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Falling in with Fortune
In the present tale our hero, by a curious combination of circumstances, becomes
the private secretary to a rich lady, and travels with this lady to England and
other places. The lady has a nephew whose character is none of the best, and as
this young man had formerly occupied the position now assigned to Robert, our
hero’s place becomes no easy one to fill. Yet his natural stoutheartedness helps
him to overcome every obstacle and brings his many surprising adventures to a
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Adamant
Ever since a devastating magical war tore apart Ada Fletcher’s homeworld, she and her family have lived undercover on the low-magic Earth. Stuck in a dead-end job in London, Ada has spent her life hiding both her true identity and her forbidden magic from the Inter-World Alliance: the organisation that polices the Passages between Earth and its magical neighbours.
At least until a high-ranking Alliance official is murdered, and Ada is arrested as the main suspect.
Kay Walker, grandson of the Inter-World Alliance’s late founder, expects to spend his first week as an Alliance employee hunting rogue monsters in the Passages, not solving his supervisor’s murder. However, the main suspect is a fierce young woman with dangerous magic from a world that should no longer exist… and the closer Kay gets to uncovering the truth, the higher the body count rises.
The last thing Ada wants to do is help the infuriating Alliance guard who arrested her, but it soon becomes clear that the Alliance knows too much about Ada’s homeworld — and her magic. More, in fact, than she knows herself. One thing’s certain: she’s not the only one keeping secrets, and trusting the wrong person might cost more than her life.kr 20kr 25Adamant
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Antony and Cleopatra
Whom everything becomes,–to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself in thee fair and admir’d!
No messenger; but thine, and all alone
To-night we’ll wander through the streets and note
The qualities of people. Come, my queen;
Last night you did desire it:–speak not to us.[Exeunt ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their Train.]
DEMETRIUS.
Is Caesar with Antonius priz’d so slight?PHILO.
Sir, sometimes when he is not Antony,
He comes too short of that great property
Which still should go with Antony.DEMETRIUS.
I am full sorry
That he approves the common liar, who
Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope
Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy![Exeunt.]
SCENE II. Alexandria. Another Room in CLEOPATRA’S palace.
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The ‘Mind the Paint’ Girl
MRS. UPJOHN.
[Contentedly.] Oh, jest as you like.
FARNCOMBE.
[Moving towards the door.] In about a quarter-of-an-hour.
MRS. UPJOHN.
If we don’t see you again, I’ll tell Lil you’ve been ‘ere.
FARNCOMBE.
[At the door.] Oh, but you will; you will see me again.
MRS. UPJOHN.
Well, please yourself and you please your dearest friend, as Lil’s dad used to say.
FARNCOMBE.
Thank you– thank you very much.
[He disappears, closing the door after him.
MRS. UPJOHN.
[To ROPER, looking up.] I b’lieve you gave that young man the ‘int to go, Uncle.
ROPER.
I did; told him I wanted to talk business with you.
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Riders to the Sea
NORA The young priest says he’s known the like of it. “If it’s Michael’s they are,” says he, “you can tell herself he’s got a clean burial by the grace of God, and if they’re not his, let no one say a word about them, for she’ll be getting her death,” says he, “with crying and lamenting.”
[The door which Nora half closed is blown open by a gust of wind.]
CATHLEEN [Looking out anxiously.]
Did you ask him if would he stop Bartley going this day with the horses to the Galway fair?
NORA “I won’t stop him,” says he, “but let you not be afraid. Herself does be saying prayers half through the night, and the Almighty God won’t leave her destitute,” says he, “with no son living.”
CATHLEEN Is the sea bad by the white rocks, Nora?
NORA Middling bad, God help us. There’s a great roaring in the west, and it’s worse it’ll be getting when the tide’s turned to the wind.
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‘A Comedy of Errors’ in Seven Acts
Fear not, they soon shall feel how vain it were
To seek to trick one who, in halls of state,
Hath met the wiles of shrewd, self-seeking men,
But to ward off attack with virtue’s shield.
_Captain and Seldonskip approach._
_Captain:_ Most noble potentate, as I my roundsOf observation make, it pleasures me
Most mightily, to make obeisance to
The one so honored by his native land.
As captain of a vessel may be judged
By those subordinate to his command,
So do I quick conception of thee form.
By the broad mental gifts of Seldonskip
Who were the hose, through which thy mind doth squirt Most sapient thought, for mankind’s betterment.kr 15kr 20‘A Comedy of Errors’ in Seven Acts
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An Ideal Husband
LADY MARKBY is a pleasant, kindly, popular woman, with gray hair e la marquise and good lace. MRS. CHEVELEY, who accompanies her, is tall and rather slight. Lips very thin and highly-coloured, a line of scarlet on a pallid face. Venetian red hair, aquiline nose, and long throat. Rouge accentuates the natural paleness of her complexion. Gray-green eyes that move restlessly. She is in heliotrope, with diamonds. She looks rather like an orchid, and makes great demands on one’s curiosity. In all her movements she is extremely graceful. A work of art, on the whole, but showing the influence of too many schools.
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Paycheck to Paycheck
Toiling at some blue-collar job side-by-side with other working stiffs in this Land of the Free
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