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Excerpt from Poems of West East For NO eyes shall see the poems that I write For you, not even your, but after long Forgetful years have passed on our delight Some hand may chance upon a dusty song Of those fond days when every spoken word Was sweet, and all the fleeting things unspoken Yet sweeter, and the music half unheard Murmured through forests as a charm unbroken. It is the plain and ordinary page Of two who loved, sole-spirited and...

Excerpt from Heritage Yet for one week in those two years Malory and I were linked by the thread of a story he told me, sitting out under a clump of stone pines overlooking the village. It linked us, indeed, not for that week alone, but, though interruptedly and at long intervals, for many years out of our lives. Neither of us foresaw at the time the far-reaching sequel of his con fidences. He, when he told me the story, thought that he was t...

Excerpt from The Dragon in Shallow Waters All these things, the chimneys and the girders, were crushingly larger than the men who laboured amongst them. The men seemed of pigmy size as they pushed their hand-trucks along the ¿oor of the big gallery. They pushed them down the narrow passage-ways left between the vats. The gallery was full of vats, set in pairs down the whole length of the building, square vats twenty feet each way, as large an...

Excerpt from The Heir: A Love Story Miss Chase lay on her immense red silk four-poster that reached as high as the ceiling. Her face was covered over by a sheet, but as she had a high, aristocratic nose, it raised the sheet into a ridge, ending in a point. Her hands could also be distinguished beneath the sheet, folded across her chest like the hands of an effigy, and her feet, tight together like the feet of an effigy, raised the sheet into ...

Excerpt from Orchard and Vineyard And heard the careless voice speak on Of life when he was gone from home, Of days that he had made his own, Familiar schemes that he had known, And dates that he had cherished most As star-points in the year to come, And he was suddenly alone, Thinking (not bitterly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book ...

Excerpt from Challenge A man and a woman leaned idly over the balustrade watching the steady stream of guests that mounted the magnificent staircase. The marble of the balustrade was cool beneath the woman's bare arms, for it was summer, and the man, without interrupting his murmur of comment and anecdote, glanced admiringly at her, and thought that, in spite of her forty years, she, with diamonds in her hair and the great ropes of pearls ove...

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