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Chapter I It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm Californiaafternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon fromthe ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host ofproposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California.Because of the warmth of the day I had had several drinks beforecasting my ballot, ... more>>
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The most disreputable thing in Yancey Goree's law office wasGoree himself, sprawled in his creakv old arm-chair. The ricketylittle office, built of red brick, was set flush with the street --the main street of the town of Bethel. Bethel rested upon the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge. Above itthe mountains were piled to the sky. Far below it the turbi ... more>>
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Volume IBook First--A Just ManChapter I. M. Myriel In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D----He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he hadoccupied the see of D----since 1806. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the realsubstance of what we are about to relate, it will not besuperfluous, if merel ... more>>
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Prefatory. This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentioushistory or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of severalyears of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to helpthe resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him withmetaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is informationin the volume ... more>>
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Chapter I. Nonnezoshe John Wetherill, one of the famous Wetherill brothers and traderat Kayenta, Arizona, is the man who discovered Nonnezoshe, which isprobably the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in theworld. Wetherill owes the credit to his wife, who, through herinfluence with the Indians finally after years succeeded in gettingth ... more>>
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First Part-Sieur ClubinBook I. The History of a Bad Reputation.I. A Word Written on a White Page. CHRISTMAS DAY in the year 182-was somewhat remarkable in theisland of Guernsey. Snow fell on that day. In the Channel Islands afrosty winter is uncommon, and a fall of snow is an event. On that Christmas morning the road which skirts the seashorefrom S ... more>>
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Chapter I. How Mr. Oxenham Saw the White Bird "The hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea." All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of NorthDevon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, whichslopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands,and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods ... more>>
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Chapter 1 In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri,swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, formiles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turningwestward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billowsand long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave ofrising ground--Wyoming--where ... more>>
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Chapter I The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and therewas a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant cameinto a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains.She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house witha portico, and went to the child's bed. "Wake up, Philip," she said. She pulled ... more>>
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Preface "Hard Cash," like "The Cloister and the Hearth,"is a matter-of-fact Romance--that is, a fiction built on truths;and these truths have been gathered by long, severe, systematiclabour, from a multitude of volumes, pamphlets, journals, reports,blue-books, manuscript narratives, letters, and living people, whomI have sought out, examined, and c ... more>>
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Chapter 1 My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian namePhilip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer ormore explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to becalled Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority ofhis tombstone and my sister -Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married theblacksmith. As I ... more>>
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Chapter I. An Advertisement. On Saturday, the 18th day of June, 1859, the "State Banner andDelphian Oracle," published weekly at Oxbow Village, one of theprincipal centres in a thriving river-town of New England,contained an advertisement which involved the story of a younglife, and stained the emotions of a small community. Such faces ofdismay, su ... more>>
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Chapter I. In Chancery London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellorsitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As muchmud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from theface of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet aMegalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantinelizard up H ... more>>
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Chapter I At sunset hour the forest was still, lonely, sweet with tang offir and spruce, blazing in gold and red and green; and the man whoglided on under the great trees seemed to blend with the colorsand, disappearing, to have become a part of the wild woodland. Old Baldy, highest of the White Mountains, stood up round andbare, rimmed bright gold ... more>>
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Preface. A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging aboutNotre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook ofone of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon thewall:--ANArKH. These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven inthe stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphyimprinte ... more>>
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