When will Christmas be over?
Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of...
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At times there is a suddenness in the manner of Mademoiselle Hortense so like a bodily spring upon the subject of it that such subject involuntarily starts and fails back. It is Mr. Tulkinghorn’s case...
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Dolly Varden by Frith Sometimes the name of a character becomes synonymous with things quite removed from the story in which she sprang. The Dolly Varden was generally known as a type of polonaise: a...
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