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The Tight Hand by Arnold Bennett
IThe tight hand was Mrs Garlick’s. A miser, she was not the ordinary miser, being exceptional in the fact that…
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The Widow of the Balcony by Arnold Bennett
IThey stood at the window of her boudoir in the new house which Stephen Cheswardine had recently bought at Sneyd.…
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Three Episodes in the Life of Mr Cowlishaw, Dentist by Arnold Bennett
IThey all happened on the same day. And that day was a Saturday, the red Saturday on which, in the…
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Under the Clock by Arnold Bennett
IIt was one of those swift and violent marriages which occur when the interested parties are so severely wounded by…
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Why the Clock Stopped by Arnold Bennett
IMr Morfe and Mary Morfe, his sister, were sitting on either side of their drawing-room fire, on a Friday evening…
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The Parable of the Water-Tank by Edward Bellamy
There was a certain very dry land, the people whereof were in sore need of water. And they did nothing…
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To Whom This May Come by Edward Bellamy
IT is now about a year since I took passage at Calcutta in the ship Adelaide for New York. We…
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A Bitter Root Billingsrbiter by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Billings rode in from the Junction about dusk, and ate his supper in silence. He’d been East for sixty days,…
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Flesh by Rex Ellingwood Beach
IShould you chance, in crossing a certain mountain pass in southern Catalonia, to find yourself poised above a little valley…
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His Stock in Trade by Rex Ellingwood Beach
“The science of salesmanship is quite as exact as the science of astronomy,” said Mr. Gross, casting his eyes down…
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