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* * * BOOK THE SIXTH FILIA DOLOROSA * * * CHAPTER 1 Amelius found it no easy matter to pass quickly through the people loitering and gossiping about him. ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER IX. THE doctor (like me) had his shoes off. The doctor (like me) had come in without making the least noise. He cocked the pistol without saying a word. ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER XXXII GOOD-BYE TO IRIS LADY HARRY lifted her veil, and looked at Mountjoy with sad entreaty in her eyes. "Are you angry with me?" she asked. "I ought to ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER VI. ALL human penetration has its limits. Accurately as Captain Wragge had seen his way hitherto, even his sharp insight was now at fault. He finished his cigar with ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER XIX. THE CATS. MISS DUNROSS had so completely perplexed me, that I was at a loss what to say next. To ask her plainly why it was necessary to ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIRST SEEDS OF THE FUTURE (FIRST SOWING). "NOT SO large as Windygates. But--shall we say snug, Jones?" "And comfortable, Smith. I quite agree with you." Such was the ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER I. One night, during the period of the first French Revolution, the family of Francois Sarzeau, a fisherman of Brittany, were all waking and watching at a late hour ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER XXVI. MORE OF MY OBSTINACY. ARIEL was downstairs in the shadowy hall, half asleep, half awake, waiting to see the visitors clear of the house. Without speaking to us, ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER XXXIII. An unusually long day's work at the office had fatigued good Mr. Mool. He pushed aside his papers, and let his weary eyes rest on a glass vase ...
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CHAPTER XXXV. THE FUTURE LOOKS GLOOMY. My ever-helpful guide led me to my room--well out of Mr. Gracedieu's hearing, if he happened to be awake--at the other end of the ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER THE THIRTY-THIRD The Day Between THE interval-day before the second appearance of Herr Grosse, and the experiment on Lucilla's sight that was to follow it, was marked by two ...
( Category: British & Irish March 25,2014 )
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* * * X June 20th.--Eight o'clock. The sun is shining in a clear sky. I have not been near my bed--I have not once closed my weary wakeful eyes. ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER I. IF you had been in the far West of England about thirteen years since, and if you had happened to take up one of the Cornish newspapers on ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures March 25,2014 )
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Chapter XXIX. Mr. Sarrazin. As a lawyer, Randal's guest understood that a narrative of events can only produce the right effect, on one condition: it must begin at the beginning. ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE SEARCH IN THE GROUNDS. GRACE ROSEBERRY, still listening in the conservatory, saw the door open, and recognized the mistress of the house. She softly drew back, and ...
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