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Excerpt: ...have failed to notice that glance of Miriam's, and, having noticed it, to remark that the name Tracey was there in all the largeness of print upon a list of voters hanging on the wall. As it was he noticed nothing of the kind. "Jabez Tracey," he repeated. "Well, let me hear some of the...

“ I am very angry,” pouted the maid. “ In heaven’s name, why?” questioned the bachelor. “ You have, so to speak, bought me.” “ Impossible: your price is prohibitive.” “ Indeed, when a thousand pounds—” “ You are worth fifty and a hundred times as much. Pooh!” “ That interjection...

L'étrange affaire du meurtre de Jentham a continué d'attirer l'attention du public de Beorminster tout au long de la semaine; et le jour où l'enquête a eu lieu, l'excitation populaire s'est élevée à la fièvre. L'inspecteur Tinkler, estimant que le comté s'attendait à ce qu'il fasse de grandes...

En dépit de la plus grande vigilance de la part de la police et de l'offre d'une récompense importante, à la fois par Calton, au nom de l'accusé, et par M. Frettlby, le bien désiré Sal Rawlins est toujours resté caché. Le millionnaire avait maintenu une attitude des plus amicales envers Brian...

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It stood where four roads met--a square building of two storeys, with white-washed walls and a high slate roof. The fence, and the once trim garden, had vanished with the turnpike gate; and a jungle of gooseberry bushes, interspersed with brambles, shut off the house from the roads. And only by courtesy...

Ah well, Miss Eva, I 'spose your pa'ull come home to spile things as he allays have done. It ain't no wonder, I ses, as you sits moping by the winder, looking double your age, and you only twenty, as has no right to look forty, whatever you may say, though I took my dying alfred-david on its blessed...

The Cranstons were always a poor family, that is, as regards money, although they certainly could not complain of a lack of ancestors; and when it came to my turn to represent the race, I found that my lately deceased father had left me comparatively nothing. Not having any fixed income, I therefore...

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THE COTTAGE "What IS your name?" "Susan Grant, Miss Loach." "Call me ma'am. I am Miss Loach only to my equals. Your age?" "Twenty-five, ma'am

Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. MY OWN LIFE. It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this narrative shall contain little more than the history of my writings; as, indeed, almost...