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CHAPTER 1 The Rassendylls--With a Word on the Elphbergs "I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?"

CHAPTER I. THE QUEEN'S GOOD-BY A man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far an...

CHAPTER I OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQUIRE It was a dark, dank, drizzly morning in March.

CHAPTER I. A Multitude of Good Reasons.

CHAPTER I. The Happiness of Stephen the Smith.

CHAPTER I THE CHILD OF PROPHECY One who was in his day a person of great place and consideration, and has left a name which future generations shall surely repeat so long as the world may last, ...

"Perhaps you won't believe me," said I, "but till yesterday I never so much as heard of her existence."

A LIBERAL EDUCATION "There's ingratitude for you!"

CHAPTER I DOCTOR MARY'S PAYING GUEST "Just in time, wasn't it?"

CHAPTER I THE VIRTUOUS HYPOCRITES AT first sight they had as little reason for being unhappy as it is possible to have in a world half full of sorrow.

CHAPTER I DOCTOR MARY'S PAYING GUEST "Just in time, wasn't it?"

I. Neither life nor the lawn-tennis club was so full at Natterley that the news of Harry Sterling's return had not some importance.

"I'm so blind," said Miss Ferrars plaintively.

Chapter I. HOME AGAIN.

CHAPTER I LIFE IS RECOMMENDED The changeful April morning that she watched from the window of her flat looking over the river began a day of significance in the career of Trix Trevalla--of femin...

"Inkpat!"

_Chapter One_ AMBROSE, LORD LYNBOROUGH Common opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroo...

A shrunken sallow old lady, dressed in rusty ill-shaped black and adorned with an evidently false 'front' of fair hair, sat in a tiny flat whose windows overlooked Hyde Park from south to north.

The Nestons, of Tottlebury Grange in the county of Suffolk, were an ancient and honourable family, never very distinguished or very rich, but yet for many generations back always richer and more di...

classed among potential immortals.

INTRODUCTION The following narrative falls naturally into three divisions, corresponding to distinct and clearly marked periods of Sophy's life.

_An Extract from the Journals of Julius Jason, Esquire._ CHAPTER I. The Sequel to the Ball.

CHAPTER I THE HOUSE ON THE BLUFF To the eye of an onlooker Captain Dieppe's circumstances afforded high spirits no opportunity, and made ordinary cheerfulness a virtue which a stoic would not hav...

In the year 1884 the Republic of Aureataland was certainly not in a flourishing condition.

Countless are the stories told of the sayings that Count Antonio spoke and of the deeds that he did when he dwelt an outlaw in the hills.

CHAPTER I MUDDOCK AND MEAD The social birth of a family, united by a chain of parallel events with the commercial development of a business, is a spectacle strange to no country but most common ...