Télécharger le livre :  The Herd Boy and His Hermit
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On a moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested...

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Télécharger le livre :  Young Folk's History of England
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Nearly two thousand years ago there was a brave captain whose name was Julius Caesar. The soldiers he led to battle were very strong, and conquered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent...

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Télécharger le livre :  Countess Kate
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There, I've done every bit I can do! I'm going to see what o'clock it is.

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Télécharger le livre :  Lady Hester
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I write this by desire of my brothers and sisters, that if any reports of our strange family history should come down to after generations the thing may be properly understood.

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Télécharger le livre :  Love and Life
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The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded - a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Magum Bonum
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The lady said, An orphan's fate Is sad and hard to bear.—-Scott.

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Télécharger le livre :  Nuttie's Father
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The town of Micklethwayte was rising and thriving. There were salubrious springs which an enterprising doctor had lately brought into notice.The firm of Greenleaf and Dutton manufactured umbrellas in large quantities, from the stout weather-proof family roof down to the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Chaplet of Pearls
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It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare...

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Télécharger le livre :  Stray Pearls
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No one can be more aware than the author that the construction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a tale which has become rather a family record than a novel.

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Télécharger le livre :  The Pigeon Pie
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Early in the September of the year 1651 the afternoon sun was shining pleasantly into the dining-hall of Forest Lea House. The sunshine came through a large bay-window, glazed in diamonds, and with long branches of a vine trailing across it, but in parts the glass had...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Pillars of the House
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So cried, shouted, shrieked a chorus, as a street door was torn open to admit four boys, with their leathern straps of books over their shoulders. They set up a responsive yell of 'Jolly! Jolly!' which being caught up and re-echoed by at least five voices within, caused...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Prince and the Page
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In these days of exactness even a child's historical romance must point to what the French term its pieces justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de Montfort drawn by his wife's own household books, as quoted by Mrs. Everett Green in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Scenes and Characters
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Of those who are invited to pay a visit to Beechcroft, there are some who, honestly acknowledging that amusement is their object, will be content to feel with Lilias, conjecture with Jane, and get into scrapes with Phyllis, without troubling themselves to extract any...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Young Step-Mother
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'Have you talked it over with her?' said Mr. Ferrars, as his little slender wife met him under the beeches that made an avenue of the lane leading to Fairmead vicarage.

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Télécharger le livre :  The Stokesley Secret
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The question seemed to have been long under consideration, to judge by the manner in which it came out of the pouting lips of that sturdy young five-year-old gentleman, David Merrifield, as he sat on a volume of the great Latin Dictionary to raise him to a level with...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Modern Telemachus
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The idea of this tale was taken fromThe Mariners' Chronicle, compiled by a person named Scott early in the last century - a curious book of narratives of maritime adventures, with exceedingly quaint illustrations. Nothing has ever shown me more plainly that truth is...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Trial
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Quand on veut dessecher un marais, on ne fait pas voter les grenouilles. - Mme. EMILE. DE GIRADIN

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Télécharger le livre :  Under the Storm
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I brought them here as to a sanctuary. SOUTHEY.

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Télécharger le livre :  Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe
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There was once a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy's life. One evening she went to bed very tired and cross and hot, and in the morning when she looked at her arms and legs they were all covered with red spots, rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly.

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Télécharger le livre :  The Clever Woman of the Family
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Thou didst refuse the daily round Of useful, patient love, And longedst for some great emprise Thy spirit high to prove. - C. M. N.

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