Literature
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Acting for the Best by Ralph Henry Barbour
I have no patience with people who talk that kind of nonsense about marrying for love and the like. For…
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A Death-Bed Confession by Ralph Henry Barbour
And so you think I shall go to heaven when I die, sir! And why? Because I have spent my…
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A Race with the Waters by Ralph Henry Barbour
Roy Milford pulled the brim of his faded sombrero further over his blue eyes and urged Scamp into a trot,…
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Barring the Way by Ralph Henry Barbour
I don’t know how she could have done it. I couldn’t have done it myself. At least, I don’t think…
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Coals of Fire by Ralph Henry Barbour
All my life I’ve lived on a barge. My father, he worked a barge from London to Tonbridge, and ‘twas…
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Grandsire Triples by Ralph Henry Barbour
I was promised to William, in a manner of speaking, close upon seven year. What I mean to say is,…
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Guilty by Ralph Henry Barbour
It was my first place and my last, and I don’t think we should have got on in business as…
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Her Marriage Lines by Ralph Henry Barbour
II had never been out to service before, and I thought it a grand thing when I got a place…
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His First Assignment by Ralph Henry Barbour
Tom Collins read again the inscription on the directory at the foot of the stairs: Room 36 City Editor and…
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McTurkle, the Band by Ralph Henry Barbour
We had had hard luck at Harvard all that fall. First Phinney, our 208-pound left guard, dislocated his shoulder in…
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