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Chapter 15 Um... The atmosphere at home had somehow gotten even more awkward. I curled up on the sofa, furiously typing on my phone, ranting to Luna about what a jerk Ryan was. When I looked up, I met...

CHAPTER X FACTS AND FANCIES A SHORT while later the inspector addressed them mildly: “I very often get a great deal of blame because I won’t do things in a regulation way. But, even while I get the bl...

CHAPTER IX RECONSTRUCTING THE CRIME INSPECTOR LOWRY was an old friend of Barrison’s, though, like most of the regular force, inclined to treat the younger man as a dilettante rather than an astute pro...

Chapter 2 When school ended at noon for lunch, I slung my school uniform jacket over my shoulder, looking unrestrained and casual — nothing like a new student who had just arrived at the school. If I ...

CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in that hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour—no need to have said, ‘Think of me...

CHAPTER VIII AWAITING THE POLICE THAT scream echoed across the blackness. There was a smell of gunpowder in the air. It seemed an interminably long time before the lights flared up, and the big curtai...

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CHAPTER VII THE DARK SCENE IT was a little after eight in the evening of September the fifteenth—the opening night of “Boots and Saddles” at the Mirror Theater. Already the house was filling up. From ...

CHAPTER VI THE DIVIDED DANGER AS she swept to the door, her golden head held high, her black scarf floating from one round white arm, she encountered a newcomer, one Tony Clay. “Beg pardon!” he gasped...

CHAPTER VII. MONOCASY ISLAND Fate carried us to Monocasy Island, which is, as all know, about a mile below Wintermoot’s. The first intimation we had of having arrived at this place, which could hardly...

CHAPTER V MISS TEMPLETON SHE was in full evening dress, with her splendid shoulders and arms bare, and her brilliant hair uncovered and elaborately dressed. Her tightly clinging gown was black, embroi...

CHAPTER XV Another week over—and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I have now heard all my neighbour’s history, at different sittings, as the housekeeper could spare time from more importan...

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CHAPTER IV THE LETTER OF WARNING BUT isn’t it very early to stop rehearsal?” asked Barrison of John Carlton. “Of course it is. They ought to have gone over the whole act again, and lots of the scenes ...

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CHAPTER L I long to be revenged on Melinda—apply to Banter for his Assistance—he contrives a scheme for that purpose—which is put in Execution with great Success—I make an Attempt upon the Heart of Mi...

CHAPTER III THE “TAG” THE stage entrance of the Mirror Theater was on a sort of court or alley which ran at right angles from one of the side streets near Times Square. A high iron gateway which barre...

PART II CHAPTER I So he lay a very long while. Now and then he seemed to wake up, and at such moments he noticed that it was far into the night, but it did not occur to him to get up. At last he notic...

CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties th...

CHAPTER II THE WOMAN IN PURPLE MORTIMER had been drinking, else he would never have assumed the entire responsibility of engaging Sybil Merivale for the leading part in his play. When sober, he had a ...

APPENDIX IV. Translations of French poems and prose quoted in Chapter X. BAUDELAIRE’S “FLOWERS OF EVIL.” No. XXIV. I adore thee as much as the vaults of night, O vase full of grief, taciturnity great,...

CHAPTER X One morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill’s decease, Emma was called downstairs to Mr. Weston, who “could not stay five minutes, and wanted particularly to speak with her.”—He met her...

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CHAPTER XIV The Crystal Gazer That Gus Tripp was the bearer of news was easy to be seen. It fairly oozed from him, and he had a hard time to keep from shouting it as he approached. But he managed to c...

Chapter 5 Like right now. I was telling Ethan how to cook when his phone rang. The caller ID read "Luna Parker." I waited, curious to see how he’d handle it. To my surprise, he picked up and hung up i...

The Nightingale and the Rose. “ She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.” From her nest in the holm-oak t...

Chapter 4 From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius...

CHAPTER III He hurried to Svidrigaïlov’s. What he had to hope from that man he did not know. But that man had some hidden power over him. Having once recognised this, he could not rest, and now the ti...

THE SEVENTH SHOT CHAPTER I “BROOK TROUT FOR TWO” IT was twelve o’clock—a hot, sunny noon in the latter part of August. Broadway blazed with the last fiery effort of the passing summer; there was a ste...

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1930-1931, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1933. ...

CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. “ Brook Trout For Two ” 11 II. The Woman in Purple 24 III. The “Tag” 36 IV. The Letter of Warning 51 V. Miss Templeton 63 VI. The Divided Danger 72 VII. The Dark Scene 80 VIII...

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