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Excerpt from Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales, Vol. 3 of 3Last Spring I screwed my courage to the sticking-place, resolved that, before the season was over, a portion at least of the fruits of my sweet and bitter experience should be committed to paper, that this century of seemings might bequeath to posterity one plain, unvarnished, daguerreotyped portrait of its features, and, shivering under the in¿u ence of a bitter February, and ...

Excerpt from Agathonia: A RomanceThen might the camp of the faithful have supplied work me11! - interposed al-mahmon, the younger of the three captains. Are the hammers of our armourers of Dama's cus less adroit in their calling than those of Hebrew or Greek P.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 wo...

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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Peeress, or the Days of Fox, Vol. 1 of 2What next? Is not the author of Hajji Babs, sati with giving us the most perfect and entertaining picture 0 East, and oriental feelings, customs, and manners, that he break into the preserves of the best describers of our ow tional characters and society? Abel Allnutt is more near! Vicar of Wakefield than any novel we can call to mind the epoch of that - the first of its class. ...

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Excerpt from Die Lehren Eines Lebens, Vol. 1Grün $anb.($arlén, (emilie %lygarez, berg. 91116 Dem @qmebii'dyen 11011 @idnl. Bi¿erformat.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 whilst ...

Excerpt from Paris in 1841But at the close of a couple of days, even the surliest of John Bulls is irresistibly impelled to march with the joyous crowd, and at the end of a week, finds himself wearing his cap and bells, and brandishing the bauble of folly, as giddily as the rest of the noisy throng.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a rep...

Excerpt from The Soldier of Lyons: A Tale of the TuileriesA second Revolution has since enfranchised the march of public opinion, and imparted a new character to the throne Of the Bourbons.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 recons...

Excerpt from Birthright, and Other Tales, Vol. 1 of 3Most true! Replied the young man to whom this observation was addressed, by a companion of more' than double his years as they sat together Over their wine, in the dining room of a fine Old country mansion, named Holme Court, enjoying sweet converse which appeared to have led the elder of the two into a vein somewhat narrative.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Excerpt from Mothers and Daughters, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of the Year 1830SO much the better for him, Observed Sir Coniyne, even though he should still venture on a personal inspection of the waters Of the Elbe. Immediate drowning is preferable to hanging next season, which would have been poor Frederick's inevitable destiny. Lorimer is far too sensitively honourable a fellow to put up with a giddy ¿irting wife.About the PublisherForgotten Books...

Excerpt from Hungarian Tales, Vol. 2 of 3Oh! Who would be a woman! Who that fool, A weeping, pining, faithful, loving woman? She hath hard measures still where she hopes kindest.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 w...

Excerpt from The Popular Member, Vol. 2 of 3: The Wheel of Fortune, EtcI am woman enough, and therefore san guine enough, to look to the end rather than the means, replied Caroline, unmoved by the almost contemptuous smile curling the handsome lip of Lord Alan.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 wo...

Excerpt from Self, Vol. 3 of 3Among the persons kindest in their attentions to her, was Lady Lynchmore, and though the desire to conciliate a friend of Lady Grandison and protégé of Carlton House, might be the inostensible motive of her eager invitations to the motherless child, Philip was too well aware of the advantage of female companionship to a young girl, not to profit by the hospitalities of his neighbours.About the PublisherForgotten B...

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelMoreover, all was so bright, so prosperous, so sunshiny around her, that it seemed absurd to look out for breakers when launched on that glassy sea, and under a sky so propi tious. Flattering as was her position in London life, the banker's wife had never felt the value of her good acceptation in society till called upon to present her daughter. The kindness with which Lydi...

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelDear Sir, I cannot more strongly mark that the fol lowing pages are intended to exhibit the failings of an individual, not as an attack upon a class, than by placing at the head of my work the name of one who, ancestrally connected for the last two centuries with the fibanking profession in a house of business which has existed in the same spot since the sfyear 1650, has ad...

Excerpt from The Dowager, or the New School for Scandal, Vol. 1 of 3A favourite complaint of foreigners against London, is the tedious length of the streets. To an eye familiar only With the picturesque irregularities of foreign cities, nothing can ex ceed the monotony of such thoroughfares as Baker Street, or Gloucester Place - traversing under varied denominations, a Whole parish, and carrying the eye along a waste of weary brick walls perfo...

Excerpt from The Sketch Book of Fashion, Vol. 1 of 2: The Second Marriage, My Place in the Country, The PavilionTn]: following Tales form the last of a series of Nevels, of a class created by the peculiar spirit of the last reign, and manifestly at variance with that of the present times. These sketchy performances, although favoured with critical praise fir beyond their pretensions or deserts, have in some instances been blamed for pungency o...

Excerpt from Birthright, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other TalesFew districts in Europe are more devoid of local interest than the frontier-country between Belgium and France: especially at its maritime extremity, towards Western Flanders, where dykes and ditches, and an ill-favoured, aguish lookin g population a¿'ord incontrovertible testi mony to the fenny nature of the soil. In that ¿at and dreary landscape, Where a canal becomes an interesting featur...

Excerpt from Sketches of English Character, Vol. 2 of 2High station and a low mind are indis pensable to the success of such a vocation, a vocation more rarely embraced for con science sake, than at the instigation of some active philanthropist, who plays upon the weakness of the great lady, and engages her services in behalf of more deserving persons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from The Woman of the World, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelOf grief for the loss of the best of landlords. But of all the assembled crowd, panting in those disfigured aisles of the house of god into Whose temple we are bound to bring our dead With humility and peace', the chief mourner, aloft in his lordly pew, was the only individual on Whose feelings the ceremony produced a genuine impression. Long years had elapsed - twenty or more - since, f...