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The China Inland Mission in Tali was the last of the mission stations which I was to see on my journey. This is the furthest inland of the stations of the Inland Mission in China. It was opened in 1881 by Mr. George W. Clarke, the most widely-travelled, with the single exception of the late Dr. Cameron, of all the pion...	[ 791, 5734, 763, 1974, 24098, 304, 350, 8115, 574, 279, 1566, 315, 279, 9131, 17789, 902, 358, 574, 311, 1518, 389, 856, 11879, 13, 1115, 374, 279, 18742, 61943, 77289, 315, 279, 17789, 315, 279, 763, 1974, 24098, 304, 5734, 13, 1102, ...
He had, of course, seen her many times since the occasion of their first interview; indeed, it had become almost a habit that when leaving the Pacha he should, after his afternoon visit, receive a cup of tea at her hands; but beautiful as she had always seemed, never had her beauty struck him so forcibly as to-day. The...	[ 1548, 1047, 11, 315, 3388, 11, 3970, 1077, 1690, 3115, 2533, 279, 13402, 315, 872, 1176, 7274, 26, 13118, 11, 433, 1047, 3719, 4661, 264, 14464, 430, 994, 9564, 279, 393, 52676, 568, 1288, 11, 1306, 813, 13658, 4034, 11, 5371, 264, ...
Only the moon saw him, throwing her yellow, bizarre light upon his black, sobbing body, as he lay with his face hidden. All around was calm and still and peaceful, auguring fair. In his heart alone raged the storm. The deep, uninterrupted blue of the sky looked serenely down on the earth below, whispering a message of ...	[ 7456, 279, 18266, 5602, 1461, 11, 21939, 1077, 14071, 11, 33288, 3177, 5304, 813, 3776, 11, 11752, 7278, 2547, 11, 439, 568, 11203, 449, 813, 3663, 8340, 13, 2052, 2212, 574, 19858, 323, 2103, 323, 26733, 11, 19861, 1711, 6762, 13, 76...
"Unfortunately, no. The side windows were blurred with rain, and I was trying to strike a match. The first thing I was conscious of was a violent swerve. I looked up, saw a tall, cloaked figure wrenching at the reins with a crooked stick, and over we went. I fell into a bed of mud. It absolutely blinded me. I jumped up...	[ 1, 31140, 11, 912, 13, 578, 3185, 11276, 1051, 73500, 449, 11422, 11, 323, 358, 574, 4560, 311, 13471, 264, 2489, 13, 578, 1176, 3245, 358, 574, 17371, 315, 574, 264, 16806, 2064, 5976, 13, 358, 7111, 709, 11, 5602, 264, 16615, 11, ...
Grunt! "Here's a pretty fellow for you!" Grunt! "Hungry, and he looks miserable." Grunt! "Hungry, and he groans." Grunt! "Hungry--the most enviable position a man can be in--and he dares to repine at his lot." Grunt! "What are the lower classes coming to next, I wonder? Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Aren't you a mode...	[ 6600, 3935, 0, 330, 8586, 596, 264, 5128, 12637, 369, 499, 9135, 2895, 3935, 0, 330, 90475, 894, 11, 323, 568, 5992, 50739, 1210, 2895, 3935, 0, 330, 90475, 894, 11, 323, 568, 10707, 598, 1210, 2895, 3935, 0, 330, 90475, 894, 313, ...
I doubt not that it will excite feelings of contempt in many of those who read my story when I say, with old Mrs. Cunninghame, that, however strong Belle Staunton's love for Clive may have been, she would never have been happy as a poor man's wife. But let it be so. I have grown in wisdom since the day when I, too, sha...	[ 40, 10712, 539, 430, 433, 690, 3521, 635, 16024, 315, 46454, 304, 1690, 315, 1884, 889, 1373, 856, 3446, 994, 358, 2019, 11, 449, 2362, 18083, 13, 68845, 71, 373, 11, 430, 11, 4869, 3831, 51608, 60920, 359, 783, 596, 3021, 369, 2493...
He went off, banging the gate behind him. The latch did not hold; Mary stepped out to secure it. And the sight of him trudging down the road brought back her chief grievance against him. This was his obstinate refusal to keep a horse and trap. It stood to reason: if he would only consent to drive on his rounds, instead...	[ 1548, 4024, 1022, 11, 87211, 279, 18618, 4920, 1461, 13, 578, 58026, 1550, 539, 3412, 26, 10455, 25319, 704, 311, 9966, 433, 13, 1628, 279, 14254, 315, 1461, 490, 88412, 1523, 279, 5754, 7263, 1203, 1077, 10388, 51013, 685, 2403, 1461, ...
Nothing but time could cure it, and it ran its course to the dismay, amusement, or edification of the beholders, for its victims did all manner of queer things in their delirium. They begged potteries for clay, drove Italian plaster-corkers out of their wits with unexecutable orders got neuralgia and rheumatism sketchi...	[ 24714, 719, 892, 1436, 27208, 433, 11, 323, 433, 10837, 1202, 3388, 311, 279, 73082, 11, 62468, 11, 477, 1608, 2461, 315, 279, 2824, 33220, 11, 369, 1202, 12697, 1550, 682, 11827, 315, 55641, 2574, 304, 872, 1624, 404, 2411, 13, 2435,...
Thereafter he lay and stared into the dusty light as he had stared into the darkness. Needle-like pulses beat behind his lids; the muscles round eyes and mouth were a-twitch with fatigue. From the sight of food he turned with a sick man's disrelish. Swallowing a cup of milkless tea, he crossed to the surgery and shut h...	[ 3947, 10924, 568, 11203, 323, 45135, 1139, 279, 77973, 3177, 439, 568, 1047, 45135, 1139, 279, 27394, 13, 89900, 12970, 66557, 9567, 4920, 813, 100078, 26, 279, 24569, 4883, 6548, 323, 11013, 1051, 264, 2442, 5656, 449, 36709, 13, 5659, ...
On cold nights the men sleep two and three, and sometimes four, in a tent, or in a circle round the fire, a chain or two away from the camping cattle. A common practice is for two men to make one bed with their blankets, and sleep together. The nap of the man on watch is generally "borrowed" by his scantily-covered mat...	[ 1966, 9439, 22178, 279, 3026, 6212, 1403, 323, 2380, 11, 323, 7170, 3116, 11, 304, 264, 16006, 11, 477, 304, 264, 12960, 4883, 279, 4027, 11, 264, 8957, 477, 1403, 3201, 505, 279, 33873, 36952, 13, 362, 4279, 6725, 374, 369, 1403, 3...
'After careful consideration, I decided to adopt the plan. I went downstairs and sent the caretaker on an errand to the Law Courts. Then I returned and carried the deceased up to one of the third-floor rooms, where I removed his clothes and laid him out on a long packing-case in the position in which he would lie in th...	[ 6, 6153, 16994, 18361, 11, 358, 6773, 311, 11142, 279, 3197, 13, 358, 4024, 63891, 323, 3288, 279, 53401, 4506, 389, 459, 1886, 438, 311, 279, 7658, 66563, 13, 5112, 358, 6052, 323, 11953, 279, 43720, 709, 311, 832, 315, 279, 4948, ...
But already the Duke, who seemed in a hurry to complete the round of introduction, had led me off to another of the flower-maidens. On hearing her name I told her that I had passed by her country house, not far from Balbec. "Oh, I should have been so pleased to take you over it," she informed me, almost in a whisper, t...	[ 4071, 2736, 279, 27453, 11, 889, 9508, 304, 264, 48335, 311, 4686, 279, 4883, 315, 17219, 11, 1047, 6197, 757, 1022, 311, 2500, 315, 279, 23153, 1474, 3864, 729, 13, 1952, 11011, 1077, 836, 358, 3309, 1077, 430, 358, 1047, 5946, 555, ...
But Roberta, her presents and her happy last evening with him put aside in this casual way, and for the first time, too, in this fashion, shook her head negatively, as if to say "Oh, no," but her spirits were heavily depressed and she fell to wondering what this sudden desertion of her at this time might portend. For,...	[ 4071, 8563, 64, 11, 1077, 18911, 323, 1077, 6380, 1566, 11714, 449, 1461, 2231, 16038, 304, 420, 16736, 1648, 11, 323, 369, 279, 1176, 892, 11, 2288, 11, 304, 420, 11401, 11, 36014, 1077, 2010, 48291, 11, 439, 422, 311, 2019, 330, 1...
The savagery underlying modern civilisation was all the more vividly before him, because one evening he, together with Sir J. Lubbock, Dr. Bastian, and Mr. Samuelson, were taken by the chief of the detective department round some of the worst slums in Liverpool. In thieves' dens, doss houses, dancing saloons, enough of...	[ 791, 11427, 351, 727, 16940, 6617, 8431, 8082, 574, 682, 279, 810, 43120, 398, 1603, 1461, 11, 1606, 832, 11714, 568, 11, 3871, 449, 17177, 622, 13, 58751, 754, 377, 11, 2999, 13, 46168, 1122, 11, 323, 4491, 13, 33007, 942, 11, 1051...
During the rather lengthy swim I was surprised to see that the shore and the cliff-top, which I thought had been crowded, were in fact deserted. The one heap of clothes which I could detect, and which I therefore took to be my own, perplexed me by its colour. I was still more perplexed when I walked out of the water to...	[ 16397, 279, 4856, 35306, 16587, 358, 574, 14792, 311, 1518, 430, 279, 31284, 323, 279, 44106, 8338, 11, 902, 358, 3463, 1047, 1027, 39313, 11, 1051, 304, 2144, 83410, 13, 578, 832, 17817, 315, 15447, 902, 358, 1436, 11388, 11, 323, 90...
Immediately afterward there appeared in the arch against the glow of flambeaus behind him a tall, thin man with fine silver hair and a curved nose that projected over his chin. He had remarkable, childishly-blue eyes that matched the colour of his faded coat pulled down from one shoulder by the weight of the mighty go...	[ 96793, 49043, 1070, 9922, 304, 279, 5438, 2403, 279, 37066, 315, 74599, 1395, 12119, 4920, 1461, 264, 16615, 11, 15792, 893, 449, 7060, 15310, 7013, 323, 264, 50264, 19689, 430, 28448, 927, 813, 46175, 13, 220, 1283, 1047, 23649, 11, 17...
Chime returned almost immediately with the intimation that the Misses Brabazon-Fanes would see them at once, but the Superintendent made no movement to leave the hall, and, instead, stood pointing out to the Inspectors where the small rifle had hung upon the wall, and the drawer in the hall stand from which it was supp...	[ 1163, 547, 6052, 4661, 7214, 449, 279, 528, 5582, 430, 279, 9083, 288, 3320, 370, 5639, 7424, 14997, 1053, 1518, 1124, 520, 3131, 11, 719, 279, 68984, 1903, 912, 7351, 311, 5387, 279, 14321, 11, 323, 11, 4619, 11, 14980, 22364, 704, ...
'Remember, if you please,' said my friend, looking at me over his spectacles, 'that I am a Victorian by birth and education, and that the Victorian tree may not unreasonably be expected to bear Victorian fruit. Further, remember that an immense quantity of clever and thoughtful rubbish is now being written about the Vi...	[ 50527, 9792, 11, 422, 499, 4587, 2965, 1071, 856, 4333, 11, 3411, 520, 757, 927, 813, 9618, 18709, 11, 364, 9210, 358, 1097, 264, 44277, 555, 7342, 323, 6873, 11, 323, 430, 279, 44277, 5021, 1253, 539, 653, 20489, 2915, 387, 3685, 3...
"Now show me the first drawer she touched." And this time he lifted out a petticoat, and, taking it to the window, examined it with a greater care. When he had finished with it he handed it to Ricardo to put away, and stood for a moment or two thoughtful and absorbed. Ricardo in his turn examined the petticoat. But he ...	[ 83524, 1501, 757, 279, 1176, 27580, 1364, 24891, 1210, 1628, 420, 892, 568, 30831, 704, 264, 6896, 83, 4042, 266, 11, 323, 11, 4737, 433, 311, 279, 3321, 11, 25078, 433, 449, 264, 7191, 2512, 13, 3277, 568, 1047, 8220, 449, 433, 568...
The origin of Archbishop Thomson was obscure. His great-uncle "may reasonably be supposed" to have been "an ornament to the middle classes". His aunt married a gentleman who was present at the murder of Gustavus III of Sweden; and his father met his death at the age of eighty-seven by treading on a cat in the early h...	[ 791, 6371, 315, 82311, 65332, 574, 40634, 13, 220, 5414, 2294, 12, 1371, 273, 330, 18864, 29546, 387, 10171, 1, 311, 617, 1027, 330, 276, 79760, 311, 279, 6278, 6989, 3343, 220, 5414, 51166, 12502, 264, 46229, 889, 574, 3118, 520, 279...
She took a cardboard box full of pipes from somewhere under the counter. How bad her accent had got! Or maybe I was just imagining that, because my own standards had changed? But no, she used to be so 'superior', all the girls at Lilywhite's were so 'superior', and she'd been a member of the vicar's Reading Circle. ...	[ 8100, 3952, 264, 55043, 3830, 2539, 315, 32275, 505, 15038, 1234, 279, 5663, 13, 220, 2650, 3958, 1077, 30200, 1047, 2751, 0, 220, 2582, 7344, 358, 574, 1120, 77724, 430, 11, 1606, 856, 1866, 10886, 1047, 5614, 30, 220, 2030, 912, 11,...
Although, when I was informed of this scheme, I was bitterly offended by the small attention which Raymond paid to my sister's feelings, I was led by reflection to consider, that he acted under the force of such strong excitement, as to take from him the consciousness, and, consequently, the guilt of a fault. If he ha...	[ 16179, 11, 994, 358, 574, 16369, 315, 420, 13155, 11, 358, 574, 99945, 54221, 555, 279, 2678, 6666, 902, 43670, 7318, 311, 856, 13219, 596, 16024, 11, 358, 574, 6197, 555, 22599, 311, 2980, 11, 430, 568, 31532, 1234, 279, 5457, 315, ...
In the morning at sunrise we were about one mile from the shore; in various places we saw smoke ascending from fires made by the natives; the wind then being south and blowing from the land we again tacked to eastward. At noon Latitude estimated 40 degrees 31 minutes, Longitude 190 degrees 47 minutes; course kept north...	[ 644, 279, 6693, 520, 64919, 584, 1051, 922, 832, 14929, 505, 279, 31284, 26, 304, 5370, 7634, 584, 5602, 16603, 36488, 505, 27176, 1903, 555, 279, 68473, 26, 279, 10160, 1243, 1694, 10007, 323, 41442, 505, 279, 4363, 584, 1578, 259, 1...
At last, after about half an hour, the youth who was conductor of the omnibus came running down the wild side-road, everybody clambered in, and away the vehicle charged, into the neck of the plain. With a growl and a rush it swooped up the first loop of the ascent. Great precipices rose on the right, the ruddiness of s...	[ 1688, 1566, 11, 1306, 922, 4376, 459, 6596, 11, 279, 12822, 889, 574, 61856, 315, 279, 50197, 34495, 3782, 4401, 1523, 279, 8545, 3185, 66815, 11, 16470, 1206, 15578, 291, 304, 11, 323, 3201, 279, 7458, 11684, 11, 1139, 279, 13272, 31...
In that moment he went through a selection of emotions that fully equalled hers. The first was blank consternation. A sense of baffled gallantry succeeded, and was followed by an overwhelming thankfulness that it was baffled. All evening he had been imagining himself delightfully in love with Olga, but had been torm...	[ 644, 430, 4545, 568, 4024, 1555, 264, 6727, 315, 21958, 430, 7373, 6273, 839, 11074, 13, 220, 578, 1176, 574, 10321, 738, 944, 367, 13, 220, 362, 5647, 315, 65516, 839, 19754, 32310, 26399, 11, 323, 574, 8272, 555, 459, 22798, 9901, ...
There is a distinct gradation in the things the river picks up when it rises. I have seen a creek take all the breakfast paraphernalia from a roofed-over porch on which a coloured household had been sitting when the rainstorm started. The rise of the waters in the steep little creek was so sudden that, when they rush...	[ 3947, 374, 264, 12742, 6117, 367, 304, 279, 2574, 279, 15140, 22657, 709, 994, 433, 38268, 13, 220, 358, 617, 3970, 264, 65505, 1935, 682, 279, 17954, 63330, 3051, 689, 505, 264, 15485, 291, 29352, 45747, 389, 902, 264, 58919, 14048, ...
The more Father Latour examined this church, the more he was inclined to think that Fray Ramirez, or some Spanish priest who followed him, was not altogether innocent of worldly ambition, and that they built for their own satisfaction, perhaps, rather than according to the needs of the Indians. The magnificent site, t...	[ 791, 810, 20941, 10128, 414, 25078, 420, 8993, 11, 279, 810, 568, 574, 43131, 311, 1781, 430, 2939, 352, 72093, 11, 477, 1063, 15506, 28185, 889, 8272, 1461, 11, 574, 539, 31155, 25226, 315, 97706, 45715, 11, 323, 430, 814, 5918, 369,...
It was something ghostly, horrible beyond words, and it moved in my grip. It was like the body of a man long drowned, and yet it moved, and had the strength of ten men living; but I gripped it with all my might--the slippery, oozy, horrible thing--the dead white eyes seemed to stare at me out of the dusk; the putrid od...	[ 2181, 574, 2555, 20457, 398, 11, 28201, 7953, 4339, 11, 323, 433, 7882, 304, 856, 25703, 13, 1102, 574, 1093, 279, 2547, 315, 264, 893, 1317, 74995, 11, 323, 3686, 433, 7882, 11, 323, 1047, 279, 8333, 315, 5899, 3026, 5496, 26, 719,...
He found something better as he skirted the shore. The sea and the weather had scooped out a big hollow under a high cliff, a hollow just big enough to take the _Jungle Queen_ and deep and still enough to ensure her a safe anchorage. A rock barrier interposed between the breakers and this deep pool which the waves had ...	[ 1548, 1766, 2555, 2731, 439, 568, 38380, 291, 279, 31284, 13, 578, 9581, 323, 279, 9282, 1047, 25661, 16771, 704, 264, 2466, 42902, 1234, 264, 1579, 44106, 11, 264, 42902, 1120, 2466, 3403, 311, 1935, 279, 721, 41, 29747, 16657, 62, 3...
Informing the boat-keeper that they should return in a couple of hours, the two men first walked along the beach in the direction of the encampment. Then once out of sight from the boat, they struck inland into a deep valley through which, Macy said, a narrow track led up to the range, and then downwards to the two vil...	[ 38991, 287, 279, 15688, 12, 19393, 430, 814, 1288, 471, 304, 264, 5743, 315, 4207, 11, 279, 1403, 3026, 1176, 15203, 3235, 279, 11573, 304, 279, 5216, 315, 279, 3289, 1141, 479, 13, 5112, 3131, 704, 315, 14254, 505, 279, 15688, 11, ...
And thus we settled down in the spot which was to be the burial place of so many of our party--which was fated to be the scene of so much intense suffering, and of such heart-sickening hope deferred. Wearied out by long endurance of trials that would have tried the courage and shaken the fortitude of the strongest, a s...	[ 3112, 8617, 584, 23183, 1523, 304, 279, 7858, 902, 574, 311, 387, 279, 55763, 2035, 315, 779, 1690, 315, 1057, 4717, 313, 8370, 574, 282, 660, 311, 387, 279, 6237, 315, 779, 1790, 19428, 16066, 11, 323, 315, 1778, 4851, 1355, 875, 6...
It had not been long before news of the strange occurrence had spread through the capital. And, of course, it received additions with the progress of time. Everyone's mind was, at that period, bent upon the marvellous. Recently experiments with the action of magnetism had occupied public attention, and the history of t...	[ 2181, 1047, 539, 1027, 1317, 1603, 3754, 315, 279, 15234, 32659, 1047, 9041, 1555, 279, 6864, 13, 1628, 11, 315, 3388, 11, 433, 4036, 38314, 449, 279, 5208, 315, 892, 13, 22172, 596, 4059, 574, 11, 520, 430, 4261, 11, 30280, 5304, 2...
There were circumstances, moreover, which, coupled with late events, gave an unearthly and portentous character to the mania of the rider, and to the capabilities of the steed. The space passed over in a single leap had been accurately measured, and was found to exceed by an astounding difference, the wildest expectati...	[ 3947, 1051, 13463, 11, 44643, 11, 902, 11, 34356, 449, 3389, 4455, 11, 6688, 459, 79675, 398, 323, 2700, 306, 788, 3752, 311, 279, 893, 689, 315, 279, 38226, 11, 323, 311, 279, 17357, 315, 279, 4179, 291, 13, 578, 3634, 5946, 927, ...
But no explanations were volunteered then or ever. People might query and peer, but they learned nothing. What was left open to view told no tales beyond the old one, and as for the single window which was the sole opening into the shut-off space, it was then, as now, so completely blocked up by a network of closely im...	[ 4071, 912, 41941, 1051, 74771, 1243, 477, 3596, 13, 9029, 2643, 3319, 323, 14734, 11, 719, 814, 9687, 4400, 13, 3639, 574, 2163, 1825, 311, 1684, 3309, 912, 37565, 7953, 279, 2362, 832, 11, 323, 439, 369, 279, 3254, 3321, 902, 574, ...
"Tackle a cornfield, Miss," he would say again and again, "with its butter-yellow colour, and its blobs of red poppies, and the green hedges all round. You write poetry such as I know you can about a cornfield, and farmers, and farm buildings with thatched roofs, and you'll wake one of these mornings (like all poets ho...	[ 96129, 52622, 264, 14095, 2630, 11, 9083, 1359, 568, 1053, 2019, 1578, 323, 1578, 11, 330, 4291, 1202, 14432, 74012, 12745, 11, 323, 1202, 77999, 315, 2579, 2477, 45752, 11, 323, 279, 6307, 305, 17327, 682, 4883, 13, 1472, 3350, 32349, ...
I first knew Joseph Rouletabille when he was a young reporter. At that time I was a beginner at the Bar and often met him in the corridors of examining magistrates, when I had gone to get a "permit to communicate" for the prison of Mazas, or for Saint-Lazare. He had, as they say, "a good nut." He seemed to have taken h...	[ 40, 1176, 7020, 15466, 29622, 1169, 370, 4618, 994, 568, 574, 264, 3995, 19496, 13, 2468, 430, 892, 358, 574, 264, 50048, 520, 279, 4821, 323, 3629, 2322, 1461, 304, 279, 75752, 315, 38936, 4983, 94200, 11, 994, 358, 1047, 8208, 311, ...
Mr. James Barker, whose guard was attired in a splendid blue, and whose blue banner bore three gold birds singing, rushed, in his blue and gold robes, into the room. Despite the absurdity of all the dresses, it was worth noticing that he carried his better than the rest, though he loathed it as much as any of them. He ...	[ 12555, 13, 7957, 81504, 11, 6832, 7771, 574, 1651, 2757, 304, 264, 70960, 6437, 11, 323, 6832, 6437, 24206, 39786, 2380, 6761, 20229, 26139, 11, 33341, 11, 304, 813, 6437, 323, 6761, 71268, 11, 1139, 279, 3130, 13, 18185, 279, 32677, ...
He also made the discovery that the Scriptures not only give sure guidance as to personal justification and sanctification, but that they also contain definite instruction with regard to the Church. "If we would reform the Church", he said, "we must make use of the Holy Scriptures and especially of the Acts, where it i...	[ 1548, 1101, 1903, 279, 18841, 430, 279, 90296, 539, 1193, 3041, 2771, 19351, 439, 311, 4443, 42535, 323, 35589, 2461, 11, 719, 430, 814, 1101, 6782, 44870, 7754, 449, 5363, 311, 279, 9441, 13, 330, 2746, 584, 1053, 15180, 279, 9441, 4...
'But the Romans,' he went on, 'want no clash with Jewry now. They are deliberately preparing for the day when they will take full possession of this country, looting it and enslaving it. They could do it tomorrow if their armies were not engaged in the recovery of their losses in Gaul. When they are ready, they will st...	[ 6, 4071, 279, 49817, 2965, 568, 4024, 389, 11, 364, 53757, 912, 41003, 449, 8117, 894, 1457, 13, 2435, 527, 36192, 20646, 369, 279, 1938, 994, 814, 690, 1935, 2539, 19243, 315, 420, 3224, 11, 781, 11780, 433, 323, 67548, 2370, 433, ...
Mr. Twist, being of the artistic temperament for otherwise he wouldn't have been so sympathetic nor would he have minded, as he so passionately did mind, his Uncle Charles's teapot dribbling on to the tablecloth--was sometimes swept by brief but tempestuous revulsions of feeling, and though he loved the Twinklers he di...	[ 12555, 13, 74474, 11, 1694, 315, 279, 32692, 79964, 369, 6062, 568, 8434, 956, 617, 1027, 779, 53464, 6463, 1053, 568, 617, 61267, 11, 439, 568, 779, 92925, 1550, 4059, 11, 813, 51521, 15274, 596, 1028, 91001, 79646, 9894, 389, 311, 2...
The real difficulty which many cultivated people have in the matter of Watts' allegorical pictures is far more difficult. It is indeed nothing else but the great general reaction against allegorical art which has arisen during the last artistic period. The only way in which we can study, with any real sincerity, the al...	[ 791, 1972, 17250, 902, 1690, 67166, 1274, 617, 304, 279, 5030, 315, 59336, 6, 7179, 70848, 9364, 374, 3117, 810, 5107, 13, 1102, 374, 13118, 4400, 775, 719, 279, 2294, 4689, 13010, 2403, 7179, 70848, 1989, 902, 706, 90954, 2391, 279, ...
After she had gone, he stole away to the throne chamber. There, sure enough, was Kon, and sitting, of all places, in the throne of the Lord of Folly. Graydon, taking it as a happy augury, grinned widely. He seated himself beside him, drew out a stick of red pigment and a piece of white silken stuff. Kon clicked, intere...	[ 6153, 1364, 1047, 8208, 11, 568, 40606, 3201, 311, 279, 44721, 25199, 13, 2684, 11, 2771, 3403, 11, 574, 24277, 11, 323, 11961, 11, 315, 682, 7634, 11, 304, 279, 44721, 315, 279, 10425, 315, 435, 8788, 13, 24255, 15357, 11, 4737, 43...
The three men slowly and silently moved down the street, and the heart of one of them was the prey of a leaping terror. Scared eyes, like those of rabbits in a snare, were watching them from the windows. In the inn-yard there was no sign of a soul, except the village idiot who was playing ninepins with bottles. Midw...	[ 791, 2380, 3026, 14297, 323, 50494, 7882, 1523, 279, 8761, 11, 323, 279, 4851, 315, 832, 315, 1124, 574, 279, 37693, 315, 264, 514, 14550, 8818, 13, 220, 2522, 1636, 6548, 11, 1093, 1884, 315, 70244, 304, 264, 4224, 548, 11, 1051, 1...
Nineteen years were sped since Ivan the Terrible had passed away, leaving two sons, Feodor Ivanovitch, who had succeeded him, and the infant Demetrius. Feodor, a weakling who was almost imbecile, had married Irene, the daughter of Boris Godunov, whereby it had fallen out that Boris became the real ruler of Russia, the ...	[ 45, 258, 7870, 268, 1667, 1051, 86710, 2533, 42521, 279, 10335, 12560, 1047, 5946, 3201, 11, 9564, 1403, 26419, 11, 3926, 50017, 42521, 869, 1641, 11, 889, 1047, 26399, 1461, 11, 323, 279, 31383, 4829, 94223, 355, 13, 3926, 50017, 11, ...
Returning to the Hawkesbury we find that the animosity between the settlers and the aborigines during the two years ending the century had pretty near reached its climax, and resulted in deeds of the darkest cruelty on either side. One case is recorded of exceptional cruelty on the part of the white settlers. The nativ...	[ 85914, 311, 279, 12897, 12841, 20176, 584, 1505, 430, 279, 4039, 22828, 1990, 279, 61107, 323, 279, 671, 4775, 1572, 2391, 279, 1403, 1667, 13696, 279, 9478, 1047, 5128, 3221, 8813, 1202, 71295, 11, 323, 19543, 304, 54811, 315, 279, 770...
In October 1917, when the air raids on London were acutely monotonous, there was a marked tendency on the part of Eustace Forsyte to take Turkish baths. The most fastidious of his family, who had carried imperturbability of demeanour to the pitch of defiance, he had perceived in the Turkish bath a gesture, as of a fin...	[ 644, 6664, 220, 7529, 22, 11, 994, 279, 3805, 52581, 389, 7295, 1051, 1645, 98466, 1647, 26934, 788, 11, 1070, 574, 264, 13160, 31954, 389, 279, 961, 315, 469, 592, 580, 50990, 79461, 311, 1935, 24666, 59300, 13, 220, 578, 1455, 5043,...
It was porpoises--porpoises aglow with phosphorescent light. They presently collected in a wild and magnificent jumble under the bows, and there they played for an hour, leaping and frollicking and carrying on, turning summersaults in front of the stem or across it and never getting hit, never making a miscalculation,...	[ 2181, 574, 4247, 5481, 5014, 313, 4406, 5481, 5014, 945, 10516, 449, 33088, 4692, 1189, 3177, 13, 220, 2435, 50801, 14890, 304, 264, 8545, 323, 41792, 503, 23568, 1234, 279, 82565, 11, 323, 1070, 814, 6476, 369, 459, 6596, 11, 514, 14...
Larose was very satisfied with the way things were shaping. "Things couldn't be going better," he told himself that night, as he was treating himself to a nice little dinner at the Savoy, "and I'll run that chap to earth, sure enough." His face clouded. "But it may be a long wait, and I'll have to kick up my heels here...	[ 43, 277, 974, 574, 1633, 20097, 449, 279, 1648, 2574, 1051, 46620, 13, 330, 42575, 7846, 956, 387, 2133, 2731, 1359, 568, 3309, 5678, 430, 3814, 11, 439, 568, 574, 27723, 5678, 311, 264, 6555, 2697, 14177, 520, 279, 20680, 2303, 11, ...
Mrs Rolleston was a lady by birth and education; but it had been her bad fortune to marry a scoundrel; for the last half-dozen years she had been that worst of widows, a wife whose husband had deserted her. Happily, she was courageous, industrious, and a clever needle-woman; and she had been able just to earn a living ...	[ 50329, 32076, 46668, 574, 264, 17240, 555, 7342, 323, 6873, 26, 719, 433, 1047, 1027, 1077, 3958, 33415, 311, 32918, 264, 1156, 801, 3833, 26, 369, 279, 1566, 4376, 30659, 5797, 1667, 1364, 1047, 1027, 430, 12047, 315, 9923, 4336, 11, ...
Nevertheless, when nocturnal attacks, cases of arson and thefts of greater and lesser importance were followed by those two extraordinary murders of Camus and Lombard, the police were obliged to go to work more thoroughly. They threatened the more timid natures, with a view to forcing them to speak. But these would rat...	[ 70788, 11, 994, 93101, 63550, 8951, 11, 5157, 315, 87850, 323, 28483, 82, 315, 7191, 323, 32415, 12939, 1051, 8272, 555, 1884, 1403, 24674, 43086, 315, 8215, 355, 323, 63918, 569, 11, 279, 4379, 1051, 54117, 311, 733, 311, 990, 810, 2...
The ladies, that day, plied him with a thousand artful questions about the barometers, he extricated himself with a laugh and very neatly; they consulted him as to the state of the barometer in the house, which they put in his hands, he remembered the tone that, in similar circumstances, Conte Pietranera would have ado...	[ 791, 23628, 11, 430, 1938, 11, 628, 1142, 1461, 449, 264, 16579, 1989, 1285, 4860, 922, 279, 3703, 33504, 11, 568, 11741, 10297, 5678, 449, 264, 12835, 323, 1633, 63266, 26, 814, 61302, 1461, 439, 311, 279, 1614, 315, 279, 3703, 21037...
One celebrity, who lives in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, did not favour me with a visit. That famous dacoit, the outlawed Prince of Wuntho--the Wuntho Sawbwa--lives here, an exile sheltered by the Chinese Government. A pure Burmese himself, the father-in-law of the amiable Sawbwa of Santa, he is believed by the Gover...	[ 4054, 31544, 11, 889, 6439, 304, 279, 40442, 315, 350, 833, 88, 361, 71, 11, 1550, 539, 12617, 757, 449, 264, 4034, 13, 3011, 11495, 294, 16833, 275, 11, 279, 65106, 291, 19912, 315, 468, 359, 339, 78, 313, 1820, 468, 359, 339, 78...
Because the east wind does what no other wind of the welkin ever does. It does not come from the good sky downward, bringing higher breath to us; nor even on the level of the ancient things, spreading average movement. This alone of all winds strikes from the face of the good earth upward, sweeping the blush from the...	[ 18433, 279, 11226, 10160, 1587, 1148, 912, 1023, 10160, 315, 279, 12724, 8148, 3596, 1587, 13, 220, 1102, 1587, 539, 2586, 505, 279, 1695, 13180, 45578, 11, 12967, 5190, 11745, 311, 603, 26, 6463, 1524, 389, 279, 2237, 315, 279, 14154, ...
A furlong of fetid, black fen, with gelid, green patches of pond, Lies dumb by the horns of the glen -- at the gates of the horror beyond; And those who have looked on it tell of the terrible growths that are there -- The flowerage fostered by hell, the blossoms that startle and scare. If ever a wandering bird should l...	[ 32, 282, 1103, 647, 315, 16872, 307, 11, 3776, 44585, 11, 449, 18316, 307, 11, 6307, 29760, 315, 36670, 11, 78186, 30355, 555, 279, 61084, 315, 279, 2840, 268, 1198, 520, 279, 35634, 315, 279, 22169, 7953, 26, 1628, 1884, 889, 617, ...
A MURDER lends to the locality in which it is perpetrated a certain left-handed fame which those of its inhabitants who appear most disgusted most enjoy. Human nature being what it is, trouble and misery have a larger sale-value to newspapers than have comfort and happiness. Nothing makes a newspaper reader more consci...	[ 32, 386, 1539, 11645, 79018, 311, 279, 69187, 304, 902, 433, 374, 93430, 264, 3738, 2163, 37240, 33651, 902, 1884, 315, 1202, 40771, 889, 5101, 1455, 91174, 1455, 4774, 13, 11344, 7138, 1694, 1148, 433, 374, 11, 12544, 323, 58701, 617, ...
"As good as coming, I ought to have said--only I didn't know you wished me to be so very particular. We got the answers to the advertisements this morning. Papa and I opened them and read them together half an hour ago; and we both picked out the same letter from all the rest. I picked it out, because it was so prettil...	[ 48240, 1695, 439, 5108, 11, 358, 22525, 311, 617, 1071, 313, 3323, 358, 3287, 956, 1440, 499, 37287, 757, 311, 387, 779, 1633, 4040, 13, 1226, 2751, 279, 11503, 311, 279, 43749, 420, 6693, 13, 65673, 323, 358, 9107, 1124, 323, 1373, ...
Darrell took up the easel, and, drawing her arm within his own, led her through the copse to where he had left his horse. Both were busy with their own thoughts, and they walked on in silence, till they reached the outskirts of the little grove, when Anne suddenly said, 'Mr. Darrell, will you please ride on up to the h...	[ 53773, 16684, 3952, 709, 279, 2593, 301, 11, 323, 11, 13633, 1077, 6916, 2949, 813, 1866, 11, 6197, 1077, 1555, 279, 6293, 325, 311, 1405, 568, 1047, 2163, 813, 15580, 13, 11995, 1051, 13326, 449, 872, 1866, 11555, 11, 323, 814, 15203...
"'Things are booming,' I said.--'While building's going on,' he replied. 'When that's finished, the whole floating labour supply which you call population will fade away and die. Of course, you can capitalize a slump as well as a boom; but it takes a sharp one if you know what I mean.' Excuse the vulgarity, ladies a...	[ 21230, 42575, 527, 68790, 2965, 358, 1071, 33501, 6, 8142, 4857, 596, 2133, 389, 2965, 568, 20592, 13, 220, 364, 4599, 430, 596, 8220, 11, 279, 4459, 19596, 23791, 8312, 902, 499, 1650, 7187, 690, 15366, 3201, 323, 2815, 13, 220, 5046...
But for a long time the girl did not sleep. Not far from her bed stood a lamp made from a sardine tin filled with fat, and having for a wick a strip of moleskin trouser. How the sight of that fat lamp in the old sardine tin reminded her of camping-out nights at the back- blocks cattle station near her girlhood's home! ...	[ 4071, 369, 264, 1317, 892, 279, 3828, 1550, 539, 6212, 13, 2876, 3117, 505, 1077, 4950, 14980, 264, 29062, 1903, 505, 264, 274, 569, 483, 25826, 10409, 449, 8834, 11, 323, 3515, 369, 264, 289, 875, 264, 13619, 315, 4647, 645, 8148, ...
The year 187belonged to those fortunate seasons which occasionally compensate the toils and anxieties of habitans in sicco and his sun-- scorched brethren. Wool was very fair; stock were at once plentiful, in good condition, and high in price. I hardened my heart as the days grew more fiercely hot, while the dust-stor...	[ 791, 1060, 220, 9674, 5879, 9978, 647, 291, 311, 1884, 40510, 15956, 902, 23781, 46794, 279, 311, 8839, 323, 74884, 32606, 315, 14464, 598, 304, 53747, 1030, 323, 813, 7160, 313, 62195, 2454, 73903, 13, 47400, 574, 1633, 6762, 26, 5708,...
"God, how I raved when I heard of that terrible sentence. Gardiner was still my hero. It is hard to kill a woman's love for a man, dear. Even his unfaithfulness was forgiven, blotted out by that savage sentence. I knew only too well what it meant to a man of his mettle. But I have one consolation. Gardiner had broken p...	[ 1, 28622, 11, 1268, 358, 436, 4234, 994, 358, 6755, 315, 430, 17936, 11914, 13, 23251, 10670, 574, 2103, 856, 12084, 13, 1102, 374, 2653, 311, 5622, 264, 5333, 596, 3021, 369, 264, 893, 11, 25237, 13, 7570, 813, 653, 75710, 31514, 5...
"You can't see what you've done," concluded Lucy in spent passion. "You're like our father. Poor weak thing that you are, I can't blame you. It's in the family...If only you'd had the sense and the honour to tell me the truth!--before you married this clean simple-minded boy! Somehow we might have escaped the worst of ...	[ 22336, 649, 956, 1518, 1148, 499, 3077, 2884, 1359, 20536, 45170, 304, 7543, 11939, 13, 330, 2675, 2351, 1093, 1057, 7126, 13, 45773, 7621, 3245, 430, 499, 527, 11, 358, 649, 956, 19065, 499, 13, 1102, 596, 304, 279, 3070, 1131, 2746,...
ALTHOUGH the natural development of the Hunter Valley followed along the usual Australian pioneering lines--the breeding of stock, accompanied by some amount of agriculture complementary to such pursuits--it must not be overlooked that wine-growing played an important part in it. In the past and the present, the cultur...	[ 44249, 84833, 279, 5933, 4500, 315, 279, 24008, 13345, 8272, 3235, 279, 13783, 13673, 71674, 5238, 313, 1820, 40308, 315, 5708, 11, 24895, 555, 1063, 3392, 315, 30029, 58535, 311, 1778, 90887, 313, 275, 2011, 539, 387, 45536, 430, 13378, ...
"And I've never thought of it!" said Johnny (in the afterwards). "Shows what a God-forgotten selection will make of a man. She'd thought of it all the time, and was waiting for it to strike me. Why! I'd agreed to go and play at a darnce at Old Pipeclay School-house all night -- that very night -- and leave her at home...	[ 47016, 358, 3077, 2646, 3463, 315, 433, 9135, 1071, 32980, 320, 258, 279, 27905, 570, 330, 76175, 1148, 264, 4359, 2269, 1813, 10503, 6727, 690, 1304, 315, 264, 893, 13, 3005, 4265, 3463, 315, 433, 682, 279, 892, 11, 323, 574, 8748, ...
Your letter requires consideration, and I have had very little leisure lately. Whether motion disintegrates or integrates is, I apprehend, a question of conditions. A whirlpool in a stream may remain in the same spot for any imaginable time. Yet it is the effect of the motion of the particles of the water in that spot ...	[ 7927, 6661, 7612, 18361, 11, 323, 358, 617, 1047, 1633, 2697, 41308, 31445, 13, 13440, 11633, 834, 81829, 988, 477, 75762, 374, 11, 358, 47291, 408, 11, 264, 3488, 315, 4787, 13, 362, 64783, 10497, 304, 264, 4365, 1253, 7293, 304, 279...
The historic sward had just been cleared for action when Raffles and I met at Lord's next day. I blush to own I had been knave and fool enough to suggest that he should smuggle me into the pavilion; but perhaps the only laws of man that Raffles really respected were those of the M.C.C., and it was in Block B. that he j...	[ 791, 18526, 274, 1637, 1047, 1120, 1027, 23803, 369, 1957, 994, 432, 81635, 323, 358, 2322, 520, 10425, 596, 1828, 1938, 13, 358, 70326, 311, 1866, 358, 1047, 1027, 1168, 525, 323, 24931, 3403, 311, 4284, 430, 568, 1288, 41837, 273, 7...
But she had hardly set out upon her escapade before two very serious defects in her plan occurred to her with extreme force: the one that, however humiliated Christopher might feel, she would not be with him to witness his humiliation; the other that, oaf as she had taken Perowne to be in casual society, in close daily...	[ 4071, 1364, 1047, 20781, 743, 704, 5304, 1077, 89884, 1037, 1603, 1403, 1633, 6129, 42655, 304, 1077, 3197, 10222, 311, 1077, 449, 14560, 5457, 25, 279, 832, 430, 11, 4869, 2854, 54873, 26035, 2643, 2733, 11, 1364, 1053, 539, 387, 449, ...
There is of course an affinity between people and places. "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good." This was before man, and if there be such a thing as racial memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us th...	[ 3947, 374, 315, 3388, 459, 51552, 1990, 1274, 323, 7634, 13, 220, 330, 3112, 4359, 2663, 279, 9235, 4363, 9420, 26, 323, 279, 23738, 3871, 315, 21160, 2663, 1283, 93496, 26, 323, 4359, 5602, 430, 433, 574, 1695, 1210, 220, 1115, 574, ...
'I have received those letters, Captain Lake, of which I spoke to you when I last had the honour of seeing you, as furnishing, in certain circumstances connected with them, grave matter of suspicion, since when I have _not_ received one with Mr. Wylder's signature. But I _have_ received, only the other day, a letter fr...	[ 42069, 617, 4036, 1884, 12197, 11, 22022, 11940, 11, 315, 902, 358, 12570, 311, 499, 994, 358, 1566, 1047, 279, 34662, 315, 9298, 499, 11, 439, 9626, 11218, 11, 304, 3738, 13463, 8599, 449, 1124, 11, 25165, 5030, 315, 38141, 11, 2533,...
Raffles was humming a snatch of something too choice for me to recognise when I drew in my head from the glorious night. The folding-doors were shut, and the grandfather's clock on one side of them made it almost midnight. Raffles would not stop his tune for me, but he pointed to the syphon and decanter, and I replenis...	[ 49, 81635, 574, 87427, 264, 85660, 315, 2555, 2288, 5873, 369, 757, 311, 44917, 994, 358, 24465, 304, 856, 2010, 505, 279, 44308, 3814, 13, 578, 45842, 30659, 1105, 1051, 9495, 11, 323, 279, 38950, 596, 9042, 389, 832, 3185, 315, 1124...
At her words, Mary Victoria had drawn away from her father's arms, and she stood now, noble and proud and very lonely, against the boughs of the old sycamore and the dark sunset. Broken but undefeated, she put out her arm with a magnanimous gesture; and looking into her face, Mr. Littlepage felt that the lost adoratio...	[ 1688, 1077, 4339, 11, 10455, 23225, 1047, 15107, 3201, 505, 1077, 7126, 596, 11977, 11, 323, 1364, 14980, 1457, 11, 35482, 323, 12691, 323, 1633, 40666, 11, 2403, 279, 293, 1409, 82, 315, 279, 2362, 274, 3418, 309, 461, 323, 279, 6453...
Then Panhandle saw smoke issuing from the hole under the porch. The mother skunk and her kittens scampered out into the weeds. He heard the crackle of flames. That boy had dropped his torch under the porch. Screaming, Panhandle ran to alarm his mother. But it was too late. There were no men near at hand, so nothing...	[ 12487, 11233, 8355, 5602, 16603, 43221, 505, 279, 14512, 1234, 279, 45747, 13, 220, 578, 6691, 1940, 3200, 323, 1077, 83190, 35726, 43868, 704, 1139, 279, 70535, 13, 220, 1283, 6755, 279, 17944, 273, 315, 39885, 13, 220, 3011, 8334, 104...
Oh, I see! (I was very bitter here.) He'd wanted to preach to them, to make them better. Well, if he wished for my opinion. . . . No, he broke in upon me, I knew that it wasn't that. He didn't want to preach to anybody. But what had he done? Nothing but glorify himself. He had wanted to show them his idea of wha...	[ 12174, 11, 358, 1518, 0, 220, 320, 40, 574, 1633, 26242, 1618, 6266, 220, 1283, 4265, 4934, 311, 71721, 311, 1124, 11, 311, 1304, 1124, 2731, 13, 220, 8489, 11, 422, 568, 37287, 369, 856, 9647, 13, 662, 662, 662, 2360, 11, 568, 14...
NEWTON. My father, who died before I was born, was a wild, extravagant, weak man: so they tell me. I inherit his wildness, his extravagance, his weakness, in the shape of a craze for figures of which I am most heartily ashamed. There are so many more important things to be worked at: the transmutations of matter, th...	[ 21242, 10483, 13, 220, 3092, 7126, 11, 889, 8636, 1603, 358, 574, 9405, 11, 574, 264, 8545, 11, 95950, 11, 7621, 893, 25, 779, 814, 3371, 757, 13, 220, 358, 24683, 813, 8545, 2136, 11, 813, 74164, 685, 11, 813, 23948, 11, 304, 279...
There was the steady rhythm of a gong from some place of love on the outer beach, merging and sometimes lost in the thunder of reef combers, the screams of children, the sustained murmur of the coconut fronds. There was the smell of broiling fish from a cookhouse near by in the village, the heavy odor of seaweed cast a...	[ 3947, 574, 279, 24981, 37390, 315, 264, 342, 647, 505, 1063, 2035, 315, 3021, 389, 279, 16335, 11573, 11, 54477, 323, 7170, 5675, 304, 279, 37943, 315, 71145, 470, 1941, 11, 279, 61108, 315, 2911, 11, 279, 29759, 8309, 66206, 315, 279...
'Thanks, dear friends. We greatly appreciate your grand loyalty and energy. We receive your wireless messages with facility, and are in a position to answer you in this fashion. We have endeavoured to get possession of your line, but the currents lift it high, and it sweeps along rather faster than even the most active...	[ 17773, 71, 4129, 11, 25237, 4885, 13, 1226, 19407, 15763, 701, 6800, 32883, 323, 4907, 13, 1226, 5371, 701, 21401, 6743, 449, 12764, 11, 323, 527, 304, 264, 2361, 311, 4320, 499, 304, 420, 11401, 13, 1226, 617, 29705, 402, 21020, 311,...
"Guess what I have here for you?" he continues in a teasing manner, and draws from his waistcoat pocket a pair of beautiful earrings, fashioned in the newest style, and puts them on in place of the old ones. "Ah! What pretty, dainty earrings!" cried Veronica aloud; and started up from her chair, throwing aside her work...	[ 1, 46830, 1148, 358, 617, 1618, 369, 499, 7673, 568, 9731, 304, 264, 71463, 11827, 11, 323, 27741, 505, 813, 29142, 68512, 18301, 264, 6857, 315, 6366, 67301, 11, 68556, 304, 279, 24519, 1742, 11, 323, 9711, 1124, 389, 304, 2035, 315,...
Night came and the temperature dropped steadily. The fatal 28 came at midnight and I gave the word for the lighting of the fires. I put Lum in charge and Ida and I went at the business of preparing food and drink to warm the men through the long bitter night. The work is so cruel that it seems to me the least I can ...	[ 51537, 3782, 323, 279, 9499, 12504, 43071, 13, 220, 578, 19094, 220, 1591, 3782, 520, 33433, 323, 358, 6688, 279, 3492, 369, 279, 18186, 315, 279, 27176, 13, 220, 358, 2231, 43701, 304, 6900, 323, 358, 3315, 323, 358, 4024, 520, 279, ...
"December.--Have just finished A Nation in Arms by von der Goltz, a bad translation from the German. Purely a professional book, but the best handbook to bona fide soldiering that I know: goes much into the moral qualities required of officers and men, and the qualities required of chiefs. A knowledge of these things i...	[ 1, 33246, 33501, 12389, 1120, 8220, 362, 17671, 304, 44716, 555, 6675, 2761, 480, 6312, 89, 11, 264, 3958, 14807, 505, 279, 6063, 13, 30688, 398, 264, 6721, 2363, 11, 719, 279, 1888, 76349, 311, 94169, 282, 579, 27202, 287, 430, 358, ...
Very gradually, the wooden cover began to give way, until at length it was pushed aside and a sweet cool breath of air came down, infinitely refreshing to lungs that were beginning to pump heavily in that stagnant atmosphere. Then the little knot of men listened eagerly for any sign of the foe. The old Belgian smiled a...	[ 26840, 27115, 11, 279, 23162, 3504, 6137, 311, 3041, 1648, 11, 3156, 520, 3160, 433, 574, 15753, 16038, 323, 264, 10437, 7155, 11745, 315, 3805, 3782, 1523, 11, 72600, 37018, 311, 45274, 430, 1051, 7314, 311, 14155, 17345, 304, 430, 970...
At the farm, March was busy with a work she had had some time in hand. A bunch of Scotch fir trees stood at the end of the open shed, on a little bank where ran the fence between two of the gorse-shaggy meadows. The farthest of these trees was dead--it had died in the summer, and stood with all its needles brown and ...	[ 1688, 279, 8961, 11, 5587, 574, 13326, 449, 264, 990, 1364, 1047, 1047, 1063, 892, 304, 1450, 13, 220, 362, 15860, 315, 93050, 35092, 12690, 14980, 520, 279, 842, 315, 279, 1825, 25351, 11, 389, 264, 2697, 6201, 1405, 10837, 279, 2567...
Melanie lay in the bed, her figure under the counterpane shrunken and flat like a little girl's. Two black braids fell on either side of her face and her closed eyes were sunken in twin purple circles. At the sight of her Scarlett stood transfixed, leaning against the door. Despite the gloom of the room, she could s...	[ 40249, 19700, 11203, 304, 279, 4950, 11, 1077, 7216, 1234, 279, 5663, 26393, 559, 6236, 2779, 323, 10269, 1093, 264, 2697, 3828, 596, 13, 220, 9220, 3776, 20716, 3447, 11299, 389, 3060, 3185, 315, 1077, 3663, 323, 1077, 8036, 6548, 1051...
They rose and walked back to the inn from which issued the tumult of many voices raised in song and uncontrolled abuse. The room presented a scene of great disorder. Couples not amorously inclined were either gambling or accusing each other of murder, arson and rape. George Kerby was among the gamblers, but the Colonel...	[ 7009, 16392, 323, 15203, 1203, 311, 279, 6301, 505, 902, 11136, 279, 85677, 315, 1690, 24196, 9408, 304, 5609, 323, 653, 59707, 11737, 13, 578, 3130, 10666, 264, 6237, 315, 2294, 19823, 13, 90250, 539, 45265, 7162, 43131, 1051, 3060, 25...
I was so filled with sober reflections that I talked little; but there was no need of me. Youth and beauty reigned, and the Governor was as gay as the youngest. Many asked me to take wine with them, and the compliment pleased me. There was singing, likewise--Sir William Davenant's song to his mistress, and a Cavalier r...	[ 40, 574, 779, 10409, 449, 50505, 63851, 430, 358, 15243, 2697, 26, 719, 1070, 574, 912, 1205, 315, 757, 13, 30160, 323, 13444, 312, 1571, 11, 323, 279, 24245, 574, 439, 8485, 439, 279, 39637, 13, 9176, 4691, 757, 311, 1935, 13378, 4...
"I stayed in Canada nearly two years and meant to stay there for good. Then, one day, I got a letter from Barbara telling me that she was married. The news rather surprised me, for I had taken Barbara for an inveterate spinster with a tendency to avoid male friends other than myself. But the news had another, rather cu...	[ 7189, 20186, 304, 7008, 7154, 1403, 1667, 323, 8967, 311, 4822, 1070, 369, 1695, 13, 5112, 11, 832, 1938, 11, 358, 2751, 264, 6661, 505, 32207, 11890, 757, 430, 1364, 574, 12502, 13, 578, 3754, 4856, 14792, 757, 11, 369, 358, 1047, ...
"You're a poor blind brute," he said, shaking his head; don't you know that great criminals are never influenced by material desires, or by the prospect of concrete gains? The man, who robs his employer's till in order to give the girl of his heart the 25-pearl and ruby brooch her soul desires, gains nothing but the gl...	[ 22336, 2351, 264, 8009, 18507, 65198, 1359, 568, 1071, 11, 38839, 813, 2010, 26, 1541, 956, 499, 1440, 430, 2294, 32638, 527, 2646, 28160, 555, 3769, 32097, 11, 477, 555, 279, 22199, 315, 14509, 20192, 30, 578, 893, 11, 889, 938, 1302...
They raced to within half-a-mile of the bluff That drops to the river--the squadron strung out. 'I wonder,' quoth Mac, 'has the bay had enough!' But he wasn't left very much longer in doubt, For the Lord of the Hills struck a spur for the flat And followed it, leaving his mob, mares and all, While Empress (brave heart!...	[ 7009, 72154, 311, 2949, 4376, 7561, 43276, 315, 279, 97388, 3011, 21701, 311, 279, 15140, 313, 1820, 98380, 610, 2234, 704, 13, 364, 40, 5895, 2965, 934, 8942, 7553, 11, 364, 4752, 279, 23542, 1047, 3403, 32483, 2030, 568, 5828, 956, ...
The windows of Fitzpiers's soul being at present shuttered, he probably appeared less impressive than in his hours of animation; but the light abstracted from his material presence by sleep was more than counterbalanced by the mysterious influence of that state, in a stranger, upon the consciousness of a beholder so se...	[ 791, 11276, 315, 37778, 2554, 388, 596, 13836, 1694, 520, 3118, 49056, 291, 11, 568, 4762, 9922, 2753, 16358, 1109, 304, 813, 4207, 315, 10571, 26, 719, 279, 3177, 8278, 291, 505, 813, 3769, 9546, 555, 6212, 574, 810, 1109, 5663, 5950...
He turned back into the cave, and, guided by a momentary glimmer of his small lamp, carefully gathered up the limp, headless effigy and lifted it with infinite precaution not to disturb the insecure fastenings that held its parts together. Thus he carried it tenderly out through the wicket, and, stepping cautiously ove...	[ 1548, 6656, 1203, 1139, 279, 26457, 11, 323, 11, 33687, 555, 264, 4545, 661, 2840, 19519, 315, 813, 2678, 29062, 11, 15884, 20802, 709, 279, 83378, 11, 2010, 1752, 3369, 93593, 323, 30831, 433, 449, 24746, 72147, 539, 311, 38323, 279, ...
"'And of this vast sect, and of the peculiar powers with which they are invested, it is with some diffidence that I speak. It is affirmed by those credulous in such matters that their skill in healing is greater than that of all other living men, also that their power in witchcraft surpasses that of any others the worl...	[ 21230, 3112, 315, 420, 13057, 31237, 11, 323, 315, 279, 44797, 13736, 449, 902, 814, 527, 29091, 11, 433, 374, 449, 1063, 3722, 7232, 430, 358, 6604, 13, 1102, 374, 74549, 555, 1884, 4281, 13850, 304, 1778, 13146, 430, 872, 10151, 304...
The intellectuals believed in a greater degree of sex freedom--and many of them found it disappointing when they got it, either in person or vicariously through books and plays. They were discovering that the transmutation of love into what Krutch called a "carefully catalogued psychosis" had robbed the loveliest pass...	[ 791, 83936, 11846, 304, 264, 7191, 8547, 315, 1877, 11542, 313, 438, 1690, 315, 1124, 1766, 433, 39223, 994, 814, 2751, 433, 11, 3060, 304, 1732, 477, 32531, 277, 13610, 1555, 6603, 323, 11335, 13, 220, 2435, 1051, 42687, 430, 279, 13...
But there was a fly in the ointment--or perhaps I should say that there was a fly--a butterfly--missing from the ointment. I hastened to sew in at the back of the waistcoat a commodious secret pocket. But alas! that pocket was empty. The miserable wretch who had absconded in my patched and threadbare clothes, had, all ...	[ 4071, 1070, 574, 264, 11722, 304, 279, 297, 396, 479, 313, 269, 8530, 358, 1288, 2019, 430, 1070, 574, 264, 11722, 313, 64, 56269, 313, 31716, 505, 279, 297, 396, 479, 13, 358, 34143, 6901, 311, 23154, 304, 520, 279, 1203, 315, 279,...
He was perching disconsolately in a distant part of his native towri (aboriginal name for the territory of a tribe) when the father bird, who was demonstratively busy these days, caught sight of him. He did not ask him if he was married yet, nor did he bother to inquire why he was not elsewhere. He just lowered his hea...	[ 1548, 574, 824, 28075, 834, 6387, 337, 2718, 304, 264, 29827, 961, 315, 813, 10068, 16190, 462, 320, 4422, 11287, 836, 369, 279, 18455, 315, 264, 34671, 8, 994, 279, 7126, 12224, 11, 889, 574, 7912, 8046, 13326, 1521, 2919, 11, 10791,...
"Master!" she exclaimed; and before he could prevent her, she had dropped on her knees. "Forgive--forgive!" she muttered. "Terrible is thy power, O El-Râmi, ruler of spirits! terrible, mystic and wonderful! God must have given thee thy force, and I am but the meanest of slaves to rebel against thy command. Yet out of w...	[ 1, 18532, 9135, 1364, 80608, 26, 323, 1603, 568, 1436, 5471, 1077, 11, 1364, 1047, 12504, 389, 1077, 31624, 13, 330, 34635, 535, 313, 97944, 535, 9135, 1364, 87694, 13, 330, 21902, 12560, 374, 26236, 2410, 11, 507, 4072, 11151, 9011, ...
He did not realise (nor, for the matter of that, did Cynthia) that in her heart had been born a great exaltation that was seven-tenths sincere--a desire for saintliness. Naturally, such a grand emotion could not be maintained at its highest level all the time, but at odd moments Cynthia, with the thought of reaching a ...	[ 1548, 1550, 539, 39256, 320, 45807, 11, 369, 279, 5030, 315, 430, 11, 1550, 75671, 8, 430, 304, 1077, 4851, 1047, 1027, 9405, 264, 2294, 506, 3223, 367, 430, 574, 8254, 2442, 306, 5104, 49424, 313, 64, 12876, 369, 36959, 49958, 13, ...
This roused such disdain in Moray that he was ready to accuse her of almost any wickedness. He scorned to remind her again what Bothwell's character, reputation, and offences were, and rode beside her in a haughty silence. He could not conceive how any woman could forget the crime for which Earl Bothwell had been cast ...	[ 2028, 436, 37588, 1778, 79498, 304, 8613, 352, 430, 568, 574, 5644, 311, 62742, 1077, 315, 4661, 904, 45077, 2136, 13, 1283, 88106, 291, 311, 24928, 1077, 1578, 1148, 11995, 9336, 596, 3752, 11, 17444, 11, 323, 51312, 1051, 11, 323, 4...
"The path was narrow, as I said. There wasn't room for two, and as I'd got the inside; the other fellow simply had to go over the precipice. He went. There was plenty of green stuff to break his fall, and I don't wish him any particular harm. You may guess I didn't wait to give him my kind regards, but made off like th...	[ 10227, 1853, 574, 15376, 11, 439, 358, 1071, 13, 2684, 5828, 956, 3130, 369, 1403, 11, 323, 439, 358, 4265, 2751, 279, 4871, 26, 279, 1023, 12637, 5042, 1047, 311, 733, 927, 279, 36841, 560, 13, 1283, 4024, 13, 2684, 574, 11510, 315...
Harding had no sooner arrived at the White House than a swarm of practical politicians of the McKinley-Foraker vintage reappeared in Washington. Blowsy gentlemen with cigars stuck in their cheeks and rolls of very useful hundred-dollar bills in their pockets began to infest the Washington hotels. The word ran about t...	[ 28005, 287, 1047, 912, 31373, 11721, 520, 279, 5929, 4783, 1109, 264, 61941, 315, 15325, 19287, 315, 279, 67493, 3258, 12, 2520, 4506, 24724, 312, 99567, 304, 6652, 13, 220, 2563, 4336, 88, 58909, 449, 82215, 16075, 304, 872, 54888, 323...
"That is the first step towards wisdom. You admit ignorance. Deduction, in this sense, is the process of deriving consequences from admitted facts. Now, mark you. Capella wishes to be rid of his wife, by death or legal separation. He thinks he wants to marry Miss Layton. He is convinced that something within his power,...	[ 34728, 374, 279, 1176, 3094, 7119, 24278, 13, 1472, 17113, 41660, 13, 51499, 2720, 11, 304, 420, 5647, 11, 374, 279, 1920, 315, 49189, 16296, 505, 16584, 13363, 13, 4800, 11, 1906, 499, 13, 8171, 6985, 25223, 311, 387, 9463, 315, 813,...
American visitors to London often attain to a quite remarkable familiarity with many of its features. But their accomplishments in this respect do not usually extend to an acquaintance with its intimate geography. The reason is simple enough. He who would know London, or any other great city, in the complete and intima...	[ 29518, 15613, 311, 7295, 3629, 36861, 311, 264, 5115, 23649, 71540, 449, 1690, 315, 1202, 4519, 13, 2030, 872, 53881, 304, 420, 5201, 656, 539, 6118, 13334, 311, 459, 82407, 449, 1202, 32487, 54242, 13, 578, 2944, 374, 4382, 3403, 13, ...

The China Inland Mission in Tali was the last of the mission stations which I was to see on my journey. This is the furthest inland of the stations of the Inland Mission in China. It was opened in 1881 by Mr. George W. Clarke, the most widely-travelled, with the single exception of the late Dr. Cameron, of all the pion...

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He had, of course, seen her many times since the occasion of their first interview; indeed, it had become almost a habit that when leaving the Pacha he should, after his afternoon visit, receive a cup of tea at her hands; but beautiful as she had always seemed, never had her beauty struck him so forcibly as to-day. The...

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Only the moon saw him, throwing her yellow, bizarre light upon his black, sobbing body, as he lay with his face hidden. All around was calm and still and peaceful, auguring fair. In his heart alone raged the storm. The deep, uninterrupted blue of the sky looked serenely down on the earth below, whispering a message of ...

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"Unfortunately, no. The side windows were blurred with rain, and I was trying to strike a match. The first thing I was conscious of was a violent swerve. I looked up, saw a tall, cloaked figure wrenching at the reins with a crooked stick, and over we went. I fell into a bed of mud. It absolutely blinded me. I jumped up...

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Grunt! "Here's a pretty fellow for you!" Grunt! "Hungry, and he looks miserable." Grunt! "Hungry, and he groans." Grunt! "Hungry--the most enviable position a man can be in--and he dares to repine at his lot." Grunt! "What are the lower classes coming to next, I wonder? Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Aren't you a mode...

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I doubt not that it will excite feelings of contempt in many of those who read my story when I say, with old Mrs. Cunninghame, that, however strong Belle Staunton's love for Clive may have been, she would never have been happy as a poor man's wife. But let it be so. I have grown in wisdom since the day when I, too, sha...

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He went off, banging the gate behind him. The latch did not hold; Mary stepped out to secure it. And the sight of him trudging down the road brought back her chief grievance against him. This was his obstinate refusal to keep a horse and trap. It stood to reason: if he would only consent to drive on his rounds, instead...

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Nothing but time could cure it, and it ran its course to the dismay, amusement, or edification of the beholders, for its victims did all manner of queer things in their delirium. They begged potteries for clay, drove Italian plaster-corkers out of their wits with unexecutable orders got neuralgia and rheumatism sketchi...

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Thereafter he lay and stared into the dusty light as he had stared into the darkness. Needle-like pulses beat behind his lids; the muscles round eyes and mouth were a-twitch with fatigue. From the sight of food he turned with a sick man's disrelish. Swallowing a cup of milkless tea, he crossed to the surgery and shut h...

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On cold nights the men sleep two and three, and sometimes four, in a tent, or in a circle round the fire, a chain or two away from the camping cattle. A common practice is for two men to make one bed with their blankets, and sleep together. The nap of the man on watch is generally "borrowed" by his scantily-covered mat...

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'After careful consideration, I decided to adopt the plan. I went downstairs and sent the caretaker on an errand to the Law Courts. Then I returned and carried the deceased up to one of the third-floor rooms, where I removed his clothes and laid him out on a long packing-case in the position in which he would lie in th...

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But already the Duke, who seemed in a hurry to complete the round of introduction, had led me off to another of the flower-maidens. On hearing her name I told her that I had passed by her country house, not far from Balbec. "Oh, I should have been so pleased to take you over it," she informed me, almost in a whisper, t...

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But Roberta, her presents and her happy last evening with him put aside in this casual way, and for the first time, too, in this fashion, shook her head negatively, as if to say "Oh, no," but her spirits were heavily depressed and she fell to wondering what this sudden desertion of her at this time might portend. For,...

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The savagery underlying modern civilisation was all the more vividly before him, because one evening he, together with Sir J. Lubbock, Dr. Bastian, and Mr. Samuelson, were taken by the chief of the detective department round some of the worst slums in Liverpool. In thieves' dens, doss houses, dancing saloons, enough of...

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During the rather lengthy swim I was surprised to see that the shore and the cliff-top, which I thought had been crowded, were in fact deserted. The one heap of clothes which I could detect, and which I therefore took to be my own, perplexed me by its colour. I was still more perplexed when I walked out of the water to...

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Immediately afterward there appeared in the arch against the glow of flambeaus behind him a tall, thin man with fine silver hair and a curved nose that projected over his chin. He had remarkable, childishly-blue eyes that matched the colour of his faded coat pulled down from one shoulder by the weight of the mighty go...

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Chime returned almost immediately with the intimation that the Misses Brabazon-Fanes would see them at once, but the Superintendent made no movement to leave the hall, and, instead, stood pointing out to the Inspectors where the small rifle had hung upon the wall, and the drawer in the hall stand from which it was supp...

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'Remember, if you please,' said my friend, looking at me over his spectacles, 'that I am a Victorian by birth and education, and that the Victorian tree may not unreasonably be expected to bear Victorian fruit. Further, remember that an immense quantity of clever and thoughtful rubbish is now being written about the Vi...

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"Now show me the first drawer she touched." And this time he lifted out a petticoat, and, taking it to the window, examined it with a greater care. When he had finished with it he handed it to Ricardo to put away, and stood for a moment or two thoughtful and absorbed. Ricardo in his turn examined the petticoat. But he ...

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The origin of Archbishop Thomson was obscure. His great-uncle "may reasonably be supposed" to have been "an ornament to the middle classes". His aunt married a gentleman who was present at the murder of Gustavus III of Sweden; and his father met his death at the age of eighty-seven by treading on a cat in the early h...

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She took a cardboard box full of pipes from somewhere under the counter. How bad her accent had got! Or maybe I was just imagining that, because my own standards had changed? But no, she used to be so 'superior', all the girls at Lilywhite's were so 'superior', and she'd been a member of the vicar's Reading Circle. ...

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Although, when I was informed of this scheme, I was bitterly offended by the small attention which Raymond paid to my sister's feelings, I was led by reflection to consider, that he acted under the force of such strong excitement, as to take from him the consciousness, and, consequently, the guilt of a fault. If he ha...

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In the morning at sunrise we were about one mile from the shore; in various places we saw smoke ascending from fires made by the natives; the wind then being south and blowing from the land we again tacked to eastward. At noon Latitude estimated 40 degrees 31 minutes, Longitude 190 degrees 47 minutes; course kept north...

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At last, after about half an hour, the youth who was conductor of the omnibus came running down the wild side-road, everybody clambered in, and away the vehicle charged, into the neck of the plain. With a growl and a rush it swooped up the first loop of the ascent. Great precipices rose on the right, the ruddiness of s...

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In that moment he went through a selection of emotions that fully equalled hers. The first was blank consternation. A sense of baffled gallantry succeeded, and was followed by an overwhelming thankfulness that it was baffled. All evening he had been imagining himself delightfully in love with Olga, but had been torm...

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There is a distinct gradation in the things the river picks up when it rises. I have seen a creek take all the breakfast paraphernalia from a roofed-over porch on which a coloured household had been sitting when the rainstorm started. The rise of the waters in the steep little creek was so sudden that, when they rush...

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The more Father Latour examined this church, the more he was inclined to think that Fray Ramirez, or some Spanish priest who followed him, was not altogether innocent of worldly ambition, and that they built for their own satisfaction, perhaps, rather than according to the needs of the Indians. The magnificent site, t...

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It was something ghostly, horrible beyond words, and it moved in my grip. It was like the body of a man long drowned, and yet it moved, and had the strength of ten men living; but I gripped it with all my might--the slippery, oozy, horrible thing--the dead white eyes seemed to stare at me out of the dusk; the putrid od...

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He found something better as he skirted the shore. The sea and the weather had scooped out a big hollow under a high cliff, a hollow just big enough to take the _Jungle Queen_ and deep and still enough to ensure her a safe anchorage. A rock barrier interposed between the breakers and this deep pool which the waves had ...

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Informing the boat-keeper that they should return in a couple of hours, the two men first walked along the beach in the direction of the encampment. Then once out of sight from the boat, they struck inland into a deep valley through which, Macy said, a narrow track led up to the range, and then downwards to the two vil...

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And thus we settled down in the spot which was to be the burial place of so many of our party--which was fated to be the scene of so much intense suffering, and of such heart-sickening hope deferred. Wearied out by long endurance of trials that would have tried the courage and shaken the fortitude of the strongest, a s...

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It had not been long before news of the strange occurrence had spread through the capital. And, of course, it received additions with the progress of time. Everyone's mind was, at that period, bent upon the marvellous. Recently experiments with the action of magnetism had occupied public attention, and the history of t...

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There were circumstances, moreover, which, coupled with late events, gave an unearthly and portentous character to the mania of the rider, and to the capabilities of the steed. The space passed over in a single leap had been accurately measured, and was found to exceed by an astounding difference, the wildest expectati...

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But no explanations were volunteered then or ever. People might query and peer, but they learned nothing. What was left open to view told no tales beyond the old one, and as for the single window which was the sole opening into the shut-off space, it was then, as now, so completely blocked up by a network of closely im...

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"Tackle a cornfield, Miss," he would say again and again, "with its butter-yellow colour, and its blobs of red poppies, and the green hedges all round. You write poetry such as I know you can about a cornfield, and farmers, and farm buildings with thatched roofs, and you'll wake one of these mornings (like all poets ho...

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I first knew Joseph Rouletabille when he was a young reporter. At that time I was a beginner at the Bar and often met him in the corridors of examining magistrates, when I had gone to get a "permit to communicate" for the prison of Mazas, or for Saint-Lazare. He had, as they say, "a good nut." He seemed to have taken h...

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Mr. James Barker, whose guard was attired in a splendid blue, and whose blue banner bore three gold birds singing, rushed, in his blue and gold robes, into the room. Despite the absurdity of all the dresses, it was worth noticing that he carried his better than the rest, though he loathed it as much as any of them. He ...

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He also made the discovery that the Scriptures not only give sure guidance as to personal justification and sanctification, but that they also contain definite instruction with regard to the Church. "If we would reform the Church", he said, "we must make use of the Holy Scriptures and especially of the Acts, where it i...

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'But the Romans,' he went on, 'want no clash with Jewry now. They are deliberately preparing for the day when they will take full possession of this country, looting it and enslaving it. They could do it tomorrow if their armies were not engaged in the recovery of their losses in Gaul. When they are ready, they will st...

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Mr. Twist, being of the artistic temperament for otherwise he wouldn't have been so sympathetic nor would he have minded, as he so passionately did mind, his Uncle Charles's teapot dribbling on to the tablecloth--was sometimes swept by brief but tempestuous revulsions of feeling, and though he loved the Twinklers he di...

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The real difficulty which many cultivated people have in the matter of Watts' allegorical pictures is far more difficult. It is indeed nothing else but the great general reaction against allegorical art which has arisen during the last artistic period. The only way in which we can study, with any real sincerity, the al...

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After she had gone, he stole away to the throne chamber. There, sure enough, was Kon, and sitting, of all places, in the throne of the Lord of Folly. Graydon, taking it as a happy augury, grinned widely. He seated himself beside him, drew out a stick of red pigment and a piece of white silken stuff. Kon clicked, intere...

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The three men slowly and silently moved down the street, and the heart of one of them was the prey of a leaping terror. Scared eyes, like those of rabbits in a snare, were watching them from the windows. In the inn-yard there was no sign of a soul, except the village idiot who was playing ninepins with bottles. Midw...

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Nineteen years were sped since Ivan the Terrible had passed away, leaving two sons, Feodor Ivanovitch, who had succeeded him, and the infant Demetrius. Feodor, a weakling who was almost imbecile, had married Irene, the daughter of Boris Godunov, whereby it had fallen out that Boris became the real ruler of Russia, the ...

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Returning to the Hawkesbury we find that the animosity between the settlers and the aborigines during the two years ending the century had pretty near reached its climax, and resulted in deeds of the darkest cruelty on either side. One case is recorded of exceptional cruelty on the part of the white settlers. The nativ...

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In October 1917, when the air raids on London were acutely monotonous, there was a marked tendency on the part of Eustace Forsyte to take Turkish baths. The most fastidious of his family, who had carried imperturbability of demeanour to the pitch of defiance, he had perceived in the Turkish bath a gesture, as of a fin...

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It was porpoises--porpoises aglow with phosphorescent light. They presently collected in a wild and magnificent jumble under the bows, and there they played for an hour, leaping and frollicking and carrying on, turning summersaults in front of the stem or across it and never getting hit, never making a miscalculation,...

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Larose was very satisfied with the way things were shaping. "Things couldn't be going better," he told himself that night, as he was treating himself to a nice little dinner at the Savoy, "and I'll run that chap to earth, sure enough." His face clouded. "But it may be a long wait, and I'll have to kick up my heels here...

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Mrs Rolleston was a lady by birth and education; but it had been her bad fortune to marry a scoundrel; for the last half-dozen years she had been that worst of widows, a wife whose husband had deserted her. Happily, she was courageous, industrious, and a clever needle-woman; and she had been able just to earn a living ...

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Nevertheless, when nocturnal attacks, cases of arson and thefts of greater and lesser importance were followed by those two extraordinary murders of Camus and Lombard, the police were obliged to go to work more thoroughly. They threatened the more timid natures, with a view to forcing them to speak. But these would rat...

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The ladies, that day, plied him with a thousand artful questions about the barometers, he extricated himself with a laugh and very neatly; they consulted him as to the state of the barometer in the house, which they put in his hands, he remembered the tone that, in similar circumstances, Conte Pietranera would have ado...

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One celebrity, who lives in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, did not favour me with a visit. That famous dacoit, the outlawed Prince of Wuntho--the Wuntho Sawbwa--lives here, an exile sheltered by the Chinese Government. A pure Burmese himself, the father-in-law of the amiable Sawbwa of Santa, he is believed by the Gover...

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Because the east wind does what no other wind of the welkin ever does. It does not come from the good sky downward, bringing higher breath to us; nor even on the level of the ancient things, spreading average movement. This alone of all winds strikes from the face of the good earth upward, sweeping the blush from the...

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A furlong of fetid, black fen, with gelid, green patches of pond, Lies dumb by the horns of the glen -- at the gates of the horror beyond; And those who have looked on it tell of the terrible growths that are there -- The flowerage fostered by hell, the blossoms that startle and scare. If ever a wandering bird should l...

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A MURDER lends to the locality in which it is perpetrated a certain left-handed fame which those of its inhabitants who appear most disgusted most enjoy. Human nature being what it is, trouble and misery have a larger sale-value to newspapers than have comfort and happiness. Nothing makes a newspaper reader more consci...

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"As good as coming, I ought to have said--only I didn't know you wished me to be so very particular. We got the answers to the advertisements this morning. Papa and I opened them and read them together half an hour ago; and we both picked out the same letter from all the rest. I picked it out, because it was so prettil...

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Darrell took up the easel, and, drawing her arm within his own, led her through the copse to where he had left his horse. Both were busy with their own thoughts, and they walked on in silence, till they reached the outskirts of the little grove, when Anne suddenly said, 'Mr. Darrell, will you please ride on up to the h...

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"'Things are booming,' I said.--'While building's going on,' he replied. 'When that's finished, the whole floating labour supply which you call population will fade away and die. Of course, you can capitalize a slump as well as a boom; but it takes a sharp one if you know what I mean.' Excuse the vulgarity, ladies a...

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But for a long time the girl did not sleep. Not far from her bed stood a lamp made from a sardine tin filled with fat, and having for a wick a strip of moleskin trouser. How the sight of that fat lamp in the old sardine tin reminded her of camping-out nights at the back- blocks cattle station near her girlhood's home! ...

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The year 187belonged to those fortunate seasons which occasionally compensate the toils and anxieties of habitans in sicco and his sun-- scorched brethren. Wool was very fair; stock were at once plentiful, in good condition, and high in price. I hardened my heart as the days grew more fiercely hot, while the dust-stor...

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"God, how I raved when I heard of that terrible sentence. Gardiner was still my hero. It is hard to kill a woman's love for a man, dear. Even his unfaithfulness was forgiven, blotted out by that savage sentence. I knew only too well what it meant to a man of his mettle. But I have one consolation. Gardiner had broken p...

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"You can't see what you've done," concluded Lucy in spent passion. "You're like our father. Poor weak thing that you are, I can't blame you. It's in the family...If only you'd had the sense and the honour to tell me the truth!--before you married this clean simple-minded boy! Somehow we might have escaped the worst of ...

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ALTHOUGH the natural development of the Hunter Valley followed along the usual Australian pioneering lines--the breeding of stock, accompanied by some amount of agriculture complementary to such pursuits--it must not be overlooked that wine-growing played an important part in it. In the past and the present, the cultur...

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"And I've never thought of it!" said Johnny (in the afterwards). "Shows what a God-forgotten selection will make of a man. She'd thought of it all the time, and was waiting for it to strike me. Why! I'd agreed to go and play at a darnce at Old Pipeclay School-house all night -- that very night -- and leave her at home...

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Your letter requires consideration, and I have had very little leisure lately. Whether motion disintegrates or integrates is, I apprehend, a question of conditions. A whirlpool in a stream may remain in the same spot for any imaginable time. Yet it is the effect of the motion of the particles of the water in that spot ...

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The historic sward had just been cleared for action when Raffles and I met at Lord's next day. I blush to own I had been knave and fool enough to suggest that he should smuggle me into the pavilion; but perhaps the only laws of man that Raffles really respected were those of the M.C.C., and it was in Block B. that he j...

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But she had hardly set out upon her escapade before two very serious defects in her plan occurred to her with extreme force: the one that, however humiliated Christopher might feel, she would not be with him to witness his humiliation; the other that, oaf as she had taken Perowne to be in casual society, in close daily...

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There is of course an affinity between people and places. "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good." This was before man, and if there be such a thing as racial memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us th...

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'I have received those letters, Captain Lake, of which I spoke to you when I last had the honour of seeing you, as furnishing, in certain circumstances connected with them, grave matter of suspicion, since when I have _not_ received one with Mr. Wylder's signature. But I _have_ received, only the other day, a letter fr...

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Raffles was humming a snatch of something too choice for me to recognise when I drew in my head from the glorious night. The folding-doors were shut, and the grandfather's clock on one side of them made it almost midnight. Raffles would not stop his tune for me, but he pointed to the syphon and decanter, and I replenis...

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At her words, Mary Victoria had drawn away from her father's arms, and she stood now, noble and proud and very lonely, against the boughs of the old sycamore and the dark sunset. Broken but undefeated, she put out her arm with a magnanimous gesture; and looking into her face, Mr. Littlepage felt that the lost adoratio...

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Then Panhandle saw smoke issuing from the hole under the porch. The mother skunk and her kittens scampered out into the weeds. He heard the crackle of flames. That boy had dropped his torch under the porch. Screaming, Panhandle ran to alarm his mother. But it was too late. There were no men near at hand, so nothing...

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Oh, I see! (I was very bitter here.) He'd wanted to preach to them, to make them better. Well, if he wished for my opinion. . . . No, he broke in upon me, I knew that it wasn't that. He didn't want to preach to anybody. But what had he done? Nothing but glorify himself. He had wanted to show them his idea of wha...

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NEWTON. My father, who died before I was born, was a wild, extravagant, weak man: so they tell me. I inherit his wildness, his extravagance, his weakness, in the shape of a craze for figures of which I am most heartily ashamed. There are so many more important things to be worked at: the transmutations of matter, th...

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There was the steady rhythm of a gong from some place of love on the outer beach, merging and sometimes lost in the thunder of reef combers, the screams of children, the sustained murmur of the coconut fronds. There was the smell of broiling fish from a cookhouse near by in the village, the heavy odor of seaweed cast a...

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'Thanks, dear friends. We greatly appreciate your grand loyalty and energy. We receive your wireless messages with facility, and are in a position to answer you in this fashion. We have endeavoured to get possession of your line, but the currents lift it high, and it sweeps along rather faster than even the most active...

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"Guess what I have here for you?" he continues in a teasing manner, and draws from his waistcoat pocket a pair of beautiful earrings, fashioned in the newest style, and puts them on in place of the old ones. "Ah! What pretty, dainty earrings!" cried Veronica aloud; and started up from her chair, throwing aside her work...

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Night came and the temperature dropped steadily. The fatal 28 came at midnight and I gave the word for the lighting of the fires. I put Lum in charge and Ida and I went at the business of preparing food and drink to warm the men through the long bitter night. The work is so cruel that it seems to me the least I can ...

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"December.--Have just finished A Nation in Arms by von der Goltz, a bad translation from the German. Purely a professional book, but the best handbook to bona fide soldiering that I know: goes much into the moral qualities required of officers and men, and the qualities required of chiefs. A knowledge of these things i...

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Very gradually, the wooden cover began to give way, until at length it was pushed aside and a sweet cool breath of air came down, infinitely refreshing to lungs that were beginning to pump heavily in that stagnant atmosphere. Then the little knot of men listened eagerly for any sign of the foe. The old Belgian smiled a...

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At the farm, March was busy with a work she had had some time in hand. A bunch of Scotch fir trees stood at the end of the open shed, on a little bank where ran the fence between two of the gorse-shaggy meadows. The farthest of these trees was dead--it had died in the summer, and stood with all its needles brown and ...

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Melanie lay in the bed, her figure under the counterpane shrunken and flat like a little girl's. Two black braids fell on either side of her face and her closed eyes were sunken in twin purple circles. At the sight of her Scarlett stood transfixed, leaning against the door. Despite the gloom of the room, she could s...

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They rose and walked back to the inn from which issued the tumult of many voices raised in song and uncontrolled abuse. The room presented a scene of great disorder. Couples not amorously inclined were either gambling or accusing each other of murder, arson and rape. George Kerby was among the gamblers, but the Colonel...

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I was so filled with sober reflections that I talked little; but there was no need of me. Youth and beauty reigned, and the Governor was as gay as the youngest. Many asked me to take wine with them, and the compliment pleased me. There was singing, likewise--Sir William Davenant's song to his mistress, and a Cavalier r...

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"I stayed in Canada nearly two years and meant to stay there for good. Then, one day, I got a letter from Barbara telling me that she was married. The news rather surprised me, for I had taken Barbara for an inveterate spinster with a tendency to avoid male friends other than myself. But the news had another, rather cu...

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"You're a poor blind brute," he said, shaking his head; don't you know that great criminals are never influenced by material desires, or by the prospect of concrete gains? The man, who robs his employer's till in order to give the girl of his heart the 25-pearl and ruby brooch her soul desires, gains nothing but the gl...

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They raced to within half-a-mile of the bluff That drops to the river--the squadron strung out. 'I wonder,' quoth Mac, 'has the bay had enough!' But he wasn't left very much longer in doubt, For the Lord of the Hills struck a spur for the flat And followed it, leaving his mob, mares and all, While Empress (brave heart!...

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The windows of Fitzpiers's soul being at present shuttered, he probably appeared less impressive than in his hours of animation; but the light abstracted from his material presence by sleep was more than counterbalanced by the mysterious influence of that state, in a stranger, upon the consciousness of a beholder so se...

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He turned back into the cave, and, guided by a momentary glimmer of his small lamp, carefully gathered up the limp, headless effigy and lifted it with infinite precaution not to disturb the insecure fastenings that held its parts together. Thus he carried it tenderly out through the wicket, and, stepping cautiously ove...

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"'And of this vast sect, and of the peculiar powers with which they are invested, it is with some diffidence that I speak. It is affirmed by those credulous in such matters that their skill in healing is greater than that of all other living men, also that their power in witchcraft surpasses that of any others the worl...

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The intellectuals believed in a greater degree of sex freedom--and many of them found it disappointing when they got it, either in person or vicariously through books and plays. They were discovering that the transmutation of love into what Krutch called a "carefully catalogued psychosis" had robbed the loveliest pass...

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But there was a fly in the ointment--or perhaps I should say that there was a fly--a butterfly--missing from the ointment. I hastened to sew in at the back of the waistcoat a commodious secret pocket. But alas! that pocket was empty. The miserable wretch who had absconded in my patched and threadbare clothes, had, all ...

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He was perching disconsolately in a distant part of his native towri (aboriginal name for the territory of a tribe) when the father bird, who was demonstratively busy these days, caught sight of him. He did not ask him if he was married yet, nor did he bother to inquire why he was not elsewhere. He just lowered his hea...

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"Master!" she exclaimed; and before he could prevent her, she had dropped on her knees. "Forgive--forgive!" she muttered. "Terrible is thy power, O El-Râmi, ruler of spirits! terrible, mystic and wonderful! God must have given thee thy force, and I am but the meanest of slaves to rebel against thy command. Yet out of w...

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He did not realise (nor, for the matter of that, did Cynthia) that in her heart had been born a great exaltation that was seven-tenths sincere--a desire for saintliness. Naturally, such a grand emotion could not be maintained at its highest level all the time, but at odd moments Cynthia, with the thought of reaching a ...

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This roused such disdain in Moray that he was ready to accuse her of almost any wickedness. He scorned to remind her again what Bothwell's character, reputation, and offences were, and rode beside her in a haughty silence. He could not conceive how any woman could forget the crime for which Earl Bothwell had been cast ...

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"The path was narrow, as I said. There wasn't room for two, and as I'd got the inside; the other fellow simply had to go over the precipice. He went. There was plenty of green stuff to break his fall, and I don't wish him any particular harm. You may guess I didn't wait to give him my kind regards, but made off like th...

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Harding had no sooner arrived at the White House than a swarm of practical politicians of the McKinley-Foraker vintage reappeared in Washington. Blowsy gentlemen with cigars stuck in their cheeks and rolls of very useful hundred-dollar bills in their pockets began to infest the Washington hotels. The word ran about t...

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"That is the first step towards wisdom. You admit ignorance. Deduction, in this sense, is the process of deriving consequences from admitted facts. Now, mark you. Capella wishes to be rid of his wife, by death or legal separation. He thinks he wants to marry Miss Layton. He is convinced that something within his power,...

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American visitors to London often attain to a quite remarkable familiarity with many of its features. But their accomplishments in this respect do not usually extend to an acquaintance with its intimate geography. The reason is simple enough. He who would know London, or any other great city, in the complete and intima...

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