JoeyLLM/Project_Gutenberg_Australia · Datasets at Hugging Face

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That fable is unjust, which gives the superiority to the sun over the wind. Who has not seen the lightsome earth, the balmy atmosphere, and basking nature become dark, cold and ungenial, when the sleeping wind has awoke in the east? Or, when the dun clouds thickly veil the sky, while exhaustless stores of rain are po...	[ 4897, 282, 481, 374, 52583, 11, 902, 6835, 279, 66732, 311, 279, 7160, 927, 279, 10160, 13, 220, 10699, 706, 539, 3970, 279, 13001, 638, 9578, 11, 279, 9839, 2465, 16975, 11, 323, 293, 71805, 7138, 3719, 6453, 11, 9439, 323, 653, 44...
Then we came to the cook-house. No matter what an inspecting general's fads may be, there is one iron rule that he must look in at the cook-house and ask some questions about the men's food. Our chief cook was an old South African man. When Allenby saw the ribbon he asked about the man's service, whether he was married...	[ 12487, 584, 3782, 311, 279, 4394, 37002, 13, 2360, 5030, 1148, 459, 25052, 287, 4689, 596, 282, 7819, 1253, 387, 11, 1070, 374, 832, 11245, 6037, 430, 568, 2011, 1427, 304, 520, 279, 4394, 37002, 323, 2610, 1063, 4860, 922, 279, 3026,...
"I'd advise you to try, Sir. You've no patience. Now, you'll just let me ondress you, and tuck you in, and you'd be amazed how comfortable you'll feel after this joyful meeting with your nephy, who's the pleasant young gentleman to get alongside of in a buggy, and who'll be after admiring all the improvements when you ...	[ 7189, 4265, 32113, 499, 311, 1456, 11, 17177, 13, 1472, 3077, 912, 30401, 13, 4800, 11, 499, 3358, 1120, 1095, 757, 389, 69334, 499, 11, 323, 259, 1983, 499, 304, 11, 323, 499, 4265, 387, 46304, 1268, 10882, 499, 3358, 2733, 1306, 4...
And if they had known how terrible that end had been--if any human eye had seen the horror and dread of her last moments--they would have shuddered still more; they would have acknowledged it was worse even than they deemed it. But only one Eye had witnessed that terrible conflict, only one Presence had been there when...	[ 3112, 422, 814, 1047, 3967, 1268, 17936, 430, 842, 1047, 1027, 313, 333, 904, 3823, 8071, 1047, 3970, 279, 22169, 323, 36075, 315, 1077, 1566, 14269, 313, 20670, 1053, 617, 559, 8512, 12616, 2103, 810, 26, 814, 1053, 617, 26579, 433, ...
"It would be all," he answered her. "But I could never believe in it. Never. You are aching to forgive, you say. Oh, blessed, healing words! But why is this? Because you are grateful to me for the life I have helped to save. That is the true source of your pity for my soul's deformity, which is urging you to utter this...	[ 12348, 1053, 387, 682, 1359, 568, 19089, 1077, 13, 330, 4071, 358, 1436, 2646, 4510, 304, 433, 13, 15037, 13, 1472, 527, 264, 28075, 311, 44491, 11, 499, 2019, 13, 8840, 11, 33944, 11, 21730, 4339, 0, 2030, 3249, 374, 420, 30, 9393,...
After a brief halt to rest our fagged horses, we doubled on our tracks (following Thunderbolt's original plan), and proceeded towards Barraba, but very slowly in order that the news of our latest crime might precede us. The consequence was exactly as the outlaw had anticipated. The police, who kept watch and ward over ...	[ 6153, 264, 10015, 27365, 311, 2800, 1057, 282, 97576, 27928, 11, 584, 35717, 389, 1057, 14242, 320, 44018, 27789, 53533, 596, 4113, 3197, 705, 323, 45374, 7119, 32817, 12273, 11, 719, 1633, 14297, 304, 2015, 430, 279, 3754, 315, 1057, 5...
It was now Galeazzo's turn to be silent; he looked down, and answered in monosyllables, and seemed to wish to make Euthanasia believe, that she might have divined well the plans of Castruccio, though he could not himself believe they were of so peaceful a nature. Euthanasia continued to talk; for she seemed to gather f...	[ 2181, 574, 1457, 79332, 40773, 596, 2543, 311, 387, 21737, 26, 568, 7111, 1523, 11, 323, 19089, 304, 1647, 437, 25734, 4893, 11, 323, 9508, 311, 6562, 311, 1304, 469, 952, 26997, 689, 4510, 11, 430, 1364, 2643, 617, 3512, 1619, 1664, ...
This last letter was horribly touching, for summer had come and the smell of the woods behind his prison reminded Peter of a place in the Woodbush, and one could read in every sentence the ache of exile. I sat on that stone wall and considered how trifling were the crumpled leaves in my bed of life compared with the th...	[ 2028, 1566, 6661, 574, 77104, 31687, 11, 369, 7474, 1047, 2586, 323, 279, 22843, 315, 279, 33633, 4920, 813, 9527, 31256, 11291, 315, 264, 2035, 304, 279, 12404, 65, 1136, 11, 323, 832, 1436, 1373, 304, 1475, 11914, 279, 78831, 315, 6...
At length these men paddled forward gently, which, the sea being calm, they could do well enough, not to the gap where those boats that went first had been overturned, but to the rocks upon its right side, on which many of them landed, leaving some in each canoe to hold on to the seaweed that grew upon the rocks. When ...	[ 1688, 3160, 1521, 3026, 54269, 839, 4741, 30373, 11, 902, 11, 279, 9581, 1694, 19858, 11, 814, 1436, 656, 1664, 3403, 11, 539, 311, 279, 13225, 1405, 1884, 32731, 430, 4024, 1176, 1047, 1027, 69098, 11, 719, 311, 279, 23902, 5304, 120...
"Mr. Stephen Persimmons featuring the bluff employer," his father murmured. He got up, went over to the publisher, and began whispering in his ear, following him as he took a few steps and halted again. Kenneth had an impulse to say that he resigned, and another to knock Gregory down and trample on him. He stared at hi...	[ 1, 12555, 13, 18587, 21097, 318, 24483, 16850, 279, 97388, 19683, 1359, 813, 7126, 87651, 3149, 13, 1283, 2751, 709, 11, 4024, 927, 311, 279, 21959, 11, 323, 6137, 35955, 287, 304, 813, 2487, 11, 2768, 1461, 439, 568, 3952, 264, 2478,...
"Back, miscreant!" she cried; "your over-eagerness has betrayed you. I now fully believe what I have hitherto doubted, that this is a counter-poison, and that I may safely use it. It is time to unmask you, and to let you know that your villanies are discovered. I am aware of the malignant practices you have resorted to...	[ 1, 3792, 11, 5906, 846, 519, 9135, 1364, 39169, 26, 330, 22479, 927, 5773, 351, 29668, 706, 65397, 499, 13, 358, 1457, 7373, 4510, 1148, 358, 617, 305, 411, 14200, 93762, 11, 430, 420, 374, 264, 5663, 75488, 3416, 11, 323, 430, 358,...
Having made our preparations, such as they were, we awaited the coming storm. It did not keep us long in suspense. First came a gust of wind that bent all the branches in one direction, and then sent them tossing and whirling in the air, blew the twigs and dried leaves and bits of grass till they scampered about like l...	[ 29132, 1903, 1057, 47979, 11, 1778, 439, 814, 1051, 11, 584, 79578, 279, 5108, 13766, 13, 1102, 1550, 539, 2567, 603, 1317, 304, 72930, 13, 5629, 3782, 264, 30914, 315, 10160, 430, 30280, 682, 279, 23962, 304, 832, 5216, 11, 323, 1243...
My town excitement over I returned to the country and the writing of books. Oddly enough, I found that the thorough change of thought seemed to have rested my mind, with the result that my imagination was fresher than it had been for some years before. Also the work itself was and has remained less irksome to me than d...	[ 5159, 6424, 28361, 927, 358, 6052, 311, 279, 3224, 323, 279, 4477, 315, 6603, 13, 56136, 398, 3403, 11, 358, 1766, 430, 279, 17879, 2349, 315, 3463, 9508, 311, 617, 66529, 856, 4059, 11, 449, 279, 1121, 430, 856, 28899, 574, 49973, ...
It was long past noon when the ceremony was ended. The minister drained his glass of water, mopped his face, and heaved a deep sigh. As the whole congregation still sat on, he gave them a hint that "church" was out, and their presence no longer required. He spoke with a show of concern of how very hot they would find t...	[ 2181, 574, 1317, 3347, 38245, 994, 279, 22260, 574, 9670, 13, 578, 13015, 61508, 813, 9168, 315, 3090, 11, 296, 18033, 813, 3663, 11, 323, 568, 4234, 264, 5655, 31238, 13, 1666, 279, 4459, 59635, 2103, 7731, 389, 11, 568, 6688, 1124, ...
'Exactly; for Mr. Bellingham. That is, for a living man. Now how do you search a house for a living man? You look in all the rooms. When you look in a room if he is there, you see him; if you do not see him, you assume that he is not there. You don't look under the sofa or behind the piano, you don't pull out large dra...	[ 6, 66457, 26, 369, 4491, 13, 426, 6427, 5721, 13, 3011, 374, 11, 369, 264, 5496, 893, 13, 4800, 1268, 656, 499, 2778, 264, 3838, 369, 264, 5496, 893, 30, 1472, 1427, 304, 682, 279, 12295, 13, 3277, 499, 1427, 304, 264, 3130, 422, ...
This disposition is common to all the terrestrial species; namely, to the mocking-thrushes, the finches, wrens, tyrant-flycatchers, the dove, and carrion-buzzard. All of them often approached sufficiently near to be killed with a switch, and sometimes, as I myself tried, with a cap or hat. A gun is here almost superflu...	[ 2028, 46096, 374, 4279, 311, 682, 279, 80492, 9606, 26, 32125, 11, 311, 279, 67583, 7716, 78277, 288, 11, 279, 1913, 8696, 11, 289, 78440, 11, 43049, 519, 83985, 7320, 388, 11, 279, 48322, 11, 323, 48595, 290, 1481, 9065, 569, 13, 2...
Later in the afternoon, Mr. Vanstone suggested a drive to his eldest daughter, as the best remedy for her headache. She readily consented to accompany her father; who thereupon proposed, as usual, that Magdalen should join them. Magdalen was nowhere to be found. For the second time that day she had wandered into the gr...	[ 31082, 304, 279, 13658, 11, 4491, 13, 13000, 11046, 12090, 264, 6678, 311, 813, 74665, 10003, 11, 439, 279, 1888, 40239, 369, 1077, 47846, 13, 3005, 31368, 14771, 291, 311, 19780, 1077, 7126, 26, 889, 1070, 59723, 11223, 11, 439, 13783,...
"I doubt it," the Princess said in the same collected fashion. "Let's admit, for the sake of argument, that all you say is correct. I am not Princess de Gaucourt, I am simply Olive Kesler, who, at one time, was in Mr. Oakes's office. There I learnt all about finance. There I had the run of his private papers and master...	[ 7189, 10712, 433, 1359, 279, 30389, 1071, 304, 279, 1890, 14890, 11401, 13, 330, 10267, 596, 17113, 11, 369, 279, 25491, 315, 5811, 11, 430, 682, 499, 2019, 374, 4495, 13, 358, 1097, 539, 30389, 409, 18879, 1791, 29686, 11, 358, 1097,...
It was a glorious sunset. The whole western sky was a blaze of flame, throwing a purple tint upon the mountains, and gilding the sombre edges of the great forest which spreads between Trafalgar and the river Wawirra. It stretched out, a primeval, unbroken wilderness, save at the one point where a rough track had been f...	[ 2181, 574, 264, 44308, 44084, 13, 578, 4459, 19001, 13180, 574, 264, 63573, 315, 35678, 11, 21939, 264, 25977, 49104, 5304, 279, 24405, 11, 323, 342, 699, 287, 279, 1794, 21152, 13116, 315, 279, 2294, 13952, 902, 43653, 1990, 350, 15817...
The Loyalty Islands lie to the east of New Caledonia, and have belonged to France for more than half a century. They are thus situated in much the same latitude as Egypt is in the Northern hemisphere, but with a climate tempered by the ocean. It is with the Island of Lifu that we are mainly concerned. There are no stre...	[ 791, 68342, 10231, 23028, 10457, 311, 279, 11226, 315, 1561, 356, 5962, 21947, 11, 323, 617, 46959, 311, 9822, 369, 810, 1109, 4376, 264, 9478, 13, 2435, 527, 8617, 31183, 304, 1790, 279, 1890, 21518, 439, 15212, 374, 304, 279, 17355, ...
"I am very glad to hear you say so," said Mrs. Earlsley, "I cannot for the life of me understand what the people have to complain of. It appears to me to be an Irish bull to call O'Connell a liberator, when it is not at all perceptible what he has to liberate. The Irish people are not oppressed by a secret police; they...	[ 7189, 1097, 1633, 16089, 311, 6865, 499, 2019, 779, 1359, 1071, 18083, 13, 6952, 4835, 3258, 11, 330, 40, 4250, 369, 279, 2324, 315, 757, 3619, 1148, 279, 1274, 617, 311, 29011, 315, 13, 1102, 8111, 311, 757, 311, 387, 459, 18088, 1...
Getting back to the Hydro and having a cigarette by himself in the lounge, the two came up to speak to him again, plumping themselves down beside him. "Whew," exclaimed Edgerton, "but it's hard work making money on a racecourse, up and down the grandstand all the time! Still, between us we are up £70 odd on the afterno...	[ 29755, 1203, 311, 279, 40602, 323, 3515, 264, 36213, 555, 5678, 304, 279, 39032, 11, 279, 1403, 3782, 709, 311, 6604, 311, 1461, 1578, 11, 628, 55432, 5694, 1523, 30488, 1461, 13, 330, 1671, 365, 1359, 80608, 3279, 70, 37733, 11, 330,...
This danger was succeeded by one that had nearly proved much more fatal; the captain, with great humanity, had released many of the convicts who had been in a weakly state, from their irons; and as I have before observed, they were allowed alternately, ten at a time, to walk the deck. Two of them, Americans, who had so...	[ 2028, 8137, 574, 26399, 555, 832, 430, 1047, 7154, 19168, 1790, 810, 19094, 26, 279, 24862, 11, 449, 2294, 22706, 11, 1047, 6004, 1690, 315, 279, 5804, 31095, 889, 1047, 1027, 304, 264, 7621, 398, 1614, 11, 505, 872, 6348, 2439, 26, ...
Then followed perhaps the most extraordinary duels that the world had ever seen. Two powerful bodies, both outside the pale of the law, fought rapidly, mercilessly, asking no quarter and giving none. And the eerie thing about it all was, that no man saw the agents of either of the combatants. It was as though two spiri...	[ 12487, 8272, 8530, 279, 1455, 24674, 3930, 2053, 430, 279, 1917, 1047, 3596, 3970, 13, 9220, 8147, 13162, 11, 2225, 4994, 279, 28639, 315, 279, 2383, 11, 21095, 19019, 11, 100252, 398, 11, 10371, 912, 8502, 323, 7231, 7000, 13, 1628, ...
"Planned it? No, no. But the second I saw you coming I knew the gods were working with me! 'Ram Dass,' I said to myself, 'is a gift of the gods to a man in a tight predicament!' I was in terror at the thought of taking in this surgeon sahib to protect me in the Rajah's presence. He is brave and honorable, but abou...	[ 1, 2169, 7443, 433, 30, 220, 2360, 11, 912, 13, 220, 2030, 279, 2132, 358, 5602, 499, 5108, 358, 7020, 279, 29913, 1051, 3318, 449, 757, 0, 220, 364, 64948, 423, 395, 2965, 358, 1071, 311, 7182, 11, 364, 285, 264, 8352, 315, 279, ...
Captain Wawn is crystal-clear on one point: He does not approve of missionaries. They obstruct his business. They make "Recruiting," as he calls it ("Slave-Catching," as they call it in their frank way) a trouble when it ought to be just a picnic and a pleasure excursion. The missionaries have their opinion about th...	[ 62158, 468, 6513, 374, 26110, 68127, 389, 832, 1486, 25, 1283, 1587, 539, 29251, 315, 86316, 13, 220, 2435, 54292, 813, 2626, 13, 220, 2435, 1304, 330, 3905, 2739, 5977, 1359, 439, 568, 6880, 433, 3573, 97060, 7813, 33024, 1359, 439, ...
Mademoiselle, who prided herself on possessing 'un esprit positif,' and on entertaining a decided preference for dry studies, kept her young cousin to the same as closely as she could. She worked her unrelentingly at the grammar of the French language, assigning her, as the most improving exercise she could devise, int...	[ 38136, 6868, 285, 6853, 11, 889, 550, 4591, 11937, 389, 60662, 364, 359, 1560, 40807, 20940, 333, 2965, 323, 389, 30311, 264, 6773, 22698, 369, 9235, 7978, 11, 8774, 1077, 3995, 36271, 311, 279, 1890, 439, 15499, 439, 1364, 1436, 13, ...
To a certain extentand this, at Balbec, gave to the population, as a rule monotonously rich and cosmopolitan, of that sort of smart and 'exclusive' hotel, a quite distinctive local characterthey were composed of eminent persons from the departmental capitals of that region of France, a chief magistrate from Caen, a l...	[ 1271, 264, 3738, 13112, 126, 245, 438, 420, 11, 520, 19984, 17106, 11, 6688, 311, 279, 7187, 11, 439, 264, 6037, 1647, 26934, 7162, 9257, 323, 56754, 86009, 11, 315, 430, 3460, 315, 7941, 323, 364, 90222, 6, 9689, 11, 264, 5115, 359...
"As to diseases of sheep, we have no such things here; of course, if the sheep are neglected to be sheared at the proper season, their coats will hang about them in rags, presenting a very unseemly appearance, and they will shew the usual symptoms of disease; but a little tobacco quickly sets them to rights; and with o...	[ 48240, 311, 19338, 315, 33012, 11, 584, 617, 912, 1778, 2574, 1618, 26, 315, 3388, 11, 422, 279, 33012, 527, 51533, 311, 387, 1364, 1636, 520, 279, 6300, 3280, 11, 872, 56737, 690, 15020, 922, 1124, 304, 436, 2076, 11, 32644, 264, 1...
The next moment she was lifted in his arms and kissed. She kissed him back. She had no sense of strangerhood. She felt at once the call of that mysterious kinship of soul which has nothing to do with the relationships of flesh and blood. In that one moment Jane forgot that she had ever hated her father. She liked ...	[ 791, 1828, 4545, 1364, 574, 30831, 304, 813, 11977, 323, 59334, 13, 220, 3005, 59334, 1461, 1203, 13, 220, 3005, 1047, 912, 5647, 315, 35058, 5812, 13, 220, 3005, 6612, 520, 3131, 279, 1650, 315, 430, 26454, 24890, 5383, 315, 13836, 9...
NOT without a certain feeling of shame and self-reproach, Cleave turned away from his companion and mingled with the other guests. He had crossed the Rubicon now; for better or worse the decision was made. And he was smarting, too, under the cold contempt of Lena's manner. He would have liked to argue it out with himse...	[ 14394, 2085, 264, 3738, 8430, 315, 21648, 323, 659, 5621, 782, 613, 11, 356, 22233, 6656, 3201, 505, 813, 22489, 323, 73259, 839, 449, 279, 1023, 15051, 13, 1283, 1047, 28129, 279, 13134, 1965, 1457, 26, 369, 2731, 477, 11201, 279, 55...
But young Comerford was uneasy, and could not rest, although the others slept the sleep of the weary. He may have been suspicious, or himself have contemplated doing what Dignum had decided to do. The latter had risen to carry into execution his devilish scheme, when Comerford also rose, and a short consultation betwee...	[ 4071, 3995, 1219, 261, 8350, 574, 83372, 11, 323, 1436, 539, 2800, 11, 8051, 279, 3885, 46498, 279, 6212, 315, 279, 76656, 13, 1283, 1253, 617, 1027, 32427, 11, 477, 5678, 617, 93439, 3815, 1148, 423, 93260, 1047, 6773, 311, 656, 13, ...
Fast and fervently he spoke, and very winsome was the glad abandonment of this young lover, half boy, half man, possessing the simplicity of the one, the fervor of the other. Pauline looked and listened with a soothing sense of consolation in the knowledge that this loyal heart was all her own, a sweet foretaste of the...	[ 33274, 323, 67475, 4501, 568, 12570, 11, 323, 1633, 15160, 638, 574, 279, 16089, 91402, 315, 420, 3995, 31657, 11, 4376, 8334, 11, 4376, 893, 11, 60662, 279, 40075, 315, 279, 832, 11, 279, 67475, 269, 315, 279, 1023, 13, 7043, 483, ...
Why, I don't know. It rang desperately true, and the first yarn, if you understand me, had been in a queer way true also in spirit. The fifteenth day of June was going to be a day of destiny, a bigger destiny than the killing of a Dago. It was so big that I didn't blame Scudder for keeping me out of the game and wan...	[ 10445, 11, 358, 1541, 956, 1440, 13, 220, 1102, 43200, 38643, 837, 11, 323, 279, 1176, 39347, 11, 422, 499, 3619, 757, 11, 1047, 1027, 304, 264, 55641, 1648, 837, 1101, 304, 9090, 13, 220, 578, 11375, 46487, 1938, 315, 5651, 574, 21...
In coming to this resolution, the Major was little aware of the difficulties which would beset his path, as the sea coast on that part of the island, exposed as it is to the whole force of the Southern Ocean, is rocky and precipitous, and travelling is rendered so difficult as to be almost impossible near the shore. Bu...	[ 644, 5108, 311, 420, 11175, 11, 279, 17559, 574, 2697, 8010, 315, 279, 27129, 902, 1053, 9234, 295, 813, 1853, 11, 439, 279, 9581, 13962, 389, 430, 961, 315, 279, 13218, 11, 15246, 439, 433, 374, 311, 279, 4459, 5457, 315, 279, 1664...
With the extension of settlement it became a matter of necessity to penetrate beyond the mountains; but apart from this there were adventurous spirits to whom the exploration had attractions for its own sake. Captain William Paterson, in 1793, led a party of Scottish Highlanders to the attack; in 1794 Henry Hacking mad...	[ 2409, 279, 9070, 315, 17516, 433, 6244, 264, 5030, 315, 32961, 311, 64855, 7953, 279, 24405, 26, 719, 10980, 505, 420, 1070, 1051, 68188, 31739, 311, 8884, 279, 27501, 1047, 39591, 369, 1202, 1866, 25491, 13, 22022, 12656, 7281, 1293, 1...
But foremost as a finished, artistic unit among all our author's weird material is the famous and exquisitely wrought novel, The House of the Seven Gables, in which the relentless working out of an ancestral curse is developed with astonishing power against the sinister background of a very ancient Salem house--one of ...	[ 4071, 43780, 439, 264, 8220, 11, 32692, 5089, 4315, 682, 1057, 3229, 596, 16682, 3769, 374, 279, 11495, 323, 506, 9383, 275, 989, 79703, 11775, 11, 578, 4783, 315, 279, 31048, 480, 4893, 11, 304, 902, 279, 60135, 3318, 704, 315, 459, ...
TWO ABORIGINAL SONGS PADDY MALONE IN AUSTRALIA THE OLD BULLOCK DRAY PADDY'S LETTER, 1857 THE OLD BARK HUT THE OLD SURVEY DWELL NOT WITH ME THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF AUSTRALIA ON THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI FLASH JACK FROM GUNDAGAI ANOTHER FALL OF RAIN BOLD JACK DONAHOO THE WILD COLONIAL BOY JOHN GILBERT (BUSHRANGER) IMMIGRATION T...	[ 51, 23513, 14469, 99301, 328, 7691, 50, 393, 16040, 56, 89139, 5338, 2006, 40156, 6805, 984, 5987, 3247, 65991, 426, 1452, 17092, 14644, 3097, 393, 16040, 56, 13575, 45528, 11, 220, 9741, 22, 3247, 65991, 426, 9272, 473, 1406, 3247, 659...
The house stood at the edge of the village, by a low but steep and muddy declivity. A third of the house was occupied by the kitchen and a small room used for the mother's bedroom, separated from the kitchen by a partition reaching partially to the ceiling. The other two thirds formed a square room with two windows. ...	[ 791, 3838, 14980, 520, 279, 6964, 315, 279, 14458, 11, 555, 264, 3428, 719, 32366, 323, 80573, 4051, 1968, 13, 220, 362, 4948, 315, 279, 3838, 574, 25366, 555, 279, 9979, 323, 264, 2678, 3130, 1511, 369, 279, 6691, 596, 14150, 11, 1...
It was sometimes suggested that reddlemen were criminals for whose misdeeds other men wrongfully suffered--that in escaping the law they had not escaped their own consciences, and had taken to the trade as a lifelong penance. Else why should they have chosen it? In the present case such a question would have been parti...	[ 2181, 574, 7170, 12090, 430, 63244, 42407, 1051, 32638, 369, 6832, 5906, 451, 6910, 1023, 3026, 5076, 3725, 16654, 313, 9210, 304, 53754, 279, 2383, 814, 1047, 539, 28883, 872, 1866, 1615, 5979, 2436, 11, 323, 1047, 4529, 311, 279, 6696...
We all laughed, including Nuti. Polacco could hardly refrain from kissing her. Perhaps he hopes that she, Nuti having taken the place here of Gigetto Fleccia, may decide that he ought also to take Fleccia's place in her affections, and may succeed in performing the miracle of detaching him from the Nestoroff. To enhanc...	[ 1687, 682, 32627, 11, 2737, 18878, 72, 13, 3735, 20067, 1436, 20781, 58608, 505, 52146, 1077, 13, 19292, 568, 16388, 430, 1364, 11, 18878, 72, 3515, 4529, 279, 2035, 1618, 315, 45234, 53979, 47790, 641, 689, 11, 1253, 10491, 430, 568, ...
"Then let the mouth of the pit be sealed again, and pray you in your hearts that it may never be opened to receive the living body of you or of any of us. Son of the Sea, and you, Ignatio the Wanderer, the oaths have been sworn, and the ceremony is finished. Henceforth till your deaths you are of our number, sharers in...	[ 1, 12487, 1095, 279, 11013, 315, 279, 20428, 387, 19584, 1578, 11, 323, 24739, 499, 304, 701, 23492, 430, 433, 1253, 2646, 387, 9107, 311, 5371, 279, 5496, 2547, 315, 499, 477, 315, 904, 315, 603, 13, 12103, 315, 279, 15379, 11, 323...
Heaven opened then, indeed. The flash was almost too novel for its inexpressibly dangerous nature to be at once realized, and they could only comprehend the magnificence of its beauty. It sprang from east, west, north, south, and was a perfect dance of death. The forms of skeletons appeared in the air, shaped with b...	[ 1548, 5389, 9107, 1243, 11, 13118, 13, 220, 578, 8381, 574, 4661, 2288, 11775, 369, 1202, 304, 14107, 6623, 11660, 7138, 311, 387, 520, 3131, 15393, 11, 323, 814, 1436, 1193, 58389, 279, 8622, 1104, 768, 315, 1202, 13444, 13, 220, 110...
'I am going to ask you to make a sacrifice for me, and submit to your feelings being rather harrowed. Will you come to Li Yoseph's house at Lady's Stairs to-night at eleven o'clock? You may say yes or no to the messenger, and I shall understand. I want you to come very badly. If you say yes, I will have a man meet you ...	[ 42069, 1097, 2133, 311, 2610, 499, 311, 1304, 264, 28235, 369, 757, 11, 323, 9502, 311, 701, 16024, 1694, 4856, 4960, 654, 291, 13, 4946, 499, 2586, 311, 14851, 816, 974, 764, 596, 3838, 520, 21270, 596, 800, 4825, 311, 45427, 520, ...
There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should d...	[ 3947, 574, 459, 10255, 304, 279, 3363, 315, 735, 50926, 78, 889, 574, 26655, 311, 37106, 1306, 39143, 13, 3861, 1938, 433, 3782, 1139, 813, 4059, 311, 1304, 264, 5687, 13, 20636, 6646, 430, 304, 459, 69063, 990, 892, 374, 459, 25795, ...
Captain Mandeville got back to the gubernatorial residence that afternoon to find Lord William deep in the sociabilities of a reception which her ladyship was holding. The long drawing-room was a little crowded. There was an abundance of tories present, such as the Roupells and the Wraggs, and there were a few who, lik...	[ 62158, 24789, 5230, 4618, 2751, 1203, 311, 279, 91522, 39036, 22423, 430, 13658, 311, 1505, 10425, 12656, 5655, 304, 279, 15983, 8623, 315, 264, 23991, 902, 1077, 17240, 5383, 574, 10168, 13, 578, 1317, 13633, 48840, 574, 264, 2697, 39313...
A word about Avalon boatmen. They are a fine body of men. I have heard them maligned. Certainly they have petty rivalries and jealousies, but this is not their fault. They fish all the seasons around and have been there for years. Boatmen at Long Key and other Florida resorts--at Tampico, Aransas Pass--are not in the s...	[ 32, 3492, 922, 50078, 263, 15688, 5794, 13, 2435, 527, 264, 7060, 2547, 315, 3026, 13, 358, 617, 6755, 1124, 8811, 1571, 13, 53466, 814, 617, 61585, 21425, 4108, 323, 41690, 552, 11, 719, 420, 374, 539, 872, 14867, 13, 2435, 7795, 6...
'When Dr Crane lurches through the swing-doors after prayers he is convinced, it seems, of his immense superiority; and indeed Neville, we cannot deny that his departure leaves us not only with a sense of relief, but also with a sense of something removed, like a tooth. Now let us follow him as he heaves through the s...	[ 6, 4599, 2999, 73999, 326, 2639, 288, 1555, 279, 19336, 30659, 1105, 1306, 34296, 568, 374, 22954, 11, 433, 5084, 11, 315, 813, 38883, 66732, 26, 323, 13118, 82335, 11, 584, 4250, 23973, 430, 813, 25959, 11141, 603, 539, 1193, 449, 26...
The terrified butler saw him enter the kitchen. The next instant there was a heavy fall, and, following his master in, he found darkness and silence. He cried out for help, but none came for a few moments; only a cat in the butler's pantry hard by knocked down some glasses, and tried to break out of the window in her t...	[ 791, 53731, 719, 1565, 5602, 1461, 3810, 279, 9979, 13, 578, 1828, 9888, 1070, 574, 264, 8987, 4498, 11, 323, 11, 2768, 813, 7491, 304, 11, 568, 1766, 27394, 323, 21847, 13, 1283, 39169, 704, 369, 1520, 11, 719, 7000, 3782, 369, 264...
Our work over the details of his system is indeed what gives us our resultant impression of the philosopher, but it is on the resultant impression itself that we react. Expertness in philosophy is measured by the definiteness of our summarizing reactions, by the immediate perceptive epithet with which the expert hits s...	[ 8140, 990, 927, 279, 3649, 315, 813, 1887, 374, 13118, 1148, 6835, 603, 1057, 84913, 21455, 315, 279, 55475, 11, 719, 433, 374, 389, 279, 84913, 21455, 5196, 430, 584, 14085, 13, 33257, 2136, 304, 19675, 374, 17303, 555, 279, 31388, 2...
In 1869, Townsville was connected by wire with Brisbane, and in 1872 the line was extended to the mouth of the Norman River at Kimberly, now known as "Karumba," the intention being that the first cable to connect Australia with Europe should be landed at the mouth of the Norman River, but, for reasons which have never ...	[ 644, 220, 9714, 24, 11, 14298, 51028, 574, 8599, 555, 9244, 449, 47335, 11, 323, 304, 220, 9674, 17, 279, 1584, 574, 11838, 311, 279, 11013, 315, 279, 41168, 11188, 520, 86753, 11, 1457, 3967, 439, 330, 77489, 71669, 1359, 279, 14944,...
"It won't hurt," he said, "and it's worth it if it does! You'll never be without a friend again, Harry. If you get into trouble, there's always the best lawyer to defend you. And you're the kind of chap we're looking for--there is plenty of trash. Poor fools that want to get in for the sake of the pickings. But you'll ...	[ 12348, 2834, 956, 13194, 1359, 568, 1071, 11, 330, 438, 433, 596, 5922, 433, 422, 433, 1587, 0, 1472, 3358, 2646, 387, 2085, 264, 4333, 1578, 11, 14253, 13, 1442, 499, 636, 1139, 12544, 11, 1070, 596, 2744, 279, 1888, 15779, 311, 10...
Tight-lipped, stern-eyed, Tinténiac answered him. "I began by saying that I would not consent even to discuss this matter. But I will remind you of this. We did not leave Quiberon so that the Royalist army should hold its own, but so that the Republican army should be crushed. I deplore as deeply as any of you the ...	[ 51, 492, 2922, 6586, 11, 58644, 53613, 11, 350, 396, 978, 7907, 582, 19089, 1461, 13, 220, 330, 40, 6137, 555, 5605, 430, 358, 1053, 539, 14771, 1524, 311, 4358, 420, 5030, 13, 220, 2030, 358, 690, 24928, 499, 315, 420, 13, 220, 1...
But Amy soon came to a better understanding of him for she presently learnt that he had a most scoundrelly character, that there was nothing of weight in anything he said, but that he was, in short, a mere sharper, one that would stick at nothing to get money, and that there was no depending on anything he said; and th...	[ 4071, 29793, 5246, 3782, 311, 264, 2731, 8830, 315, 1461, 369, 1364, 50801, 50350, 430, 568, 1047, 264, 1455, 1156, 801, 3833, 398, 3752, 11, 430, 1070, 574, 4400, 315, 4785, 304, 4205, 568, 1071, 11, 719, 430, 568, 574, 11, 304, 28...
"Like yours, my report is not satisfactory in all respects," began the second spirit, who wore a very pointed cap and a finely ornamented cloak. But, though his dress was fresh and youthful, his face was old, and he had nodded several times during his brother's speech. "My greatest affliction during the past year has b...	[ 1, 13246, 18821, 11, 856, 1934, 374, 539, 58831, 304, 682, 43666, 1359, 6137, 279, 2132, 9090, 11, 889, 28670, 264, 1633, 14618, 2107, 323, 264, 61802, 79760, 291, 62494, 13, 2030, 11, 3582, 813, 8679, 574, 7878, 323, 65655, 11, 813, ...
'That wilful, masterful--he'd mastered one nurse at six months. Kick, and scream, and struggle like a demon. Many's the time I've pinched his little bottom for him, when he was a child in arms. Ay, and he'd have been better if he'd had it pinched oftener. But she wouldn't have them corrected--no-o, wouldn't hear of it....	[ 17773, 9379, 31331, 1285, 11, 7491, 1285, 313, 383, 4265, 71325, 832, 29198, 520, 4848, 4038, 13, 27776, 11, 323, 46789, 11, 323, 14993, 1093, 264, 7097, 13, 9176, 596, 279, 892, 358, 3077, 9160, 2454, 813, 2697, 5740, 369, 1461, 11, ...
It was a piece in four acts dealing with the quaintly flavoured life and customs of his own people, the Hudson River Dutch. The little man was hotly proud of his ancestry, and always insisted with a slight sneer of aristocratic contempt: "Not the Pennsylvania Dutch--Good God, no! THEY'RE not Dutch but German: the RE...	[ 2181, 574, 264, 6710, 304, 3116, 14385, 14892, 449, 279, 88608, 398, 18779, 21020, 2324, 323, 35869, 315, 813, 1866, 1274, 11, 279, 39253, 11188, 24113, 13, 220, 578, 2697, 893, 574, 4106, 398, 12691, 315, 813, 66004, 11, 323, 2744, 2...
"He is a young Englishman, a writer of the proletarian school, the product of the London East-End slums. Since the war he had been living on the margin of starvation, drifting in and out of prisons on charges of vagrancy. How Sir Edmund heard of him here in Canada I don't know. In France, Arbuthnot had many times fi...	[ 27423, 374, 264, 3995, 6498, 1543, 11, 264, 7061, 315, 279, 64217, 8997, 2978, 11, 279, 2027, 315, 279, 7295, 6460, 12, 3812, 1776, 6370, 13, 220, 8876, 279, 4208, 568, 1047, 1027, 5496, 389, 279, 4850, 315, 78245, 11, 85353, 304, 3...
Downy went straight from the quarry to Shine's house, and, much to his surprise, found the missing man's daughter there. Christina had altered much during the last few hours: her face was now quite colourless, grief had robbed it of its sweet simplicity, and the buoyant ingenuousness had fled from her eyes. A new chara...	[ 4554, 88, 4024, 7833, 505, 279, 37170, 311, 87255, 596, 3838, 11, 323, 11, 1790, 311, 813, 13051, 11, 1766, 279, 7554, 893, 596, 10003, 1070, 13, 60771, 1047, 29852, 1790, 2391, 279, 1566, 2478, 4207, 25, 1077, 3663, 574, 1457, 5115, ...
"Cruel?" she interrupted. "The real cruelty has been to deprive the poor little things for so long of a father's influence, to take advantage of . . . of Prince Buondelmonte's misfortunes, his undeserved misfortunes, to keep his children without a real home, without family associations, without . . . without any guidi...	[ 47416, 2739, 301, 7673, 1364, 37883, 13, 220, 330, 791, 1972, 54680, 706, 1027, 311, 36980, 535, 279, 8009, 2697, 2574, 369, 779, 1317, 315, 264, 7126, 596, 10383, 11, 311, 1935, 9610, 315, 662, 662, 662, 315, 19912, 28326, 2159, 301,...
From time to time, Mr. Pottermack was in the habit of paying a visit to London for the purpose of making various purchases, particularly of tools and materials. On one of these occasions, happening to be in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden, and realizing suddenly that the day was Friday, it occurred to him to, look i...	[ 3915, 892, 311, 892, 11, 4491, 13, 14020, 5098, 474, 574, 304, 279, 14464, 315, 12798, 264, 4034, 311, 7295, 369, 279, 7580, 315, 3339, 5370, 24393, 11, 8104, 315, 7526, 323, 7384, 13, 1952, 832, 315, 1521, 25975, 11, 12765, 311, 38...
She did not see him again--nor indeed any of them. She stood there, spoke, smiled, waved her hand, but was automaton save to the house, which swooped down in great white folds, wave following wave. Then the walls stiffened, hardened even as her eyes had done, hemmed her in, coming closer and closer with the courtyard...	[ 8100, 1550, 539, 1518, 1461, 1578, 313, 45807, 13118, 904, 315, 1124, 13, 220, 3005, 14980, 1070, 11, 12570, 11, 31645, 11, 65682, 1077, 1450, 11, 719, 574, 5113, 24444, 3665, 311, 279, 3838, 11, 902, 34227, 16771, 1523, 304, 2294, 42...
George Stanton had taken up his run only four years before, but already there was a comfortable homestead. Amid the timber on the rich flats bordering two creeks there were potato and maize clearings. A three-acre wheat field had been cleared, the stumps of the lately deposed forest giants giving the appearance of tomb...	[ 40052, 81764, 1047, 4529, 709, 813, 1629, 1193, 3116, 1667, 1603, 11, 719, 2736, 1070, 574, 264, 10882, 5105, 73437, 13, 89789, 279, 45888, 389, 279, 9257, 61457, 3973, 287, 1403, 87539, 2857, 1070, 1051, 39834, 323, 93307, 2867, 826, 1...
One night, long ago, when I was yet young and strong, although my years were past forty, I sat alone in my houseplace. Nelly was always in bed, as I have told you, and Grace lay in a cot by her side. I believed them to be both asleep; though how they could sleep I could not conceive, so wild and terrible was the night....	[ 4054, 3814, 11, 1317, 4227, 11, 994, 358, 574, 3686, 3995, 323, 3831, 11, 8051, 856, 1667, 1051, 3347, 36498, 11, 358, 7731, 7636, 304, 856, 3838, 2050, 13, 452, 12160, 574, 2744, 304, 4950, 11, 439, 358, 617, 3309, 499, 11, 323, ...
Her third set of divorce papers arrived during those weeks at Santa Katerina, those weeks of indecision about her future. "There you are, Nicky," she said, tossing him the lawyer's letter. "I'm through with men now, thank God." He laughed and stooped to her bare shoulder with his lips. The relationship between them was...	[ 21364, 4948, 743, 315, 25549, 16064, 11721, 2391, 1884, 5672, 520, 16376, 735, 977, 2259, 11, 1884, 5672, 315, 5278, 55804, 922, 1077, 3938, 13, 330, 3947, 499, 527, 11, 15341, 88, 1359, 1364, 1071, 11, 85151, 1461, 279, 15779, 596, 6...
Prospero nodded in silence, his face set, and handed the linstock to the Greek. A moment only the master-gunner spent in laying the chasers, then touched them off, more or less at a venture, in quick succession. The first shot flung up a harmless shower of spray in the space between two of the galleys; but the second...	[ 46015, 716, 78, 36065, 304, 21847, 11, 813, 3663, 743, 11, 323, 23415, 279, 326, 6442, 1197, 311, 279, 18341, 13, 220, 362, 4545, 1193, 279, 7491, 2427, 55515, 7543, 304, 35744, 279, 523, 60830, 11, 1243, 24891, 1124, 1022, 11, 810, ...
The rain beat against the house, the wind roared, and Charlie thought back over this wintry case upon which he, detective of the semi-tropics, was now so unexpectedly engaged. First of all he thought of people: of Sing, whose beady little eyes even Chan could not read; of Cecile, jealous and angry last night when she h...	[ 791, 11422, 9567, 2403, 279, 3838, 11, 279, 10160, 938, 1636, 11, 323, 25972, 3463, 1203, 927, 420, 3243, 1568, 1162, 5304, 902, 568, 11, 45259, 315, 279, 18768, 2442, 897, 1233, 11, 574, 1457, 779, 51709, 17045, 13, 5629, 315, 682, ...
Day broke, and the pickets of Kerensky's Cossacks came in touch. Scattered rifle-fire, summons to surrender. Over the bleak plain on the cold quiet air spread the sound of battle, falling upon the ears of roving bands as they gathered about their little fires, waiting.... So it was beginning! They made toward the battl...	[ 10369, 14760, 11, 323, 279, 3820, 1441, 315, 36258, 729, 8050, 596, 356, 3746, 7977, 3782, 304, 5916, 13, 2522, 22688, 29232, 57369, 11, 75400, 311, 32859, 13, 6193, 279, 76367, 14733, 389, 279, 9439, 11594, 3805, 9041, 279, 5222, 315, ...
"I, Richard Arnold, sign this paper in the full knowledge that in doing so I devote myself absolutely for the rest of my life to the service of the Brotherhood of Freedom, known to the world as the Terrorists. As long as I live its ends shall be my ends, and no human considerations shall weigh with me where those ends ...	[ 7189, 11, 12131, 44312, 11, 1879, 420, 5684, 304, 279, 2539, 6677, 430, 304, 3815, 779, 358, 48772, 7182, 11112, 369, 279, 2800, 315, 856, 2324, 311, 279, 2532, 315, 279, 50336, 315, 25320, 11, 3967, 311, 279, 1917, 439, 279, 38256, ...
VENERATED SIRE,--You are omniscient, but I cannot regard the fear which you express in your beautifully-written letter, bearing the sign of the eleventh day of the seventh moon, as anything more than the imaginings prompted by a too-lavish supper of your favourite shark's fin and peanut oil. Unless the dexterously-elus...	[ 53, 12545, 9182, 328, 7618, 11, 313, 2675, 527, 50197, 3510, 1188, 11, 719, 358, 4250, 5363, 279, 8850, 902, 499, 3237, 304, 701, 32719, 67383, 6661, 11, 18534, 279, 1879, 315, 279, 10732, 45707, 1938, 315, 279, 31487, 18266, 11, 439,...
Not a word said the sergeant; but official rumination spoke in his steady blue eyes; and, under the thick yellow beard which covered his face to the cheek bones, and met, it seemed, over his head, the busy machinery of his brain was working at dynamic speed. No one might have guessed, from his impassive exterior, the c...	[ 2688, 264, 3492, 1071, 279, 84221, 26, 719, 4033, 14322, 2617, 12570, 304, 813, 24981, 6437, 6548, 26, 323, 11, 1234, 279, 12314, 14071, 48788, 902, 9960, 813, 3663, 311, 279, 41803, 25896, 11, 323, 2322, 11, 433, 9508, 11, 927, 813, ...
I cannot imagine what put into Grandfather Boissy's head the idea of getting Chinamen as shepherds. In no account of the celestial empire is there any record, to my remembrance, of Mongols understanding the management of sheep. Where did he get them from? How did he train them? The fact remains that five years after th...	[ 40, 4250, 13085, 1148, 2231, 1139, 10517, 23881, 2577, 61315, 596, 2010, 279, 4623, 315, 3794, 49335, 25807, 439, 1364, 29182, 5469, 13, 763, 912, 2759, 315, 279, 77480, 32447, 374, 1070, 904, 3335, 11, 311, 856, 1323, 72669, 11, 315, ...
"There are hooligans that ought to have existed even if they never have. One of them stopped a young girl before Varsovie station. The girl, frightened, immediately held out her purse to him, with two roubles and fifty kopecks in it. The hooligan took it all. 'Goodness,' cried she, 'I have nothing now to take my trai...	[ 25938, 527, 305, 1786, 76857, 430, 22525, 311, 617, 25281, 1524, 422, 814, 2646, 617, 13, 220, 3861, 315, 1124, 10717, 264, 3995, 3828, 1603, 8909, 708, 64519, 8216, 13, 578, 3828, 11, 60178, 11, 7214, 5762, 704, 1077, 53101, 311, 146...
In those early days, for all her maternal airs with him, she had been as young, as inexperienced as he was. She knew a good deal about art and literature, but next to nothing about life, though she thought herself a past mistress in its management. Her familiarity with pecuniary makeshifts, with the evasions and plau...	[ 644, 1884, 4216, 2919, 11, 369, 682, 1077, 50150, 79991, 449, 1461, 11, 1364, 1047, 1027, 439, 3995, 11, 439, 79966, 439, 568, 574, 13, 220, 3005, 7020, 264, 1695, 3568, 922, 1989, 323, 17649, 11, 719, 1828, 311, 4400, 922, 2324, 11...
She saw that he was neither unhappy nor dismayed. He stood there, bareheaded, smiling. He put up his hand and began to talk again. Then someone threw a stone. She ran across the street, crying out. In that moment she cared for nothing in the world--no, not for Lampiron himself--in comparison with her father. There ...	[ 8100, 5602, 430, 568, 574, 14188, 43251, 6463, 73082, 291, 13, 220, 1283, 14980, 1070, 11, 12743, 63600, 11, 37163, 13, 220, 1283, 2231, 709, 813, 1450, 323, 6137, 311, 3137, 1578, 13, 5112, 4423, 22982, 264, 9998, 13, 220, 3005, 1083...
Above the hum of the sand flies rose a rumble, like low thunder, only a long, unending roll. It was the roar of rapids. The men leaned on their paddles and trudged the length of the canoe, steadily gliding upstream, covering the interminable reaches, winding the serpentine bends. The rumble lulled and swelled, and t...	[ 59907, 279, 2854, 315, 279, 9462, 38204, 16392, 264, 14322, 901, 11, 1093, 3428, 37943, 11, 1193, 264, 1317, 11, 653, 2518, 6638, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 279, 78724, 315, 7477, 3447, 13, 220, 578, 3026, 55939, 389, 872, 54269, 645, 323, ...
Though still clear in mind, Havelock was weakening physically, and there came a time when he could put words on paper with less trouble than he could speak. This meant that one of his favourite pastimes was still available, and Charles often found him busy with the anthologies, composing new parodies of chosen poems. ...	[ 27831, 2103, 2867, 304, 4059, 11, 473, 3963, 1197, 574, 83526, 22655, 11, 323, 1070, 3782, 264, 892, 994, 568, 1436, 2231, 4339, 389, 5684, 449, 2753, 12544, 1109, 568, 1436, 6604, 13, 220, 1115, 8967, 430, 832, 315, 813, 19214, 3347,...
He had not cabled Brent his date of sailing. "Boy's probably tied up with a lot of exams and things; when I land in New York I'll find out by 'phone when it's convenient for him to come down to New York." Brent was not to be found now by telephone. Sam sent him a telegram, and that was quite all that he felt like do...	[ 1548, 1047, 539, 272, 2364, 47431, 813, 2457, 315, 51129, 13, 220, 330, 63504, 596, 4762, 17791, 709, 449, 264, 2763, 315, 40786, 323, 2574, 26, 994, 358, 4363, 304, 1561, 4356, 358, 3358, 1505, 704, 555, 364, 4949, 994, 433, 596, 1...
However, the Englishman (let us call him Dennistoun) was soon too deep in his notebook and too busy with his camera to give more than an occasional glance to the sacristan. Whenever he did look at him, he found him at no great distance, either huddling himself back against the wall or crouching in one of the gorgeous s...	[ 11458, 11, 279, 6498, 1543, 320, 1169, 603, 1650, 1461, 72261, 380, 1656, 8, 574, 5246, 2288, 5655, 304, 813, 38266, 323, 2288, 13326, 449, 813, 6382, 311, 3041, 810, 1109, 459, 28961, 34522, 311, 279, 11347, 2889, 276, 13, 43633, 568...
"I went round to Number Five to go on with some repairs that I had begun. I went straight into the front room--that is the living-room--and then I noticed a glove lying on the floor under the window. I remembered having seen that glove before. But now I noticed something very unpleasant about the air of the place and t...	[ 7189, 4024, 4883, 311, 5742, 21594, 311, 733, 389, 449, 1063, 31286, 430, 358, 1047, 22088, 13, 358, 4024, 7833, 1139, 279, 4156, 3130, 313, 9210, 374, 279, 5496, 48840, 313, 438, 1243, 358, 14000, 264, 56520, 21078, 389, 279, 6558, 1...
He was aware then that he had lost his father. He stood for a moment dismayed. On every side figures were pushing against and around him; now someone would run past him shouting; now two singing, falling from side to side, would lurch drunkenly his way; now with a cry, as though it had come from the ground itself, th...	[ 1548, 574, 8010, 1243, 430, 568, 1047, 5675, 813, 7126, 13, 220, 1283, 14980, 369, 264, 4545, 73082, 291, 13, 220, 1952, 1475, 3185, 12678, 1051, 17919, 2403, 323, 2212, 1461, 26, 1457, 4423, 1053, 1629, 3347, 1461, 48655, 26, 1457, 1...
"'Still, what is this to plants and trees, which fade away in their due season? . . . But stay; there is man, man the divinest of all things. A hundred cares wreck his heart, countless anxieties trace their wrinkles on his brow, until his inmost self is bowed beneath the burden of life. And swifter still he hurries to ...	[ 21230, 24205, 11, 1148, 374, 420, 311, 11012, 323, 12690, 11, 902, 15366, 3201, 304, 872, 4245, 3280, 30, 662, 662, 662, 2030, 4822, 26, 1070, 374, 893, 11, 893, 279, 3512, 258, 478, 315, 682, 2574, 13, 362, 7895, 34672, 36850, 813,...
It would seem that such habits must be exceedingly destructive to the forest; but I found no evidence that it was. When I first came, the ants were working at a distance of sixty yards east of the colony. I instantly concluded that they preferred certain kinds of trees and went so far afield because their supply clos...	[ 2181, 1053, 2873, 430, 1778, 26870, 2011, 387, 76821, 40652, 311, 279, 13952, 26, 719, 358, 1766, 912, 6029, 430, 433, 574, 13, 220, 3277, 358, 1176, 3782, 11, 279, 61495, 1051, 3318, 520, 264, 6138, 315, 53474, 14006, 11226, 315, 279...
She had put her feet to the floor but still reclined against the pretty cushions with an air of exhaustion; he was beside her now, holding her hand between both of his and looking at her anxiously. For a moment thus, then, with a quick impulsive movement, she sat up straight and put her other hand on the back of his an...	[ 8100, 1047, 2231, 1077, 7693, 311, 279, 6558, 719, 2103, 48520, 1619, 2403, 279, 5128, 68241, 449, 459, 3805, 315, 70663, 26, 568, 574, 30488, 1077, 1457, 11, 10168, 1077, 1450, 1990, 2225, 315, 813, 323, 3411, 520, 1077, 74884, 13610, ...
He found it hard to resume his normal habits of thinking. He had thought of the churches as belonging in the same category with the public utilities and the various public services. Your house caught fire and you telephoned for the fire department and it came. Maybe it couldn't put the fire out until it had done a lo...	[ 1548, 1766, 433, 2653, 311, 16063, 813, 4725, 26870, 315, 7422, 13, 220, 1283, 1047, 3463, 315, 279, 31012, 439, 33152, 304, 279, 1890, 5699, 449, 279, 586, 30519, 323, 279, 5370, 586, 3600, 13, 220, 4718, 3838, 10791, 4027, 323, 499,...
Mallison was beginning to see more or less clearly into the heart of a mystery that had rendered him almost insane whenever he had dwelt upon it in the dreary prison house out there on the desolate moor. Many a weary hour had he spent going over the case as presented by the prosecution at his trial, but usually he had ...	[ 44, 543, 3416, 574, 7314, 311, 1518, 810, 477, 2753, 9539, 1139, 279, 4851, 315, 264, 23347, 430, 1047, 23188, 1461, 4661, 35118, 15716, 568, 1047, 14156, 3903, 5304, 433, 304, 279, 33201, 661, 9527, 3838, 704, 1070, 389, 279, 951, 34...
beauty, grace, and strength of the numerous cathedrals and churches, town halls and houses, which were built in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, and still give to Europe an inimitable interest and charm. In the builders' huts around the cathedrals that were growing up, the Master would read the Scriptures, even in t...	[ 1395, 59051, 11, 21507, 11, 323, 8333, 315, 279, 12387, 31747, 291, 81, 1147, 323, 31012, 11, 6424, 52473, 323, 15316, 11, 902, 1051, 5918, 304, 279, 220, 717, 339, 11, 220, 1032, 339, 11, 323, 220, 975, 339, 24552, 11, 323, 2103, ...
"quite true as to my beauty, and I think his plans and ideas turned my head a little. He began by introducing a couple of gentlemen at a time, and I must say that they all treated me with great deference and respect. Much of this was due to the way in which my father was regarded by the officers of his old regiment. He...	[ 1, 84270, 837, 439, 311, 856, 13444, 11, 323, 358, 1781, 813, 6787, 323, 6848, 6656, 856, 2010, 264, 2697, 13, 1283, 6137, 555, 33018, 264, 5743, 315, 58909, 520, 264, 892, 11, 323, 358, 2011, 2019, 430, 814, 682, 12020, 757, 449, ...
"The jolliest place in the world. You're going to love it. The first time I saw it I loved it. Old Tom MacMurray owned it then. He built the little shack on it, lived there in winter and rented it to Toronto people in summer. I bought it from him--became by that one simple transaction a landed proprietor owning a h...	[ 10227, 503, 337, 24013, 2035, 304, 279, 1917, 13, 220, 1472, 2351, 2133, 311, 3021, 433, 13, 220, 578, 1176, 892, 358, 5602, 433, 358, 10456, 433, 13, 220, 10846, 8529, 7553, 44, 24648, 13234, 433, 1243, 13, 1283, 5918, 279, 2697, 7...
It must have been when the poem was first set to music. Anyway, Fran and he had been comparatively poor. The money that old Herman Voelker had lent them had gone into the business. (A sudden, meaningless spatter of snow, out on that cold sea. How serene the lights in the music room! He began to feel the gallant se...	[ 2181, 2011, 617, 1027, 994, 279, 33894, 574, 1176, 743, 311, 4731, 13, 220, 42669, 11, 31925, 323, 568, 1047, 1027, 71561, 8009, 13, 220, 578, 3300, 430, 2362, 61338, 29179, 301, 7197, 1047, 48907, 1124, 1047, 8208, 1139, 279, 2626, 1...
Now a man on foot can run down anything that lives. He can walk down anything that lives, and within a day or two. With a five-hour start on a well-fed horse, and given the information that he is followed, another man, of course, can hold his lead provided he has legs and knows enough to abandon the horse at the end of...	[ 7184, 264, 893, 389, 4579, 649, 1629, 1523, 4205, 430, 6439, 13, 1283, 649, 4321, 1523, 4205, 430, 6439, 11, 323, 2949, 264, 1938, 477, 1403, 13, 3161, 264, 4330, 21925, 1212, 389, 264, 1664, 79100, 15580, 11, 323, 2728, 279, 2038, ...
"The same to you," she said with a placid smile, which changed to an expression of annoyance while her eyes followed him to the door. As she sat there alone, her face grew hard and bitter. A few hours ago, when she was being carried out of the graveyard after the burial, she had seen something which greatly disturbed ...	[ 10227, 1890, 311, 499, 1359, 1364, 1071, 449, 264, 29960, 307, 15648, 11, 902, 5614, 311, 459, 7645, 315, 91904, 1418, 1077, 6548, 8272, 1461, 311, 279, 6134, 13, 1666, 1364, 7731, 1070, 7636, 11, 1077, 3663, 14264, 2653, 323, 26242, ...
Gaudian patted me on the back when we started and wrung my hand. He was a capital good fellow, and it made me feel sick to think that I was humbugging him. We got into the same big grey car, with Stumm's servant sitting beside the chauffeur. It was a morning of hard frost, the bare fields were white with rime, and t...	[ 38, 8039, 1122, 281, 12400, 757, 389, 279, 1203, 994, 584, 3940, 323, 3189, 2234, 856, 1450, 13, 220, 1283, 574, 264, 6864, 1695, 12637, 11, 323, 433, 1903, 757, 2733, 14363, 311, 1781, 430, 358, 574, 2854, 2365, 3252, 1461, 13, 220...
Though he was ten years younger than Father Latour, Eusabio was one of the most influential men among the Navajo people, and one of the richest in sheep and horses. In Santa Fé and Albuquerque he was respected for his intelligence and authority, and admired for his fine presence. He was extremely tall, even for a Nav...	[ 27831, 568, 574, 5899, 1667, 14992, 1109, 20941, 10128, 414, 11, 469, 355, 370, 822, 574, 832, 315, 279, 1455, 32549, 3026, 4315, 279, 12233, 19256, 1274, 11, 323, 832, 315, 279, 57471, 304, 33012, 323, 27928, 13, 220, 763, 16376, 892...
Prince John did not go to bed on Thursday afternoon as Jaikie had advised. On the contrary he played bridge after dinner till close on midnight, and was with difficulty restrained from convoying Robin Charvill on his road to Castle Gay. But next morning he stayed in bed. It was a mild bright day of late autumn; the ...	[ 69032, 3842, 1550, 539, 733, 311, 4950, 389, 7950, 13658, 439, 23720, 1609, 648, 1047, 26160, 13, 220, 1952, 279, 26102, 568, 6476, 14497, 1306, 14177, 12222, 3345, 389, 33433, 11, 323, 574, 449, 17250, 77300, 505, 80561, 287, 17582, 49...
Spargo, changing his clothes, washing away the dust of his journey, in that old-fashioned lavender-scented bedroom, busied his mind in further speculations on his plan of campaign in Market Milcaster. He had no particularly clear plan. The one thing he was certain of was that in the old leather box which the man whom h...	[ 6540, 12359, 11, 10223, 813, 15447, 11, 28786, 3201, 279, 16174, 315, 813, 11879, 11, 304, 430, 2362, 64369, 81460, 1355, 1189, 291, 14150, 11, 5951, 1142, 813, 4059, 304, 4726, 1424, 7607, 389, 813, 3197, 315, 4901, 304, 8152, 10357, ...
But the summer drifted in with the silence of a miracle, she was almost always alone. All the while, went on the long, lovely drowsiness, the maidenblush roses in the garden were all shed, washed away in a pouring rain, summer drifted into autumn, and the long, vague, golden days began to close. Crimson clouds fumed ab...	[ 4071, 279, 7474, 92662, 304, 449, 279, 21847, 315, 264, 45125, 11, 1364, 574, 4661, 2744, 7636, 13, 2052, 279, 1418, 11, 4024, 389, 279, 1317, 11, 17104, 294, 1849, 1918, 11, 279, 74322, 2067, 1136, 61741, 304, 279, 13863, 1051, 682, ...
The question was provisionally answered, at all events, by the time the party at luncheon had begun to disperse--with Maggie's version of Mrs. Verver sharp to the point of representing her pretext for absence as a positive flight from derision. She met the good priest's eyes before they separated, and priests were real...	[ 791, 3488, 574, 17575, 750, 19089, 11, 520, 682, 4455, 11, 555, 279, 892, 279, 4717, 520, 33073, 76269, 1047, 22088, 311, 834, 82344, 313, 4291, 62795, 596, 2373, 315, 18083, 13, 650, 2906, 17676, 311, 279, 1486, 315, 14393, 1077, 949...
"A certain person will tell you--and she is right; for she does not know any better; she is the oldest; and perhaps we don't quite appreciate what she went through when mother died; and we all know that she does not know what we know--she'll tell you that at least they have always had their living; that they've never g...	[ 30233, 3738, 1732, 690, 3371, 499, 313, 438, 1364, 374, 1314, 26, 369, 1364, 1587, 539, 1440, 904, 2731, 26, 1364, 374, 279, 24417, 26, 323, 8530, 584, 1541, 956, 5115, 15763, 1148, 1364, 4024, 1555, 994, 6691, 8636, 26, 323, 584, 6...
"The position," he began, in his old oracular manner, "is a little irregular. It is not customary for me to receive young ladies who fall into hysterics, and I confess that I was considerably alarmed--my dear wife is prostrate with anxiety. She said, and very rightly: 'The position is a very awkward one for you, Bertra...	[ 10227, 2361, 1359, 568, 6137, 11, 304, 813, 2362, 477, 23868, 11827, 11, 330, 285, 264, 2697, 42408, 13, 1102, 374, 539, 73348, 369, 757, 311, 5371, 3995, 23628, 889, 4498, 1139, 54119, 1233, 11, 323, 358, 48466, 430, 358, 574, 33452,...

That fable is unjust, which gives the superiority to the sun over the wind. Who has not seen the lightsome earth, the balmy atmosphere, and basking nature become dark, cold and ungenial, when the sleeping wind has awoke in the east? Or, when the dun clouds thickly veil the sky, while exhaustless stores of rain are po...

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Then we came to the cook-house. No matter what an inspecting general's fads may be, there is one iron rule that he must look in at the cook-house and ask some questions about the men's food. Our chief cook was an old South African man. When Allenby saw the ribbon he asked about the man's service, whether he was married...

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"I'd advise you to try, Sir. You've no patience. Now, you'll just let me ondress you, and tuck you in, and you'd be amazed how comfortable you'll feel after this joyful meeting with your nephy, who's the pleasant young gentleman to get alongside of in a buggy, and who'll be after admiring all the improvements when you ...

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And if they had known how terrible that end had been--if any human eye had seen the horror and dread of her last moments--they would have shuddered still more; they would have acknowledged it was worse even than they deemed it. But only one Eye had witnessed that terrible conflict, only one Presence had been there when...

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"It would be all," he answered her. "But I could never believe in it. Never. You are aching to forgive, you say. Oh, blessed, healing words! But why is this? Because you are grateful to me for the life I have helped to save. That is the true source of your pity for my soul's deformity, which is urging you to utter this...

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After a brief halt to rest our fagged horses, we doubled on our tracks (following Thunderbolt's original plan), and proceeded towards Barraba, but very slowly in order that the news of our latest crime might precede us. The consequence was exactly as the outlaw had anticipated. The police, who kept watch and ward over ...

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It was now Galeazzo's turn to be silent; he looked down, and answered in monosyllables, and seemed to wish to make Euthanasia believe, that she might have divined well the plans of Castruccio, though he could not himself believe they were of so peaceful a nature. Euthanasia continued to talk; for she seemed to gather f...

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This last letter was horribly touching, for summer had come and the smell of the woods behind his prison reminded Peter of a place in the Woodbush, and one could read in every sentence the ache of exile. I sat on that stone wall and considered how trifling were the crumpled leaves in my bed of life compared with the th...

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At length these men paddled forward gently, which, the sea being calm, they could do well enough, not to the gap where those boats that went first had been overturned, but to the rocks upon its right side, on which many of them landed, leaving some in each canoe to hold on to the seaweed that grew upon the rocks. When ...

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"Mr. Stephen Persimmons featuring the bluff employer," his father murmured. He got up, went over to the publisher, and began whispering in his ear, following him as he took a few steps and halted again. Kenneth had an impulse to say that he resigned, and another to knock Gregory down and trample on him. He stared at hi...

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"Back, miscreant!" she cried; "your over-eagerness has betrayed you. I now fully believe what I have hitherto doubted, that this is a counter-poison, and that I may safely use it. It is time to unmask you, and to let you know that your villanies are discovered. I am aware of the malignant practices you have resorted to...

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Having made our preparations, such as they were, we awaited the coming storm. It did not keep us long in suspense. First came a gust of wind that bent all the branches in one direction, and then sent them tossing and whirling in the air, blew the twigs and dried leaves and bits of grass till they scampered about like l...

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My town excitement over I returned to the country and the writing of books. Oddly enough, I found that the thorough change of thought seemed to have rested my mind, with the result that my imagination was fresher than it had been for some years before. Also the work itself was and has remained less irksome to me than d...

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It was long past noon when the ceremony was ended. The minister drained his glass of water, mopped his face, and heaved a deep sigh. As the whole congregation still sat on, he gave them a hint that "church" was out, and their presence no longer required. He spoke with a show of concern of how very hot they would find t...

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'Exactly; for Mr. Bellingham. That is, for a living man. Now how do you search a house for a living man? You look in all the rooms. When you look in a room if he is there, you see him; if you do not see him, you assume that he is not there. You don't look under the sofa or behind the piano, you don't pull out large dra...

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This disposition is common to all the terrestrial species; namely, to the mocking-thrushes, the finches, wrens, tyrant-flycatchers, the dove, and carrion-buzzard. All of them often approached sufficiently near to be killed with a switch, and sometimes, as I myself tried, with a cap or hat. A gun is here almost superflu...

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Later in the afternoon, Mr. Vanstone suggested a drive to his eldest daughter, as the best remedy for her headache. She readily consented to accompany her father; who thereupon proposed, as usual, that Magdalen should join them. Magdalen was nowhere to be found. For the second time that day she had wandered into the gr...

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"I doubt it," the Princess said in the same collected fashion. "Let's admit, for the sake of argument, that all you say is correct. I am not Princess de Gaucourt, I am simply Olive Kesler, who, at one time, was in Mr. Oakes's office. There I learnt all about finance. There I had the run of his private papers and master...

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It was a glorious sunset. The whole western sky was a blaze of flame, throwing a purple tint upon the mountains, and gilding the sombre edges of the great forest which spreads between Trafalgar and the river Wawirra. It stretched out, a primeval, unbroken wilderness, save at the one point where a rough track had been f...

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The Loyalty Islands lie to the east of New Caledonia, and have belonged to France for more than half a century. They are thus situated in much the same latitude as Egypt is in the Northern hemisphere, but with a climate tempered by the ocean. It is with the Island of Lifu that we are mainly concerned. There are no stre...

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"I am very glad to hear you say so," said Mrs. Earlsley, "I cannot for the life of me understand what the people have to complain of. It appears to me to be an Irish bull to call O'Connell a liberator, when it is not at all perceptible what he has to liberate. The Irish people are not oppressed by a secret police; they...

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Getting back to the Hydro and having a cigarette by himself in the lounge, the two came up to speak to him again, plumping themselves down beside him. "Whew," exclaimed Edgerton, "but it's hard work making money on a racecourse, up and down the grandstand all the time! Still, between us we are up £70 odd on the afterno...

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This danger was succeeded by one that had nearly proved much more fatal; the captain, with great humanity, had released many of the convicts who had been in a weakly state, from their irons; and as I have before observed, they were allowed alternately, ten at a time, to walk the deck. Two of them, Americans, who had so...

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Then followed perhaps the most extraordinary duels that the world had ever seen. Two powerful bodies, both outside the pale of the law, fought rapidly, mercilessly, asking no quarter and giving none. And the eerie thing about it all was, that no man saw the agents of either of the combatants. It was as though two spiri...

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"Planned it? No, no. But the second I saw you coming I knew the gods were working with me! 'Ram Dass,' I said to myself, 'is a gift of the gods to a man in a tight predicament!' I was in terror at the thought of taking in this surgeon sahib to protect me in the Rajah's presence. He is brave and honorable, but abou...

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Captain Wawn is crystal-clear on one point: He does not approve of missionaries. They obstruct his business. They make "Recruiting," as he calls it ("Slave-Catching," as they call it in their frank way) a trouble when it ought to be just a picnic and a pleasure excursion. The missionaries have their opinion about th...

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Mademoiselle, who prided herself on possessing 'un esprit positif,' and on entertaining a decided preference for dry studies, kept her young cousin to the same as closely as she could. She worked her unrelentingly at the grammar of the French language, assigning her, as the most improving exercise she could devise, int...

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To a certain extentand this, at Balbec, gave to the population, as a rule monotonously rich and cosmopolitan, of that sort of smart and 'exclusive' hotel, a quite distinctive local characterthey were composed of eminent persons from the departmental capitals of that region of France, a chief magistrate from Caen, a l...

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"As to diseases of sheep, we have no such things here; of course, if the sheep are neglected to be sheared at the proper season, their coats will hang about them in rags, presenting a very unseemly appearance, and they will shew the usual symptoms of disease; but a little tobacco quickly sets them to rights; and with o...

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The next moment she was lifted in his arms and kissed. She kissed him back. She had no sense of strangerhood. She felt at once the call of that mysterious kinship of soul which has nothing to do with the relationships of flesh and blood. In that one moment Jane forgot that she had ever hated her father. She liked ...

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NOT without a certain feeling of shame and self-reproach, Cleave turned away from his companion and mingled with the other guests. He had crossed the Rubicon now; for better or worse the decision was made. And he was smarting, too, under the cold contempt of Lena's manner. He would have liked to argue it out with himse...

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But young Comerford was uneasy, and could not rest, although the others slept the sleep of the weary. He may have been suspicious, or himself have contemplated doing what Dignum had decided to do. The latter had risen to carry into execution his devilish scheme, when Comerford also rose, and a short consultation betwee...

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Fast and fervently he spoke, and very winsome was the glad abandonment of this young lover, half boy, half man, possessing the simplicity of the one, the fervor of the other. Pauline looked and listened with a soothing sense of consolation in the knowledge that this loyal heart was all her own, a sweet foretaste of the...

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Why, I don't know. It rang desperately true, and the first yarn, if you understand me, had been in a queer way true also in spirit. The fifteenth day of June was going to be a day of destiny, a bigger destiny than the killing of a Dago. It was so big that I didn't blame Scudder for keeping me out of the game and wan...

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In coming to this resolution, the Major was little aware of the difficulties which would beset his path, as the sea coast on that part of the island, exposed as it is to the whole force of the Southern Ocean, is rocky and precipitous, and travelling is rendered so difficult as to be almost impossible near the shore. Bu...

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With the extension of settlement it became a matter of necessity to penetrate beyond the mountains; but apart from this there were adventurous spirits to whom the exploration had attractions for its own sake. Captain William Paterson, in 1793, led a party of Scottish Highlanders to the attack; in 1794 Henry Hacking mad...

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But foremost as a finished, artistic unit among all our author's weird material is the famous and exquisitely wrought novel, The House of the Seven Gables, in which the relentless working out of an ancestral curse is developed with astonishing power against the sinister background of a very ancient Salem house--one of ...

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TWO ABORIGINAL SONGS PADDY MALONE IN AUSTRALIA THE OLD BULLOCK DRAY PADDY'S LETTER, 1857 THE OLD BARK HUT THE OLD SURVEY DWELL NOT WITH ME THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF AUSTRALIA ON THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI FLASH JACK FROM GUNDAGAI ANOTHER FALL OF RAIN BOLD JACK DONAHOO THE WILD COLONIAL BOY JOHN GILBERT (BUSHRANGER) IMMIGRATION T...

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The house stood at the edge of the village, by a low but steep and muddy declivity. A third of the house was occupied by the kitchen and a small room used for the mother's bedroom, separated from the kitchen by a partition reaching partially to the ceiling. The other two thirds formed a square room with two windows. ...

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It was sometimes suggested that reddlemen were criminals for whose misdeeds other men wrongfully suffered--that in escaping the law they had not escaped their own consciences, and had taken to the trade as a lifelong penance. Else why should they have chosen it? In the present case such a question would have been parti...

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We all laughed, including Nuti. Polacco could hardly refrain from kissing her. Perhaps he hopes that she, Nuti having taken the place here of Gigetto Fleccia, may decide that he ought also to take Fleccia's place in her affections, and may succeed in performing the miracle of detaching him from the Nestoroff. To enhanc...

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"Then let the mouth of the pit be sealed again, and pray you in your hearts that it may never be opened to receive the living body of you or of any of us. Son of the Sea, and you, Ignatio the Wanderer, the oaths have been sworn, and the ceremony is finished. Henceforth till your deaths you are of our number, sharers in...

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Heaven opened then, indeed. The flash was almost too novel for its inexpressibly dangerous nature to be at once realized, and they could only comprehend the magnificence of its beauty. It sprang from east, west, north, south, and was a perfect dance of death. The forms of skeletons appeared in the air, shaped with b...

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'I am going to ask you to make a sacrifice for me, and submit to your feelings being rather harrowed. Will you come to Li Yoseph's house at Lady's Stairs to-night at eleven o'clock? You may say yes or no to the messenger, and I shall understand. I want you to come very badly. If you say yes, I will have a man meet you ...

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There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should d...

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Captain Mandeville got back to the gubernatorial residence that afternoon to find Lord William deep in the sociabilities of a reception which her ladyship was holding. The long drawing-room was a little crowded. There was an abundance of tories present, such as the Roupells and the Wraggs, and there were a few who, lik...

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A word about Avalon boatmen. They are a fine body of men. I have heard them maligned. Certainly they have petty rivalries and jealousies, but this is not their fault. They fish all the seasons around and have been there for years. Boatmen at Long Key and other Florida resorts--at Tampico, Aransas Pass--are not in the s...

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'When Dr Crane lurches through the swing-doors after prayers he is convinced, it seems, of his immense superiority; and indeed Neville, we cannot deny that his departure leaves us not only with a sense of relief, but also with a sense of something removed, like a tooth. Now let us follow him as he heaves through the s...

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The terrified butler saw him enter the kitchen. The next instant there was a heavy fall, and, following his master in, he found darkness and silence. He cried out for help, but none came for a few moments; only a cat in the butler's pantry hard by knocked down some glasses, and tried to break out of the window in her t...

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Our work over the details of his system is indeed what gives us our resultant impression of the philosopher, but it is on the resultant impression itself that we react. Expertness in philosophy is measured by the definiteness of our summarizing reactions, by the immediate perceptive epithet with which the expert hits s...

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In 1869, Townsville was connected by wire with Brisbane, and in 1872 the line was extended to the mouth of the Norman River at Kimberly, now known as "Karumba," the intention being that the first cable to connect Australia with Europe should be landed at the mouth of the Norman River, but, for reasons which have never ...

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"It won't hurt," he said, "and it's worth it if it does! You'll never be without a friend again, Harry. If you get into trouble, there's always the best lawyer to defend you. And you're the kind of chap we're looking for--there is plenty of trash. Poor fools that want to get in for the sake of the pickings. But you'll ...

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Tight-lipped, stern-eyed, Tinténiac answered him. "I began by saying that I would not consent even to discuss this matter. But I will remind you of this. We did not leave Quiberon so that the Royalist army should hold its own, but so that the Republican army should be crushed. I deplore as deeply as any of you the ...

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But Amy soon came to a better understanding of him for she presently learnt that he had a most scoundrelly character, that there was nothing of weight in anything he said, but that he was, in short, a mere sharper, one that would stick at nothing to get money, and that there was no depending on anything he said; and th...

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"Like yours, my report is not satisfactory in all respects," began the second spirit, who wore a very pointed cap and a finely ornamented cloak. But, though his dress was fresh and youthful, his face was old, and he had nodded several times during his brother's speech. "My greatest affliction during the past year has b...

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'That wilful, masterful--he'd mastered one nurse at six months. Kick, and scream, and struggle like a demon. Many's the time I've pinched his little bottom for him, when he was a child in arms. Ay, and he'd have been better if he'd had it pinched oftener. But she wouldn't have them corrected--no-o, wouldn't hear of it....

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It was a piece in four acts dealing with the quaintly flavoured life and customs of his own people, the Hudson River Dutch. The little man was hotly proud of his ancestry, and always insisted with a slight sneer of aristocratic contempt: "Not the Pennsylvania Dutch--Good God, no! THEY'RE not Dutch but German: the RE...

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"He is a young Englishman, a writer of the proletarian school, the product of the London East-End slums. Since the war he had been living on the margin of starvation, drifting in and out of prisons on charges of vagrancy. How Sir Edmund heard of him here in Canada I don't know. In France, Arbuthnot had many times fi...

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Downy went straight from the quarry to Shine's house, and, much to his surprise, found the missing man's daughter there. Christina had altered much during the last few hours: her face was now quite colourless, grief had robbed it of its sweet simplicity, and the buoyant ingenuousness had fled from her eyes. A new chara...

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"Cruel?" she interrupted. "The real cruelty has been to deprive the poor little things for so long of a father's influence, to take advantage of . . . of Prince Buondelmonte's misfortunes, his undeserved misfortunes, to keep his children without a real home, without family associations, without . . . without any guidi...

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From time to time, Mr. Pottermack was in the habit of paying a visit to London for the purpose of making various purchases, particularly of tools and materials. On one of these occasions, happening to be in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden, and realizing suddenly that the day was Friday, it occurred to him to, look i...

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She did not see him again--nor indeed any of them. She stood there, spoke, smiled, waved her hand, but was automaton save to the house, which swooped down in great white folds, wave following wave. Then the walls stiffened, hardened even as her eyes had done, hemmed her in, coming closer and closer with the courtyard...

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George Stanton had taken up his run only four years before, but already there was a comfortable homestead. Amid the timber on the rich flats bordering two creeks there were potato and maize clearings. A three-acre wheat field had been cleared, the stumps of the lately deposed forest giants giving the appearance of tomb...

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One night, long ago, when I was yet young and strong, although my years were past forty, I sat alone in my houseplace. Nelly was always in bed, as I have told you, and Grace lay in a cot by her side. I believed them to be both asleep; though how they could sleep I could not conceive, so wild and terrible was the night....

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Her third set of divorce papers arrived during those weeks at Santa Katerina, those weeks of indecision about her future. "There you are, Nicky," she said, tossing him the lawyer's letter. "I'm through with men now, thank God." He laughed and stooped to her bare shoulder with his lips. The relationship between them was...

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Prospero nodded in silence, his face set, and handed the linstock to the Greek. A moment only the master-gunner spent in laying the chasers, then touched them off, more or less at a venture, in quick succession. The first shot flung up a harmless shower of spray in the space between two of the galleys; but the second...

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The rain beat against the house, the wind roared, and Charlie thought back over this wintry case upon which he, detective of the semi-tropics, was now so unexpectedly engaged. First of all he thought of people: of Sing, whose beady little eyes even Chan could not read; of Cecile, jealous and angry last night when she h...

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Day broke, and the pickets of Kerensky's Cossacks came in touch. Scattered rifle-fire, summons to surrender. Over the bleak plain on the cold quiet air spread the sound of battle, falling upon the ears of roving bands as they gathered about their little fires, waiting.... So it was beginning! They made toward the battl...

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"I, Richard Arnold, sign this paper in the full knowledge that in doing so I devote myself absolutely for the rest of my life to the service of the Brotherhood of Freedom, known to the world as the Terrorists. As long as I live its ends shall be my ends, and no human considerations shall weigh with me where those ends ...

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VENERATED SIRE,--You are omniscient, but I cannot regard the fear which you express in your beautifully-written letter, bearing the sign of the eleventh day of the seventh moon, as anything more than the imaginings prompted by a too-lavish supper of your favourite shark's fin and peanut oil. Unless the dexterously-elus...

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Not a word said the sergeant; but official rumination spoke in his steady blue eyes; and, under the thick yellow beard which covered his face to the cheek bones, and met, it seemed, over his head, the busy machinery of his brain was working at dynamic speed. No one might have guessed, from his impassive exterior, the c...

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I cannot imagine what put into Grandfather Boissy's head the idea of getting Chinamen as shepherds. In no account of the celestial empire is there any record, to my remembrance, of Mongols understanding the management of sheep. Where did he get them from? How did he train them? The fact remains that five years after th...

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"There are hooligans that ought to have existed even if they never have. One of them stopped a young girl before Varsovie station. The girl, frightened, immediately held out her purse to him, with two roubles and fifty kopecks in it. The hooligan took it all. 'Goodness,' cried she, 'I have nothing now to take my trai...

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In those early days, for all her maternal airs with him, she had been as young, as inexperienced as he was. She knew a good deal about art and literature, but next to nothing about life, though she thought herself a past mistress in its management. Her familiarity with pecuniary makeshifts, with the evasions and plau...

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She saw that he was neither unhappy nor dismayed. He stood there, bareheaded, smiling. He put up his hand and began to talk again. Then someone threw a stone. She ran across the street, crying out. In that moment she cared for nothing in the world--no, not for Lampiron himself--in comparison with her father. There ...

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Above the hum of the sand flies rose a rumble, like low thunder, only a long, unending roll. It was the roar of rapids. The men leaned on their paddles and trudged the length of the canoe, steadily gliding upstream, covering the interminable reaches, winding the serpentine bends. The rumble lulled and swelled, and t...

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Though still clear in mind, Havelock was weakening physically, and there came a time when he could put words on paper with less trouble than he could speak. This meant that one of his favourite pastimes was still available, and Charles often found him busy with the anthologies, composing new parodies of chosen poems. ...

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He had not cabled Brent his date of sailing. "Boy's probably tied up with a lot of exams and things; when I land in New York I'll find out by 'phone when it's convenient for him to come down to New York." Brent was not to be found now by telephone. Sam sent him a telegram, and that was quite all that he felt like do...

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However, the Englishman (let us call him Dennistoun) was soon too deep in his notebook and too busy with his camera to give more than an occasional glance to the sacristan. Whenever he did look at him, he found him at no great distance, either huddling himself back against the wall or crouching in one of the gorgeous s...

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"I went round to Number Five to go on with some repairs that I had begun. I went straight into the front room--that is the living-room--and then I noticed a glove lying on the floor under the window. I remembered having seen that glove before. But now I noticed something very unpleasant about the air of the place and t...

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He was aware then that he had lost his father. He stood for a moment dismayed. On every side figures were pushing against and around him; now someone would run past him shouting; now two singing, falling from side to side, would lurch drunkenly his way; now with a cry, as though it had come from the ground itself, th...

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"'Still, what is this to plants and trees, which fade away in their due season? . . . But stay; there is man, man the divinest of all things. A hundred cares wreck his heart, countless anxieties trace their wrinkles on his brow, until his inmost self is bowed beneath the burden of life. And swifter still he hurries to ...

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It would seem that such habits must be exceedingly destructive to the forest; but I found no evidence that it was. When I first came, the ants were working at a distance of sixty yards east of the colony. I instantly concluded that they preferred certain kinds of trees and went so far afield because their supply clos...

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She had put her feet to the floor but still reclined against the pretty cushions with an air of exhaustion; he was beside her now, holding her hand between both of his and looking at her anxiously. For a moment thus, then, with a quick impulsive movement, she sat up straight and put her other hand on the back of his an...

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He found it hard to resume his normal habits of thinking. He had thought of the churches as belonging in the same category with the public utilities and the various public services. Your house caught fire and you telephoned for the fire department and it came. Maybe it couldn't put the fire out until it had done a lo...

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Mallison was beginning to see more or less clearly into the heart of a mystery that had rendered him almost insane whenever he had dwelt upon it in the dreary prison house out there on the desolate moor. Many a weary hour had he spent going over the case as presented by the prosecution at his trial, but usually he had ...

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beauty, grace, and strength of the numerous cathedrals and churches, town halls and houses, which were built in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, and still give to Europe an inimitable interest and charm. In the builders' huts around the cathedrals that were growing up, the Master would read the Scriptures, even in t...

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"quite true as to my beauty, and I think his plans and ideas turned my head a little. He began by introducing a couple of gentlemen at a time, and I must say that they all treated me with great deference and respect. Much of this was due to the way in which my father was regarded by the officers of his old regiment. He...

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"The jolliest place in the world. You're going to love it. The first time I saw it I loved it. Old Tom MacMurray owned it then. He built the little shack on it, lived there in winter and rented it to Toronto people in summer. I bought it from him--became by that one simple transaction a landed proprietor owning a h...

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It must have been when the poem was first set to music. Anyway, Fran and he had been comparatively poor. The money that old Herman Voelker had lent them had gone into the business. (A sudden, meaningless spatter of snow, out on that cold sea. How serene the lights in the music room! He began to feel the gallant se...

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Now a man on foot can run down anything that lives. He can walk down anything that lives, and within a day or two. With a five-hour start on a well-fed horse, and given the information that he is followed, another man, of course, can hold his lead provided he has legs and knows enough to abandon the horse at the end of...

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"The same to you," she said with a placid smile, which changed to an expression of annoyance while her eyes followed him to the door. As she sat there alone, her face grew hard and bitter. A few hours ago, when she was being carried out of the graveyard after the burial, she had seen something which greatly disturbed ...

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Gaudian patted me on the back when we started and wrung my hand. He was a capital good fellow, and it made me feel sick to think that I was humbugging him. We got into the same big grey car, with Stumm's servant sitting beside the chauffeur. It was a morning of hard frost, the bare fields were white with rime, and t...

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Though he was ten years younger than Father Latour, Eusabio was one of the most influential men among the Navajo people, and one of the richest in sheep and horses. In Santa Fé and Albuquerque he was respected for his intelligence and authority, and admired for his fine presence. He was extremely tall, even for a Nav...

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Prince John did not go to bed on Thursday afternoon as Jaikie had advised. On the contrary he played bridge after dinner till close on midnight, and was with difficulty restrained from convoying Robin Charvill on his road to Castle Gay. But next morning he stayed in bed. It was a mild bright day of late autumn; the ...

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Spargo, changing his clothes, washing away the dust of his journey, in that old-fashioned lavender-scented bedroom, busied his mind in further speculations on his plan of campaign in Market Milcaster. He had no particularly clear plan. The one thing he was certain of was that in the old leather box which the man whom h...

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But the summer drifted in with the silence of a miracle, she was almost always alone. All the while, went on the long, lovely drowsiness, the maidenblush roses in the garden were all shed, washed away in a pouring rain, summer drifted into autumn, and the long, vague, golden days began to close. Crimson clouds fumed ab...

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The question was provisionally answered, at all events, by the time the party at luncheon had begun to disperse--with Maggie's version of Mrs. Verver sharp to the point of representing her pretext for absence as a positive flight from derision. She met the good priest's eyes before they separated, and priests were real...

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"A certain person will tell you--and she is right; for she does not know any better; she is the oldest; and perhaps we don't quite appreciate what she went through when mother died; and we all know that she does not know what we know--she'll tell you that at least they have always had their living; that they've never g...

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"The position," he began, in his old oracular manner, "is a little irregular. It is not customary for me to receive young ladies who fall into hysterics, and I confess that I was considerably alarmed--my dear wife is prostrate with anxiety. She said, and very rightly: 'The position is a very awkward one for you, Bertra...

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