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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from One Day: A Sequel to Three WeeksIn fairness to this book of mine - and to me the great moral lesson I have endeavored to teach must be considered in its entirety, and no single episode be construed as the book's sole aim. The verdict on my two years' work rests with you, dear Reader, but at least you may be sure that I have only tried to show that those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Contrast and Other StoriesI adobe you always, as you know, he said in Bench - which was his language and he sat down with nervous fervour by the pale slender woman who was watching him with large dark-blue eyes from the sofa where she sat. Her simple sitting room, in one of the new Paris hotels, was a pretty place, stamped with her own fine taste in various little objects about. A grand piano was Open, and a sheet of music had...

Excerpt from The Career of Katherine BushKatherine Bush had been the shorthand typist there since she was nineteen. They paid her well, and she had the whole of Saturday to herself.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 Beyond the Rocks: A Love StoryThe hours were composed mostly of dull or rebellious moments during the period of Theo dora's engagement to Mr. Brown. From the Very first she had thought it hard that she should have had to take this situation, instead of Sarah or Clementine, her elder step-sisters, so much nearer his age than herself. To do them justice, either of these ladies would have been glad to relieve her of the obligation to...

Excerpt from Elizabeth Visits AmericaHarry had a rather serious quarrel, which ended in Lord Valmond's going ofi to shoot big game in the wilds of Africa, leaving Elizabeth, who (ia the absence of her mother and her favour ite cousin, Octavia, abroad) had taken refuge with her great aunt Maria at Heaviland Manor, in an obstinate and disconsolate frame of mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

Excerpt from His HourFool, said the Sphinx. What is your soul? And if you 'have one, what have you done with it hitherto? Are you any light in the world P N 0, you have lived upon the orders of others, you have let your individuality be crushed these twenty four years - since the day you could speak. Just an echo it is - that fine thing, your soul! Show it then, if you have one! Do you possess an opin ion? Not a bit of it. You simply announce ...

Excerpt from Man and MaidI look at my mutilated face before I replace the black patch over the left eye, and I realize that, with my crooked shoulder, and the leg gone from the right knee downwards, that no woman can feel emotion for me again in this world.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. ...

Excerpt from The Point of ViewThe restaurant of the Grand Hotel in Rome was filling up. People were dining rather late - it was the end of May and the entertainments were lessening, so they could dawdle over their repasts and smoke their cigarettes in peace.Stella Rawson came in with her uncle and aunt, Canon and the Honorable Mrs. Ebley, and they took their seats in a secluded corner. They looked a little out of place - and felt it - amid thi...

Excerpt from HalcyoneThen those instinctive good manners of Halcyone's came uppermost, inherited, like her slender shape and balanced head, from that long line of La Sarthe ancestors, and she thanked the old man with a quaint, courtly, sweetly pedantic grace. Then she got up to go.I like being here - and may I come again to morrow? She said afterwards. I must go now, or they will be disagreeable and perhaps make difficulties.About the Publishe...

Excerpt from Three ThingsHow often one sees people who could be very happy, and who yet with incredible blindness and stupidity are running their heads against stone walls (or feather beds!) and destroying all chance of peace for themselves, their mates, and their households!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 importan...

Excerpt from The Damsel and the SageThe ear fared better. Another man of greater shrewdness came along, and, although he had two ears of his own, he said, 'a third will not come amiss, ' and he picked up the ear and heard with three ears instead of two. So he became know ing and clever because of the informa tion he acquired in this way. The grafted ear grew and flourished, and, in spite of its remaining abnormal, it obtained a cer tain enjoym...

Excerpt from Red HairI am twenty, and up to the week before last, when Mrs. Carruthers got ill, and died in one day, I had had a fairly decent time at odd moments when she was in a good temper.There is no use pretending even when people are dead, if one is writing down one's real thoughts. I detested Mrs. Carruthers most of the time. A person Whom it was impossible to please. She had no idea of justice, or of any thing but her own comfort, and...

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