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id: 19085
title: The Prelude to Adventure
author: Walpole, Hugh
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  When the little wood was now a black ball in the mist Olva was suddenly Olva, climbing the stairs to his room, stood for a moment in the dark, with Cardillac and Carfax, Olva might have made advances, Craven took a Now young Craven, disturbed, unhappy, anxious, stood in Olva''s door. "No," said Craven slowly, "I don''t think you do like him. Olva wondered, as he looked at Craven standing there in the doorway, how Olva thought as he looked at Margaret Craven that there was a strength eyes, in that instant also he, Olva, had looked at Margaret. Olva very gravely said: "Come in, Bunning. Craven''s whole body was trembling under Olva''s hand. For a wonderful moment Olva felt that he was about to tell Craven Cambridge came to Olva then as a very lovely thing. "I know," said Olva, "because it was I who killed Carfax."


id: 18508
title: Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
author: Brown, Charles Brockden
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  chiefly engaged by his own thoughts, and little was said till the portrait of a young man who died three years ago at my father''s house, thoughts, till he reached his house, which proved to be that at the door said, turning to me, "A lady will enter presently, whom you are to treat time, at Welbeck; then I fixed terrified eyes on the distorted features house at a time when her husband and brother were hourly expected. appeared like return to a long-lost and much-loved home. fate of thy friend, and afford him the relief which he shall want." "Yes," said he; "his father left the house at an early period. reflections from Welbeck to my own state passed away in a moment, and a moment she removed her hand from her eyes, and looked at me with new Till this moment the uproar in Welbeck''s mind appeared to hinder him


id: 31222
title: The Homicidal Diary
author: Peirce, Earl
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  I am writing this account of my friend Jason Carse in the interests of horrific head-hunting crimes was committed and the actual drama got footsteps did not sound like those of Jason Carse! Carse was the Head-hunter. told me that he knew the Drukker crimes from the first to the "I saw Drukker leave his house and walk down a dark street with no was one ghastly difference: Emil Drukker had committed his crime with heavens, Carse, there have been six horrible murders! words: Personal Diary of Emil Drukker, J. Carse''s death put a definite end to the head-hunting crimes in this the ghastly identity of Carse''s supposed crimes and those confessed by On each of these nights, while Carse watched it in a man whom he recognized as the murderer was Emil Drukker. Carse''s ignorance of the crimes? Jason Carse was not the first man to pay with his life for crimes such


id: 3715
title: The Parenticide Club
author: Bierce, Ambrose
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  Nigger Head, where my father opened a road agency and prospered beyond A few days later, when I went to Nigger Head and asked My father said he was proud of me, and my mother promised that uncle''s house, near Nigger Head, asked my Aunt Mary, his wife, if he humbler walks of life, my father being a manufacturer of dog-oil and business of making dog-oil was, naturally, less unpopular, though the One evening while passing my father''s oil factory with the body of a The next day, somewhat to my surprise, my father, rubbing his hands way; then my poor, wounded father, feeling the hand of death upon him, mother was likely to enter the library at any moment. former father," I said, "I presume that it is known to you that you hands and knees, and backing up to the old man squealed like a demon


id: 2276
title: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
author: Hogg, James
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  nose gushed out blood; and, at the same time, he said, turning to his I think it was said to me that this young man was second son to a John, It was not many days till a caddy came with a large parcel to Mrs. Logan''s house, which parcel he delivered into her hands, accompanied "I had great need of a friend then, and I thought now was the time to the dark shade, I said to the man who was with me, ''Good God, what is Mrs. Calvert said: "We could easily put an end to thy sinful life, but "I always thought him a good man till to-day," said I, "when he threw Heaven, to instruct this great city," said another, "for no man ever said I delighted more in the society of a man like him than that of any


id: 11323
title: Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
author: Godwin, William
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  "Falkland," said he, after having appeared for a short period absorbed He had now been some time in bed, and, as every thing was still, Mr. Falkland hoped that he slept; but in that he was mistaken. Mr. Falkland had experienced the nullity of all expostulation with Mr. Tyrrel, and was therefore content in the present case with confining his not think it right in the present situation to leave Mr. Falkland. this time I could not get it out of my mind for a moment: "Mr. Falkland In no long time after the disclosure Mr. Falkland had made, Mr. Forester, his elder brother by the mother''s side, came to reside for a With a mind so accomplished and a spirit so susceptible as that of Mr. Falkland, Mr. Forester did not venture to let loose his usual violence I knew the inflexibility and sternness of Mr. Falkland''s mind in accomplishing the purposes he had at heart; but I


id: 36983
author: nan
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  Lord _M----d_, obtained a Divorce, his Lady had her Fortune, which was Holbourn_; Mrs. _Lloyd_, his God-mother, was as kind to him as the Time Here I hope I shall be excused saying, That by the great _Natural Necessary of Life, to whom was it so Natural to apply to as a Mother? Mother, and the strong Desire he had of seeing her; "While Nature acted Dedicated to the Right Honourable George _Lord Lansdown_. _And for_ your Pleasure, _feels not his_ own Woe. The next Year he was perswaded by his Friends to publish his _Poems_ by The Dedication of this Book, was to the Right Honourable the Lady _Mary to the dismal Cause of his present Condition; having for some Time had a the Condemnation of Mr. _Savage_ and Mr. _Gregory_ for the said Fact. A LETTER to a Noble Lord in the behalf of Mr. _Savage_ and Mr. _Gregory_.

title:
  The Life of Mr. Richard Savage Who was Condemn''d with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson''s Coffee-house at Charing-Cross.


id: 47643
title: Mary Lamb
author: Gilchrist, Anne (Anne Burrows)
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  Mary was the elder by ten years; and there is but little to tell of the One little sister Elizabeth, who came when Mary was four years Book_, where, meeting the eyes of Charles and Mary Lamb, it awakened time, have given her gentle spirit pain!--and the day, my friend, I Death of the Father.--Mary comes Home to live.--A Removal.--First Death of the Father.--Mary comes Home to live.--A Removal.--First these and many more frequented the home of Charles and Mary Lamb in "Your letter," writes Mary, "which contained the news of Coleridge''s "[Mary] says you saw her writings about the other day, and she wishes as Charles tells Manning in a letter written at the end of the year at St. Andrew''s, Holborn (May-Day morning, 1808), Dr. and Mrs. Stoddart and Charles and Mary Lamb the chief, perhaps the only guests. "''I wish the good old times would come again,'' she said; ''when we were


