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.................................Page 13 Chapter VI: “Life According to Sandra”................................Page 15 Chapter VII: “Kitchen Floor Drama”......................................Page 17 Chapter VIII: “Sharing the Night Together”...........................Page 20 Chapter IX: “Orange was the Dress She Wore”.....................Page 23 Chapter X: “Man...

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...Late at night or at dawn, when dreams are shattered, there is someone who opens his eyes and he restless moves his sweaty head in the pillow. It is as if a sword hurt him by treachery and blood gets coagulating immediately, leaving a permanent scar in the mind of the man for all the days to come. “For a week I...

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...Excerpt: The Toys to Have. The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far short of happiness. It must be a floor covered with linoleum or cork carpet, so that toy soldiers and such-like will stand u...

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...Excerpt: [The curtain rises on a stage set for a Harlequinade, a merry black and white interior. Directly behind the footlights, and running parallel with them, is a long table, covered with a gay black and white cloth, on which is spread a banquet. At the opposite ends of this table, seated on delica...

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...ing homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An em...

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... Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of... ...John,’ said the parson. The pedestrian, after another pace or two, halted, and turned round. ‘Now, sir, begging your pardon; we met last market day on... ... begging your pardon; we met last market day on this road about this time, and I zaid “Good night,” and you made reply “Good night, Sir John,” as now.... ...behind the blue narcotic haze was potentially the ‘tragic mischief’ of her drama — one who stood fair to be the blood red ray in the spectrum of her y... ... hill. Directly Tess was out of sight, and the interest of the matter as a drama was at an end, the little ones’ eyes filled with tears. The youngest c... ...ive experi ences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. Looking at it thus he found tha...

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...Burning, here inside, ‘Olim lacus colueram’ – CB 130 Once the lakes I swam upon, ‘Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis’ – CB222 The Abbot of Cockaigne I am, and this ‘In taberna quando sumus’ – CB196 When we’re in the tavern there, ‘Amor volat undique’ – CB87 Love rules all things, ‘Doleo, quod nimium’ – CB118 I mourn the vast extent ‘Stetit Puella’ – CB177 And there the ...

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...a young man, whose clothing betrayed his poverty, was standing before the door of a house in the Rue des Grands-Augustine, in Paris. After walking to and fro for some time with the hesitation of a lover who fears to approach his mistress, however complying she may be, he ended by crossing the threshold and asking if Maitre Francois Porbus were within. At the affirmative an...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the bri...

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...Excerpt: The wolf and the lamb. Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf?s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: ?Sirrah, last year you g...

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...Contents The Bat and the Weasels ....................................6 THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPER .............................7 THE LION AND THE MOUSE ....................................7 THE CHARCOAL-BURNER AND THE FULLER ..............7 ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Mother Bunch. There was once a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy?s life. One evening she went to bed very tired and cross and hot, and in the morning when she looked at her arms and legs they were all covered with red spots, rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly. Nurse was frightened when she looked at them. She turn...

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...Excerpt: The Man Who Hunts and Doesn?t Like It. It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion. If we were to deduct from the hunting- crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunti...

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...Contents THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND DOESN?T LIKE IT ................................................................... 4 THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND DOES LIKE IT .......................................................................... 9 THE LADY WHO RIDES TO H...

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...o ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart....

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........ 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER IV ? ORDERED SOUT...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half the world, rather, for the crowd was equally dense in the gaming-rooms around the tables. E...

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...work. If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, ?Many a true word is spoken in jest;? if it is encomiastic, the same ruthless and ungrateful critic is but too likely to take it as an involuntary confession of folly and vanity. But when Fielding, in one of his serio-comic introductions to Tom Jones, described it as ?this prodigious work,? he all unin...

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