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     "Yes," said he, "short shrift."     "And who am I getting?" I wondered.     "Hard to guess," said he. He was in no humor for conversation.     The following week, that most melancholy of processions, a curate's furniture en route, filed slowly...

     With the courts of Siam and Muscat, it will be seen, I was enabled to effect the most friendly relation, and to place our commerce on a basis in which the excessive export and import duties, previously demanded, were reduced fifteen per cent.

     Yet this same Donner Lake was the scene of one of the most thrilling, heart-rending tragedies ever recorded in California history. Interwoven with the very name of the lake are memories of a tale of destitution, loneliness, and despair, which borders on the incredible. It is a tale that has...

invitation, he took a chair, and sat down in such a position that he could see Miss Smithers without being seen of his uncle.   "I was saying, Miss Smithers, or rather, I was going to say," went on the elder Meeson, "that, in short, I do not in the least understand what you can mean. You will remember that you were paid a sum of fifty pounds for the copyright of 'Jemima's Vow.'"  ...

     In 1578, there were three hundred and fifty fishing vessels at Newfoundland belonging to the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English; besides these were a number—twenty or more—of Biscayan whalers. The Marquis de la Roche, a Catholic nobleman of Brittany, encouraged by Henry IV., undertook...

     2. Usefulness.—The newer ideals of character-building call for the early training of all children as if they were to enter permanently upon some bread-winning pursuit. Such training is a most direct means of culture and refinement, provided it be correlated with the proper amount of book...

     "Oh, how beautiful!" said Camilla; "surely this can't be Agnes' baby. He is just as white as I am, and his eyes—what a beautiful blue—and his hair, why it is really lovely."     "He is very pretty, Miss, but after all he is only a slave."     A slave....

     Taxation laws, as we have seen, were so devised that the burden in a direct way fell lightly on the shipping, manufacturing, trading, banking and land-owning classes, while indirectly it was shoved almost wholly upon the workers, whether in shop, factory or on farm.

      More than a year passed without hearing from her, and, finding that she was giving sittings, I made free to call at the house and ask admittance, which was granted. As she did not recognize me, I felt confident that she had forgotten the circumstance of the letter, and, as I preferred to...

     "I can believe it without weighing the bottle," I replied.     "And only four sous—twenty centimes left!" exclaimed the old gentleman, meditatively. "But four sous is four sous. It is de price of mine paper"—brightening in his reflections—"I can...

     CHAPTER XII WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS Qualification. Appropriate subjects. Directions.     CHAPTER XIII CHOICE OF WORDS Small words. Their importance. The Anglo-Saxon element.

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     My mother was old and frail, and her voice very gentle; she was the most trustful, uncomplaining woman I ever knew.     I looked up quickly into her face as she spoke. “All the money gone, mother?”     “Ay, all. It will be hard for you to go without your dinner, Robert, dear.”   ...

before you.”   “I beg your pardon,” said Mr. Carrados, with perfect good-humour. “I hadn’t seen it. But I used to know a Calling some years ago— at St. Michael’s.”   “St. Michael’s!” Mr. Carlyle’s features underwent another change, no less instant and sweeping than before. “St. Michael’s! Wynn Carrados? Good heavens! it isn’t Max Wynn— old ‘Winning’ Wynn”?  ...