Category： Short Stories Author：novel
My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misinterpreted by members of my family whose good opinion I cannot consent to forfeit. I request them to suspend their decision until they hav...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
Callers loaded with gifts, and tradesmen bending under packages, come and go in endless procession. The servants are at the end of their endurance. As for the family and the betrothed, they no longer have a life or a fixed abode. Their mornings are spent with dressmakers, milliners, upholsterers, jewelers, decorators, and caterers. Aft...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
\"A Paradoxical philosopher, carrying to the uttermost length that aphorism of Montesquieu\'s, \'Happy the people whose annals are tiresome,\' has said; \'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.\' In which saying, mad as it looks, may there not still be found some grain of reason? For truly, as it has been written, \'Silence is divin...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
The scene of this Prologue to the story about to be written was a certain cathedral town, of which most of you have heard before, and the time close upon midnight.
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
The part performed by the militia and militia officers in the War of the Revolution does not seem always to have received the historical recognition which it deserves. It was really of great importance, especially in southern New England and the Middle States, at times actually rivaling and often indispensably supplementing that of the...
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