item: #1 of 11 id: 35385 author: Schubin, Ossip title: Blanche: The Maid of Lille date: None words: 8842 flesch: 75 summary: Hence it was that Blanche came to the assistance of Dame Isabella and her Uncle Gottfried in the care of De Lancy, and as her hand was the most delicate, it usually fell to her to loosen the bandages around the ugly wound on his head, and as she had the steadiest nerve, it was she who, with Gottfried's help, removed the splinter of a broken sword-point from his shoulder. In the cool, lofty rooms of the Castle of Montalme Blanche wandered about all this time like one bewildered by a great joy. keywords: blanche; castle; dame; eyes; girl; gottfried; head; heart; isabella; king; lancy; love; man; montalme cache: 35385.txt plain text: 35385.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 35396 author: Schubin, Ossip title: Asbeïn: From the Life of a Virtuoso date: None words: 55485 flesch: 81 summary: A half-hour had passed; at last Natalie sprang from the carriage and hastened up the narrow stairs. Then Natalie kissed him, and blushed at her lack of restraint. keywords: arms; boris; child; day; door; evening; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; heart; kolia; lensky; life; light; like; lips; little; love; man; maschenka; mother; music; natalie; people; petersburg; poor; princess; room; table; thought; time; voice; wife; wish; woman; world cache: 35396.txt plain text: 35396.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 35454 author: Schubin, Ossip title: "O Thou, My Austria!" date: None words: 106516 flesch: 82 summary: At last Harry asks, taking the black leather travelling-bag from his cousin's hand, Is this all your luggage? The milkman is to bring a small trunk, she replies, without looking at him. And when all the country around declared that Baron Harry was in love with her, I was glad; but our master was furious, although the young things were then mere children, and declared that not one penny of his money should his nephew have if he married the child of that shop-girl. keywords: air; arm; aunt; baron; baroness; castle; chapter; countess; course; cousin; dark; day; dobrotschau; door; exclaims; eyes; face; fainacky; family; father; fellow; frau; garden; girl; good; great; hair; half; hand; harfink; harry; head; heart; herr; home; house; komaritz; lato; leskjewitsch; life; light; look; love; major; man; matter; moment; money; mother; murmurs; olga; paula; people; poor; replies; room; rosamunda; selina; smile; table; thought; time; treurenberg; turns; uncle; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; world; years; zdena; zirkow cache: 35454.txt plain text: 35454.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 35491 author: Schubin, Ossip title: Boris Lensky date: None words: 72414 flesch: 87 summary: I live as if in Paradise with you! Did poor little Mascha become at all gayer in the course of the evening? asked Nita, as she poured tea for her friend. The letter is from my cousin, Nikolai Lensky, the son of the famous violinist, you know---- I know nothing. keywords: anna; bärenburg; child; colia; daughter; day; door; dress; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; left; lensky; life; little; looks; love; man; mascha; maschenka; moment; mother; nikolai; nita; pale; poor; room; sonia; sophie; thought; time; voice; word; years cache: 35491.txt plain text: 35491.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 35531 author: Schubin, Ossip title: Countess Erika's Apprenticeship date: None words: 109555 flesch: 81 summary: But, my dear Countess Erika, why send for a droschky, when my carriage is waiting below, and it will give me the greatest pleasure to drive Countess Brock home?--Surely you will permit me?--this last addressed to the 'wicked fairy. For a while he was sympathetically silent, and then he said, kindly, Countess Erika, would you rather keep your sorrow to yourself, or will you confide it to me? His mere presence had had a soothing effect; her tears ceased to flow; she only shivered slightly from time to time. keywords: air; berlin; brother; child; countess; countess erika; countess lenzdorff; course; dark; daughter; day; dear; door; dorothea; erika; evening; eyes; face; frau; girl; good; goswyn; grandmother; half; hand; head; heart; herr; home; kind; lady; leave; left; lenzdorff; letter; life; look; love; lozoncyi; man; moment; otto; pale; people; picture; princess; right; room; society; strachinsky; sydow; table; think; thought; time; tone; voice; von; way; white; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 35531.txt plain text: 35531.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 35541 author: Schubin, Ossip title: Erlach Court date: None words: 81036 flesch: 78 summary: But little Stella was indeed a darling. Yes, Edgar, go to the Lipinskis' and watch little Stella and her adorer. keywords: ball; baroness; black; blue; capito; captain; chapter; child; cold; course; court; daughter; day; della; edgar; evening; exclaims; eyes; face; father; freddy; friend; girl; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; husband; katrine; ladies; left; leskjewitsch; life; looks; love; man; meineck; moment; mother; night; oblonsky; paris; poor; princess; replies; rohritz; room; seggiola; stasy; stella; table; thérèse; time; tis; voice; way; white; wife; woman; world; years; young; zino cache: 35541.txt plain text: 35541.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 35571 author: Schubin, Ossip title: Felix Lanzberg's Expiation date: None words: 63767 flesch: 80 summary: Felix, who had meanwhile been telling Elsa of Gery's scarlet fever with most interesting explicitness, grew silent, not, perhaps, because the cuckoo song was even half as interesting to him as Gery's parched lips and little hands--no! Well? Felix Lanzberg is to be married. keywords: arm; arms; baron; child; countess; cries; day; elsa; erwin; eugene; eyes; face; father; felix; good; hair; half; hand; harfink; head; heart; juanita; lanzberg; law; life; light; linda; lips; little; look; love; man; moment; papa; people; pistasch; poor; replies; rhoeden; room; scirocco; smile; thought; time; traunberg; voice; white; wife; wish; woman; world; years cache: 35571.txt plain text: 35571.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 35590 author: Schubin, Ossip title: The Story of a Genius date: None words: 41793 flesch: 82 summary: Gesa's orchestral duties consisted in supporting, along with an old flutist, the musical disorders of a narrow-chested, long-haired youth, who hammered waltzes and polkas on a tired old spinnet, while at the same time, as he confessed to little Gesa with a sigh, he had vainly longed all his life to be entrusted with the execution of a funeral march! Just why little Don Cesare exerts himself so much about it I can't make out, said the well-nourished padre, in his neighbor's ear. keywords: annette; asked; atanasio; carmela; cesare; chapel; day; delileo; don; door; evolino; eyes; face; father; friend; gesa; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; love; man; mother; music; nino; poor; rain; ravestein; red; rue; saint; sterny; time; toni; voice; work; world; years; zwilk cache: 35590.txt plain text: 35590.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 35672 author: Schubin, Ossip title: 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance date: None words: 77376 flesch: 76 summary: If his people suffer from any injustice it certainly is without his knowledge; Count Oswald is one of the old school. For your sake, Count Oswald! keywords: air; baroness; boy; capriani; chapter; child; children; conte; count; countess; course; cousin; day; dear; doctor; eyes; face; father; fellow; fritz; gabrielle; georges; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; know; left; letter; life; little; lodrin; look; malzin; man; matter; moment; mother; ossi; oswald; paris; people; pistasch; poor; red; right; room; schneeburg; smile; son; table; thought; time; truyn; voice; way; white; wife; world; years; zinka; zoë cache: 35672.txt plain text: 35672.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 35673 author: Schubin, Ossip title: Our Own Set: A Novel date: None words: 59226 flesch: 75 summary: My god-daughter, Zinka Sterzl. It was Charles Lamb's Essays, and on the first page was written in a large, firm hand: In friendly remembrance of a terrible quarrel, Zinka Sterzl. keywords: air; baroness; brother; cecil; countess; course; day; door; evening; eyes; face; french; friend; gabrielle; gandry; general; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; ilsenbergh; ladies; lady; life; madame; man; men; morning; mother; new; place; princess; rome; room; round; sempaly; siegburg; sister; smile; society; sterzl; think; thought; time; truyn; vulpini; way; woman; world; zinka; zinka sterzl cache: 35673.txt plain text: 35673.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 36904 author: Franzos, Karl Emil title: For the Right date: None words: 163868 flesch: 81 summary: I know, he said quickly, you are not exactly his friend, good man though he is. He has not had a drop since yesterday, poor old man, who never could do without his tipple; it is that which frightens me! keywords: answer; anusia; band; bear; captain; case; children; day; days; death; district; doubt; duty; emperor; end; eyes; face; father; girl; god; going; good; governor; hajek; hand; having; head; heart; help; house; judge; justice; law; leave; left; leo; life; look; love; making; man; mandatar; matter; men; mountains; need; people; place; poor; pope; reason; rest; right; saying; taras; tell; things; thought; time; trouble; village; voice; way; wife; word; wrong; years; zulawce cache: 36904.txt plain text: 36904.txt