Category： Short Stories Author：novel
The history of nations fully establishes the fact, that the character of man results from the operation of circumstances on his organism. This great and important truth is written in such broad and legible characters on the face of human annals, as may easily be distinguished and can scarcely be mistaken. Among rude and savage tribes w...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
The first chapter of these Volumes discloses the reasons which induced me to undertake the present Biography—a task amounting to a labour of love, owing to the personal interest I have felt in it from beginning to end. How far, however, I may succeed in satisfying my Readers—fully conscious as I am of my own demerits and the many defec...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
\"It\'s going to be a dirty night,\" remarked Mr. Graham, Scoutmaster of the 9th Southend-on-Sea Sea Scouts. \"Not very promising for the first day of our holidays.\"
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
“Flash the light on the compass again, Frank. Let’s have another look!” Instantly the ray of an electric hand-light shot over the shoulder of a boy and centered itself on a curiously arranged compass fixed between the lad’s feet.
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
I never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by new comers. That a man with a family should cling to a house in which he has once established himself is intelligible. The butcher who supplied Dillsborough, or the baker, or the iro...
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