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  ''I opened my mouth to cry shame on him, mocking my face, but then the peace of God came down on me like a deep rain on a parched field, and I knew what way it would be with the two of us all the long days of this world


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  CONTENTS Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX


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  MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDERY AND THE SAMEDIS Salons of the Noblesse--"The Illustrious Sappho"--Her Romances


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id: 15902
title: Poker!
author: Hurston, Zora Neale
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  At rise of curtain NUNKIE is at piano playing.... table with small stacks of chips before each man. the healer no trouble!*[Handwritten: last sentence crossed out in pencil] Four spot means the fourth time you tried that same old game-Five spot means five years you played me for a clown Six spot means six feet of earth when the deal goes down The Jack is three-card Charlie who played me for a goat The King stands for Sweet Papa Nunkie and he''s goin'' to wear the crown, Aw now, brother, two dollars for your seat before you try to sit in this (TUSH HAWG begins to deal for draw (Drawing three new cards) card playin'', all of you all goin'' to die and go to Hell. *[Handwritten: Last sentence crossed through in pencil.] I promised the devil one man and I''m goin'' to give him five!


id: 20230
title: Jane Journeys On
author: Mitchell, Ruth Comfort
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  little new house--expensive olive oil--home-coming husband in punning "Yes," said Jane, slipping her hand through Sarah''s arm. "Oh, Sally dear," said Jane, patting her, "it isn''t really going "Good gracious, Michael Daragh," I said, "you don''t suppose I like "Jane Vail will be trying her hand at Ethel for us," Michael Daragh said. Come," said Jane with a brisk heartiness she was far from feeling, "tell flight; she would wait for Michael Daragh and walk home with him to Mrs. Hills'' boarding house, and she would be very civil about it all, but she "Oh," said Jane, "I think I know who you are!" She was a little "We have, surely, God save you kindly," said Michael Daragh, and his face "That''s my little nephew," said Emma Ellis, seeing Jane''s eye upon it. "I wonder at you, Emma Ellis," said Michael Daragh, "the way you''ll be


id: 28862
title: The Time of Roses
author: Meade, L. T.
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  "But you have not told me yet where you slept last night, dear Mrs. Aylmer," said Kitty. "Oh, that," said Mrs. Aylmer--here she looked at both girls. said about Mrs. Aylmer''s queer suggestion; then suddenly Florence spoke Neither Kitty nor Florence said a word until the pair--the good-looking, "You have grown a good deal, Florence Aylmer," said Bertha, looking her "I have seen her to-day, mother; I know who she is," said Florence "Come out, Kitty," said poor Florence, turning to her companion. "Mrs. Aylmer has done a great deal for me," said the young man; "she has "You are not to come," said Florence, looking at him with her wide-open "By the way," said Trevor, after a pause, "is this girl Mrs. Aylmer''s As Mrs. Trevor spoke she looked full at the girl, and Florence found "Will you think over it, my dear," said Mrs. Trevor, "and let me know?"


id: 30435
title: A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen
author: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
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  first time Mrs. Barbauld (Miss Aikin she was then) saw something of real ''Life,'' which has brought a sense of ease and comfort to so many, Mrs. Barbauld has indeed deserved well of her country-people and should be Just that time three years before Mrs. Barbauld had lost her father, whom she dearly loved. Mrs. Barbauld, written to Miss Edgeworth about this time, declining to One may acknowledge the great progress which people have made since Mrs. Barbauld''s day in the practice of writing prose and poetry, in the art Years after, Edgeworth, writing to console Mrs. Day upon her Mr. Edgeworth quotes his friend''s reproof to Mrs. Day, who was fond of Maria Edgeworth was now about thirty years of age, at a time of life Miss Edgeworth desires me as a man of business to write to Mrs.


id: 14204
title: The Lion and the Mouse: A Story of American Life
author: Klein, Charles
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  Jefferson Ryder was, in truth, an entirely different man from his Ryder''s son Jefferson, too, had met Miss Shirley Rossmore and been on the New World, appealed strongly to Jefferson Ryder as he sat Jefferson had met Shirley Rossmore two years before at a meeting that time neither John Burkett Ryder nor Judge Rossmore had been unexpectedly come upon him, Judge Rossmore was like a man "This is Mr. Jefferson Ryder--Judge Stott. actually sorry now that she had said so many hard things of Mr. Ryder in her book and she was worrying over the thought that her "By the way, Bagley," asked Jefferson, "when do you expect father "Bagley," said Mr. Ryder, "I want you to write a letter for me to "Miss Shirley Rossmore?" said the man eyeing her interrogatively. "Miss Green," said Ryder, Sr., addressing Shirley and ignoring The only thing that John Ryder did not know was that Shirley


id: 5119
title: The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
author: Hornblow, Arthur
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  Jefferson Ryder was, in truth, an entirely different man from his Jefferson, too, had met Miss Shirley Rossmore and been much attracted Jefferson had met Shirley Rossmore two years before at a meeting of the And the more Shirley let her mind dwell on Jefferson Ryder womanhood, Judge Rossmore was to his daughter the ideal man and father. Realizing that the judge would like to be left alone with Shirley, Mrs. Rossmore invited Mrs. Blake to go upstairs and see the room she would that the judge was Shirley''s father, he admired him immensely as a man. said teasingly: "Good-bye, Mr. Bagley, I am going upstairs to Mrs. Ryder. "Bagley," said Mr. Ryder, "I want you to write a letter for me to Miss "Miss Shirley Rossmore?" said the man eyeing her interrogatively. John Ryder did not know was that Shirley Rossmore was not the kind of a


id: 157
title: Daddy-Long-Legs
author: Webster, Jean
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  world, like a huge, wavering daddy-long-legs. I meant to write a long letter and tell you all the things I''m learning (Mrs. Lippett said you wanted to know), but 7th hour has just rung, and kind of girl I''m not--a sweet little blue-eyed thing, petted and You know, Daddy, it isn''t the work that is going to be hard in college. Julia said she''d had a good time, but Sallie stayed to Daddy-Long-Legs, Esq. DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of a letter from Mrs. Lippett. Christmas present this year is from Daddy-Long-Legs; my family just You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person I know that I was to write nice, long, detailed letters without ever I''ll write a nicer letter in a few days and tell you all the farm news. It''s awfully funny to think of that great big, long-legged man (he''s


id: 2528
title: The Women of the French Salons
author: Mason, Amelia Gere
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  Salon--La Rochefoucauld-Talent as a Diplomatist--Comparison with Mme. De Maintenon--Her Literary Work--Sadness of her Last Days--Woman in Philosophy--Noted Salons of this Period--Character of Mme. Geoffrin--Her devoted friends through life, unable to live apart, or pass a day _Mme. de Sable--Her Worldly Life--Her Retreat--Her Friends--Pascal--The Princesse Palatine had charmed an earlier generation, and where Mme. Duplessis Guenegaud, a woman of brilliant intellect, heroic courage, The curtain falls upon this little world which the magical pen of Mme. de Sevigne has made us know so well. Political Power--Great Influence of Women--Salons Defined Literary President Henault, the life-long friend of Mme. du Deffand, whose light "She led him a life a little hard," said Mme. de Graffigny, after Mme. de Graffigny is known mainly as a woman of letters whose life had The life of Mme. de Stael was in the world. "To love what is great," said Mme. Necker "is almost to be


id: 10059
title: Aunt Jane''s Nieces on Vacation
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
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  "Chump!" said Beth, drily; "you know very well why not, Patsy Doyle. amused glance at the girl; but Uncle John stared seriously into Patsy''s door of the booth and said: "Patsy, how big a thing do you want to "This is Patsy''s secret, and I''m not going to give it away," said Mr. Merrick. "Private wire from New York," said Mr. Merrick, as the girls hesitated "West," said he, "my girls are going to start a newspaper in Millville." "Come into the office," said Uncle John. Uncle," said Patsy to Mr. Merrick, "in starting the "Now about Thursday Smith," said the young man. "I got a conter-bution fer the paper," he said to Patsy, who asked him printing office, where they found Thursday Smith and Hetty working by "Here''s an item for your paper," he said to Patsy, who was busy at her "When you discover who Thursday Smith is," said she, "the Millville


id: 34613
title: Woman''s Work in English Fiction, from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period
author: Whitmore, Clara Helen
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  Like Mrs. Stowe''s novel it had a strong moral influence, as it years, so that Mrs. Behn''s novels, plays, and poems fell into disrepute. Mrs. Manley had been well trained to write a book like the _New The fashion for weeping heroines was at its height, when, in 1761, Mrs. Francis Sheridan published _The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph_. life." It was so pathetic a story that Dr. Johnson doubted if Mrs. Sheridan had a right to make her characters suffer so much, and Charles did not belong to any known style of writing: stories of real life, like venerable old woman called Luckie Forbes, who lived not far from Mrs. Porter''s house, used to tell her of the wonderful deeds of William Three years later Mrs. Trollope published her strongest novel, _The Life Mary Brunton, and Mrs. Shelley wrote novels of the inner life.


id: 36641
title: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria''s Reign: A Book of Appreciations
author: Marshall, Emma
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  is the one only character in Miss Brontë''s little world who has a real fortune that the one man whom she knew in her life, whom her story With the exception of her powerful "Life of Charlotte Brontë," Mrs. Gaskell wrote only novels or short stories. woman whose love-story had been spoilt by the home authorities reverses inner life of man; and in 1848 she published a book called "The Night of a young man who has very little story to tell and does not know how her work is far more a study of character than the story of "Paul middle life that Mrs. Wood began to write; and her first work,--perhaps, Miss Manning was familiar; and there were other stories of country life, little cares and joys, so in the "Story of a Short Life" we have the "The Story of a Short Life" was not published in book form until four


id: 37471
title: Mind Amongst the Spindles. A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory Girls
author: nan
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  lady-like, I could not but feel my heart swell at the thought, of the girls, forming a good-looking array of books, the rocking chairs a year, said she to herself, and the time and money that my father at such a busy time, and she said, ''Mother, I will be at home to do it "I thought I had better leave it there," said Abby, and she placed her "Come, Jemima," said Henry L., "let us try to assist Abigail a little, "Truly it was at times," said Martha, "and fewer hours of labor would be "I know how prejudiced the people here are against factory girls," said "I know such things are said of them, deacon, but I do not think they Why is it, said a friend to me one day, that the factory girls write so old a girl as Lucy Cambridge." Another said, "she should as soon think


id: 39145
title: The Devourers
author: Vivanti, Annie
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  "Your dear little daughter Nancy died many, many years ago," said Mrs. Avory. "No!" said Nancy, laying her pink cheek against Edith''s arm and smiling, "Fräulein came out and called Edith away," said the child, with a little little Nancy, sobbing, and clinging to Edith''s neck, had said "Good-bye, Valeria folded gentle hands; and Nancy said: "Peek-a-boo." So the baby, "But I am sure Nino could come," said Nancy, looking up at him Anne-Marie in her arms, and Nancy walked beside them, looking like the "That sounds like a long time away," said Nancy, laughing. At four o''clock Aldo, Nancy, Anne-Marie, and the doll went out, and down "I am afraid Anne-Marie is going to have measles," said Nancy, sitting One evening at bed-time Anne-Marie said to her mother: "I like the girl "Listen to Anne-Marie," said Nancy. "I am sorry," said Nancy; "but Anne-Marie never plays when she is


id: 32394
title: The Torch Bearer
author: Marquis, Reina Melcher
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  But Mrs. Caldwell resolutely shook her head: "Not like Sheila does. Sheila and Ted knew her well and no fear of her had ever touched them of Mrs. Caldwell watching for Sheila flashed across Ted''s mind and came to let you do it"--Sheila''s little house of pleasure suddenly woman--just like loving things that are little and helpless. Of the two girls, Sheila was the one to be loved, but Charlotte was the But now, for the first time since Ted''s return to Shadyville, Sheila''s "It will kill Sheila if Eric dies," she said to Ted. There came a night when they put Sheila out of the room--Mrs. Caldwell That moment came to Sheila--and Ted was He had not known that he loved Sheila until Mrs. Caldwell told him that had cried out to Mrs. Caldwell that Sheila must have loved Ted, but he dreamed that Ted came into the room and said, "Sheila needs you.


id: 49772
title: Hagar
author: Johnston, Mary
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  "I think that it is Hagar who may come to grieve others," said Mrs. LeGrand. going home.--Only"--Hagar looked at Mrs. Green with large, wistful Old Miss, who had had that morning a somewhat longish talk with Dr. Bude, stated that she would tell Mary Green to send for Thomasine and Old Miss, leaving the big chair, came and took Hagar and drew her back table, and little red candles, and in the afternoon she went with Mrs. Lane to a Christmas tree for poor children in the Sunday-School room of "I''m going to tell you what I''ve done," said Hagar, winding a red ball. "Yes, you are like your mother," said Mrs. Green. "That," said the driver, "''ll be Miss Hagar--Colonel Ashendyne''s "This morning," said Hagar, "we came through--miles, I think--of places When the two had said good-night and parted and Hagar, in her own room, "Hagar always _could_ do foolish things," said Miss Serena, looking up


