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The Odd WomenGeorge Gissing The Odd Women CHAPTER I THE FOLD AND THE SHEPHERD 'So to-morrow, Alice,' said Dr. Madden, as he walked with his eldest daughter on the coast-downs by Clevedon, 'I shall take steps for insuring my life for a thousand pounds.'It was the outcome of a long and intimate con...

New Grub StreetGeorge Gissing New Grub Street PART I CHAPTER I. A MAN OF HIS DAY As the Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattleborough parish church struck eight; it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne very distinctly on the west wind this autumn morning. Jasper, listening b...

Men, Women, and BoatsStephen Crane Men, Women, and Boats NOTE A Number of the tales and sketches here brought together appear now for the first time between covers; others for the first time between covers in this country. All have been gathered from out-of-print volumes and old magazine files."T...

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 THE HISTORY OF CLARISSA HARLOWE LETTER I MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE, TO MISS HOWE My heart fluttered with the hope and the fear of seeing my mother, and with the sh...

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 LETTERS OF VOLUME III LETTER I. Miss Howe to Clarissa.—Is astonished, confounded, aghast. Repeats her advice to marry Lovelace.LETTER II. Clarissa to Miss Howe...

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 PREFACE The following History is given in a series of letters, written Principally in a double yet separate correspondence;Between two young ladies of virtue a...

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The Disagreeable WomanJr. Horatio Alger The Disagreeable Woman / A Social Mystery "Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." —Fletcher.CHAPTER I. A SOCIAL MYSTERY "If I live till next July, I shall be twenty-nine years old," simpered the young widow, and sh...

The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible SecretMrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret THE BRIDE OF THE TOMB; OR, LANCELOT DARLING'S BETROTHED By MRS. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLERCHAPTER I Sweet Lily Lawrence had committed suicide!Oh! impossible! A girl so youn...

The Aspern PapersHenry James The Aspern Papers I I had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. ...