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"Too much of a man to be an emperor," said Galen, smiling amid wrinkles. "By observing a man's virtues one may infer what his faults are. You would try to rule the empire honestly, which is impossible. A more dishonest man would let it rule itself and claim the credit, whereas you would give the praise to others, who...	[ 1, 32346, 1790, 315, 264, 893, 311, 387, 459, 57883, 1359, 1071, 10845, 268, 11, 37163, 23442, 74207, 13, 330, 1383, 46071, 264, 893, 596, 66627, 832, 1253, 24499, 1148, 813, 57790, 527, 13, 220, 1472, 1053, 1456, 311, 6037, 279, 3244...
Macquarie's activities were not confined to the outlying country and the adjacent settlements. In Sydney his energies found scope in all directions. He found the town composed of small houses or huts scattered about or huddled together according to no organized plan. Under his hand it began to be a fair city with well-...	[ 20122, 447, 67545, 596, 7640, 1051, 539, 45408, 311, 279, 704, 6852, 3224, 323, 279, 24894, 45704, 13, 763, 21972, 813, 49969, 1766, 7036, 304, 682, 18445, 13, 1283, 1766, 279, 6424, 24306, 315, 2678, 15316, 477, 305, 6256, 38067, 922, ...
"Let us now consider the economic side of the question. 'Domestic economy' is a favorite phrase. As a matter of fact our method of domestic service is inordinately wasteful. Even where the wife does all the housework, without pay, we still waste labor to an enormous extent, requiring one whole woman to wait upon eac...	[ 1, 10267, 603, 1457, 2980, 279, 7100, 3185, 315, 279, 3488, 13, 220, 364, 23658, 10027, 8752, 6, 374, 264, 7075, 17571, 13, 220, 1666, 264, 5030, 315, 2144, 1057, 1749, 315, 13018, 2532, 374, 304, 6114, 2718, 41421, 52221, 13, 220, ...
Constantinople was invested, trenches dug, and advances made. The whole Greek fleet blockaded it by sea; on land from the river Kyat Kbanah, near the Sweet Waters, to the Tower of Marmora, on the shores of the Propontis, along the whole line of the ancient walls, the trenches of the siege were drawn. We already posse...	[ 15839, 258, 1184, 574, 29091, 11, 96078, 44120, 11, 323, 31003, 1903, 13, 220, 578, 4459, 18341, 26155, 2565, 14589, 433, 555, 9581, 26, 389, 4363, 505, 279, 15140, 23727, 266, 735, 6993, 1494, 11, 3221, 279, 27687, 47978, 11, 311, 27...
The wire had excited Mary's amazement, but Peter refused to give her any information concerning it. He had enjoyed an instructive conversation with the man in the shop, who perceived that Peter was a savage, but did not on that account refuse to sell him the required articles. Peter asked how the light was made, and th...	[ 791, 9244, 1047, 12304, 10455, 596, 1097, 1394, 1133, 11, 719, 11291, 16436, 311, 3041, 1077, 904, 2038, 18815, 433, 13, 1283, 1047, 14333, 459, 21745, 535, 10652, 449, 279, 893, 304, 279, 8221, 11, 889, 26617, 430, 11291, 574, 264, 7...
The common-sense labor-saving devices would make a long list-- overhead cranes, conveyors of all sorts (gravity rollers, skate rollers, belt conveyors), power grabs for picking up unit loads, power-driven hand tools, the use of compressed air for cleaning, and so forth. Typical, perhaps, in its simplicity and its sign...	[ 791, 4279, 1355, 1137, 9511, 59085, 7766, 1053, 1304, 264, 1317, 1160, 313, 32115, 1589, 14997, 11, 20599, 1105, 315, 682, 21522, 320, 71891, 89713, 11, 43878, 89713, 11, 19671, 20599, 1105, 705, 2410, 49155, 369, 21816, 709, 5089, 21577,...
Trenor sulkily yielded his place, and Lily turned a brilliant smile on the newcomer. She had not talked with Dorset since their visit at Bellomont, but something in his look and manner told her that he recalled the friendly footing on which they had last met. He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came e...	[ 51, 1466, 269, 274, 22537, 1570, 58487, 813, 2035, 11, 323, 48390, 6656, 264, 20333, 15648, 389, 279, 88405, 13, 3005, 1047, 539, 15243, 449, 25225, 751, 2533, 872, 4034, 520, 18366, 316, 546, 11, 719, 2555, 304, 813, 1427, 323, 11827...
"Besides, if the Signorina speaks to anyone in the world of laudanum and poison, even to the excellent Don Cesare, Fabrizio is killed by the Signorina's own hand. She makes impossible for ever all the plans of escape; and the Signorina knows better than I that it is not with laudanum that they wish to poison Monsignore...	[ 1, 52555, 11, 422, 279, 7220, 269, 2259, 21881, 311, 5606, 304, 279, 1917, 315, 1208, 664, 276, 372, 323, 21109, 11, 1524, 311, 279, 9250, 4418, 62463, 548, 11, 19797, 25772, 822, 374, 7577, 555, 279, 7220, 269, 2259, 596, 1866, 145...
At the time that my clients were arrested, the negro population in Detroit had increased from twelve thousand to sixty-four thousand; it was attempted to pack these into a space that had been overpopulated by its former lesser number. The negro workmen could stay in the automobile factories in the daytime, but they ha...	[ 1688, 279, 892, 430, 856, 8403, 1051, 12800, 11, 279, 62833, 7187, 304, 20344, 1047, 7319, 505, 30335, 16579, 311, 53474, 42117, 16579, 26, 433, 574, 17644, 311, 3854, 1521, 1139, 264, 3634, 430, 1047, 1027, 927, 8539, 7913, 555, 1202, ...
Emotion was going all over Sylvia...at the proximity of Tietjens. She said to herself: 'Is this to go on for ever?' Her hands were ice-cold. She touched the back of her left hand with the fingers of her right. It _was_ ice-cold. She looked at her hands. They were bloodless...She said to herself: 'It's pure sexual passi...	[ 2321, 6082, 574, 2133, 682, 927, 89406, 1131, 266, 279, 37843, 315, 350, 3978, 73, 729, 13, 3005, 1071, 311, 11937, 25, 364, 3957, 420, 311, 733, 389, 369, 3596, 20837, 6385, 6206, 1051, 10054, 1824, 820, 13, 3005, 24891, 279, 1203, ...
"No infernal machine was ever more subtle," said Craig, "than the tube which I hold in my hand. The imagination of the most sensational writer of fiction might well be thrilled with the mysteries of this fatal tube and its power to work fearful deeds. A larger quantity of this substance in the tube would produce on me,...	[ 39522, 24499, 43078, 5780, 574, 3596, 810, 27545, 1359, 1071, 29517, 11, 330, 54895, 279, 14019, 902, 358, 3412, 304, 856, 1450, 13, 578, 28899, 315, 279, 1455, 68503, 7061, 315, 17422, 2643, 1664, 387, 38564, 449, 279, 57700, 315, 420,...
"This has been a waesome day for you, Mr. Sempill," he went on. "Ye have set yoursel' up against God's law and man's law, and ye have taken a mighty fall. I bear no malice--though weel I might if the Lord hadna gi'en me grace to forgive. What I have done in your case I have done painfully as my solemn duty. But ther...	[ 22244, 706, 1027, 264, 10667, 7202, 1938, 369, 499, 11, 4491, 13, 328, 3342, 484, 1359, 568, 4024, 389, 13, 330, 87575, 617, 743, 701, 9697, 6, 709, 2403, 4359, 596, 2383, 323, 893, 596, 2383, 11, 323, 20043, 617, 4529, 264, 42727, ...
Beyond the lily pool the ground sank again, and in that dip of the ground, bushes and brambles had mobbed themselves together. It was always shady; sun-flecked in summer, dark and damp in winter. In the summer there were always butterflies; fritillaries darting through; Red Admirals feasting and floating; cabbage whi...	[ 56441, 279, 326, 1570, 7463, 279, 5015, 65330, 1578, 11, 323, 304, 430, 24522, 315, 279, 5015, 11, 78306, 323, 1437, 3042, 645, 1047, 12881, 2788, 5694, 3871, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 2744, 78181, 26, 7160, 2269, 94976, 291, 304, 7474, 11,...
From the Temple I wended northward, to the adjacent College of Surgeons, where I spent a couple of profitable hours examining the 'pickles' and refreshing my memory on the subjects of pathology and anatomy; marvelling afresh (as every practical anatomist must marvel) at the incredibly perfect technique of the dissectio...	[ 3915, 279, 19176, 358, 289, 2954, 10411, 1637, 11, 311, 279, 24894, 9304, 315, 57257, 2439, 11, 1405, 358, 7543, 264, 5743, 315, 34235, 4207, 38936, 279, 364, 30345, 645, 6, 323, 37018, 856, 5044, 389, 279, 15223, 315, 77041, 323, 626...
Gloria Vanderman, with her back against the wall, struggled and contrived to get her foot on Will's bent knee. Another struggle sent her breast-high above the sea of sweating faces. There was fitful light enough to see her by, because the man who held a pine torch was privileged. If there had not been hot sparks sca...	[ 38, 9761, 689, 97947, 4858, 11, 449, 1077, 1203, 2403, 279, 7147, 11, 28214, 323, 6155, 2270, 311, 636, 1077, 4579, 389, 4946, 596, 30280, 22095, 13, 220, 13596, 14993, 3288, 1077, 17659, 28661, 3485, 279, 9581, 315, 81366, 12580, 13, ...
In April of this year the fighting was supposed to be over; but the rejoicing of the Christians over the return of peace was somewhat premature. Nine Karen missionaries were actively engaged in preaching among the heathen during the dry season. Four Karens were appointed _goung-gyouks_, or magistrates of districts corr...	[ 644, 5936, 315, 420, 1060, 279, 11039, 574, 10171, 311, 387, 927, 26, 719, 279, 48041, 10332, 315, 279, 22125, 927, 279, 471, 315, 9096, 574, 14738, 42227, 13, 38166, 35745, 86316, 1051, 22815, 17045, 304, 69423, 4315, 279, 568, 589, ...
"Thou fell traitor! What ho! De Faro to the rescue!" already the mariner had thrown a grappling iron--already the Adalid was in motion towards them. Clifford strove to draw his sword. York was upon him in mortal struggle; his keen dagger, unsheathed, uplifted; the boat lurched--his arm descended, but half the force of ...	[ 1, 1016, 283, 11299, 18027, 269, 0, 3639, 11640, 0, 1611, 13759, 78, 311, 279, 17629, 9135, 2736, 279, 3678, 10670, 1047, 15338, 264, 90834, 11245, 313, 46584, 279, 2467, 278, 307, 574, 304, 11633, 7119, 1124, 13, 86783, 31511, 588, 3...
Yes, I admitted, I had been overcritical of Janice lately. The habit had grown on me since my deafness. I suppose personal bitterness and anxiety had intensified petty irritations from pinpricks into deep wounds. Doubt of myself had made me resent qualities in her which under ordinary circumstances I should never ha...	[ 9642, 11, 358, 16584, 11, 358, 1047, 1027, 927, 42641, 315, 4448, 560, 31445, 13, 220, 578, 14464, 1047, 15042, 389, 757, 2533, 856, 47842, 2136, 13, 220, 358, 23289, 4443, 80096, 323, 18547, 1047, 79849, 61585, 30118, 811, 505, 9160, ...
One man worked with the field women or in the same field. He was a poor, weedy creature, getting old and not very strong and they had put him upon half-pay. He was known as 'Algy' and was not a native, but had appeared there suddenly, years before, out of a past he never mentioned. He was tall and thin and stooping, wi...	[ 4054, 893, 6575, 449, 279, 2115, 3278, 477, 304, 279, 1890, 2115, 13, 1283, 574, 264, 8009, 11, 584, 9497, 17661, 11, 3794, 2362, 323, 539, 1633, 3831, 323, 814, 1047, 2231, 1461, 5304, 4376, 71188, 13, 1283, 574, 3967, 439, 364, 21...
For things were by no means easy. Walter had lived so long at his ease about money that he was again and again unpleasantly checked by recollecting that this or that natural and simple arrangement was an extravagance that must be resisted. Mrs. Goring cut the knot for the time being by asking his mother to stay at th...	[ 2520, 2574, 1051, 555, 912, 3445, 4228, 13, 220, 33305, 1047, 12439, 779, 1317, 520, 813, 14553, 922, 3300, 430, 568, 574, 1578, 323, 1578, 47989, 398, 10273, 555, 1421, 25627, 287, 430, 420, 477, 430, 5933, 323, 4382, 27204, 574, 459...
Soon came out and stood in the door and near one side of it. A stranger could have guessed his rank (although he was so simply and unpretentiously dressed) by the profound deference paid him by all persons in his vicinity; by seeing his high officers receive his quiet orders and suggestions with bowed and uncovered hea...	[ 67196, 3782, 704, 323, 14980, 304, 279, 6134, 323, 3221, 832, 3185, 315, 433, 13, 362, 35058, 1436, 617, 43410, 813, 7222, 320, 37241, 568, 574, 779, 5042, 323, 653, 8203, 306, 13610, 26435, 8, 555, 279, 28254, 18440, 768, 7318, 1461,...
It was a patch of ground sheltered from questions by a grove of trees; far from paths, and in a kind of hollow, but level enough to serve the purpose of a _piste_. The Germans were there already, marching up and down, their cloaks caught close about them; the lieutenant, his seconds, and a bearded man, the doctor. Bows...	[ 2181, 574, 264, 11140, 315, 5015, 23756, 291, 505, 4860, 555, 264, 10707, 588, 315, 12690, 26, 3117, 505, 13006, 11, 323, 304, 264, 3169, 315, 42902, 11, 719, 2237, 3403, 311, 8854, 279, 7580, 315, 264, 721, 79, 17194, 5056, 578, 42...
He ran quickly over the sands, where the wind blew cold but velvety, and the raindrops fell loosely. He walked straight into the fore-wash, and fell into an advancing ripple. At least it looked a ripple, but was enough to roll him over so that he went under and got a little taste of the Pacific. Ah, the fresh cold wetn...	[ 1548, 10837, 6288, 927, 279, 70163, 11, 1405, 279, 10160, 42423, 9439, 719, 9231, 85, 2676, 11, 323, 279, 11422, 91612, 11299, 63557, 13, 1283, 15203, 7833, 1139, 279, 2291, 2695, 1003, 11, 323, 11299, 1139, 459, 44169, 70725, 13, 2468,...
Presently came the badge of the Club, and very dainty and pretty it was; and very artistic. It was a frog peeping out from a graceful tangle of grass-sprays and rushes, and was done in enamels on a gold basis, and had a gold pin back of it. After I had petted it, and played with it, and caressed it, and enjoyed it a ...	[ 21886, 398, 3782, 279, 24914, 315, 279, 10349, 11, 323, 1633, 294, 18773, 323, 5128, 433, 574, 26, 323, 1633, 32692, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 264, 60981, 1069, 55323, 704, 505, 264, 78462, 259, 4134, 315, 16763, 1355, 652, 954, 323, 95322,...
Henry took a few steps forward, slowly and softly, almost as if he were afraid that those small images would overhear him, and softly and slowly Aaron followed. They paused at a little distance from the table, and stood gazing at the figures, the young man in a careful comparison of them with his memory of the newly fo...	[ 64463, 3952, 264, 2478, 7504, 4741, 11, 14297, 323, 57150, 11, 4661, 439, 422, 568, 1051, 16984, 430, 1884, 2678, 5448, 1053, 72389, 277, 1461, 11, 323, 57150, 323, 14297, 26757, 8272, 13, 2435, 35595, 520, 264, 2697, 6138, 505, 279, ...
Public opinion at home was not seriously adverse to the buccaneers.* Morgan, the most notorious professor of the craft, after being alternately commissioned and prosecuted as a privateer, was knighted and appointed lieutenant-governor of Jamaica. Some of Dampier's associates, prosecuted on their return to England on ch...	[ 12965, 9647, 520, 2162, 574, 539, 14243, 31959, 311, 279, 1048, 641, 2194, 388, 5013, 23809, 11, 279, 1455, 44081, 14561, 315, 279, 11003, 11, 1306, 1694, 7064, 2718, 44224, 323, 58559, 439, 264, 879, 261, 11, 574, 47709, 291, 323, 21...
The Odyssey is merely a story of adventure, the instinctive story- telling of a sea-faring race. So we may begin it, reading quickly in the spirit of children wanting amusement to find out what happens next. But here is nothing immature; here are full-grown people, crafty, subtle, and passionate. Nor is the world it...	[ 791, 66881, 374, 16632, 264, 3446, 315, 18427, 11, 279, 31655, 535, 3446, 12, 11890, 315, 264, 9581, 2269, 3329, 7102, 13, 220, 2100, 584, 1253, 3240, 433, 11, 5403, 6288, 304, 279, 9090, 315, 2911, 19762, 62468, 311, 1505, 704, 1148,...
It began with a preamble, setting forth that 'I, Nicholas Hartup, being a widower without offspring, dependants, or near relations, give and bequeath my worldly possessions to the man who has dealt with me honestly, faithfully, and without thought of material profit or reward' and then went on to make the specific bequ...	[ 2181, 6137, 449, 264, 90554, 11, 6376, 13544, 430, 364, 40, 11, 40796, 23750, 455, 11, 1694, 264, 9923, 1223, 2085, 46471, 11, 6904, 1821, 11, 477, 3221, 4398, 11, 3041, 323, 387, 593, 589, 856, 97706, 53635, 311, 279, 893, 889, 706...
"That, then," said he to himself, "is my legitimate son. I am sure of his birth, at any rate. Besides I should be foolish to disown him, for I find him the exact picture of myself at thirty. He is a handsome fellow, Noel, very handsome. His features are decidedly in his favour. He is intelligent and acute. He knows how...	[ 34728, 11, 1243, 1359, 1071, 568, 311, 5678, 11, 330, 285, 856, 23583, 4538, 13, 358, 1097, 2771, 315, 813, 7342, 11, 520, 904, 4478, 13, 31909, 358, 1288, 387, 46337, 311, 834, 785, 1461, 11, 369, 358, 1505, 1461, 279, 4839, 6945, ...
In these islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera), which sometimes weighs twenty-two pounds, is very abundant. These birds were in former days called, from their extraordinary manner of paddling and splashing upon the water, racehorses; but now they are named, much more appropriately, steamers. The...	[ 644, 1521, 30100, 264, 2294, 6050, 63600, 37085, 477, 63237, 320, 2127, 300, 1437, 613, 88, 418, 2473, 705, 902, 7170, 50542, 17510, 38502, 16701, 11, 374, 1633, 44611, 13, 4314, 20229, 1051, 304, 4846, 2919, 2663, 11, 505, 872, 24674, ...
The sleeper did not answer but he did not move. As if some closed powers hung, poised and equal, over or within him he lay silent. Sir Bernard remembered how, but a little before, he had seen Considine standing in front of the azure profundity of the curtain, which still hung there, as in the depth of space, and it see...	[ 791, 83647, 1550, 539, 4320, 719, 568, 1550, 539, 3351, 13, 1666, 422, 1063, 8036, 13736, 18799, 11, 54946, 323, 6273, 11, 927, 477, 2949, 1461, 568, 11203, 21737, 13, 17177, 35352, 27569, 1268, 11, 719, 264, 2697, 1603, 11, 568, 1047...
They had accumulated a store of game and wallaroo flesh at the cave, for Hartley had on several days returned from successful shooting expeditions, and on other occasions they had been able to kill wallaroo from the shelter of the cave. Hartley's idea was to have the cave provisioned in readiness for the return journey...	[ 7009, 1047, 41165, 264, 3637, 315, 1847, 323, 7147, 76865, 26000, 520, 279, 26457, 11, 369, 23750, 3258, 1047, 389, 3892, 2919, 6052, 505, 6992, 10658, 31727, 6055, 11, 323, 389, 1023, 25975, 814, 1047, 1027, 3025, 311, 5622, 7147, 7686...
The measure of precaution related, necessarily, to the Count. It was of the last importance to ascertain, if possible, whether his plans committed him to remaining in England--or, in other words, to remaining within my reach. I contrived to set this doubt at rest by very simple means. His address in St. John's Wood ...	[ 791, 6767, 315, 72147, 5552, 11, 14647, 11, 311, 279, 4605, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 315, 279, 1566, 12939, 311, 77277, 11, 422, 3284, 11, 3508, 813, 6787, 11411, 1461, 311, 9861, 304, 9635, 313, 269, 11, 304, 1023, 4339, 11, 311, 9861, ...
I, Bissa-tee, and Azte-ca had barely touched ground when the world about us exploded. Behind us, the earth leapt up around one of the legs of the steel support; Assa-ree was catapulted forward over our heads; all about, it seemed to hail ants; and even the pebbles of the beach on which we were, danced. Lashed by the ...	[ 40, 11, 426, 22144, 12, 6684, 11, 323, 15757, 668, 51877, 1047, 20025, 24891, 5015, 994, 279, 1917, 922, 603, 44913, 13, 220, 43474, 603, 11, 279, 9578, 514, 2756, 709, 2212, 832, 315, 279, 14535, 315, 279, 9699, 1862, 26, 2755, 64,...
"Yes, and he seemed to think, with me, that something had happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the door of the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, there might be...	[ 58841, 11, 323, 568, 9508, 311, 1781, 11, 449, 757, 11, 430, 2555, 1047, 7077, 11, 323, 430, 358, 1288, 6865, 315, 65090, 1195, 1578, 13, 1666, 568, 1071, 11, 1148, 2802, 1436, 5606, 617, 304, 12967, 757, 311, 279, 6134, 315, 279, ...
"I come to take leave of you, young whelp of P'an-ku," he said. "My people are dying by the millions for want of air, thanks to the infernal rays which your father has managed to keep trained on us. Our dissipated atmosphere cannot be brought back, nor could we manufacture a new one, from the elements locked in the soi...	[ 7189, 2586, 311, 1935, 5387, 315, 499, 11, 3995, 421, 1290, 315, 393, 62595, 12, 12407, 1359, 568, 1071, 13, 330, 5159, 1274, 527, 23069, 555, 279, 11990, 369, 1390, 315, 3805, 11, 9523, 311, 279, 24499, 43078, 45220, 902, 701, 7126, ...
That evening towards eight o'clock the two men turned out of the Lowther Arcade. The night was cold, dark and wet; and they had wound comforters round their bare throats. They were on their way to the Mechanics' Hall, to hear a lecture on Mesmerism. Mahony had looked forward to this all through the sorry job of choosin...	[ 4897, 11714, 7119, 8223, 297, 63510, 279, 1403, 3026, 6656, 704, 315, 279, 12310, 700, 65307, 13, 578, 3814, 574, 9439, 11, 6453, 323, 14739, 26, 323, 814, 1047, 27653, 6981, 388, 4883, 872, 12743, 60187, 1900, 13, 2435, 1051, 389, 87...
"P.S.--As I look over my statement there is only one omission which I can see. It concerns the unfortunate man McPherson, who was foolish enough to write to his wife and to make an appointment with her in New York. It can be imagined that when interests like ours were at stake, we could not leave them to the chance of ...	[ 68781, 815, 33501, 2170, 358, 1427, 927, 856, 5224, 1070, 374, 1193, 832, 84218, 902, 358, 649, 1518, 13, 1102, 10742, 279, 34707, 893, 4584, 3438, 1293, 11, 889, 574, 46337, 3403, 311, 3350, 311, 813, 7555, 323, 311, 1304, 459, 18101...
There was a rocky peninsula jutting out into a lovely blue ocean. I may not have told you before that in these thought cinemas, if I may use the expression, colour is produced as well as form. On this headland was a house of quaint design, wide-spread, red-roofed, white-walled, and beautiful. A grove of palm trees surr...	[ 3947, 574, 264, 56617, 66495, 503, 75081, 704, 1139, 264, 17104, 6437, 18435, 13, 358, 1253, 539, 617, 3309, 499, 1603, 430, 304, 1521, 3463, 98707, 11, 422, 358, 1253, 1005, 279, 7645, 11, 12745, 374, 9124, 439, 1664, 439, 1376, 13, ...
I may as well say here all that need be said further about Ellen. For the next three years she used to call regularly at Mr Ottery's every Monday morning for her pound. She was always neatly dressed, and looked so quiet and pretty that no one would have suspected her antecedents. At first she wanted sometimes to ant...	[ 40, 1253, 439, 1664, 2019, 1618, 682, 430, 1205, 387, 1071, 4726, 922, 47685, 13, 220, 1789, 279, 1828, 2380, 1667, 1364, 1511, 311, 1650, 15870, 520, 4491, 31676, 18080, 596, 1475, 7159, 6693, 369, 1077, 31123, 13, 220, 3005, 574, 27...
There came a day when Billee, the good-natured, fell and could not rise. Hal had traded off his revolver, so he took the axe and knocked Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, then cut the carcass out of the harness and dragged it to one side. Buck saw, and his mates saw, and they knew that this thing was very clo...	[ 3947, 3782, 264, 1938, 994, 426, 4618, 68, 11, 279, 1695, 5392, 1598, 67, 11, 11299, 323, 1436, 539, 10205, 13, 20442, 1047, 31207, 1022, 813, 98898, 11, 779, 568, 3952, 279, 51564, 323, 33085, 426, 4618, 68, 389, 279, 2010, 439, 56...
Nine in ten start with a ouija board or automatic writing or yes-and-no answers to some easy code. Necessarily the beginning techniques must be very simple and easy to manipulate. For that reason they are difficult to guard, and it follows that they can be easily upset or interfered with. That interference may originat...	[ 84429, 304, 5899, 1212, 449, 264, 6033, 29230, 4580, 477, 17392, 4477, 477, 10035, 9976, 29466, 11503, 311, 1063, 4228, 2082, 13, 452, 74753, 279, 7314, 12823, 2011, 387, 1633, 4382, 323, 4228, 311, 37735, 13, 1789, 430, 2944, 814, 527,...
Kitty Bennet was the only child of Mat Bennet, a digger whose luck was always out--a man who had dug and delved his way through Victoria--north, south, east, and west--without unearthing more gold than sufficed to provide the necessaries of life from year's end to year's end. Mat married late, and his wife died soon af...	[ 42, 23660, 30880, 295, 574, 279, 1193, 1716, 315, 7011, 30880, 295, 11, 264, 4170, 1414, 6832, 15369, 574, 2744, 704, 313, 64, 893, 889, 1047, 44120, 323, 1624, 2111, 813, 1648, 1555, 23225, 313, 62995, 11, 10007, 11, 11226, 11, 323, ...
"Oh, I had quite forgotten," he said. "Saltburn told me. And so Shorland has succeeded at last in crowning his folly. Saltburn tells me that he has actually married the Spanish dancer. It is a queer world, my dear child, and you will be surprised to hear that scores of well-bred young men will be disposed to regard Sho...	[ 55005, 11, 358, 1047, 5115, 25565, 1359, 568, 1071, 13, 330, 48418, 22464, 3309, 757, 13, 1628, 779, 1443, 269, 1974, 706, 26399, 520, 1566, 304, 9460, 1251, 813, 81789, 13, 28138, 22464, 10975, 757, 430, 568, 706, 3604, 12502, 279, 1...
We wander on, a little dismally, looking at the stony stoniness of the medieval town. Perhaps on a warm sunny day it might be pleasant, when shadow was attractive and a breeze welcome. But on a cold, grey, windy afternoon of April, Sunday, always especially dismal, with all the people in the streets, bored and uneasy, ...	[ 1687, 40320, 389, 11, 264, 2697, 834, 76, 750, 11, 3411, 520, 279, 357, 3633, 357, 263, 1918, 315, 279, 42108, 6424, 13, 19292, 389, 264, 8369, 40798, 1938, 433, 2643, 387, 24729, 11, 994, 12737, 574, 19411, 323, 264, 46385, 10788, ...
"Now, Mr. Herbert did not go to the ball--why not I will explain later. Therefore, Miss Meredith recognised the real Burglar as Mr. Herbert, and we know how they ran away together after the Burglar had stolen the plate and various articles of jewelry. We must credit the Burglar with remarkable intelligence, so that whe...	[ 83524, 11, 4491, 13, 58463, 1550, 539, 733, 311, 279, 5041, 313, 35734, 539, 358, 690, 10552, 3010, 13, 15636, 11, 9083, 84777, 39764, 279, 1972, 41109, 14115, 439, 4491, 13, 58463, 11, 323, 584, 1440, 1268, 814, 10837, 3201, 3871, 13...
The sun flung a stray beam across the hidden sea; pierced the mist dully, and lit up the receding boat with a gloomy fire. Indistinctly I saw something nodding between the oars. I thought of a sponge--a great, grey nodding sponge---The oars continued to ply. They were grey--as was the boat--and my eyes searched a momen...	[ 791, 7160, 1344, 2234, 264, 62490, 24310, 4028, 279, 8340, 9581, 26, 89513, 279, 8770, 294, 22732, 11, 323, 13318, 709, 279, 1421, 16490, 15688, 449, 264, 14015, 5650, 4027, 13, 2314, 380, 7956, 398, 358, 5602, 2555, 16387, 7113, 1990, ...
'I do not know anything. Go away!' said Kim, scenting evil. Hereupon the man caught him by the ear, dragged him to a room in a far-off wing where a dozen drummer-boys were sitting on forms, and told him to be still if he could do nothing else. This he managed very successfully. The man explained something or other ...	[ 42069, 656, 539, 1440, 4205, 13, 220, 6122, 3201, 32483, 220, 1071, 13818, 11, 41466, 287, 14289, 13, 5810, 59723, 279, 893, 10791, 1461, 555, 279, 2487, 11, 38247, 1461, 311, 264, 3130, 304, 264, 3117, 12744, 20611, 1405, 264, 21030, ...
"Yes, we were very dear to each other; brought up as brother and sister, how could we fail to be? But her father never liked me, and he placed restrictions upon the fortune he left her so that it could never come to me. My mother--our mother--had died some years before. Well, Catalina was wealthy; I was a pauper, but t...	[ 58841, 11, 584, 1051, 1633, 25237, 311, 1855, 1023, 26, 7263, 709, 439, 10868, 323, 13219, 11, 1268, 1436, 584, 3775, 311, 387, 30, 2030, 1077, 7126, 2646, 15262, 757, 11, 323, 568, 9277, 17294, 5304, 279, 33415, 568, 2163, 1077, 779,...
Lord Juss and Lord Brandoch Daha watched, as men watch for a star to rise, that radiant portal. And like a star indeed, or like the tranquil moon appearing, they beheld after a while one crowned like a Queen with a diadem of little clouds that seemed stolen from the mountain sunset, scattering soft beams of rosy bright...	[ 52182, 622, 1892, 323, 10425, 3320, 4988, 331, 423, 13856, 15746, 11, 439, 3026, 3821, 369, 264, 6917, 311, 10205, 11, 430, 77443, 24007, 13, 1628, 1093, 264, 6917, 13118, 11, 477, 1093, 279, 68040, 18266, 26449, 11, 814, 2824, 789, 1...
The villagers had no heart to make fires in the fields that night, so Hathi and his three sons went gleaning among what was left; and where Hathi gleans there is no need to follow. The men decided to live on their stored seed-corn until the rains had fallen, and then to take work as servants till they could catch up wi...	[ 791, 61921, 1047, 912, 4851, 311, 1304, 27176, 304, 279, 5151, 430, 3814, 11, 779, 473, 67631, 323, 813, 2380, 26419, 4024, 342, 60051, 4315, 1148, 574, 2163, 26, 323, 1405, 473, 67631, 342, 22451, 1070, 374, 912, 1205, 311, 1833, 13,...
The thing was something of a shock to him. In the close intimacy of the farm kitchen, the woman occupied the supreme position. The men deferred to her in the house, on all household points, on all points of morality and behaviour. The woman was the symbol for that further life which comprised religion and love and mora...	[ 791, 3245, 574, 2555, 315, 264, 10988, 311, 1461, 13, 763, 279, 3345, 66264, 315, 279, 8961, 9979, 11, 279, 5333, 25366, 279, 44222, 2361, 13, 578, 3026, 27334, 311, 1077, 304, 279, 3838, 11, 389, 682, 14048, 3585, 11, 389, 682, 358...
Brisbane is to me not less astonishing than either Sydney or Melbourne. From the adjacent heights of Mount Coot-tha, I looked over several square miles, mostly of thickly compacted streets and dwellings, comprising a town and connected suburbs of 75,000 busy people. While the suburban houses are chiefly of wood, the to...	[ 33, 6091, 37014, 374, 311, 757, 539, 2753, 50013, 1109, 3060, 21972, 477, 27535, 13, 5659, 279, 24894, 36394, 315, 10640, 356, 1944, 7716, 64, 11, 358, 7111, 927, 3892, 9518, 8931, 11, 10213, 315, 12314, 398, 17251, 291, 14708, 323, 4...
Seeking refuge among the savage tribes of itinerant shepherds and camel-breeders in the southern mountains, Ishmael quickly became their acknowledged leader, fighting his way to power with an audacity and ruthlessness that commanded their admiration and obedience. It was no small matter to bind so many discordant eleme...	[ 40450, 287, 14850, 4315, 279, 73135, 39503, 315, 433, 10670, 519, 1364, 29182, 5469, 323, 50252, 1481, 29616, 388, 304, 279, 18561, 24405, 11, 57704, 1764, 301, 6288, 6244, 872, 26579, 7808, 11, 11039, 813, 1648, 311, 2410, 449, 459, 62...
Events which followed prevented the Countess from undertaking this course of study; for she remained in town. From time to time the Professor was wont to startle her by reading or quoting some passage which appealed to her imagination as nothing in modern poetry seemed able to do. She knew that the passage came from on...	[ 8059, 902, 8272, 32098, 279, 4605, 434, 505, 49326, 420, 3388, 315, 4007, 26, 369, 1364, 14958, 304, 6424, 13, 5659, 892, 311, 892, 279, 17054, 574, 40464, 311, 1212, 273, 1077, 555, 5403, 477, 57618, 1063, 21765, 902, 53382, 311, 107...
The Solly Evans villa was a rackety collection of terraces, yellow plaster walls, an old stone tower to which had been tacked a flimsy barracks of bedrooms, and a garden for oleanders and mammoth grape vines, all on the edge of the sea, with a rock-edged inlet for a swimming pool, and airy diving boards and scarlet-cus...	[ 791, 328, 8788, 30563, 47625, 574, 264, 30759, 2676, 4526, 315, 7317, 2492, 11, 14071, 63027, 14620, 11, 459, 2362, 9998, 21970, 311, 902, 1047, 1027, 259, 11440, 264, 1344, 5861, 88, 95864, 315, 28689, 11, 323, 264, 13863, 369, 32878, ...
1 October, evening.--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, who ...	[ 16, 6664, 11, 11714, 33501, 40, 1766, 11355, 13358, 6427, 304, 813, 3838, 520, 29103, 43078, 7997, 11, 719, 31175, 680, 1570, 568, 574, 539, 304, 264, 3044, 311, 6227, 4205, 13, 578, 1633, 22199, 315, 13179, 902, 856, 3685, 5108, 1047...
The rest of the day he spent in looking for a room, which he soon found, and in familiarising himself with liberty. In the evening I took him to the Olympic, where Robson was then acting in a burlesque on Macbeth, Mrs Keeley, if I remember rightly, taking the part of Lady Macbeth. In the scene before the murder, Macb...	[ 791, 2800, 315, 279, 1938, 568, 7543, 304, 3411, 369, 264, 3130, 11, 902, 568, 5246, 1766, 11, 323, 304, 11537, 3876, 5678, 449, 31220, 13, 220, 763, 279, 11714, 358, 3952, 1461, 311, 279, 25944, 11, 1405, 4997, 942, 574, 1243, 1571...
The Convention will probably complete its labors about Wednesday. The members are growing restive and impatient under this long exile from their private business, and are anxious to finish their work and get back home. Three of the Esmeralda delegation--Messrs. Stark, Conner and Bechtel, being imperatively called away ...	[ 791, 26958, 690, 4762, 4686, 1202, 10278, 1105, 922, 8079, 13, 578, 3697, 527, 7982, 2800, 535, 323, 74797, 1234, 420, 1317, 61087, 505, 872, 879, 2626, 11, 323, 527, 38100, 311, 6381, 872, 990, 323, 636, 1203, 2162, 13, 14853, 315, ...
It was commonly understood, therefore, that when the posterity of Father Abraham's two families met they neither smiled nor saluted. They never broke bread together; never gave aid, no matter how serious the emergency. They conducted their necessary business briefly and gruffly; and, having brought it to a conclusion, ...	[ 2181, 574, 17037, 16365, 11, 9093, 11, 430, 994, 279, 23163, 488, 315, 20941, 37488, 596, 1403, 8689, 2322, 814, 14188, 31645, 6463, 4371, 2844, 13, 2435, 2646, 14760, 16385, 3871, 26, 2646, 6688, 12576, 11, 912, 5030, 1268, 6129, 279, ...
This log-house is commodious, and much has been done, within and without, to conceal or adorn its primitive rudeness. It is of irregular, picturesque form, with verandas round three sides of it, to which the grape-vine has been trained, with glossy leaves that clamber up to the gable roof. There is a large garden in ...	[ 2028, 1515, 37002, 374, 26631, 1245, 11, 323, 1790, 706, 1027, 2884, 11, 2949, 323, 2085, 11, 311, 54262, 477, 59046, 1202, 28694, 68330, 24639, 13, 220, 1102, 374, 315, 42408, 11, 75001, 1376, 11, 449, 2807, 56533, 4883, 2380, 11314, ...
Of course, I fanned the flame of discord as well as I could, hoping that some one of my own denomination would come out to see what was the matter. But no: the parlour door opened, Mam came out to the gate, and, in the broad bar of light extending from the door, I saw her pick up a clod, and aim it at the war-clouds, ...	[ 2173, 3388, 11, 358, 282, 7443, 279, 35678, 315, 32141, 439, 1664, 439, 358, 1436, 11, 16026, 430, 1063, 832, 315, 856, 1866, 96036, 1053, 2586, 704, 311, 1518, 1148, 574, 279, 5030, 13, 2030, 912, 25, 220, 279, 44314, 414, 6134, 91...
This surprised Ken, annoyed him, and straightway he became thoughtful. Why this persistent harping on the chance of his getting excited from one cause or another, losing his control and thereby the game? Ken had not felt in the least nervous about the game. He would get so, presently, if his advisers did not stop hinti...	[ 2028, 14792, 14594, 11, 57130, 1461, 11, 323, 7833, 3195, 568, 6244, 43766, 13, 8595, 420, 26048, 4960, 10194, 389, 279, 6140, 315, 813, 3794, 12304, 505, 832, 5353, 477, 2500, 11, 13490, 813, 2585, 323, 28592, 279, 1847, 30, 14594, 1...
By 1885 the land was largely fenced. Crops were good. Some of the out-buildings were new,--corncribs and a hay barn. Trees were much larger,--the cottonwoods and the elms. Orchards were bearing,-- Amalia could make Äpfelbutter and Pflaumenbutter every year. There were elderberries, choke-cherries and wild grapes i...	[ 1383, 220, 9367, 20, 279, 4363, 574, 14090, 84493, 13, 220, 356, 3787, 1051, 1695, 13, 220, 4427, 315, 279, 704, 33245, 826, 1051, 502, 11, 313, 39730, 745, 1302, 323, 264, 18137, 33419, 13, 220, 59984, 1051, 1790, 8294, 11, 313, 18...
I think it was some three weeks after I sent out the little Karen book, that we were assembled for prayer with the Burmese, when a company of Karens appeared. They came up at once to the verandah as if sent for, and seeing us at prayer, they bowed down with the rest. At the close, the leader, a white-haired, majestic c...	[ 40, 1781, 433, 574, 1063, 2380, 5672, 1306, 358, 3288, 704, 279, 2697, 35745, 2363, 11, 430, 584, 1051, 35105, 369, 23788, 449, 279, 12649, 76, 2423, 11, 994, 264, 2883, 315, 96331, 4511, 9922, 13, 2435, 3782, 709, 520, 3131, 311, 2...
A few hours afterwards, when the Princess was declining, and the King accepting, a glass of Italian vermouth from a tray handed by a footman of a far less disturbing character, the Prime Minister, who was seated opposite in that private apartment of the palace, observed quite casually: "So it looks as if they may be fr...	[ 32, 2478, 4207, 27905, 11, 994, 279, 30389, 574, 43848, 11, 323, 279, 6342, 25694, 11, 264, 9168, 315, 15155, 2807, 33780, 505, 264, 35788, 23415, 555, 264, 4579, 1543, 315, 264, 3117, 2753, 34973, 3752, 11, 279, 12801, 9675, 11, 889,...
I marvel how Robin Snell felt. Very likely he thought nothing of it, always having been a boy of a hectoring and unruly sort. But I felt my heart go up and down as the boys came round to strip me; and greatly fearing to be beaten, I blew hot upon my knuckles. Then pulled I off my little cut jerkin, and laid it down on ...	[ 40, 45882, 1268, 17582, 13358, 616, 6612, 13, 15668, 4461, 568, 3463, 4400, 315, 433, 11, 2744, 3515, 1027, 264, 8334, 315, 264, 305, 1279, 287, 323, 41480, 3988, 3460, 13, 2030, 358, 6612, 856, 4851, 733, 709, 323, 1523, 439, 279, ...
"'You never can manage to do much for the children at service, for all your wages, except your own necessary expenses, goes home and is spent; but by having a little business, you may save more than you could send to them now, and get them a better education, and give them a better start. No doubt we will miss you here...	[ 21230, 2675, 2646, 649, 10299, 311, 656, 1790, 369, 279, 2911, 520, 2532, 11, 369, 682, 701, 23998, 11, 3734, 701, 1866, 5995, 18512, 11, 5900, 2162, 323, 374, 7543, 26, 719, 555, 3515, 264, 2697, 2626, 11, 499, 1253, 3665, 810, 110...
SCARCE two cables' lengths away from the dark fringe of palms which lined the white, shimmering beach, the Bounty lay motionless upon the placid, reef-sheltered waters of the quiet little bay, her hempen cable hanging straight up and down from hawse-pipe to anchor, fifteen fathoms below her forefoot. From the cabin win...	[ 3624, 946, 2152, 1403, 37172, 6, 29416, 3201, 505, 279, 6453, 55907, 315, 75818, 902, 32393, 279, 4251, 11, 76461, 287, 11573, 11, 279, 95289, 11203, 11633, 1752, 5304, 279, 29960, 307, 11, 71145, 7666, 18354, 291, 21160, 315, 279, 1159...
The captain was very much obliged, indeed, and begged they would go into the parlour, and take luncheon; and, forthwith, Wealdon took the command. The gamekeepers, the fifty hay-makers in the great meadow, they were to enter the town from the top of Church Street, where they were to gather all the boys and blackguards ...	[ 791, 24862, 574, 1633, 1790, 54117, 11, 13118, 11, 323, 80392, 814, 1053, 733, 1139, 279, 44314, 414, 11, 323, 1935, 33073, 76269, 26, 323, 11, 13544, 4291, 11, 1226, 4852, 263, 3952, 279, 3290, 13, 578, 1847, 56638, 11, 279, 33517, ...
The negotiations in hand were, of course, the hiring of the Syndicate's fleet of airships to the British Empire during the course of the war. His Majesty had summoned a Privy Council at the Palace, and again Mr. Parmenter was somewhat surprised at the cold grip and clear sight which these British aristocrats had in dea...	[ 791, 24345, 304, 1450, 1051, 11, 315, 3388, 11, 279, 24009, 315, 279, 42319, 8630, 596, 26155, 315, 3805, 18143, 311, 279, 8013, 21080, 2391, 279, 3388, 315, 279, 4208, 13, 5414, 67344, 1047, 52810, 264, 15801, 88, 9251, 520, 279, 313...
Father looked around carefully, he got the most expert advice that he could, and then he used his best judgment. As a result, he selected and bought 420 Madison Avenue. This was a sunny house, just below Forty-ninth Street, it was fairly near Central Park, and it was in a new and eligible district for good private re...	[ 62416, 7111, 2212, 15884, 11, 568, 2751, 279, 1455, 6335, 9650, 430, 568, 1436, 11, 323, 1243, 568, 1511, 813, 1888, 19971, 13, 220, 1666, 264, 1121, 11, 568, 4183, 323, 11021, 220, 12819, 31015, 17569, 13, 220, 1115, 574, 264, 40798,...
"No, of course not," O'Connor agreed. "Well, it's all regular and straightforward. Give me the form and I'll fill it up and sign it." He seated himself at the table, looked once more at his watch, groaned aloud and began to write furiously. "The Egyptians weren't such bad judges, after all," he remarked as he laid down...	[ 39522, 11, 315, 3388, 539, 1359, 507, 86265, 7378, 13, 330, 11649, 11, 433, 596, 682, 5912, 323, 31439, 13, 21335, 757, 279, 1376, 323, 358, 3358, 5266, 433, 709, 323, 1879, 433, 1210, 1283, 47413, 5678, 520, 279, 2007, 11, 7111, 31...
"There is a _chela_ below, who will lead you to the place where the Kali-worshipers make ready. He will leave you there. Gauri, in a minute, taking words from my mouth, will give you a message to deliver. They will believe the message, but will keep you with them unless they are more mad than there is reason to believe...	[ 25938, 374, 264, 721, 331, 8458, 62, 3770, 11, 889, 690, 3063, 499, 311, 279, 2035, 1405, 279, 735, 8115, 2695, 269, 5383, 388, 1304, 5644, 13, 1283, 690, 5387, 499, 1070, 13, 480, 4202, 72, 11, 304, 264, 9568, 11, 4737, 4339, 505...
And then came the Renaissance with the three supreme artists, Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Of Raphael a great French artist once said, "Two men seem to have had a glimpse into heaven, so marvelously do they paint the inhabitants of heaven. One of these is Raphael the Italian, the other Murillo the Spani...	[ 3112, 1243, 3782, 279, 55383, 449, 279, 2380, 44222, 13820, 11, 90986, 11, 45506, 89010, 323, 66486, 3067, 97866, 13, 5046, 90986, 264, 2294, 8753, 10255, 3131, 1071, 11, 330, 11874, 3026, 2873, 311, 617, 1047, 264, 40942, 1139, 23070, ...
"Yes, Dr. Zabriskie would be taken before them again this morning. No entreaties on the part of his wife would prevail; he insisted upon his guilt and asked her to accompany him there; and the poor woman found herself forced to go. Of course he encountered again the same division of opinion among the men he talked with...	[ 58841, 11, 2999, 13, 1901, 78671, 3267, 648, 1053, 387, 4529, 1603, 1124, 1578, 420, 6693, 13, 2360, 1218, 1244, 552, 389, 279, 961, 315, 813, 7555, 1053, 66828, 26, 568, 29676, 5304, 813, 34951, 323, 4691, 1077, 311, 19780, 1461, 107...
The animals, as though aware that their lives and our own depended upon their good behavior, galloped over the plain that separated us from the woods without once balking, although I feared and expected it every moment. After we reached the trees where the fire was raging severely, and where it was impossible to discov...	[ 791, 10099, 11, 439, 3582, 8010, 430, 872, 6439, 323, 1057, 1866, 79101, 5304, 872, 1695, 7865, 11, 15730, 385, 7018, 927, 279, 14733, 430, 19180, 603, 505, 279, 33633, 2085, 3131, 293, 30855, 11, 8051, 358, 38569, 323, 3685, 433, 147...
"Ho," said Bob, "I've got to knuckle down to Chang, 'ave I, my love? Lor' bless yer, I hain't scared of 'im, big an' hall as 'e is. I've bested better men than hever 'e knowed 'ow ter be, Melly. I knows 'is sort," continued Bob in a tone of disgust, "harms agoin' like the syles on a windmill wi' fistes hon the ends ov ...	[ 46639, 78, 1359, 1071, 14596, 11, 330, 40, 3077, 2751, 311, 1168, 57075, 1523, 311, 44472, 11, 364, 525, 358, 11, 856, 3021, 30, 69830, 6, 16458, 55295, 11, 358, 305, 467, 956, 27207, 315, 364, 318, 11, 2466, 459, 6, 14321, 439, 3...
Just as the Post Office clock had struck the hour of 1 a.m., a gun went off at Fort Denison, breaking some of the windows and, the story goes, putting the red light out. How it happened, nobody seems to know. On the tower are several large guns of an obsolete pattern, and it is one of these that is said to have gone of...	[ 10156, 439, 279, 3962, 8410, 9042, 1047, 17948, 279, 6596, 315, 220, 16, 264, 749, 2637, 264, 6166, 4024, 1022, 520, 11246, 9973, 3416, 11, 15061, 1063, 315, 279, 11276, 323, 11, 279, 3446, 5900, 11, 10917, 279, 2579, 3177, 704, 13, ...
Neither of us ventured to take up this matter with Father. We knew that it would have been hard to convince him that my eyes were not perfect, I being a son of his and presumably made in his image; and we knew that he immediately would have felt we were trying to make trouble for him, and would have shown an amount of...	[ 63295, 315, 603, 99507, 311, 1935, 709, 420, 5030, 449, 20941, 13, 220, 1226, 7020, 430, 433, 1053, 617, 1027, 2653, 311, 28008, 1461, 430, 856, 6548, 1051, 539, 4832, 11, 358, 1694, 264, 4538, 315, 813, 323, 36548, 1903, 304, 813, ...
"I do not pretend," the latter continued gravely, "to account for that, but it is my duty to warn you, Sir Everard, that that devotion may lead her to great lengths. Lady Dominey is naturally of an exceedingly affectionate disposition, and this return to a stronger condition of physical health and a fuller share of hum...	[ 7189, 656, 539, 35840, 1359, 279, 15629, 8738, 29059, 989, 11, 330, 998, 2759, 369, 430, 11, 719, 433, 374, 856, 14523, 311, 8985, 499, 11, 17177, 18374, 569, 11, 430, 430, 56357, 1253, 3063, 1077, 311, 2294, 29416, 13, 21270, 21414, ...
POINTER wasted no time in trying to revive Mrs. Dexter-Smith. On the contrary, she was bound and carefully gagged, so that she could not make any loud noise, and carried into the coal-cellar. One of Pointer's men stood behind the door which, owing to a skilfully placed sack of coal, gave him ample shelter. Beside the s...	[ 2089, 16321, 39928, 912, 892, 304, 4560, 311, 59816, 18083, 13, 87464, 97338, 13, 1952, 279, 26102, 11, 1364, 574, 6965, 323, 15884, 46692, 3640, 11, 779, 430, 1364, 1436, 539, 1304, 904, 17813, 12248, 11, 323, 11953, 1139, 279, 11756, ...
For an hour I enjoyed the highest of earthly pleasures. In that strange conversation I heard--in fragments and suggestions--the history of the craziest survival the world has ever seen. I heard of the struggles with invaders, preserved as it were in a sort of shapeless poetry. There were bitter words against the Gaelic...	[ 2520, 459, 6596, 358, 14333, 279, 8592, 315, 90495, 72974, 13, 763, 430, 15234, 10652, 358, 6755, 313, 258, 35603, 323, 18726, 313, 1820, 3925, 315, 279, 46141, 8510, 478, 20237, 279, 1917, 706, 3596, 3970, 13, 358, 6755, 315, 279, 28...
I got little enough sleep that night. Early in the evening my father and the most of his guests went down to the principal public-house in the township to look at the general entries--why I 'm sure I don't know, for they must have known well enough for weeks beforehand what horses were going to run--and then late at ni...	[ 40, 2751, 2697, 3403, 6212, 430, 3814, 13, 23591, 304, 279, 11714, 856, 7126, 323, 279, 1455, 315, 813, 15051, 4024, 1523, 311, 279, 12717, 586, 37002, 304, 279, 88275, 311, 1427, 520, 279, 4689, 10925, 313, 35734, 358, 364, 76, 2771,...
"It's a kind of play, sir. The lady is supposed to possess supernatural powers. She has the forces of life and death over all about her. The stage is converted into a large cage, and all the birds are turned loose on it. When the performer wants to destroy them she holds up her hand and points at a particular bird. Dir...	[ 12348, 596, 264, 3169, 315, 1514, 11, 28146, 13, 578, 17240, 374, 10171, 311, 15575, 50058, 13736, 13, 3005, 706, 279, 8603, 315, 2324, 323, 4648, 927, 682, 922, 1077, 13, 578, 6566, 374, 16489, 1139, 264, 3544, 36460, 11, 323, 682, ...
Carl shook his head mournfully. "Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. W...	[ 77264, 36014, 813, 2010, 60234, 3725, 13, 220, 330, 86872, 779, 3629, 3445, 430, 832, 4536, 956, 4460, 12660, 13, 220, 5810, 499, 527, 459, 3927, 11, 499, 617, 264, 4092, 315, 701, 1866, 11, 499, 1053, 387, 13942, 13, 220, 2030, 102...
And as the village crept back to life, and those who had escaped took heart to do a little work again, and the convalescent staggered to their doors and looked on the world, there arose stranger rumours. The minister was all day out and about--praying on occasion, but more often engaged in homely tasks like cleaning u...	[ 3112, 439, 279, 14458, 1922, 418, 1203, 311, 2324, 11, 323, 1884, 889, 1047, 28883, 3952, 4851, 311, 656, 264, 2697, 990, 1578, 11, 323, 279, 5804, 3916, 1189, 40256, 291, 311, 872, 14365, 323, 7111, 389, 279, 1917, 11, 1070, 51063, ...
"My son, your father is very sick. Now, I'll tell you what you can do for me. You go out here along the Cheevertown road about a mile or two and ask any farmer this side of the creek to let you have a good big handful of peach sprigs--about so many, see? Say that Doctor Gridley said he was to give them to you for him. ...	[ 46240, 4538, 11, 701, 7126, 374, 1633, 14363, 13, 4800, 11, 358, 3358, 3371, 499, 1148, 499, 649, 656, 369, 757, 13, 1472, 733, 704, 1618, 3235, 279, 8602, 68, 1653, 785, 5754, 922, 264, 14929, 477, 1403, 323, 2610, 904, 37500, 420,...
One autumn day, he was following the track of Tamoi across a sandy patch by the lagoon, when suddenly he saw the selector in front of him. In a couple of seconds he was scrambling wildly up a tree. Tamoi, watching unseen from another tree, saw the man, holding something in his hand that looked like a long club, follow ...	[ 4054, 42774, 1938, 11, 568, 574, 2768, 279, 3839, 315, 29988, 6870, 4028, 264, 68539, 11140, 555, 279, 326, 68513, 11, 994, 15187, 568, 5602, 279, 9551, 304, 4156, 315, 1461, 13, 763, 264, 5743, 315, 6622, 568, 574, 85327, 48295, 709,...
"Indeed, they have," a voice interrupted. "It is my turn now to contribute to the harmony of the evening. Our charming hostess has given us the first act of the comedy. Now I can proceed to write up the second. What the third act will be like is a matter for speculation. Any way, as I was coming here to-night, I saw Re...	[ 1, 44623, 11, 814, 617, 1359, 264, 7899, 37883, 13, 330, 2181, 374, 856, 2543, 1457, 311, 17210, 311, 279, 26348, 315, 279, 11714, 13, 5751, 35509, 3552, 434, 706, 2728, 603, 279, 1176, 1180, 315, 279, 23160, 13, 4800, 358, 649, 105...
She stood at the foot of the stairs, the baby in her arms, Wade pressed tightly against her, his head hidden in her skirts as the Yankees swarmed through the house, pushing roughly past her up the stairs, dragging furniture onto the front porch, running bayonets and knives into upholstery and digging inside for conceal...	[ 8100, 14980, 520, 279, 4579, 315, 279, 32249, 11, 279, 8945, 304, 1077, 11977, 11, 43982, 17770, 40069, 2403, 1077, 11, 813, 2010, 8340, 304, 1077, 77305, 439, 279, 45383, 2064, 31372, 1555, 279, 3838, 11, 17919, 17715, 3347, 1077, 709,...
He then informed her that Snakes was John Hum, and he hoped that night, with our assistance, to submit him to some of that "discipline" which he had found so efficacious with others. "You are now," he said, "about the age of your dear father when he suffered, and you look as if his wraith had returned to earth to rebuk...	[ 1548, 1243, 16369, 1077, 430, 13358, 2094, 574, 3842, 20449, 11, 323, 568, 26253, 430, 3814, 11, 449, 1057, 13291, 11, 311, 9502, 1461, 311, 1063, 315, 430, 330, 17242, 48529, 1, 902, 568, 1047, 1766, 779, 31914, 19995, 449, 3885, 13,...
On the arrival of the boats at Port Jackson, a second party of the natives made its appearance near the place of landing. These also were armed with lances, and at first were very vociferous; but the same gentle means used towards the others easily persuaded these also to discard their suspicions, and to accept whatsoe...	[ 1966, 279, 19163, 315, 279, 32731, 520, 5896, 13972, 11, 264, 2132, 4717, 315, 279, 68473, 1903, 1202, 11341, 3221, 279, 2035, 315, 20948, 13, 4314, 1101, 1051, 17903, 449, 326, 3095, 11, 323, 520, 1176, 1051, 1633, 12253, 11691, 788, ...
As time went on, however, the silence became oppressive, the peace dull, and the shadow dark. She began to listen for sounds of living life from without. So it was not unwelcome to her when Erik Grubbe proposed a change. He wished her to reside at Kalo manor, the property of her husband, and he pointed out to her that...	[ 2170, 892, 4024, 389, 11, 4869, 11, 279, 21847, 6244, 78612, 11, 279, 9096, 41630, 11, 323, 279, 12737, 6453, 13, 220, 3005, 6137, 311, 9020, 369, 10578, 315, 5496, 2324, 505, 2085, 13, 2100, 433, 574, 539, 15375, 5836, 311, 1077, 9...
'Next day we started off. We journeyed a great distance. The spot we had determined on for our home was very hard to find. And finally we came to the seashore. We explored a little bay--the very loveliest thing you could wish to see. Big drooping willows hung down off rocks and dabbled their wands in the blue water. Be...	[ 6, 5971, 1938, 584, 3940, 1022, 13, 1226, 11879, 291, 264, 2294, 6138, 13, 578, 7858, 584, 1047, 11075, 389, 369, 1057, 2162, 574, 1633, 2653, 311, 1505, 13, 1628, 5616, 584, 3782, 311, 279, 513, 1003, 461, 13, 1226, 36131, 264, 269...
Having satiated himself with this sad but striking prospect, the young man, with some toil and trouble, crossed the churchyard, and gained Cheapside, where a yet more terrific scene of devastation than that which he had previously witnessed burst upon him. On the right of London Bridge, which he could discern through t...	[ 29132, 7731, 10234, 5678, 449, 420, 12703, 719, 21933, 22199, 11, 279, 3995, 893, 11, 449, 1063, 311, 321, 323, 12544, 11, 28129, 279, 8993, 17884, 11, 323, 18661, 8602, 2690, 579, 11, 1405, 264, 3686, 810, 43660, 6237, 315, 83015, 11...
"Sir," Grant replied, "I am a wealthy man, so this is of no moment, but I have spent a hundred thousand dollars trying to get hold of a perfectly simple document which I know to be in existence. There is an elaborated scheme agreed to by Japan and Germany, which is intended to strike at the very heart of our existence,...	[ 1, 51290, 1359, 24668, 20592, 11, 330, 40, 1097, 264, 28994, 893, 11, 779, 420, 374, 315, 912, 4545, 11, 719, 358, 617, 7543, 264, 7895, 16579, 11441, 4560, 311, 636, 3412, 315, 264, 14268, 4382, 2246, 902, 358, 1440, 311, 387, 304,...
Men do not have to do these things through their clubs, which are mainly for pleasure; they can accomplish what they wish to through regular channels. But the character and direction of the influence of women in human affairs is conclusively established by the things they already do and try to do. In those countries,...	[ 29819, 656, 539, 617, 311, 656, 1521, 2574, 1555, 872, 19424, 11, 902, 527, 14918, 369, 17069, 26, 814, 649, 22829, 1148, 814, 6562, 311, 1555, 5912, 12006, 13, 220, 2030, 279, 3752, 323, 5216, 315, 279, 10383, 315, 3278, 304, 3823, ...
But under all circumstances, whether brain or muscle be employed by the bread-winner, a substantial breakfast is of first-rate importance. There is one form of food which it is especially necessary should constitute part of the meal, and which must be referred to. This is that variety known as the hydro-carbons or fats...	[ 4071, 1234, 682, 13463, 11, 3508, 8271, 477, 16124, 387, 20011, 555, 279, 16385, 2695, 4481, 11, 264, 12190, 17954, 374, 315, 1176, 44126, 12939, 13, 2684, 374, 832, 1376, 315, 3691, 902, 433, 374, 5423, 5995, 1288, 35256, 961, 315, 2...
By the light of a torch borne at the stern of the hostile wherry, he saw that the pursuers had approached within a short distance of the object of their quest. The shot had taken effect upon the waterman who rowed the chase. He had abandoned his oars, and the boat was drifting with the stream towards the enemy. Escape ...	[ 1383, 279, 3177, 315, 264, 7990, 65162, 520, 279, 58644, 315, 279, 33615, 421, 5515, 11, 568, 5602, 430, 279, 10037, 84525, 1047, 25735, 2949, 264, 2875, 6138, 315, 279, 1665, 315, 872, 2271, 13, 578, 6689, 1047, 4529, 2515, 5304, 279...

"Too much of a man to be an emperor," said Galen, smiling amid wrinkles. "By observing a man's virtues one may infer what his faults are. You would try to rule the empire honestly, which is impossible. A more dishonest man would let it rule itself and claim the credit, whereas you would give the praise to others, who...

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Macquarie's activities were not confined to the outlying country and the adjacent settlements. In Sydney his energies found scope in all directions. He found the town composed of small houses or huts scattered about or huddled together according to no organized plan. Under his hand it began to be a fair city with well-...

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"Let us now consider the economic side of the question. 'Domestic economy' is a favorite phrase. As a matter of fact our method of domestic service is inordinately wasteful. Even where the wife does all the housework, without pay, we still waste labor to an enormous extent, requiring one whole woman to wait upon eac...

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Constantinople was invested, trenches dug, and advances made. The whole Greek fleet blockaded it by sea; on land from the river Kyat Kbanah, near the Sweet Waters, to the Tower of Marmora, on the shores of the Propontis, along the whole line of the ancient walls, the trenches of the siege were drawn. We already posse...

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The wire had excited Mary's amazement, but Peter refused to give her any information concerning it. He had enjoyed an instructive conversation with the man in the shop, who perceived that Peter was a savage, but did not on that account refuse to sell him the required articles. Peter asked how the light was made, and th...

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The common-sense labor-saving devices would make a long list-- overhead cranes, conveyors of all sorts (gravity rollers, skate rollers, belt conveyors), power grabs for picking up unit loads, power-driven hand tools, the use of compressed air for cleaning, and so forth. Typical, perhaps, in its simplicity and its sign...

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Trenor sulkily yielded his place, and Lily turned a brilliant smile on the newcomer. She had not talked with Dorset since their visit at Bellomont, but something in his look and manner told her that he recalled the friendly footing on which they had last met. He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came e...

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"Besides, if the Signorina speaks to anyone in the world of laudanum and poison, even to the excellent Don Cesare, Fabrizio is killed by the Signorina's own hand. She makes impossible for ever all the plans of escape; and the Signorina knows better than I that it is not with laudanum that they wish to poison Monsignore...

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At the time that my clients were arrested, the negro population in Detroit had increased from twelve thousand to sixty-four thousand; it was attempted to pack these into a space that had been overpopulated by its former lesser number. The negro workmen could stay in the automobile factories in the daytime, but they ha...

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Emotion was going all over Sylvia...at the proximity of Tietjens. She said to herself: 'Is this to go on for ever?' Her hands were ice-cold. She touched the back of her left hand with the fingers of her right. It _was_ ice-cold. She looked at her hands. They were bloodless...She said to herself: 'It's pure sexual passi...

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"No infernal machine was ever more subtle," said Craig, "than the tube which I hold in my hand. The imagination of the most sensational writer of fiction might well be thrilled with the mysteries of this fatal tube and its power to work fearful deeds. A larger quantity of this substance in the tube would produce on me,...

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"This has been a waesome day for you, Mr. Sempill," he went on. "Ye have set yoursel' up against God's law and man's law, and ye have taken a mighty fall. I bear no malice--though weel I might if the Lord hadna gi'en me grace to forgive. What I have done in your case I have done painfully as my solemn duty. But ther...

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Beyond the lily pool the ground sank again, and in that dip of the ground, bushes and brambles had mobbed themselves together. It was always shady; sun-flecked in summer, dark and damp in winter. In the summer there were always butterflies; fritillaries darting through; Red Admirals feasting and floating; cabbage whi...

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From the Temple I wended northward, to the adjacent College of Surgeons, where I spent a couple of profitable hours examining the 'pickles' and refreshing my memory on the subjects of pathology and anatomy; marvelling afresh (as every practical anatomist must marvel) at the incredibly perfect technique of the dissectio...

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Gloria Vanderman, with her back against the wall, struggled and contrived to get her foot on Will's bent knee. Another struggle sent her breast-high above the sea of sweating faces. There was fitful light enough to see her by, because the man who held a pine torch was privileged. If there had not been hot sparks sca...

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In April of this year the fighting was supposed to be over; but the rejoicing of the Christians over the return of peace was somewhat premature. Nine Karen missionaries were actively engaged in preaching among the heathen during the dry season. Four Karens were appointed _goung-gyouks_, or magistrates of districts corr...

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"Thou fell traitor! What ho! De Faro to the rescue!" already the mariner had thrown a grappling iron--already the Adalid was in motion towards them. Clifford strove to draw his sword. York was upon him in mortal struggle; his keen dagger, unsheathed, uplifted; the boat lurched--his arm descended, but half the force of ...

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Yes, I admitted, I had been overcritical of Janice lately. The habit had grown on me since my deafness. I suppose personal bitterness and anxiety had intensified petty irritations from pinpricks into deep wounds. Doubt of myself had made me resent qualities in her which under ordinary circumstances I should never ha...

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One man worked with the field women or in the same field. He was a poor, weedy creature, getting old and not very strong and they had put him upon half-pay. He was known as 'Algy' and was not a native, but had appeared there suddenly, years before, out of a past he never mentioned. He was tall and thin and stooping, wi...

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For things were by no means easy. Walter had lived so long at his ease about money that he was again and again unpleasantly checked by recollecting that this or that natural and simple arrangement was an extravagance that must be resisted. Mrs. Goring cut the knot for the time being by asking his mother to stay at th...

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Soon came out and stood in the door and near one side of it. A stranger could have guessed his rank (although he was so simply and unpretentiously dressed) by the profound deference paid him by all persons in his vicinity; by seeing his high officers receive his quiet orders and suggestions with bowed and uncovered hea...

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It was a patch of ground sheltered from questions by a grove of trees; far from paths, and in a kind of hollow, but level enough to serve the purpose of a _piste_. The Germans were there already, marching up and down, their cloaks caught close about them; the lieutenant, his seconds, and a bearded man, the doctor. Bows...

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He ran quickly over the sands, where the wind blew cold but velvety, and the raindrops fell loosely. He walked straight into the fore-wash, and fell into an advancing ripple. At least it looked a ripple, but was enough to roll him over so that he went under and got a little taste of the Pacific. Ah, the fresh cold wetn...

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Presently came the badge of the Club, and very dainty and pretty it was; and very artistic. It was a frog peeping out from a graceful tangle of grass-sprays and rushes, and was done in enamels on a gold basis, and had a gold pin back of it. After I had petted it, and played with it, and caressed it, and enjoyed it a ...

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Henry took a few steps forward, slowly and softly, almost as if he were afraid that those small images would overhear him, and softly and slowly Aaron followed. They paused at a little distance from the table, and stood gazing at the figures, the young man in a careful comparison of them with his memory of the newly fo...

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Public opinion at home was not seriously adverse to the buccaneers.* Morgan, the most notorious professor of the craft, after being alternately commissioned and prosecuted as a privateer, was knighted and appointed lieutenant-governor of Jamaica. Some of Dampier's associates, prosecuted on their return to England on ch...

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The Odyssey is merely a story of adventure, the instinctive story- telling of a sea-faring race. So we may begin it, reading quickly in the spirit of children wanting amusement to find out what happens next. But here is nothing immature; here are full-grown people, crafty, subtle, and passionate. Nor is the world it...

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It began with a preamble, setting forth that 'I, Nicholas Hartup, being a widower without offspring, dependants, or near relations, give and bequeath my worldly possessions to the man who has dealt with me honestly, faithfully, and without thought of material profit or reward' and then went on to make the specific bequ...

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"That, then," said he to himself, "is my legitimate son. I am sure of his birth, at any rate. Besides I should be foolish to disown him, for I find him the exact picture of myself at thirty. He is a handsome fellow, Noel, very handsome. His features are decidedly in his favour. He is intelligent and acute. He knows how...

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In these islands a great loggerheaded duck or goose (Anas brachyptera), which sometimes weighs twenty-two pounds, is very abundant. These birds were in former days called, from their extraordinary manner of paddling and splashing upon the water, racehorses; but now they are named, much more appropriately, steamers. The...

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The sleeper did not answer but he did not move. As if some closed powers hung, poised and equal, over or within him he lay silent. Sir Bernard remembered how, but a little before, he had seen Considine standing in front of the azure profundity of the curtain, which still hung there, as in the depth of space, and it see...

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They had accumulated a store of game and wallaroo flesh at the cave, for Hartley had on several days returned from successful shooting expeditions, and on other occasions they had been able to kill wallaroo from the shelter of the cave. Hartley's idea was to have the cave provisioned in readiness for the return journey...

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The measure of precaution related, necessarily, to the Count. It was of the last importance to ascertain, if possible, whether his plans committed him to remaining in England--or, in other words, to remaining within my reach. I contrived to set this doubt at rest by very simple means. His address in St. John's Wood ...

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I, Bissa-tee, and Azte-ca had barely touched ground when the world about us exploded. Behind us, the earth leapt up around one of the legs of the steel support; Assa-ree was catapulted forward over our heads; all about, it seemed to hail ants; and even the pebbles of the beach on which we were, danced. Lashed by the ...

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"Yes, and he seemed to think, with me, that something had happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the door of the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, there might be...

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"I come to take leave of you, young whelp of P'an-ku," he said. "My people are dying by the millions for want of air, thanks to the infernal rays which your father has managed to keep trained on us. Our dissipated atmosphere cannot be brought back, nor could we manufacture a new one, from the elements locked in the soi...

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That evening towards eight o'clock the two men turned out of the Lowther Arcade. The night was cold, dark and wet; and they had wound comforters round their bare throats. They were on their way to the Mechanics' Hall, to hear a lecture on Mesmerism. Mahony had looked forward to this all through the sorry job of choosin...

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"P.S.--As I look over my statement there is only one omission which I can see. It concerns the unfortunate man McPherson, who was foolish enough to write to his wife and to make an appointment with her in New York. It can be imagined that when interests like ours were at stake, we could not leave them to the chance of ...

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There was a rocky peninsula jutting out into a lovely blue ocean. I may not have told you before that in these thought cinemas, if I may use the expression, colour is produced as well as form. On this headland was a house of quaint design, wide-spread, red-roofed, white-walled, and beautiful. A grove of palm trees surr...

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I may as well say here all that need be said further about Ellen. For the next three years she used to call regularly at Mr Ottery's every Monday morning for her pound. She was always neatly dressed, and looked so quiet and pretty that no one would have suspected her antecedents. At first she wanted sometimes to ant...

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There came a day when Billee, the good-natured, fell and could not rise. Hal had traded off his revolver, so he took the axe and knocked Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, then cut the carcass out of the harness and dragged it to one side. Buck saw, and his mates saw, and they knew that this thing was very clo...

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Nine in ten start with a ouija board or automatic writing or yes-and-no answers to some easy code. Necessarily the beginning techniques must be very simple and easy to manipulate. For that reason they are difficult to guard, and it follows that they can be easily upset or interfered with. That interference may originat...

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Kitty Bennet was the only child of Mat Bennet, a digger whose luck was always out--a man who had dug and delved his way through Victoria--north, south, east, and west--without unearthing more gold than sufficed to provide the necessaries of life from year's end to year's end. Mat married late, and his wife died soon af...

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"Oh, I had quite forgotten," he said. "Saltburn told me. And so Shorland has succeeded at last in crowning his folly. Saltburn tells me that he has actually married the Spanish dancer. It is a queer world, my dear child, and you will be surprised to hear that scores of well-bred young men will be disposed to regard Sho...

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We wander on, a little dismally, looking at the stony stoniness of the medieval town. Perhaps on a warm sunny day it might be pleasant, when shadow was attractive and a breeze welcome. But on a cold, grey, windy afternoon of April, Sunday, always especially dismal, with all the people in the streets, bored and uneasy, ...

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"Now, Mr. Herbert did not go to the ball--why not I will explain later. Therefore, Miss Meredith recognised the real Burglar as Mr. Herbert, and we know how they ran away together after the Burglar had stolen the plate and various articles of jewelry. We must credit the Burglar with remarkable intelligence, so that whe...

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The sun flung a stray beam across the hidden sea; pierced the mist dully, and lit up the receding boat with a gloomy fire. Indistinctly I saw something nodding between the oars. I thought of a sponge--a great, grey nodding sponge---The oars continued to ply. They were grey--as was the boat--and my eyes searched a momen...

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'I do not know anything. Go away!' said Kim, scenting evil. Hereupon the man caught him by the ear, dragged him to a room in a far-off wing where a dozen drummer-boys were sitting on forms, and told him to be still if he could do nothing else. This he managed very successfully. The man explained something or other ...

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"Yes, we were very dear to each other; brought up as brother and sister, how could we fail to be? But her father never liked me, and he placed restrictions upon the fortune he left her so that it could never come to me. My mother--our mother--had died some years before. Well, Catalina was wealthy; I was a pauper, but t...

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Lord Juss and Lord Brandoch Daha watched, as men watch for a star to rise, that radiant portal. And like a star indeed, or like the tranquil moon appearing, they beheld after a while one crowned like a Queen with a diadem of little clouds that seemed stolen from the mountain sunset, scattering soft beams of rosy bright...

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The villagers had no heart to make fires in the fields that night, so Hathi and his three sons went gleaning among what was left; and where Hathi gleans there is no need to follow. The men decided to live on their stored seed-corn until the rains had fallen, and then to take work as servants till they could catch up wi...

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The thing was something of a shock to him. In the close intimacy of the farm kitchen, the woman occupied the supreme position. The men deferred to her in the house, on all household points, on all points of morality and behaviour. The woman was the symbol for that further life which comprised religion and love and mora...

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Brisbane is to me not less astonishing than either Sydney or Melbourne. From the adjacent heights of Mount Coot-tha, I looked over several square miles, mostly of thickly compacted streets and dwellings, comprising a town and connected suburbs of 75,000 busy people. While the suburban houses are chiefly of wood, the to...

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Seeking refuge among the savage tribes of itinerant shepherds and camel-breeders in the southern mountains, Ishmael quickly became their acknowledged leader, fighting his way to power with an audacity and ruthlessness that commanded their admiration and obedience. It was no small matter to bind so many discordant eleme...

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Events which followed prevented the Countess from undertaking this course of study; for she remained in town. From time to time the Professor was wont to startle her by reading or quoting some passage which appealed to her imagination as nothing in modern poetry seemed able to do. She knew that the passage came from on...

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The Solly Evans villa was a rackety collection of terraces, yellow plaster walls, an old stone tower to which had been tacked a flimsy barracks of bedrooms, and a garden for oleanders and mammoth grape vines, all on the edge of the sea, with a rock-edged inlet for a swimming pool, and airy diving boards and scarlet-cus...

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1 October, evening.--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, who ...

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The rest of the day he spent in looking for a room, which he soon found, and in familiarising himself with liberty. In the evening I took him to the Olympic, where Robson was then acting in a burlesque on Macbeth, Mrs Keeley, if I remember rightly, taking the part of Lady Macbeth. In the scene before the murder, Macb...

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The Convention will probably complete its labors about Wednesday. The members are growing restive and impatient under this long exile from their private business, and are anxious to finish their work and get back home. Three of the Esmeralda delegation--Messrs. Stark, Conner and Bechtel, being imperatively called away ...

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It was commonly understood, therefore, that when the posterity of Father Abraham's two families met they neither smiled nor saluted. They never broke bread together; never gave aid, no matter how serious the emergency. They conducted their necessary business briefly and gruffly; and, having brought it to a conclusion, ...

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This log-house is commodious, and much has been done, within and without, to conceal or adorn its primitive rudeness. It is of irregular, picturesque form, with verandas round three sides of it, to which the grape-vine has been trained, with glossy leaves that clamber up to the gable roof. There is a large garden in ...

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Of course, I fanned the flame of discord as well as I could, hoping that some one of my own denomination would come out to see what was the matter. But no: the parlour door opened, Mam came out to the gate, and, in the broad bar of light extending from the door, I saw her pick up a clod, and aim it at the war-clouds, ...

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This surprised Ken, annoyed him, and straightway he became thoughtful. Why this persistent harping on the chance of his getting excited from one cause or another, losing his control and thereby the game? Ken had not felt in the least nervous about the game. He would get so, presently, if his advisers did not stop hinti...

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By 1885 the land was largely fenced. Crops were good. Some of the out-buildings were new,--corncribs and a hay barn. Trees were much larger,--the cottonwoods and the elms. Orchards were bearing,-- Amalia could make Äpfelbutter and Pflaumenbutter every year. There were elderberries, choke-cherries and wild grapes i...

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I think it was some three weeks after I sent out the little Karen book, that we were assembled for prayer with the Burmese, when a company of Karens appeared. They came up at once to the verandah as if sent for, and seeing us at prayer, they bowed down with the rest. At the close, the leader, a white-haired, majestic c...

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A few hours afterwards, when the Princess was declining, and the King accepting, a glass of Italian vermouth from a tray handed by a footman of a far less disturbing character, the Prime Minister, who was seated opposite in that private apartment of the palace, observed quite casually: "So it looks as if they may be fr...

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I marvel how Robin Snell felt. Very likely he thought nothing of it, always having been a boy of a hectoring and unruly sort. But I felt my heart go up and down as the boys came round to strip me; and greatly fearing to be beaten, I blew hot upon my knuckles. Then pulled I off my little cut jerkin, and laid it down on ...

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"'You never can manage to do much for the children at service, for all your wages, except your own necessary expenses, goes home and is spent; but by having a little business, you may save more than you could send to them now, and get them a better education, and give them a better start. No doubt we will miss you here...

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SCARCE two cables' lengths away from the dark fringe of palms which lined the white, shimmering beach, the Bounty lay motionless upon the placid, reef-sheltered waters of the quiet little bay, her hempen cable hanging straight up and down from hawse-pipe to anchor, fifteen fathoms below her forefoot. From the cabin win...

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The captain was very much obliged, indeed, and begged they would go into the parlour, and take luncheon; and, forthwith, Wealdon took the command. The gamekeepers, the fifty hay-makers in the great meadow, they were to enter the town from the top of Church Street, where they were to gather all the boys and blackguards ...

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The negotiations in hand were, of course, the hiring of the Syndicate's fleet of airships to the British Empire during the course of the war. His Majesty had summoned a Privy Council at the Palace, and again Mr. Parmenter was somewhat surprised at the cold grip and clear sight which these British aristocrats had in dea...

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Father looked around carefully, he got the most expert advice that he could, and then he used his best judgment. As a result, he selected and bought 420 Madison Avenue. This was a sunny house, just below Forty-ninth Street, it was fairly near Central Park, and it was in a new and eligible district for good private re...

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"No, of course not," O'Connor agreed. "Well, it's all regular and straightforward. Give me the form and I'll fill it up and sign it." He seated himself at the table, looked once more at his watch, groaned aloud and began to write furiously. "The Egyptians weren't such bad judges, after all," he remarked as he laid down...

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"There is a _chela_ below, who will lead you to the place where the Kali-worshipers make ready. He will leave you there. Gauri, in a minute, taking words from my mouth, will give you a message to deliver. They will believe the message, but will keep you with them unless they are more mad than there is reason to believe...

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And then came the Renaissance with the three supreme artists, Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Of Raphael a great French artist once said, "Two men seem to have had a glimpse into heaven, so marvelously do they paint the inhabitants of heaven. One of these is Raphael the Italian, the other Murillo the Spani...

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"Yes, Dr. Zabriskie would be taken before them again this morning. No entreaties on the part of his wife would prevail; he insisted upon his guilt and asked her to accompany him there; and the poor woman found herself forced to go. Of course he encountered again the same division of opinion among the men he talked with...

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The animals, as though aware that their lives and our own depended upon their good behavior, galloped over the plain that separated us from the woods without once balking, although I feared and expected it every moment. After we reached the trees where the fire was raging severely, and where it was impossible to discov...

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"Ho," said Bob, "I've got to knuckle down to Chang, 'ave I, my love? Lor' bless yer, I hain't scared of 'im, big an' hall as 'e is. I've bested better men than hever 'e knowed 'ow ter be, Melly. I knows 'is sort," continued Bob in a tone of disgust, "harms agoin' like the syles on a windmill wi' fistes hon the ends ov ...

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Just as the Post Office clock had struck the hour of 1 a.m., a gun went off at Fort Denison, breaking some of the windows and, the story goes, putting the red light out. How it happened, nobody seems to know. On the tower are several large guns of an obsolete pattern, and it is one of these that is said to have gone of...

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Neither of us ventured to take up this matter with Father. We knew that it would have been hard to convince him that my eyes were not perfect, I being a son of his and presumably made in his image; and we knew that he immediately would have felt we were trying to make trouble for him, and would have shown an amount of...

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"I do not pretend," the latter continued gravely, "to account for that, but it is my duty to warn you, Sir Everard, that that devotion may lead her to great lengths. Lady Dominey is naturally of an exceedingly affectionate disposition, and this return to a stronger condition of physical health and a fuller share of hum...

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POINTER wasted no time in trying to revive Mrs. Dexter-Smith. On the contrary, she was bound and carefully gagged, so that she could not make any loud noise, and carried into the coal-cellar. One of Pointer's men stood behind the door which, owing to a skilfully placed sack of coal, gave him ample shelter. Beside the s...

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For an hour I enjoyed the highest of earthly pleasures. In that strange conversation I heard--in fragments and suggestions--the history of the craziest survival the world has ever seen. I heard of the struggles with invaders, preserved as it were in a sort of shapeless poetry. There were bitter words against the Gaelic...

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I got little enough sleep that night. Early in the evening my father and the most of his guests went down to the principal public-house in the township to look at the general entries--why I 'm sure I don't know, for they must have known well enough for weeks beforehand what horses were going to run--and then late at ni...

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"It's a kind of play, sir. The lady is supposed to possess supernatural powers. She has the forces of life and death over all about her. The stage is converted into a large cage, and all the birds are turned loose on it. When the performer wants to destroy them she holds up her hand and points at a particular bird. Dir...

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Carl shook his head mournfully. "Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. W...

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And as the village crept back to life, and those who had escaped took heart to do a little work again, and the convalescent staggered to their doors and looked on the world, there arose stranger rumours. The minister was all day out and about--praying on occasion, but more often engaged in homely tasks like cleaning u...

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"My son, your father is very sick. Now, I'll tell you what you can do for me. You go out here along the Cheevertown road about a mile or two and ask any farmer this side of the creek to let you have a good big handful of peach sprigs--about so many, see? Say that Doctor Gridley said he was to give them to you for him. ...

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One autumn day, he was following the track of Tamoi across a sandy patch by the lagoon, when suddenly he saw the selector in front of him. In a couple of seconds he was scrambling wildly up a tree. Tamoi, watching unseen from another tree, saw the man, holding something in his hand that looked like a long club, follow ...

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"Indeed, they have," a voice interrupted. "It is my turn now to contribute to the harmony of the evening. Our charming hostess has given us the first act of the comedy. Now I can proceed to write up the second. What the third act will be like is a matter for speculation. Any way, as I was coming here to-night, I saw Re...

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She stood at the foot of the stairs, the baby in her arms, Wade pressed tightly against her, his head hidden in her skirts as the Yankees swarmed through the house, pushing roughly past her up the stairs, dragging furniture onto the front porch, running bayonets and knives into upholstery and digging inside for conceal...

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He then informed her that Snakes was John Hum, and he hoped that night, with our assistance, to submit him to some of that "discipline" which he had found so efficacious with others. "You are now," he said, "about the age of your dear father when he suffered, and you look as if his wraith had returned to earth to rebuk...

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On the arrival of the boats at Port Jackson, a second party of the natives made its appearance near the place of landing. These also were armed with lances, and at first were very vociferous; but the same gentle means used towards the others easily persuaded these also to discard their suspicions, and to accept whatsoe...

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As time went on, however, the silence became oppressive, the peace dull, and the shadow dark. She began to listen for sounds of living life from without. So it was not unwelcome to her when Erik Grubbe proposed a change. He wished her to reside at Kalo manor, the property of her husband, and he pointed out to her that...

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'Next day we started off. We journeyed a great distance. The spot we had determined on for our home was very hard to find. And finally we came to the seashore. We explored a little bay--the very loveliest thing you could wish to see. Big drooping willows hung down off rocks and dabbled their wands in the blue water. Be...

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Having satiated himself with this sad but striking prospect, the young man, with some toil and trouble, crossed the churchyard, and gained Cheapside, where a yet more terrific scene of devastation than that which he had previously witnessed burst upon him. On the right of London Bridge, which he could discern through t...

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"Sir," Grant replied, "I am a wealthy man, so this is of no moment, but I have spent a hundred thousand dollars trying to get hold of a perfectly simple document which I know to be in existence. There is an elaborated scheme agreed to by Japan and Germany, which is intended to strike at the very heart of our existence,...

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Men do not have to do these things through their clubs, which are mainly for pleasure; they can accomplish what they wish to through regular channels. But the character and direction of the influence of women in human affairs is conclusively established by the things they already do and try to do. In those countries,...

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But under all circumstances, whether brain or muscle be employed by the bread-winner, a substantial breakfast is of first-rate importance. There is one form of food which it is especially necessary should constitute part of the meal, and which must be referred to. This is that variety known as the hydro-carbons or fats...

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By the light of a torch borne at the stern of the hostile wherry, he saw that the pursuers had approached within a short distance of the object of their quest. The shot had taken effect upon the waterman who rowed the chase. He had abandoned his oars, and the boat was drifting with the stream towards the enemy. Escape ...

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