--and vanished round the corner. "He knew my name," said Jessie. "Yes--it was Mr. Dangle." "That w...
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proper home. And now, if I may offer a suggestion, it is that we take tea. Freed of its tannin, not...
"That I'm going to wipe my boots on 'im straight away," said Mr. Hoopdriver, reverting to anger, if...
The World Set Free by H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] WE ARE ALL THINGS THAT MAKE AND PASS, S...
little man with the beard was remarking in an unexpectedly friendly manner. "The fact of it is," s...
"unhappily in this case you guessed wrong." Did she suspect? Then, at the psychological moment, the...
requirements. "The fact is--I've read precious little. One don't get much of a chance, situated as ...
out the two bicycles, sir, and went off, sir--about twenty minutes ago." Bechamel stood with his e...
glowed yellow and warm. It was the first time Hoopdriver bad dared the mysteries of a 'first-class'...
time to refresh themselves by good, honest sleeping. For the present, therefore, we will not concer...
Things, you see, have jarred a little, and they ride on their way together with a certain aloofness...
Milton. Then two women weeping together, and a knightly figure in the background dressed in a hands...
"Fairly young--a married couple." "No," said the barmaid, a talkative person of ample dimensions. ...
over-respectful and out of fashion. He called her I Madam' once. He seemed a person of means and le...
matter of two days he had crossed that spacious valley, with its frozen surge of green hills, its l...