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A Marriage in High Life: Volume II

A Marriage in High Life: Volume II

Lady Scott | Fiction
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Easter was now fast approaching, and Fitzhenry announced to Emmeline his intention of going out of town for a fortnight,—but not to Arlingford—And he concluded by saying, that, of course, he supposed she would like to pass the time with her father at Charlton.

A Marriage in High Life: Volume I

A Marriage in High Life: Volume I

Lady Scott | Fiction
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Emmeline’s father, an opulent city merchant and banker, appeared arrayed in a complete new suit for the occasion. The first gloss was not off his coat, which hung stiff upon him, as if not yet reconciled to the homely person to which it was destined to belong, while each separate bright button...

Arthur Blane; or, The Hundred Cuirassiers

Arthur Blane; or, The Hundred Cuirassiers

James Grant | Fiction
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In the following pages are narrated much of real life and adventure, with much that is historically true; but these passages I leave to the inquiring reader to discover or to separate. The localities are all described from old works or other sources, as they existed in the time of the hero.

Jerry Todd and the Talking Frog

Jerry Todd and the Talking Frog

Leo Edwards | Fiction
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When I started writing this book, I thought of calling it: JERRY TODD AND THE PUZZLE ROOM MYSTERY. But Scoop told me that wasn’t the proper title. “There is more in the book about the talking frog than there is about the puzzle room,” he pointed out. “So why don’t you call it JERRY TODD...

Elsie's Friends at Woodburn

Elsie's Friends at Woodburn

Martha Finley | Fiction
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The twenty-fourth had been cold and stormy: a keen, biting wind blowing continuously, during the greater part of the day, bringing with it a heavy fall of sleet and snow.

The Cruise of the Pelican

The Cruise of the Pelican

H. Bedford-Jones | Fiction
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Tom Dennis sat on a printer's stool beside a very dirty window which dimly illumined his figure, and stared at the gloom surrounding him. His rawboned face was dejected; his angular body slumped despondently. In his hand was a little sheaf of papers.

Against the Tide

Against the Tide

H. Bedford-Jones | Fiction
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The old-fashioned Deming mansion, for the hundredth time in its sedate existence, was filled with a gayety which offset even the menacing weather.

A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist

A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist

William Le Queux | Fiction
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The Tzar knows little of the horrors committed in his name. He has never been inside the tenth pavilion in Warsaw Citadel, where starving people have, times without number, been knouted to death. He knows nothing of the dark underground dungeons overrun with vermin in the Peter-Paul Fortress; he...

The History of the Lady Betty Stair

The History of the Lady Betty Stair

Molly Elliot Seawell | Fiction
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IN the year 1798 the palace of Holyrood was inhabited by a swarm of French people,—his Royal Highness the Comte d’Artois, who in his youth had danced so deliciously on the tightrope as to be the admiration of the Little Trianon, and in his old age was Charles X. of France; his Savoyard...

Belgian Fairy Tales

Belgian Fairy Tales

William Elliot Griffis | Fiction
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The name which the Belgians give to their country is Belgique. The English form Belgium is that from the Latin of ancient days. The country is inhabited by two races. Draw a line across the map of Belgium and you divide the kingdom into two regions, inhabited by Flemings and Walloons. Let the line...