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Scene, the hall in UNCLE ROLAND'S tower; time, niyht; season, winter.

We left Jasper Losely resting for the night at the small town near Fawley.

CHAPTER I. In which the history opens with a description of the social manners, habits, and amusements of the English People, as exhibited in an immemorial National Festivity.--Char...

MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Volume 96 Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v10, 1618-19 CHAPTER XIX. Rancour between the Politico-Religious Parties--Spa...

MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Volume 94 Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v8, 1617 CHAPTER XIII. Ferdinand of Gratz crowned King of Bohemia--His Enmit...

CHAPTER I. The last book closed with the success of the Parisian sortie on the 30th of November, to be followed by the terrible engagements no less honourable to French valour, on the 2nd of Decem...

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON VOLUME 9. CHAPTER LXI Let me here relate an incident which should have found a pla...

CHAPTER I. In the kindliest natures there is a certain sensitiveness, which, when wounded, occasions the same pain, and bequeaths the same resentment, as mortified vanity or galled ...

MONTHS passed away before my senses returned to me.

The Two Shipmates, by William H.G. Kingston.

It was pitch dark, and long past midnight.

[Illustration: DAVID BELASCO] DAVID BELASCO (Born, San Francisco, July 25, 1853) The present Editor has had many opportunities of studying the theatre side of David Belasco.

Hilyard was yet asleep in the chamber assigned to him as his prison, when a rough grasp shook off his slumbers, and he saw the earl before him, with a countenance so changed from its usual open maj...

Westminster Archibald Constable & Company Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company.

THE THREE CITIES PARIS BY EMILE ZOLA TRANSLATED BY ERNEST A. VIZETELLY ...

Off to Sea, by WHG Kingston.

CHAPTER I THE BOYS OF THE BEAVER PATROL "They all think, fellows, that the Beaver Patrol can't do it!"

CHAPTER I. On waking some morning, have you ever felt, reader, as if a change for the brighter in the world, without and within you, had suddenly come to pass-some new glory has been given to the ...

Volume 6. CHAPTER XXV.

CHAPTER IX. It was noon: the rays of the sun found no way into the narrow shady streets of the city of Thebes, but they blazed with scorching heat on the broad dyke-road which led to the king's ca...

Volume 3. THE BRIDGE HOUSE THE EPAULETTES THE HOUSE WITH THE BROKEN SHUTTER THE FINDING OF FINGALL THREE COMMANDMENTS IN THE VULGAR TONGUE THE BRIDGE HOUSE It stood on a wide wall between tw...

CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c. No. 439.

CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c. No. 425.

CHAPTER I. A few weeks after the date of the preceding chapter, a gay party of men were assembled at supper in one of the private salons of the Maison Doree.

Volume 5. CHAPTER XIX. Plutarch was one of the richest citizens of Alexandria, and the owner of the papyrus manufactory where Selene and Arsinoe worked; and he had of his own free will offered ...

CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c. NO. 428.

CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c. No. 422.

Volume 7 LETTER XXIV.

Volume 2. CHAPTER X Ferrols's recovery from his injuries was swifter than might have been expected.

and David Widger CHAPTER XI. He who would know mankind must be at home with all men.

Volume 4. CHAPTER XX. The burgomaster's wife had been anxious about Henrica, but the latter greeted her with special cheerfulness and met her gentle reproaches with the assurance that this morn...

Guy Darrell resumed the thread of solitary life at Fawley with a calm which was deeper in its gloom than it had been before.

and David Widger A STRANGE STORY by Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) PREFACE.

"And what news?"

CONTENTS: THE INVASION ELEVEN YEARS AFTER IN FRANCE--NEAR FIVE MONTHS AFTER IN JERSEY FIVE YEARS LATER DURING ONE YEAR LATER IN JERSEY--A YEAR LATER INTRODUCTION This book is a protest a...

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CHAPTER XIII WINTERBOURNE I Hodder fell asleep from sheer exhaustion, awaking during the night at occasional intervals to recall chimerical dreams in which the events of the day before were ref...

CHAPTER XII HE STANDS BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The next morning he went down to the family solicitor's office.

Volume 4. LITTLE BABICHE AT POINT O' BUGLES THE SPOIL OF THE PUMA THE TRAIL OF THE SUN DOGS THE PILOT OF BELLE AMOUR LITTLE BABICHE "No, no, m'sieu' the governor, they did not tell you right.

CHAPTER X THE MOON WAS NOT ALONE Out on the prairie under the light of the stars a man had fought the first great battle of his life, and had emerged victorious.

and David Widger CHAPTER XLIX.

AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING CHAPTER XXIX THE WILD RIDE There had been a fierce thunder-storm in the valley of the Chaudiere.

Volume 5. XXV In the cathedral XXVI The secret of the tapestry XXVII A side-wind of revenge XXVIII "To cheat the Devil yet" XXIX "Master Devil" Doltaire XXX "Where all...

CHAPTER IX OLD DEBTS FOR NEW Jo Portugtais was breaking the law of the river--he was running a little raft down the stream at night, instead of tying up at sundown and camping on the shore, or si...

Volume 4. TIMES WERE HARD IN PONTIAC MEDALLION'S WHIM THE PRISONER AN UPSET PRICE A FRAGMENT OF LIVES THE MAN THAT DIED AT ALMA THE BARON OF BEAUGARD THE TUNE McGILVERAY PLAYED TIMES WERE HA...

M. ----, a merchant, at the head of one of the first commercial houses in Paris,[1] had occasion to visit the manufactories established in the mountainous tracts of the Departments of the Loire and...

CHAPTER I. I'll tell you a story if you please to attend.

CHAPTER I. Primitive character of the country in certain districts of Great Britain.--Connection between the features of surrounding scenery and the mental and moral inclinations of...

Part 12.

Volume 1. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: In translating what is supposed to be a transcript into modern German of the language of Nuremberg in the fifteenth century, I have made no attempt to imitate Engl...