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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from The Lady Charlotte: A Novel Esther looked up at him quickly, a momentary suspicion in her dark eyes. But Arthur met her glance so frankly that she was disarmed. She must know lots of people. Somebody might want a secretary. I should like a secretaryship much better than a berth on an evening paper, which is all I have in prospect at present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

Excerpt from Roy's RepentanceIT was in the year of grace, 1868, that the Rever end Michael Profeit, vicar of St. Helen's, Felstoke, Somersetshire, conceived the brilliant idea of taking private pupils. He had a large house, a capable wife, a great many university distinctions, and no children he was the very man to be a tutor. His parish was small, his pay moderate his parishioners were poor and ignorant, but neither so poor nor so ignorant as...

Excerpt from The Chase: A Tale of the Southern States, From the French of Jules Lermina A 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. A few words were now and then sof...

Excerpt from Nellie Maturin's Victory It was, of course, a melancholy scene, yet the churchyard had a pensive beauty which mitigated the appearance of melancholy. The old grey church, half covered with ivy, stood on the slope of a hill, and the churchyard surrounding it was laid out with singular care and beauty. It was, in fact, more like a garden than a graveyard, and the tall trees that clustered at the back of the church did not intercept...

Excerpt from Seventy Times Seven, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel It was a pretty scene. The sky was deep blue overhead, flecked here and there with snow-white films of cloud: the sun shone brilliantly upon the old grey church in its green environment of stately trees and velvet turf, upon the dark red roofs of the cottages, upon the glowing faces of the villagers gathered about the churchyard gate. Village people, men, women, and children, all in their...

Excerpt from The Mistress of Quest a Novel Hill and valley lay silent in the baking heat of a sultry summer afternoon. There was no breeze, not even on the fell, where usually a light wind was wafted in the hottest days of July. But on this day the branches of the larches and rowan trees drooped motionless over the waters of the Force, and they themselves seemed to trickle languidly, as if their life were half extinguished by the summer droug...

Excerpt from Jacobi's Wife: A Novel The collision between the schooner Mary Jane, bound for New York from Liverpool, and the Ariadne, American man-of-war, took place at daybreak on the 13th of March, 1870. I have been requested by one of my friends to put in writing a statement concerning the events of which I was a witness. The Mary Jane carried very few passengers. She was not insured. In fact, she was reputed to be so unseaworthy that it ...

Excerpt from An Open Foe, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance "Not going to ride to-day, Frank?" "Not to-day, General. Going to look in at my Club." "Don't forget that you dine at home this evening, boy." "All right, General. Eight sharp, I suppose?" "Eight o'clock precisely, " said the General, with a bend of his stately gray head. "Are you ready, Jessie? Come then, my dear.?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of r...

Excerpt from My Lady's Diamonds He was in a thoroughly bad temper. He had made his plans for the evening, and they had all miscarried. It was not his fault. On a fine, warm evening like this one he had thought that a late walk along the cliffs would be exactly the thing that Joan would have appreciated. But it seemed that he had miscalculated her desires. She had told him rather curtly that she did not want to go out, she was tired, and there...

Excerpt from An Open Foe, Vol. 3 of 3: A Romance Vera 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 to 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 conductor tried to dose her with brandy, but she assured him with a strange...

Excerpt from The Surrender of Margaret Bellarmine: A Fragment Ingoldsthorpr is the name of a pleasant village in the heart of rural England, and it is also the name of the great park and stately house belonging to my father, Reginald, Baron Ingoldsthorpe. There is no place in England or out of it that I think I love so well: no place which revives in me so strongly the sense of peace and reverence and exquisite harmony, so rare to find in our...

Excerpt from Blake of Oriel The great red-brick building of the oppressively new Board School, which overshadowed the meaner erections around it like a veritable Upas-tree of knowledge, designed to swallow up all smaller attempts at scholastic institutions, loomed darkly against a calm October sky. Usually at this hour darkness and silence reigned throughout the deserted building, except when a belated "school-keeper" moved about the lower ro...

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...

Excerpt from An Open Foe, Vol. 1 of 3: A Romance Shrubbery and the walls of the house were nearly hidden by creeping plants, green-leaved only as yet and not in blossom. The house nestled so snugly in this retired nook that one might well have fancied it to be the resting place of some recluse who had grown weary of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.for...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

First published in 1889 by the author of "Jacobi's Wife", "Beyond Recall", "An Open Foe", etc.

First published in 1891 by the author of "A True Friend, " etc.