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The UnclassedGeorge Gissing The Unclassed CHAPTER I SCHOOL There was strange disorder in Miss Rutherford's schoolroom, wont to be the abode of decorum. True, it was the gathering-time after the dinner-hour, and Miss Rutherford herself was as yet out of sight; but things seemed to be going forward...

A Kentucky CardinalJames Lane Allen A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story Dedication This to her from one who in childhood used to stand at the windows of her room and watch for the Cardinal among the snow-buried cedars.I All this New-year's Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no thaw. Even th...

Frank Nelson in the Forecastle. Or, The Sportman's Club Among the WhalersHarry Castlemon Frank Nelson in the Forecastle / Or, The Sportman's Club Among the Whalers CHAPTER I A BACKWOODSMAN'S IDEAS "I DECLARE this is almost like coming into another world, isn't it?""Yes, and I, for one, am glad to...

The Garden of DreamsMadison J. Cawein The Garden of Dreams TO My Brothers Not while I live may I forgetThat garden which my spirit trod!Where dreams were flowers, wild and wet,And beautiful as God. Not while I breathe, awake adream,Shall live again for me those hours,When, in its mystery and glea...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 17The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition, Vol. 17 PREFACE An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The sma...

DianaSusan Warner Diana CHAPTER I. THE SEWING SOCIETY I am thinking of a little brown house, somewhere in the wilds of New England. I wish I could make my readers see it as it was, one June afternoon some years ago. Not for anything very remarkable about it; there are thousands of such houses sca...

Georgina's Service StarsJohnston Annie F. Annie Fellows Georgina's Service Stars PART I "My salad days, when I was green in judgment."CHAPTER I GEORGINA BEGINS HER MEMOIRS Up the crooked street which curves for three miles around the harbor comes the sound of the Towncrier's bell. It seems strang...

A Little WorldVolume One – Chapter One. Duplex StreetVolume One – Chapter Two. Jared at HomeVolume One – Chapter Three. OrganicVolume One – Chapter Four. Jared’s PieceVolume One – Chapter Five. Saint Runwald’sVolume One – Chapter Six. Patty’s MistakeVolume One – Chapter Seven. The Lover’s Petitio...

The Bible: What It Is!Bradlaugh Charles The Bible: What It Is! BOOK I. GENESIS The Bible is the name by which the collection of Books beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelations is commonly known. It is derived from the Greek word [ – ] (Books), and this name is supposed to have been first...

An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die?Defoe Daniel An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die? AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION, &c That we are to have a peace, or that the peace is made, what sort of peace, or ...