"There is positively not a dollar left to buy a dress for Queenie and yet she will insist upon going to the ball. Could you let me have ...

Sweet Lily Lawrence had committed suicide! Oh! impossible! A girl so young, so gifted, so lovely, the darling of her father's heart, ...

It is not a pleasant experience to wake up on a beautiful morning to the realization that one has failed. There seems a relentless irony ...

“To all such meetings as these!” cried Densham, lifting his champagne glass from under the soft halo of the rose-shaded electric lights. ...

“Oh, Mamma, I have had a lovely time at Mrs. Van Bibber’s! I would not have missed her reception for the world!” The blonde beauty ...

“Has Vance returned yet?” asked Jared Whitemore, a stout, florid-complexioned man of sixty-five, opening the door of his private office ...

“He’s the most lifelike corpse I ever saw in my life, and I’ve seen several in my time,” said Jack Howard, a stalwart, bronze-featured ...

“See here, Dick Armstrong; when you’ve taken that water into the house, I want you to clean these. Do you understand?” The speaker, a ...

Originally published: Oct. 6, 1905 Genres: Children's Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62840662-a-lucky-deal-or-the-cu...

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“Well, my dear Gilsey, I rather think I can land him for you,” declared Nick Carter, with an odd smile lurking in the corners of his ...

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On the shady veranda of an old-fashioned Southern house, on the outskirts of St. Louis, two men in the prime of life were enjoying their ...

One fine October afternoon, in the year 1880, a sailboat might have been seen gliding serenely over the waters of Lake Okeechobee, in t...

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