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Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]

C. E. STOWE. After her husband's departure for the United States, Mrs. Stowe, with her son Henry, her two eldest daughters, and her sister Mary (Mrs. Perkins), accepted the Duke ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 17,2017 )
Crescent and Iron Cross by E. F. Benson
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:E. F. Benson [Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)]

This view seems to be borne out by subsequent events, for the Jews evacuated from Jaffa have been permitted to return owing to the intervention of the Spanish Government. It ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
epub |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Edward Frederic Benson [Benson, Edward Frederic]

Helena gathered up cards and engagement-book. "I think I shall stop at home," she said. "You often do want something more, you know, and I hate not being here to ...
( Category: Christian Books & Bibles December 17,2017 )
111 by Prophet of Doom
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Prophet of Doom

couldn’t chance the girl playing possum. She stood ready to slap the ether-soaked wad back into place. But a minute passed and the young girl didn’t move. Satisfied, Esther stuffed ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 17,2017 )
The Headsman / The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
epub |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XVII. Ay, marry; now unmuzzle your wisdom. Rosalind. The hour of noon was past, when the stage was a second time filled with the privileged. The multitude was again ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
Mercedes of Castile / The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:J. Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, J. Fenimore]

Shortly before sunset, the admiral caused the three vessels to heave-to, and the two Pinzons to repair on board his own ship. Here he laid before these persons his orders ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
epub |eng | 2008-12-07 | Author:Ford Madox Ford [Ford, Ford Madox]

IV On that third night the Queen was with the Lady Mary, once more in her chamber, having come down as before, from the chapel in the roof, to pray ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
Soldier Stories by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2009-04-08 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

With forty-five O's in the last word: even at that distance you might have cut the soft South Irish accent with a shovel. 'For all we take we must pay, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James
epub |eng | 2006-11-05 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

* * * BOOK THIRD * * * XXXV The August night had gathered by the time Basil Ransom, having finished his supper, stepped out upon the piazza of the ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy
epub |eng | 2001-12-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

DEAR MARGERY, - You must not suppose that, because I spoke somewhat severely to you at our chance encounter by the hollow tree, I have any feeling against you. Far ...
( Category: Children's Books December 17,2017 )
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
epub |eng | 2002-02-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

‘Need I wait, sir?’ said the servant after a dead silence. ‘That will do, William. No answer,’ said Barnet calmly. When the man had gone Barnet re-read the letter. Turning ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
A Russian Proprietor / and other Stories by Lyof N. Tolstoi
epub |eng | 2012-10-21 | Author:Lyof N. Tolstoi [Tolstoi, Lyof N.]

* * * Two guests coming out from Anna Ivánovna's rooms stumbled against Albert lying on the threshold. One of them went back to Anna Ivánovna, and called her. "That ...
( Category: Children's Books December 17,2017 )
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-26 | Author:D. H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)]

* * * Just as the q-b was working up to the rage I had at last calmed down from, appeared the shawl-swathed girl announcing "Pronto!" "Pronto! Pronto!" said everybody. ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
The Life of Cicero / Volume One by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2005-09-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER IX CATILINE. To wash the blackamoor white has been the favorite task of some modern historians. To find a paradox in character is a relief to the investigating mind ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

On Sunday, Thady went to mass, and afterwards took a walk with his friend the priest, who said everything he could to raise his spirits, and to a certain degree ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )

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