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Excerpt from Just a GirlSo it was with cheerful alacrity that the men gathered round the two who were credited with starting the shindy, and pulled out revolvers and bowie-knives for the free fight which every body knew would set in with the usual severity.Varley Howard was the only man who did not rise. He leaned back in his chair and passed his white hand over his pale, unwrinkled brow and smoothed his black, gray-streaked hair with a gestur...

Excerpt from In Cupid's Chains, or a Slave for LifeIt is very probable that if the poet had seen her he would have written Sweet fifteen instead of seventeen.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 Edna's Secret Marriage, or Love's ChampionThe great 'banker, John Weston, sat in the library of his magnificent home in Surrey. He was a very old, but a very brave man, for he sat with a smile on his wrinkled and colorless face, the face from which years of brain strain had driven the color, the face in which the strug gles, the trials, of this transient world had carved wrinkles as deeply as if they had been cut with a graver's t...

Excerpt from My Lady PrideWho was Lord Bruce? Floris wondered° and why should her ladyship take such pains to inform her of his wickedness, and warn her against falling in love with him?It was of him she was thinking when the second bell rang and a servant knocked at the door.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 importa...

Excerpt from A Heritage of HateIt 18 all a dream, there is no one there, he said as if to himself. It is only one of my dreams. Yes, 1 - 1 am fall ing asleep, and the end is near. We are going to die. Oh, cruel! Cruel!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 t...

Excerpt from Stella's Fortune, or Love the ConquerorThe speaker was Mrs. Newton, the person addressed was her daughter Stella, upon whose beauty Lord Mast mion had passed so decided an encomium, and the scene was the small drawing-room of Mrs. Newton's villa at Hyde Park Corner.As a slight pause followed the lady's enunciation of a well-known axiom, we will fill it by remarking that Mrs. Newton was a thin, pompous lady, good at heart, but of l...

Excerpt from Maida: A Child of SorrowPresently Maids s long, white fingers struck a chord a quiet one, she bent still lower over the piano, then, slight start, as if she had awakened from a dream, she looked round and in a voice, remarkable for its clear and mellow tones said, with a touch of gentle self-reproach: Are you there still, Carrie? I wish you would not! You have been working so long - how long is it? I have to to ten! Will you not p...

Excerpt from Farmer Holt's DaughterThe reason for all this lay in Farmer Holt himself as much as in the excellence of his land. He was squire, as we have said, but he disdained, or, at least, ignored the title. The appellation of farmer smacked in his ear of the majesty of emperor.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 im...

Excerpt from Love, the Tyrant, or Where Her Heart LedIn the intense stillness and clearness of the Australian night there was something weird and strangely oppressive, and a young man who stood at the door of a shepherd's hut which stood in a small clearing, looked round and shuddered slightly as if the solitude might be peopled by ghosts.He was pale and thin, with that red look about the eyes which fever paints so skilfully, and as he leant a...

Excerpt from Kyra's Fate: Or Love Knows No BondsYou ought to know, he sax with the same eu pression in his voice as in his gesture. You have been with er, seen her all these months.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 th...

Excerpt from The Mistress of Court RegnaFor, a fortnight ago, Lord Wharton had died, and left Court Re na, with its miles of land, its substantial farms, the village 0 Regna, everything in the great house from cellar to garret, everything in the vast stables, from a worn-out broom to the costly horses, to Claire Sartoris. And as she stood on the balcony, with her eyes fixed dreamily on the set ting sun, her half-parted lips were saying: It is ...

Excerpt from Maurice Durant, Vol. 1Dreams, books, are each a world, and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good Round these, with tendrils strong as ¿esh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Wordsworth.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...

Excerpt from The Heart of a MaidBecause if Lucy Grimes were to make another uglymuring, Thank you, my dear, she kissed the up turned face.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 original format whil...

Excerpt from Maurice Durant, Vol. 3Towards the end of November, and one night when the rain beat hard across the moor, and the wind howled dismally through the bare, shivering trees, the master of the Rectory sat in his antique, darksome chamber, gazing at the red, expiring fire.Seated on one of the old high-backed carved-oak chairs, black with age, yet strong as wrought-iron, his grand head threw a grotesque shadow upon the dark wainscot, fli...

Excerpt from Farmer Holt's DaughterThere, 'midst the smaller occurrences of such retired life, you may learn, perhaps, some greater liking for nu fashionable people, and twist the phrase only country love to a new meaning.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-a...

Excerpt from Staunch of Heart: Or Adrien Leroy's SacrificeThe lamplighters were ¿itting through Pall Mall, the shimmer of wax candles commenced to glimmer from the huge windows of the clubhouses, and the rattle of the carriages as they sped homeward on St. James' stones pro claimed that the dinner hour of the great ones of the earth' was at hand.At the entrance to one of the largest of the Grecian temples men's devotion to the god luxury had r...

Excerpt from Only One Love or Who Was the HeirOne summer's evening a young man was tramping through the Forest of Warden. Forest of Warden sounds strange, old-fashioned, almost improbable, but, thank Heaven, there yet remain, in over-crowded England, some spots, few and far between though they may be, still untouched by the greedy fingers of the destroyers, whom men call Progress and Civilization.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hu...

Excerpt from By Devious WaysI wonder where the devil we are! He said, with the draw] which men of his class and character consider the cor rect thing.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 original...

Excerpt from By Devious WaysI wonder where the devil we are! He said, with the draw] which men of his class and character consider the cor rect thing.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 original...