CONTENTS First Epoch THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT THE STORY CONTINUED BY VINCENT GIL...
CONTENTS First Epoch THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT THE STORY CONTINUED BY VINCENT GILMORE THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE Second Epoch THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE.
PROLOGUE THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799) Extracted from a Family Paper I address these l...
PROLOGUE THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799) Extracted from a Family Paper I address these lines--written in India--to my relatives in England.
CHAPTER I. THE hands on the hall-clock pointed to half-past six in the morning.
CHAPTER I. THE hands on the hall-clock pointed to half-past six in the morning.
"FOR after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves,...
"FOR after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose ...
Affectionately Dedicated to Holman Hunt BEFORE THE STORY.
Affectionately Dedicated to Holman Hunt BEFORE THE STORY.
CHAPTER I In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its h...
CHAPTER I In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point.
In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his "Life o...
In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his "Life of Goldsmith;" and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated with some of the h...
I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a sing...
I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before.
Chapter 1. The date is between twenty and thirty years ago.
Chapter 1. The date is between twenty and thirty years ago.
WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at o...
WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits' end what to do with her.
IT has long been one of my pleasantest anticipations to look forward to the time when I might off...
IT has long been one of my pleasantest anticipations to look forward to the time when I might offer to you, my old and dear friend, some such acknowledgment of the value I place on your affection f...
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION This novel ranks the third, in order of succession, of the works ...
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION This novel ranks the third, in order of succession, of the works of fiction which I have produced.
TO SARONY (OF NEW YORK) ARTIST; PHOTOGRAPHER, AND GOOD FRIEND I. PREFACE TO READERS IN ...
TO SARONY (OF NEW YORK) ARTIST; PHOTOGRAPHER, AND GOOD FRIEND I. PREFACE TO READERS IN GENERAL You are the children of Old Mother England, on both sides of the Atlantic; you form the ma...
"Will she last out the night, I wonder?"
"Will she last out the night, I wonder?"
Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
WILL YOU honor me by accepting the Dedication of this book, in remembrance of an uninterrupted fr...
WILL YOU honor me by accepting the Dedication of this book, in remembrance of an uninterrupted friendship of many years?
I. THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick.
I. THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick.
Outside the bedroom the night was black and still.
Outside the bedroom the night was black and still.
I. THE course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads...
I. THE course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground.
CHAPTER I. OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her...
CHAPTER I. OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap.
CHAPTER I In the matter of Jezebel's Daughter, my recollections begin with the deaths of two for...
CHAPTER I In the matter of Jezebel's Daughter, my recollections begin with the deaths of two foreign gentlemen, in two different countries, on the same day of the same year.
To CAROLINE Experience of the reception of _The Fallen Leaves_ by intelligent readers, who have ...
To CAROLINE Experience of the reception of _The Fallen Leaves_ by intelligent readers, who have followed the course of the periodical publication at home and abroad, has satisfied me that the desi...
CHAPTER I. I AM going to try if I can't write something about myself.
CHAPTER I. I AM going to try if I can't write something about myself.
The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were...
The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were, in the autumn of the year 408, already furrowed in numerous directions by the tracks of the invadi...
At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back th...
At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an Englis...
CONTENTS PREFACE FIRST PERIOD I THE SOUR FRENCH WINE II THE MAN SHE REFUSED ...
CONTENTS PREFACE FIRST PERIOD I THE SOUR FRENCH WINE II THE MAN SHE REFUSED III THE REGISTERED PACKET IV THE GAME: MOUNTJOY LOSES V THE GAME: MOUNTJOY PLAYS ...
[Illustration: The Land's End, Cornwall.] _NEW EDITION._ LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY: NEW ...
[Illustration: The Land's End, Cornwall.] _NEW EDITION._ LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY: NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
"HEART all right," said the doctor.
"HEART all right," said the doctor.
CHAPTER I ON THE WAY TO THE RIVER FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my ...
CHAPTER I ON THE WAY TO THE RIVER FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood.
Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who lived and worked during ...
Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who lived and worked during the first half of the eighteenth century.
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