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by Thomas Bailey Aldrich CHAPTER I. DR. DILLON TO EDWARD DELANEY, ESQ., AT THE PINES. NEAR RYE, N.H. August 8, 1872. My Dear Sir: I am happy to assure you that your anxiety is without reason. Flem...

by Joyce Kilmer Main Street (For S. M. L.) I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea, But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to be When it all was covered over with ...

by Thomas Love Peacock CHAPTER I Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? SCOTT. "The abbot, in his alb arrayed," stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, ...

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by Wilkie Collins PERSONS OF THE STORY Women Lady Lydiard (Widow of Lord Lydiard) Isabel Miller (her Adopted Daughter) Miss Pink (of South Morden) The Hon. Mrs. Drumblade (Sister to the Hon. A. Hardym...

By Douglass, Frederick. In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons f...

by Richard Harding Davis This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out o...

by Maria Edgeworth INTRODUCTION Maria Edgeworth came of a lively family which had settled in Ireland in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Her father at the age of five- and-twenty inherited th...

By Charles Dickens CHAPTER I--BARBOX BROTHERS I "Guard! What place is this?" "Mugby Junction, sir." "A windy place!" "Yes, it mostly is, sir." "And looks comfortless indeed!" "Yes, it generally do...