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CHAPTER I Letter from Lebel–Visit from Lebel–Nothing conclusive–Another visit from Lebel–Invitation to sup with the king–Instructions of the comte Jean to the comtesse CHAPTER II A slight preface–Arrival at Versailles–<“La toilette”>–Portraitof the king–The duc de Richelieu–The marquis de Chauvelin–The duc de la Vauguyon-Supper with the king–The first night–The following day–The curiosity of comte Jean–Presents from the king–How disposed of CHAPTER III The king’s message–Letter from the countess–A second supper at Versailles–The duc d’Ayen–A short account of M....

MODESTE MIGNONby HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To a Polish Lady. Daughter of an enslaved land, angel through love, witch through fancy, child by faith, aged by experience, man in brain, woman in heart, giant by hope, mother through sorrows, poet in thy dreams, –to THEE belongs this book, in which thy love, thy fancy, thy experience, thy sorrow, thy hope, thy dreams, are the warp through which is shot a woof less brilliant than the poesy of thy soul, whose expression, when it shines upon thy countenance, is, to those who love thee, what the characters of a lost language are to scholars....

Edited by Palmer Cox MONKEY JACK. A lit-tle maid weeps pit-e-ous-ly, In dire dis-tress de-mand-ing aid; Her pre-cious ball is up a tree, And ev-ery boy shrinks back a-fraid. It hangs a-loft, a shin-ing thing, Caught by the ve-ry top-most spray, Where slen-der branch-es ta-per-ing ‘Neath the light bur-den move and sway. Hur-rah! he comes whom all ad-mire, Whose nim-ble legs, and lis-som back, And read-y pluck, that naught can tire, Win him the name of “Mon-key Jack....

My Year Of The War Including An Account Of ExperiencesWith The Troops In France, And TheRecord Of A Visit To The GrandFleet, Which Is Here GivenFor The First Time InIts Complete Form By Frederick Palmer(Accredited American Correspondent at the British Front) Contents To The ReaderI. “Le Brave Belge!”II. Mons And ParisIII. Paris WaitsIV. On The Heels Of Von KluckV. And Calais WaitsVI. In GermanyVII. How The Kaiser LeadsVIII. In Belgium Under The GermansIX....

NIGHT WATCHES by W.W. Jacobs. CONTENTS: BACK TO BACK KEEPING WATCH THE UNDERSTUDY THE WEAKER VESSEL STEPPING BACKWARDS THE THREE SISTERS THE UNKNOWN THE VIGIL EASY MONEY HIS OTHER SELF LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: “oh, Bill!” She Gasped. “and by Daylight, Too!” “i’d Pretty Well Swear he Ain’t the Same Dog” “you–you Had Better Let Me Take Care of That” “i Hope They Won’t Meet ‘er, Pore Thing,” he Ses. Mrs....

NINE SHORT ESSAYS By Charles Dudley Warner CONTENTS: A NIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF THE TUILERIES TRUTHFULNESSTHE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESSLITERATURE AND THE STAGETHE LIFE-SAVING AND LIFE PROLONGING ART “H.H.” IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIASIMPLICITYTHE ENGLISH VOLUNTEERS DURING THE LATE INVASION NATHAN HALE A NIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF THE TUILERIES It was in the time of the Second Empire. To be exact, it was the night of the 18th of June, 1868; I remember the date, because, contrary to the astronomical theory of short nights at this season, this was the longest night I ever saw....

ELIZABETH GASKELLNORTH AND SOUTH VOLUME I On its appearance in ‘Household Words,’ this tale was obliged to conform to the conditions imposed by the requirements of a weekly publication, and likewise to confine itself within certain advertised limits, in order that faith might be kept with the public. Although these conditions were made as light as they well could be, the author found it impossible to develope the story in the manner originally intended, and, more especially, was compelled to hurry on events with an improbable rapidity towards the close....

[Illustration: Our splendid Indian troops stood ready at Alexandria to embark for the Dardanelles.] ON LAND AND SEA AT THE DARDANELLES T.C. BRIDGES [Illustration] CONTENTS CHAP. I. THE OPEN PORT II. THE LAST OF THE ‘CARDIGAN CASTLE’ III. THE LANDING IV. A RUSE OF WAR V. PROMOTION VI. GUNS! VII. ‘LIZZIE’ LETS LOOSE VIII. THE HUNTERS HUNTED IX. THE BATTLE BY ROCKS X. PRISONERS XI. THE FIRING PARTY XII. ABOVE THE NARROWS XIII....

RHODA FLEMING By George Meredith BOOK 5. XXXIX. DAHLIA GOES HOMEXL. A FREAK OF THE MONEY-DEMON, THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ANTICIPATED XLI. DAHLIA’S FRENZYXLII. ANTHONY IN A COLLAPSEXLIII. RHODA PLEDGES HER HANDXLIV. THE ENEMY APPEARSXLV. THE FARMER IS AWAKENEDXLVI. WHEN THE NIGHT IS DARKESTXLVII. DAWN IS NEARXLVIII. CONCLUSION CHAPTER XXXIX Late into the afternoon, Farmer Fleming was occupying a chair in Robert’s lodgings, where he had sat since the hour of twelve, without a movement of his limbs or of his mind, and alone....

[Illustration: Bookcover] [Illustration: Spines] ROB ROY VOLUME ONE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT [Illustration: Frontispiece] [Illustration: Titlepage] For why? Because the good old rule Sufficeth them; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Rob Roy’s Grave–Wordsworth ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION When the Editor of the following volumes published, about two years since, the work called the “Antiquary,” he announced that he was, for the last time, intruding upon the public in his present capacity....

WHEN a popular writer dies, the question it has become the fashion with a nervous generation to ask is the question, ‘Will he live?’ There was no idler question, none more hopelessly impossible and unprofitable to answer. It is one of the many vanities of criticism to promise immortality to the authors that it praises, to patronise a writer with the assurance that our great-grandchildren, whose time and tastes are thus frivolously mortgaged, will read his works with delight....

The disease “consumption” as used in this book has been renamed in modern times. Today we call this disease “tuberculosis.” (The term “consumption” might also have been applied to other wasting diseases such as cancer.) Of course, tuberculosis in one as young as the character of “Skinny” is pretty serious. The first 3 books in the Roy Blakeley series are pretty much one story. ROY BLAKELEYHIS STORY Being the true narrative of his adventures and those of his troop on land and sea and in the mud–particularly in the mud....

SANDRA BELLONI By George Meredith BOOK 2 XI. IN WHICH WE SEE THE MAGNANIMITY THAT IS IN BEER XII. SHOWING HOW SENTIMENT AND PASSION TAKE THE DISEASE OF LOVEXIII. CONTAINS A SHORT DISCOURSE ON PUPPETS XIV. THE BESWORTH QUESTIONXV. WILFRID’S EXHIBITION OF TREACHERY XVI. HOW THE LADIES OF BROOKFIELD CAME TO THEIR RESOLVE XVII. IN THE WOODS CHAPTER XI At half-past nine of the clock on the evening of this memorable day, a body of five-and-twenty stout young fellows, prize-winners, wrestlers, boxers, and topers, of the Hillford Club, set forth on a march to Ipley Common....

Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and others DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Bernard du Grail. SARRASINE I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproarious festivities. The clock on the Elysee-Bourbon had just struck midnight. Seated in a window recess and concealed behind the undulating folds of a curtain of watered silk, I was able to contemplate at my leisure the garden of the mansion at which I was passing the evening....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 460 NEW YORK, OCTOBER 25, 1884 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XVIII, No. 460. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. CHEMISTRY. ETC.–Wolpert’s Method of Estimating the Amount of Carbonic Acid in the Air.–7 Figures. Japanese Camphor.–Its preparation, experiments, and analysis of the camphor oil.–By H. OISHI....

[Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 803 NEW YORK, May 23, 1891 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XXXI., No. 803. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ASTRONOMY.–The Great Equatorial of the Paris Observatory.– The new telescope recently put in use in Paris.–Description of the instrument and of its effects.–3 illustrations II. CHEMISTRY....

IN TWO VOLUMES BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD AUTHOR OF “MARCELLA,” “THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE,” “ROBERT ELSMEKE,” ETC. To my Brother and friend WILLIAM THOMAS ARNOLD I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK VOLUME I. PART I CHAPTER I “Well, that’s over, thank Heaven!” The young man speaking drew in his head from the carriage-window. But instead of sitting down he turned with a joyous, excited gesture and lifted the flap over the little window in the back of the landau, supporting himself, as he stooped to look, by a hand on his companion’s shoulder....

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain Part 2. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS–[Written about 1865.] “MORAL STATISTICIAN.”–I don’t want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man’s health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years’ indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc....

Songs, Merry and Sad by John Charles McNeill [American (North Carolina) poet. 1874-1907.] ToJOSEPH P. CALDWELL(“The Old Man”) Contents The Bride“Oh, Ask Me Not”IsabelTo ——To Melvin Gardner: SuicideAway Down HomeFor Jane’s BirthdayA SecretThe Old Bad WomanValentineA PhotographJesse CovingtonAn IdylHome SongsM. W. RansomProtestOblivionNow!Tommy SmithBefore Bedtime“If I Could Glimpse Him”AttractionLove’s FashionAlcestisReminiscenceSonnetLinesAn Easter HymnA Christmas HymnWhen I Go HomeOdessaTriflesSunburnt BoysGray DaysAn InvalidA Caged Mocking-BirdDawnHarvestTwo PicturesOctoberThe Old ClockTear StainsA PrayerShe Being YoungPaul JonesThe DrudgeThe WifeVisionSeptemberBarefootedPardon TimeThe RattlesnakeThe PrisonerSonnetFolk Song“97”: The Fast MailSundownAt SeaL’envoi Songs, Merry and Sad The Bride The little white bride is left aloneWith him, her lord; the guests have gone; The festal hall is dim....

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