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id: 1421
author: Dickens, Charles
title: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
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words: 12585
sentence: 444
flesch: 75
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summary:
  If you'll believe me my dear the Consols at the bank where I have a little matter for Jemmy got into my head, and I says Good gracious I hope he ain't had any dreadful fall! Says Winifred He don't look as if he had ma'am. the Major says quite huffy, No madam it's not to be done, and when I says Why not?


id: 1416
author: Dickens, Charles
title: Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
extension: .txt
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words: 14623
sentence: 455
flesch: 72
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summary:
  Moping is not the way to grow younger Major. It _is_ a hardship hurting to the feelings that Lodgers open their minds so wide to the idea that you are trying to get the better of them and shut their minds so close to the idea that they are trying to get the better of you, but as Major Jackman says to me, I know the ways of this circular world Mrs. Lirriper, and that's one of 'em all round it and many is the little ruffle in my mind that the Major has smoothed, for he is a clever man who has seen much.


id: 2425
author: James, Henry
title: A Bundle of Letters
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words: 14281
sentence: 618
flesch: 76
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summary:
  And you know Clara _is_ Bangor, to the soles of her shoes. Do you remember the _pension bourgeoise_ of Madame Vauquer _nee_ de Conflans?


id: 18207
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: Coffee and Repartee
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words: 18162
sentence: 1084
flesch: 80
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summary:
  I missed you at the concert last night, Mr. Idiot, said he. Mr. Whitechoker tried to look severe; the gentleman who occasionally imbibed smiled all over; the Bibliomaniac ignored the remark entirely, not having as yet forgiven the Idiot for his gross insinuation regarding his friend's _édition de luxe_ of _Through Africa by Daylight_; Mary, the maid, who greatly admired the Idiot, not so much for his idiocy as for the aristocratic manner in which he carried himself, and the truly striking striped shirts he wore, left the room in a convulsion of laughter that so alarmed the cook below-stairs that the next platterful of cakes were more like tin plates than cakes; and as for Mrs. Smithers, that worthy woman was speechless with wrath.


id: 18881
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: The Idiot
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words: 22979
sentence: 1227
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Suppose, Mr. Idiot, a man should come to you and say: 'Idiot, we have a fund of $800,000 in our hands, actual cash. With which sally the Idiot kissed his hand to Mr. Pedagog and retired from the scene. II Let's write a book, suggested the Idiot, as he took his place at the board and unfolded his napkin.


id: 35017
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: Half-Hours with the Idiot
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words: 23123
sentence: 869
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Well, I suppose there is a difference between a prune and a Canadian melon, old man, but after all, they're both fruit, and when it comes to being squeezed, I guess it hurts a lemon just as much as it does a lime. The last time I saw him he was starting off with old man Weston on his walk to Chicago.


id: 54660
author: Alger, Horatio, Jr.
title: The Disagreeable Woman: A Social Mystery
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words: 23967
sentence: 2116
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Mrs. Wyman, the young widow, flushed and directed an angry and scornful look at the last speaker. We all enjoyed the rebuff which Mrs. Wyman received from the Disagreeable Woman, though it made us slightly afraid of her lest our turns might come next.


id: 33623
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: The Inventions of the Idiot
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words: 27726
sentence: 1520
flesch: 80
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summary:
  For plausibility, Mr. Idiot, said Mr. Pedagog, you are to me a perfect wonder. XII Dreamaline Well, Mr. Idiot, said Mr. Pedagog, as the guests gathered about the table, how goes the noble art of invention with you?


id: 11127
author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
title: The Case of Jennie Brice
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words: 36644
sentence: 2697
flesch: 92
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summary:
  So for that day, at least, Mr. Ladley became Mr. Holcombe again, and as such accepted ice in quantities, a mustard plaster over his stomach, and considerable nursing. Mr. Ladley moved to the back parlor to let the paper-hanger in the front room, smoked and fussed with his papers all day, and Mr. Holcombe stayed in his room, which was unusual.


id: 35302
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews
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words: 36695
sentence: 1892
flesch: 80
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summary:
  Well, I don't know about that, Mr. Idiot, said Mr. Whitechoker, tapping his fingers together reflectively. VIII SPRING AND ITS POETRY Well, Mr. Idiot, said Mrs. Pedagog, genially, as the Idiot entered the breakfast-room, what can I do for you this fine spring morning?


id: 15630
author: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
title: Polly Oliver's Problem
extension: .txt
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words: 44154
sentence: 2072
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Persuasion bore no fruit, and for a long time Miss Polly ate in solitary grandeur. It is said that Rudyard Kipling considers Polly Oliver one of the most delightful of all girl-heroines; and Mrs. Wiggin really hopes some day to see the Hospital Story Hour carried out in real life.


id: 38551
author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
title: The Crux: A Novel
extension: .txt
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words: 55069
sentence: 3819
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Said I got drunk, I warrant! For the past five years, Mrs. Pettigrew had made her home with the Lanes.


id: 32401
author: Marlowe, Amy Bell
title: The Girls of Hillcrest Farm; Or, The Secret of the Rocks
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words: 61805
sentence: 4314
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Lyddy Bray abominated flirting and such silly practises. Couldn't you have got a mite nearer heaven, if you'd tried, Lyddy Bray? Ye-es, gasped Lyddy.


id: 62301
author: Munroe, Kirk
title: Canoemates: A Story of the Florida Reef and Everglades
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words: 69024
sentence: 3088
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Right you are, Mr. Sumner, said the sailor. Then, as Sumner, with a flushed face, but disdaining any reply, sheered off and sailed away, he added, I'd jest naturally hate myself if I was as mean as you be, Sumner Rankin, and I won't forget your disobligingness in a hurry, neither!


id: 39599
author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
title: The Little Colonel in Arizona
extension: .txt
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words: 72584
sentence: 3860
flesch: 86
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summary:
  There is little time for fishing now, You must take father's place behind the plough.' Mrs. Walton had spoken truly when she said that Little girls begin very early sometimes to dream about that far-away land of Romance.


id: 33353
author: Jenkins, Herbert George
title: Patricia Brent, Spinster
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words: 69372
sentence: 4816
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Patricia asked herself; and yet two of these solitary souls had dared to pity her, Patricia Brent. Patricia Brent, admonished Patricia to her reflection in the looking-glass, as she brushed her hair that night, you're a most unmitigated little liar.


id: 33218
author: Van Schaick, George
title: A Top-Floor Idyl
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words: 87396
sentence: 5199
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Baby Paul was rapidly accumulating weight, and Frieda and I offered him a small baby carriage, which folded up most cleverly and took little room in the shop or at home. Eulalie had been discharged, with mutual regrets, and little Paul was growing apace.


id: 56087
author: Hume, Fergus
title: In Queer Street
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words: 92350
sentence: 6112
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Any other paying guests? Mr. Edward Bracken--ordinarily termed Ned,--who plays the violin in the Bijou orchestra with great delicacy, and Mr. Owain Hench, who is at present absent, and will not return for a week. Mr. Owain Hench would then have to prove what he was doing on the night in question, and I don't think that would be easy.


id: 41136
author: Meade, L. T.
title: A Plucky Girl
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words: 93678
sentence: 5388
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Mother would have her friend near her, and I also should not be friendless when my time of terrible trouble came, for of course mother was dying. Mother must be saved; mother must be kept in the dark as to the utter ruin of my mad plan.


id: 54979
author: Hume, Fergus
title: The Yellow Holly
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words: 101927
sentence: 7677
flesch: 89
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summary:
  I'll remain plain George Brendon to the end of my days, and a bachelor at that. Nor do I. Does she know you? Not as George Brendon, or as I am now.


