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Excerpt from The Mosaic-Worker's Daughter, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelHe was, in truth, the very model of a young nobleman, of the essentially modern Roman type. A tri¿e above the average height, sufficiently good-looking, without being positively handsome, carefully dressed, almost up to the point of dandyism a vast deal too self-conscious, highly respectable in his whole conduct, and perfectlv well4 IN the house OF the tragic poet.About the Publish...

Excerpt from The Mill of SilenceThen at that moment the hard agony of my life broke its walls in a blessed convulsion of weeping, and I caught the little wanderer to my heart and carried her within doors.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 d...

Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 15: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts, January to June, 1890As a gust more furious than its fellows swept down the Strand, flushing its side-alleys like a wave of water, the door of a private house in Norfolk Street banged to, and a woman ran out into the storm. The wind caught her long fur boa, and writhed it aloft like a wisp of cotton, but despite its lashing across her eyes so as to blin...

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It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose towering snow-flung walls seemed -- as the day sucked inwards to a point secret as a leech's mouth -- to close about me like a monstrous amphitheater of ghosts. . . .Bernard Edward J. Capes is generally remembered as a writer of eerie fiction, and,...

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The Mosaic-worker's daughter - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks ne...

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Description: This delightfully multifaceted volume, comprised of thoughtful essays by an esteemed array of cultural critics, probes the intersection of Christian faith and culture to honor the memory of A. J. "Chip" Conyers, a remarkably ecumenical Christian scholar and cultural "warrior" whose premature death in 2004 cut short a remarkable career in teaching and writing. As those who knew him can attest, Conyers lived his life at the interse...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from The Mosaic-Worker's Daughter, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel While it was being agreed between d'ur bino and Francesca, that nothing should be said about the proceedings of Donato, until the Sandfords should return to Rome, a similar course was resolved on by the travellers themselves, though for very differ ent reasons. The Marchese could not endure the idea that the fair name of a young lady whom he hoped to marry should be sullied, as h...

Excerpt from Four Years Experience of the Catholic Religion Mr. Capes, the author of the following pages, was formerly a distinguished member of the Oxford University, and a divine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1815, he was received into the Catholic Church, and, since that time, he has had ample opportunity to view her in all her phases, and the little work before us shows, that he has turned this opportunity to good account. He has...

Excerpt from The Mosaic-Worker's Daughter, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel "Only three weeks yet in Rome, and two invitations to balls already!" "Yes!" said Helen Sandford, to her friend and cousin Margaret Osborne, "everybody says that we are to have a gayer season than ever, this winter." "But as to these Roman balls themselves, " asked Margaret, "I cannot understand what sort of affairs they can possibly be." "Why so?" asked her cousin. About the...

Description: This delightfully multifaceted volume, comprised of thoughtful essays by an esteemed array of cultural critics, probes the intersection of Christian faith and culture to honor the memory of A. J. "Chip" Conyers, a remarkably ecumenical Christian scholar and cultural "warrior" whose premature death in 2004 cut short a remarkable career in teaching and writing. As those who knew him can attest, Conyers lived his life at the interse...

Excerpt from The Mill of Silence Then at that moment the hard agony of my life broke its walls in a blessed convulsion of weeping, and I caught the little wanderer to my heart and carried her within doors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technol...

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Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 15: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts, January to June, 1890 All day, however, was traffic not wholly suspended, and deter, mined drivers were to be found in plenty to goad poor beasts along weary miles of streets, and, as the white fall ceased, and the leaden sky ran into wisps of silver, these increased in number, until a muffled caricature of everyday liveliness was steaming and struggli...

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