The St James's Magazine and United Empire Review

The St James's Magazine and United Empire Review

Author: S.C. Hall

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781458906083

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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: St. James's Magazine. AUGUST, 1879. Hubert Maitlajvd's Wraith. A NOVEL. By FELIX HOLLAND. CHAPTER XVII. PHILIP OUT OF HIS ELEMENT. JHILIP arose and exchanged the troubled dreams -of night for those of day. The unrest which had seized on him was merging to despair. The exubera t gladness of Mr. Scroggs failed to cheer him, and escapii. from the house he found himself wandering under the elms of Kensington Gardens. All day long he remained there, sometimes lying listlessly on the grass, some4 s sauntering through the shady avenues, playing, with a poor forced smile, with the children who were about, or deciphering names which idiot youths had carved in the smooth bark of beeches twenty, forty, sixty years ago? names which ironic Nature had preserved longer than many a fashionable fame that dainty lips have bruited under their shadows. Sometimes a school-girl or governess would pass and glance shyly at the beautiful boy's face, he heeding them not. When evening came he returned to the Crown and Candle. He took down the violin, and played the dolefulest airs of a dozen doleful operas, and naturally failing to escape his distracting thoughts by such efforts, he again strolled out into the twilight. But there was no peace, the demon jealousy had seized on him, and he wandered up and down the road as aimless and restless as the first stray autumn leaves that rustled at his feet. VOL. XXXVI H Soon he was startled by the sound of approaching wheels, and, stepping aside, a light carriage whirled swiftly by, not so swiftly, however, but that he had time to recognize Emily Aldair. She greeted him with a sad sweet smile, and a little flutter of her tiny gloved hand, which the speed of the horses prevented his returning, and the next moment was far away in the twiligh...


The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 36

The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 36

Author: W. J. Morgan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-24

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780484648240

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Excerpt from The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 36: July to December, 1879 This having been interpreted to the Vicomte, he said Ah Indeed! But to himself he expressed a devout hope that he might get nothing of the sort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, 1875, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, 1875, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Author: S. C. Hall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 9780666107473

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Excerpt from The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, 1875, Vol. 1 To see him lazily coming down In his velvet coat of an autumn brown, You'd say he'd no trouble in country or town. Yet in town he'd heaps of political strife, And a keen Opponent who cut like a knife; And in country he had a cantankerous wife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 34

The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 34

Author: W. J. Morgan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-24

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780483837584

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Excerpt from The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 34: July to December, 1878 In the meantime, two persons, who had watched the procession of the League along the dusty road, still lingered by Dr. Singleton's gate. The quiet stars appeared thick and fast in the great vault above them; the gentle breeze of the summer night came over the heath and was welcome after the long, hot day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 35

The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 35

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9781528288606

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Excerpt from The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Vol. 35: January to June, 1879 The bathing season Of 186 has been over nearly a month. November has set in with rapid alternations Of weather, favourable and unfavourable to British constitutional pedestrianism; on one day, a bright sun and cloudless sky overhead, with a keen north-easter sweeping the sandy dust into your eyes, on the next a sunless sky and a wild son' wester lashing the sea to fury and devastation. The afternoon on which I request the reader's company at the further end Of the East Pier was Of the latter sort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review, 1874, Vol. 11 (Classic Reprint)

The St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review, 1874, Vol. 11 (Classic Reprint)

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13: 9780364044537

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Excerpt from The St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review, 1874, Vol. 11 I don't think it's dreadful at all, and Mah's very happy, Maud struck in, with a grand disregard of her ladyship's pathetic lament for Lady Ayre's feelings. But what have they got to live on Lady Jane asked, prae tically. You know When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the Window.' And as she said it the pale blue eyes shot a covert glance at Maud Craven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.