every word used too strong. Take a finger-post in the mountains on a day of rolling mists; I have b...
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what a day have I had for my homecoming, and what a bonny evening!" "Indeed, it was a wonderful day...
disposition, and broke into a peal of healthy and natural laughter. "Well played, Mrs. Elliott!" he...
uneasy, my dear; he was positively wrecking his own prospects because he dared not leave him alone....
a boy, he might have been observed in many others; he was then (like the schoolmaster) abroad; and ...
To ca' the howdie. Wae's me, for the puir callant than! He wambles like a poke o' bran, An' the l...
Late in the nicht in bed I lay, The winds were at their weary play, An' tirlin' wa's an' skirlin' ...
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Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson TO MY WIFE I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn ...
great man and a good; a minister if possible, a saint for certain. She tried to engage his mind upo...
starting from the rug. "I do not ken," answered her mistress, shaking her head. "But he is not spe...
chemistry of life, which only fools expected. An idea of Archie's attitude, since we are all grown ...
"I don't think it a raid," said Archie grimly. "More like a war. I saw that poor brute hanged this ...
nothing of your own?" "Father, let me go to the Peninsula," said Archie. "That's all I'm fit for -...
I was wakened next morning (Wednesday, October 2nd) by the same dog - for I knew his bark - making ...