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Ever since that unfortunate affair in which the mother of mankind was so prominently concerned, the female sex might say, with Shylock, 'Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.' They are, in fact, an incarnation of the Passive Voice--no mistake about it. 'Ah, gentle dames, i...
The chief centre of attraction is a partially-wrought limestone quarry, known by the name of the Sheethiehead, right above the village of Kinnesswood, and about a gunshot back f...
3. Chapter 3'Yes,' rejoined M. de Véron, pausing for an instant on the outer threshold, 'there is one mode, Eugène, and only one. What it is, you do not require to be told. I shall dine in...
4. Chapter 4But there is also a light, flimsy, fly-away-kind of speculator, a May-day betting-man--a youth fresh, perhaps, from school and the country, with whom his friends have hardly yet...
2. Chapter 2'At length,' he writes, 'having reached the eastern side of the mountain, I halted, and determined to go in search of this new-born town--a future city in our vast empire. Takin...
1. Chapter 1Ever since that unfortunate affair in which the mother of mankind was so prominently concerned, the female sex might say, with Shylock, 'Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
6. Chapter 6'Just so, in 1817, the great water-companies coalesced against the public, and coolly portioned out London between them. Their treatment, on this occasion, of the tenants so lat...