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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two ki...

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...comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob Redforth (he?s my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn?t because he couldn?t. He has no idea of being an editor....

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Excerpt: Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and others.

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...er commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I don?t think there is any recollection more agreeable than that it was the occasion of making your friendship....

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who ha...

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...Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly -- 2. Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the...

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