The Duchess Chapter X Ends in a Torn Engagement
Fay and Ernest Severn struggle with love and duty as a planned marriage with Jessica Wilcott threatens to ruin all. Fay admits love for Ernest while he confesses his own, but the engagement remains, and Pasco’s departure and an inheritance change the men’s prospects as the chapter ends with uncertainty.
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Fay
Ernest Severn
Ernest
George
Nettie
Pasco
Miss Ashton
Captain Severn
Sir George
Ray
Jessica
Wylding
Gilbert Wylding
Jessica Wilcott
Severn’s
Severn
Mrs. Barrington
Janet Barrington
Priory
London
Monte Carlo
Devonshire
The Lion's Face of the King of Beasts
An animal trainer describes the lion as the true king of beasts whose face embodies strength determination power and fearlessness. He notes lines of majesty in repose and compares the lion to the sphinx and idealized Washington portraits.
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Sphinx
eWashington
The Low Right Shoulder Noted Across Civilized Lands
Authorities report that 85 to 95 percent of men in civilized lands are right handed and favor the low right shoulder. This pattern is not new, with ancient Greek sculptors arranging subjects to appear more symmetrical.
Roses Threaded Through a Quiet Flat Tale
In Newton Flats Mary, a pretty housemaid, befriends Miss Johnson the new tenant and notes a mysterious hermit in 3B who never leaves his door yet sends a daily cascade of roses. Miss Johnson inspires a plan to coax him out with music and roses, revealing a hidden romance between Kathie Besley and Arthur.
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Newton
Miss Johnson
Mary
Rooks
John Jones
Smith
Mr. Jones
Welshmert
Moses
Pharaoh
Arthur
John
Kathleen Besley
Items of Interest From The Periodical World
A collection of curiosities and facts ranging from Moorish color globes in drug stores to wolves in Russia consuming about 200 people yearly. Notes on pigeon speed, Vienna beggar numbers, Burgundy pitch composition, ocean temperature, nostril indicators for lung size, English belles with hand mirrors, Berlin midnight papers, handedness in lobsters, Commodore Vanderbilt’s cigar ritual, an ancient German Bible, a Chinese periodical at Pekin in the year 908, German smokeless-powder detection, and Kansas game-bird stocking with Hungarian partridges introduced near Cottonwood Falls.
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Russia
Vienna
Burgundy
Ocean
England
Henry VII
Elizabeth
James I
Berlin
Zurich
D. W. Dietrich
Lancaster County
Kxing-Pan
Pekin
Germany
Kansas
Cottonwood Falls
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!