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CHAPTER I. Adieu, thou beautiful land, Canaan of the exiles, and Ararat to many a shattered ark!

Volume 3. CHAPTER X. Within a few minutes after Hermas had flung himself out of window into the roadway, Phoebicius walked into his sleeping-room.

Volume 9. CHAPTER IX. Philippus started up from the divan on which he had been reclining at breakfast with his old friend.

Volume 4. CHAPTER XV. After the Emperor's body-slave had started up to go to the aid of Selene, who was attacked by his sovereign's dog, something had happened to him which he could not forget;...

The American Missionary JANUARY, 1890.

CHAPTER I. Dame Hannah had watched by Selene till sunrise and indefatigably cooled both her injured foot and the wound in her head.

Volume 3. CHAPTER XIII The sickness had come like a whirlwind: when it passed, what would be left?

Perry and the Distributed Proofreaders Team The American Missionary JANUARY, 1889.

DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Part 33.

CHAPTER I. The next day the guests at the Morleys' had assembled when Vane entered.

The cloudless vault of heaven spread over the plain of Pelusium, the stars were bright, the moon threw her calm light over the thousands of tents which shone as white as little hillocks of snow.

MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Vol.

CHAPTER XV. The afternoon shadows were already growing long, when a splendid chariot drew up to the gates of the terrace-temple.

CHAPTER I. "I, alas!

Volume 2. CHAPTER VI. Summer wore away; the oats in the forest were garnered and the vintage had begun in the vine-lands.

MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT, VOLUME 6. By Anthony Hamilton EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY SIR WALTER SCOTT CHAPTER TENTH.

Volume 3. THE TRAGIC COMEDY OF ANNETTE THE MARRIAGE OF THE MILLER MATHURIN THE STORY OF THE LIME-BURNER THE WOODSMAN'S STORY OF THE GREAT WHITE CHIEF UNCLE JIM THE HOUSE WITH THE TALL PORCH PARPO...

Volume 1. INTRODUCTION I believe that 'The Pomp of the Lavilettes' has elements which justify consideration.

Volume 4. CHAPTER XV. We reached the forest lodge that evening with red faces and half-frozen hands and feet.

Volume 8. CHAPTER X. The story told by Mastor which had so greatly agitated Pollux and had prompted him to his mad flight was the history of events which had taken place in the steward's rooms d...

Once or twice Pentaur and his companions had had to defend themselves against hostile mountaineers, who rushed suddenly upon them out of the woods.

Volume 5. CHAPTER XVIII. Common natures can only be lightly touched by the immeasurable depth of anguish that is experienced by a soul that despairs of itself; but the more heavily the blow of...

Volume 2. CHAPTER VI Prince or plebeian, Valmond played his part with equal aplomb at the simple home of Elise Malboir and at the Manoir Hilaire, where Madame Chalice received him.

I pass over the joyous meeting betwen Waife and Sophy.

THE LOOM OF DESTINY CHAPTER XL HYLDA SEEKS NAHOUM It was as though she had gone to sleep the night before, and waked again upon this scene unchanged, brilliant, full of colour, a chaos of dec...

CHAPTER IX THE FAITH OF COMRADES When Francis Armour left his wife's room he did not go to his own, but quietly descended the stairs, went to the library, and sat down.

Volume 6. CHAPTER VI. Shall I now set forth how that Ann and I found Herdegen in his hiding- place, a simple little beekeeper's but in the most covert part of the Lorenzer wald, a spot whither ...

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) CHAPTER LIX.