Tuesday, January 21, 2014

"The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Part 2" by Frank L. Packard

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CHAPTER I BELOW THE DEAD LINE Whisperings! Always whisperings, low, sibilant, floating errantly from all sides, until they seemed a compo...

"The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Part 1" by Frank L. Packard

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CHAPTER I THE GRAY SEAL Among New York's fashionable and ultra-exclusive clubs, the St. James stood an acknowledged leader--more men,...
Friday, January 17, 2014

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Volume [6]" by Thomas Holcroft

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CHAPTER I _A new and bold project conceived and executed by Wakefield: The difficulty of making principles agree with practice discussed: ...

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Volume [5]" by Thomas Holcroft

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CHAPTER I _A cursory glance at law fictions: Legal suppositions endless: The professional jargon of an attorney: An enquiry into the integ...

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Volume [4]" by Thomas Holcroft

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CHAPTER I _The pains and penalties of illicit attempts to become rich: The sleep of a gamester: Morning meditations_ The pungency of extr...

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Volume [3]" by Thomas Holcroft

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CHAPTER I _Gloomy thoughts: Filial emotions: A journey to the country: A lawyer's accounts not easily closed: Conscientious scruples:...

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Volume [2]" by Thomas Holcroft

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The period was now approaching in which I must fix on a profession for life. My choice, as I imagined, was made. There was no place so wo...

"The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Volume [1]" by Thomas Holcroft

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CHAPTER I _My birth: Family dignity insulted: Resentment of my grandfather: Parental traits of character_ There are moments in which ever...

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

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CHAPTER I. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no m...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

"The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Entire" by George Meredith

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CHAPTER I I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the o...

"The Adventures of Gerard" by Arthur Conan Doyle

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I. How Brigadier Gerard Lost His Ear It was the old Brigadier who was talking in the cafe. I have seen a great many cities, my friends. I...
Friday, January 10, 2014

"The Adventures of Captain Horn" by Frank Richard Stockton

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CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTORY DISASTER Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner _Castor_, from San Francisco to Valpara...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

"The Adventures of Captain Bonneville" by Washington Irving

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Introductory Notice WHILE ENGAGED in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral ...