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A THRILLING TALE

... think .1t turned pale in the face. I glanced up at my friend and a look of satisfaction met my gaze. I was t r tOO agitated to speak to him, and ere I recovered C e myself I was led out of the line and placed beside' e i the other Incky man. r VlWen the ...

CANNIBALISM AT SEA

... about the Dutchman, sir I' Mr. Yes, about the Dutchman. and Olaf Andersen looks down and begins to speak, ry. His voice sounds hoarse, bat he speaks without an esitating, as if he knew that there was only one E miry thing, now and for ever that he could ...

STORIES CONCERNING CELEBRITIES

... in Paris. He h. and his brother Frederick were at an hotel in the sd French capital. The ?? didinoe speak the al Parisian tongue, and his brother speaks it very es imperfectly, and with a decided English accent. as Coming down one morning before his brother ...

SPRIGHTLY STORIES

... looked at his interrogator, and, in a deep voice, said You, sir, appear to have forgotten soame- thinq-to whom von aire speaking. There was muore wit than politeness in the following reply - The Duchess of Somerset, neie Sheridan, visit. ing a large ...

STRANGER THAN FICTION

... demned to Siberia for life, reads most like an ng effort of fictiPn. .68 Remarkablv attractive and good-leoloing, and a11 speaking fluently Russian,I Roumanian, German, he French, and English, she had been married six. ut teen times, and in turn ran away ...

A SPIRITUALIST STORY

... the captain's death. The letter was written at e the urgent prayer of Mdlle. de Sxbreaux, who had never ceased to think and speak of her brother, b and who on one occasion, a month or so before b the despatch of the petition, had risen again froan her chair ...

THE COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION

... discover Massachusetts. ?? are more recent discoveries, however, that are extremely imiportant, and affect the evste Erglish-speak ng race, but more espe ially England. Mr. T. Robinson, residing at Westfeid House, Kuovl, Mirfield, Yorks, writes: I consider ...

STORIES OF THE SEA

... to their entering the church Jack was told he must be very par'i- cular how ha behaved, as the parson only Was allowed to speak. Upon the clerk giving out the hymn Jack seemed quite amazed, and when the singing commenced lie exclaimed: Here's a blessed ...

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON

... of the Duke of as ! iMatua, whose son was his pupil. He ?? a in Id crest linguist, knowing twelve languages either ki a3 to speak or to write: ble was ready 'to dispute in a er Lstil on any theme concerning mathematics, I as medicine, rhetoric, logic, arb ...

LIFE

... Prior. . To be is far better than not to be.-Sewell. Though all man's life may seern a tragedy.- Spencer. E But light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb.-Daniel. The bottom is but shallow whence they come. -Sir W. 1Raleigh. Your fate is bat the commonfate ...

QUEER STORY

... stolen. r realuy. said Mdme. Dan(hatelet, i idi ir. Ilove with men like that. Tell me, N olze ?? who wvere once an Abbe- you speak of the Saiots in t l can.( v you expect one to feel any interest ~eocrl so well fixed in Heaven as they are? mi yj tie Iioutlers ...

MYSTICISM AND MAGIC

... was sitting with her little girl of seven or eight, ee stand by the fire a few minutes, and finally ileave the room without speaking, although she I had addressed eome remarks to him. A A hour e or two later she hoard her husband enter tth Bhouse for the ...