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Excerpt from An Inheritance It is not at all an unpleasant thing to come into a little property when it is attended by no personal loss. And there was really no personal loss, as people said, that could attend Miss Barbara Camperdoun's inheritance from a cousin who, it was thought, had wished a number of years ago to be something nearer than a cousin, but had been promptly discouraged by that worthy lady. About the Publisher Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from Three Heroines of New England Romance And others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and mur muring to themselves thoughts like these. And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historica...

Excerpt from Four Days of God Looking at it merely as a thing of wonder, among all miracles there is no greater than the coming of the spring. The earth was so brown and bare and hard, - slowly a mist swathes it, the suspicion of a tender green, and everywhere the grass is growing, everywhere as if each particle of sand and soil were aspiring to a higher form of being. This stem was yesterday like a dead coral branch, to-day a tiny red sprout...

Excerpt from New-England Legends Tm, following hastily-prepared sketches, originally published in less permanent form, are collected at the request of indulgent readers, aud offered with all due apology for their incom pleteness. H. P. S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from The Making of a Fortune: A Romance There had been an hour's talk over certain amps and schedules submitted by Mr. Aversleigh to his associates, and left behind him as he closed the door of Mr. Mountcastle's little hidden - a very different spot from the sumptuous library beyond, very different from the spacious down-town offices where fortunes had been made and lost and won again. "It's great, great, " said Mr. Madison, lifting ...

Excerpt from The Marquis of Carabas In the intense lights and shadows of the high noon of a summer day there is a consciousness of the fulness of life, the brooding power of creation, absent from all the purple pencillings of twilight, the blushing promises of dawn. One could hardly be more sensible of this than when rocking in a boat off Coastcliff that day and gazing at the hillside known by sailors out at sea. About the Publisher Forgot...

Excerpt from A Scarlet Poppy: And Other Stories Oh, so often that I'd like to be in at the death of them all, and hang up the last brush on the wall! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the or...

Excerpt from The Elder's People Marthy, said the caller, a little, dark woman, bristling with life and spirit, and alive to the tips of her hair. Steve Manners had once said of her that she would have been hung for a witch two hundred years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgo...

Excerpt from Old Madame Other Tragedies Miss Barbara! Barbara, honey! Where's this you're hiding at?" cried old Phillis, tying her bandana headgear in a more flamboyant knot over her gray hair and brown face. "Where's this you're hiding at? The Old Madame's after you." And in answer to the summons, a girl clad in homespun, but with every line of her figure the lines, one might fancy, of a wood-and-water nymph's, came slowly up from the shore...

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Excerpt from Sir Rohan's Ghost: A RomanceCornwall. Pleasant fields extended on either hand, a woody mountain climbed behind, and the long swells of the Atlantic rolled in front. Fine pictures adorned the galleries, soft draperies shrouded the apartments, and delicate sculptures confronted you at every turn. But something else confronted Sir Rohan, the Ghost had ¿itted too, and even here he found no rest. If he galloped up the lawns from his mo...

Excerpt from PoemsThe bloom from off the sea I strip, The freshness from the budding mould, fragrances, all balms that be, My Sovereign, I hoard for thee!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 orig...

Ballads about Authors is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes thes...

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Excerpt from Art Decoration Applied to FurnitureWhile admitting inevitable deficiencies, it is but just to say that they have been compiled with care and research, much time has passed in their preparation, and almost every known authority has been consulted - the resources of the Congressional Library, directed by the great learning of its librarian, having been placed at the disposal of the writer during the study of the subject.About the Pu...

Excerpt from Old Washington Town which is now the fashionable centre, but was then on the edge of a wood, a house sitting high on its terraces, half covered with honeysuckles green all winter, and half hidden by its hedges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from In Titian's Garden, and Other PoemsLaps the marble, and full rosy, Far withdrawn in purple heavens, Slopes of snow and horns of silver Figure shining forms that slowly Swim like giants ¿ushed with sunset, Cloudy swells from deeps of twilight Round them tossing, lies the garden Where the Master takes his pleasure When the pencil leaves his fingers Tingling still with magic cunning, While from dome and campanile Wandering winds brin...