt must all be paid, and I shall do it; for I'll turn my books and pen to some account, and write stories full of clear old souls like you and Nan; and some on... | [
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Banky didn't take leave after all, so Charles was denied his spell as Chargé. Then Jane returned, tanned and refreshed after the long sea trip. Her stay in England had been full of legal business and sad visits to relatives; she was glad to be back. Her father had left her some money--it was not yet clear how much, ... | [
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Bandicoot was the best-fenced, best-improved place in the district, and magnificently watered. Too much timber had disappeared but Barry had corrected that by buying a selection on his back boundary from which excellent timber for all purposes could be procured. No drought or other crisis was able to leave Barry withou... | [
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"It has this, Frank: It has the unique personality and teachings of Jesus Christ, and there is something in Jesus, there is something in the way he spoke, there is something in the feeling of a man when he suddenly has that inexpressible experience of KNOWING the Master and his presence, which makes the church of Jesu... | [
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'Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that my job as director is done; I feel pretty well satisfied; I'm off for New York tonight; and I turn you over to Andy--and to yourselves. You're most of you pretty good--though there isn't one of you who can't improve if he, and especially she, will just sit down and try to think what ... | [
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The fact was, she had already been talking over that very plan with Eleseus, she had heard it from Sivert, who could not keep the secret. And indeed, why should Sivert keep the matter secret when his father had surely told him of it on purpose to feel his way? It was not the first time he had used Sivert as a go-betwee... | [
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Special attention was given to the system of self-repair in all tissues, especially in those which had hitherto been the earliest to wear out. And at the same time the mechanism regulating growth and general senescence was so designed that the new man should reach maturity at the age of two hundred years, and should re... | [
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Recently one of the foremost physiologists in Europe, Professor Richet, after thirty years investigation of psychical research, has startled the scientific world by his courageous publication of the results he has obtained. With noble loyalty to truth he asserts that he has been convinced of the genuineness of phenomen... | [
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OF the horror which the next two hours brought to me, I find it difficult to speak, even at this distance of time. 'Twas not the fear of what might be in store for me that oppressed my mind, though God knows I do not say this to make a boast of it; for doubtless some fear upon that score would have argued me a better m... | [
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Sherwood came to Paris that winter and he was a delight. He was enjoying himself and we enjoyed him. He was being lionised and I must say he was a very appearing and disappearing lion. I remember his being asked to the Pen Club. Natalie Barney and a long-bearded frenchman were to be his sponsors. He wanted Gertrude Ste... | [
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Lewis's evidence was corroborated in all essential details by his two tavern acquaintances. Murchison had noted that the prisoner had coughed, 'in a soft sort of fashion,' three or four times in the middle of his talk, and everybody in court had observed this peculiarity in Mullins as he stood in the dock. Frost descri... | [
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It may be said then that primitive government, like primitive art and religion and everything else, is very imperfectly known or rather guessed at; but that it is at least as good a guess to suggest that it was as popular as a Balkan or Pyrenean village as that it was as capricious and secret as a Turkish divan. Both t... | [
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A mile in front, in the staff car with Muller, the man with the languid aloofness was also drinking a cup of tea. Actually he was neither languid nor aloof, but just overwhelmingly weary, and terribly shy of this American boy to whom he was giving a lift. He was also facing facts himself while concealing them from othe... | [
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In 1857 Harvard University again made itself notorious by the persecution and expulsion of a student named Fred Willis, for the practice of medium ship. It would almost seem that the spirit of Cotton Mather and the old witch-finders of Salem had descended upon the great Boston seat of learning, for in those early days ... | [
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He was scared, or I should have died that instant. But he was as tough as they come. Instead of obeying he pulled his weapon and emptied all six chambers at me. All six bullets clipped the stone within inches of where I crouched. The din in that narrow passage was terrific and I suppose that scared the wits out of ... | [
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The Corporal's health had failed a little that winter, and these changes preyed painfully on his mind. He began to show unmistakable signs of advancing age: his voice lost much of its old ring and volume, his eyes grew dimmer, his step less firm. It required vast quantities of tobacco to soothe the trouble of his heart... | [
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Angèle had turned out the contents of Vidal's haversack. Among them she had discovered a spare military coat, torn in the sleeve and the back, and she had set about repairing it at once. Seyrac watched and admired the deftness of her fingers as they sent the needle flashing to and fro. He observed the delicate whitenes... | [
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"Your question, Strangeways," he replied, "turns on the meaning of the word 'aware.' If two men, one literate and the other illiterate, look at a page of a printed book, both may be said to be aware of it; that is to say that in both it produces a retinal image which makes them conscious of it as a visible object havin... | [
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The noise came from within of a bar being removed. The door opened. It revealed a mere hole in the rock, though large enough, it is true, to hold a considerable number of persons. Furniture was conspicuous by its absence. There was no sign even of a bed, unless a coffin that grinned in one corner served the occupant's ... | [
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"I read your whole hand from the day of my arrival at Broadwater," she said. "But then I had some knowledge of the way in which you forced your cards before. I had not been to Broadwater for years--seeing that Sir George and I did not get on well together. After his death I was bound to come. Directly I heard of my ecc... | [
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Impressed with this idea, he determined to retrace his steps and endeavour to overtake them; for, as he guessed, they would not be able to make rapid progress in the Bush, even if they should be able to find their way at all through a strange country over which they had only once passed. He communicated his suspicion t... | [
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I was sitting there one evening, about six o'clock, over a glass of that gorgeous Burgundy which he kept behind a pile of black-letter folios; he was striding about the room, fingering, after a habit of his, one of the great swords in his collection; the red glare of the strong fire struck his square features and his f... | [
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"'We leave nothing to chance,'" read the detective, "'if the slightest hitch occurs, if the least detail of our plan miscarries, we acknowledge defeat. So assured are we that our presence on earth is necessary for the carrying out of a great plan, so certain are we that we are the indispensable instruments of a divine ... | [
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"Who's the landlord here?" was the growl from a sulky ruffian, some five feet high, with the head of a bull-dog, the eyes of a vulture, sunken in a mass of bones, neglected beard, sun-burnt, grog-worn, as dirty as a brute,--the known cast, as called here in this colony, of a 'Vandemonian,' made up of low, vulgar manner... | [
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The next day, Fanny was seen by Sarah counting the little hoard that she had so long and so painfully saved for her benefactor's tomb. The money was no longer wanted for that object. Fanny had found another; she said nothing to Sarah or to Simon. But there was a strange complacent smile upon her lip as she busied herse... | [
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Obviously Joe Raffle was speaking the truth as to the Blenheim colt, though the other part of the business still remained a mystery. But if he could believe his ears aright, then at that moment he was not an outcast and pauper, but one of the most envied men who had ever set foot upon a racecourse. At the lowest estima... | [
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"The village of Stratford St. Mary is about six miles from here. The Priory, at the far end, is the most important residence in the neighborhood, and attached to it is a considerable estate, extensive enough, at any rate, to necessitate an agent to look after its affairs. The place has been in the possession of the Bra... | [
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Such a territorial policy, however, cannot find its fulfilment in the Cameroons but almost exclusively here in Europe. One must calmly and squarely face the truth that it certainly cannot be part of the dispensation of Divine Providence to give a fifty times larger share of the soil of this world to one nation than to ... | [
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"That was my brother-in-law's eccentricity. He had amassed this enormous sum of money by speculation, and lived in terror that it should be dissipated by his descendants--unhappily, he has only a daughter to carry on his name--in the same manner as it was amassed. He also took a very pessimistic view of the future of c... | [
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The natives were already supporting their own pastors and schools; but this organization was intended for aggressive work among the heathen. At the first annual meeting, thirty pastors and three hundred lay delegates were present. For the special work of sending evangelists to the regions beyond, six hundred rupees had... | [
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Delia was thinking of this as she sat in the drawing-room (her mother would have called it the parlour) waiting for her husband's return. She had just had time to smooth her glossy braids, and slip on the black-and-white striped moire with cherry pipings which was his favourite dress. The drawing-room, with its Notting... | [
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"I think the place has laid a spell on me," she said. "I dream of it night after night; I think of it when I sit stitching at my work. You know I am grateful, Mr. Betteredge--you know I try to deserve your kindness, and my lady's confidence in me. But I wonder sometimes whether the life here is too quiet and too good f... | [
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She answered nothing; she shrank and cowered down in the play and glow of the firelight, feeling that her words had worked this deadly sorrow for their lives, and that he would never forget or forgive them. She knew she had never loved him as she loved him in that moment when the proud, fearless dignity of his face con... | [
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If by chance I have a reader who shares my feeling concerning the scent of flowers and would like to experience the full deliciousness of the cowslip, I would advise him to repair at its season to that curious strip of flat country extending from the lower reaches of the Somerset Axe to the River Parret below Bridgwate... | [
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"In the metaphor of my country, search me," the American said. "I am too old a citizen of the world to be surprised at anything. But I don't mind telling you that I am supposed to be with the German forces. I came from the lines behind Mons with half a dozen swagger staff guides to see the contemptible English wiped ou... | [
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It is not alone among biologists, from whose standpoint it may be judged easier to reach, since they are concerned with living Nature, that we find the attitude of the lover and the artist. We find it just as well marked when the man of genius plays in what some might think the arid field of the physicist. Faraday work... | [
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Meanwhile, in the hall Helene Vauquier locked and bolted the front door. Then she stood motionless, with a smile upon her face and a heart beating high. All through that afternoon she had been afraid that some accident at the last moment would spoil her plan, that Adele Tace had not learned her lesson, that Celie would... | [
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'Caspar,' she cried, 'you frighten me; you bewilder me. I have nothing to do with the Emperor, nor he with me. I am an English subject--a French--an Avaranese subject--what does it matter? but not one of the Emperor of Abaria. Excellence was an Abarian subject only because he served the Emperor; and I--I am of his bloo... | [
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In a shipping office in Glasgow, a lean, tanned elderly man, with a slight stoop of years between his shoulders, made inquiries across a counter (which was a sheet of gleaming glass over a map of Scotland), regarding sailings for Loch Brendan. On a divan under the long windows sat a woman, a decade or so his junior bu... | [
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He looked on the assembly where were penniless and improvident nobles like the Marquis de la Sablonnière and numerous, black-robed Jesuits, Recollets in gray robes, beautiful women from the Court of France. Also men who had left France broken in fortune and were living here as officials or adventurers, officers of the ... | [
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I don't know how it happened, but Wylder sat beside Miss Lake. I fancied he ought to have been differently placed, but Miss Brandon did not seem conscious of his absence, and it seemed to me that the handsome blonde would have been as well pleased if he had been anywhere but where he was. There was no look of liking, t... | [
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"For a long time, yes," Cora said. "Then, by some means or other, the bookmaker discovered the trick. I think he must have got suspicious over losing so much money and laid a trap for us. At any rate, I had an urgent telephone message one day from Ezra Gotto telling me to disappear at once, and, of course, I lost no ti... | [
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"Towns are very small," Rachel remarked, obscuring the whole of Santa Marina and its suburbs with one hand. The sea filled in all the angles of the coast smoothly, breaking in a white frill, and here and there ships were set firmly in the blue. The sea was stained with purple and green blots, and there was a glittering... | [
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He now writes: "The morning of the 3rd of August, dawned with a singular clearness, and, as its temperature was unusually low and bracing (35°) we were induced to quit our tents at an early hour to commence the interesting labours of the day. We proceeded from our encamping ground at 6 o'clock on our journey to the sum... | [
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In the first place Mr. Mackenzie the bookseller was there to swear that he had, according to Miss Fields' instructions, dispatched the books as stated in her letters. He read a list of dates of dispatch, an account of postage, showed the receipted bill for books and plays punctually discharged by Miss Fields. In his op... | [
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It has sometimes been said that Palestrina's work represented a revolution in the music of his time. This is not true, however, for his great Mass music was only an evolution in the hands of the great master of the musical movement that had preceded his time. The story of his having been commissioned to write music ver... | [
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"I should think there is not the slightest doubt about that," Bly agreed. "In fact, Sir Hercules as good as said so. The man accosted him only an hour or two ago and, according to Sir Hercules, was inclined to be insolent. So the old man tossed him aside as if he had been a baby, and thought no more about it. Oh, you c... | [
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Stephen's inheritance of all the money on the death of his young half- brother Francis--young, compared with him--seemed to have been the only signal for him and his wife to become more unsociable, and they were bad enough before. They shut themselves up in the Torr, with that sister of hers, Eunice Gibbon, who acted a... | [
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His friends were not so sanguine. They saw the danger, and knew that defeat was much more probable than success. In their judgment, it was certain that he would not head the poll; and it was not unlikely that he would be found among the rejected. To prevent utter defeat, it was necessary to resort to extreme measures; ... | [
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We buried him on the morrow in the Chapel of Pagliano, and on the next day Galeotto drew up a memorial wherein he set forth all the circumstances of the affair in which that gallant gentleman had met his end. It was a terrible indictment of Pier Luigi Farnese. Of this memorial he prepared two copies, and to these--as... | [
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She felt about for a stick with which to probe, but found only upstanding wattle scrub, dead a year since by fire, tearing and tough as whalebone. There was no response from Larry. Ile must be dead! She could do nothing! She shivered with a sense of terrible disaster as she stood a minute or two lost in the dim pillare... | [
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* 3 lbs. Leg of Beef--6d. * * 2 quarts Water * * 1 fagot of Herbs * * Salt and Pepper * * 2 Onions * * 2 Carrots * * 2 Turnips * * 1 doz. Peppercorns--1 1/2d. * * Total Cost--7 1/2 d. * * Time--Five Hours * Pot-au-feu is the national dish of France; it is cheap, nourishing and palatable, and very simple to make. The sl... | [
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"Well, between you and me, there's really nothing to raid. You are there to intercept messengers. They must call at the wells. Of course you have only just come out, but you probably understand already enough about the conditions of this country to know that there is a great deal of disaffection about, and that the Kha... | [
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"And YOU--cramming the magazines full of high-browed sarcasm about the dull slaves of superstition! . . . chanting about freedom! . . . yowling about the unpardonable sin of stupidity! Haven't you any sense of humour, at all? . . . These birds have imposed on you, down here. They've made you believe they were artist... | [
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Pretoria, in those days, was as a kaleidoscope. All the shifting colours of the race to which we belong blended, and parted, and massed in strange groups, as the bits of glass blend, and mass, and fall apart within the toy. It was a chance to see the world as one had never before seen it, and as one will have a great d... | [
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A convict named Drewe, otherwise called Slambow, was shepherding for a Mr. Williams, and determined to make a push for the reward. This Drewe had, it appears, with the majority of the convict storekeepers, often assisted Howe in his escapes from justice. Falling in with Watts, he pointed out the advantages of freedom, ... | [
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Jeypore is intensely Indian, but it has two or three features which indicate the presence of European science and European interest in the weal of the common public, such as the liberal water-supply furnished by great works built at the State's expense; good sanitation, resulting in a degree of healthfulness unusually ... | [
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'Weak!' he said, catching one of Beaminster's first words. 'Yes, that's easy to say. I swore to make a success of this and I've failed. Yes, whatever way it goes now I've failed. And it wasn't as though I wasn't warned. Say what you like,' he wheeled round fiercely upon the old man, who sat forward in his chair st... | [
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Old Time heaved a mouldy sigh from tomb and arch and vault; and gloomy shadows began to deepen in corners; and damps began to rise from green patches of stone; and jewels, cast upon the pavement of the nave from stained glass by the declining sun, began to perish. Within the grill-gate of the chancel, up the steps surm... | [
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Nothing shakes him in his assurance of that release. He describes in a quiet, matter-of-fact way the new sensation he experienced. He felt he had become impalpable--so much he had expected, but he had not expected to find himself enormously large. So however, it would seem he became. "I was a great cloud--if I may expr... | [
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And he had come there the next day, hurrying from school to be there first, and beating Cheese-Face by two minutes. The other boys said he was all right, and gave him advice, pointing out his faults as a scrapper and promising him victory if he carried out their instructions. The same boys gave Cheese-Face advice, to... | [
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He stepped out into the starlit autumn night. He longed to know the relationship of the planets, the stars, the earth, one to another. His book on astronomy was surely inadequate. There must be another book somewhere that would tell him all he must know of the revolving of these various strange masses. He read the ... | [
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To proceed. The Uranian, though generally high-strung and sensitive, is by no means always dreamy. He is sometimes extraordinarily and unexpectedly practical; and such a man may, and often does, command a positive enthusiasm among his subordinates in a business organisation. The same is true of military organisation... | [
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Yet there it was--in black and white. Mr Brand drank; Mr Brand had struck Mrs Brand to the ground when he was drunk. Mr Brand was adjudged, in two or three abrupt words, at the end of columns and columns of paper, to have been guilty of cruelty to his wife and to have committed adultery with Miss Lupton. The last words... | [
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June 29th. I told you some time ago that we had a large shipment of crockery by one of the drays, a very handsome dinner set and a pretty white-and-gold breakfast set. When Tom left we counted the crockery, and were quite horrified at the smash that had taken place. The dinner set, being strong, was tolerably entire, b... | [
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In the meantime Jack had ridden on another five and twenty miles, to the old town of Parramatta. After a glance at the newspapers, to see that there was no 'hue and cry' out about him, he put up at the Woolpack Inn. He could find no reference whatever to the Broadhaven matter in the day's journals, so, feeling more sec... | [
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