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The Dream Doctor
Arthur Benjamin Reeve 试读
Arthur Benjamin Reeve (1880-1936), was a graduate of Princeton and attended New York Law School. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and for writing 18 mystery detective novels. His works include: The Black Hand (1911), The Deadly Tube (1911), The Poisoned Pen (1912), The Silent Bullet (1912), The Dream Doctor (1914), Guy Garrick (1914), The Exploits of Elaine (1915), Gold of the Gods (1915), The War Terror (1915), The Ear in the Wall (1916), Constance Dunlap (1916), The Romance of Elaine (1916), The Treasure-Train (1917), Master Mystery (1919), The Film Mystery (1921), The Fourteen Points (1925), The Radio Detective (1926), The Golden Age of Crime (1931) and The Stars Scream Murder (1936).
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Sacred and Profane Love
Arnold Bennett 试读
This article is about the painting by Titian. For the 1921 film, see Sacred and Profane Love (film). For the novel, see Arnold Bennett.Sacred and Profane Love (Italian: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano, also called Venus and the Bride) is an oil painting by Titian, painted c. 1514. The painting is presumed to have been commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of Ten (so identified because his coat of arms appears on the sarcophagus or fountain in the centre of the image) to celebrate his marriage to a young widow, Laura Bagarotto. It perhaps depicts the bride dressed in white, sitting beside Cupid and being assisted by Venus in person.
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An Eye for an Eye
Anthony Trollope 试读
This article is about the principle of retributive justice. For other uses, see Eye for an eye (disambiguation) and Lex talionis (disambiguation).An eye for an eye or the law of retaliation, is the principle that a person who has injured another person is penalized to a similar degree, or in softer interpretations, the victim receives the [estimated] value of the injury in compensation.
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Kept in the Dark
Anthony Trollope 试读
Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th-century English novelist Anthony Trollope. One of his lesser and later works, it nonetheless has interest. It was published in eight monthly instalments in Good Words in 1882, and also in book form in the same year.
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Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope 试读
Orley Farm is a novel written in the realist mode by Anthony Trollope (1815–82), and illustrated by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (1829–96). It was first published in monthly shilling parts by the London publisher Chapman and Hall. Although this novel appeared to have undersold (possibly because the shilling part was being overshadowed by magazines, such as The Cornhill, that offered a variety of stories and poems in each issue), Orley Farm became Trollope's personal favourite. George Orwell said the book contained "one of the most brilliant descriptions of a lawsuit in English fiction."
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Ralph the Heir
Anthony Trollope 试读
Ralph the Heir is a novel by Anthony Trollope, originally published in 1871. Although Trollope described it as "one of the worst novels I have written",it was well received by contemporary critics. More recently, readers have found it noteworthy for its account of a corrupt Parliamentary election, an account based closely on Trollope's own experience as a candidate.
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My Path to Atheism
Annie Wood Besant 试读
It is the acknowledgment of a previously formed determination to believe at any cost it is a wail of helplessness the very apotheosis of despair. We cannot have history, so let us believe a fairy-tale we can discover nothing, so let us assume anything we cannot find truth, so let us take the first myth that comes to hand. Here I feel compelled to part company with the Dean, and to leave him to believe in, to adore, and to love that which he has himself designated as indistinguishable and undiscernable it may be an act of faith but it is a crucifixion of intellect it may be a satisfaction to the yearnings of the heart, but it dethrones reason and tramples it in the dust. We proceed in our study of the attributes of God. He is represented as the Supreme Will, the Supreme Intelligence, the Supreme Love. As the Supreme Will. What do we mean by "will " Surely, in the usual sense of the word, a will implies the power and the act of choosing. Two paths are open to us, and we will to walk in one rather than in the other. But can we think of power of choice in connection with God Of two courses open to us one must needs be better than the other, else they would be indistinguishable and be only one perfection implies that the higher course will always be taken what then becomes of the power of choice We choose because we are imperfect we do not know everything which bears on the matter on which we are about to exercise our will if we knew everything we should inevitably be driven in one direction, that which is the best possible course. The greater the knowledge, the more circumscribed the will the nobler the nature, the more impossible the lower course. Spinoza points out most clearly that the Divinity could not have made things otherwise than they are made, because any change in his action would imply a change in his nature God, above all, must be bound by necessity. If we believe in a God at...
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Gloria and Treeless Street
Annie Hamilton Donnell 试读
Annie Hamilton Donnell (1862- ) wrote Rebecca Mary (1905), The Very Small Person (1906), Glory and the Other Girl (1907), Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings (1916), Gloria and Treeless Street, Four Girls and a Compact and Three Young Knights. "Gloria sat in her favorite chair on the broad veranda. The shadow of the vines made a delicate tracery over her white dress. Gloria was lazily content. She had been comfortable and content for seventeen years. There's that queer little thing again, going off with her queer little bag " Gloria's gaze dwelt on the house across the wide street. Down its steps a small, neat figure was tripping. Gloria recognized it as an old sightacquaintance. "
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Authors and Friends
Annie Fields 试读
Annie Adams Fields was an American author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the second wife of the publisher and author James Thomas Fields, whom she married in 1854, and with whom she encouraged up and coming writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman, and Emma Lazarus. She was equally at home with great and established figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose biography she fearlessly compiled. After Fields' husband died in 1881, she continued to occupy the center of Boston literary life. The hallmark of Fields' work is a sympathetic understanding of her friends, who happened to be the leading literary figures of her time.
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Cynthia Wakehams Money
Anna Katharine Green 试读
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Initials Only
Anna Katharine Green 试读
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The Mayors Wife
Anna Katharine Green 试读
I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety. I needed a position, needed it badly, while the others- But her eyes are on our faces, she is scanning us all with that close and calculating gaze which lets nothing escape. She has passed me by-my heart goes down, down-when suddenly her look returns and she singles me out.
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Historical Mysteries
Andrew Lang 试读
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How to Fail in Literature; a lecture
Andrew Lang 试读
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Playing With Fire
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 试读
Glasgow is the city of Human Power. It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility. There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor. But there are no loungers in them. The crowd is a busy, hard-working crowd, whose civic motto is Enterprise and Perseverance.
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The Measure of a Man
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 试读
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The Rhythm of Life
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 试读
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Beauties of Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 试读
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Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs
Alfred Ollivant 试读
This is a novel about steeplechase racing and horse training in turn of the century England. It is by the same author who wrote the classic "Bob Son of Battle". This book didn't seem quite as fleshed out as Bob, but provides some interesting insight into the horse racing world at that time, with local characters and dialect. The author was obviously keen on and knew a thing or two about dogs and horses, so his knowledge from the end of the animal age and the beginning of the machine age adds interest to the fairly simple story. Good enough for when you're in the mood for an old fashioned feel good animal story. Also, the e-version of this book is excellent, no weird typos and such.
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Marie; a story of Russian love
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 试读
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Soldier Songs and Love Songs
Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw 试读
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The Other Girls
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney 试读
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A Jolly Fellowship
Frank Richard Stockton 试读
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Annie Kilburn – a Novel
William Dean Howells 试读
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Carry On Letters in War-Time
Coningsby Dawson 试读
This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
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Chip, of the Flying U
B. M. Bower 试读
B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. And what a career it was--more than sixty novels published from 1904 to 1940, the year of her death, and still more posthumously. In the western orbit, Bower was--and still is--a star. Her first, "Chip of the Flying U," lays out a ranch in Montana and introduces the Happy Family, the bunkhouse gang that reappears in her later books. Chip is the typical woman-shy cowboy, but he is also a gifted artist (reputedly, Bower based the character on Charles M. Russell, who illustrated "Chip"). Della, a doctor, is the young woman who disrupts his solitary life. The result as a quality ranch romance. "Chip of the Flying U" was a great success that led to several movie versions, one of them casting Hoot Gibson as Chip. Today's readers who grew up watching westerns on television will appreciate Bower's cinematic style. After living much of her life in Chouteau County, Montana, she moved to Los Angeles, close to the movie industry that increasingly fascinated her.
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Guy Rivers – A Tale of Georgia
William Gilmore Simms 试读
Our scene lies in the upper part of the state of Georgia, a region at this time fruitful of dispute, as being within the Cherokee territories. The route to which we now address our attention, lies at nearly equal distances between the main trunk of the Chatahoochie and that branch of it which bears the name of the Chestatee, after a once formidable, but now almost forgotten tribe.
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Is Life Worth Living
William Hurrell Mallock 试读
To avoid any chance of confusion or misconception, it will be well to say that these words as used by me have no special reference to the system of Comte or his disciples, but are applied to the common views and position of the whole scientific school, one of the most eminent members of which—I mean Professor Huxley—has been the most trenchant and contemptuous critic that 'positivism' in its narrower sense has met with.
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Kit of Greenacre Farm
Izola Louise Forrester 试读
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La Princesse Flora(French Edition)
Alexandre Dumas 试读
Je suis furieuse contre Moscou, ma chère, parce que tu n'es pas avec moi. Je dois te raconter une foule de choses… mais comment te les écrire ? J'ai tant vu et tant vécu depuis une semaine !
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Luck or Cunning
Samuel Butler 试读
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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My Second Year of the War
Frederick Palmer 试读
...day arrived when along the road toward the front came the Australian battalions, hardened and disciplined by trench warfare, keen-edged in spirit, and ready for the bold task which awaited them at Pozi
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Shelley; an essay
Adolphus Alfred Jack 试读
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Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger 试读
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Oh, You Tex!
William MacLeod Raine 试读
It definately was a fun read for anyone who enjoys stories of the old west and grew up in the era when we read Zane Grey and later Louis LAmour. Tes is an oldfashioned hero, the kind who is self effacing and competent without bragging. There are some laughs in here, and a sweet romance that kinda keeps you guessing for quite awhile! Settle in and enjoy "O, You Tex!"
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Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
William James 试读
This collection defining documents from one of America's most influential thinkers presents Pragmatism in its entirety, James's seminal set of lectures in which he argues in his witty and limpid style for the "reasonableness of ordinary experience." Also gathered here are selections from James's other formative works, including The Meaning of Truth, Psychology, The Will to Believe, and Talks to Teachers on Psychology.
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Kenilworth
Walter Scott 试读
Presents a fictional portrait of life during the Elizabethan era as the Earl of Leicester tries to keep his marriage to Amy Robsart a secret to avoid the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth.
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Salthaven
W. W. Jacobs 试读
This early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Salthaven' is one of the author's few full length novels. Jacobs worked as a clerk in the civil service before turning to writing in his late twenties, publishing his first short story in 1895. Most of Jacobs' work appeared before the onset of World War I, and although the majority of his output was humorous in tone, he is best-remembered now for his macabre tales, particularly those contained in his 1902 collection The Lady of the Barge, such as 'The Monkey's Paw' and 'The Toll House'.
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Paradoxes of Catholicism
Robert Hugh Benson 试读
A collection of essays relating to his conversion to Catholicism.
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Young Lives
Richard Le Gallienne 试读
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866-1947) was an English man of letters, very much associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s. He was born in Liverpool. He started work in an accountant's office, but abandoned this to write. My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887, and in 1889 he became for a short time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett. He joined the staff of The Star in 1891, and wrote for various papers using the signature of Logroller. He contributed to The Yellow Book, and associated with the Rhymer's Club. In 1906 he translated, from the Danish, Peter Nansen's Loves Trilogy. Among his famous works are: English Poems (1892), The Quest of the Golden Girl (1896), Prose Fancies (1896), Young Lives (1899), The Worshipper of the Image (1900), October Vagabonds (1910), The Lonely Dancer, and Other Poems (1913), and A Jongleur Strayed (1922).
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Pardners
Rex Ellingwood Beach 试读
"Most all the old quotations need fixing," said Joyce in tones forbidding dispute. "For instance, the guy that alluded to marriages germinating in heaven certainly got off on the wrong foot. He meant pardnerships. The same works ain't got capacity for both, no more'n you can build a split-second stop-watch in a stone quarry. No, sir A true pardnership is the sanctifiedest relation that grows, is, and has its beans, while any two folks of opposite sect can marry and peg the game out some way. Of course, all pardnerships ain't divine. To every one that's heaven borned there's a thousand made in -. There goes them cussed dogs again " He dove abruptly at the tent flap, disappearing like a palmed coin, while our canvas structure reeled drun-kenly at his impact. The sounds of strife without rose shrilly into blended agony, and the yelps of Keno melted away down the gulch in a rapid and rabid diminuendo.
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Keith of the Border
Randall Parrish 试读
The man was riding just below the summit of the ridge occasionally uplifting his head so as to gaze across the crest shading his eyes with one hand to thus better concentrate his vision.
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Daphne, an autumn pastoral
Margaret Pollock Sherwood 试读
"Her Excellency, --will she have the politeness," said Daphne slowly, reading from a tiny Italian-English phrase-book, "the politeness to"--She stopped helpless. Old Giacomo gazed at her with questioning eyes. The girl turned the pages swiftly and chose another phrase. "I go," she announced, "I go to make a walk. "
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Geoffrey Strong
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 试读
The Captain had sold all his lobsters. They had been particularly fine ones and had gone off "like hot cakes" everyone who passed by the wharf stopping to buy one or two. Now the red dory was empty and the Captain had washed her out with his usual scrupulous care and was making preparations for his homeward voyage when he was hailed by a cheery voice from the street.
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Under King Constantine
Katrina Trask 试读
The following tales, which have no legendary warrant, are supposed to belong to the time, lost in obscurity, immediately subsequent to King Arthur's death; when, says Malory, in the closing chapter of LA MORT D'ARTHURE, "Sir Constantine, which was Sir Cadors son of Cornwaile, was chosen king of England; and hee was a full noble knight, and worshipfully hee ruled this realme"
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Jerome K. Jerome 试读
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous and entertaining essays written by popular English humorist Jerome K. Jerome. This work is considered widely to be on the of better works of Jerome, and uses the same style as Three Men in a Boat, but was not nearly as popular as that title. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is highly recommended for those who enjoy the humorous writings of author Jerome K. Jerome and also for those who are discovering his writings for the first time.
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Under Handicap A Novel
Jackson Gregory 试读
Outside there was shimmering heat and dry thirsty sand miles upon miles of it flashing by in a gray barren blur. A flat arid monotonous land vast threatening waterless treeless. Its immensity awed its bleakness depressed. Man's work here seemed but to accentuate the puny insignificance of man.
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Education as Service
J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti 试读
In long past lives the author of this little book had much to do with educational work, and he seems to have brought over with him an intense interest in education.
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Madame Delphine
George Washington Cable 试读
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CAP FITS About two months after the conversation just given, and therefore somewhere about the Christmas holidays of the year 1821, Pere Jerome delighted the congregation of his little chapel with the announcement that he had appointed to preach a sermon in French on the following sabbath?not there, but in the Cathedral.
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Salted with Fire
George MacDonald 试读
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Varied Types
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 试读
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Madame Midas
Fergus Hume 试读
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Happiness and Marriage
Elizabeth Towne 试读
Elizabeth Towne was one of the most important figures in the New Thought movement. In this book she gives her views of how to have a happy marriage. This book is full of wisdom that any one looking to get married or stay married will appreciate. Chapters include To Be Happy Though Married, To Be Loved, Marriage Contracts, Some Hints and a Kick, The Heart of Woman, The Law of Individuality, Harmony at Home, The Truth about Divorce.
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Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
Edward Eggleston 试读
You think that folks in fine clothes are the only folks that ever see fairies, and that poor folks can't afford them. But in the days of the real old-fashioned "Green Jacket and White Owl's Feather" fairies, it was the poor boy carrying fagots to the cabi。
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Fanny Herself
Edna Ferber 试读
It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants their heroine in pinafore and pigtails.
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Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl
Edgar Jepson 试读
She heard him come out of his bedroom and at once dished up his bacon and carried it into his sitting-room.
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Jacobs Ladder
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim 试读
Seated at breakfast on that memorable July morning, Jacob Pratt presented all the appearance of a disconsolate man. His little country sitting-room was as neat and tidy as the capable hands of the inimitable Mrs. Harris could make it. His coffee was hot and his eggs were perfectly boiled. Through the open windows stretched a little vista of the many rows of standard roses which had been the joy of his life. Yet blank misery dwelt in the soul of this erstwhile cheerful little man, and the spirit of degradation hung like a gloomy pall over his thoughts and being. Only the day before he had filed his petition in bankruptcy.
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Warings Peril
Charles Kingsley 试读
That Doyle should be away from the post provoked neither comment nor speculation: he was not connected in any way with the tragedy. Mr. Waring was absent all night, coupled with the stories of his devotions to Madame, was to several minds prima facie evidence that his was the bloody hand that wrought the deed.
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Ramsey Milholland
Booth Tarkington 试读
It all started when he was young -- all the rules and expectations that made him look stupid, and worse than stupid. Like the time Miss Ridgely ordered him to the blackboard, and tried to stimulate him with hints and suggestion -- Miss Ridgely, Ramsey knew, found him mere protoplasm, so far as knowing decimals went -- and so she summoned to the board little Dora Yocum, star of the class, and said, "You stand still, Ramsey. Stay right where you are, and try to learn something from the way Dora does it." The class giggled, and Ramsey stood, but learned nothing. His conspicuousness was unendurable, because all of his schoolmates naturally found more entertainment in watching him than in following the performance of the capable Dora. And it was like that, month after month . . . and then year after year. But he would make himself good in the eyes of the world. Ramsey knew he would. He "swore" he would. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, wrote such keenly observed novels of American life as "Gentle Julia "and "In the Arena."