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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: Ticknor and Fields; Publication date: 1856; Subjects: Gold mines and mining; New South Wales; Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; History / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Technology ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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Publisher: London, Williams and StrahanPublication date: 1872Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : P.F. CollierPublication date: 1860Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Originally published in 1896.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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He then told Lady Cicely there were more reasons than he chose to mention: go he must, and would; and he implored her not to let the affair drop. In short, he was sad but resolved, and she found she must go on with it, or break faith with him. She took her desk, and wrote a letter concluding the bargain for him. She stipulated for half the year's fee in advance. She read Dr. Staines the letter. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1884.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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"Nor would it be polite or generous; but this of yours is a deep grief, and alarms me for you. Shall I tell you how I know? You often yawn and often sigh; when these two things come together at your age they are signs of a heavy grief; then it comes out that you have lost your relish for things that once pleased you. The first day I came here you told me your garden had been neglected of late, and you blushed in saying so. ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : S. French and sonPublication date: 1850Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER V.Mr. Fountain sat at breakfast opposite his niece with a twinkle set in his eye like a cherry-clack in a tree, relishing beforehand her smiles, and blushes, and gratitude to him for having hooked and played his friend, so that now she had but to land him. " I'll just finish this delicious cup of coffee," thought he, "and then I'll tell you, my lady." "While he was slowly sipping said cup, Lucy looked up and said graciously to him, " How silly Mr. Talboys was last night—was he not, dear?"" Talboys ? silly ? what 1 do you know ? Why, what on earth do you mean?"" Silly is a harsh word—injudicious then—praising me a tort et a travers, and was downright ill bred—was discourteous to another of our guests, Mr. Dodd."" Confound Mr. Dodd! I wish I had never invited him.""So do I. If you remember, I dissuaded you."" I do remember now. What! you don't like him either?"" There you are mistaken, dear. I esteem Mr. Dodd highly, and Miss Dodd too, in spite of her manifest defects ; but in making up parties, however small, we should choose our guests with reference to each other, not merely to ourselves. Now forgive me, it was clear beforehand that Mr. Talboys and the Dodds, especially Miss Dodd, would never coalesce; hence my objection in inviting them; but you overruled me—with a rod of iron, dear.""Yes; but why? because you gave me such a bad reason ; you never said a word about this incongruity."" But it was in my mind all the time.""Then why didn't it come out?""Because—because something else would come out instead. As if one gave one's real reasons for things!! Now,uncle, dear, you allow me great liberties, but would it have been quite the thing for me to lecture you upon the selection of your own convives f" Why, you have ended by do... ... Read more

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"She was born to be your destruction."

This is a breezy, rather light romance about the dashing, heroic David Dodd and his love for the not very interested Lucy Fountain. Lucy has a few suitors engaged in trying to win her hand ("all my pests" she calls them), but actually would rather be just left alone. But Nature must have her way, and David shows her a love and devotion that not even she can resist for long. Charles Reade always researched his novels as thoroughly as some historians do their subjects, and one of the issues that comes in for Reade's examination here is banking; at one point he gives a 40-page history lesson on some past banking practices in England. Reade's judgment when it came to these discourses was always clouded, and they are best just skipped. Some of the drawing room conversations are quite humorous and delightful, but the novel is at best only a mild "entertainment" (even Reade thought the incidents in the book didn't amount to much, and promised more substance in the sequel he was already writing, HARD CASH). ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Publisher: London S. FrenchPublication date: 1875Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more