A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day

... other mediaevalists, he had crept away from the fashion to admire what was good in Palladian and Renaissance. As soon as Jacobean, Queen Anne, and kindred accretions of decayed styles began to be ... descent again, is always narrated. But as has often been said, the light and the truth may be on the side of the dreamer: a far wider view than the wise ones have may be his at that recalci...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... fears. "They haven't done it so far," and the sailor looked grave again. "As near as I can hear we've got about seven CHAPTER XIV. 108 thousand men near about, an' more'n ... till we can take possession; there's so much pullin' an' haulin' after rations an' quarters, that it ain't safe to leave anything alone." I supposed t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20

... The attendants were numerous, and if Deming had ever heard of the trial of Warren Hastings he would have thought this appeared an occasion of almost equal importance and gravity. When he arrived ... included, flanked by an occasional apothegm. Gard copied off a sample of their many talks in somewhat the abridged form as given below. It was when, on one of these days, Kirtley...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 04:20

... over as he rode home from the bank, was that there could be no proof, not a grain, that he had not merely made a very natural mistake. But for all that he was afraid. For no assignable reason, at ... fort; and a safe cracker of the past generation would be as helpless as John Bagsbury's daughter Martha in the presence of a great Harveyized-steel sphere with its electric apron...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... original is in the gallery at Paris. I read a description of it, and have had it copied by the Italian." She showed me the painting, and waited my opinion. It was a picture of a man of middle ... not have had the last ring, for I felt that I was a stranger; that I did not belong to her, and that she was not as affectionate to me as to her brothers and sisters. Then came...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... and guessing that it was anxiety as well as pain which kept him awake, she sat down beside him and related again the story of that night's adventures. He laughed, in spite of his pain, at ... will had thus far not gone beyond sneer and invective. CHAPTER III 10 Katherine was always afraid of him, and of what he might do to her father if he had the chance; for his nature was sma...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:21

... bring a change, and when Tom had won a dozen games more than Dave, and so was a dollar and a half ahead, and had got his pulses well warmed up, Dave manifested great vexation, and asked Grayson ... win all yer money an' yer knife, 'an yer hankercher, an' yer hat an' coat an' boots in the bargain. But you mus'n't say anything about it, Sis. It's...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... that they must after all have sailed for the coast of Syria or Constantinople, he steered for Alexandretta, and learning that, after having captured Malta, the French fleet had sailed to Candia, ... shall go and see this great man, and hear what he says, and shall, if I can, keep on terms of peace with him. An army so strong and so fierce that it has captured Alexandria after four hours&a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20