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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...at which has been named, without reason, the School of Homer. It is on the coast, at some distance from the city, northward, and appears to have been ... ...cellent music’ among them. Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States, were extempo raneous, and allusive to events passing around... ... music’ among them. Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States, were extempo raneous, and allusive to events passing around them. ... ...ing from clime to clime, observant stray’d, Their manners noted, and their states survey’d, On stormy seas unnumber’d toils he bore, Safe with his fri... ...in. Ulysses, sole of all the victor train, An exile from his dear paternal coast, Deplored his absent queen and empire lost. Calypso in her caves cons... ..., Ægysthus’ fate revolving in his breast, Whom young Orestes to the dreary coast Of Pluto sent, a blood polluted ghost. “Perverse mankind! whose wills... ... few disclose; No longer live the cankers of my court; All to your several states with speed resort; Waste in wild riot what your land allows, There p... ...locks the careful swain Abides pavilion’d on the grassy plain. With powers united, obstinately bold, Invade him, couch’d amid the scaly fold; Instant ... ... to grow. 111 Pope Here order’d vines in equal ranks appear, With all the united labours of the year; Some to unload the fertile branches run, Some d...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

... wore. “That is what I have tried. Unwisely perhaps. I have fol- lowed the coast, day after day—from New Quay. It has only added muscular fatigue to t... ...man can keep sane if night after night—” “Have you been walking along this coast alone?” “Yes.” 6 When the Sleeper Wakes “Silly sort of thing to do. ... ... I didn’t expect that some day my pigments would glorify the whole blessed coast of England, from Land’s End round again to the Lizard. Luck comes to ... ...” “We differed on that point. I stood to him somewhat in the relation of a guardian. Y ou have probably seen enough of affairs to recognise that occas... ...t seems to me it’s a case for some public body, some prac- tically undying guardian. If he really is going on living—as the doctors, some of them, thi... ...g, sleeping till he died. He knew that quite well! And plump! a man in the United States, who had lost two sons in a boat accident, fol- lowed that up... ...ping till he died. He knew that quite well! And plump! a man in the United States, who had lost two sons in a boat accident, fol- lowed that up with a... ...seud- onyms it had ramified through the fabric of the American and English States. Wielding an enormous influence and patronage, the Coun- cil had ear... ... complicated system of arches, bridges, passages and galleries divided and united every part of the great space. He came out through one of the now fa...

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Dynevor Terrace

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...y to the score of scholarship and youth. Taste, modesty, and timidity were guards to Charlotte. A broad stare was terror to her, and she had many a fi... ...people. Mary smiled at this, and told him that he was talking ‘like an old statesman weary of the world.’ ‘One may be weary of the world beforehand as... ...ts,’ on the map, but did not know their ups and downs much better than the coast of China. ‘Mary knows them!’ said Louis. ‘She made all my mea- sureme... ...that afternoon, bringing his sister with him, for he had not withstood the united voices that entreated him to become Fitzjocelyn’s tutor during the v... ...d the Giraffe, with great stateliness. ‘Here are the enemy threatening our coasts, and our towns full of disaffection and sedition; and when our yeoma... ...commended sea air, and James suggested a secluded village on the Yorkshire coast, where some friends had been reading in the last long vacation. This ... .... ‘WHAT A LABOURED PRODUCTION had the letter been! How many copies had the statesman written! how late had he sat over it at night! how much more cons... ...le. We never had so much in common.’ ‘Yes. Your submission so far, and the united testimony of the Terrace, will soften him. Show your true sentiments... ...polish will be true and not French.’ Meantime Charlotte had been in twenty states of mind. Had Tom striven at once to return to the former terms, the ...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...nner. And here the in- structor had to combat another propensity too often united with brilliancy of fancy and vivacity of talent,—that indo- lence, n... ...ce of the rector, the curate, the clerk, and the whole congregation of the united parishes of Waverley cum Beverley. I beg pardon, once and for all, o... ...velling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dundee, a seaport on the eastern coast of Angus-shire, where his regi- ment was then quartered. He now enter... ...ly become traitor to the crown; Ian, which was the name of our adventurer, united himself with those who were commissioned by the king to chastise him... ...l, sympathized little in the disappointment of this selfish and interested statesman; and he retired to the country under the comfortable reflection, ... ...ny and as fast as you can; there will speedily be unexpected guests on the coast of Suffolk, or my news from France has deceived me.’ [The sanguine Ja... ...ench prisoners. May repose and blessings attend the ashes of the patriotic statesman, who, amongst his last services to Scot- land, interposed to prev... ...force he could muster. But instead of doing so, the gentleman, finding the coast clear, thought it better to make war on his own account, and has scou... ...g just started from his bed;—the rest of his dress was only a Westmoreland statesman’s robe-de- chambre,—that is, his shirt. His figure was displayed ...

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

...Khoshnevisan, School of Accounting and Finance, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 9726, Australia. Prof. Drago Õ Constantinescu, College o... ... ISBN: 1-931233-72-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS... ... 1-931233-72-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS ... ... education, and more arrogant with the advance of science, especially the United States, followed by a group of European countries, and then the worl... ...ion, and more arrogant with the advance of science, especially the United States, followed by a group of European countries, and then the world. Sti... ...ognition. So men of insight in Taiwan and the U.S. have to admit that the United States would be ruined from television. Is it better in our mainland... ...n. So men of insight in Taiwan and the U.S. have to admit that the United States would be ruined from television. Is it better in our mainland? Ho... ...n I began work in the office, my servant would bring the book and have the guard place it on my desk. I would record my every deed, good or bad, no m...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

...o not go naked? I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation. The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than ... ...engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half pike a good way up into my left nos... ... circumference of our dominions, by a computation of his own paces round the coast. “Lastly, That, upon his solemn oath to observe all the above artic... .... For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, ou... ...is notice of an in tended invasion, I avoided appearing on that side of the coast, for fear of being discovered, by some of the enemy’s ships, who ha... ...nd the rest of it fifty glumgluffs at most. I walked towards the north east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, ly ing down behind a hillock, I too... ... discovering plots and conspiracies against the government. He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times ... ...their inferiors. I had often read of some great services done to princes and states, and desired to see the persons by whom those services were perfor... ...itional. But there happening few events of any moment among a people so well united, naturally disposed to every virtue, wholly governed by reason, an...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ort was made to secure greater equality of burthens. On the meeting of the States- General—the only popular assembly possessed by France— Louis XIII.,... ...y, release the Princes, part with Mazarin, and even promise to convoke the States-General. Anne still, however, corresponded with the Cardinal, and wa... ... They love one another, and so long as that love lasts they will be better guardians to one another than ten governors or twenty dames de compagnie.’ ... ...d been parted all through the change to man and woman, now found ourselves united again, understanding one another as no other being could do, and alm... ...vincial Parliaments were of the same mind as that of Paris, and if all had united and stood firm the Court would have been re- duced to great straits.... ... not believe Sir Andrew when he told us that the Hebrides and all the west coast of Scotland were warmer than Paris in the winter. After this we heard... ... very little state. Her husband, the Stadholder, was on bad terms with the States, and had just failed in a great attack on Amsterdam; and both he and... ...ce the baf- fling of the attempt on Margaret. So he told Solivet, and they united in this attack, with a half a dozen of their bravoes, got together f... ...y should prosper—she had the prediction in her pocket. By this time we had coasted along the moat till we came to the Loire, where a whole swarm of bo...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ad and the land close ahead before we found them. To a ship ap- proaching, like the Casco, from the north, they proved in- deed the least conspicuous ... ...s easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Robert Louis Stevenson of Hawaii; and from the multiplicity of British ships, a... ...pertaining to this life and to that which is to come. ‘How shall I repay your great kindness to me? Thus David asked of Jehovah, and thus I ask of you... ...ing to this life and to that which is to come. ‘How shall I repay your great kindness to me? Thus David asked of Jehovah, and thus I ask of you, the P... ... may here recognise the tem- perate and sagacious mind of Bishop Dordillon. 75 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER XII—THE STORY OF A PLANTATION TAAHAUKU,... ...es to the southward, and facing the south-west. Both these were on the same day swept by a tidal wave, which was not felt in any other bay or island o... ...for a low island, poor; the population neither many nor—for Low Islanders—industrious. But the lagoon has two good passages, one to leeward, one to wi... ...ns and enemies; the church was once more rent asunder; and a new sect, the Kanitu, issued from the division. Since then Kanitus and Israelites, like t... ... rowdy vassals of Karaiti. The effect lingered for some time on the minds of the traders; it was with the approval of all present that I helped to dra...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...— Let rich Iberia golden fleeces boast, Her purple wool the proud Assyrian coast, Blest Thames’s shores, &c. VER. 61-68 Originally thus in the MS.— Go... ...er, and even thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th’ admiring eyes; 250 61 The Poetica... ...h’s care; 21 Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit; ... ...c frame, Which from the neighb’ring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain’s statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; ... ...imes to come; 380 There kings shall sue, and suppliant states be seen Once more to bend before a British queen. Thy trees, fair Wi... ... What sounds were heard, What scenes appear’d, O’er all the dreary coasts! Dreadful gleams, Dismal screams, Fires that... ... Productive as the sun. SEMICHORUS. Oh source of every social tie, United wish, and mutual joy! What various joys on one attend, As son, as ... ...ocks (the beauteous work of frost) Rise white in air, and glitter o’er the coast; Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away, And on the impassive ice t... ...erstood A sovereign Being, but a sovereign good. T rue faith, true policy, united ran, That was but love of God, and this of Man. 24...

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A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

...ve and twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements ... ...ugh the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, “i... ...on. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory fl... ... and the air, which had been at intervals clear enough to allow the French coast to be seen, became again charged with mist and vapour, Mr. Lorry’s th... ...charming this black brooding from his mind. She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery, and to a Present beyond his misery:... ...” Monsieur Gabelle was the Postmaster, and some other tax ing functionary united; he had come out with great obse quiousness to assist at this exami... ...you with all the constancy and fervour of her present years and character, united to the trustfulness and attachment of the early days in which you we... ... and patriots, asleep and awake, drunk and sober, and in vari ous neutral states between sleeping and waking, drunken ness and sobriety, were standi... ...n tried for his life by it, as the foe of England and friend of the United States as he brought these circumstances into view, with the greatest dis ...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...er mistaken. Prejudiced, I never have been otherwise than in favour of the United States. No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a st... ...aken. Prejudiced, I never have been otherwise than in favour of the United States. No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a stronger ... ...Prejudiced, I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in favour of the United States. I have many friends in America, I feel a grateful interest i... ...ced, I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in favour of the United States. I have many friends in America, I feel a grateful interest in the c... ...elled, by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, into a continuous line of coast, can hardly be exaggerated. A sharp keen wind blew dead against us; a... ...t the Custom—house above all others would do well to take example from the United States and render itself somewhat less odious and offensive to forei... ...ustom—house above all others would do well to take example from the United States and render itself somewhat less odious and offensive to foreigners. ... ...ld do instinctively, were the heather underneath my feet, or an iron bound coast beyond; but should often glance towards the distant and frequently re... ...w degrees, we left Cape Clear behind, and sailed along within sight of the coast of Ireland. And how merry we all were, and how loyal to the George Wa...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...nd had blushed very much and been delighted at a young officer of the Life Guards, who spied her as he was riding by, and said, “A dem fine gal, egad!... ... not particularly lively—but he paraded twice before the box where the now united couples were met, and nobody took any no- tice of him. Covers were l... ...tate. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in V anity Fair he had a higher place than the m... ...f women. She had pictures of Mr. Fox in every room in the house: when that statesman was in opposition, I am not sure that she had not flung a main wi... ...Sir Pitt was brought to change his views after the death of the great Whig statesman. This worthy old lady took a fancy to Rawdon Crawley when a boy, ... ...itors would have come rushing on him in a body, had they known that he was united to a woman without 168 V anity Fair fortune. “My relations won’t cr... ...ho were the correspondents of your late lamented father. Y ou’ll find us a united, simple, happy, and I think I may say respected, family—a plain tabl... ... calm the sea is, and how clear everything. I declare I can almost see the coast of France!” and her bright green eyes streamed out, and shot into the... ...darling Becky’s first flight was not very far. She perched upon the French coast at Boulogne, that refuge of so much exiled English innocence, and the...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...oyalist, and full of zeal for the cause of his sacred majesty, in which he united with the great Marquis of Montrose, and other truly zealous and hono... ...gain suspected by government, apprehended, sent to Dunnottar Castle on the coast of the Mearns, and there broke his neck in an attempt to escape from ... ... varied promontory, covered chiefly with copsewood, which on that favoured coast grows almost within water-mark. A fisherman’s cottage peeped from amo... ...deeply and darkly, at the extreme angles of a curtain, or flat wall, which united them, and thus protecting the main entrance, that opened through a l... ...m-gate, made of young fir-trees nailed together, now formed the only safe- guard of this once formidable entrance. The esplanade in front of the castl... ...ame time, the pleasing idea, that it was sequestered and solitary. The sea-coast, which Mannering now saw in its extent, cor- responded in variety and... ...n the other, were various buildings of different heights and dates, yet so united as to present to the eye a certain general effect of uniformity of f... ...uthority, and no authority at all; after some clubs had drunk Up with this statesman, and others Down with him; after riding, and run- ning, and posti... ...did not remember him. Gab kept out of his eye though, as he had served the States against England, and was a deserter to boot; and he sent us word dir...

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...lous or wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with me for carryi... ... wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with me for carrying the ... ...ces is a literal para- phrase of some reports of public proceedings in the United States (especially of the proceedings of a certain Brandywine Associ... ...a literal para- phrase of some reports of public proceedings in the United States (especially of the proceedings of a certain Brandywine Associa- tion... ...n the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of America, I made the following observations, among others:—... ...ity of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of America, I made the following observations, among others:— “So mu... ...rictly architec- tural employment. His genius lay in ensnaring parents and guard- ians, and pocketing premiums. A young gentleman’s premium be- ing pa... ...on. If you could have seen me, Mr Pinch, at the head of my regiment on the coast of Africa, charging in the form of a hollow square, with the women an... ... all night long. Hither come the sounding voices from the cav- erns on the coast of that small island, sleeping, a thousand miles away, so quietly in ...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...y clearly described by a dentist, occurred at the town of Columbus, in the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who ke... ...ly described by a dentist, occurred at the town of Columbus, in the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a li... ...our pursuits has been arranged in exact accordance with the wishes of your guardian, Mr. Jarndyce.” “Of—did you say, ma’am?” “Of your guardian, Mr. Ja... ... it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for ... ...imself in such hands—which the present child is encouraged to do, with the united tenderness of two angels to guard him—I shall go. He proposes to fra... ...n the baths of Germany, and sprinkled on the sea sand all over the English coast. Scarcely one is to be encountered in the deserted region of Chancery... ..., Mr. Guppy presents his friend under the impromptu name of Mr. Weevle and states the object of their visit. Krook, with his bottle under his arm (he ... ...ff. Idleness. Folly. No, no!” “There’s not much to choose between your two states,” says the visitor in a key too low for the old man’s dull hear ing... ...oreground and figures ready drawn for anything from a wreck on the Cornish coast to a review in Hyde Park or a meeting in Manchester, and in Mrs. Perk...

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The Moon and Sixpence

By: Somerset Maugham

...ew was arranging to go away . Mrs. Strickland was taking her family to the coast of Norfolk, so that the children might have the sea and her husband g... ...ell ask for a rejection without a mirror. I take it that conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for... ... were not a soldier you might as well be a counter -jumper . She hated the Guards, whom she thought conceited, and she could not trust herself to spea... ...miles away the island of Murea, like some high fastness of the Holy Grail, guarded its mystery . I did not altogether believe my eyes. The days that h... ...trim and neat and English; it reminds you of a sea- port town on the South Coast. And for three days afterwards the sea was stormy. Gray clouds chased... ... sailing West. T wice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle. Tough Bill had no ... ...g West. T wice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle. Tough Bill had no patienc... ...m, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought th...

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Captains Courageous a Story of the Grand Banks

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ght at school, and life was too short to keep track of every lie along the coast. Then Manuel touched the jangling, jarring little machette to a queer... ... trawler,” Dan explained to Harvey, “an’ he runs in fer bait all along the coast. Oh, no, not home, he don’t go. He deals along the south an’ east sho... ... an Eldridge chart, the farming 64 Captains Courageous almanac, Blunt’ s “Coast Pilot,” and Bowditch’ s “Navi- gator” were all the weapons Disko need... ...haunters who were never properly buried; of hidden treasure on Fire Island guarded by the spirits of Kidd’ s men; of ships that sailed in the fog stra... ...did off Le Have.” “Harmon Rush he said that was the way to rise ‘em. Plain United States is good enough fer me. We’re all dretful short- on tearakker.... ... Le Have.” “Harmon Rush he said that was the way to rise ‘em. Plain United States is good enough fer me. We’re all dretful short- on tearakker. Y oung... ...eeded was assurance that drowning did not hurt; and her husband watched to guard lest she should make the experiment. Of his own sorrow he spoke littl... ...men-folk. Come!” The We’re Heres promptly went through the crowd as a body-guard, and it was a very white and shaken Harvey that they propped up on a ...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...nuscripts in the Ecclesiasti- cal Courts, chaplain of the Queen’s Yeomanry Guard, and almoner to his Royal Highness the Prince of Rappe- Blankenburg. ... ...onger to be the surest claims to promotion with at any rate one section of states- men, and Dr Proudie was one among those who early in life adapted h... ... conception of the work to be done were generally furnished by the liberal statesmen of the day, and the labour of the details was borne by officials ... ...tting mute and un- happy. Mr Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards, breaksmen, pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to churc... ...pe Neroni, a man of no birth and no property, a mere captain in the pope’s guard, one who had come up to Milan either simply as an adventurer or as a ... ...it which would never have been attractive to him but for that visit to the coast of Cornwall. This visit he now repeated every year. Such is an interi... ...able to tell their own minds to each other as any Damon and Phillis, whose united ages would not make up that to which Mr Arabin had already attained....

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...t in waiting for 27 Charles Dickens that purpose. The children, under the guardianship of Jemima, blocked up the window, and dropped out oranges and ... ...am in chorus.’ ‘But when the George the Second drove ashore, Uncle, on the coast of Cornwall, in a dismal gale, two hours before day- break, on the fo... ...his pocket, as if unwilling to trust them even to the chances of being re- united and deciphered; and instead of ringing, as usual, for little Paul, h... ..., in bronze, on the top, with no trace of his celestial origin’ about him, guarded the unattainable treasure like an enchanted Moor. A dusty urn at ea... ... claims of a perfect Dombey (perhaps on account of having the honour to be united to a Dombey himself, and being familiar with excellence), really lik... ...eighbourhood, for the ostensible purpose of spending a penny; and when the coast was quite clear, Polly fled: Jemima calling after her that if they co... ...was impatience. Impatience for the time to come, when his visions of their united consequence and grandeur would be triumphantly re- alized. Some phil... ...of mine,’ murmured the Captain, in an absent manner, ‘but he’ s at present coasting round to Whitby , that would deliver such an opinion on this subje... ... dead body was to be seen upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wreck was seen no more...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was ... ...ang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was long in... ...always witless enough good faith, always anxious enough desire, to fail to guard him against their deceits. Trying to recover here, for recognition, t... ...here—you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve bee... ...u had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been there... ...or. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with h... .... Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it w... ...at this was a subterfuge of the enemy, who was waiting to take him off his guard. If the manoeuvre should succeed there would be little hope of any gr... ...irl noticed, “if you are I’m awfully sold!” The charm of the Mediterranean coast only deepened for our heroine on acquaintance, for it was the thresho...

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