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“What is in the Brahmin’s books that is in the Brahmin’s heart. Neither you nor I knew there was so much evil in the world.”…

I will now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you as I alone can the secret of the enginery that…

“When halter and heel ropes are slipped, do not give chase with sticks but with gram.” Punjabi Proverb. After marriage arrives a reaction, sometimes a…

The sea lay in a breathing calm, and the galley, bosomed in its transparent water, stirred rhythmically to the slow pulse of its sleeping life.…

‘If you go once round the world in an easterly direction, you gain one day,’ said the men of science to John Hay. In after…

She was a writing medium. This is what she wrote: I can remember some things upon that evening most distinctly, and others are like some…

It was her first voyage, and though she was but a cargo-steamer of twenty-five hundred tons, she was the very best of her kind, the…

“Consequences of our acts eternal? Bosh!” said Blawkins, at the Club. “That’s what the Padres say. See, now!” The smoking-room was empty, except for Blawkins…

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and be happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.…

The observatory at Avu, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain. To the north rises the old crater, black at night against the…

The dense wet heat that hung over the face of the land, like a blanket, prevented all hope of sleep in the first instance. The…

“What if I die under it?” The thought recurred again and again, as I walked home from Haddon’s. It was a purely personal question. I…