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Excerpt from Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 64: July, 1918School at Annapolis took into the naval service only seven acting midshipmen. This development is worth reviewing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preser...

Excerpt from A Good SamaritanHalf an hour later, to Reed waiting at his office in Broadway impatiently, there strolled in a good-looking and leisurely young man with black clothes on his back and peace and good-will on his face. Hope I haven't kept you waiting, Carty, he remarked in friendly tones. Plenty of time, isn't there?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotte...

Excerpt from The Three Things: The Forge in Which the Soul of a Man Was TestedIS mother listened, staring out at H the colors of the August garden. She had heard such tirades before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

Excerpt from The Scribner Treasury: 22 Classics TalesShortly after Madame Delphine appeared in 1881, Laf cadio Hearn commented on Cable's genius for recreation of a past era: The author must have made many a pil grimage to study the wrinkled faces of the houses, or perhaps to read the queer names upon the signs - as Balzac loved to do in old-fashioned Paris. Hearn here put his finger on the two factors which in¿uenced Cable's writing in the gr...

Excerpt from Bob and the GuidesWas what she as then. I knew he liked her, you seek Henri Jeunesse, who was one of my two guides, but he didn't know the diference. Then Walter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from August FirstThe clerical collar as if they might tear it away. The alert figure swung across the room to the one win dow not wide open and the man pushed up the three inches possible. Whee he brought out again, boyishly, and thrust away the dusty Vines that hung against the opening from the stone walls of the parish house close by He gasped, looked about as if in des perate need of relief, struck back the damp hair from his face. ...

Excerpt from The Perfect TributeOf the following day, the finished gentleman, the careful student, the heir of traditions of learning and breeding, of scholarly instincts and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from The Counsel AssignedThat's a pretty color, the old fel low said in the assured tone of one who had always found his smallest remarks worth While.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ...

Excerpt from The Courage of the CommonplaceHE girl and her chaperon had T been deposited early in the de sirable second-story window in Durfee, looking down on the tree. Brant was a senior and 3. Bones man, and so had a leading part to play in the afternoon's drama. He must get the girl and the chaperon off his hands, and be at his business. This was Tap Day. It is perhaps well to explain what Tap Day means, there are people who have not been ...

Excerpt from The Perfect TributeOccupied, unassuming, a man awk ward and ill-dressed, a man, as he leaned slouchingly against the wall, of no grace of look or manner, in whose haggard face seemed to be the suffering of the sins of the world. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, journeyed with his party to assist at the consecration, the next day, of the national cemetery at Gettysburg. The quiet November landscape slipped past the ...

Excerpt from Yellow ButterfliesThroughout this story there are sen tences and paragraphs quoted, taken bodily from a press account of the com ing of the American Unknown Soldier. If other sentences or phrases occur for which proper credit has not been given, it is because the story-teller's mind was so saturated with the beauty of this ao count that its wording seemed the inevi table form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds o...

Excerpt from The Militants: Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers and Other Fighters in the WorldFor a moment again the locust had it all to himself. High and insistent, his steady note sounded across the hot, still world. The Bishop looked down at the gray eyes gazing upward wonderingly, and through a mist of years other eyes smiled at him. Eleanor Gray - the world is small, the life of it persistent, generations re peat themselves, and each is y...

Excerpt from The Militants: Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers and Other Fighters in the WorldFor a moment again the locust had it all to himself. High and insistent, his steady note sounded across the hot, still world. The Bishop looked down at the gray eyes gazing upward wonderingly, and through a mist of years other eyes smiled at him. Eleanor Gray - the world is small, the life of it persistent, generations re peat themselves, and each is y...

Excerpt from The MarshalOn the wall Of the large hall Of a house in Virginia hang two portraits side by side. Both are Of young men, both in uniform, one in the dark blue coat and the White and red of an infantry Officer Of the French Empire, the other in that scarlet shirt which came to be a flag, almost as much as a dress, to the heroic band Of insurgents who struggled for free Italy against the Austrians. The master of the Virginia house, c...

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