Bound by a Spell CHAPTER X1 and XIE romance in London
The narrator recounts spiraling poverty in London after fleeing Bury St Edmunds. A chance encounter with a pale, musical woman offers hope and a possible return of love. She helps with money and work while urging caution about relations with Mr Montgomery and a Mrs Wilson. The pair promise to meet again as the narrator takes odd copying work to survive.
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Montery
Montgomery
Masters
Storiea
Tiat
Pitzwalten
Archer's
Tures
Porter
Folf
Martha
Jonathan Rodwell
St Edmund's
Veyron
Tintog
Trent
Murthy
Cnet
Bury St. Edmund’s
Bury St. Edmund's
Toner
Rackstraw
My.Montgomery
Gage
Joanah Alice
Chey
Tate
Carston
Mr. Montgomery
Josiah
Plucky Matsumula Smoked Out A Hazing Rite At Yale Navy Academy
An American naval officer and former midshipman recalls Matsumula, a popular Japanese cadet at the Naval Academy, who cleverly endured a brutal hazing test. Amid dense smoke and stifling heat, Matsumula sang in Greek, kept his peers calm, and finally smoked out the other ringleaders while taking the blame himself.
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Naval Academy
Matsuulla
New York Sun
Matsmulla
Sartaro Ise
Jim
Mats
Goth
Ike
Mats Fnally
Speech Fragments and Plans in Quick Succession
The text records a dialogue about a daughter attending cooking school and writing a cookbook. It notes a proposed monument in Philsburg for General Alexander Trays born there and a monetary figure of 403,700,000 in connection with the Siberian Hallway.
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Philsburg
Alexander Trays
Siberian
The Living Landmark and James Russell Lowell Poem Fragment
A fragmentary reflective verse on immortality and memory, citing James Russell Lowell. It muses that living landmarks endure beyond death, linking spring legends to lasting traces of souls who pass from this world.
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James
Ames Russell Lowell
Lottery Temptation Ends In Ruin And Redemption
James Lanning, swayed by prize fantasies, buys lottery tickets against his wife Hannah’s warnings. After repeated losses he is robbed of twenty dollars and the mortgage slips toward foreclosure. Two years of honest toil repay all, as he pays off the mortgage and vows to heed his wife’s prudent counsel, warning others of the lottery’s dark side.
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Ames Lanning
James
Hannah
Ree
Hannah Lanning
Janes
Sual Rae
Jimes
Barney
Jamies
Jose
James Lanning
Leiad
le Self
Kore
Jaones Tanning
Rowse
Lanning
Lottary Ucketa
Ant
Mr. Rawse
Young Lanning
Sveke
Wis
Tamas
Dolima
Hatuuth Lanning
Tannah
Aunger
Hus Iounds
Waverley Magazine
Western journalism evolves amid wartime Japan
The piece notes rapid Westernization of Japanese journalism during wartime. It describes reporters adopting American styles, sensationalism rising with lively war news, female journalists appearing, and journalism beginning to pay. English columns and school study of English grow as Japanese press expands toward a bright future.
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America
There Is One Comfort in Noahs Long Voyage
The ark had just landed and Noah muses there is one comfort left. He reflects on past trials and a sense of endurance after thirty years at sea.
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Noah
New York
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Philadelphia
Homer
the Living Landmark
Hadinat
Abe
Ang
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