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Bob Bowen Comes to Town

Bob Bowen Comes to Town

H. Bedford-Jones | Fiction
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The fat man squeezed himself into the chair of the smoking-room, eyed the lean man and the drummer who had stretched out on the cushioned seat, wiped his beaded brow, and sighed.

The Corsican Lovers

The Corsican Lovers

Charles Felton Pidgin | Fiction
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Ajaccio, Alfieri, and Cromillian’s camp formed the angles of an equilateral triangle; in other words, it was about five miles from Ajaccio to Alfieri; it was another five miles from Alfieri to Cromillian’s camp. The two members of his band, however, who formed Andrea Fortier’s escort, for...

As Others See Us: Being the Diary of a Canadian Debutante

As Others See Us: Being the Diary of a Canadian Debutante

W. H. P. Jarvis | Fiction
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The purpose of this story is to form some impression of salient facts and tendencies in Canadian life, and to show its strength, and through its strength, its weakness. So I planned before the gods ruled for war, and the soldiers began to write history with the sword which, despite Lytton, is...

The Virgins of the Rocks

The Virgins of the Rocks

Gabriele D'Annunzio | Fiction
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With these mortal eyes I beheld within a brief space of time three peerless souls unfold and blossom, and then wither away and perish one by one: the most beautiful, most passionate, and most miserable souls ever embodied in the latest descendants of a haughty race.

Stormy, Misty's Foal

Stormy, Misty's Foal

Marguerite | Fiction
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In the gigantic Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Virginia a sliver of land lies exposed to the smile of the sun and the fury of wind and tide. It almost missed being an island, for it is only inches above the sea. The early Indians who poled over from the mainland to hunt deer and otter and...

The Prize

The Prize

Sydney C. Grier | Fiction
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Stretched upon the sun-warmed stones of the rampart, the parapet just shielding them from the rays of the declining sun, Danaë and her sister Angeliké squabbled noisily over the heap of sunflower seeds between them. Danaë ate fair, taking one seed at a time, but Angeliké had a greedy habit of...

Shepherds for Science

Shepherds for Science

W. C. Tuttle | Fiction
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Yaller Rock got so disgusted with him that they sent him to the Legislature, where he collected all the loose money in sight, and showed his appreciation of things by passing a few laws favoring sheep. He orated his views in Piperock, the same of which was contrary to our religion, and—let me...

Lost with Lieutenant Pike

Lost with Lieutenant Pike

Edwin L. Sabin | Fiction
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“Ai-ee! I see them!” panted Iskatappe, over his shoulder, and pointing to the west. “The Spanish!” “It may be running buffalo, or a big wind,” answered Skidi.“Shall we halt and wait?” proposed Letalesha. “No. It is they. It does not move fast enough for buffalo or wind. It is on...

Summer

Summer

Romain Rolland | Fiction
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On the half-light of the room, with its closed shutters, Annette was sitting on her bed, smiling, with her white dressing-gown wrapped about her. Her unbound hair, which she had just washed, covered her shoulders. Through the open windows could be seen the motionless, golden warmth of an August...

'All's not Gold that Glitters': or, The Young Californian

'All's not Gold that Glitters': or, The Young Californian

Alice Bradley Haven | Fiction
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American boys, perhaps more than those growing up in any other country, are thinking of money-getting before they are fairly out of school; but the history of King Midas, which most of them read there, teaches that the possession of gold is not happiness, and they will find it out, as our young...