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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews The Courage of the Commonplace

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Edith Wharton The Custom Of The Country

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"Undine Spragg--how can you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which [mehr]

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Hope, Anthony The Secret Of The Tower

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"Just In Time, Wasn't It?" Asked Mary Arkroyd. "Two Days Before The--The Ceremony! Mercifully It Had All Been Kept [mehr]

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Hope Anthony The Secret Of The Tower

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"Just In Time, Wasn't It?" Asked Mary Arkroyd. "Two Days Before The--The Ceremony! Mercifully It Had All Been Kept Very Quiet, Because It Was Only Three Months Since Poor Gilly Was Killed. I Forget Whether You Ever Met Gilly? My Half-Brother, You Know?" "Only Once--In Collingham Gardens. He Had An _Exeat_, And Dashed In One Saturday Morning When We Were Just Finishing Our Work. Don't You Remember?" "Yes, I Think I Do. But Since My Engagement I'd Gone Into Colors. Oh, Of Course I've Gone Back Into Mourning Now! And Everything Was Ready--Settlements And So On, You Know. And Rooms Taken At Bournemouth. And Then It All Came Out!" [mehr]

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Joseph A. Altsheler The Scouts Of The Valley

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A Light Canoe Of Bark, Containing A Single Human Figure, Moved Swiftly Up One Of The Twin [mehr]

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John Buchan The Path Of The King

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When Biorn Was A Very Little Boy In His Father's Stead At Hightown He Had A Play Of His Own Making For The Long Winter Nights. At The Back End Of The Hall, Where The Men Sat At Ale, Was A Chamber Which The Thralls Used Of A Morning--A Place Which Smelt Of Hams And Meal And Good Provender. There A Bed Had Been Made For Him When He Forsook His Cot In The Women's Quarters. When The Door Was Shut It Was Black Dark, Save For A Thin Crack Of Light From The Wood Fire And Torches Of The Hall. The Crack Made On The Earthen Floor A Line Like A Golden River. Biorn, Cuddled Up On A Bench In His Little Bear-Skin, Was Drawn Like A Moth To That Stream Of Light. [mehr]

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Edith Wharton The Glimpses Of The Moon

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It Rose For Them--Their Honey-Moon--Over The Waters Of A Lake So Famed As The Scene Of Romantic Raptures That They Were Rather Proud Of Not Having Been Afraid To Choose It As The Setting Of Their Own. "It Required A Total Lack Of Humour, Or As Great A Gift For It As Ours, To Risk The Experiment," Susy Lansing Opined, As They Hung Over The Inevitable Marble Balustrade And Watched Their Tutelary Orb Roll Its Magic Carpet Across The Waters To Their Feet. [mehr]

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Zane Grey The Call Of The Canyon

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What Subtle Strange Message Had Come To Her Out Of The West? Carley Burch Laid The Letter In Her Lap And Gazed Dreamily Through The Window. It Was A Day Typical Of Early April In New York, Rather Cold And Gray, With Steely Sunlight. Spring Breathed In The Air, But The Women Passing Along Fifty-Seventh Street Wore Furs And Wraps. She Heard The Distant Clatter Of An L Train And Then The Hum Of A Motor Car. A Hurdy-Gurdy Jarred Into The Interval Of Quiet. "Glenn Has Been Gone Over A Year," She Mused, "Three Months Over A Year-- And Of All His Strange Letters This Seems The Strangest Yet." [mehr]

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Andre Laurie, And Jules Verne The Waif Of The "Cynthia"

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There Is Probably Neither In Europe Nor Anywhere Else A Scholar Whose Face Is More Universally Known Than That Of Dr. Schwaryencrona, Of Stockholm. His Portrait Appears On The Millions Of Bottles With Green Seals, Which Are Sent To The Confines Of The Globe. Truth Compels Us To State That These Bottles Only Contain Cod Liver Oil, A Good And Useful Medicine; Which Is Sold To The Inhabitants Of Norway For A "Couronnes," Which Is Worth One Franc And Thirty-Nine Centimes. [mehr]

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Zane Grey The Call Of The Canyon

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What Subtle Strange Message Had Come To Her Out Of The West? Carley Burch Laid The Letter In Her Lap And Gazed Dreamily Through The Window. It Was A Day Typical Of Early April In New York, Rather Cold And Gray, With Steely Sunlight. Spring Breathed In The Air, But The Women Passing Along Fifty-Seventh Street Wore Furs And Wraps. She Heard The Distant Clatter Of An L Train And Then The Hum Of A Motor Car. A Hurdy-Gurdy Jarred Into The Interval Of Quiet. [mehr]

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