The Gentle Grafter
Category： Author：O.Henry
"A trust is its weakest point," said Jeff Peters."That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why is a policeman?'"
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Category： Author：O.Henry
"A trust is its weakest point," said Jeff Peters."That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why is a policeman?'"
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Category： Author：Carl Ewald
From the first, your interest in Carl Ewald has been kindly, gracious and insistent; as Michael Finsbury might have said, "you were his friend through thick and thin;" and it is very much due to you (not to mention Betty and Charles) that this volume has seen the light of day.
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Category： Author：Hendrik Conscience
Near the end of July, 1842, an open calèche might have been seen rolling along one of the three highways that lead from the frontiers of Holland toward Antwerp. Although the vehicle had evidently been cleaned with the utmost care, every thing about it betokened decay.
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Category： Author：novel
It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship ‘La Provence’ was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man. The passengers constituted a select and delightful society. The charm of new acquaintances and improvised amuse...
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Category： Author：novel
After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On the big maps this deserted area ...
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Category： Author：novel
“Collectomania” may with some reason be looked upon as a comedy in which the leading parts are taken by the Collector, the Dealer, and the Faker, supported by minor but not less interesting characters, such as imitators, restorers, middlemen, et hoc genus omne, each of whom could tell more than one attractive tale.
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Category： Author：novel
My father and I both glanced round, surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets: but when the lad addressed turned, fixed his eyes on each of us for a moment, and made way for us, we ceased to wonder. Ragged, muddy, and miserable as he was, the poor boy looked anything but a “vagabond.”
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Category： Author：Ivan Turgenev
Ralph column, is a noble, but unfortunately, life lonely childhood, I grew up and married a betrayal of his wife. Miss lisa and a daughter, she loved Ralph column, silently, he silently in love with her, too. Lisa's mother won't agree, of course, they love so bitter
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Category： Author：P. G. Wodehouse
A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book, under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy, by W.J. Watt and Co., New York, on 11 May 1910.[1] It was ser...
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