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Chapter 5 - A Belt and a Box

In Eight Cousins (Version 3)

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Louisa May Alcott

Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and…

A Patriotic Barber in Fault

In Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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Andrew Forrester

This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …

Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy

In Victorian Stories of Troubled Marriages

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Ella D'Arcy

Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are …

XXIII

In The House on the Marsh: A Romance

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Florence Warden

Violet Christie is just 18 years old as she heads towards her first position as a governess. She tries to be enthusiastic about the Norfolk …

Some Real American Ghosts Part 2

In The Best Ghost Stories

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Various,Ellis Parker Butler

Collected together here by master anthologist Joseph Lewis French are some of the finest ghost stories ever to be put to paper. From the ea…

The Shadows on the Wall

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 072

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Chapter IX

In The Romance of the Animal World

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Edmund Selous

A description of the animal world, from the smallest protozoa all the way to man eating tigers!

Preface

In Rose in Bloom, Version 2

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Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published in 1876 and is a sequel to Eight Cousins. It depicts the story of a nineteenth-centu…

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