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epub |eng | | Author:Percy F. Westerman

Chapter XII - The Journey Perilous * LONG before the grey morn began to dawn Redward and his son had covered a couple of leagues, and were at the foot ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Percy F. Westerman

Chapter XIII - Nocturnal Investigations * "We might have guessed that," remarked O'Hara. "Oh?" "Yes; don't you see, she was spotted by our gunboat. She couldn't get away up the ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Percy F. Westerman

Chapter XXII - A Night of Horror * Acting Chief Officer Dick Preston, on receiving the Old Man's order to get the boats away, lost no time in getting to ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charlotte M. Brame

Chapter XXXII - An Act of Perfidy * So—inch by inch, little by little, step by step—Lord Chandos was influenced to give up his faith, his promise, his loyalty. I, ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Louisa Molesworth

Chapter VII - A Rainy Day * That lovely weather lasted on for about a fortnight without a break, and many a pleasant ramble we had, for though lessons began ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 6,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Veley

Chapter VII - A Game at Chess * When Kate Rothwell promised to be Sidney Harding's wife she was very honestly in love with the handsome young fellow. But this ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Compton MacKenzie

Chapter the Nineteenth - Blackhart Farm with a Cock-Fight * About ten miles from Curtain Wells on the Bristol road stood a ruined cottage. With thatch discoloured, torn by gales ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stanley J. Weyman

Joanna's Bracelet * On a morning early in the spring of last year, two men stood leaning against the mantelpiece of a room in one of the Government offices. The ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carroll Watson Rankin

Chapter XV - Allen Rossiter * In November there came a day when nobody in the Huntington house spoke above a whisper. There was a trained nurse in the house, ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Stratemeyer

Chapter XVI - The Opening of the Ball Game * The day for the great baseball game between Brill and Roxley dawned clear and bright. Sam had received word that ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Cholmondeley

Chapter XXV * "We sometimes think we might have loved more in kinder circumstances, if some one had not died, or if some one else had not turned away from ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Booth Tarkington

Chapter Thirteen * It was a pretty morning, two weeks after Julia's Dance; and blue and lavender shadows, frayed with mid-summer sunshine, waggled gayly across the grass beneath the trees ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frances Lester Warner

Trio Impetuoso * The first steps of certain things are beautiful; the first flush of buds along a maple branch, for instance, or the first smooth launching of an Indian ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stanley J. Weyman

Chapter XX - Proof Positive * Anthony Clyne had made no moan, but, both in his pride and his better feelings, he had suffered more than the world thought through ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:G. A. Henty

Chapter XV - Very Bad News * A month passed. Tom Roberts and Andrew watched together in Jermyn Street, the former with a cap pulled well down over his face ...
( Category: Nonfiction December 5,2022 )