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Mr. Wu
Louise Jordan MilnLittle Wu was interested. He had read of such marriages and he knew that they really took place sometimes. He rather liked the scheme—if only he need not go to England for hideous years of wifeless ho..
The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume I
James GrantThe old Scottish regiment from which the following story takes its title, and of which the hero is described as a member, is on the point of losing its identity, and after the July of this year will b..
The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume II
James GrantHew, among other 'caddish' tastes and propensities, was fond of 'sherry-glass flirtations' at bars and buffets, where sham smiles are bartered for button-hole flowers, amid bantered compliments and ho..
The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume III
James GrantHew was far from dying yet, as the doctor averred; and Sir Piers too—he 'had seen too much of that sort of thing up country, not to know all about it;' but, in his lowness and perturbation of spirit, ..
The Woman of Knockaloe - A Parable
Sir Hall CaineThe story is laid in a little backwater of the war—a backwater which has never before, perhaps, been explored in literature—but nevertheless it is not in the ordinary sense a war story. The late Great..
Fantasy: A Novel
Matilde SeraoThe naturalism of Matilde Serao deserves to be distinguished from that of the French contemporaries with whom she is commonly classed. She has a finer passion, more of the true ardour of the South, th..
The King Who Went on Strike
Pearson ChoateThe trees in the densely thronged Mall were hung with innumerable, coloured electric lights. A blaze of yellow, smokeless flambeaux, on the left, marked the line of Carlton House Terrace. "God Save th..
The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 2 (of 3)
James GrantBreakfast was hurried over in silence and constraint, then Cosmo, kissing the brow of his mother, who was already in tears,—for the only real emotion that lingered in the Master's heart was a regard f..