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Excerpt from The Empty Sack

"Mr. Collingham will see you in his office before you go."

Having thus become the Voice of Fate, Miss Ruddick, shirt-waisted and daintily shod, slipped away between the p

The old man to whom she had spoken

Excerpt from The Dust Flower

It is not often that you see a man tear his hair, but this is exactly what Rashleigh Allerton did. He tore it, first, because of being under the stress of great agitation, and second, because he had it to tear - a

Excerpt from The City of Comrades

"No."

"No?"

"No."

In the slow swirl of Columbus Circle, at the southwest corner of Central Park, two seedy, sinister individuals could hold an exceedingly private conversation without drawing

Excerpt from The Lifted VeilAt the time it began Bainbridge was still a stranger in New York. He was so much a stranger as to be often lonely, sometimes bewildered, and homesick by fits and starts. When he was homesick it was not so much for any particular domestic group as it was for the...

Excerpt from The Street Called Straight a NovelAs a matter of fact, Davenant was under no illusions concerning the quality of the welcome his hostess was according him, though he found a certain pleasure in being once more in her company. It was not a keen pleasure, but neither was it an...

Excerpt from The Way Home: A Novel

An incident like that of the missionary box could not but fix in Charlie Grace"s mind the approximate date of his first conscious wish to be a clergyman. Thinking it over in after life, he reckoned that it must

Excerpt from Going West

He was not a born fighter, in spite of a big, husky frame through which the urge of physical life was strong. On the contrary, he was a civilian and a business man in every nerve of his body. Eight generations on American