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It would be hard for me to tell the state of mind in which I lived for a long time after this. I put away from me all torment, and the thought of future cares, and the sight of difficulty; and to myself appeared, which means that I became the luckiest of lucky fellows, since the world itself began. I thought not of the...	[ 2181, 1053, 387, 2653, 369, 757, 311, 3371, 279, 1614, 315, 4059, 304, 902, 358, 12439, 369, 264, 1317, 892, 1306, 420, 13, 358, 2231, 3201, 505, 757, 682, 73770, 11, 323, 279, 3463, 315, 3938, 34672, 11, 323, 279, 14254, 315, 17250...
Terry had discovered that certain quinine derivatives when introduced into the animal body slowly decompose into products which are highly toxic to bacteria but only mildly toxic to the body. There was hinted here a whole new world of therapy. Terry explained it to Martin, and invited him to collaborate. Buoyant wit...	[ 51, 5515, 1047, 11352, 430, 3738, 934, 83334, 43645, 994, 11784, 1139, 279, 10065, 2547, 14297, 29602, 2972, 1139, 3956, 902, 527, 7701, 21503, 311, 24032, 719, 1193, 76949, 21503, 311, 279, 2547, 13, 220, 2684, 574, 67469, 1618, 264, 4...
"All this time I was wandering round the room trying to find the second exit. That Zavier had been there just before we came, I knew. He couldn't have got out by the stairs, therefore there must be another door. And after a few moments I found it. There was a bookshelf in one corner, and on closer inspection it pro...	[ 68149, 420, 892, 358, 574, 55063, 4883, 279, 3130, 4560, 311, 1505, 279, 2132, 4974, 13, 220, 3011, 1901, 31748, 1047, 1027, 1070, 1120, 1603, 584, 3782, 11, 358, 7020, 13, 220, 1283, 7846, 956, 617, 2751, 704, 555, 279, 32249, 11, ...
"So much for Mr. John Tremlin; now for his wife. She was an extraordinarily pretty woman about seven years younger than him, and when you met her there was absolutely nothing to indicate that anything was amiss. Tremlin motored me over to the Ashbys' house the day after I arrived--which necessitated incidentally goin...	[ 48058, 1790, 369, 4491, 13, 3842, 12758, 42026, 26, 1457, 369, 813, 7555, 13, 220, 3005, 574, 459, 76024, 5128, 5333, 922, 8254, 1667, 14992, 1109, 1461, 11, 323, 994, 499, 2322, 1077, 1070, 574, 11112, 4400, 311, 13519, 430, 4205, 57...
But a change very quickly took place. Considering what had occurred, it was scarcely possible for Sir John Robertson and Sir Henry Parkes to again work together with anything like cordiality; it was quite impossible that they could ever again join in the formation, of a Government. It was equally impossible for Sir Joh...	[ 4071, 264, 2349, 1633, 6288, 3952, 2035, 13, 56877, 1148, 1047, 10222, 11, 433, 574, 80987, 3284, 369, 17177, 3842, 53596, 323, 17177, 18063, 5657, 288, 311, 1578, 990, 3871, 449, 4205, 1093, 23125, 532, 488, 26, 433, 574, 5115, 12266, ...
In among the ships they went, by the wharves where the water was green and still, and queer barnacles grew on the slippery piles. Odd smells saluted her nose, and odd sights met her eyes, but Rose liked it all, and played she was really landing in Hong Kong when they glided up to the steps in the shadow of the tall "Ra...	[ 644, 4315, 279, 18198, 814, 4024, 11, 555, 279, 421, 277, 2396, 1405, 279, 3090, 574, 6307, 323, 2103, 11, 323, 55641, 33419, 18709, 14264, 389, 279, 71672, 59872, 13, 56136, 50737, 4371, 2844, 1077, 19689, 11, 323, 10535, 42266, 2322, ...
Instead of 'Europe' rope, half her running rigging was coir, brown and frizzy, and the standing gear showed grievously for lack of tar. Many of her rattlines were gone, and their places filled by strips of bamboo. Her sails, loosed to dry and half-sheeted home, showed great patches, fitter for a North Country collier t...	[ 31887, 315, 364, 31880, 6, 34520, 11, 4376, 1077, 4401, 13552, 3252, 574, 1080, 404, 11, 14198, 323, 1448, 91591, 11, 323, 279, 11509, 14787, 8710, 51013, 7162, 369, 6996, 315, 12460, 13, 9176, 315, 1077, 57645, 8128, 1051, 8208, 11, ...
However, on my undeceiving them in that point, and at the same time confirming what Mr. Balmain had from the first told them, viz. that their complaints were neither malignant nor dangerous, their fears abated. To this I added, that I would immediately give orders for such as were in want of clothing, to be supplied wi...	[ 11458, 11, 389, 856, 59995, 47444, 1124, 304, 430, 1486, 11, 323, 520, 279, 1890, 892, 50096, 1148, 4491, 13, 19984, 3902, 1047, 505, 279, 1176, 3309, 1124, 11, 48850, 13, 430, 872, 21859, 1051, 14188, 94329, 6463, 11660, 11, 872, 240...
The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and the small noises of midday, which one can ascribe to no definite cause, in a regular rhythm. It was all very real, very big, very impersonal, and after a moment or two she began to raise her fir...	[ 791, 6693, 574, 4106, 11, 323, 279, 10368, 315, 5403, 2163, 1077, 4059, 60506, 323, 24050, 1093, 279, 1925, 1355, 2702, 315, 264, 9042, 11, 323, 279, 2678, 58448, 315, 5209, 1316, 11, 902, 832, 649, 439, 3191, 311, 912, 44870, 5353, ...
As Croot spoke he indicated a small door in the side of the library which opened on to a passage, at the foot of which was a staircase, leading to the upper floor, where Croot had his bed and dressing-room. He frequently sat half the night working in his library, and this arrangement suited him perfectly. It meant no d...	[ 2170, 356, 2959, 12570, 568, 16717, 264, 2678, 6134, 304, 279, 3185, 315, 279, 6875, 902, 9107, 389, 311, 264, 21765, 11, 520, 279, 4579, 315, 902, 574, 264, 62862, 11, 6522, 311, 279, 8582, 6558, 11, 1405, 356, 2959, 1047, 813, 495...
But how quickly he undeceived those oppressed citizens, of whom he naively writes that they welcomed him as "our liberator"! Micheroux, though he perjured himself for the worthless Méjean, had at least a certain tolerance; Ruffo, though he had little tolerance, could at least respect a treaty; these and other men were...	[ 4071, 1268, 6288, 568, 59995, 8946, 1884, 67516, 10495, 11, 315, 8884, 568, 4415, 3210, 14238, 430, 814, 32069, 1461, 439, 330, 414, 34929, 859, 1, 0, 220, 5384, 261, 41670, 11, 3582, 568, 824, 80491, 5678, 369, 279, 66121, 44031, 384...
'You can see why. Here's this degenerate coming out of his rotten class, all pampered and petted and satiated with the easy pleasures of life. He has seen nothing of women except the bad kind and the overfed specimens of his own country. I hate being impolite about females, but I've always considered the German variety...	[ 6, 2675, 649, 1518, 3249, 13, 5810, 596, 420, 5367, 13523, 5108, 704, 315, 813, 78792, 538, 11, 682, 42290, 43868, 323, 6896, 6702, 323, 7731, 10234, 449, 279, 4228, 72974, 315, 2324, 13, 1283, 706, 3970, 4400, 315, 3278, 3734, 279, ...
"No, Baas," said Hans, "not blessed; another word, Baas, which your reverend father would never let me speak. As he used to say, Baas, the world is full of wonders and it is nice to see as many of them as one can before we go to the place where there is nothing but fire, like there was here the other night when the st...	[ 39522, 11, 14659, 300, 1359, 1071, 25844, 11, 330, 1962, 33944, 26, 2500, 3492, 11, 14659, 300, 11, 902, 701, 36237, 408, 7126, 1053, 2646, 1095, 757, 6604, 13, 220, 1666, 568, 1511, 311, 2019, 11, 14659, 300, 11, 279, 1917, 374, 25...
At the back of the clearing was a wall of rock. In front of this stood a natural pillar of stone, and fastened up at the top was something which for a time presented the greatest mystery. It looked like portions of a skeleton, disconnected, but it gleamed, even in the twilight. I studied it closely for the thing compel...	[ 1688, 279, 1203, 315, 279, 33850, 574, 264, 7147, 315, 7091, 13, 763, 4156, 315, 420, 14980, 264, 5933, 62307, 315, 9998, 11, 323, 5043, 6901, 709, 520, 279, 1948, 574, 2555, 902, 369, 264, 892, 10666, 279, 12474, 23347, 13, 1102, 7...
The days slipped along, and he slept eight hours regularly every night. Though now, while waiting for more checks, he ate in the Japanese restaurants where meals were served for ten cents, his wasted body filled out, as did the hollows in his cheeks. He no longer abused himself with short sleep, overwork, and overstud...	[ 791, 2919, 43578, 3235, 11, 323, 568, 46498, 8223, 4207, 15870, 1475, 3814, 13, 18056, 1457, 11, 1418, 8748, 369, 810, 12621, 11, 568, 30912, 304, 279, 11002, 15926, 1405, 21644, 1051, 10434, 369, 5899, 31291, 11, 813, 39928, 2547, 1040...
Indignation with the Professor and a growing desperation had banished Jaikie's uneasiness. He saluted in the Greenshirt fashion and looked her boldly in the face. His first thought was that she was extraordinarily pretty. What had Alison meant by drawing the picture of a harpy? She was dressed like Ashie in green r...	[ 1451, 625, 367, 449, 279, 17054, 323, 264, 7982, 74424, 1047, 9120, 3384, 23720, 1609, 648, 596, 6316, 300, 1918, 13, 220, 1283, 4371, 2844, 304, 279, 42691, 71, 2154, 11401, 323, 7111, 1077, 96029, 304, 279, 3663, 13, 220, 5414, 1176...
This proof that the Andrews tale is contemporary has led us away from the description of the final scene, given in 'Past Feelings Renovated,' by the person who brought the news to Mr. Andrews. His version includes a trick played with the watches and clocks. All were set on half an hour; the valet secretly made the ch...	[ 2028, 11311, 430, 279, 52951, 24162, 374, 19225, 706, 6197, 603, 3201, 505, 279, 4096, 315, 279, 1620, 6237, 11, 2728, 304, 364, 51213, 32833, 826, 14094, 869, 660, 2965, 555, 279, 1732, 889, 7263, 279, 3754, 311, 4491, 13, 52951, 13,...
The street had been almost noiseless in the early afternoon, when good citizens were taking their siesta. About three it woke up a little. There was a drunken man who sang, and from the window Jaikie saw the tops of greengrocers' carts moving country-wards, after the forenoon market. After that there was silence aga...	[ 791, 8761, 1047, 1027, 4661, 12248, 1752, 304, 279, 4216, 13658, 11, 994, 1695, 10495, 1051, 4737, 872, 4502, 30279, 13, 220, 10180, 2380, 433, 39826, 709, 264, 2697, 13, 220, 2684, 574, 264, 63463, 893, 889, 29340, 11, 323, 505, 279,...
The hour of absinthe is over. We shall not be much further troubled with the little artists who found Dickens too sane for their sorrows and too clean for their delights. But we have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant: and the passage is along a rambling English road, a twisting road such as ...	[ 791, 6596, 315, 3731, 258, 1820, 374, 927, 13, 1226, 4985, 539, 387, 1790, 4726, 42132, 449, 279, 2697, 13820, 889, 1766, 93999, 2288, 62200, 369, 872, 25551, 1849, 323, 2288, 4335, 369, 872, 96775, 13, 2030, 584, 617, 264, 1317, 1648...
"Not many weeks have passed, Marian," I answered, "since my interview with Mr. Kyrle. When he and I parted, the last words I said to him about Laura were these: 'Her uncle's house shall open to receive her, in the presence of every soul who followed the false funeral to the grave; the lie that records her death shall ...	[ 82255, 1690, 5672, 617, 5946, 11, 96519, 1359, 358, 19089, 11, 330, 11536, 856, 7274, 449, 4491, 13, 735, 11160, 273, 13, 220, 3277, 568, 323, 358, 85156, 11, 279, 1566, 4339, 358, 1071, 311, 1461, 922, 30928, 1051, 1521, 25, 364, 2...
"'And that left Mason and Digby. Mason started the ball rolling in fine style. It seems one morning that he got suspicious of a driver who turned up, and there being no flies on Jake Mason he was hit with a brilliant idea. So he got himself nailed up in a packing case reputed to contain tinned meat, and was loaded up w...	[ 21230, 3112, 430, 2163, 29927, 323, 39069, 1729, 13, 29927, 3940, 279, 5041, 20700, 304, 7060, 1742, 13, 1102, 5084, 832, 6693, 430, 568, 2751, 32427, 315, 264, 5696, 889, 6656, 709, 11, 323, 1070, 1694, 912, 38204, 389, 33172, 29927, ...
"Now she's coming," said the boy. I turned my eyes in the direction from which the man and boy had appeared. A well-dressed peasant woman with an attractive though pale face hurried toward them with a light, quick step. On her shoulders she carried a spade. As soon as she caught sight of me, she stopped, stuck the spad...	[ 83524, 1364, 596, 5108, 1359, 1071, 279, 8334, 13, 358, 6656, 856, 6548, 304, 279, 5216, 505, 902, 279, 893, 323, 8334, 1047, 9922, 13, 362, 1664, 1773, 14715, 90038, 5333, 449, 459, 19411, 3582, 28639, 3663, 73973, 9017, 1124, 449, 2...
Broken saw blade, hammer, broken crockery, old pannikins, small rusty frying-pan without a handle, children's old shoes, many bits of old bootleather and greenhide, part of yellowback novel, mutilated English dictionary, grammar and arithmetic book, a ready reckoner, a cookery book, a bulgy anglo-foreign dictionary, pa...	[ 91626, 5602, 25879, 11, 24354, 11, 11102, 14425, 377, 727, 11, 2362, 281, 1036, 1609, 1354, 11, 2678, 98553, 87196, 12, 857, 2085, 264, 3790, 11, 2911, 596, 2362, 15653, 11, 1690, 9660, 315, 2362, 10677, 273, 1894, 323, 6307, 8727, 11...
From this place of a forgotten name we proceeded to the mine on mules. It was a fearful journey, but how long it took to accomplish I cannot remember. For the first part of it the road, if it could be called a road, consisted of a kind of corduroy of little ridges with mud-holes of from one to three feet deep between t...	[ 3915, 420, 2035, 315, 264, 25565, 836, 584, 45374, 311, 279, 10705, 389, 296, 2482, 13, 1102, 574, 264, 63757, 11879, 11, 719, 1268, 1317, 433, 3952, 311, 22829, 358, 4250, 6227, 13, 1789, 279, 1176, 961, 315, 433, 279, 5754, 11, 42...
It was significant that no one asked his age. Kif at nineteen gave no impression of immaturity. Though not so tall for a man as he had been for his age at fifteen he was yet fairly tall, and, as always, well put together. The army had abstracted the drawl from his step and there was nothing left of the countryman eithe...	[ 2181, 574, 5199, 430, 912, 832, 4691, 813, 4325, 13, 735, 333, 520, 94935, 6688, 912, 21455, 315, 4998, 38954, 13, 18056, 539, 779, 16615, 369, 264, 893, 439, 568, 1047, 1027, 369, 813, 4325, 520, 37755, 568, 574, 3686, 14470, 16615, ...
"A laborer's wife would now-a-days be insulted by the offer of baby-linen, or of old clothes," said Mrs. Oliphant. "The common contribution to her Associated Home covers her medical expenses, and if she cannot afford to pay a nurse, there are members of the home who attend on her, she being willing to take her share wi...	[ 30233, 9511, 261, 596, 7555, 1053, 1457, 7561, 96314, 387, 27224, 291, 555, 279, 3085, 315, 8945, 2922, 17090, 11, 477, 315, 2362, 15447, 1359, 1071, 18083, 13, 12225, 15619, 519, 13, 330, 791, 4279, 19035, 311, 1077, 26475, 5492, 14861...
Andrea Doria had concluded the agreement with Charles V whereby he was appointed Imperial Admiral of the Mediterranean. It had become widely known of late that the Emperor was proposing to take him into his service. But only one or two, who like del Vasto were very close in His Majesty's confidence, were aware that i...	[ 3112, 5325, 423, 11015, 1047, 20536, 279, 9306, 449, 15274, 650, 49001, 568, 574, 21489, 31013, 59094, 315, 279, 38785, 13, 220, 1102, 1047, 3719, 13882, 3967, 315, 3389, 430, 279, 35414, 574, 57515, 311, 1935, 1461, 1139, 813, 2532, 13...
Meanwhile, he must get rid of those pearls. He must persuade Fastnet to buy them and to ask no questions. He knew perfectly well that Fastnet had a client who was as keen on collecting pearls as Cora Van Geldt had been, because Fastnet had told him so during his last tour round the big dealers in England. But then, so ...	[ 26054, 11, 568, 2011, 636, 9463, 315, 1884, 92732, 13, 1283, 2011, 51041, 17737, 4816, 311, 3780, 1124, 323, 311, 2610, 912, 4860, 13, 1283, 7020, 14268, 1664, 430, 17737, 4816, 1047, 264, 3016, 889, 574, 439, 27989, 389, 26984, 92732, ...
There were other reasons less selfish which gave impetus to my resolve. I had done business for the Ocumpaughs before and been well treated in the transaction. I recognized and understood both Mr. Ocumpaugh's peculiarities and those of his admired and devoted wife. As man and woman they were kindly, honorable and devot...	[ 3947, 1051, 1023, 8125, 2753, 45743, 902, 6688, 3242, 64476, 311, 856, 9006, 13, 358, 1047, 2884, 2626, 369, 279, 83552, 1538, 19729, 5104, 1603, 323, 1027, 1664, 12020, 304, 279, 7901, 13, 358, 15324, 323, 16365, 2225, 4491, 13, 83552,...
And yet the day before, on my arrival, I had felt myself recaptured by the indolent charm of a seaside existence. The same taciturn lift-boy, silent this time from respect and not from scorn, and glowing with pleasure, had set the lift in motion. As I rose upon the ascending column, I had passed once again through what...	[ 3112, 3686, 279, 1938, 1603, 11, 389, 856, 19163, 11, 358, 1047, 6612, 7182, 1421, 81328, 555, 279, 1280, 337, 306, 32353, 315, 264, 93876, 14209, 13, 578, 1890, 60388, 275, 399, 12157, 86003, 11, 21737, 420, 892, 505, 5201, 323, 539,...
He might be easy and young, but he wasn't mean, and she would reward him, too, she now decided. Just as soon as she got the coat, which must be in a week or two at the latest, she was going to be very nice to him--do something for him. And to emphasize her own thoughts and convey to him what she really meant, she all...	[ 1548, 2643, 387, 4228, 323, 3995, 11, 719, 568, 5828, 956, 3152, 11, 323, 1364, 1053, 11565, 1461, 11, 2288, 11, 1364, 1457, 6773, 13, 220, 4702, 439, 5246, 439, 1364, 2751, 279, 23724, 11, 902, 2011, 387, 304, 264, 2046, 477, 1403,...
"Then we see each other no more; but, mark me, by your mother's death you are entitled to three thousand pounds, which you will find entered in your name at Baldwin's, whenever you choose to apply for it. This sum, which it is fortunate you did not know of before, for it would have been dissipated by this time, is all ...	[ 1, 12487, 584, 1518, 1855, 1023, 912, 810, 26, 719, 11, 1906, 757, 11, 555, 701, 6691, 596, 4648, 499, 527, 20458, 311, 2380, 16579, 16701, 11, 902, 499, 690, 1505, 10862, 304, 701, 836, 520, 56018, 596, 11, 15716, 499, 5268, 311, ...
The day was accordingly fixed. I repaired to the haunted house,-- we went into the blind, dreary room, took up the skirting, and then the floors. Under the rafters, covered with rubbish, was found a trapdoor, quite large enough to admit a man. It was closely nailed down, with clamps and rivets of iron. On removing ...	[ 791, 1938, 574, 28178, 8521, 13, 220, 358, 52834, 311, 279, 57775, 3838, 11, 313, 584, 4024, 1139, 279, 18507, 11, 33201, 661, 3130, 11, 3952, 709, 279, 1940, 68039, 11, 323, 1243, 279, 27035, 13, 220, 9636, 279, 53555, 388, 11, 996...
The Laird and Little Billee would see Taffy safe to the door of his hôtel garni in the Rue de Seine, where they would find much to say to each other before they said good-night--so much that Taffy and Little Billee would see the Laird safe to _his_ door, in the Place St. Anatole des Arts. And then a discussion would ar...	[ 791, 58196, 67, 323, 15013, 426, 4618, 68, 1053, 1518, 350, 2715, 88, 6220, 311, 279, 6134, 315, 813, 305, 9769, 23774, 61016, 72, 304, 279, 79151, 409, 1369, 483, 11, 1405, 814, 1053, 1505, 1790, 311, 2019, 311, 1855, 1023, 1603, 8...
"'Near enough,' replied I, remembering my promise, while Foscarini regarded me with an embarrassed air. In order to change the disconcerting subject I said: 'But, my dear Duke, who was the person who fixed your attentions on the beautiful Libussa? Was it a portrait that you say, or did some vivid description cause you ...	[ 21230, 53062, 3403, 2965, 20592, 358, 11, 48384, 856, 11471, 11, 1418, 435, 437, 7063, 6729, 27458, 757, 449, 459, 49230, 3805, 13, 763, 2015, 311, 2349, 279, 834, 89405, 287, 3917, 358, 1071, 25, 364, 4071, 11, 856, 25237, 27453, 11,...
There was another thing he knew as well---that this corridor he moved along between rooms with fast-closed doors, was the Nightmare Corridor; often and often he had traversed it; each room was occupied. "This is the Nightmare Passage," he whispered to himself, "but I know the Ruler--it doesn't matter. None of them can ...	[ 3947, 574, 2500, 3245, 568, 7020, 439, 1664, 4521, 9210, 420, 46979, 568, 7882, 3235, 1990, 12295, 449, 5043, 1824, 9443, 14365, 11, 574, 279, 75225, 4563, 83536, 26, 3629, 323, 3629, 568, 1047, 30517, 291, 433, 26, 1855, 3130, 574, 2...
I have told man's story up to a point about half-way from his origin to his annihilation, Behind lies the vast span which includes the whole Terrestrial and Venerian ages, with all their slow fluctuations of darkness and enlightenment. Ahead lies the Neptunian age, equally long, equally tragic perhaps, but more diverse...	[ 40, 617, 3309, 893, 596, 3446, 709, 311, 264, 1486, 922, 4376, 27896, 505, 813, 6371, 311, 813, 3008, 92341, 11, 43474, 15812, 279, 13057, 9575, 902, 5764, 279, 4459, 10335, 53686, 323, 650, 804, 1122, 17051, 11, 449, 682, 872, 6435, ...
She gave me no time to answer her, but ran to the door, and so out of the room. I could hear her footsteps falling uncertainly along the gallery, as though she stumbled while she ran, and a great anger against the priest flamed up in my breast. 'Strength to resist or weakness to succumb.' Doubtless the words would have...	[ 8100, 6688, 757, 912, 892, 311, 4320, 1077, 11, 719, 10837, 311, 279, 6134, 11, 323, 779, 704, 315, 279, 3130, 13, 358, 1436, 6865, 1077, 60802, 16054, 36218, 398, 3235, 279, 18537, 11, 439, 3582, 1364, 50157, 1418, 1364, 10837, 11, ...
At last the door opened, and a young officer entered. He was buttoned up in a dark-blue great-coat, with large silver buttons going down on either side of the breast. He entered quickly, glancing over the room, at Marta, as she sat with her back to him. She was marking with a pencil on paper. He closed the door. Th...	[ 1688, 1566, 279, 6134, 9107, 11, 323, 264, 3995, 9640, 10862, 13, 220, 1283, 574, 3215, 291, 709, 304, 264, 6453, 32754, 2294, 23283, 266, 11, 449, 3544, 15310, 12706, 2133, 1523, 389, 3060, 3185, 315, 279, 17659, 13, 220, 1283, 10862...
Jesuita was one of those noble-hearted, high-minded beings who inspire in those intimately and constantly about them a love that is devotion. By her son she was almost worshipped and reverenced as some superior being, and the little Inez soon learned to love her almost as much as she did Angelo--not quite, for his imag...	[ 41, 288, 3159, 64, 574, 832, 315, 1884, 35482, 70395, 11, 1579, 34423, 23837, 889, 31740, 304, 1884, 96752, 323, 15320, 922, 1124, 264, 3021, 430, 374, 56357, 13, 3296, 1077, 4538, 1364, 574, 4661, 83078, 6586, 323, 36237, 5886, 439, ...
"I felt a perfect fever of curiosity to know what he meant. His loving me, of course, was easy enough to understand. But what did he mean by saying he had been warned? Why was he never to live under the same roof, never to breathe the same air again, with young Armadale? What sort of quarrel could it be which obliged o...	[ 7189, 6612, 264, 4832, 34653, 315, 41328, 311, 1440, 1148, 568, 8967, 13, 5414, 21955, 757, 11, 315, 3388, 11, 574, 4228, 3403, 311, 3619, 13, 2030, 1148, 1550, 568, 3152, 555, 5605, 568, 1047, 1027, 19201, 30, 8595, 574, 568, 2646, ...
But before starting on their tour round the shops, he wanted to go up to the postal order department, which occupied several rooms on the second floor. It was there that all the provincial and foreign orders arrived; and he went up every morning to see the correspondence. For two years this correspondence had been incr...	[ 4071, 1603, 6041, 389, 872, 7364, 4883, 279, 20021, 11, 568, 4934, 311, 733, 709, 311, 279, 40854, 2015, 9476, 11, 902, 25366, 3892, 12295, 389, 279, 2132, 6558, 13, 1102, 574, 1070, 430, 682, 279, 36031, 323, 7362, 10373, 11721, 26, ...
When Romain Rolland, with the late Henri Barbusse and their friends, tried from time to time to organize some international movement on the extreme Left and invited me, as they always did, to join them, I asked them why they did not operate through the I.C. Committee of the League, which was sleeping ready to their han...	[ 4599, 432, 3199, 15028, 438, 11, 449, 279, 3389, 74310, 4821, 10551, 325, 323, 872, 4885, 11, 6818, 505, 892, 311, 892, 311, 31335, 1063, 6625, 7351, 389, 279, 14560, 14043, 323, 18719, 757, 11, 439, 814, 2744, 1550, 11, 311, 5249, ...
The black morning was bitter cold. Ma Baxter had made up the wool from Jacksonville into hunting jackets and jeans for both of them. They seemed too fine to wear, but walking slowly through the pine woods they wished they had put them on. The dogs were still sleepy and tired and were willing to follow silently at hee...	[ 791, 3776, 6693, 574, 26242, 9439, 13, 220, 11583, 92847, 1047, 1903, 709, 279, 39640, 505, 49046, 1139, 23330, 61242, 323, 34389, 369, 2225, 315, 1124, 13, 2435, 9508, 2288, 7060, 311, 10051, 11, 719, 11689, 14297, 1555, 279, 34697, 33...
On this afternoon we had six cows to lift. We struggled manfully, and got five on their feet, and then proceeded to where the last one was lying, back downwards, on a shadeless stony spot on the side of a hill. The men slewed her round by the tail, while mother and I fixed the dog-leg and adjusted the ropes. We got the...	[ 1966, 420, 13658, 584, 1047, 4848, 46266, 311, 12157, 13, 1226, 28214, 893, 3725, 11, 323, 2751, 4330, 389, 872, 7693, 11, 323, 1243, 45374, 311, 1405, 279, 1566, 832, 574, 21078, 11, 1203, 92370, 11, 389, 264, 28601, 1752, 357, 3633,...
Those words made all the difference to Jaikie's comfort. He was called a "little rat"--he was being threatened; and threats had always one effect on him. They roused his slow temper, and they caused him to turn very pale, just as six years earlier they would have made him weep. Allins saw his whitening face, and tho...	[ 23025, 4339, 1903, 682, 279, 6811, 311, 23720, 1609, 648, 596, 6981, 13, 220, 1283, 574, 2663, 264, 330, 56492, 11494, 75857, 383, 574, 1694, 21699, 26, 323, 18208, 1047, 2744, 832, 2515, 389, 1461, 13, 220, 2435, 436, 37588, 813, 643...
He had worked at that business! Men did work in those days! these young pups hardly knew the meaning of the word. He had gone into every detail, known everything that went on, sometimes sat up all night over it. And he had always chosen his agents himself, prided himself on it. His eye for men, he used to say, had been...	[ 1548, 1047, 6575, 520, 430, 2626, 0, 11258, 1550, 990, 304, 1884, 2919, 0, 1521, 3995, 90821, 20781, 7020, 279, 7438, 315, 279, 3492, 13, 1283, 1047, 8208, 1139, 1475, 7872, 11, 3967, 4395, 430, 4024, 389, 11, 7170, 7731, 709, 682, ...
He was evidently in a very large house, a house presumably in the occupation of some person of immense wealth. The place was humming like a hive; he could hear the chatter of voices in the distance, the sliding of feet over a floor; and the faint strains of a band. He wondered why and by whom he had been forced into hi...	[ 1548, 574, 67170, 304, 264, 1633, 3544, 3838, 11, 264, 3838, 36548, 304, 279, 30747, 315, 1063, 1732, 315, 38883, 12205, 13, 578, 2035, 574, 87427, 1093, 264, 66607, 26, 568, 1436, 6865, 279, 70457, 315, 24196, 304, 279, 6138, 11, 279...
"It will be remembered by some of our readers that quite recently Mr Septimus Dorset, of a well-known firm of city solicitors, was staying for the night at 'Storm-Cliff Towers,' having been called out there on business connected with his profession. He slept in a large room at the northern end of the mansion, but in th...	[ 12348, 690, 387, 27569, 555, 1063, 315, 1057, 13016, 430, 5115, 6051, 4491, 5488, 78028, 25225, 751, 11, 315, 264, 1664, 22015, 7626, 315, 3363, 30844, 12170, 11, 574, 19994, 369, 279, 3814, 520, 364, 35391, 12, 5176, 3168, 68457, 2965,...
"This valley, which extends S.W. and W.S.W., has been named Hawkesbury Vale, and the high point of the range bearing N.W. by W. from this tree was called Mount Jenkinson, the one a former title, the other the family name of the noble earl whose present title the plains bear to which from the southern country this gap a...	[ 22244, 34681, 11, 902, 2289, 328, 1196, 13, 323, 468, 815, 1196, 2637, 706, 1027, 7086, 12897, 12841, 20176, 55069, 11, 323, 279, 1579, 1486, 315, 279, 2134, 18534, 452, 1196, 13, 555, 468, 13, 505, 420, 5021, 574, 2663, 10640, 25937,...
And now I found proof in my father's letters that a divorce of the heart already existed between the two persons who, to my filial tenderness, were but one. My father loved his wife passionately, and he felt that his wife did not love him. This was the feeling continually expressed in his letters--not in words so plain...	[ 3112, 1457, 358, 1766, 11311, 304, 856, 7126, 596, 12197, 430, 264, 25549, 315, 279, 4851, 2736, 25281, 1990, 279, 1403, 11434, 889, 11, 311, 856, 1488, 532, 8541, 29668, 11, 1051, 719, 832, 13, 3092, 7126, 10456, 813, 7555, 92925, 11...
"It was roses, roses all the way." Diva had quite miscalculated the number required, and there were sufficient not only to cover collar, cuffs and border of the skirt with them but to make another line of them six inches above the hem. Original and gorgeous as the dress would be, it was yet a sort of parody of Elizab...	[ 12348, 574, 61741, 11, 61741, 682, 279, 1648, 1210, 220, 8940, 64, 1047, 5115, 296, 16164, 50904, 279, 1396, 2631, 11, 323, 1070, 1051, 14343, 539, 1193, 311, 3504, 37204, 11, 90569, 323, 3973, 315, 279, 38380, 449, 1124, 719, 311, 13...
We thought the experienced constable's advice good, and under his guidance we turned aside to the left, and after half an hour's march we came to the door of a settler's hut, where we asked permission to pass the night. It proved to be the dwelling of a man for whom the magistrate had procured a ticket-of-leave about t...	[ 1687, 3463, 279, 10534, 738, 481, 596, 9650, 1695, 11, 323, 1234, 813, 19351, 584, 6656, 16038, 311, 279, 2163, 11, 323, 1306, 4376, 459, 6596, 596, 15572, 584, 3782, 311, 279, 6134, 315, 264, 8391, 1565, 596, 76979, 11, 1405, 584, ...
The car had slid through a village--the nearest village to his grandfather's, Henry told them, and at that a couple of miles away. It had issued thence past the church and rectory on to an upland road, and climbed steadily across the Downs. Mr. Coningsby looked out at the winter darkness and shuddered, thinking of Lond...	[ 791, 1841, 1047, 61014, 1555, 264, 14458, 313, 1820, 24379, 14458, 311, 813, 38950, 596, 11, 18063, 3309, 1124, 11, 323, 520, 430, 264, 5743, 315, 8931, 3201, 13, 1102, 1047, 11136, 270, 768, 3347, 279, 8993, 323, 7763, 683, 389, 311,...
The mycorrhizal association may not prove to be the only path by which the nitrogen complexes derived from the digestion of proteins reach the sap. Humus also nourishes countless millions of bacteria whose dead bodies leave specks of protein thickly strewn throughout the soil. But these complex bodies are not permanent...	[ 791, 856, 6133, 41196, 450, 278, 15360, 1253, 539, 12391, 311, 387, 279, 1193, 1853, 555, 902, 279, 47503, 69125, 14592, 505, 279, 74502, 315, 28896, 5662, 279, 35735, 13, 20449, 355, 1101, 46798, 21168, 28701, 11990, 315, 24032, 6832, ...
The drummer, having received the signal, began to tap his drum in a slow and deliberate manner, marking time for the lashes, as they were inflicted by the willing and brawny arms of the flagellators, who were selected for this office from among the most muscular prisoners that would accept such a hideous berth, which, ...	[ 791, 69046, 11, 3515, 4036, 279, 8450, 11, 6137, 311, 15596, 813, 24074, 304, 264, 6435, 323, 46072, 11827, 11, 36024, 892, 369, 279, 87711, 11, 439, 814, 1051, 69177, 555, 279, 10032, 323, 293, 1059, 3919, 11977, 315, 279, 5292, 616,...
Of course I suppose anyone trying to land on the Moon by mechanical means could quite easily have lost his senses and life itself in the attempt. But with a living airship which could accommodate itself to one's needs we had a tremendous advantage. For example, as we dropped lower and found the air more difficult to de...	[ 2173, 3388, 358, 23289, 5606, 4560, 311, 4363, 389, 279, 17781, 555, 22936, 3445, 1436, 5115, 6847, 617, 5675, 813, 38207, 323, 2324, 5196, 304, 279, 4879, 13, 2030, 449, 264, 5496, 3805, 5383, 902, 1436, 29376, 5196, 311, 832, 596, 3...
"ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh are in joy and felicity, we give thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those, thy servants, who, having finished their course in fai...	[ 1, 984, 44, 4735, 56, 59478, 11, 449, 8884, 656, 3974, 279, 31739, 315, 1884, 889, 11776, 16472, 304, 279, 10425, 11, 323, 449, 8884, 279, 35826, 315, 279, 37513, 1306, 814, 527, 12886, 505, 279, 23104, 315, 279, 26000, 527, 304, 16...
I like to think of the Spaniards blazing their trails through the Florida hammocks. The hammocks were the same then as now, and will be the same forever if men can be induced to leave them alone. Hammock soil is dark and rich, made up of centuries of accumulation of humus from the droppings of leaves. The hammock is ...	[ 40, 1093, 311, 1781, 315, 279, 12168, 81560, 86350, 872, 33965, 1555, 279, 9784, 83665, 26246, 13, 220, 578, 83665, 26246, 1051, 279, 1890, 1243, 439, 1457, 11, 323, 690, 387, 279, 1890, 16058, 422, 3026, 649, 387, 36572, 311, 5387, 1...
"Simply this, old chap," Honerton concluded. "Some of your old pals have put their heads together, and they have decided to give you a dinner on your own date, and at the close of the dinner they're going to hand you a little cheque which, believe me, will be worth having, for you to go out to Canada or America, or whe...	[ 1, 61346, 420, 11, 2362, 38838, 1359, 16958, 37733, 20536, 13, 330, 8538, 315, 701, 2362, 84187, 617, 2231, 872, 14971, 3871, 11, 323, 814, 617, 6773, 311, 3041, 499, 264, 14177, 389, 701, 1866, 2457, 11, 323, 520, 279, 3345, 315, 2...
She had had an Affair with a man, she made her mind say to her, two years ago. That was all right. There could not be a, say, a schoolmistress rising twenty-four or twenty-five, in the world who hadn't had _some_ affair, even if it were no more than a gentleman in a tea-shop who every afternoon for a week had gazed at ...	[ 8100, 1047, 1047, 459, 9947, 1334, 449, 264, 893, 11, 1364, 1903, 1077, 4059, 2019, 311, 1077, 11, 1403, 1667, 4227, 13, 3011, 574, 682, 1314, 13, 2684, 1436, 539, 387, 264, 11, 2019, 11, 264, 2978, 80024, 676, 16448, 17510, 42117, ...
In the evening when the wagons came home, Bidwell awoke. The tired berry pickers walked home from the fields in the dust of the roads swinging their dinner pails. The wagons creaked at their heels, piled high with boxes of berries ready for shipment. In the stores after the evening meal crowds gathered. Old men lit the...	[ 644, 279, 11714, 994, 279, 65425, 2439, 3782, 2162, 11, 41502, 9336, 264, 96428, 13, 578, 19781, 86188, 3820, 388, 15203, 2162, 505, 279, 5151, 304, 279, 16174, 315, 279, 19795, 55060, 872, 14177, 281, 6341, 13, 578, 65425, 2439, 272, ...
Jim should have said she had guessed right the very first time, and he would have done so, but for the something familiar and disconcerting that was merely Gloriana. Then the cowboys came bustling in with bags and suit-cases. Even Uphill carried one with an air of importance. Curly disengaged himself from the excited g...	[ 37734, 1288, 617, 1071, 1364, 1047, 43410, 1314, 279, 1633, 1176, 892, 11, 323, 568, 1053, 617, 2884, 779, 11, 719, 369, 279, 2555, 11537, 323, 834, 89405, 287, 430, 574, 16632, 8444, 269, 12699, 13, 5112, 279, 19923, 30123, 3782, 902...
"I'm afraid that won't do, sir," he said with the greatest kindness. "You speak as though the details of the fraud had been published. In three cases out of five the general public know nothing about these crimes. In no case have the particulars been published or have they been available even to the managers of branch ...	[ 7189, 2846, 16984, 430, 2834, 956, 656, 11, 28146, 1359, 568, 1071, 449, 279, 12474, 45972, 13, 330, 2675, 6604, 439, 3582, 279, 3649, 315, 279, 16515, 1047, 1027, 4756, 13, 763, 2380, 5157, 704, 315, 4330, 279, 4689, 586, 1440, 4400,...
Life settled at once into a routine that made the Hôtel X seem like a holiday. Every morning at six I drove myself out of bed, did not shave, sometimes washed, hurried up to the Place d'ltalie and fought for a place on the Métro. By seven I was in the desolation of the cold, filthy kitchen, with the potato skins and bo...	[ 26833, 23183, 520, 3131, 1139, 264, 14348, 430, 1903, 279, 473, 9769, 23774, 1630, 2873, 1093, 264, 13560, 13, 7357, 6693, 520, 4848, 358, 23980, 7182, 704, 315, 4950, 11, 1550, 539, 73707, 11, 7170, 38593, 11, 73973, 709, 311, 279, 1...
The actual fighting was, however, on a much higher level, mechanically and scientifically, than the Japanese war in China. The military authorities had good roads, automobiles, camions, railways, rolling stock, electrical material, guns of all sorts, and great air forces available. Behind the fronts were chemical and ...	[ 791, 5150, 11039, 574, 11, 4869, 11, 389, 264, 1790, 5190, 2237, 11, 99097, 323, 74647, 11, 1109, 279, 11002, 4208, 304, 5734, 13, 578, 6411, 11527, 1047, 1695, 19795, 11, 79648, 11, 6730, 919, 11, 96247, 11, 20700, 5708, 11, 20314, ...
The variations of the altruistic sentiment in range and strength are also responsible for other differences of moral opinion. Even among ourselves there is no unanimity as to the dictates of duty in cases where a person's own interests collide with those of his fellow-men. Sidgwick admitted that his axiom of "rational ...	[ 791, 27339, 315, 279, 93592, 4633, 27065, 304, 2134, 323, 8333, 527, 1101, 8647, 369, 1023, 12062, 315, 16033, 9647, 13, 7570, 4315, 13520, 1070, 374, 912, 41075, 488, 439, 311, 279, 80330, 315, 14523, 304, 5157, 1405, 264, 1732, 596, ...
"I feel everything, as I alone can feel. I foresaw all and no one would listen to me. Religion can alone support me. Italy is in the hands of barbarians, our commerce is ruined. Further, for the climax of unhappiness, the few effects and the goods we saved have been lost in the tempest. I do not even like to think how ...	[ 7189, 2733, 4395, 11, 439, 358, 7636, 649, 2733, 13, 358, 70856, 675, 682, 323, 912, 832, 1053, 9020, 311, 757, 13, 44193, 649, 7636, 1862, 757, 13, 15704, 374, 304, 279, 6206, 315, 54490, 5493, 11, 1057, 36754, 374, 47168, 13, 1590...
It used to be a lot of fun for me to explore some of the deserted cabins. After I'd get thru exploring, I'd go to playing it was my cabin and I was the prospector, and if there was any magazines scattered around anywheres or anything with pictures, well then, I didn't care if Bopy didn't move on for a spell. I was play...	[ 2181, 1511, 311, 387, 264, 2763, 315, 2523, 369, 757, 311, 13488, 1063, 315, 279, 83410, 89401, 13, 4740, 358, 4265, 636, 41178, 24919, 11, 358, 4265, 733, 311, 5737, 433, 574, 856, 13691, 323, 358, 574, 279, 8882, 19534, 11, 323, 4...
The calf crop would be a little short of normal, Austin thought, maybe on account of the cows being on the late green grass the fall before, then the green grass in the spring, and not a blade of old grass mixed in to ease them to the new grass. But the condition the range was now, after all the spring moisture and mor...	[ 791, 65643, 19641, 1053, 387, 264, 2697, 2875, 315, 4725, 11, 19816, 3463, 11, 7344, 389, 2759, 315, 279, 46266, 1694, 389, 279, 3389, 6307, 16763, 279, 4498, 1603, 11, 1243, 279, 6307, 16763, 304, 279, 10683, 11, 323, 539, 264, 25879...
This conversation provided Tolefree with his cud to chew, and he chewed it while Grymer made him acquainted with Lyneham over the port, and went on chewing when Lady Grymer and Miss Merafield had left them and Mr. Bigbury and Mr. Thibaud had soon followed. And while Lyneham refused to satisfy Grymer's request that he s...	[ 2028, 10652, 3984, 350, 1286, 10816, 449, 813, 79687, 311, 37433, 11, 323, 568, 37433, 291, 433, 1418, 99548, 1195, 1903, 1461, 73734, 449, 16333, 818, 5721, 927, 279, 2700, 11, 323, 4024, 389, 75477, 994, 21270, 99548, 1195, 323, 9083,...
Now in the princess's household there was a girl called Dil-aram[FN#7]; she it was who had first seen the image of the prince. She came to love him very much, and she spent day and night thinking how she could make her affection known to him. One day she escaped from the princess's notice and went to the prince, and ...	[ 7184, 304, 279, 40688, 596, 14048, 1070, 574, 264, 3828, 2663, 53867, 12, 640, 38173, 45, 2, 22, 5378, 1364, 433, 574, 889, 1047, 1176, 3970, 279, 2217, 315, 279, 42826, 13, 220, 3005, 3782, 311, 3021, 1461, 1633, 1790, 11, 323, 136...
The Count smiled at his manner of expressing himself, but all four of the men had already begun to feel sympathy and respect for this quiet-mannered little person whose words were so few and whose voice was so gentle. Something in his grey eyes and in the quiet determination of his manner made them realise that he had ...	[ 791, 4605, 31645, 520, 813, 11827, 315, 37810, 5678, 11, 719, 682, 3116, 315, 279, 3026, 1047, 2736, 22088, 311, 2733, 47084, 323, 5201, 369, 420, 11594, 1474, 4992, 291, 2697, 1732, 6832, 4339, 1051, 779, 2478, 323, 6832, 7899, 574, ...
Forgive all these crudely expressed ideas. I have jotted them down just as they have crossed my mind. I am immensely interested in what I hear and see. But it is a daring thing in a young woman to drop "caste"; and that is why I am anxious it should not be talked about. I have sufficient knowledge of men to make them b...	[ 34635, 535, 682, 1521, 76504, 989, 13605, 6848, 13, 358, 617, 503, 15889, 1124, 1523, 1120, 439, 814, 617, 28129, 856, 4059, 13, 358, 1097, 63689, 8173, 304, 1148, 358, 6865, 323, 1518, 13, 2030, 433, 374, 264, 59772, 3245, 304, 264, ...
How the idea came to me I cannot imagine, except that I was now quite foolishly in love with Martina Fields, and driven by this emotion into foreign countries of behaviour. Gran still fought her losing battle for me, and perhaps saw the unhappiness, but with her invincible faith in the therapeutic value of movement and...	[ 4438, 279, 4623, 3782, 311, 757, 358, 4250, 13085, 11, 3734, 430, 358, 574, 1457, 5115, 46337, 398, 304, 3021, 449, 8290, 2259, 25599, 11, 323, 16625, 555, 420, 20356, 1139, 7362, 5961, 315, 17432, 13, 27622, 2103, 21095, 1077, 13490, ...
Five-and-twenty shillings per week, after eight years' servitude given to the mastering of an arduous and fatiguing profession, and one in which the disparity between remuneration and responsibility was so vast, appeared, even to my mind, to leave something to be desired. As for romance, that had all been pretty well k...	[ 38120, 9976, 98662, 7313, 559, 484, 826, 824, 2046, 11, 1306, 8223, 1667, 6, 4958, 3993, 2728, 311, 279, 88861, 315, 459, 802, 1072, 788, 323, 8834, 343, 7623, 4913, 11, 323, 832, 304, 902, 279, 66949, 1990, 1323, 359, 21597, 323, 1...
She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of face. She spoke not with acrimony, but with grave severity. Rebecca Ann Glynn, younger, stouter, and rosy of face between her crinkling puffs of grey hair, gasped, by way of assent. She sat in a wide flounce of black silk in the corner of the sofa, ...	[ 8100, 574, 29920, 11, 16615, 11, 323, 25984, 398, 15792, 11, 449, 264, 2653, 12745, 33028, 315, 3663, 13, 3005, 12570, 539, 449, 1645, 6417, 3633, 11, 719, 449, 25165, 31020, 13, 45557, 9489, 79183, 7521, 11, 14992, 11, 357, 2743, 11,...
"Well, as I said before, I went ter bed airly, seven o'clock in fact; 't was snowin' hard then, an' I 'lowed 't would keep up all night; I slept purty sound but was waked up by the noise my girls made comin' in from a visit ter a neighbor's. You know how 't is when a man's woke up? He's kinder crusty an' more 'an all, ...	[ 56084, 11, 439, 358, 1071, 1603, 11, 358, 4024, 2024, 4950, 3805, 398, 11, 8254, 297, 63510, 304, 2144, 26, 364, 83, 574, 12056, 258, 6, 2653, 1243, 11, 459, 6, 358, 364, 10516, 291, 364, 83, 1053, 2567, 709, 682, 3814, 26, 358, ...
Debby always had a look of welcome when he came, always treated him with the kindness of a generous woman who has had an opportunity to forgive, and always watched the serious, solitary man with a great compassion for his loss, a growing admiration for his upright life. More than once the beach-birds saw two figures p...	[ 1951, 65, 1729, 2744, 1047, 264, 1427, 315, 10788, 994, 568, 3782, 11, 2744, 12020, 1461, 449, 279, 45972, 315, 264, 28771, 5333, 889, 706, 1047, 459, 6776, 311, 44491, 11, 323, 2744, 15746, 279, 6129, 11, 58229, 893, 449, 264, 2294, ...
Within a moment of Barle's whispered confidence in Ray's ears with regard to the progress of events, the latter had faded from the card-room and was sauntering across the hall in the direction of the library. The great hall was more or less in darkness, with only one branch of electrics turned on, and much the same sta...	[ 43061, 264, 4545, 315, 4821, 273, 596, 58366, 12410, 304, 13558, 596, 25212, 449, 5363, 311, 279, 5208, 315, 4455, 11, 279, 15629, 1047, 54434, 505, 279, 3786, 48840, 323, 574, 829, 30259, 287, 4028, 279, 14321, 304, 279, 5216, 315, 2...
Though unattractive to the visitor in its calm moments, when the male population was divided between bed and mine, Broken Hill was never dead. It was a revolutionary town that woke up every now and again and did things that gave Capital the nightmare. It was a world leader, with its co-operative stores, co-operative ba...	[ 27831, 653, 266, 70178, 311, 279, 20792, 304, 1202, 19858, 14269, 11, 994, 279, 8762, 7187, 574, 18255, 1990, 4950, 323, 10705, 11, 54683, 8270, 574, 2646, 5710, 13, 1102, 574, 264, 30191, 6424, 430, 39826, 709, 1475, 1457, 323, 1578, ...
But Corinius's sword leaped half naked from the scabbard, and he made a stride toward Corsus and his sons. "Give me the king's name when ye speak to me," he said, scowling upon them. "You sons of Corsus are not men to make me a stalk to catch birds with or to serve your own turn. And thou," he said, looking fiercely on...	[ 4071, 4563, 6729, 355, 596, 20827, 514, 10395, 4376, 19557, 505, 279, 1156, 12806, 569, 11, 323, 568, 1903, 264, 19782, 9017, 53618, 355, 323, 813, 26419, 13, 330, 36227, 757, 279, 11734, 596, 836, 994, 20043, 6604, 311, 757, 1359, 56...
On the 19th, they ascended the second ridge,[*] and, looking back from it, caught a distant view of the settlement now a "minute speck " beneath them. Not far from this spot, while busily cutting trees along the narrow path, they came upon a cairn of stones, shaped like a pyramid. One side of it had been opened and the...	[ 1966, 279, 220, 777, 339, 11, 814, 14943, 2954, 279, 2132, 58933, 17706, 9, 60, 323, 11, 3411, 1203, 505, 433, 11, 10791, 264, 29827, 1684, 315, 279, 17516, 1457, 264, 330, 43657, 2395, 377, 330, 24923, 1124, 13, 2876, 3117, 505, 42...
Having destroyed the horse, the plucky constable then rode round, crossing a narrow slip of water by which the hole was connected with another of somewhat similar dimensions. "Thunderbolt", making another dash, got across the narrow strip, and had just reached the top of the bank when his pursuer reached the edge of th...	[ 29132, 14763, 279, 15580, 11, 279, 628, 10279, 738, 481, 1243, 41761, 4883, 11, 27736, 264, 15376, 21818, 315, 3090, 555, 902, 279, 14512, 574, 8599, 449, 2500, 315, 14738, 4528, 15696, 13, 330, 97012, 53533, 498, 3339, 2500, 24858, 11,...
Ralph being now invited to dinner by a quondam companion from the Smugglers' Ward, they sat down together, speculating during their meal upon the probable number that would actually suffer that sessions. It was pretty well known that not one-fourth of the men sentenced to die ever were hung at that time; but yet, as no...	[ 49, 31323, 1694, 1457, 18719, 311, 14177, 555, 264, 934, 2159, 309, 22489, 505, 279, 4487, 2661, 9438, 6, 27738, 11, 814, 7731, 1523, 3871, 11, 1424, 15853, 2391, 872, 15496, 5304, 279, 35977, 1396, 430, 1053, 3604, 7831, 430, 16079, ...
"It's no matter for that, madam, I say nothing but what I think. You own you love this gentleman, and he has given you sufficient testimony of his affection to you; your conditions are alike unhappy, and he is of opinion that he may take another woman, his first wife having broke her honour, and living from him, and th...	[ 12348, 596, 912, 5030, 369, 430, 11, 13088, 309, 11, 358, 2019, 4400, 719, 1148, 358, 1781, 13, 1472, 1866, 499, 3021, 420, 46229, 11, 323, 568, 706, 2728, 499, 14343, 24365, 315, 813, 37805, 311, 499, 26, 701, 4787, 527, 27083, 432...
Evening drew on, and sounds of life and movement in the lower part of the domicile became more pronounced, the gate in the palings clicking incessantly. The party was to be an early one, and all the guests were assembled long before it was dark. Yeobright went down the back staircase and into the heath by another path ...	[ 13461, 287, 24465, 389, 11, 323, 10578, 315, 2324, 323, 7351, 304, 279, 4827, 961, 315, 279, 97839, 6244, 810, 38617, 11, 279, 18618, 304, 279, 11091, 826, 18965, 92947, 18007, 13, 578, 4717, 574, 311, 387, 459, 4216, 832, 11, 323, ...
From plague and famine...The voice is intoning the Litany now, the prayer for deliverance...from plague, pestilence and famine, from battle and murder and from sudden death...and the murmured response through the church...Good Lord, deliver us...The words are old, far older than the rubric of the church that uses them,...	[ 3915, 55537, 323, 79054, 1131, 791, 7899, 374, 528, 20324, 279, 39351, 3852, 1457, 11, 279, 23788, 369, 6493, 685, 1131, 1527, 55537, 11, 44885, 321, 768, 323, 79054, 11, 505, 8209, 323, 10102, 323, 505, 11210, 4648, 1131, 438, 279, 8...
"Please, please leave us here on the land," I begged. The Indians began rushing our things into the boat and the big Norwegian sailors with long beards like brigands said, "Hurry! Hurry!" I stood where land and sea wrangled ferociously over the overlap. The tea kettle was in my hand. "Wait!" I roared above the din of t...	[ 1, 5618, 11, 4587, 5387, 603, 1618, 389, 279, 4363, 1359, 358, 80392, 13, 578, 30507, 6137, 38117, 1057, 2574, 1139, 279, 15688, 323, 279, 2466, 45721, 69938, 449, 1317, 387, 2402, 1093, 55912, 2914, 1071, 11, 330, 39, 40956, 0, 21670...
"Happily, however, the stream of the tide swept us past the rocks without accident, and after carrying us about half-a-mile farther, changed its direction to south-east, and drifted us towards a narrow strait separating two rocky islands, in the centre of which was a large insulated rock, that seemed to divide the stre...	[ 46639, 680, 1570, 11, 4869, 11, 279, 4365, 315, 279, 43038, 41323, 603, 3347, 279, 23902, 2085, 11677, 11, 323, 1306, 15691, 603, 922, 4376, 7561, 43276, 43726, 11, 5614, 1202, 5216, 311, 10007, 40607, 11, 323, 92662, 603, 7119, 264, ...
What she might have said in her black mood was prevented by the tardy arrival of her brother. He kissed his mother, who was gathering up her letters preparatory to leaving the room to answer them--or previous ones. It was typical of Margaret Barclay that, with time her own, she spent the most wonderful hour of the most...	[ 3923, 1364, 2643, 617, 1071, 304, 1077, 3776, 20247, 574, 32098, 555, 279, 62197, 88, 19163, 315, 1077, 10868, 13, 1283, 59334, 813, 6691, 11, 889, 574, 23738, 709, 1077, 12197, 10073, 5382, 311, 9564, 279, 3130, 311, 4320, 1124, 313, ...
On the third evening the western gale subsided, and a land breeze promised to emancipate them from their perilous condition; when in the night, as they were about to put off in a boat from shore, they were hailed a party of Mainotes, and one, an old man of commanding figure, demanded a parley. He was the Capitano of Ka...	[ 1966, 279, 4948, 11714, 279, 19001, 342, 1604, 5258, 4591, 11, 323, 264, 4363, 46385, 19487, 311, 91225, 575, 349, 1124, 505, 872, 60392, 788, 3044, 26, 994, 304, 279, 3814, 11, 439, 814, 1051, 922, 311, 2231, 1022, 304, 264, 15688, ...
Always, afterwards, Robert was to wonder what would have happened if that telephone call had been one minute later. In one minute, sixty worthless seconds, he would have taken his coat from the peg in the hall, popped his head into the opposite room to tell Mr. Heseltine that he was departing for the day stepped out in...	[ 38195, 11, 27905, 11, 8563, 574, 311, 5895, 1148, 1053, 617, 7077, 422, 430, 21186, 1650, 1047, 1027, 832, 9568, 3010, 13, 763, 832, 9568, 11, 53474, 66121, 6622, 11, 568, 1053, 617, 4529, 813, 23724, 505, 279, 31787, 304, 279, 14321,...
Mary Bewery played no golf that morning. In fact, she only went on to the club-house to rid herself of Bryce, and presently she returned home, thinking. And indeed, she said to herself, she had abundant food for thought. Naturally candid and honest, she did not at that moment doubt Bryce's good faith; much as she di...	[ 42584, 38310, 727, 6476, 912, 19665, 430, 6693, 13, 220, 763, 2144, 11, 1364, 1193, 4024, 389, 311, 279, 6469, 37002, 311, 9463, 11937, 315, 84124, 11, 323, 50801, 1364, 6052, 2162, 11, 7422, 13, 220, 1628, 13118, 11, 1364, 1071, 311,...
Men had still quite recently been going in and out with parcels and packing-cases, rendering the door and hall within like a public thoroughfare. Elizabeth trotted through the open door in the dusk, but becoming alarmed at her own temerity she went quickly out again by another which stood open in the lofty wall of the ...	[ 29819, 1047, 2103, 5115, 6051, 1027, 2133, 304, 323, 704, 449, 85027, 323, 36813, 1824, 2315, 11, 21568, 279, 6134, 323, 14321, 2949, 1093, 264, 586, 17879, 23920, 13, 21393, 57677, 6702, 1555, 279, 1825, 6134, 304, 279, 93985, 11, 719,...
A heartless voluptuary of mediocre intelligence, he contrived to wrap himself in what Saint-Simon has called a "terrible majesty." Hewas obsessed by the idea of the dignity, almost the divinity - of kingship. I cannot believe that he conceived himself human. He appears to have held that being king was very like being...	[ 32, 4851, 1752, 51810, 3620, 315, 68480, 11478, 11, 568, 6155, 2270, 311, 15411, 5678, 304, 1148, 14539, 6354, 26490, 706, 2663, 264, 330, 466, 12560, 24906, 41339, 1210, 60350, 300, 44898, 555, 279, 4623, 315, 279, 38929, 11, 4661, 279...
"Yes, I tried to kill myself; but they would not let me die, so the old tragedy of our house begins again. August became a priest, hoping to hide his calamity and expiate his father's sin by endless penances and prayers. Harry turned reckless; for what had he to look forward to? A short life, and a gay one, he says, an...	[ 58841, 11, 358, 6818, 311, 5622, 7182, 26, 719, 814, 1053, 539, 1095, 757, 2815, 11, 779, 279, 2362, 31926, 315, 1057, 3838, 12302, 1578, 13, 6287, 6244, 264, 28185, 11, 16026, 311, 10477, 813, 80933, 488, 323, 1367, 6629, 813, 7126, ...
But as to the "phenomena," the occurrences for which, in ordinary talk, we should reserve the word "miraculous"? Well, what do we know? The question that I have already stated comes up again, as to the possible survival of old tradition in a kind of dormant, or torpid, semi-conscious state. In other words, did the peop...	[ 4071, 439, 311, 279, 330, 15112, 6431, 64, 1359, 279, 57115, 369, 902, 11, 304, 19664, 3137, 11, 584, 1288, 21137, 279, 3492, 330, 20531, 582, 13850, 44969, 8489, 11, 1148, 656, 584, 1440, 30, 578, 3488, 430, 358, 617, 2736, 11224, ...
I wasn't surprised at that because I like walking in rain myself. A few days later (and it _was_ raining, by the way) I saw him coming out of the A.B.C. after lunch. He wore no hat or mackintosh and after standing a moment in the shop doorway to put up his coat collar he suddenly sprinted across the road towards the Co...	[ 40, 5828, 956, 14792, 520, 430, 1606, 358, 1093, 11689, 304, 11422, 7182, 13, 362, 2478, 2919, 3010, 320, 438, 433, 721, 16514, 62, 84353, 11, 555, 279, 1648, 8, 358, 5602, 1461, 5108, 704, 315, 279, 362, 1823, 732, 13, 1306, 16163,...
The afternoon was warm and sultry, but towards night big clouds showed themselves over the summit of Ben Lawers, and as the sun went down the wind arose, and a storm of rain set in. As the evening advanced the storm increased, until the mountains fairly cracked beneath the shock of the heavy thunder, and when the light...	[ 791, 13658, 574, 8369, 323, 26858, 1568, 11, 719, 7119, 3814, 2466, 30614, 8710, 5694, 927, 279, 30048, 315, 7505, 7658, 388, 11, 323, 439, 279, 7160, 4024, 1523, 279, 10160, 51063, 11, 323, 264, 13766, 315, 11422, 743, 304, 13, 1666,...

It would be hard for me to tell the state of mind in which I lived for a long time after this. I put away from me all torment, and the thought of future cares, and the sight of difficulty; and to myself appeared, which means that I became the luckiest of lucky fellows, since the world itself began. I thought not of the...

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Terry had discovered that certain quinine derivatives when introduced into the animal body slowly decompose into products which are highly toxic to bacteria but only mildly toxic to the body. There was hinted here a whole new world of therapy. Terry explained it to Martin, and invited him to collaborate. Buoyant wit...

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"All this time I was wandering round the room trying to find the second exit. That Zavier had been there just before we came, I knew. He couldn't have got out by the stairs, therefore there must be another door. And after a few moments I found it. There was a bookshelf in one corner, and on closer inspection it pro...

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"So much for Mr. John Tremlin; now for his wife. She was an extraordinarily pretty woman about seven years younger than him, and when you met her there was absolutely nothing to indicate that anything was amiss. Tremlin motored me over to the Ashbys' house the day after I arrived--which necessitated incidentally goin...

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But a change very quickly took place. Considering what had occurred, it was scarcely possible for Sir John Robertson and Sir Henry Parkes to again work together with anything like cordiality; it was quite impossible that they could ever again join in the formation, of a Government. It was equally impossible for Sir Joh...

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In among the ships they went, by the wharves where the water was green and still, and queer barnacles grew on the slippery piles. Odd smells saluted her nose, and odd sights met her eyes, but Rose liked it all, and played she was really landing in Hong Kong when they glided up to the steps in the shadow of the tall "Ra...

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Instead of 'Europe' rope, half her running rigging was coir, brown and frizzy, and the standing gear showed grievously for lack of tar. Many of her rattlines were gone, and their places filled by strips of bamboo. Her sails, loosed to dry and half-sheeted home, showed great patches, fitter for a North Country collier t...

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However, on my undeceiving them in that point, and at the same time confirming what Mr. Balmain had from the first told them, viz. that their complaints were neither malignant nor dangerous, their fears abated. To this I added, that I would immediately give orders for such as were in want of clothing, to be supplied wi...

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The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and the small noises of midday, which one can ascribe to no definite cause, in a regular rhythm. It was all very real, very big, very impersonal, and after a moment or two she began to raise her fir...

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As Croot spoke he indicated a small door in the side of the library which opened on to a passage, at the foot of which was a staircase, leading to the upper floor, where Croot had his bed and dressing-room. He frequently sat half the night working in his library, and this arrangement suited him perfectly. It meant no d...

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But how quickly he undeceived those oppressed citizens, of whom he naively writes that they welcomed him as "our liberator"! Micheroux, though he perjured himself for the worthless Méjean, had at least a certain tolerance; Ruffo, though he had little tolerance, could at least respect a treaty; these and other men were...

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'You can see why. Here's this degenerate coming out of his rotten class, all pampered and petted and satiated with the easy pleasures of life. He has seen nothing of women except the bad kind and the overfed specimens of his own country. I hate being impolite about females, but I've always considered the German variety...

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"No, Baas," said Hans, "not blessed; another word, Baas, which your reverend father would never let me speak. As he used to say, Baas, the world is full of wonders and it is nice to see as many of them as one can before we go to the place where there is nothing but fire, like there was here the other night when the st...

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At the back of the clearing was a wall of rock. In front of this stood a natural pillar of stone, and fastened up at the top was something which for a time presented the greatest mystery. It looked like portions of a skeleton, disconnected, but it gleamed, even in the twilight. I studied it closely for the thing compel...

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The days slipped along, and he slept eight hours regularly every night. Though now, while waiting for more checks, he ate in the Japanese restaurants where meals were served for ten cents, his wasted body filled out, as did the hollows in his cheeks. He no longer abused himself with short sleep, overwork, and overstud...

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Indignation with the Professor and a growing desperation had banished Jaikie's uneasiness. He saluted in the Greenshirt fashion and looked her boldly in the face. His first thought was that she was extraordinarily pretty. What had Alison meant by drawing the picture of a harpy? She was dressed like Ashie in green r...

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This proof that the Andrews tale is contemporary has led us away from the description of the final scene, given in 'Past Feelings Renovated,' by the person who brought the news to Mr. Andrews. His version includes a trick played with the watches and clocks. All were set on half an hour; the valet secretly made the ch...

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The street had been almost noiseless in the early afternoon, when good citizens were taking their siesta. About three it woke up a little. There was a drunken man who sang, and from the window Jaikie saw the tops of greengrocers' carts moving country-wards, after the forenoon market. After that there was silence aga...

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The hour of absinthe is over. We shall not be much further troubled with the little artists who found Dickens too sane for their sorrows and too clean for their delights. But we have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant: and the passage is along a rambling English road, a twisting road such as ...

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"Not many weeks have passed, Marian," I answered, "since my interview with Mr. Kyrle. When he and I parted, the last words I said to him about Laura were these: 'Her uncle's house shall open to receive her, in the presence of every soul who followed the false funeral to the grave; the lie that records her death shall ...

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"'And that left Mason and Digby. Mason started the ball rolling in fine style. It seems one morning that he got suspicious of a driver who turned up, and there being no flies on Jake Mason he was hit with a brilliant idea. So he got himself nailed up in a packing case reputed to contain tinned meat, and was loaded up w...

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"Now she's coming," said the boy. I turned my eyes in the direction from which the man and boy had appeared. A well-dressed peasant woman with an attractive though pale face hurried toward them with a light, quick step. On her shoulders she carried a spade. As soon as she caught sight of me, she stopped, stuck the spad...

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Broken saw blade, hammer, broken crockery, old pannikins, small rusty frying-pan without a handle, children's old shoes, many bits of old bootleather and greenhide, part of yellowback novel, mutilated English dictionary, grammar and arithmetic book, a ready reckoner, a cookery book, a bulgy anglo-foreign dictionary, pa...

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From this place of a forgotten name we proceeded to the mine on mules. It was a fearful journey, but how long it took to accomplish I cannot remember. For the first part of it the road, if it could be called a road, consisted of a kind of corduroy of little ridges with mud-holes of from one to three feet deep between t...

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It was significant that no one asked his age. Kif at nineteen gave no impression of immaturity. Though not so tall for a man as he had been for his age at fifteen he was yet fairly tall, and, as always, well put together. The army had abstracted the drawl from his step and there was nothing left of the countryman eithe...

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"A laborer's wife would now-a-days be insulted by the offer of baby-linen, or of old clothes," said Mrs. Oliphant. "The common contribution to her Associated Home covers her medical expenses, and if she cannot afford to pay a nurse, there are members of the home who attend on her, she being willing to take her share wi...

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Andrea Doria had concluded the agreement with Charles V whereby he was appointed Imperial Admiral of the Mediterranean. It had become widely known of late that the Emperor was proposing to take him into his service. But only one or two, who like del Vasto were very close in His Majesty's confidence, were aware that i...

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Meanwhile, he must get rid of those pearls. He must persuade Fastnet to buy them and to ask no questions. He knew perfectly well that Fastnet had a client who was as keen on collecting pearls as Cora Van Geldt had been, because Fastnet had told him so during his last tour round the big dealers in England. But then, so ...

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There were other reasons less selfish which gave impetus to my resolve. I had done business for the Ocumpaughs before and been well treated in the transaction. I recognized and understood both Mr. Ocumpaugh's peculiarities and those of his admired and devoted wife. As man and woman they were kindly, honorable and devot...

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And yet the day before, on my arrival, I had felt myself recaptured by the indolent charm of a seaside existence. The same taciturn lift-boy, silent this time from respect and not from scorn, and glowing with pleasure, had set the lift in motion. As I rose upon the ascending column, I had passed once again through what...

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He might be easy and young, but he wasn't mean, and she would reward him, too, she now decided. Just as soon as she got the coat, which must be in a week or two at the latest, she was going to be very nice to him--do something for him. And to emphasize her own thoughts and convey to him what she really meant, she all...

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"Then we see each other no more; but, mark me, by your mother's death you are entitled to three thousand pounds, which you will find entered in your name at Baldwin's, whenever you choose to apply for it. This sum, which it is fortunate you did not know of before, for it would have been dissipated by this time, is all ...

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The day was accordingly fixed. I repaired to the haunted house,-- we went into the blind, dreary room, took up the skirting, and then the floors. Under the rafters, covered with rubbish, was found a trapdoor, quite large enough to admit a man. It was closely nailed down, with clamps and rivets of iron. On removing ...

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The Laird and Little Billee would see Taffy safe to the door of his hôtel garni in the Rue de Seine, where they would find much to say to each other before they said good-night--so much that Taffy and Little Billee would see the Laird safe to _his_ door, in the Place St. Anatole des Arts. And then a discussion would ar...

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"'Near enough,' replied I, remembering my promise, while Foscarini regarded me with an embarrassed air. In order to change the disconcerting subject I said: 'But, my dear Duke, who was the person who fixed your attentions on the beautiful Libussa? Was it a portrait that you say, or did some vivid description cause you ...

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There was another thing he knew as well---that this corridor he moved along between rooms with fast-closed doors, was the Nightmare Corridor; often and often he had traversed it; each room was occupied. "This is the Nightmare Passage," he whispered to himself, "but I know the Ruler--it doesn't matter. None of them can ...

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I have told man's story up to a point about half-way from his origin to his annihilation, Behind lies the vast span which includes the whole Terrestrial and Venerian ages, with all their slow fluctuations of darkness and enlightenment. Ahead lies the Neptunian age, equally long, equally tragic perhaps, but more diverse...

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She gave me no time to answer her, but ran to the door, and so out of the room. I could hear her footsteps falling uncertainly along the gallery, as though she stumbled while she ran, and a great anger against the priest flamed up in my breast. 'Strength to resist or weakness to succumb.' Doubtless the words would have...

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At last the door opened, and a young officer entered. He was buttoned up in a dark-blue great-coat, with large silver buttons going down on either side of the breast. He entered quickly, glancing over the room, at Marta, as she sat with her back to him. She was marking with a pencil on paper. He closed the door. Th...

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Jesuita was one of those noble-hearted, high-minded beings who inspire in those intimately and constantly about them a love that is devotion. By her son she was almost worshipped and reverenced as some superior being, and the little Inez soon learned to love her almost as much as she did Angelo--not quite, for his imag...

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"I felt a perfect fever of curiosity to know what he meant. His loving me, of course, was easy enough to understand. But what did he mean by saying he had been warned? Why was he never to live under the same roof, never to breathe the same air again, with young Armadale? What sort of quarrel could it be which obliged o...

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But before starting on their tour round the shops, he wanted to go up to the postal order department, which occupied several rooms on the second floor. It was there that all the provincial and foreign orders arrived; and he went up every morning to see the correspondence. For two years this correspondence had been incr...

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When Romain Rolland, with the late Henri Barbusse and their friends, tried from time to time to organize some international movement on the extreme Left and invited me, as they always did, to join them, I asked them why they did not operate through the I.C. Committee of the League, which was sleeping ready to their han...

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The black morning was bitter cold. Ma Baxter had made up the wool from Jacksonville into hunting jackets and jeans for both of them. They seemed too fine to wear, but walking slowly through the pine woods they wished they had put them on. The dogs were still sleepy and tired and were willing to follow silently at hee...

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On this afternoon we had six cows to lift. We struggled manfully, and got five on their feet, and then proceeded to where the last one was lying, back downwards, on a shadeless stony spot on the side of a hill. The men slewed her round by the tail, while mother and I fixed the dog-leg and adjusted the ropes. We got the...

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Those words made all the difference to Jaikie's comfort. He was called a "little rat"--he was being threatened; and threats had always one effect on him. They roused his slow temper, and they caused him to turn very pale, just as six years earlier they would have made him weep. Allins saw his whitening face, and tho...

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He had worked at that business! Men did work in those days! these young pups hardly knew the meaning of the word. He had gone into every detail, known everything that went on, sometimes sat up all night over it. And he had always chosen his agents himself, prided himself on it. His eye for men, he used to say, had been...

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He was evidently in a very large house, a house presumably in the occupation of some person of immense wealth. The place was humming like a hive; he could hear the chatter of voices in the distance, the sliding of feet over a floor; and the faint strains of a band. He wondered why and by whom he had been forced into hi...

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"It will be remembered by some of our readers that quite recently Mr Septimus Dorset, of a well-known firm of city solicitors, was staying for the night at 'Storm-Cliff Towers,' having been called out there on business connected with his profession. He slept in a large room at the northern end of the mansion, but in th...

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"This valley, which extends S.W. and W.S.W., has been named Hawkesbury Vale, and the high point of the range bearing N.W. by W. from this tree was called Mount Jenkinson, the one a former title, the other the family name of the noble earl whose present title the plains bear to which from the southern country this gap a...

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And now I found proof in my father's letters that a divorce of the heart already existed between the two persons who, to my filial tenderness, were but one. My father loved his wife passionately, and he felt that his wife did not love him. This was the feeling continually expressed in his letters--not in words so plain...

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"It was roses, roses all the way." Diva had quite miscalculated the number required, and there were sufficient not only to cover collar, cuffs and border of the skirt with them but to make another line of them six inches above the hem. Original and gorgeous as the dress would be, it was yet a sort of parody of Elizab...

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We thought the experienced constable's advice good, and under his guidance we turned aside to the left, and after half an hour's march we came to the door of a settler's hut, where we asked permission to pass the night. It proved to be the dwelling of a man for whom the magistrate had procured a ticket-of-leave about t...

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The car had slid through a village--the nearest village to his grandfather's, Henry told them, and at that a couple of miles away. It had issued thence past the church and rectory on to an upland road, and climbed steadily across the Downs. Mr. Coningsby looked out at the winter darkness and shuddered, thinking of Lond...

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The mycorrhizal association may not prove to be the only path by which the nitrogen complexes derived from the digestion of proteins reach the sap. Humus also nourishes countless millions of bacteria whose dead bodies leave specks of protein thickly strewn throughout the soil. But these complex bodies are not permanent...

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The drummer, having received the signal, began to tap his drum in a slow and deliberate manner, marking time for the lashes, as they were inflicted by the willing and brawny arms of the flagellators, who were selected for this office from among the most muscular prisoners that would accept such a hideous berth, which, ...

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Of course I suppose anyone trying to land on the Moon by mechanical means could quite easily have lost his senses and life itself in the attempt. But with a living airship which could accommodate itself to one's needs we had a tremendous advantage. For example, as we dropped lower and found the air more difficult to de...

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"ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh are in joy and felicity, we give thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those, thy servants, who, having finished their course in fai...

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I like to think of the Spaniards blazing their trails through the Florida hammocks. The hammocks were the same then as now, and will be the same forever if men can be induced to leave them alone. Hammock soil is dark and rich, made up of centuries of accumulation of humus from the droppings of leaves. The hammock is ...

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"Simply this, old chap," Honerton concluded. "Some of your old pals have put their heads together, and they have decided to give you a dinner on your own date, and at the close of the dinner they're going to hand you a little cheque which, believe me, will be worth having, for you to go out to Canada or America, or whe...

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She had had an Affair with a man, she made her mind say to her, two years ago. That was all right. There could not be a, say, a schoolmistress rising twenty-four or twenty-five, in the world who hadn't had _some_ affair, even if it were no more than a gentleman in a tea-shop who every afternoon for a week had gazed at ...

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In the evening when the wagons came home, Bidwell awoke. The tired berry pickers walked home from the fields in the dust of the roads swinging their dinner pails. The wagons creaked at their heels, piled high with boxes of berries ready for shipment. In the stores after the evening meal crowds gathered. Old men lit the...

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Jim should have said she had guessed right the very first time, and he would have done so, but for the something familiar and disconcerting that was merely Gloriana. Then the cowboys came bustling in with bags and suit-cases. Even Uphill carried one with an air of importance. Curly disengaged himself from the excited g...

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"I'm afraid that won't do, sir," he said with the greatest kindness. "You speak as though the details of the fraud had been published. In three cases out of five the general public know nothing about these crimes. In no case have the particulars been published or have they been available even to the managers of branch ...

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Life settled at once into a routine that made the Hôtel X seem like a holiday. Every morning at six I drove myself out of bed, did not shave, sometimes washed, hurried up to the Place d'ltalie and fought for a place on the Métro. By seven I was in the desolation of the cold, filthy kitchen, with the potato skins and bo...

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The actual fighting was, however, on a much higher level, mechanically and scientifically, than the Japanese war in China. The military authorities had good roads, automobiles, camions, railways, rolling stock, electrical material, guns of all sorts, and great air forces available. Behind the fronts were chemical and ...

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The variations of the altruistic sentiment in range and strength are also responsible for other differences of moral opinion. Even among ourselves there is no unanimity as to the dictates of duty in cases where a person's own interests collide with those of his fellow-men. Sidgwick admitted that his axiom of "rational ...

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"I feel everything, as I alone can feel. I foresaw all and no one would listen to me. Religion can alone support me. Italy is in the hands of barbarians, our commerce is ruined. Further, for the climax of unhappiness, the few effects and the goods we saved have been lost in the tempest. I do not even like to think how ...

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It used to be a lot of fun for me to explore some of the deserted cabins. After I'd get thru exploring, I'd go to playing it was my cabin and I was the prospector, and if there was any magazines scattered around anywheres or anything with pictures, well then, I didn't care if Bopy didn't move on for a spell. I was play...

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The calf crop would be a little short of normal, Austin thought, maybe on account of the cows being on the late green grass the fall before, then the green grass in the spring, and not a blade of old grass mixed in to ease them to the new grass. But the condition the range was now, after all the spring moisture and mor...

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This conversation provided Tolefree with his cud to chew, and he chewed it while Grymer made him acquainted with Lyneham over the port, and went on chewing when Lady Grymer and Miss Merafield had left them and Mr. Bigbury and Mr. Thibaud had soon followed. And while Lyneham refused to satisfy Grymer's request that he s...

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Now in the princess's household there was a girl called Dil-aram[FN#7]; she it was who had first seen the image of the prince. She came to love him very much, and she spent day and night thinking how she could make her affection known to him. One day she escaped from the princess's notice and went to the prince, and ...

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The Count smiled at his manner of expressing himself, but all four of the men had already begun to feel sympathy and respect for this quiet-mannered little person whose words were so few and whose voice was so gentle. Something in his grey eyes and in the quiet determination of his manner made them realise that he had ...

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Forgive all these crudely expressed ideas. I have jotted them down just as they have crossed my mind. I am immensely interested in what I hear and see. But it is a daring thing in a young woman to drop "caste"; and that is why I am anxious it should not be talked about. I have sufficient knowledge of men to make them b...

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How the idea came to me I cannot imagine, except that I was now quite foolishly in love with Martina Fields, and driven by this emotion into foreign countries of behaviour. Gran still fought her losing battle for me, and perhaps saw the unhappiness, but with her invincible faith in the therapeutic value of movement and...

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Five-and-twenty shillings per week, after eight years' servitude given to the mastering of an arduous and fatiguing profession, and one in which the disparity between remuneration and responsibility was so vast, appeared, even to my mind, to leave something to be desired. As for romance, that had all been pretty well k...

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She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of face. She spoke not with acrimony, but with grave severity. Rebecca Ann Glynn, younger, stouter, and rosy of face between her crinkling puffs of grey hair, gasped, by way of assent. She sat in a wide flounce of black silk in the corner of the sofa, ...

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"Well, as I said before, I went ter bed airly, seven o'clock in fact; 't was snowin' hard then, an' I 'lowed 't would keep up all night; I slept purty sound but was waked up by the noise my girls made comin' in from a visit ter a neighbor's. You know how 't is when a man's woke up? He's kinder crusty an' more 'an all, ...

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Debby always had a look of welcome when he came, always treated him with the kindness of a generous woman who has had an opportunity to forgive, and always watched the serious, solitary man with a great compassion for his loss, a growing admiration for his upright life. More than once the beach-birds saw two figures p...

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Within a moment of Barle's whispered confidence in Ray's ears with regard to the progress of events, the latter had faded from the card-room and was sauntering across the hall in the direction of the library. The great hall was more or less in darkness, with only one branch of electrics turned on, and much the same sta...

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Though unattractive to the visitor in its calm moments, when the male population was divided between bed and mine, Broken Hill was never dead. It was a revolutionary town that woke up every now and again and did things that gave Capital the nightmare. It was a world leader, with its co-operative stores, co-operative ba...

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But Corinius's sword leaped half naked from the scabbard, and he made a stride toward Corsus and his sons. "Give me the king's name when ye speak to me," he said, scowling upon them. "You sons of Corsus are not men to make me a stalk to catch birds with or to serve your own turn. And thou," he said, looking fiercely on...

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On the 19th, they ascended the second ridge,[*] and, looking back from it, caught a distant view of the settlement now a "minute speck " beneath them. Not far from this spot, while busily cutting trees along the narrow path, they came upon a cairn of stones, shaped like a pyramid. One side of it had been opened and the...

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Having destroyed the horse, the plucky constable then rode round, crossing a narrow slip of water by which the hole was connected with another of somewhat similar dimensions. "Thunderbolt", making another dash, got across the narrow strip, and had just reached the top of the bank when his pursuer reached the edge of th...

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Ralph being now invited to dinner by a quondam companion from the Smugglers' Ward, they sat down together, speculating during their meal upon the probable number that would actually suffer that sessions. It was pretty well known that not one-fourth of the men sentenced to die ever were hung at that time; but yet, as no...

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"It's no matter for that, madam, I say nothing but what I think. You own you love this gentleman, and he has given you sufficient testimony of his affection to you; your conditions are alike unhappy, and he is of opinion that he may take another woman, his first wife having broke her honour, and living from him, and th...

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Evening drew on, and sounds of life and movement in the lower part of the domicile became more pronounced, the gate in the palings clicking incessantly. The party was to be an early one, and all the guests were assembled long before it was dark. Yeobright went down the back staircase and into the heath by another path ...

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From plague and famine...The voice is intoning the Litany now, the prayer for deliverance...from plague, pestilence and famine, from battle and murder and from sudden death...and the murmured response through the church...Good Lord, deliver us...The words are old, far older than the rubric of the church that uses them,...

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"Please, please leave us here on the land," I begged. The Indians began rushing our things into the boat and the big Norwegian sailors with long beards like brigands said, "Hurry! Hurry!" I stood where land and sea wrangled ferociously over the overlap. The tea kettle was in my hand. "Wait!" I roared above the din of t...

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"Happily, however, the stream of the tide swept us past the rocks without accident, and after carrying us about half-a-mile farther, changed its direction to south-east, and drifted us towards a narrow strait separating two rocky islands, in the centre of which was a large insulated rock, that seemed to divide the stre...

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What she might have said in her black mood was prevented by the tardy arrival of her brother. He kissed his mother, who was gathering up her letters preparatory to leaving the room to answer them--or previous ones. It was typical of Margaret Barclay that, with time her own, she spent the most wonderful hour of the most...

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On the third evening the western gale subsided, and a land breeze promised to emancipate them from their perilous condition; when in the night, as they were about to put off in a boat from shore, they were hailed a party of Mainotes, and one, an old man of commanding figure, demanded a parley. He was the Capitano of Ka...

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Always, afterwards, Robert was to wonder what would have happened if that telephone call had been one minute later. In one minute, sixty worthless seconds, he would have taken his coat from the peg in the hall, popped his head into the opposite room to tell Mr. Heseltine that he was departing for the day stepped out in...

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Mary Bewery played no golf that morning. In fact, she only went on to the club-house to rid herself of Bryce, and presently she returned home, thinking. And indeed, she said to herself, she had abundant food for thought. Naturally candid and honest, she did not at that moment doubt Bryce's good faith; much as she di...

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Men had still quite recently been going in and out with parcels and packing-cases, rendering the door and hall within like a public thoroughfare. Elizabeth trotted through the open door in the dusk, but becoming alarmed at her own temerity she went quickly out again by another which stood open in the lofty wall of the ...

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A heartless voluptuary of mediocre intelligence, he contrived to wrap himself in what Saint-Simon has called a "terrible majesty." Hewas obsessed by the idea of the dignity, almost the divinity - of kingship. I cannot believe that he conceived himself human. He appears to have held that being king was very like being...

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"Yes, I tried to kill myself; but they would not let me die, so the old tragedy of our house begins again. August became a priest, hoping to hide his calamity and expiate his father's sin by endless penances and prayers. Harry turned reckless; for what had he to look forward to? A short life, and a gay one, he says, an...

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But as to the "phenomena," the occurrences for which, in ordinary talk, we should reserve the word "miraculous"? Well, what do we know? The question that I have already stated comes up again, as to the possible survival of old tradition in a kind of dormant, or torpid, semi-conscious state. In other words, did the peop...

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I wasn't surprised at that because I like walking in rain myself. A few days later (and it _was_ raining, by the way) I saw him coming out of the A.B.C. after lunch. He wore no hat or mackintosh and after standing a moment in the shop doorway to put up his coat collar he suddenly sprinted across the road towards the Co...

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The afternoon was warm and sultry, but towards night big clouds showed themselves over the summit of Ben Lawers, and as the sun went down the wind arose, and a storm of rain set in. As the evening advanced the storm increased, until the mountains fairly cracked beneath the shock of the heavy thunder, and when the light...

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