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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In preparing to compose a fiction founded on history, the writer of these pages thought it no necessary requisite of such a work that the principal characters appearing in it should be drawn from the historical personages of the period. On the contrary, he...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was on a summer's evening early in the month of August that the little Mummy was once again seen on the platform at Dawlish....

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. They were seated in the drawing-room of an ancient chateau in Brittany, - the Countess Dowager de Gramont and Count Tristan, her only son, - a mansion lacking none of the ponderous quaintness that usually characterizes ancestral dwellings in that locality....

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Since this little book appeared in print, it has had no less than three answers, and fresh attacks are daily expected from the powers of Grub-street; but should threescore antagonists more arise, unless they say more to the purpose than the forementioned,...

A kindly thing it is to have compassion of the afflicted and albeit it   well beseemeth every one, yet of those is it more particularly   required who have erst had need of comfort and have found it in any,   amongst whom, if ever any had need thereof or held it dear or took   pleasure therein aforetimes, certes, I am one of these. For that,  ...