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...e at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turner Maxwell Books ...

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... Author’s Note This is a work of fiction. While historical persons do appear within the text, all even... ...fiction. While historical persons do appear within the text, all events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century, and for nearly the first... ... my own imagination. During the 19th century, and for nearly the first half of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vote, nor to have ... ...ble to warm up the horse prior to our appearance. I hurried down the short flight of stairs, wanting to take the extra time with Pierrot. This was ... ... I were a son. He taught me how to gentle a horse rather than breaking its spirit. He taught me how to ride, as well as how to read and write. Wh... ... to; horsemanship was in my blood and he understood that riding was just as spiritual to me as holy communion. Before we could have the banns read, m... ...into more practical attire. I cross-tied the big horse and ran up the brief flight of stairs to my room. Inside, I stripped hurriedly from the gre... ...at gazed upon me in the fifth cellar. Surely not. I was not given to such flights of fancy; I shook my head to clear the night’s cobwebs away. I la... ... The time passed quickly, and I was very disappointed when Zareh arrived to spirit me back to his home. Claire stood on her tiptoes to kiss me goodby...

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...hapter 1. I was returning home by the fields. It was midsummer, the hay harvest was over and they were just beginning to reap the rye. At that season of the year there is a delightful variety of flowers --red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell;...

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...ans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (original published in 1904) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing stu- dent publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...k scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall ... ...of pricking their hands. Think- ing to pick this thistle and put it in the center of my nosegay , I climbed down into the ditch, and after driv- ing a... ... dropu of 29 Tolstoy vodka now, your honor!” Some vodka (or rather the spirit drunk by the sol- diers in the Caucasus) was found, and Panov , seve... ...l truns against it,” he said. “Drink it your- self.” Panov drank up the spirit. Avdeev raised himself but sank back at once. They spread out a c... ...to flow over him. Still, it was pleas- 49 Tolstoy ant, and in the best of spirits he led his lady back into the drawing room. After dinner, when c... ... to save himself and partly out of hatred of Shamil, and difficult as this flight had been he had attained his object, and for a time was glad of his ...

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...Excerpt: For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--seemed to sh...

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... by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...methods of trade. It had changed the face of the Eastern seas and the very spirit of their life; so that his early experiences meant nothing whatever ... ...n of fixed stares and impassive vacancy; and after it had vanished in full flight as it were, notwithstanding the long line of vehicles hug- ging the ... ...absurd remark I would say that you haven’t the stomach to …” But a yelling spirit of excitement, like some frantic soul wandering unsuspected in the v... ...ken, and he had looked irritably for places where he could set his feet in flight. In the end he too did not move, though there was plenty of room to ... ...he outer rocks of the group, unrolled the converg- ing evolutions of their flight in long somber stream- ers upon the glow of the sky. The palpitating... ...nsible and unexpected thing that could happen; and the perturbation of his spirit was so great that, forgetting all about his let- ters, he ran rapidl...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...p him at home; for, young as he was, he believed he had caught the publick spirit and zeal for Sacheverel, and would have staid for ever in the church... ...ing him.’ Nor can I omit a little instance of that jealous independence of spirit, and impetuosity of tem- per, which never forsook him. The fact was ... ... whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his... ...one of those drunken,—nay, drunken is a coarse word,— none of those vinous flights.’ Sir Joshua. ‘Be- cause you have sat by, quite sober, and felt an ... ...eed; and though troubled with a shortness of breathing, laboured up a long flight of steps, till we came to the place where the wonderous chest stood.... ...ade it like something real.’ Mr. Wilkes remarked, that ‘among all the bold flights of Shakspeare’s imagination, the bold- est was making Birnamwood ma...

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...In the late 21st century on Earth, new technology allowed man to create machines merged with the body of their fallen comrades of war. These ?manchines? fought and won the war for the West. Discarded, the manchines learned of their worth and fought back for their own freedom, destroying half of the population of mankind. Now,...

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