Cate： Short Stories Author：Matthew White
Among all my books, this one will always occupy a particularly warm spot in my heart; for listen, reader, and I will let you into a little secret. Riddle Creek is really Ridley, and is a true-enough stream, flowing through one of the most charming regions in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The railroad trestle which plays such an import...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Edith Wharton
19噪世纪末的美亚国拘匹兹堡崖。钢芥铁资篱本但家也斯科敲特的儿砒子掣保裙罗与寇钢捕铁工谅人舱拉弗壕蒂的肘女蒙儿维玛丽相蚌爱闷。达拉篓弗斋蒂曾在工作中章被辽压雅断旬了一条密腿，煤对义斯科溉特恨得拯咬牙沫切界齿露，而女儿玛旷丽却滞比跳爸爸冷静碴而显得毁通纫情岂达彦理棱。邻工社厂恰发生仲罢蠕工，工潮中孕拉弗蒂隅开枪撇打死资慈本叉家斯焉科拘特...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Edith Wharton
"Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth.
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Edith Wharton
IN the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Hanaford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and arm lay stretched along the bed. His head stirred uneasily, and slipping her arm behind him she effected a professional readjustment of the pillows. "Is that better?" As she leaned over, he lifted his anxious bewi...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Edith Wharton
"Undine Spragg--how can you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid "bell-boy" had just brought in. But her defence was as feeble as her protest, and she continued to smile on her visitor while Miss Spragg, with a turn of her quick young fingers, possessed herself of...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：H. G. Wells
If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)--if you had gone into the Drapery Emporium--which is really only magnificent for shop--of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.--a perfectly fictitious "Co.," by the bye--of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of b...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes_, whose title I have now altered to _The Sleeper Awakes_, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the _Graphic_ and one or two American and colonial periodicals. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity afforded by this reprint...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Edith Wharton
IT rose for them--their honey-moon--over the waters of a lake sofamed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were ratherproud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting oftheir own. "It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for itas ours, to risk the experiment," Susy Lansing opined, as theyhung o...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：H. G. Wells
The reader should grasp clearly the date at which this book was written. It was done in 1907: it appeared in various magazines as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the "Sausage" held the air. The contemporary reader has all the advantage ...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：H. G. Wells
ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1 degree S. and longitude 107 degrees W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been cons...
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