Classics
epub |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness]

CHAPTER XVI Under arrest. Déroulède did not attempt to go to her. Only presently, when the heavy footsteps of Merlin and his men were once more heard upon the landing, ...
( Category: Anthologies May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-08 | Author:Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness]

* * * In his gilded cage supported by carved pillars and drawn by eight Ethiopian slaves, the favourite of Caligula was slowly wheeled into the arena. A huge sigh ...
( Category: Classics May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-31 | Author:Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness]

Chapter XX: Triumph The day that Citizen Chauvelin's letter was received by the members of the Committee of Public Safety was indeed one of great rejoicing. The Moniteur tells us ...
( Category: Classics May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-08 | Author:Louisa May Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]

( Category: Literature & Fiction May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-30 | Author:Louisa May Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]

THE BARON'S GLOVES; OR, AMY'S ROMANCE "All is fair in love and war." I HOW THEY WERE FOUND "What a long sigh! Are you tired, Amy?" "Yes, and disappointed as ...
( Category: Growing Up & Facts of Life May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-31 | Author:Louisa May Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]

CHAPTER XI. NEEDLES AND TONGUES DEAR POLLY, The Sewing Circle meets at our house this P. M. This is in your line, so do come and help me through. I ...
( Category: Coming of Age May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-31 | Author:Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness]

CHAPTER XXII BREAKING THE NEWS Sir Marmaduke talked openly of this plan of going to Canterbury with Editha de Chavasse, mentioning the following Friday as the most likely date for ...
( Category: Classics May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness]

CHAPTER XIX CONFLICTING EVIDENCE "By the time the public had been able to think over James Fairbairn's evidence, a certain disquietude and unrest had begun to make itself felt both ...
( Category: Anthologies May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-31 | Author:Louisa May Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]

Holding the letter fast, she beckoned him to follow, and glided before him to a secluded little nook, half boudoir, half conservatory. There she paused, stood an instant as if ...
( Category: Historical May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-30 | Author:Louisa May Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]

There she stopped, for David's step drew near, and she remembered where she was. "The last verse is the best in that little poem. Have you forgotten it?" he said, ...
( Category: Classics May 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-31 | Author:Louisa May Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]

It was night now, but fires were burning in all the houses; so Rosy went from hut to hut trying to find her father's, that she might rest while she ...
( Category: History & Price Guides May 11,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-08-28 | Author:Epictetus [Epictetus]

II 21 On inconsistency [1] People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance. No one, at any rate,∗ will admit to ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 10,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1978-01-02 | Author:Iris Murdoch; Mary Kinzie

I may have described the period of my odd quiet tête-à-tête with Gilbert as if it could have covered weeks, but in fact it covered days. Upon the last of ...
( Category: Literary May 10,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Irmgard Keun

All three of us are sitting in the kitchen. He’s propped up on the chair, the wife is near the stove, and I’m in front of the bed — we’re ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1946-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

IX IN LESS THAN A month after this, on a day when the first light snow fell, Fengmo went away. All the household stood at the gate to see him ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )