Gallegher and Other Stories
The pity of the whole situation was, that the boy was only a boy with all his man's miserable knowledge of the world, and the reason of it all was, that he had entirely too much heart and not enough money to make an unsuccessful gambler. If he had only been able to lose his conscience instead of his money, or even if he had kept his conscience and won, it is not likely that he would have been waiting for the lights to go out at Monte Carlo.

Games for Hallow-e'en--Mary E. Blain
To foretell complexion of future mate, select three soft, fluffy feathers. (If none is handy, ask for a pillow and rip open and take out feathers.) On bottom end of each feather fasten a small piece of paper; a drop of paste or mucilage will hold all three in place. Write "blonde" on one paper; "brunette," on another, and "medium" on the third. Label papers before gluing them on feathers. Hold up feather by its top and send it flying with a puff of breath. Do same with the other two; the feather landing nearest you denotes complexion of your true love.

GANGDOM'S DOOM
"He never bumps off anybody," said Cronin, in a slow, awed voice. "The guys he wants to get just die-sometimes they kill each other! They lay traps for him, and they fall into the traps themselves. Did you ever hear of Diamond Bert Farwell?"

Gavon's Eve--E. F. Benson
"That's curious," he said. "I know there is some dim local superstition about the place, but last year certainly Sandy used to laugh at it. I remember asking him what ailed the place, and he said he thought nothing about the rubbish folk talked. But this year you say he avoids it."

GEMS OF DOOM
In fact, that pointing finger seemed to guide the cab, rather than the driver at the wheel. When sounds of sirens had faded far behind, The Shadow gave a gesture to go straight ahead, then settled back deep in the seat. Judith could no longer see her cloaked companion, but she could hear his whispered laugh.

General Andrew Jackson and the Bell Witch--M. V. Ingram
Then came the sound of a sharp metallic voice from the bushes, saying, "All right General, let the wagon move on, I will see you again tonight." The men in bewildered astonishment looked in every direction to see if they could discover from whence came the strange voice, but could find no explanation to the mystery. Gen. Jackson exclaimed again, "By the eternal, boys, this is worse than fighting the British."

Georgia Scenes--Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
The young ladies had generally collected before any of the young men appeared. It was not long, however, before a large number of both sexes were assembled, and they adjourned to the ballroom . But for the snapping of a fiddle-string, the young people would have been engaged in the amusement of the day in less than three minutes from the time they entered the house. Here were no formal introductions to be given, no drawing for places or partners, no parade of managers, no ceremonies.

Geraint of Devon--MARION LEE REYNOLDS
And it chanced/ That Enid, passing through the darksome hall,/ Came to the court's low portal, where she saw/ The young knight all in armour, saw his steed/ Harnessed for war and ready to depart./ And Enid thought, "Is he so fain to fare?"/ And thought again, "Why must he fare so soon?"/

Getting Married
COLLINS. Bless you, maam, theres all sorts of bonds between all sorts of people. You are a very affable lady, maam, for a Bishop's lady. I have known Bishop's ladies that would fairly provoke you to up and cheek them; but nobody would ever forget himself and his place with you, maam. --includes Preface

GO RIN NO SHO: A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS--Miyamoto Musashi
My Way of strategy is the sure method to win when fighting for your life one man against five or ten. There is nothing wrong with the principle "one man can beat ten, so a thousand men can beat ten thousand". You must research this. Of course you cannot assemble a thousand or ten thousand men for everyday training. But you can become a master of strategy by training alone with a sword, so that you can understand the enemy's stratagems, his strength and resources, and come to appreciate how to apply strategy to beat ten thousand enemies.

Gobseck
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

God The Invisible King--H. G. Wells
What can this "religion of the future" be but that devotion to the racial adventure under the captaincy of God which we have already found, like gold in the bottom of the vessel, when we have washed away the confusions and impurities of dogmatic religion? By an inquiry setting out from a purely religious starting-point we have already reached conclusions identical with this ultimate refuge of an extreme materialist.

Gospels of Anarchy and Other Contemporary Studies--Vernon Lee
Nor is moderation the remedy for all evils. There are in us tendencies to feel and act which survive from times when the mere preservation of individual and of race was desirable quite unconditionally; but which, in our altered conditions, require not moderating, but actually replacing by something more discriminating, less wasteful and mischievous. Vanity, for instance, covetousness, ferocity, are surely destined to be evolved away, the useful work they once accomplished being gradually performed by instincts of more recent growth which spoil less in the process.

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Grass of Parnassus--Andrew Lang
Nay, not in Kor, but in whatever spot,/ In town or field, or by the insatiate sea,/ Men brood on buried loves, and unforgot,/ Or break themselves on some divine decree,/ Or would o'erleap the limits of their lot,/ There, in the tombs and deathless, dwelleth SHE!

Graustark--George Barr McCutcheon
"Not in the least," he gasped, the breath knocked out of his body. Just the same, he was very much alarmed. It was as dark as pitch outside and in, and he could not help wondering how near the edge of the mountain side they were running. A false move of the flying horses and they might go rolling to the bottom of the ravine, hundreds of feet below. Still, he must not let her see his apprehension. "This fellow is considered the best driver in the mountains," he prevaricated. Just then he remembered having detected liquor on the man's breath as he closed the door behind him. Perhaps he was intoxicated!

Great Expectations
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Green Fancy--George Barr McCutcheon
Barnes held up his hand for silence. "Listen," he said in a low voice, "I will tell you who they were looking for." As briefly as possible he recounted his experience with the strange young woman at the cross- roads. "From the beginning I have connected this tragedy with the place called Green Fancy. I'll stake my last penny that they have been hanging around here waiting for the arrival of that young woman. They knew she was coming and they doubtless knew what she was bringing with her. They went to Green Fancy to-night with a very sinister purpose in mind, and things didn't turn out as they expected. What do you know about the place called Green Fancy?"

Guest's Confession
He looked pitifully ill, and yet somehow more intensely himself than ever. He drew a letter from under his pillow. "This came to-day," he said. "Stevens writes me that Guest yesterday paid down the twenty thousand dollars in full. It's quick work. I hope he's not robbed Peter to pay Paul."

Gulliver of Mars--Edwin L. Arnold
Improved text, supersedes earlier version.

Guns of the Gods
Yasmini left them, and walked alone to the very edge of the pond, where she stood still for several minutes, apparently gazing at her own reflection in the moonlit water-or perhaps listening. There was no sign of any one else, nor sound of footfall. Then, as if the reflection satisfied, or she had heard some whisper meant for her and none else, she began to dance, moving very slowly in the first few rhythmic steps, resembling a water-goddess, the clinging silk displaying her young outline as she bent and swayed.

Guy Garrick
"Afraid-nothing. I tell you, we've got to do it. They're getting too close to us. We've either got to get Garrick or do something that'll call him off for good. Why, man, the whole game is up if he keeps on the way he has been going-let alone the risk we have of getting caught."

Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer, Vol. I
This text, from a 1912 version, is a bit different from that one I have...

Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer, Vol. II
'Why, to be sure, sir, it's no right to mention what is said before ane; ye heard how that dirty body Quid cast up to me the bits o' compliments he gied me, and tell'd ower again ony loose cracks I might hae had wi' him; now if ane was talking loosely to your honour, there's nae saying what might come o't.'

Hacker Crackdown--Bruce Sterling
Note: Literary Freeware, won't be on CD, explains the Atari 2600, among other things.

HAGAR OF THE PAWN-SHOP--Fergus Hume
Hagar hesitated. The article, notwithstanding its workmanship, its age, and its historical associations, was worth very little. Had its interest consisted of these merely, she would not have taken the key in pawn. But the row of mysterious figures decided her. Here was a secret, connected-as was probable from the remark of the old man-with a hidden treasure. Remembering her experience with the cryptogram of the Florentine Dante, Hagar determined to retain the key, and, if possible, to discover the secret.

HALL-MARKED. A SATIRIC TRIFLE
THE SQUIRE. [Taking EDWARD by the collar, and holding his own nose] Jove! Clever if he can smell anything but himself. Phew! She ought to have the Victoria Cross for goin' in that pond.

Halo--Tom Maddox
He stepped up and into a chrome half-egg, then shivered and lay back as body-warmth liquid bled into the slack plastic, which began to balloon underneath him. He took hold of finger-thick cables and pushed their junction ends home into the sockets set in the back of his neck. As the egg continued to fill, he fit a mask over his face, felt its edges seal, and inhaled.

HANDS IN THE DARK--Maxwell Grant
A sudden gurgle came from Barker's throat. Hands from the dark had gripped his throat! He dropped the paper and sought to break the throttling hold. He could not. His own hands were feeble. The clutching fingers tightened- choking, choking, choking! Reynold Barker's brain was whirling. His eyes were bulging, but unseeing.

Hans Huckebein--Wilhelm Busch
Hier sieht man Bruder Franz und Fritzen/ Zu zweit in einer Wanne sitzen./ Die alte Lene geht;-und gleich/ Da treibt man lauter dummes Zeug./

HAPPY DEATH DAY
"Speak up, man!" Cranston's voice was sharp with command. "I know that you bought the poison! I know that you took it out of your suitcase along with the pernod! You had that note, forged by yourself, that you pretended had come from Foster, in your hand when you put the poison in the cracked glass! You didn't take any chances of the wrong person getting that glass! You served the drinks! You held the tray out in such a way that the chipped glass was the only one that Mrs. Lively could reach!"

Hardscrabble--John Richardson
Full title: HARDSCRABBLE; or, The Fall of Chicago A Tale of Indian Warfare

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil--Anthony Trollope
Full title: HARRY HEATHCOTE OF GANGOIL A Tale of Australian Bush-Life

He Knew He Was Right
'I have said that nobody is to be admitted. Louis has driven me to that. How can I look the servant in the face and tell him that any special gentleman is not to be admitted to see me? Oh dear! oh dear! have I done anything to deserve it? Was ever so monstrous an accusation made against any woman! If it were not for my boy, I would defy him to do his worst.'

Head Hunters of the Amazon--F. W. Up de Graff
Suddenly with a yell he broke cover and came sprinting down toward the water. At first we could think of nothing but a war-party of Huambizas. In another second, however, we spotted the cause of his terror. Not two yards behind him, skimming over the ground at the same pace as its quarry, came a black snake. With a howl Ambusha dashed into the water, just in time to escape the venomous fangs. The snake halted. At that moment, I seized my rifle and shot its head off.

Healthful Sports for Boys--Alfred Rochefort
I like work that develops the ingenuity of the boy. On a long mill pond out in Kentucky-this was some years ago-I came upon some boys who were managing a raft propelled by a sail made from two bed sheets. The body of this strange craft consisted of four logs, sharpened at the bow and of varying length, so as to present a wedge point to the water. Across the logs cleats were nailed that kept them together and answered for a deck. A stout pole, secured in front, served for a mast and a smaller pole, with a piece of board nailed to the end, acted as a rudder.

Heart of the Sunset--Rex Beach
"Dave, was you ever treed by wild hogs? That's how them two people kept after me. You'd have thought I'd deprived 'em of their young. I didn't want to hurt 'em, but whenever I'd run they'd tangle my legs. By and by I got so short of breath that I couldn't run, so I fell on top of the man. But the woman got me by the legs and rolled me under. I busted out and hoofed it again, but they caught me and down we went, me on top. Then that man's helpmate grabbed my legs and rolled me over, like she did before.

HEBRAIC LITERATURE--Anonymous
Full title: HEBRAIC LITERATURE: TRANSLATIONS FROM THE TALMUD MIDRASHIM AND KABBALA

Hector's Inheritance
At the time he was saving his money, he regarded himself as the heir and future possessor of the estate, and had no expectation of ever needing it. It had been in his mind that it would give him an opportunity of helping, out of his private funds, any deserving poor person who might apply to him. When the unexpected revelation had been made to him that he had no claim to the estate, he was glad that he was not quite penniless.

Hedda Gabler
HEDDA. Indeed? [Looks at the address.] Why yes, it's addressed in Aunt Julia's hand. Well then, he has remained at Judge Brack's. And as for Eilert Lovborg-he is sitting, with vine leaves in his hair, reading his manuscript.

HEGESIPPUS
And, when many were fully convinced by these words, and offered praise for the testimony of James, and said, "Hosanna to the son of David," then again the said Pharisees and scribes said to one another, "We have not done well in procuring this testimony to Jesus. But let us go up and throw him down, that they may be afraid, and not believe him." And they cried aloud, and said: "Oh! oh! the just man himself is in error."

Helden--George Bernard Shaw
Katharina [strenge, waehrend sie ihren Weg nach der Tuer fortsetzt]: O nein, mein Kind, die Laeden muessen verriegelt bleiben; du wuerdest sicher darueber einschlafen und sie offen lassen. Riegele sie ganz zu, Louka.

HELLAS--Percy Bysshe Shelley
SATAN:/ Be as all things beneath the empyrean,/ Mine! Art thou eyeless like old Destiny,/ Thou mockery-king, crowned with a wreath of thorns?/ Whose sceptre is a reed, the broken reed/ Which pierces thee! whose throne a chair of scorn;/ For seest thou not beneath this crystal floor/

Helping Himself
Full title: Helping Himself Or Grant Thornton's Ambition

Her Weight in Gold--George Barr McCutcheon
It began to occur to her that Captain Studdiford was somehow the superior of any man she had ever seen. She felt a joy that he had fought a duel, although the thought that he had killed a man caused her to shudder. With the shudder, however, came the relieved feeling that he had not been the victim. Her face flushed faintly, too, as she recalled his strange avowal of love.

Herbert Carter's Legacy--Horatio Alger
"She appeared to expect the bulk of the property. I am afraid her husband will have a hard time of it for a week to come," said the lawyer, laughing. He will have to bear the brunt of her disappointment. Well, there seems no more for us to do here. We have found out the value of your legacy, and may lock the trunk again. If you will lend a hand, we will take it across to my house, so that there may be no delay when the stage calls in the morning."

Hermann und Dorothea
Als nun der geistliche Herr den fremden Richter befragte, Was die Gemeine gelitten, wie lang sie von Hause vertrieben, Sagte der Mann darauf: "Nicht kurz sind unsere Leiden; Denn wir haben das Bittre der saemtlichen Jahre getrunken, Schrecklicher, weil auch uns die schoenste Hoffnung zerstoert ward. Denn wer leugnet es wohl, dass hoch sich das Herz ihm erhoben, Ihm die freiere Brust mit reineren Pulsen geschlagen,

Heroic Legends--Agnes Grozier Herbertson
The youth replied: "Sir, I had a father, a good and gentle knight. And on a day it chanced that he fell asleep, wearing this coat. And, while he slept, one whose name I know not fell upon him, and hacked him to pieces-a foul deed! Wherefore as the coat was then, so I wear it; and it shall be upon me till I have avenged my father's death."

HIDDEN DEATH
"No one was in here," declared Cardona, "nor was any one in the room that Harshaw used as a laboratory"-he pointed to the other side of the living room -"so they broke into the old man's study. There, they found his body."

Hidden Treasure--John Thomas Simpson
"I want to get posted on farm building construction, Bob," he remarked, one day when the building was nearly completed. "You see, I'm going to preach the gospel of modern buildings among our farmers and loan them money for their improvements, and I want to see how the thing is done. I want them to get rid of the continual cost of up- keep, to say nothing of the loss of time spent in repairing old buildings, time they could use to earn good American dollars. How soon are you going to start the hen house you were talking about?"

His Sombre Rivals
"Yes, I know she is engaged to your friend, Warren Hilland. She came over in the dusk of last evening, and, sitting just where you are, told me all. I kept up. It was not for me to reveal your secret. I let the happy girl talk on, kissed her, and wished her all the happiness she deserves. Grace is unlike other girls, or I should have known about it long ago. I don't think she even told her father until she had first written to him her full acknowledgment. Your friend, however, had gained her father's consent to his addresses long since. She told me that."

Histoire d'un casse-noisette--Alexandre Dumas
Il faut tout dire aussi, car on croirait que notre sympathie pour l'illustre milice citoyenne dont nous faisons partie nous aveugle: ce n'était pas la faute des hussards et des fantassins de Fritz s'ils n'étaient pas en mesure aussi rapidement que les autres. Fritz, après avoir placé les sentinelles perdues et les postes avancés, avait caserné le reste de son armée dans quatre boîtes qu'il avait refermées sur elle.

Histoires grises--E. Edouard Tavernier
Celui-là avait hérité cinq mille francs d'une tante; la fille, qui avait le sens de la vie, avait exigé l'abandon des carrières libérales, en telle sorte que son époux n'avait descendu que de quelques crans. Plutarque n'avait pas idée de l'endroit où se trouvent la boutique, il avait appris seulement que les affaires de son ami marchaient et que Ginette avait eu deux jumelles. Cette possibilité de les rencontrer était encore trop pour lui; il prit brusquement le parti de s'installer ailleurs et repartit aussitôt de ce pas lent, cadencé et rasant le sol qu'ont tous les chemineaux du monde.

HISTORY OF ARMENIA.--MOSES OF CHORENE.
Thenceforth Thaddaeus began to preach the Gospel to the king and his town; laying his hands upon Abgar, he cured him; he cured also a man with gout, Abdu, a prince of the town, much honoured in all the king's house. He also heated all the sick and infirm people in the town, and all believed in Jesus Christ. Abgar was baptized, and all the town with him, and the temples of the false gods were closed, and all the statues of idols that were placed on the altars and columns were hidden by being covered with reeds. Abgar did not compel any one to embrace the faith yet from day to day the number of the believers was multiplied.

History of the Donner Party--C.F. McGlashan
Eleven children were born to them, and four are now living. One of these, Lillie, now lives in Sacramento with her husband. Another, Paulina, a widow, resides in San Rafael. Bertha and Augusta live with the father at Brighton, Sacramento County. Both these children are hopelessly idiotic. Bertha is twenty-six years of age, and has never uttered an intelligible word. Augusta is fifteen years old, weighs two hundred and five pounds, and possesses only slight traces of intelligence. Teething spasms, occurring when they were about two years old, is the cause of their idiocy. Both are subject to frequent and violent spasms or epileptic fits.

History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee
Full title: History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee, Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee

Homeward Bound; or, The Chase. A Tale of the Sea, V1
"She has the heels of us, and she weathers on us, as it is," grumbled the master; "and that might satisfy a man less modest. I have led the gentleman such a tramp already that he will be in none of the best humours when he comes alongside, and we may make up our minds on seeing Portsmouth again before we see New-York, unless a slant of wind, or the night, serve us a good turn. I trust, Leach, you have not been destroying your prospects in life by looking too wistfully at a tobacco-field?"

Homeward Bound; or, The Chase. A Tale of the Sea, Volume 2
"I have it!" said Paul, grasping his companion almost convulsively by the arm. "We are at the inlet, and heading, I trust, directly through it! You hear the cries on our right; they come from the end of the northern reef, while these on our left are from the end of the southern. The sounds from the ship, the direction of the land breeze, our distance-all confirm it, and Providence again befriends us!"

HOMILY ON HABIB THE MARTYR--COMPOSED BY MAR JACOB
Then errour grew envious, became furious, and was maddened, because of him; And she pursued after him, that she might shed upon the earth innocent blood. The Defamer, who hates the race of men, Laid snares for him, that he might rid the place of his presence.[1] He who hateth the truth pursued after him to put him to death, That he might make his voice to cease[2] from the teaching of the house of God. And errour raised an outcry demanding that Habib should die, because she hated him; Vexation goaded her on, and she sought to take away his life.

Homo Sum
"You will seek in vain," replied Petrus, commanding himself with difficulty. "My word is yea or nay, and I repeat once more no, we harbor neither her nor him. As for Dorothea and myself-neither of us is inclined to interfere in your concerns, but neither will we permit another-be he whom he may-to interfere in ours. This threshold shall never be crossed by any but those to whom I grant permission, or by the emperor's judge, to whom I must yield. You, I forbid to enter. Sirona is not here, and you would do better to seek her elsewhere than to fritter away your time here."

Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process
When knowledge and insight do not enter the service of an ideal, they become the tools of self-aggrandizing behavior. Knowledge bestows competitive advantage when it is used as a private asset. Communication based on special knowledge may be used to impress others, especially if the individual is secretive and dishonest in failing to tell all he knows. The self-aggrandizing use of information has great practical applications in the adaptive life of human beings. When such methods are used in the surplus emotional life, intruding on the area which belongs to deep feeling and its concomitant insights, love can degenerate into a destructive force. There is a fear of love in the civilized world, based on this tendency for entrapment and exploitation.

Hookum Hai
"Maybe it's true," he muttered, "and maybe it's all lies; there's no knowing. Maybe India's going to run blood, as these fakirs seem to think, and maybe it isn't. There'll be more blood shed than mine in that case! `Hookum hai'--`It is orders,' heh ? Well--there's more than one sort of `Hookum hai!' I've got my orders too!"

Hours of Solitude, VII--Charlotte Dacre
Her eyes they laugh malice while slily she speaks,/ And affects to inquire what she knows;/ Her heart well can answer the question she seeks,/ And the cause whence that sorrow arose./

Hours of Solitude. A Collection of Original Poems, V1--Charlotte Dacre
For long I thought all feeling gone;/ Disgust had seiz'd my heart:/ I view'd the selfish world with scorn,/ But pride conceal'd my smart-/

How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery--E. F. Benson
The watchers in the room below ran upstairs startled by the crash of his fallen body, and found him lying in the grip of some dread convulsion. Just before morning he regained consciousness and told his tale. Then pointing with trembling and ash-grey finger towards the door, he screamed aloud, and so fell back dead.

How He Left the Hotel--Louisa Baldwin
One day in February I didn't take the Colonel up in the lift, and as he was regular as clockwork, I noticed it, but I supposed he'd gone away for a few days, and I thought no more about it. Whenever I stopped on the fourth floor the door of Number 210 was shut, and as he often left it open, I made sure the Colonel was away. At the end of a week I heard a chambermaid say that Colonel Saxby was ill, so thinks I that's why he hadn't been in the lift lately.

How I Found Livingstone--Sir Henry M. Stanley
I imagine that these ant-hills were formed during a remarkably wet season, when, possibly, the forest-clad plain was inundated. I have seen the ants at work by thousands, engaged in the work of erecting their hills in other districts suffering from inundation. What a wonderful system of cells these tiny insects construct! A perfect labyrinth--cell within cell, room within room, hall within hall--an exhibition of engineering talents and high architectural capacity--a model city, cunningly contrived for safety and comfort!

How Superior Powers Ought To Be Obeyed--Christopher Goodman
Full title: How Superior Powers Ought To Be Obeyed By Their Subjects: And Wherein They May Lawfully By God's Word Be Disobeyed And Resisted. Wherein also is declared the cause of all this present misery in England, and the only way to remedy the same.

How the Man Came to Twinkling Island--Melville Chater
To this she vouchsafed nothing, but swung onward, shifting her heavy basket from one hand to the other; then a strong grasp intervened, and she found herself burdenless. In the village streets of Potuck and Nogantic, shamefaced lads had offered such help a hundred times, and she had accepted it, flattered by their homage; but the quick, silent action of this big, red-haired man thrilled her with strange anger.

How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries--Amelia B. Edwards
"Because I have a warning against him," replied George, very gravely. "Because, whenever he is by, I feel as if my eyes saw clearer, and my ears heard keener, than at other times. Maybe it's presumption, but I sometimes feel as if I had a call to guard myself and others against him. Look at the children, Ben, how they shrink away from him; and see there, now!

How to Fail in Literature--Andrew Lang
But when we look round on the vast multitude of writers who, to all seeming, deliberately aim at failure, who take every precaution in favour of failure that untutored inexperience can suggest, it becomes plain that education in ill-success, is really a popular want. In the following remarks some broad general principles, making disaster almost inevitable, will first be offered, and then special methods of failing in all special departments of letters will be ungrudgingly communicated.

How To Study and Teaching How To Study--F. M. McMurry
This indicates the positive acceptance of specific purposes as guides in study. They are not by any means full guarantees of an outcome of knowledge in conduct, for they are only the plans by which the student hopes that his knowledge will function. Since plans often fail of accomplishment, these purposes may never be realized. But they give promise of some outcome and form one important step in a series of steps necessary for the fruition of knowledge.

Hubertus in Flight--Paul Alverdes
The keeper had noticed the tracks of a fox and we resolved to lie in wait for it that evening when the stars were out and when the moon's stronger light fell on the fresh snow. It was bitterly cold and the sky was clear and thronged with stars. Occasionally a glimmer of powdery snow traversed the soundless air. The forest stood tranced. Finally I left my place in the clearing and tramped across to Hubertus.

Hugues, the Wer-Wolf--Sutherland Menzies
Yet, despite that recklessness and anguish which clouded his features, one, incredulous of his atrocities, could not have failed to admire the savage beauty of his head, cast in nature's noblest mould, crowned with a profusion of waving hair, and set upon shoulders whose robust and harmonious proportions were discoverable through the tattered attire investing them.

Hunting Sketches
And there is much excellent good sense in the mode of riding adopted by such gentlemen. Some men ride for hunting, some for jumping, and some for exercise; some, no doubt, for all three of these things. Given a man with a desire for the latter, no taste for the second, and some partiality for the first, and he cannot do better than ride in the manner I am describing. He may be sure that he will not find himself alone; and he may be sure also that he will incur none of that ridicule which the non-hunting man is disposed to think must be attached to such a pursuit.

Huttens Letzte Tage--C.F. Meyer
Weil etwas kahl mein Kaemmerlein ich fand,/ Sprach ich zum Pfarrer: Ziere mir die Wand./ -"Da meine Brief' und Helgen! Hutten, schaut,/ Was Euch belustigt oder auferbaut!/

HYMNS TO NIGHT--Adelbert Chamisso
For ever now from everything departed/ That here can swell the heart with sweet delight,/ Torn now from the beloved one, who, sad-hearted,/ On earth could but desire and grief excite,/ A feeble dream seemed to the dead imparted,/ Powerless striving made man's only right;/

I Watched the Heavens--Caroline Clive
So saying, on the ground his form he threw,/ And gnash'd the herbs around him in his woe,/ Then his clench'd hand towards the skies he threw,/ And gibber'd words like hate, but short and low,/ Forced through closed teeth, as though his inward pain/ Sought something to accuse, and sought in vain./

If I Were King--Justin Huntly McCarthy
The girl whom purple-coated René had kissed so rudely shivered a little. "A strange reason for liking a man," she whispered, "that he make you sad." She glanced wistfully round at her companions: to the faces of the women the influence of the song had lent an unwonted softness, but had brought no touch of tenderness to those of the men. Jehan le Loup banged his fist heavily on the table in furious protestation till the cans and flagons rattled.

III. ON THE VEILING OF VIRGINS
Let us now see whether the apostle withal observes the norm of this name in accordance with Genesis, attributing it to the sex; calling the virgin Mary a woman, just as Genesis (does) Eve. For, writing to the Galatians, "God," he says, "sent His own Son, made of a woman,"(3) who, of course, is admitted to have been a virgin, albeit Hebion(4) resist (that doctrine). I recognise, too, the angel Gabriel as having been sent to "a virgin."(5) But when he is blessing her, it is "among women," not among virgins, that he ranks her: "Blessed (be) thou among women." The angel withal knew that even a virgin is called a woman.

IKUTA--Zembo Motoyaso
Beauty, perception, knowledge, motion, consciousness,-/ The Five Attributes of Being,-/ All are vain mockery./ How comes it that men prize/ So weak a thing as body?

Imitation of Anacreon and Other
IT happened, one of them so nicely played,/ The fav'rite lass produced a little maid,/ Which both extolled, and each his own believed,/ Though doubtless one or t'other was deceived.

In a Cellar
"Any of our volatile friends here might have been," I resumed; "for us it is impossible. Concerning this, when you return to France, I will relate the incidents; at present, there are those who will not hesitate to take life to obtain its possession. A conveyance leaves in twenty minutes; and if I owned the diamond, it should not leave me behind. Moreover, who knows what a day may bring forth? To-morrow there may be an émeute. Let me restore the thing as you withdraw."

In a Walled Garden--Bessie Rayner Belloc
My younger public, having read the foregoing pages, assure me that I have not given a sufficient description of George Eliot herself. One of them even says, "You have opened a door and shut it in our faces," adding that, as I had known her so well, I must have something more to say of the most remarkable woman of my generation.

In Kedar's Tents--Henry Seton Merriman
'He arrived in Ronda under singularly unfortunate circumstances, and I was compelled to have his travelling companion shot. Then occurred that affair of the letter, which he gave to Julia-an affair which has never been explained. Conyngham would have to show me that letter before I should be quite satisfied. I obtained for him an introduction to General Espartero in Madrid. That was six or seven weeks ago. The introduction has not been presented, nor has Conyngham been seen in Madrid. In England, on his own confession, he was rather a scamp; why not the same in Spain?'

In Kropfsberg Keep--Ralph Adams Cram
No one dared touch him, and so he hung there for twelve years, and all the time venturesome boys and daring men used to creep up the turret steps and stare awfully through the chinks in the door at that ghostly mass of steel that held within itself the body of a murderer and suicide, slowly returning to the dust from which it was made. Finally it disappeared, none knew whither, and for another dozen years the room stood empty but for the old furniture and the rotting hangings.

In Maytime--Anne Maynard Kidder
The victim serenely played into their hands. When the conspirators appeared Timothy was just in the agony of trying to hide his near-sightedness and at the same time discover which was his gate. All the officials seemed occupied at that moment, and he had no time to go back to the bureau of information.

In Secret--Robert W. Chambers
"I know you escaped from the Holzminden prison-camp in Germany; that you were inhumanly treated there by the Boche; that you entered the United States Intelligence Service; and that, whatever may be your business here, I am to help further it at your request." He looked at the girl: "As concerning Miss Erith, I know only that she is in the same Government service as yourself and that I am to afford her any aid she requests."

In Summer-Time--Dollie Radford
To where the stream for ever springs,/ So clear and bright,/ From some sweet store of precious things/ Far out of sight.

In The Blue Pike
Whence did they come? They seemed to have increased by thousands since the early morning, when the room was empty. The outside air appeared delightful to breathe. He longed to fill his lungs again with the pure wind of heaven, and at the same time catch a few words of the conversation between the envoys to the Reichstag.

In the Closed Room
Once, as she tossed on her cot-bed, she broke into a low little laugh to think how untrue things really were and how strange it was that people did not understand-that even she felt as she lay in the darkness that she could not get away. And she could not get away unless the train would stop just long enough to let her fall asleep. If she could fall asleep between the trains, she would not awaken. But they came so quickly one after the other.

In the Days When the World Was Wide--Henry Lawson
The night too quickly passes/ And we are growing old,/ So let us fill our glasses/ And toast the Days of Gold;/ When finds of wondrous treasure/ Set all the South ablaze,

In the Fire Of The Forge
Her heart shrank from the thought that, merely from vain pleasure in having a throng of admirers, she had given this scoundrel more than one glance of encouragement. The riding whip fairly quivered in her right hand as, after informing Ernst Ortlieb where Els had gone, she warned the gentlemen that it was time to depart, and Seitz Siebenburg submissively, yet as familiarly as if he had a right to her special favour, held out his hand in farewell.

IN THE GRIP OF THE GREEN DEMON
He went on unconcernedly taking in the empty chairs and tables. A few minutes later there swaggered up to the cafe two of the most disreputable, low-browed scoundrels I had ever seen, each wearing a dark blue cap, with a glazed peak over the eyes, caps exactly similar to the one which lay in front of Simard. The band of Apaches which now permeates all Paris has risen since my time, and Simard had been mistaken an hour before in asserting that Valmont was familiar with their haunts.

In the Mirror--Valery Bryusov
After this our duels were renewed every day. I realised that this adventuress had purposely forced herself into my home to destroy me and take my place in this world. But I had not sufficient strength to deny myself this struggle. In this rivalry there was a kind of secret intoxication. The very possibility of defeat had hidden in it a sort of sweet seduction. Sometimes I forced myself for whole days to keep away from the pier-glass

In the Pecos Country--Lieutenant R.H. Jayne
The ringing voice of Sut Simpson, aroused the boy, who, finding himself loose from the grasp of the Indian, bounded forward again. But he had scarcely done so, when the tramp of horses' hoofs were heard, and a warrior, more daring than the others, sent his mustang forward with arrowy swiftness, not behind the lad, but directly in front of him, so that he was compelled to turn to one side, in the attempt to dodge him.

In the Shadow of the Glen
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In the South Seas
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In the Tube--E. F. Benson
The actual commission of it, I think we can reasonably argue, is the mere material sequel of his resolve: he is guilty of it when he makes that determination. When, therefore, in the term of 'before' and 'after,' does the crime truly take place? There is also in my story a further point for your consideration. For it seems certain that the spirit of a man, after the death of his body, is obliged to re-enact such a crime, with a view, I suppose we may guess, to his remorse and his eventual redemption.

IN THE WINE SHOP
He also asked what had happened to me since we separated. I gave him a rough idea, at the same time calling the waiter to bring a cup and chopsticks, so that he could share my wine while we had another two catties heated. We also ordered dishes. In the past we had never stood on ceremony, but now we began to be so formal that neither would choose a dish, and finally we fixed on four suggested by the waiter: peas spiced with aniseed, cold meat, fried beancurd, and salted fish.

Indiscretions of Archie
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Inebriety and the Candidate--George Crabbe
Intoxication flies, as fury fled,/ On rooky pinions quits the aching head;/ Returning reason cools the fiery blood,/ And drives from memory's seat the rosy god./ Yet still he holds o'er some his maddening rule./ Still sways his sceptre, and still knows his fool;/ Witness the livid lip, and fiery front,/

Inland Waterways--James Otis
"We don't want your money," Phil replied, trying in vain to repress his anger. "We gave you notice that the bargain would not be carried out, and the steamer has been held without the slightest show of right, regardless of what you may say about a charter."

Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays
"The Public?" he said, and his voice had in it a faint surprise. "Well, they all want the taxis. It's natural. They get about faster in them, and time's money. I was seven hours before I picked you up. And then you was lookin' for a taxi. Them as take us because they can't get better, they're not in a good temper, as a rule. And there's a few old ladies that's frightened of the motors, but old ladies aren't never very free with their money-can't afford to be, the most of them, I expect."

Innocent--Marie Corelli
"Now the way is clear!" she said-"I can do what I like-I have my wings, and I can fly away! Oh Dad, dear Dad!-you would be so unhappy if you knew what I mean to do!-it would break your heart, Dad!-but you have no heart to break now, poor Dad!-it is cold as stone!-it will never beat any more! Mine is the heart that beats!-the heart that burns, and aches, and hurts me!-ah!-how it hurts! And no one can understand-no one will ever care to understand!"

Insectivorous Plants
It follows from these few facts that different kinds of seeds excite the leaves in very different degrees; whether this is solely due to the nature of their coats is not clear. In the case of the cress seeds, the partial removal of the layer of mucus hastened the inflection of the tentacles. Whenever the leaves remain inflected during several days over seeds, it is clear that they absorb some matter from them. -- etext formatting dedicated, as always, to the Kansas State Board of Education.

Inside of the Cup
Hodder glanced up, involuntarily, at the window of the woman he had visited the night before, but it was empty. He hurried along the littered sidewalks to the drug store, where he telephoned an undertaker; and then, as an afterthought, telephoned the hospital. The boy had arrived, and was seemingly no worse for the journey.

Instead of an Article--Brand Whitlock
Full title: Instead of an Article: About Pittsburg and, Incidentally, about Editing a Magazine

Introduction to Robert Browning--Hiram Corson
We two stood there with never a third,/ But each by each, as each knew well:/ The sights we saw and the sounds we heard,/ The lights and the shades made up a spell/ Till the trouble grew and stirred./

Iphigenie auf Tauris
Iphigenie./ Unglücklicher, ich löse deine Bande/ Zum Zeichen eines schmerzlichern Geschicks./ Die Freiheit, die das Heiligthum gewährt,/ Ist, wie der letzte lichte Lebensblick/ Des schwer Erkrankten, Todesbote. Noch/ Kann ich es mir und darf es mir nicht sagen,/

Irenaeus Against Heresies, v1
3. They further maintain that the passion which took place in the case of the twelfth AEon is pointed at by the apostasy of Judas, who was the twelfth apostle, and also by the fact that Christ suffered in the twelfth month. For their opinion is, that He continued to preach for one year only after His baptism. The same thing is also most clearly indicated by the case of the woman who suffered from an issue of blood.

Irenaeus Against Heresies, v2
3. These arguments may, in like manner, be adapted to meet the case of all those who, in any way, maintain that the world was formed either by angels or by any other one than the true God. For the charges which they bring against the Demiurge, and those things which were made material and temporal, will in truth fall back on the Father; if indeed the(7) very things which were formed in the bosom of the Pleroma began by and by in fact to be dissolved, in accordance with the permission and good-will of the Father.

Irenaeus Against Heresies, v3
4. It follows then, as of course, that these men must either receive the rest of his narrative, or else reject these parts also. For no persons of common sense can permit them to receive some things recounted by Luke as being true, and to set others aside, as if he had not known the truth. And if indeed Marcion's followers reject these, they will then possess no Gospel; for, curtailing that according to Luke, as I have said already, they boast in having the Gospel [in what remains].

Irenaeus Against Heresies, v4
3. And teaching this very thing, He said to the Jews: "Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see my day; and he saw it, and was glad"(5) What is intended? "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness."(6) In the first place, [he believed] that He was the maker of heaven and earth, the only God; and in the next place, that He would make his seed as the stars of heaven. This is what is meant by Paul, [when he says,] "as lights in the world."(7) Righteously, therefore, having left his earthly kindred, he followed the Word of God, walking as a pilgrim with the Word, that he might [afterwards] have his abode with the Word.

Irenaeus Against Heresies, v5
2. If, again, they refer to any cause on account of which their Father does not impart life to bodies, then that cause must necessarily appear superior to the Father, since it restrains Him from the exercise of His benevolence; and His benevolence will thus be proved weak, on account of that cause which they bring forward. Now every one must perceive that bodies are capable of receiving life. For they live to the extent that God pleases that they should live

Isabella, or The Adventures of A Nun
What was to be done? To get out of that strong dungeon was not so easy a matter as she had found her escape from her convent; and the noose of a rope, which now so imminently presented itself to her fears, was a very different thing from the slight punishments that had formerly expiated the wildest tricks of the novice of St. Dominic. Perplexed and exasperated she folded her arms across her chest, and as she made this motion her hand came in contact with some hard substance: it was a pocket-book which she usually had upon her person.

IT SNOWS--ENRICO CASTELNUOVO
How many thoughts are thronging through his head, how many affections are contending in his heart! If he could but banish the vision of Signora Evelina-but he tries in vain. He is haunted by those blue eyes, by that persuasive smile, that graceful and harmonious presence. He has but to say the word, and he knows that she will be his, to brighten his solitary home, and fill it with life and love.

JABBERWOCKY THRUST
Cranston was perfectly willing to allow the silence to do his work for him. What a mad rat-race the killer's brain must be going through! What addition and subtraction... was everything all right... was there any slip? Any clue? There was no discernible indication on the killer's face, but it would have been beyond humanity if the killer hadn't been in a stew.

Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums--Mark Overton
During this period the Chester spectators sat with a numb feeling clutching their hearts, though they tried their best to assume a confidence they could hardly feel. Their boys were really novices at the business, and it was to be expected, they reasoned, trying to bolster up their waning courage, that at first things would hit the Chester line hard. But just wait a bit, until they began to recover their wind, and Jack Winters was given a fair chance to unmask some of his hidden batteries. "He laughs longest who laughs last," was a saying with a good deal of truth behind it; and anyhow the game was very young yet. Besides, Marshall hadn't scored, after all, it seemed.

Jacob Faithful
On our arrival at the wharf, Marables came up to me, and said, "Now, Jacob, as I have honestly told you the secret, I hope you won't ruin me by saying a word to Mr. Drummond." I had before made up my mind to say nothing to my master until my suspicions were confirmed, and I therefore gave my promise; but I had also resolved to impart my suspicions, as well as what I had seen, to the old Dominie. On the third day after our arrival I walked out to the school, and acquainted him with all that had passed, and asked him for his advice.

JACOB MEADOWS: OR, TOO LATE TO REPENT--BY EDWIN F. ROBERTS
But the infatuated man, with a tremendous oath, re-demanded the fiery spirit; and as she did not move, he rose up, staggered towards her, and would have struck her had not the boy John at that moment entered, and seeing what was about to happen, with a cry sprang between them, and received the blow meant for the mother, which felled him to the ground.

Jacob's Room--Virginia Woolf
From a reprint of the 1921 edition. Thanks to everyone who helped put this work together.

Jan of the Windmill--Juliana Horatia Ewing
"What's ten shillings a week to you?" cried the windmiller, who was fairly exasperated, in tones so loud that they were audible in the dwelling room, where the stranger, standing by the three-legged table, stroked his lips twice or thrice with his hand, as if to smooth out a cynical smile which strove to disturb their decorous and somewhat haughty compression.

Jane Austen and Her Times--G. E. Mitton
The whole tone of Jane's own writings and letters redeems her memory from any possible reproach of affectation, and the evidence all points to the fact that though not averse from a flirtation, she was the very last of all girls to desire a husband! But it is of interest to record contemporary impressions, so as to show both sides of the shield.

Jane Cable--George Barr McCutcheon
"Not distinctly," answered Droom. "He struck me as being a slim young fellow, that's all." Of one thing he was assured: the evidence of these two men would prove that he had acted as a valiant protector and not as a thug-a fear which had not left his mind until now. They had seen the fleeing assailant, but there was only one person who could identify him. That person was Frances Cable, the victim. If it was not James Bansemer, then who could it have been?

Janice Meredith--Paul Leicester Ford
"Severe?" laughed Janice. "If dear dadda is really angry, I'll let tears come into my eyes, and then he'll say he's sorry he hurt my feelings, and kiss me; but if he's only doing it to please mommy, I'll let my eyes shine, and then he'll laugh and tell me to kiss him. Oh, Tibbie, what a nice time we could have if women were only as easy to manage as men!" With this parting regret, Miss Meredith sallied forth to receive the expected reproof.--Note: Updated to fix encoding!!!

Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation--Lafcadio Hearn
The alternate drinking of rice-wine, by bridegroom and bride, from the same vessels, corresponds in a sort to the Roman confarreatio. By the wedding-rite the bride is adopted into the family religion. She is adopted not only by the living but by the dead; she must thereafter revere the ancestors of her husband as her own ancestors; and should there be no elders in the household, it will become her duty to make the offerings, as representative of her husband. With the cult of her own family she has nothing more to do; and the funeral ceremonies performed upon her departure from the parental roof,-the solemn sweeping-out of the house-rooms, the lighting of the death-fire before the gate,-are significant of this religious separation.

Japhet, in Search of Father
Homer has sung the battles of gods, demigods, and heroes; Milton the strife of angels. Swift has been great in his Battle of the Books; but I am not aware that the battle of the vials has as yet been sung; and it requires a greater genius than was to be found in those who portrayed the conflicts of heroes, demigods, gods, angels, or books, to do adequate justice to the mortal strife which took place between the lotions, potions, draughts, pills, and embrocations. I must tell the story as well as I can, leaving it as an outline for a future epic.

JEFF'S TREASURE
On the further slope were the same sad evidences of poor mortality, graves here and there and often all too shallow, broken muskets, bullet perforated canteens and torn knapsacks-the debris of a pitched battle. Many trees and shrubs were so lacerated that their foliage hung limp and wilting, while boughs with shrivelled leaves strewed the ground.

JEPPE OF THE HILL--Ludvig Holberg
FIRST LAWYER. Your honor has it on his own admission: he got drunk and in his drunkenness committed this unheard-of outrage. All that remains is to decide whether the guilt of such a gross misdeed can be held devoid of criminal intent because of intoxication. I argue that it cannot, for if it could, neither fornication nor murder could be punished, for every criminal could seek that escape and assert that he had committed his crime while intoxicated.

Jerry Bundler--W. W. Jacobs
"There's nothing to fear," said the other. "I don't believe for a moment that ghosts could really hurt one. In fact my father used to confess that it was only the unpleasantness of the thing that upset him, and that for all practical purposes, Jerry's fingers might have been made of cotton-wool for all the harm they could do."

Jess
What is the interpretation of it? Why does the great wind stir the deep waters? It does but ripple the shallow pool as it passes, for shallowness can but ripple and throw up shadows. We cannot tell, but this we know-that deep things only can be deeply moved. It is the penalty of depth and greatness; it is the price they pay for the divine privilege of suffering and sympathy. The shallow pools, the looking-glasses of our little life, know nought, feel nought. Poor things! they can but ripple and reflect.

JESUS OF NAZARETH
Note: Adapted from the French of Paul Demasy by Frank Morlock

Jezebel's Daughter
After no very long reflection, I decided that my best course would be to severely caution Joseph, and to say nothing to the partners of what had happened-for the present, at least. I should certainly do mischief, by setting the two old friends at variance again on the subject of the widow, if I spoke; to say nothing (as another result) of the likelihood of Joseph's dismissal by Mr. Keller. Actuated by these reasonable considerations, I am bound frankly to add that I must have felt some vague misgivings as well. Otherwise, why did I carefully examine Mr. Keller's room (before I returned to the theater), without any distinct idea of any conceivable discovery that I might make?

Jim Cummings--Frank Pinkerton
Full title: JIM CUMMINGS OR THE GREAT ADAMS EXPRESS ROBBERY With a portrait of the notorious Jim Cummings and illustrations of scenes connected with the great robbery (waiting on illustrations!)

Jimmie Higgins
Jimmie Higgins was beside himself with excitement. He danced about and waved his cap, he shouted himself hoarse, he almost yielded to the impulse to jump upon a pile of lumber and make a speech himself. Presently came Comrades Gerrity and Mary Allen, who had got wind of the trouble, and had loaded a whole edition of the Worker into a Ford; so Jimmie turned newsboy, selling these papers, hundreds of them, until his pockets were bursting with the weight of pennies and nickels.

JIMMY PAYS A DEBT--George Allan Moffatt
His moon-shaped face was red. His beady eyes flashed as he looked at Jimmy. "So a little kid that used to live in my neighborhood came back to get Big Pete," the mobster snarled. "Smart boy, you are, Jimmy Dale-smart like your old man. I told Killer Morgan to give you money but to keep his eye on you, Killer watched you; and when you got too inquisitive about those barges, we thought we'd take you for a little ride."

Joan of Arc--Charles Desnoyer--Translated and adapted by Frank J. Morlock
TYNDAL: Let's rejoice and no longer fear either Dunois or his companions in arms. They no longer have that which gave them strength, that which rendered them invincible. Ha, ha, ha! They lost their sorceress. (new bursts of laughter, much drinking)

Joconde
THIS perfidy Joconde so much dismay'd;/ His spirits droop'd, his lilies 'gan to fade;/ No more he look'd the charmer he had been;/ And when the court's gay dames his face had seen;/ They cried, Is this the beauty, we were told,/ Would captivate each heart, or young or old?

John Delavoy
"Not a line - not a syllable. Don't you remember how you warned me against spoiling it? It's of the thing we read together, liked together, went over and over together; it's of this dear little serious thing of good sense and good faith" - and I held up my roll of proof, shaking it even as Mr Beston had shaken it - "that he expresses that opinion."

John Greswold, Vol. I--Caroline Wigley Clive
Being new to her, she took a pride and a delight in seeing her brother appealed to, as the friend of all occasions; not as the richer man whose purse was thought of, but as the wiser, kinder, better man, to act for them and with them. She stood by silently when the walk they were taking together was interrupted by a peasant, to say he had a sick child, and the doctor said "it was bound to die; would his Reverence please to come and comfort its mother?"

John Greswold, Vol. II--Caroline Wigley Clive
But my next thought was indignant concern for Ruth. Was she to suffer mortification? Had she been led to form expectations and wishes by a man who preferred another? If I could but see her when first she heard the thing announced, I should be able to catch her real feelings, whatever they might be, and I became at once eager to be the first to bring her the news.

John Halifax, Gentleman--Mrs. Craik
"Ay!" It was one of the few things he had mentioned about that same London journey, for he had grown into a painful habit of silence now. Yet I dreaded to break it, lest any wounds rankling beneath might thereby be caused to smart once more. And our love to one another was too faithful for a little reserve to have power to influence it in any way.

Joshua
When the tribes, full of enthusiasm for their God, and ready for the most arduous enterprises, shook off their chains and, exulting in their new liberty, rushed forward to the Promised Land Moses, and with him the majority of the elders, had believed that, like a mountain torrent, bursting dams and sluices, they would destroy and overthrow everything that ventured to oppose their progress. With these enthusiastic masses, to whom bold advance would secure the highest good, and timid hesitation could bring nothing save death and ruin, they had expected to rush over the Etham line as if it were a pile of faggots.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides--James Boswell
Full title: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales--John Oxley
Full title: JOURNALS OF TWO EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES, BY ORDER OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN THE YEARS 1817-18.

Journeys Through Bookland V2--Charles H. Sylvester
Full title: JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND A NEW AND ORIGINAL PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

Journeys Through Bookland V3--Charles H. Sylvester
"Ridiculous!" cried the Queen. "Why, don't you see, child-" here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation. "What do you mean by 'If you really are a queen?' What right have you to call yourself so? You can't be a queen, you know, till you've passed the proper examination. And the sooner we begin it, the better."

Joy
MRS. HOPE. Molly says she'll be down by the eleven thirty. [In an injured voice.] She'll be here in half an hour! [Reading with disapproval from the letter.] "MAURICE LEVER is coming down by the same train to see Mr. Henty about the Tocopala Gold Mine. Could you give him a bed for the night?"

JUDAS ISCARIOT AND OTHERS--Leonid Andreyev
Judas on his part pretended to believe in the extraordinary ignorance of the chief priest, and spoke in detail of the preaching of Jesus, of His miracles, of His hatred for the Pharisees and the Temple, of His perpetual infringement of the Law, and eventually of His wish to wrest the power out of the hands of the priesthood, and to set up His own personal kingdom. And so cleverly did he mingle truth with lies, that Annas looked at him more attentively, and lazily remarked: "There are plenty of impostors and madmen in Judah."

Justice
RUTH. I'd have gone home to my people in the country long ago, but they've never got over me marrying Honeywill. I never was waywise, Mr. Cokeson, but I'm proud. I was only a girl, you see, when I married him. I thought the world of him, of course . . . he used to come travelling to our farm.

JUSTIN ON THE SOLE GOVERNMENT OF GOD
But forgetfulness having taken possession of the minds of men, through the long-suffering of God, has acted recklessly in transferring to mortals the name which is applicable to the only true God; and from the few the infection of sin spread to the many, who were blinded by popular usage to the knowledge of that which was lasting and unchangeable.

JUSTIN'S HORTATORY ADDRESS TO THE GREEKS
What does he mean by "I adjure thee by the Father's voice, which first He uttered?" It is the Word of God which he here names "the voice," by whom heaven and earth and the whole creation were made, as the divine prophecies of the holy men teach us; and these he himself also paid some attention to in Egypt, and understood that all creation was made by the Word of God; and therefore, after he says," I adjure thee by the Father's voice, which first He uttered," he adds this besides, "when by His counsel He established the whole world."

KABBALA DENUDATA: THE KABBALAH UNVEILED
426. "Therefore do not then all things depend from the influx? Also we have learned that the Book of the Law must be holy, and its covering holy, and the Temple holy. 427. "Also it is written, Isa. vi. 4: 'And they called one unto another and said: Holy, holy, holy!' Behold these three (repetitions of the word 'holy') unto which the Book of the Law correspondeth, for its covering is holy, and the Temple is holy, and the book itself is holy.

Katreiner Has a Vision--Paul Alverdes
This evening, he thought wildly, they'll be over the sea. They'll alight at the foot of black cliffs and at dawn they'll hear the ice roar as it comes down on the glaciers, and they will flap their wings in the pale light, and salt and foam will break in spray on their feet.

Keeping His Promise
A sudden queer sensation of fear passed over him-a faintness and a shiver down the back. It went, however, almost as soon as it came, and he was just debating whether he would call aloud.to his invisible visitor, or slam the door and return to his books, when the cause of the disturbance turned the corner very slowly and came into view.

Kent Knowles: Quahaug--Joseph C. Lincoln
I shall condense the record of that day as much as possible. I should omit it altogether, if I could. We tried to trace her, of course. That is, I tried and Hephzy did not dissuade me, although she realized, I am sure, the hopelessness of the quest. Frances had left the rectory very early in the morning. The hostler at the inn had been much surprised to find her awaiting him when he came down to the yard at five o'clock. She was obliged to go to London, she said, and must take the very first train: Would he drive her to Haddington on Hill at once? He did so-probably she had offered him a great deal more than the regular fare-and she had taken the train.

KERRY'S KID
His knowledge of the Limehouse area was extensive and peculiar, so that twenty minutes later, having made only one mistake in the darkness, he was pressing an electric bell set beside a door which alone broke the expanse of a long and dreary brick wall, lining a street which neither by day nor night would have seemed inviting to the casual visitor.

Keziah Coffin--Joseph C. Lincoln
He paused in spite of himself. His church, his first church! He had accepted the call with pride and a determination to do his best, the very best that was in him, for the society and for the people whom he was to lead. Some of those people he had learned to love; many of them, he felt sure, loved him. His success, his popularity, the growth of the organization and the praise which had come to him because of it, all these had meant, and still meant, very much to him. No wonder he paused, but the pause was momentary.

Khent--Raffi
But one of their number shed no tears. His heart was filled with indignation, not against those who were burning and slaying, but against those who were letting themselves be slaughtered like sheep. "Look, look!", he exclaimed. "In all that city you do not see a man who raises his hand against his slayer. What more can be done to a man to move him to passionate resistance? They have burned his house before his eyes; they have roasted his children

Kim
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KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS--HENRY GILBERT
Full title: KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS. THE TALES RETOLD FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

King Candaules and Other
THE, student answered, I am new at Rome,/ And, save the belles who sell their beauteous bloom,/ I can't perceive, gallants much business find,/ Each house, like monasteries, is designed,/ With double doors, and bolts, and matrons sour,/ And husbands Argus-eyed, who'd you devour./ Where can I go to follow up your plan,/ And hope, in spots like these, a flame to fan?/

KIRSTEEN--Margaret Oliphant
They made her sick at heart; and London, people said, was bigger (if that were possible) and no doubt more dreadful still! Oh that it could all turn out a dream from which she might wake to find herself once more by the side of the linn, with the roar of the water, and no sickening clamour of ill tongues in her ear! But already the linn, and the far-off life by its side were away from her as if they had passed centuries ago.

KNOCKNAGOW, OR THE HOMES OF TIPPERARY--CHARLES J. KICKHAM
"'Twas your Uncle Dan, God be good to him, that lint me the wan I read. An' by the same token 'twas the same day he gave me the 'Coravoth.' I was the fust that ever sung id in those parts. But I wouldn't give a pin for them little 'Lalla Rookhs' that's goin' now, That wan was as big as a double spellin' book."

Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, V1--
But it was not so.-There was one heart that melted with sympathy, and one eye that shed a solitary tear, to see so interesting a youth thus, as it were, about to be buried alive, upon so vague and slight a suspicion. That heart, and that eye, beat in the bosom, and sparkled in the brow of as fair a maid as ever the sun shone upon in this new world, whose sprightly daughters are acknowledged on all hands to excel in beauty, grace, and virtue, all the rest of the universe.

Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, Volume 2
"If you spare them," said she, "their friends will ransom them with great kegs of spirits, with tobacco pipes, powder, shot, and every thing you want. If you put them to death, the whitemen will find you out one day or other, and then wo to the red-men of the forest-wo to their wives and their children-to themselves and their posterity. Every drop of blood you shed this day, I prophecy, will be repaid with rivers of blood. Spare these white-men, and let the tall youth be unto me the brother I have lost."

KUNG I-CHI
From gossip I heard, Kung I-chi had studied the classics but had never passed the official examination. With no way of making a living, he grew poorer and poorer, until be was practically reduced to beggary. Happily, he was a good calligrapher, and could get enough copying work to support himself. Unfortunately he had failings: he liked drinking and was lazy.

L'homme Qui Rit--Victor Hugo
La vérité est que cette populace, attentive à ce loup, à cet ours, à cet homme, puis à cette musique, à ces hurlements domptés par l'harmonie, à cette nuit dissipée par l'aube, à ce chant dégageant la lumière, acceptait avec une sympathie confuse et profonde, et même avec un certain respect attendri, ce drame-poëme de Chaos vaincu, cette victoire de l'esprit sur la matière, aboutissant à la joie de l'homme.

La Bete Humaine--Emile Zola
-Sa fille, sa fille!... Je ne veux pas que tu plaisantes avec ça, entends-tu! Est-ce que je puis être sa fille? est-ce que je lui ressemble?... Et en voilà assez, parlons d'autre chose. Je ne veux pas aller à Doinville, parce que je ne veux pas, parce que je préfère rentrer avec toi au Havre.

La Chartreuse de Parme--Stendhal
Cette lumière ne doit pas être aperçue de la plaine, se dit Fabrice, l'épaisseur de la tour l'empêche d'être vue d'en bas, ce sera quelque signal pour un point éloigné."Tout à coup il remarqua que cette lueur paraissait et disparaissait à des intervalles fort rapprochés."C'est quelque jeune fille qui parle à son amant du village voisin."Il compta neuf apparitions successives: "Ceci est un I", dit-il. En effet, l'I est la neuvième lettre de l'alphabet. Il y eut ensuite, après un repos, quatorze apparitions: "Ceci est un N"; puis, encore après un repos, une seule apparition: "C'est un A; le mot est Ina."

LA SAINTE COURTISANE
Full title: LA SAINTE COURTISANE, or, THE WOMAN COVERED WITH JEWELS

La Vendee
"What, Santerre!" said Marie, shuddering. "Oh! he is a most horrid monster! It was he that led out our dear sainted King to be murdered; it was he that urged on the furious mob to spill so much blood. They say that in all Paris there is not a greater wretch than this Santerre."

La-bas--Joris-Karl Huysmans
Then, let us assume that the sacrifices to the Devil are not preceded by preliminary murders. Perhaps in some cases they aren't. The worshippers probably content them-selves with bleeding a foetus which had been aborted as soon as it became matured to the point necessary. Blood-letting is supererogatory anyway, and serves merely to whet the appetite. The main business is to consecrate the host and put it to an infamous use. The rest of the' procedure varies. There is at present no regular ritual for the black mass."

Lady Baltimore
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Lady Clare
I trow they did not part in scorn:/ Lovers long betrothed were they;/ They two will wed the morrow morn;/ God's blessing on the day!

LADY MACBETH by J. Le Sire
Note: Translated and adapted by Frank J. Morlock

Lady Susan
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Later Poems--Alice Meynell
Along the graceless grass of town/ They rake the rows of red and brown,/ Dead leaves, unlike the rows of hay,/ Delicate, neither gold nor grey,/ Raked long ago and far away.

LAVENGRO--George Borrow
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Lay Morals
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Lay of an Irish Harp--Lady Sydney Morgan
WHAT need'st thou ask, or I reply?/ Mere WORDS are for the stupid many;/ I've ever thought a speaking look/ The sweetest eloquence of any!/

Lays and Legends--E. Nesbit
And at last her voice, half breathless, faltered, broke upon his name,/ And two tears fell from her lashes on the roses at her breast,/ Far more potent in their silence than her preaching at its best./ And his weak soul thrilled and trembled at her beauty, and he cried,/ 'Not for me those priceless tears: I am your slave-you shall decide.'/ 'Save your soul,' she sighed. 'Was ever man so tempted, tried, before?/

Le Grand Meaulnes--Alain-Fournier
Avançant jusqu'au premier détour, il entendit un bruit de voix qui s'approchaient. Il se jeta de côté dans les jeunes sapins touffus, s'accroupit et écouté en retenant son souffle. C'étaient des voix enfantines. Une troupe d'enfants passa tout près de lui. L'un d'eux, probablement une petite fille, parlait d'un ton si sage et si entendu que Meaulnes, bien qu'il ne comprit guère le sens de ses paroles, ne put s'empêcher de sourire.

Le Jardin d'Épicure
Si vous voulez goûter l'art vrai et ressentir devant un tableau une impression large et profonde, regardez les fresques de Ghirlandajo, à Santa-Maria-Novella de Florence, la Naissance de la Vierge. Le vieux peintre nous montre la chambre de l'accouchée. Anne, soulevée sur son lit, n'est ni belle ni jeune; mais on voit tout de suite que c'est une bonne ménagère. Elle a rangé au chevet de son lit un pot de confitures et deux grenades. Une servante, debout à la ruelle, lui présente un vase sur un plateau.

Le Lutrin--Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Ami, lui dit le chantre encor pâle d'horreur,/ N'insulte point, de grâce, à ma juste terreur:/ Mêle plutôt ici tes soupirs à mes plaintes,/ Et tremble en écoutant le sujet de mes craintes./ Pour la seconde fois un sommeil grâcieux

Le Mariage Force
Sganarelle Corrigez, s'il vous plaît, cette manière de parler. Il faut douter de toutes choses ; et vous ne devez pas dire que je vous ai battu, mais qu'il vous semble que je vous ai battu.

Le Monde comme il va, vision de Babouc
Sa mauvaise opinion augmenta encore à l'arrivée d'un gros homme, qui, ayant salué très familièrement toute la compagnie, s'approcha du jeune officier, et lui dit: Je ne peux vous prêter que cinquante mille dariques d'or; car, en vérité, les douanes de l'empire ne m'en ont rapporté que trois cent mille cette année. Babouc s'informa quel était cet homme qui se plaignait de gagner si peu; il apprit qu'il y avait dans Persépolis quarante[11] rois plébéiens qui tenaient à bail l'empire de Perse, et qui en rendaient quelque chose au monarque.

Le Rouge et Le Noir--Stendhal
"Mon Dieu! être heureux, être aimé, n'est-ce que ça?" Telle fut la première pensée de Julien, en rentrant dans sa chambre. Il était dans cet état d'étonnement et de trouble inquiet où tombe l'âme qui vient d'obtenir ce qu'elle a longtemps désiré. Elle est habituée à désirer, ne trouve plus quoi désirer, et cependant n'a pas encore de souvenirs. Comme le soldat qui revient de la parade, Julien fut attentivement occupé à repasser tous les détails de sa conduite.

Legends and Lyrics 1st Series--Adelaide Ann Proctor
Do not cheat thy Heart and tell her,/ "Grief will pass away, Hope for fairer times in future,/ And forget to-day." -/ Tell her, if you will, that sorrow / Need not come in vain;

Legends and Lyrics 2nd Series--Adelaide Ann Proctor
A weary woman,/ Pale, worn, and thin,/ With the brand upon her/ Of want and sin,/ Heard the Child Angel/ And took her in./

Legends of the Kaw--Carrie De Voe
The Ski-di band offered human sacrifices to the morning star. A young captive, taken in war, was selected and fattened, being treated kindly during the days of preparation. He was permitted to know nothing of the fate in store, until the four days' feast and dance. Old men at the ends of the village called upon each male person to prepare bow and arrow and be ready for the sacrifice. When the fatal day arrived, every woman had a lance or stick, and every man held a pipe in one hand and bow and arrow in the other.

Legends of Vancouver--E. Pauline Johnson
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Lepanto--G.K. Chesterton
They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,/ From the temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;/ They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea/ Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be,/ On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,/ Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;/

Les Fleurs du Mal--Charles Baudelaire
J'ai longtemps habité sous de vastes portiques/ Que les soleils marins teignaient de mille feux,/ Et que leurs grands piliers, droits et majestueux,/ Rendaient pareils, le soir, aux grottes basaltiques./

Let Loose--Mary Cholmondeley
'Those are they,' he said. 'The long one opens the first door at the bottom of the steps which go down against the outside wall of the church hard by the sword graven in the wall. The second opens (but it is hard of opening and of shutting) the iron door within the passage leading to the crypt itself. My son, is it necessary to your treatise that you should enter this crypt?'

LETTER OF THE CHURCHES OF VIENNA AND LUGDUNUM
Full title: THE LETTER OF THE CHURCHES OF VIENNA AND LUGDUNUM TO THE CHURCHES OF ASIA AND PHRYGIA

Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1
Subtitled: From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso"

Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
The four scores of the Beethoven Symphonies, of which you advised me in your friendly letter, reached me yesterday. My eyes are meanwhile revelling and delighting in all the glories of the splendid edition, and after Easter I shall set to work. Nothing shall be wanting on my part, in the way of goodwill and industry, to fulfil your commission to the best of my power. A pianoforte arrangement of these creations must, indeed, expect to remain a very poor and far-off approximation. How instil into the transitory hammers of the Piano breath and soul, resonance and power, fulness and inspiration, color and accent?-

Letters to Dean
There is nothing automatic and inevitable about psychological maturity in civilized human beings. The necessity for each individual to choose a course in life which is acceptable to both himself and others stands in vivid contrast to the life story of the lower animals who need only to follow their genetically determined drives to fulfill their potential as living organisms. Since human beings find a tremendous variety in their style of adjustment to their fellow men, it is clear that their search for a healthy maturity must go through many stages of development.

Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope--Lord Bolingbroke
You have begun your ethic epistles in a masterly manner. You have copied no other writer, nor will you, I think, be copied by any one. It is with genius as it is with beauty; there are a thousand pretty things that charm alike; but superior genius, like superior beauty, has always something particular, something that belongs to itself alone. It is always distinguishable, not only from those who have no claim to excellence, but even from those who excel, when any such there are.

Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man--Friedrich Von Schiller
When the mechanical artist places his hand on the formless block, to give it a form according to his intention, he has not any scruples in doing violence to it. For the nature on which he works does not deserve any respect in itself, and he does not value the whole for its parts, but the parts on account of the whole.

Leviathan
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Liao-Fan's Four Lessons
[Liao-Fan]: Usually, there are signs which signal impending danger or of coming good fortune. These signs are a reflection of one's heart; though it is the heart from which thoughts arise, the body and its limbs can fully portray a person's character. For instance, if a person is kind-hearted, then his every gesture would indicate steadiness and solidity. If a person is evil and mean, then his body and limbs would naturally portray a petty and small character.

Liberty Lyrics--Louisa Sarah Bevington
Peace on our earth! Men reconciled/ To Law that bids them be;/ O holy freedom! final faith!/ O sacred certainty!/ I sometimes think the road to it/ Lies through Gethsemane.

Life and Habit--Samuel Butler
If such remarks as the above hold good at all, they do so with the words "personal identity." The least reflection will show that personal identity in any sort of strictness is an impossibility. The expression is one of the many ways in which we are obliged to scamp our thoughts through pressure of other business which pays us better. For surely all reasonable people will feel that an infant an hour before birth, when in the eye of the law he has no existence, and could not be called a peer for another sixty minutes, though his father were a peer, and already dead

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal--Sarah J Richardson
Moreover, I knew not how long I should be kept there. The other prisoners, whose agonizing cries fell upon my ears, were evidently suffering all the horrors of starvation. Was I to meet a fate like this? Were those terrible sufferings in reserve for me? How could I endure them? And then came the thought so often present with me while in the convent, "If there is a God in heaven, why does He permit such things? What have I done that I should become the victim of such cruelty? God of mercy!" I involuntarily exclaimed, "save me from this terrible death."

Life of George M. Horton
Full title: Life of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North-Carolina

Life of the Late Henry Harris--Richard Barham
Full title: Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, Doctor in Divinity

Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
'I would have thrown myself in also, but that she was not dead and called to me from the bottom of the well, and I was afraid and ran. And one came out of the crops saying that I had killed her and defiled the well, and they took me before an Englishman, white and terrible, living in a tent, and me he sent here. But there were no witnesses, and it is better to die than to starve. She, furthermore, could not see with her eyes, and was but a little child.'

Lights and Shadows of the South--Charles M. Skinner
After a little he slackened pace, and a farmer, who was standing at the roadside, asked, in astonishment, "How did you get across? There is a freshet, and the ferryman was drowned last night." With a new thrill he spurred his horse forward, and made no other halt until he reached the tavern, where he fell in a faint on the steps, for the strain was no longer to be endured. A crowd gathered, but he did not see it when he awoke - he saw only one pair of eyes, that seemed to be looking into his inmost soul - the eyes of the man he had slain.

Lilian Gray: a Poem--Augusta Webster
YES, rosebud sister, smiling into bloom/ Beneath the sunshine of a happy love,/ I hold with you there is indeed no shame/ To any woman-soul to say "I love;"/ But rather is she perfected therein,

Limbo and other Essays--Vernon Lee
The moon, particularly, is continually en scène, as if to take the place of the fireflies, which last only so long as the corn is in the ear, gradually getting extinguished and trailing about, humble helpless moths with a pale phosphorescence in their tail, in the grass and in the curtains. The moon takes their place; the moon which, in an Italian summer, seems to be full for three weeks out of the four.

Lines Addressed to Lady Byron--Mary Cockle
WHEN suffering virtue heaves the secret sigh,/ Or turns to heav'n alone the imploring eye,/ And, in the agony of struggling woe,/ Bids the full tear of silent sorrow flow,/ Ask where's the heart, that is not prompt to share/ The wife's chaste sorrow, and the mother's care?/

Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston, Volume 1
The reply of the youth was interrupted by sudden and violent shrieks, that burst rudely on the stillness of the place, chilling the very blood of those who heard them, with their piteousness. The quick and severe blows of a lash were blended with the exclamations of the sufferer, and rude oaths, with hoarse execrations, from various voices, were united in the uproar, which appeared to be at no great distance. By a common impulse, the whole party broke away from the spot, and moved rapidly up the wharf in the direction of the sounds.

Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston, Volume 2
She was interrupted by half-a-dozen eager, though respectful voices, muttering in the incoherent and vehement manner of their country, "It's all a difference, my lady!" "Fair fighting isn't foul-fighting, and foul fighting is murder!" with many other similar half-formed and equally intelligible remonstrances. When this burst was ended, the same grenadier who had before spoken, took on himself the office of explaining.

Literary Blunders--Henry Wheatley
The following etymological guesses are not so good, but they are worthy of registration. One boy described a blackguard as ``one who has been a shoeblack,'' while another thought he was ``a man dressed in black.'' ``Polite'' is said to be derived from ``Pole,'' owing to the affability of the Polish race. ``Heathen'' means ``covered with heath''; but this explanation is commonplace when compared with the brilliant guess-``Heathen, from Latin `haethum,' faith, and `en,' not.''

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe
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Little Miss By-The-Day--Lucille Van Slyke
It's not a queer house!" the girl defied me. "It's-it's this house! And you can't say Money built this house! Money couldn't have done it! Not all the money in the world, couldn't! It wasn't Money! It was- Pride! Not the sort of pride that goeth before de_struction but that mightier pride that goeth before con_struction! No, no!" she murmured vehemently, "it wasn't Money! It was really almost done before the money came! And she didn't just build the house over, she built all of us over.

LITTLE SEAL-SKIN--Eliza Keary
THE Fisherman walked up the hill,/ His boat lay on the sand,/ His net was on his shoulder still,/ His home a mile inland./ And as he walked amongst the whin/ He saw a little white seal-skin,/ Which he took up in his hand./

Little Sister Snow--Frances Little
As she rested her tired body before beginning her toilet for the afternoon, she remembered an American teacher at school who had been in love with the man she was soon to marry. She remembered how she had hidden behind the trees to see this young teacher run to the gate to meet the postman, and her own failure to see why these letters should bring such joy. She, with other girls, had spent a whole recess acting this scene amid peals of laughter. Now it all came back to her with new meaning, and it seemed neither strange nor amusing.

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches--William Makepeace Thackeray
One begins to grow sick of these churches, and the hideous exhibitions of bodily agonies that are depicted on the sides of all the chapels. Into one wherein we went this morning was what they called a Calvary: a horrible, ghastly image of a Christ in a tomb, the figure of the natural size, and of the livid color of death; gaping red wounds on the body and round the brows: the whole piece enough to turn one sick, and fit only to brutalize the beholder of it.

LITURGY OF MARK
Full title: THE DIVINE LITURGY OF THE HOLY APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST MARK, THE DISCIPLE OF THE HOLY PETER

Lives of Donne and Herbert
Oddly named title is in fact HARVARD CLASSICS V32--includes some Montaigne, Kant, Celtic poetry, etc.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope--Samuel Johnson
"How," says the critic, "can wit be scorned where it is not? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land! The person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned, but the scorn shows the honour which the contemner has for wit." Of this remark Pope made the proper use, by correcting the passage.

Locrine - A Tragedy--Algernon Charles Swinburne
LOCRINE./This light of dawn is like an evil dream's/ That comes and goes and is not. Yea, and thus/ Our hope on both sides wavering dares allow/ No light but fire to bid us die or live./

Lord Beaupre
He himself wanted to cultivate tranquillity, and he felt that he did so the next day in not going again to Chester Street. He went instead to the British Museum, where he sat quite like an elderly gentleman, with his hands crossed on the top of his stick and his eyes fixed on an Assyrian bull. When he came away, however, it was with the resolution to move briskly; so that he walked westward the whole length of Oxford Street and arrived at the Marble Arch.

Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune
"One moment, my lord," I rejoined, waving him to his chair again. "Although I am unprepared to accept a commission on the terms you suggest, I may, nevertheless, be able to offer a hint or two that will prove of service to you. I think I remember the announcement of Lord Chizelrigg's death. He was somewhat eccentric, was he not?"

Lord Jim
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Lost in a Pyramid--Louisa May Alcott
Full title: Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse

Lothair--Benjamin Disraeli
Lothair, though inexperienced and very ingenuous, was not devoid of a certain instinctive perception of men and things, which rendered it difficult for him to be an easy prey. His natural disposition, and his comparatively solitary education, had made him a keen observer, and he was one who mediated over his observations. But he was naturally generous and sensible of kindness; and this was a favourite companion -next to Bertram his most intimate.

Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
. . .I have also a piece of good news to communicate, which will, I hope, lead to very favorable results for me. I think I told you when I left for Paris that my chief anxiety was lest I might not be allowed to examine, and still less to describe, the fossil fishes and their skeletons in the Museum. Knowing that Cuvier intended to write a work on this subject, I supposed that he would reserve these specimens for himself. I half thought he might, on seeing my work so far advanced, propose to me to finish it jointly with him, -but even this I hardly dared to hope. It was on this account, with the view of increasing my materials and having thereby a better chance of success with M. Cuvier, that I desired so earnestly to stop at Strasbourg and Carlsruhe, where I knew specimens were to be seen which would have a direct bearing on my aim. The result has far surpassed my expectation.

Love and Life
"Bless thee my child! Take heed to yourself and your ways. It is a bad world, beset with temptations. Oh! heaven forgive me for sending my innocent lamb out into it. Oh! what would your blessed mother say?"

Love and Power
Adolescence is a period of self-exploration and discovery. Maturity is reached when the self conforms to those patterns of interaction with others which the various social roles require. The independent and highly individual self is used in this adaptation, and if its identity is to survive it cannot make sacrifices which are not essential to the adaptive requirements. In a changing external world the requirements of maturity do not remain fixed and unalterable, but they do not change in response to the individual's need to express his individuality.

Love's Pilgrimage
To Corydon, on the other hand, a name was a vital thing; a child that was lovely under one name might be unendurable under another. She had been reading Ossian, and the poems of the neo-Celtic enthusiasts; so after much pondering and consultation she announced that Cedric and Eileen were the two names from which they would choose.

Lover's Vows--Mrs. Inchbald
ANHALT. Why do you force from me, what it is villanous to own?-I love you more than life-Oh, Amelia! had we lived in those golden times, which the poet's picture, no one but you -- But as the world is changed, your birth and fortune make our union impossible-To preserve the character, and more the feelings of an honest man, I would not marry you without the consent of your father-And could I, dare I propose it to him.

Lovey Mary
Without a word she sprang forward, and grasping the child by his feet, held him at arm's-length and shook him violently. Mrs. Redding screamed, and the nurse, who was rushing in with hot milk, dropped the cup in horror. But a tiny piece of hard candy lay on the floor, and Master Robert Redding was right side up again, sobbing himself quiet in Lovey Mary's arms.

Lyf of the noble and Crysten prynce, Charles the Grete
Translation by William Caxton.

Lyrical Tales--Mary Robinson
OLD BARNARD was still a lusty hind,/ Though his age was full fourscore;/ And he us'd to go/ Thro' hail and snow,/ To a neighb'ring town,/ With his old coat brown,/ To beg, at his GRANDSON'S door!/

Lysbeth, A Tale Of The Dutch
"Yes, Foy, that may be so, but how about his talk of the pastor? It makes me suspicious, son. You know the times we live in, and if he should go that way-remember it is in his blood-the lives of every one of us are in his hand. The father tried to burn me once, and I do not wish the child to finish the work."

MACHASSAN AH
It was not until they had debouched (as Crothers termed it) to their half-right front and had taken to a narrow one-man track that ran below the wall that any over attention was paid them. Suddenly a hook-nosed Asiatic gentleman emerged through the once-was gateway-- a picture of a Bible shepherd but for the long-barreled gun he carried instead of crook--a brown shadow against brown masonry.

Mackenzie Basin--Charles Mair
In the discussion which followed, the Duke of Newcastle declared that "it seemed monstrous that any body of gentlemen should exercise fee-simple rights which precluded the future colonization of that territory, as well as the opening of lines 'of communication through it."

MADAME AUBIN--Verlaine--Translated and adapted by Frank J. Morlock
MARIE Don't use that word virtue any more. It is terrible to my ears. I was telling you just now that I've something like fear of the present. Yes, fear to remain here this way. But I was in the process of adding that the present doesn't terrify me. It was then that you shrieked out at the moment I was going to explain to you how I intended to confide myself to your honor to allow me to decide in peace. And you got so carried away that you irritated me, too. And you just said things to me! A caprice? me, at my age; twenty-eight years old!

Madame Bovary
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MADELEINE: An Autobiography
My difficulties with the patrons arose from two causes. The first was the almost invariable habit of patrons in asking a girl all about her private life; the fact that they had never seen her before, and possibly would never see her again, made not the faintest difference. They considered that her story was one of their privileges and included in the price they had paid for their entertainment.

Magic Glasses--Frank Harris
"I shall be delighted to give you a pair, if you will accept them," he replied, with eager courtesy; "my surety ought certainly to have a pair"; and then he peered at me in his curious, intent way. A moment later, he turned round, and opening his tray, picked out a pair of spectacles and handed them to me.

MAN WITH THE SHAVEN SKULL
We stood in the doorway of a fairly large apartment having a divan round three of its sides. This divan was occupied by ten or a dozen men of mixed nationalities-Arabs, Greeks, lascars, and others. They smoked cigarettes for the most part and sipped Mokha from little cups. A girl was performing a wriggling dance upon the square carpet occupying the centre of the floor, accompanied by a Nubian boy who twanged upon a guitar, and by most of the assembled company, who clapped their hands to the music or droned a low, tuneless dirge.

MANHATTAN HAYRIDE--Ben Conlon
Working swiftly in the stabbing beam of his flashlight, Blake tumbled several boxes of popcorn from the carton. Shaking them, they rattled loosely. Blake ripped the covers free. From the midst of caramel-coated popcorn slid three cello-phane-inclosed cigarettes. Blake sniffed at them.

Mansfield Park
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Many a Tear--M. P. Shiel
"The news of that thing flew that night like loosened effluvia, and in a few minutes Woolaston was at Woodside. They found the boy, Fred Higgs, confined in the house by the fire, for in the first panic Margaret had run out, calling out to him, but he had been asleep, and now was screaming at his window, which was too little for him to squeeze through to leap to the ground.

Many Cargoes--W.W. Jacobs
The mate smiled feebly, and glanced uneasily at the girl, who, with a fine colour and an air of vast unconcern, was looking straight in front of her; and it was a relief to both of them when they found themselves hesitating and dodging in front of a schooner which was coming up.

Many Kingdoms--Elizabeth Jordan
At the beginning of her breakdown the intervals between intelligent consciousness and insanity had been long. She was herself, or was able to keep herself fairly in hand, the greater part of the time, and chaos, when it came, lasted only for a few days or weeks. Recently this condition had been reversed. She had lost knowledge of time, but she felt that centuries must have passed since those last flying, blessed hours when she knew herself at least for what she was. She grasped now at her returning reason, with a desperate, shuddering little moan, which she quickly stifled.

Many Waters Cannot Quench Love--Louisa Baldwin
Shortly after two o'clock Horton awoke suddenly, passing instantaneously from deep sleep to the possession of every faculty in a heightened degree, and with an insupportable sense of fear weighing upon him like a thousand nightmares. He started up and looked around him. The perspiration poured from his brow, and his heart beat to suffocation. He was convinced that he had been waked by some strange and terrible noise, that had thrilled through the depths of sleep, and he dreaded the repetition of it inexpressibly.

Marie
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Marjorie's Three Gifts
In vain they searched; in vain Marie wailed and Belle declared it must be somewhere; no wreath appeared. It was duly set down in the bill, and a fine sum charged for a head-dress to match the dainty forget-me-nots that looped the fleecy skirts and ornamented the bosom of the dress. It had evidently been forgotten; and mamma despatched Marie at once to try and match the flowers, for Belle would not hear of any other decoration for her beautiful blonde hair.

Marjorie's Vacation--Carolyn Wells
"Ella's so fond of dress," said Mrs. Dunn, "that she jest don't hev time to bother with housekeepin'. So Hoopsy Topsy does it, and that's why we ain't so slick as we might be. But fer a child of eight, I must say Hoopsy Topsy does wonderful well."

Mark Rutherford's Deliverance--Mark Rutherford
I put my hand in my pocket for my pocket-book, but I could not find it. We had now reached a part of our road familiar enough to both of us. Along that very path Ellen and I had walked years ago. Under those very trees, on that very seat had we sat, and she and I were there again. All the old confidences, confessions, tendernesses, rushed upon me.

Mars--Percival Lowell
On the other hand, their length is usually great, and in some cases enormous. A thousand or fifteen hundred miles may be considered about the average. The Ganges, for example, which is not a long one as Martian canals go, is about 1450 miles in length. The Brontes, one of the newly discovered, radiating from the Gulf of the Titans, extends over 2400 miles. Among really long ones, the Eumenides, with its continuation the Orcus, the two being in truth one line, runs 3540 miles from the point where it leaves the Phoenix Lake to the point where it enters the Trivium Charontis

MARTYRDOM OF HABIB THE DEACON
And, when Habib heard what had taken place, he considered in his mind and pondered anxiously in his thoughts: It is expedient for me, said he, that I should go and appear before the judge of the country, rather than that I should remain in secret and others should be brought in to him and be crowned with martyrdom be- cause of me, and that I should find myself in great shame. For in what respect will the name of Christianity help him who flees from the confession of Christianity? Lo! if he flee from this, the death of nature is before him whithersoever he goes, and escape from it he cannot, because this is decreed against all the children of Adam.

MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY AND GLORIOUS APOSTLE BARTHOLOMEW
And it happened, when the night had passed, and the following day was dawning, the sun having risen, the apostle appeared alone with the king in his bed-chamber, and said to him: Why didst thou seek me yesterday the whole day with gold and silver, and precious stones, pearls, and raiment? For these gifts those persons long for who seek earthly things; but I seek nothing earthly, nothing carnal. Wherefore I wish to teach thee that the Son of God deigned to be born as a man out of a virgin's womb. He was conceived in the womb of the virgin;

MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY CONFESSORS SHAMUNA, GURIA, AND HABIB
By this time two hours of the day had passed since Shamuna had been hung up; and the fifth hour had now arrived, and he was still suspended on high-when the soldiers who stood around, taking pity upon him, urged him to obey the emperor's command. But the compassion of sinners had no effect upon the saint. For, although he suffered bitterly from the torture, he vouchsafed them no answer whatever, leaving them to lament at their leisure, and to deem themselves rather, and not him, deserving of pity.

Marvels of Modern Science--Paul Severing
The Zoetrope was a toy familiar to children; it was sometimes called the wheel of life. It was a contrivance consisting of a cylinder some ten inches wide, open at the top, around the lower and interior rim of which a series of related pictures were placed. The cylinder was then rapidly rotated and the spectator looking through the vertical narrow slits on its outer surface, could fancy that the pictures inside were moving.

Mary Louise--Edith van Dyne
"I'm dreadfully worried over Gran'pa Jim," said she, "for those terrible agents of the Secret Service seem bent on catching him. And he doesn't wish to be caught. If they arrested him, do you think they would put him in jail, Aunt Hannah?"

MARY OF CASSOBELAE TO IGNATIUS
But as to those whom we have named being young men, do not, thou blessed one, have any apprehension. For I would have you know that they are wise about the flesh, and are insensible to its passions, they themselves glowing with all the glory of a hoary head through their own s intrinsic merits, and though but recently called as young men to the priesthood.(9)

Masterman Ready--Captain Marryat
Ready was up before the sun had appeared, and he awakened William. The knapsacks had been already packed, with two bottles of water in each, wrapped round with cocoa-nut leaves, to prevent their breaking, and the beef and pork divided between each knapsack. Ready's, which was larger than William's, held the biscuit and several other things which Ready had prepared in case they might require them.

Masters of the Guild--L. Lamprey
It was not long after sunset when old Grimaud, Count Thibaut's gooseherd, was aroused from a light sleep by a fluttering at his window. He found huddled on the sill a small dun pigeon under whose wing nestled a roll of writing. According to instructions, he took it at once to Sir Gualtier Giffard, who found therein Ranulph's statement of the tragedy impending at Montfaucon.

Maud-Evelyn
I can see Lavinia for instance in her ugly new mourning immediately after her mother's death. There had been long anxieties connected with this event, and she was already faded, already almost old. But Marmaduke, on her bereavement, had been to her, and she came straightway to me.

Maximilian in Mexico--Sare Yorke Stevenson
Full title: MAXIMILIAN IN MEXICO A WOMAN'S REMINISCENCES OF THE FRENCH INTERVENTION 1862-1867

Maxims of Napoleon
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

MAXIMUS, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM
"If you had stated that your suspicion that matter was uncreated arose from the nature of created things as we find them,[3] I should have employed abundant argument in proof that it cannot be so. But, since you have spoken of the existence of evil as the cause of such suspicion, I am disposed to enter upon a separate examination of this point. For, when once it has been made clear how it is that evil exists, and when it is seen to be impossible to deny that God is the author of evil, in consequence of His having had recourse to matter for His materials,[4] it seems to me that a suspicion of this kind disappears.

MEDICINE
Both of them suffered from failing eyesight, yet they could see these red and white flowers clearly. There were not many, but they were placed in a circle; and although not very fresh, were neatly set out. Little Chuan's mother looked round and found her own son's grave, like most of the rest, dotted with only a few little, pale flowers shivering in the cold. Suddenly she had a sense of futility and stopped feeling curious about the wreath.

MELISSA'S TOUR--GRANT ALLEN
Melissa started visibly. "What! have you never been there, either?" she exclaimed, taken aback. "Well, that IS odd, now! You live in England, and have never run over to Stratford-on-Avon! Why, you do surprise me! But there! I suppose you English live in the midst of culture, as it were, and can get to it all right away at any time; so perhaps you don't think quite as much of it as we, who have to save up our money, perhaps for years, to get, for once in our lives, just a single passing glimpse of it. You live at Cambridge, you see; you must be steeped in culture right down to the finger-ends."

MELITO, THE PHILOSOPHER
In place of Isaac the just, a ram appeared for slaughter, in order that Isaac might be liberated from his bonds. The slaughter of this animal redeemed Isaac from death. In like manner, the Lord, being slain, saved us; being bound, He loosed us; being sacrificed, He redeemed us. . For the Lord was a lamb, like the ram which Abraham saw caught in the bush Sabec.[10] But this bush represented the cross, and that place Jerusalem, and the lamb the Lord bound for slaughter.

Melmoth Reconciled
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Memoirs of a Cavalier
Full title: MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER: OR A Military Journal OF The WARS in Germany, AND The WARS in England; From the Year 1632, to the Year 1648. Written Threescore Years ago by an English Gentleman, who served first in the Army of Gustavus Adolphus, the glorious King of Sweden, till his Death; and after that, in the Royal Army of King Charles the First, from the Beginning of the Rebellion, to the End of that War.

Memoirs of Europe--Mrs. Manley
Full title: Memoirs of Europe, Towards the Close of the Eighth Century. Written by Eginardus, Secretary and Favourite to Charlemagne; And done into English by the translator of the New Atalantis

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SHERMAN, Illustrated, v1
I trust a perusal of these pages will prove interesting to the survivors, who have manifested so often their intense love of the "cause" which moved a nation to vindicate its own authority; and, equally so, to the rising generation, who therefrom may learn that a country and government such as ours are worth fighting for, and dying for, if need be.

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SHERMAN, Illustrated, v2
The temper of Congress and the people would not permit the slow and methodical preparation desired by General Scott; and the cry of "On to Richmond!" which was shared by the volunteers, most of whom had only engaged for ninety days, forced General Scott to hasten his preparations, and to order a general advance about the middle of July. McDowell was to move from the defenses of Washington, and Patterson from Martinsburg.

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SHERMAN, Illustrated, v3
But during the 10th, the enemy showed no signs of evacuating Dalton, and I was waiting for the arrival of Garrard's and Stoneman's cavalry, known to be near at hand, so as to secure the full advantages of victory, of which I felt certain. Hooker's Twentieth Corps was at once moved down to within easy supporting distance of McPherson; and on the 11th, perceiving signs of evacuation of Dalton, I gave all the orders for the general movement, leaving the Fourth Corps (Howard) and Stoneman's cavalry in observation in front of Buzzard-Roost Gap,

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SHERMAN, Illustrated, v4
Of course, many families were actually destitute of this, and to these were issued stores from our own stock of supplies. I remember to have given to Dr. Arnold, the mayor, an order for the contents of a large warehouse of rice, which he confided to a committee of gentlemen, who went North (to Boston), and soon returned with one or more cargoes of flour, hams, sugar, coffee, etc., for gratuitous distribution, which relieved the most pressing wants until the revival of trade and business enabled the people to provide for themselves.

Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe
Endeavour always to be content in that estate of life which it hath pleased God to call you to, and think it a great fault not to employ your time, either for the good of your soul, or improvement of your understanding, health, or estate; and as these are the most pleasant pastimes, so it will make you a cheerful old age, which is as necessary for you to design, as to make provision to support the infirmities which decay of strength brings: and it was never seen that a vicious youth terminated in a contented, cheerful old age, but perished out of countenance.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings--Edward Gibbon
My indiscriminate appetite subsided by degrees in the historic line: and since philosophy has exploded all innate ideas and natural propensities, I must ascribe this choice to the assiduous perusal of the Universal History, as the octavo volumes successively appeared. This unequal work, and a treatise of Hearne, the Ductor historicus, referred and introduced me to the Greek and Roman historians, to as many at least as were accessible to an English reader. All that I could find were greedily devoured, from Littlebury's lame Herodotus, and Spelman's valuable Xenophon, to the pompous folios of Gordon's Tacitus, and a ragged Procopius of the beginning of the last century.

Memoirs--Prince De Joinville
They undertook the exclusive care of the exhumation and transport of the remains over British territory, and it was all done with the utmost propriety. The only request I made and obtained was, that the coffin should be opened before it was handed over to us, so as to be sure that we were taking neither a hotbed of infection nor an imaginary corpse on board.

Men Like Gods--H.G. Wells
The Utopian physiology, relieved of these merely defensive necessities, had simplified itself and become more direct and efficient. This cleaning up of infections was such ancient history in Utopia that only those who specialized in the history of pathology understood anything of the miseries mankind had suffered under from this source, and even these specialists do not seem to have had any idea of how far the race had lost its former resistance to infection.

MEN OF FEAR
Renny stiffened. He understood now what had disturbed Doc. If the occupants of the small boat that had reached the steamer ahead of them were not pilots, who were they? Renny had a rather grim idea.

Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay, Vol. I
Although the manner in which these words were uttered lent them weight, the prelate fancied that the mind of the navigator had got to be unsettled by his long contemplation of a single subject. The only things that left any doubt concerning the accuracy of this opinion, were the method and science with which he had often maintained, even in his own presence, the reasonableness of his geographical suppositions; arguments which, though they had failed to convince one bent on believing the projector a visionary, had nevertheless greatly puzzled the listener.

Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay, Vol. II
Columbus now ascended to the poop, where he got a wider and a better view of the ocean and the skies. The signs were, indeed, as portentous as they had been sudden in their appearance. The atmosphere was filled with a white mist, that resembled a light smoke, and the admiral had barely time to look about him, when a roar that resembled the trampling of a thousand horse passing a bridge at full speed, came rushing down with the wind.

Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters--Joanna Baillie
For there the Lady of the Stream/ In dripping robes you'll spy,/ A-singing to her pale wan babe,/ An elrich lullaby./

Metropolis--Thea von Harbou
She was not screaming for food. She was screaming: Danger-! Danger-! The screaming did not stop. It howled on, incessantly. Who had dared to unchain the voice of the great Metropolis, which otherwise obeyed no one but Joh Fredersen? Was Joh. Fredersen-no longer in this house? Or was this voice to call him?-this wild roar of: Danger-! Danger-! What danger was threatening Metropolis? Fire could not be alarming the city, to make her roar so, as though she had gone mad. No high tide was threatening Metropolis. These elements were subdued and quiet.

Michael's Crag--Grant Allen
"Fight him down in your own heart, then, dear," Mrs. Trevennack said, gently. "Remember, we all may fall. Lucifer did-and he was once an archangel. Fight him down in your own heart when he suggests hateful thoughts to you. For I know what you felt when it came over you instinctively that that young man had done it. You wanted to fly straight at his throat, dear Michael-you wanted to fly at his throat, and fling him over the precipice."

Michel and Angle
"There stood I, butler to the Queen," he said, with a large gesture, "but what knew I of butler's duties at Greenwich Palace! Her Majesty had given me an office where all the work was done for me. Odds life, but when I saw the Gentleman of the Rod and his fellow get down on their knees to lay the cloth upon the table, as though it was an altar at Jerusalem, I thought it time to say my prayers. There was naught but kneeling and retiring. Now it was the salt-cellar, the plate, and the bread; then it was a Duke's Daughter-a noble soul as ever lived-with a tasting-knife, as beautiful as a rose; then another lady enters who glares at me, and gets to her knees as does the other.

MIDRASH TANHUMA
The meaning of the phrase, "God made man in his own image," is that, like his Maker, a man is to be righteous and upright. Do not argue that evil inclination is innate in you; such argument is fallacious; when you are a child you commit no sin; it is when you grow out of infancy that your evil inclination becomes developed. You have the power of resisting the evil inclination if you feel so inclined, even as you are able to convert the bitter elements of certain foods into very palatable eatables.

MINIONS OF THE MOON--F. W. ROBINSON
"Thieves, cutthroats, and murderers-eight of us-knights of the road, gentlemen of the highway, and not to be trifled with when half starved and hard driven," cried the hoarse man. "There, will that satisfy you, wench? Will you let us in or not? It's easy enough for us to smash in the windows and get in that way, isn't it?"

Miscellaneous Ballads--Thomas Deloney
My closen eies could not his sight abide;/ My tender youth did lothe his aged side:/ Scant could I taste the meate whereon he fed;/ My legges did lothe to lodge within his bed./

Miscellaneous Poems--George Crabbe
My crime!-This sick'ning child to feed./ I seized the food, your witness saw;/ I knew your laws forbade the deed,/ But yielded to a stronger law.

Miss Brown, Vol. 1
He stopped a moment, and looked Hamlin in the face, as if to find out what sort of man he might be. He himself might be any age between thirty and forty, of the darkest possible Scotch type, sun-burnt like a bargee, snub of feature, with a huge, overhanging forehead; he was a man such as Hamlin had never dealt with-a type which he recognised as having seen among workmen and Dissenting preachers: ugly, intellectual, contemptuous-the incarnation of what, to the descendants of Cavaliers and Jamaica planters, seemed the aggressive lower classes.

Miss Brown, Vol. 2
"He is a monk," she used to say; "he ought to have lived in the middle ages. What we want nowadays are disagreeable, rough-and-ready men like Cousin Dick-men who don't merely feel sorry for vice, but who try to understand its scientific reason."

Miss Brown, Vol. 3
The only person who seemed displeased was Hamlin; and the only person who seemed cold was Miss Brown. Hamlin always required to absorb the whole attention of any person to whom he took a liking; to see his cousin fenced round with idiots, as he described it, was almost a physical annoyance to him; he was cross, captious, bitter, and gruff; and the more he showed his temper the more pleasure Madame Elaguine took in provoking him. As usual, when out of sorts with the world, and especially when he felt himself neglected, Hamlin began once more to pay attentions to Miss Brown, to bemoan his own baseness and weakness, to throw himself on her compassion, to insinuate that in her lay his only hope.

Miss Gibbie Gault--Kate Langley Bosher
"Is not to have a taste. And mine can take care of itself. I sent for you to tell you I want vegetable soup for dinner to-night, thick and greasy. The fish must be cold and no sauce, the goose half done, ham raw, vegetables unseasoned, rice pudding with no sugar, bread burnt, and coffee weak as water. If you see that this is done I will give you five dollars to-morrow. If anything is fit to eat you don't get a cent."

Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie
The Prince at all events presented himself in London with a promptitude that contributed to make the warning gratuitous. Nothing could have exceeded, by this time, Lady Champer's appreciation of her young friend, whose merits 'town' at the beginning of June threw into renewed relief; but she had the imagination of greatness and, though she believed she tactfully kept it to herself, she thought what the young man had thus done a great deal for a Roman prince to do.

Miss Lou
Miss Lou left consternation, confusion and deep anxiety below stairs. Mad Whately had his own code of ethics, and he felt as if he had committed the unpardonable sin. His mother was shocked and pained beyond measure. She understood the feelings of her son, and sympathized with him. Drawing him into the parlor, she soothed and cheered him with the assurance that when his cousin's anger passed she would explain and intercede

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill--Frances Boyd Calhoun
"That's my rabbit foot; you won't never have no 'sease 't all an' nobody can't never conjure you if you wears a rabbit foot. This here one is the lef' hin' foot; it was ketched by a red-headed nigger with crosseyes in a graveyard at twelve er'clock on a Friday night, when they's a full moon. He give it to Aunt Cindy to tie 'roun' my nake when I's a baby. Ain't you got no abbit foot?" he anxiously inquired.

Mistrust, Or Blanche and Osbright
But Blanche was no longer mistress of her actions. In the height of their indignation at Ottokar's murder, her parents had insisted upon her renouncing all thoughts of a union with Osbright of Frankheim. Her heart would not allow her to make this renunciation. She protested against the injustice of implicating the son in the father's guilt and avowed the impossibility of withdrawing her affection.

MOBSMEN ON THE SPOT
Cliff's work was through for that night. He knew that he could rely upon the three men whom he had known in Sing Sing. In that he was correct. While Cliff was dining with Madge, his henchmen were following his instructions.

Modern French Philosophy--
Taine and Renan both express the initial attitude, a firm belief in determinism, but it is most clear and rigid in the work of Taine. His whole philosophy is hostile to any belief in freedom. The strictly positivist, empiricist and naturalist tone of his thought combined with the powerful influence of Spinoza's system to produce in him a firm belief in necessity-a necessity which, as we have seen, was severely rational and of the type seen in mathematics and in logic.

Modred, a fragment--EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
Time and the dark/ Had come, but not alone. The southern gate/ That had been open wide for Lancelot/ Made now an entrance for three other men,/ Who strode along the gravel or the grass,/ Careless of who should hear them. When they came/

Monaldi: A Tale.--Washington Allston
Nothing more occurred for several days, till one morning, as Monaldi was going out, he saw a man standing at the entrance of his gateway. As he approached, the stranger suddenly drew his hat over his eyes, and precipitately retreated; not however, before the former had distinctly seen his face. Monaldi quickened his pace in order to overtake him, but on entering the street, the man was lost in the crowd; and before he had time to form any conjecture on the incident, his attention was diverted by a message from the pope, requiring his attendance.

MONEY: A Comedy IN FIVE ACTS
EVELYN. Ay, but can the world forget it? This insolent condescension-this coxcombry of admiration- more galling than the arrogance of contempt!-Look you now-Robe Beauty in silk and cachemire-hand Virtue into her chariot-lackey their caprices-wrap them from the winds-fence them round with a golden circle-and Virtue and Beauty are as goddesses, both to peasant and to prince. Strip them of the adjuncts- see Beauty and Virtue poor

Monsieur De Guise--Perley Poore Sheehan
As he spoke, a faint breath of the heliotrope came to me, and with it, by one of those odd associations of ideas, the portrait by Largilliére. I saw again the gentle face and the lustrous eyes, but the date-1733. Surely, this was not the portrait he referred to.

Monsieur Motte--Grace Elizabeth King
"I told Goupilleau, 'Goupilleau, nonsense! You don't know whom you are talking to! Can't get money out of this people! bah! Giving balls, going to balls, and not pay house-rent, not pay office-rent, not even pay interest on their debts! debts reduced to ten cents on the dollar! But what are you singing to me, mon ami' 'But Madame must not judge by the present.' 'And why not? Why not judge by the present?' 'The crises, the revolution, the reconstruction -

Mont Blanc and Other Poems--Mary Ann Browne Gray
It is the love the mother bears/ To the sweet babe she lulls to rest -/ The object of her tenderest cares -/ The fondest thought that warms her breast./

Montes the Matador and Other Stories--Frank Harris
"Before this, however, early in the summer that followed the death of my mother, I went for the first time to see a bull-fight. My father wanted me to go, and my sister, too; so I went. I shall never forget that day. The chulos made me laugh, they skipped about so and took such extra-good care of themselves; but the banderilleros interested me. Their work required skill and courage, that I saw at once; but after they had planted the banderillas twice, I knew how it was done, and felt I could do it just as well or better. For the third or fourth banderillero made a mistake!

Moon and Sixpence--Somerset Maugham
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Moon-Face and Other Stories
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MOPSA THE FAIRY--JEAN INGELOW
"Because I heard a little of it," observed Jack. "I thought she was talking of me. She said, 'So he took the measure, and Mopsa stood still for once, and he found she was only one foot high, and she grew a great deal after that. Yes, she can grow.' "

Mora Montravers
Mrs Traffle's posture was now, more and more, certainly, this recumbent sightless stillness; which she appeared to have resorted to at first - after the launching, that is, of her ultimatum to Mr Puddick - as a sign of the intensity with which she awaited results. There had been no results, alas, there were none from week to week; never was the strain of suspense less gratefully crowned; with the drawback, moreover, that they could settle to nothing

Mordaunt--John Moore
As the seduction of men was her object, she chose the form of a beautiful woman; and, according to the ballad, she was very successful. It was no unusual stratagem of hers to tempt men to commit crimes, for which they were imprisoned; and then, conveying herself through the key-hole, to tempt them to mortgage their soul to Satan, in order to obtain their liberty; which they no sooner did, than, the roof of the prison rising to infernal music, the deluded miscreant was conveyed several leagues through the air, and then dashed against some desert rock, or dropped into the sea and never more heard of.

MORDRED, A TRAGEDY--HENRY NEWBOLT
Lancelot. Nay, do not trouble him:/ Gawaine's his brother still;/ I could not bear/ To gain the tidings of our rich content/ From him that's beggared by it. Yonder's the guard,/ We'll gather something.

More Bab Ballads
He saw his ANNIE tremble and he saw his ANNIE start,/ Her changing colour trumpeted the flutter at her heart;/ Young GILBERT'S manly bosom rose and sank with jealous fear,/ And he said, "O gentle ANNIE, what's the meaning of this here?"

Morgan Le Fay--MADISON CAWEIN
For all her looks were full of spells,/ And all her words, of sorcery;/ And in some way they seemed to say,/ "Oh, come with me!

Mother and Daughter--Augusta Webster
Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back!/ So outcasts from the vale where they were born/ Turn on their road and, with a joy forlorn,/ See the far roofs below their arid track:/ So in chill buffets while the sea grows black/

Mother Goose in Prose
"Them also I know," said Mary eagerly, for she was glad her father should find her so well acquainted with the field flowers; "there is nothing prettier than the big white flowers of the cockle-shells. But tell me, papa, what have the flowers to do with your coming home?"

Mr. Bingle--George Barr McCutcheon
They did not know this man, they did not know whether he was a blackguard or a gentleman. He was a destroyer; that much they knew. He had wrecked a human life. The detective had declared to Mr. Bingle that his client was a man of means, married, and eminently respectable, but then a detective's idea of respectability is not always a safe one to go by. Every man is respectable until some one is hired to prove that he isn't.

MR. LISMORE AND THE WIDOW
The one security that he could offer was open, it must be owned, to serious objections on the score of risk. He wanted an advance of twenty thousand pounds, secured on a homeward-bound ship and cargo. But the vessel was not insured, and at that stormy season she was already more than a month overdue. Could grateful colleagues be blamed if they forgot their obligations when they were asked to offer pecuniary help to a merchant in this situation? Ernest returned to his office without money and without credit.

Mr. Tilly's Seance
So far his natural volubility had carried him before he recollected that he was invisible and inaudible to those still closed in by the muddy vesture of decay, and stopped short. But though it was clear that what he said was inaudible to Miss Soulsby's rather large intelligent-looking ears, it seemed that some consciousness of his presence was conveyed to her finer sense, for she looked suddenly startled, a flush rose to her face, and he heard her murmur, "Very odd. I wonder why I received so vivid an impression of dear Teddy."

Mrs Medwin
Mamie wondered if that was the way he talked to her visitor, but felt obliged to own to his acuteness. It was an exact description of Lady Wantridge, and she was conscious of tucking it away for future use in a corner of her miscellaneous little mind. She withheld, however, all present acknowledgment, only addressing him another question. "Did you really get on with her?"

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lecturers--Douglas Jerrold
"Ha! you are an aggravating creature, Caudle; lying there like the mummy of a man, and never as much as opening your lips to one. Just as if your own wife wasn't worth answering! It isn't so when you're out, I'm sure. Oh no! then you can talk fast enough; here, there's no getting a word from you. But you treat your wife as no other man does - and you know it.

Mrs. Falchion
Mrs. Falchion had seen the change in me, and, I am sure, guessed the new direction of my thoughts, and knew that I wished to take refuge in a new companionship-a thing, indeed, not easily to be achieved, as I felt now; for no girl of delicate and proud temper would complacently regard a hasty transference of attention from another to herself. Besides, it would be neither courteous nor reasonable to break with Mrs. Falchion abruptly. The error was mine, not hers.

Mrs. Peter Rabbit--Thornton W. Burgess
Peter Rabbit had lost his appetite. Now when Peter Rabbit loses his appetite, something is very wrong indeed with him. Peter has boasted that he can eat any time and all the time. In fact, the two things that Peter thinks most about are his stomach and satisfying his curiosity, and nearly all of the scrapes that Peter has gotten into have been because of those two things.

MURDER HOUSE
"I heard some one enter at about ten minutes of eight. Later-a little after eight-I thought I heard the door open and close twice, with a short interval between. As though the visitor had gone out and sneaked in again. About three or four minutes after that, I thought some one went out. But I couldn't be sure about it."

MURDER WITH A SCENT--Milton Lowe
It gave him the impetus he needed. It shunted aside his own aches and pain, knotted his fists and put starch into his limbs. With a major effort he managed to get up, staggered uncertainly. By spreading his legs apart he was able to stay that way until strength returned to him.

MURDER WITHOUT A CORPSE--NORMAN A. DANIELS
The car gained speed. Conway slowed up, curved his left arm in front of him and rested the muzzle of his pistol against it. He snapped three shots this time, and they didn't miss. Conway knew they couldn't have. He'd wasted enough ammunition to be sure he'd never miss at this range.

My Cousin the Colonel--Thomas Bailey Aldrich
As the mint and one or two other necessary ingredients were lacking to our family stores, the idea of julep was dismissed as a vain dream, and its place supplied by iced Congress water, a liquid which my cousin characterized, in a hasty aside to me, as being a drink fit only for imbecile infants of a tender age.

My Flirtations--Ella Hepworth Dixon
In the dining-room the prim, thin Chippendale furniture was ranged against a pale-coloured wall, while the round table, with its fine damask and Georgian silver, and the soft lamplight illumining a great bowl of flowers, was somehow suggestive of brilliant talk and dainty fare. But Mr. Clancy was always modest about his possessions. 'It's so sweet of you to like my things,' he would say deprecatingly to some fashionable lady who was going round his rooms sniffing up ideas. 'I never care for anything I have. It's so good of you to like my poor little cottage.'

My Life, Volume I--Richard Wagner
On the other hand, I tried to strengthen myself by again working energetically at Lohengrin. While doing this, I proceeded in a manner that I have not since repeated. I first of all completed the third act, and in view of the criticism already mentioned of the characters and conclusion of this act, I determined to try to make it the very pivot of the whole opera. I wished to do this, if only for the sake of the musical motive appearing in the story of the Holy Grail; but in other respects the plan struck me as perfectly satisfactory.

My Life, Volume II--Richard Wagner
We travellers-Blandine and I, that is-soon fell into a frivolous mood which was much intensified by Ollivier's query, repeated after each burst of laughter, 'Qu'est-ce qu'il dit?' He had to submit good-humouredly to our continuous joking in German, though we always responded in French to his frequent demands for tonique or jambon cru, which seemed to form the staple of his diet. It was long after midnight when we reached Nuremberg, where we were obliged to halt for the night. We got ourselves conveyed to an inn by dint of much effort, and were kept waiting there some time before the door opened.

MY MAN JOHN
CHRIS. And I'll take and lead you to a place what I do know of, where the water flows clear as a diamond over the stones. And if you bides there waiting quiet you may take the fish as they come along - and there's a dinner such as the Queen might not get every day of the week.

MY OLD HOME
Jun-tu's mind was a treasure-house of such strange lore, all of it outside the ken of my former friends. They were ignorant of all these things and, while Jun-tu lived by the sea, they like me could see only the four corners of the sky above the high courtyard wall.

My Robin
I wish I could remember exactly what length of time elapsed before I knew he was really a robin. An ornithologist would doubtless know but I do not. But one morning I was bending over a bed of Laurette Messimy roses and I became aware that he had arrived in his usual mysterious way without warning.

MY STRANGE PETS --RICHARD BELL
Full title: MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life

My Young Alcides
On the whole, her presence was very good for us, if only by infusing the element of age. She liked to potter about in the morning, attending to her birds and bantams, and talking to the gardening men, weeding women, and all the people in the adjacent hamlet; and, afterwards, the fireside, with her knitting and a newspaper, sufficed her.

MYSTERY ISLAND
"Search me. Do they need a reason? I've heard them carry on for days without any reason." Renny frowned. "Monk's pet pig may have given fleas to Ham's pet chimp, or something. I don't know what it is about. How can I lay out emplacements for coast artillery with that racket going on? The answer is-I can't. I can't concentrate."

Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest--Katharine Berry Judson
Then Coyote collected a great bundle of tail feathers from owls, hawks, eagles, and buzzards. He journeyed over the whole earth and carefully located the site of each Indian village. Where the tepees had stood, he planted a feather in the ground and scraped up the dirt around it. The feathers sprouted like trees, and grew up and branched. At last they turned into men and women. So the world was inhabited with people again.

MYTHS OF CRETE AND PRE-HELLENIC EUROPE--DONALD A. MACKENZIE
In Crete there were three outstanding forms of the mother-goddess-the snake-goddess, the dove-goddess, and the "lady of wild creatures". These may have been different forms of an original deity, or representative of a group composed of mother and daughters. As in Egypt and Babylonia, it is found that the one goddess tends to absorb the attributes of the other.