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Excerpt from I Married a Wife: A NovelI believe that Sir Hector was a regular Old martinet, one Of those fierce old persons with a tremendous voice and a bristling moustache, who thought as little of order ing his daughters to have bread and water for a week as he did of strapping the men under him up to the triangles, a man who made a rule of calling all natives, niggers, and whose wife was a meek little fragment of a woman who seldom spoke a...

Excerpt from A Born SoldierWere all things certain, nothing would be sure, Joy would be joyless, of misfortune free. Euripides.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 original format whilst repairin...

Excerpt from Only Human: A NovelJohn broughton, the elder, was a lawyer, the head of a firm of long-standing, which wrote Lincoln's Inn Fields at the top of its note-paper and was reputed to be very very respectable indeed.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-...

Excerpt from Only Human: A NovelJohn broughton, the elder, was a lawyer, the head of a firm of long-standing, which wrote Lincoln's Inn Fields at the top of its note-paper and was reputed to be very very respectable indeed.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-...

Beautiful Jim, of the Blankshire Regiment is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891.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...

Excerpt from A Magnificent Young Man, Vol. 1: A NovelMrs. Bladensbrook was queen regent of the estate which bore the same name as she did. Whether the original possessor of Bladensbrook had taken his name from the soil, or whether the soil had taken its name from the original possessor, history does not record, but the Bladensbrooks of Bladensbrook had been powers in Loamshire for some hundreds of years, and when young Godfrey Bladensbrook, th...

Excerpt from GripI know the living is yours by rights that was why I gave it to your brother Tom. But now that he is gone, poor fellow, I mean to put in a warming-pan and keep it for George.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 recon...

Excerpt from Heart SwordMy dear Kit, she said one day, when the girl was grumbling because she had not a fresh dress in which to go to a tennis party at the Rectory, you ought to take more care of your clothes, because you know perfectly well how washing ruins them.Other girls have heaps of clothes, and I have none, said Kit, dejectedly.Don't say that, Kit you have clothes - a great many clothes, far more than I had at your age. But then, it i...

Excerpt from The Magic Wheel: A NovelMine was a curious childhood. For one thing I was alone. Brothers and sisters I had none, and I was, moreover, the child of a late mar riage. My father was a grand man, much de voted to sport, therefore, to please him, we lived in the country. My mother was delicate, very delicate, often suffering sharply, and, to please her, we practically eschewed society. N ow and again my father would give a little dinn...

Excerpt from The Price of a WifeWould she never stop? Did tears bring no relief to this stricken heart? It would seem not, it would seem not.There was no other sound, save that of a cart rattling along the street, and now and again the faint crackle Of the Cinders falling from the grate, from which all glow had long since faded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgot...

Excerpt from Everybody's Favourite: A NovelBut what about Uncle Roger What about Aunt Adelaide asked Basil, looking up at his taller brother, and thrusting his hand into his.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,...

Excerpt from Army Society: Life in a Garrison Town, A Discursive StoryNot unreasonably, people thought and said it would have been a splendid match for the daughter of a country attorney, whose practice was not of the best as far as the social position of his clients went, and who was known to do a good deal in the money-lending line, and on the Sixty per cent. Principle.But alack, alas, for the tide which must be taken at the flood Polly, and...

Excerpt from Bootles' Baby: A Story of the Scarlet LancersNo. But it seems a jolly little chap, answered Bootles. Oh, I forgot, 'tis a girl. I say, I do wish you fellows would advise me what to do. How can I get one to attend to it?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 stat...

Excerpt from A Name to Conjure WithWhen we fall from riches into poverty, it should not be cast as a reproach at old friends that they are not quite the same to us as they have been in the past. Their lives and actions are con trolled by circumstances. Just as are the lives and actions of those who may appear to be more gifted with memory.Mrs. Lessingham was a plucky woman, there was no doubt about it. To those who knew her history, it seemed ...

Excerpt from A Name to Conjure WithWhen we fall from riches into poverty, it should not be cast as a reproach at old friends that they are not quite the same to us as they have been in the past. Their lives and actions are con trolled by circumstances. Just as are the lives and actions of those who may appear to be more gifted with memory.Mrs. Lessingham was a plucky woman, there was no doubt about it. To those who knew her history, it seemed ...

Excerpt from Cherry's Child: A NovelI set the iced water within his reach, and went softly out of the room, for he had closed his eyes, and was apparently already asleep.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, pre...

Excerpt from Cherry's Child: A NovelI set the iced water within his reach, and went softly out of the room, for he had closed his eyes, and was apparently already asleep.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, pre...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...