epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Robert Marshall [John Updike]

Ay! Ye’re guy wet ‘Noo,’ he continued, his eyes blazing with vindictive triumph, ‘I’m gaun tae lend ye this verra set o’ clubs, an’ I guarantee that an ye play ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Ramesh Menon [Menon, Ramesh]

epub |eng | 2022-05-21 | Author:Unknown

And came with me in most extremity. Oh, if he should miscarry here and die, Who is the cause of it, but only I? Messenger Why that am I; let ...

pdf | | 2022-12-22 | Author:Cody Marrs

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epub |eng | 1987-04-15 | Author:James Barke [James Barke]

TWO FATHERS As he walked up the drive to Caddom House, David Ramsay speculated on the nature of his urgent summons. Sir Charles must want something done in a hurry ...

epub |eng | 2022-05-13 | Author:Booth Tarkington [Tarkington, Booth]

epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Love Peacock

Chapter IX - The Sexton * Mr Escot passed a sleepless night, the ordinary effect of love, according to some amatory poets, who seem to have composed their whining ditties ...

epub |eng | | Author:W. Somerset Maugham

XX * I seemed to have slept a bare half-hour when I was awakened by a great noise downstairs. I got up, and looking out of the window saw a ...

epub |eng | 1846-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

4th August Dear Makar Alexeyevich! For God’s sake, Makar Alexeyevich, borrow some sum of money just as quickly as you can; I wouldn’t have asked you for help in the ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Katherine Mansfield

Bliss Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-22 | Author:Emile Zola [ZOLA, EMILE]

IV. THE VIGIL WHEN Pierre dragged Marie in her box to the front of the Grotto, and placed her as near as possible to the railing, it was past midnight, ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-19 | Author:Allen Raine

Captain Jack made no answer, but hurried into his lodgings, on reaching which he at once slipped his heavy bundle on to the table, which was ominously bare of any ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Elizabeth Taylor [TAYLOR, ELIZABETH]

[5] AT three o’clock in the afternoon, the damson-coloured sky looked solid above the frail trees. Kate, hurrying out into Dorothea’s garden—as she still thought of it—to fetch some dusters ...