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by O Henry PART I TWELVE STORIES CONTENTS The Red Roses of ToniaRound The CircleThe Rubber Plant’s StoryOut of NazarethConfessions of a HumoristThe Sparrows in Madison SquareHearts and HandsThe CactusThe Detective DetectorThe Dog and the PlayletA Little Talk About MobsThe Snow Man THE RED ROSES OF TONIA A trestle burned down on the International Railroad. The south- bound from San Antonio was cut off for the next forty-eight hours. On that train was Tonia Weaver’s Easter hat....

The quotations are in two formats: 1. Small passages from the text. 2. An alphabetized list of one-liners. The editor may be contacted at for comments, questions or suggested additions to these extracts. D.W. WIDGER’S QUOTATIONS of CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER WASHINGTON IRVING[CW#5][cwirv10.txt]3101 “Some persons, in looking upon life, view it as they would view a picture, with a stern and criticising eye. He also looks upon life as a picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,–not its defects and shadows....

Women of the Country THE ROADMENDER SERIES_Uniform with this Volume_ The Roadmender. By MICHAEL FAIRLESS.The Gathering of Brother Hilarius. By MICHAEL FAIRLESS. The Grey Brethren. By MICHAEL FAIRLESS.A Modern Mystic’s Way. (Dedicated to Michael Fairless.) Magic Casements. By ARTHUR S. CRIPPS.Thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci, as recorded in his Note-Books. Edited by EDWARD MCCURDY. The Sea Charm of Venice. By STOPFORD A. BROOKE. Longings. By W.D. MCKAY.From the Forest. By W....

Mon avis est qu’on ne peut créer des personnages que lorsquel’on a beaucoup étudié les hommes, comme on ne peut parlerune langue qu’a la condition de l’avoir sérieusement apprise. N’ayant pas encore l’âge où l’on invente, je me contente deraconter. J’engage donc le lecteur á être convaincu de la réalité decette histoire dont tous les personnages, à l’exceptionde l’héroïne, vivent encore. D’ailleurs, il y a à Paris des témoins de la plupart des faitsque je recueille ici, et qui pourraient les confirmer, si montémoinage ne suffisait pas....

Convém recordar que o primeiro povoamento branco do Rio Grande do Sul foi espanhol; seu poder e influencia estenderam-se até depois da conquista das Missões; provém disso que as velhas lendas rio- grandenses acham-se tramadas no acervo platino de antanho. Vem da Ibéria, a topar-se com a ingênua e confusa tradição guaranítica (v. g. a lenda da M’boi-tátá) a mescla cristã-árabe de abusões e misticismo; dos encantamentos e dos milagres; desses elementos, confundidos e abrumados ( p....

The pain and pounding in my head had been quite unendurable when the drug was administered. Of the future I had no heed; to escape, whether by cure, unconsciousness, or death, was all that concerned me. I was partly delirious, so that it is hard to place the exact moment of transition, but I think the effect must have begun shortly before the pounding ceased to be painful. As I have said, there was an overdose; so my reactions were probably far from normal....

—Lactantius. I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. In the twilight I heard it pounding on the rocks, and I knew it lay just over the hill where the twisting willows writhed against the clearing sky and the first stars of evening. And because my fathers had called me to the old town beyond, I pushed on through the shallow, new-fallen snow along the road that soared lonely up to where Aldebaran twinkled among the trees; on toward the very ancient town I had never seen but often dreamed of....

CHAPTER I–THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE It was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty- four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then the honour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning over the bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher Columbus, in the South American waters off the Mosquito shore. My lady remarks to me, before I go any further, that there is no such christian-name as Gill, and that her confident opinion is, that the name given to me in the baptism wherein I was made, &c....

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century Volume I, 1493-1529 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne....

1 The Rassendylls–With a Word on the Elphbergs 2 Concerning the Colour of Men’s Hair 3 A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative 4 The King Keeps his Appointment 5 The Adventures of an Understudy 6 The Secret of a Cellar 7 His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau 8 A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother 9 A New Use for a Tea-Table 10 A Great Chance for a Villain 11 Hunting a Very Big Boar 12 I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook 13 An Improvement on Jacob’s Ladder 14 A Night Outside the Castle 15 I Talk with a Tempter 16 A Desperate Plan 17 Young Rupert’s Midnight Diversions 18 The Forcing of the Trap 19 Face to Face in the Forest 20 The Prisoner and the King 21 If Love Were All!...

THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER’S NECK A Comedy of Limitations BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL “To this new South, who values her high past in chief, as fit foundation of that edifice whereon she labors day by day, and with augmenting strokes.” 1915 TO PRISCILLA BRADLEY CABELL “Nightly I mark and praise, or great or small, Such stars as proudly struggle one by one To heaven’s highest place, as Procyon, Antares, Naoes, Tejat and Nibal Attain supremacy, and proudly fall, Still glorious, and glitter, and are gone So very soon;–whilst steadfast and alone Polaris gleams, and is not changed at all....

by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I–IN THE OLD CITY OF ROCHESTER Strictly speaking, there were only six Poor Travellers; but, being a Traveller myself, though an idle one, and being withal as poor as I hope to be, I brought the number up to seven. This word of explanation is due at once, for what says the inscription over the quaint old door? RICHARD WATTS, Esq.by his Will, dated 22 Aug....

PLAYS FIRST SERIES THE SILVER BOX JOY STRIFE THE SILVER BOX A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS By John Galsworthy PERSONS OF THE PLAY JOHN BARTHWICK, M.P., a wealthy Liberal MRS. BARTHWICK, his wifeJACK BARTHWICK, their sonROPER, their solicitorMRS. JONES, their charwomanMARLOW, their manservantWHEELER, their maidservantJONES, the stranger within their gates MRS. SEDDON, a landladySNOW, a detectiveA POLICE MAGISTRATEAN UNKNOWN LADY, from beyondTWO LITTLE GIRLS, homelessLIVENS, their fatherA RELIEVING OFFICERA MAGISTRATE’S CLERKAN USHERPOLICEMEN, CLERKS, AND OTHERS TIME: The present....

THE STAR-CHAMBER; AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, ESQ. AUTHOR OF “WINDSOR CASTLE,” &C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1854. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. The Three Cranes in the Vintry II. Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner III. The French ordinary IV. A Star-Chamber victim V. Jocelyn Mounchensey VI. Provocation VII. How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell’s signature VIII. Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles’s other Myrmidons IX....

THE TALKING DEAF MAN: or, A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak. By the Studious Invention and Industry of John Conrade Amman, an Helvetian of Shashuis, Dr. of Physick. Imprinted at Amsterdam, by Henry Westein, 1692. And now done out of Latin into English, by D.F.M.D. 1693. London, Printed for Tho. Hawkins, in George-yard, Lumbard street, 1694. Price bound One Shilling. To his most Approved Good Friend Mr....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

THE WELL-BELOVED — A SKETCH OF A TEMPERAMENT BY THOMAS HARDY PREFACE The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange beliefs and singular customs, now for the most part obsolescent. Fancies, like certain soft-wooded plants which cannot bear the silent inland frosts, but thrive by the sea in the roughest of weather, seem to grow up naturally here, in particular amongst those natives who have no active concern in the labours of the ‘Isle....

The Wife of His Youth Her Virginia Mammy The Sheriff’s Children A Matter of Principle Cicely’s Dream The Passing of Grandison Uncle Wellington’s Wives The Bouquet The Web of Circumstance APPENDIX Three Essays on the Color Line: What is a White Man? (1889) The Future American (1900) The Disfranchisement of the Negro (1903) The Wife of His Youth I Mr. Ryder was going to give a ball. There were several reasons why this was an opportune time for such an event....

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Volume Three CONSTITUTIONAL EDITION THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES I POLITICAL SPEECHES & DEBATES of LINCOLN WITH DOUGLAS In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 [The following speech was delivered at Springfield, Ill., at the close of the Republican State Convention held at that time and place, and by which Convention Mr. LINCOLN had been named as their candidate for United States Senator....

The hitherto guarded subject pertains to my non-professional visit to Egypt fourteen years ago, and has been avoided by me for several reasons. For one thing, I am averse to exploiting certain unmistakably actual facts and conditions obviously unknown to the myriad tourists who throng about the pyramids and apparently secreted with much diligence by the authorities at Cairo, who cannot be wholly ignorant of them. For another thing, I dislike to recount an incident in which my own fantastic imagination must have played so great a part....