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Basil

By: Wilkie Collins

...n of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He stalks her and persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only sevent...

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A Match of My Choice

By: Manohar Asija

...an's visiting-card from her wallet; and began to read its contents which provided the address of his office: Upstairs, Restaurant `Nashta-Pani`, Near Bus Terminus. She decided not to show this card to Mahajan at least for the present. The very next morning, she went to Chauhan's office, where she was received by his assistant, who welcomed her with a courteous smile. …...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

.... It was definitely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's sleep ... ... roads that appeared near Umsong to be rid of scenery so bland. Although the bus traveled down the highway as a solid, jitterless mass, he jittered in... ...man and it had all gone awry. Sang Huin sighed. He took off his shoes in the bus. He stroked his feet, in short white sports socks, across the vinyl o... ...ough his billfold for a calling card. He went to the front of this high-tech bus and made a call. "Yoboseyo." "Yoboseyo. Yang Lin bakwa chuseyo." Sile... ...in that area he sometimes got up around 4 a.m nonetheless; took an hour long bus ride to that small town he had once lived in; walked near bowing rice... ...e of his nationality. Now it was Kim Yang Kwam he kept thinking about in the bus. Sang Huin was labeled as dirty a few nights ago: the way he walked o... ...sical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair. The bus was becoming full now. Still, no one was standing. Maybe, he thought,... ...tinct was to follow his former friend to the ends of the earth on the public bus system and to harass him in the bus by making him feel miserable for ... ...ome passively. On what seemed like an eternal trip, cramped on a seat in the bus, disconnection was making his mind jittery, soft, and rolling like a ...

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Twinklinka

By: Janaki Sooriyarachchi

... exactly a home. What she ran to, was a little shelter against the back of a bus stop. She was a beggar-girl! 34 She took Twinklinka right away to a ...

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Signature for Sunshine

By: Christine Jones

...ear old lungs felt like lead weights as Chris plonked herself down on the bus stop bench and stretched out her legs in an unladylike manner. Taking ... ...manner. Taking a deep breath, Chris stood to watch the rickety old school bus draw near, packed with boisterous kids screaming obscenities from the ... ...posture reflected her intensions, as did the angry glint in her eyes. The bus off-loaded a dozen or more students, who moved back in an un-orderly f... ... did not share the same ideals in regards to femininity. Stepping off the bus, without so much as a hello, Kelly continued down the footpath rolling ... ...a watched her mother grasp Mitchell by the arm and haul him back onto the bus, which by this time had many vacant seats. Mr. Jago, the bus driver, t... ...imbed onto another’s shoulders and peering through the back window of the bus, looked straight into Christine O’Keith’s wrath. The woman thumped at ... ... his rear vision mirror at Jackson and his mates, whom now sat silent. The bus driver shook his head whilst mumbling something under his breath perta... ..., she got her nose right out of joint and contacted Chris. She even got a bus down from Sydney to Melbourne… I think it was Sydney, anyway, she came... ...are moment she got, whether it was in the bath, shopping, waiting for the bus or taking Julian to play group. Carrying a little gold pen around with...

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The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...overpasses, at the edges of parks, with legs dangling from the benches of bus stops, within obscure shadows of parking lots, and there to be stumbled... ...meone, anyone, not you specifically— should be allowed to take a greyhound bus from New Orleans to Baltimore, and without being invited, knock on our ... ..., did He use AT&T to tell you to pack up your things, head on a Greyhound bus, and plunk your butt on our door step? That is what we have to determi... ...ou shouldn’t as you seem to like them, you will be put back on a greyhound bus headed for New Orleans. I hope that is clear. Fresca darling, I bet y... ...ove of mankind that never really existed, and that time of sitting on the bus next to a young man with myriad inflammations like warts on his neck an... ...ried to hide under a bulky hat as his head tilted toward the floor of the bus, and of her putting his hand into her own. Sister Mary Elizabeth...

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...compliance, Phoebe accordingly betook herself to weeding a flower-bed, but bus- ied herself still more with cogitations respecting this young man, wit...

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Emma and the Minotaur

By: Jon Herrera

...Emma was sitting on a bench next to a bus stop. It was morning on a busy street and the road in front of her was full of traffic. There was a bus shelter next to the bench and there were a few people inside. They were looking at her. A woman was sitting next t...

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Shy Feet : Short Stories Inspired by Travel; Preview

By: Frances M Thompson

...t with very little effort I could get top marks in most subjects. I rarely studied more than I had to and I blitzed through my homework on the school bus home. While Mum finished work in the front room, I cooked dinner for us both, listening to her scissors snip through her comfortable conversations with clients. I spent the rest of my evenings with one of the seven books ...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...rethought founded? Does he try the ring of it with our changed conditions? Bus a man of forethought who has to be one of our geysers ebullient by the ...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...t her little love could do. Putting her foot to the floor, she overtook a bus and to their surprise, they wound up kissing a gas tanker coming the o... ...anage a smile. Her arms are thicker than my body, you could hide a school bus behind her and I bet when she was alive, she had dirt floors in her ho... ...a cripple and they never did bring out a wheelchair for her, a bloody big bus, but no wheelchair. No, I wasn’t a sadistic kid; Barbie was mugged. Li...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...nt of him was an old rusty can and in this can were three silver coins, a bus ticket, a pensioner’s card and a used two-dollar scratch ticket; it wa... ...ins back in the can. “Will you give me this?” The wealthy man took out the bus ticket. 183 “If I give you my ticket, I won’t be able to get home, wil...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens
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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens
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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells
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The Arrow of Gold : A Story between Two Notes

By: Joseph Conrad

...no more, my dear.” I had the strength of mind to make a sign of assent and bus- ied myself arranging a couple of pillows at one end of the sofa. “Upon...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...is inclinations; but, slight as they were, they were not made without much bus- tling and running about. As Nicholas had husbanded his scanty stock of...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...is inclinations; but, slight as they were, they were not made without much bus- tling and running about. As Nicholas had husbanded his scanty stock of...

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A Match of My Choice

By: Manohar Asija

...an's visiting-card from her wallet; and began to read its contents which provided the address of his office: Upstairs, Restaurant `Nashta-Pani`, Near Bus Terminus. She decided not to show this card to Mahajan at least for the present. The very next morning, she went to Chauhan's office, where she was received by his assistant, who welcomed her with a courteous smile. …...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...ad’s car, for now at least. I cannot take it downtown anyway, so I use the bus to get to work. It’s just sitting in the garage.” That caught his atten... ...g a deep breath to ease the knots in her stomach, she went out, caught the bus to the mall, and bought her cham- pagne and carrot cake. Well, now it i... ...ips dock there before sending and receiving passen- gers from San Diego by bus. If they are doing that how dan- gerous can it be? So I think if we sta... ...w dan- gerous can it be? So I think if we stay in San Diego and only go by bus for a day trip, we should be all right. It will only take three days al... ... and survival gear. I landed at Sydney and went up the Queensland coast by bus to Cairns and then back down to Alice Springs. I bussed and hiked into ... ... The Bay Club in San Diego before lunch, because of the time change. Their bus tour was scheduled for nine a.m. the next morning, so they went on a tr... ...n. I can’t wait for our honeymoon cruise. Mom’s sleeping and we’ve got our bus tickets for the morning. It will all be over soon and I’ll be back with... ...ache in her heart and tears in her eyes.. THIS IS IT! thought Lacey as the bus slowed, approaching the Mexican border. The women were not worried abou... ...to America with their precious vials of Nembutal. On the Mexican side, the bus inched along. The terrain was similar to that on the U.S. side, but the...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...t-legged at a ges- ture. Henrietta was descending to take her leave of her bus- ied husband; her cheeks were flushed; she would not speak of the fello...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...iscretion the more for his present abstinence, so he went off in the omni- bus. Jock, with the unfailing courtesy of the Brood, handed Miss Ogilvie in...

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Circumstantially Evolved Relationship

By: Manohar Asija

...reafter they turned to attend to the feast of `Paneer Pakodas`, `Samosas prepared at this very café. Destiny Opens Itself … At this very moment, a bus happens to gain speed while following her; she indicates this vehicle onto her left to overtake. But the bus driver loses controls over his steering as he abruptly happens to mark the action of videography. … By this ...

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A Good Find

By: Gary L Beer
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Pink Lotus

By: Manfred Mitze

...’ home in Germany, Walter has an epiphany: “People he knew or heard of had gone to the East…and seemed different when they returned.” So he and Hilde bus through Budapest, Athens, Turkey and the Middle East to India, where Walter marvels over “how people survived their daily struggle in apparent chaos under harsh conditions.” Later, on a depressive whim, he also visits th...

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My Dear Sister-in-law

By: Manohar Asija

...was just in the vicinity of two years, when her parents died in the accident that resulted in the death of 32 persons, travelling in the over-crowded bus, carrying some teachers and their families, mostly residents of Nimri Colony in North Delhi. This group of 46 persons was on an All-India tour, organized by someone amongst themselves, to avail the benefit from their depa...

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My Dear Sister-in-Law

By: Manohar Asija

...was just in the vicinity of two years, when her parents died in the accident that resulted in the death of 32 persons, travelling in the over-crowded bus, carrying some teachers and their families, mostly residents of Nimri Colony in North Delhi. This group of 46 persons was on an All-India tour, organized by someone amongst themselves, to avail the benefit from their depa...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI
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Maximus in Minimis : Aphlorisms in Unistiches

By: Florentin Smarandache

................................................................35 Full view snooping...............................................................35 Bus driver’s question.............................................................35 One who likes details............................................................35 Open.....................................................

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells
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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...This I have in my hand is an ingenious contrivance—a sort of practical re- bus, I may call it: here, you see, it looks like an elegant heart- shaped b...

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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...ry morning, she takes a shower, gathers her books and climbs on the school bus. Her mom believes that she is going to school, because her mom trusts h...

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Paradoxist Distiches

By: Florentin Smarandache

..._______ 52 JAZZ (III) ___________ 53 DISTURBANCE _____ 53 AFTER COSMETIC SURGERY ___________ 53 OBITUARY _________ 53 PLAGIARIST _______ 53 THE BUS CONDUCTRESS _______________ 53 THE PASSENGERS __ 53 PUG DOG __________ 53 MAYOR ____________ 54 RIVALRY __________ 54 ARRANGEMENT ____ 54 COUNCIL __________ 54 PRUDENCE _________ 54 EXOTIC ____________ 54 SMATTER...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Mohamed Atta to join him. On June 2,Atta traveled to the Czech Republic by bus from Germany and then flew from Prague to Newark the next day. Accordin... ...was en route to the United States. On the latter occa- sion, he arrived by bus from Germany, on June 2, and departed for Newark the following day. 69 ... ...hat in June 2004,Taliban fighters resorted to slaughtering 16 Afghans on a bus, apparently for no reason other than their boldness in carrying an unpr... ...YPD interview 4, Housing (Feb. 17, 2004); PAPD interview 4, Port Authority Bus T erminal Command (Nov. 20, 2003). For officers assisting in the North ... ...; Civilian interview 6 (Mar. 22, 2004); PAPD interview 4, Port Author- ity Bus T erminal Command (Nov. 20, 2003); NYPD interview 10, ESU (Mar. 1, 2004... ...YPD interview 4, Housing (Feb. 17, 2004); PAPD interview 4, Port Authority Bus T erminal Command (Nov. 20, 2003). 146. NYPD interview 19, 13th Precinc... ..., 2002. For the desk’s instructions, see PAPD statement 10, Port Authority Bus T erminal Command, Mar. 20, 2002; PAPD interview 3, LaGuardia Command (... ...iew 3, LaGuardia Command (Nov. 20, 2003); PAPD statement 6, Port Authority Bus T erminal Command, Jan. 4, 2002. For poor situational awareness, see PA... ...1. For officers on the ground floors, see PAPD interview 4, Port Authority Bus T erminal Command (Nov. 20, 2003); PAPD interview 2, Holland Tunnel Com...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

... as, in an inter- val of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Colum- bus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a di...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...e down here for me.” Scott, with Faiz Ullah and two policemen, was already bus- ied with the carts, backing them up to the truck and unbolt- ing the s...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...eyed and retired. V ery early the next morning the active landlady and her bus- tling attendant had prepared the ale and bacon for the Corpo- ral and ... ... Tamburini, or a night at the “Eagle Tav- ern,” City Road, or a ride in a ‘bus to Richmond and tea and brandy-and-water at “Rose Cottage Hotel”—the re... ...urs 119 Thackeray which had brought him into the room in the morning, and bus- ied himself with papers, which occasionally he handed over to his supe...

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