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  ''But Kios, whom we met near the city of Pamax, told us that for some offence he had been condemned to die, and only saved his life through the clemency of the King


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id: 13931
title: Master of His Fate
author: Cobban, J. Maclaren (James Maclaren)
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  "To live," said Julius, "is surely the purpose of life. "Look!" said Lady Lefevre to her son as they turned to leave the "I have often thought, Julius," said Lefevre, "that you must be some "A strange case," said Lefevre in a low voice to his young comrade--"the "Why, Julius," said Lefevre, "that''s a new experience you are "Supposing," said Lefevre, "that this Julius were their son, do you know Lefevre and the old man both looked round for Julius. "But your master, Jenkins," said Lefevre, "can never look a common man." "I think I know my man," said he; and the doctor looked the lively The young man looked at Dr Lefevre in puzzled inquiry; but the doctor them, when Lady Lefevre appeared and said to Julius-"There''s nothing now to be done for me, Lefevre," said Julius, shaking "Lefevre," said Julius, "you are a perfect friend!


id: 13984
title: In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories
author: Lang, Andrew
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  In the following tales the natural man takes a hand, but he is seen Tanner''s "Narrative of a Captivity among the Indians." Tanner, like WhyWhy, had trouble with the chief medicine-man of his community. Against all these forms of soul-destroying error the Rev. Thomas Gowles thundered nobly, "passing," as an admirer said, "like an The old man, who was followed by attendants carrying torches chief sacrificing to idols; of men and young women engaged in the souldestroying practice of promiscuous dancing; there were wild beasts, lions approached, and the old men rose from their places till he had taken a old heathen called Elatreus, a good-natured, dull, absent-minded man, who "Clayville appears to be a lively kind of place," I said. "Peter," said Moore, "you are a good boy, but you will come to a bad black and white, if you want to know, my little dear," said the mother of


id: 456
title: The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  and things came and went in them; my dear mother, whom I had near shall do it yet,'' I said, and passed a row of frowsy little shops watching for the day--a great white star, come suddenly into the Men looking up, near blinded, at the star, saw "Ah!" said the man with the white face; "then perhaps you can we stopped, and presently over the hill-crest those war things came "Got it?" said Horrocks, standing with the door half open. "Come along," he said suddenly, and, gripping Raut''s arm in "Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country "He comes," said the second blind man, "out of the rocks." "Come hither," said the third blind man, following his motion "Why did you not come when I called you?" said the blind man. "There is no such word as _see_," said the blind man, "My time will come," he said.


id: 11870
title: The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "They look to me like little white fingers poking out of the brown," said "Pah!" he said, and suddenly turned away and went towards the "The very thing," he said, and faced this way, and then that. Here." He handed me out a little flat thing like a seidlitz-powder. He was a pale-faced little man, with dark eyes and a fine and very black "I see no reason," said he, "why a man should live like a "Has God got Hell up his sleeve then?" said the little man beside me. "Ah!" said the man with the white face; "then perhaps you can tell me--you "They don''t know we are after them," said the little man on the white After a time it came to the little man on the white horse that the "They don''t like this wind," said the little man, and dropped behind as "My lord!" said the little man.


id: 12750
title: The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "I suppose," the pale man said with a slight smile, "that you scarcely "I don''t like the look of it," said his housekeeper. "I don''t like those things that stick out," said his housekeeper. "It looks," said the housekeeper, "like a spider shamming dead." "They look to me like little white fingers poking out of the brown," "There are such queer things about orchids," he said one day; "It was," said Woodhouse, "more like a big bat than anything else in old gentleman whose son was a lawyer said he''d been thinking the thing "I shall paint a picture exactly as I like," said Harringay, calmly. "I drifted ten days," said the man with the scar. I said, ''you''re welcome''; and with a little difficulty he came out. "Look at that moth!" said Hapley, A new edition of a famous book, illustrated and printed in black and


id: 49713
title: Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour
author: Dixon, Charles
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  excitement the Doctor and Graham watched together, but Sandy and Temple "I think Graham is right, Doctor," remarked Temple. "Temple, and you, too, Graham," answered the Doctor, "you surprise me "Well, Doctor," said Temple, one day after work was over, "suppose you powerful electric hand-lamp, followed by Temple and Graham; Sandy, with to get away from the swamp, and as soon as Graham returned, the Doctor Graham rowing, Temple steering, and the Doctor keeping a sharp look-out _Sirius_ the command was given by Doctor Hermann, and Graham set the Revolver in hand, Temple and Graham stood by the Doctor, "I don''t like the look of things at all, Doctor," answered Temple, "King and citizens of Edos," said Temple, "the words I shall say are "Graham," said the Doctor, who from the moment the King had pronounced "See, thou boasting fool, Volinè hath deserted thee in thy hour of


id: 42221
title: The World of H.G. Wells
author: Brooks, Van Wyck
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  Invariably these experiments in human possibility, placed in a world When, in _New Worlds for Old_, Wells set himself to explain socialism as life; they have experienced a kind of humanity to which all men can Wells man, both in his love and his work, is experimental: he is an that; but personality to Wells is attained purely through love and work, from unfermented men." So also in _First and Last Things_ Wells remarks: that Wells likes Japanese human nature. Wells''s notion of right human nature. it deals with man as a mass-mind; he has come to rest in human nature Wells has finally come to port in human nature. nature" and the overwhelming anti-social forces in the world and in man Human nature in Wells In the end, of course, both these views of life come to the same thing, "How little and feeble is the life of man, a thing of chances,


