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Excerpt from A Valuable Life: A NovelThe world generally did stand in awe of Miss Keturah Kettlewell. In her presence, at any rate. Behind her back, the world was apt to laugh at her, but never when she was within hearing. For her sharp tongue and her bright eyes made her formidable, and, besides, she was very, very rich. It is not easy to laugh at a person who has at least fifteen thousand pounds a year.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...

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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 ...

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 Lady Charlotte: A NovelN said Esther with some reluctance. There was a deeper crimson on her cheeks than usual, and a low ering of her eyelids that might have excited her cou sin's interest had his thoughts not been centered else where.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. Forg...

Excerpt from Under False Pretences: A NovelThe little one died last night at the village, and Vincenza could not see it. The doctor will tell you about it all, she said, nodding significantly, and lowering her voice. He knows.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-t...

Excerpt from Out of Due Season: A MezzotintIT was a Saturday afternoon. In the sleepy little town of Oasterby there was not much done on a Saturday afternoon in June. Many of the shops in the High Street and the Market Place closed at two. There was no business down at the yards and the wharves on the riverside. The great arms of the windmills had sunk into their Sabbath quietude. The streets were deserted, but from the Open doors of every pub...

Excerpt from Jacobi's Wife: A NovelI noticed that his face was white and his hand Shaking, and resolved to keep my eye upon him. One of the sailors turned to him With an oath. Why the devil didn't you hang out the lamps said the man, roughly.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...

Excerpt from The Mistress of Quest a NovelA buxom servant girl appeared at the kitchen door at that moment, and to her the labourer addressed himself in a subdued tone.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, prese...

Excerpt from An Open Foe, Vol. 3 of 3: A RomanceVera looked ill enough upon her arrival at the concert-room to excite the gravest apprehensions in the minds of her companions. Some one brought her food and wine: she contrived Lo swallow a little of both, and thus to. Keep at bay the deadly sickness and faintness that threatened to render her incapable of exertion. The con ductor tried to dose her with brandy, but she assured him with a strange...

Excerpt from Seventy Times Seven, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelMany and many 's the pound of tea she's brought to me, though little enough money she's had to call her own, as everybody knows, and the woollen things She 's knitted, and the stockings and the petticoats - she 's the kindest 'art and the quickest fingers of any lady in the country side.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from Nellie Maturin's VictoryCome, my dear, we must be getting back to the house. It is no good staying any longer, you know. You can come back later on and put some ¿owers on the grave when it is filled up. But you had better come away with me just now.And perhaps she spoke the truth, for the girl shivered as the first spadeful of earth fell upon the coffin lid, and swayed a little, as if she were about to fall. Whereupon the elder wo...

Excerpt from The Surrender of Margaret Bellarmine: A FragmentLet the victors, when they come, Find our bodies by the wall.' Yes, that was the right Spirit, I knew, and I gave my husband full credit for the high ideal to which I believed he tried to conform his life. It was all the more bitter to me to know that his love was never mine. He had loved once in his youth - I found it out by accident - and he would never love again.About the Publish...

Excerpt from An Open Foe, Vol. 1 of 3: A RomanceIt was the young man who at last looked up and broke the silence.Come, Lucy, he said, don't be angry. You need not mind what people think. This state of things will not last long.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-...

Excerpt from My Lady's DiamondsIn the course of a year also he felt that he would be able to marry, if things kept at their present level. For he was no man to let a girl feel that she would have to endure poverty if she married him. Perhaps this was the reason why he had not yet made a formal proposal, and it was possible also that Joan thought him a little over cautious. But she had not shown him any cold ness, and that was the reason why he...

Excerpt from A Deadly Foe: A Romance of the Northern SeasIt was also not the position which might have seemed most natural to him, for he came of a good family, many members of whom had served in the Royal Navy, and had bequeathed to him a love for a seafaring life, which even the merchant-service had failed to extinguish. But he was the sixth boy out of ten children of a not very wealthy country clergyman, and the Vicar of Combe was too sensi...

Excerpt from The Failure of Sibyl Fletcher: A NovelThat was all. She had given up her afternoon work, dressed herself prettily, waited for more than an hour, - and this was the result.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...

Excerpt from In Vallombrosa: A SequenceThe season had not begun, and none Of the hotels near the monastery itself were Open, even Paradzko, up among the trees whose leaves still strew the brooks in Vallombrosa, where the cells of the hermits used to be, and where Milton, they say.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 imp...

Excerpt from The Chase: A Tale of the Southern States, From the French of Jules LerminaA fine autumn evening, purple clouds still glowing on the horizon, the warm air heavy with fragrance, the dark foliage of the Bois de Boulogne softly shadowed forth in outline against a clear sky, the measured fall of horses' hoofs advancing at a foot-pace towards the city: so much for the picturesque aspect of the scene.About the PublisherForgotten Books pu...

Excerpt from Seventy Times Seven, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelI must congratulate you, said Cecil, much more embarrassed than she was. I am sure I wish you every happiness.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, preservin...