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Anne of Geierstein: or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 of 2Walter Scott Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) What! will the aspiring blood of LancasterSink in the ground? Shakspeare.CHAPTER I 1st Carrier. What, ostler! – a plague on thee, hast never an eye in thy head...

The Garden Party, and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1. AT THE BAY Chapter 1.I Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not...

Jeżeli Bóg jest wszędzie, to czy można go stamtąd wyekstrahować? Inżynier Marek jest wynalazcą technologii, która ze spalanej materii wzywa Absolut w stanie czystym.W pobliżu ludzie zaczynają prorokować i uzdrawiać, a kiedy przedsiębiorczy kapitalista, pan Bondy, rozpoczyna masową produkcję Karbu...

Opublikowana w 1913 roku krótka powiastka dla dzieci. Relacjonuje rok życia chłopca, którego losy gwałtownie się odmieniły, gdy ojciec stracił pracę, a rodzina przeprowadziła się do biedniejszej dzielnicy.Sława to opowieść o tym, że przyjaźń pozwala przetrwać najgorszą biedę, nauka jest ważna, a ...

Unexplored!Chaffee Allen Unexplored! INTRODUCTIONA pack-burro camping trip in an unexplored region of the high Sierras results in a series of adventures for three boys in the late teens, a young Geological Survey man and the old prospector who guides them.They meet bears and catch rainbow trout, ...

Countess KateCharlotte M. Yonge Countess Kate CHAPTER I “There, I’ve done every bit I can do! I’m going to see what o’clock it is.”“I heard it strike eleven just now.”“Sylvia, you’ll tip up! What a tremendous stretch!”“Wha-ooh! Oh dear! We sha’n’t get one moment before dinner! Oh, horrible! oh, h...

The Girl at CentralGeraldine Bonner The Girl at Central I Poor Sylvia Hesketh! Even now, after this long time, I can't think of it without a shudder, without a comeback of the horror of those days after the murder. You remember it – the Hesketh mystery? And mystery it surely was, baffling, as it ...

The Boy SlavesReid Mayne The Boy Slaves AUTHOR'S NOTE Captain Mayne Reid is pleased to have had the help of an American Author in preparing for publication this story of "The Boy Slaves," and takes the present opportunity of acknowledging that help, which has kindly extended beyond matters of mer...

Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the WyeReid Mayne Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye Volume One – Chapter One The Heroine A tourist descending the Wye by boat from the town of Hereford to the ruined Abbey of Tintern, may observe on its banks a small pagoda-like structure; its roof, with a portion of the sup...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829 The Limoeiro, at Lisbon Locks, bolts, and bars! what have we here?—a view of the Limoeiro, or common jail...