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It is observed by a very pleasant writer--read now-a-days only by the brave pertinacious few who still struggle hard to rescue from the House of Pluto the souls of departed authors, jostled and chased as those souls are by the noisy footsteps of the living--it is observed by t...
MR. GEORGE STEPHENS, the translator of Tegner's _Frithiof's Saga_, and whose intimate acquaintance with the early literature of Sweden has been shown by the collection of legend...
10. Book Five contains secrets for beautifying the human body. The followingreceipt, which comes first, for giving people a substantial look, seems to be somewhat too efficacious to be often tried: "_To make men fat._ If you mingle with the fat of a liz...
2. CHAPTER II."He has the assurance to lay wagers that he will win the hand of your heiress. I know that too; and therefore I have come to England--first to baffle his design--for I do not th...
3. CHAPTER III.The next day a somewhat old-fashioned, but exceedingly patrician, equipage stopped at Riccabocca's garden-gate. Giacomo, who, from a bedroom window, had caught sight of it windi...
9. CHAPTER IX.Violante's first evening at the Lansmeres, had seemed happier to her than the first evening, under the same roof, had done to Helen. True that she missed her father much--Jemima...
8. CHAPTER VIII.If any one could be more surprised at seeing Lord L'Estrange at the house of Madame di Negra that evening than the fair hostess herself, it was Randal Leslie. Something instinct...
5. CHAPTER V.No sooner had Lady Lansmere found herself alone with Riccabocca and Harley than she laid her hand on the exile's arm, and, addressing him by a title she had not before given him...
1. BOOK X.-INITIAL CHAPTER.It is observed by a very pleasant writer--read now-a-days only by the brave pertinacious few who still struggle hard to rescue from the House of Pluto the souls of departed auth...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mrs. Fairfield was a proud woman when she received Mrs. Riccabocca and Violante in her grand house; for a grand house to her was that cottage to which her boy Lenny had brought...
7. CHAPTER VII."Excuse me, my dear Harley, I have only ten minutes to give you. I expect one of the royal dukes, and punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courte...
6. CHAPTER VI.Violante and Jemima were both greatly surprised, as the reader may suppose, when they heard, on their return, the arrangements already made for the former. The Countess insisted...