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Excerpt from A Self-Made Countess: The Justification of a HusbandThe death of a father is socially more overwhelming than that of a mother.I never went to school, I believe it would have been better for me if I had done so, but my mother was a widow rather early in life, for I was only eleven years Old when my father died. He had held a high Official appointment which carried with it an income of several thousands a year, and my mother had nev...

Excerpt from The Strange Story of My Life: A NovelBut alas for the mutability of human hopes and desires! We never did go home together, for, long before my father had even begun to think of a couple of years' leave, my pretty mother had gone to another home from which there is no return, on a journey for which we may make no arrangements for companion ship by the way, when I was nearly fifteen, she fell a victim to cholera and died.My mother'...

Excerpt from The Binks Family: The Story of a Social RevolutionN ow, when I look back from where I am now, I often think that my father and mother-were out of the common run - father in judging for himself and, though he was a regular chapel goer and paid his sittings like clock - work, taking his religion with a grain of common sense, and mother in sticking to him and us, and making us of more daily importance than her minister and her chapel...

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Excerpt from The Stranger WomanShe read the long and closely written letter to the end, then read it again and yet again no longer a fair and soft young girl standing just on the threshold of life, but a woman with a tragedy newly come into her fate. SO she sat there, it seemed for hours, filled with an awful overpowering voice less horror, but, at last, her whit ened lips began to move and a shuddering whisper stole out upon the sunny morn. M...

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Reproduction of the original: The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker by John Strange Winter

Reproduction of the original: The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker by John Strange Winter

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 Private Tinker: And Other StoriesBut, Nelly, he began again, but only to be interrupted once more.When you get your step, Private Tinker she remarked, with such emphasis that at last he turned round upon her.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-ar...

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 A Blaze of GloryIN a little room, somewhat shabby and rather meanly furnished, a young girl stood looking round on its well-worn and tediously familiar features with great solemn eyes filled with utter distaste and dis satisfaction.She was very young, this girl, a Slight slip of a creature, not pretty, and yet with something out Of the common Shining from behind her solemn eyes. She had lovely hair, too, masses of rich, deep-brown...

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 In Luck's WayShe went along two sides of the square and was about to turn to the right when her attention was attracted by a boy with a broom, a boy to whom she sometimes gave a penny or two and who had first brought himself to her notice by his ready smile his quick salute and his pleasant 'morning, Lady, as she passed to and fro.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo...

Excerpt from Into an Unknown World: A NovelI suppose not, Fraulein, came the answer through the fast-gathering twilight.Ach, you are so cold, you English girls, said the German girl, for she was little more than a girl though she had been for six months past entrusted with almost the sole care of Marjory Dundas, who was less than six years her junior. Meine liebe, do you never think of the day when you will find yourself in the embrace of your...

Excerpt from A Christmas FairyThis letter will smell queer, darling, it will be fumigated before posting.It must be owned that when Bertie Fellowes received this letter, which was neither more nor less than a shattering of all his Christmas hopes and joys, that he fairly broke down, and hiding his face upon his arms as they rested on his desk, sobbed aloud. The forlorn boy from India, who sat next to him, tried every boyish means of consolatio...