two minutes off. I'll see you clothed and fed and snug in bed. Where's your kit, by the way? Is it ...
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and a far-away blue horizon. Here, at any rate, I could get early news of my enemies. CHAPTER FIVE...
who was this but that scarlet strumpet, Mrs Beaufort, who having lost her gallant in the crowd, and...
The Boy Captives An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 by John Greenleaf Whittier THE township of...
coopers' wife--a most managing, industrious, and indefatigable woman, that allowed no grass to grow...
boys looked after them, and saw them disappear in the thick woods. They remained in their covert un...
sedentary habit of body; and the vapour of his stomach, as he was sitting by himself, often mounted...
He was by nature and inclination one of the upsetting sort; a kind of man who, in all manner of bus...
as that the reverent homage of the Michaelmas dinners could have been enacted, and declared absolut...
and therefore, if Mr Plan and Mr Hickery would shake hands, and agree never to notice what had pass...
looked out through the glass, without opening it, for, being in my night clothes, I was afraid of t...
should think how he would feel were he, like me, after a magistracy of near to fifty years, to sink...
guess as much. But I found out the way they were going to get him, and that knowledge was deadly. T...
particularly somebody that he never referred to without a shudder - an old man with a young voice w...
abyss with a mind hovering between perplexity and tears. I wanted to sit down and cry - why, I did ...