item: #1 of 12 id: 11303 author: Moore, George title: Vain Fortune: A Novel date: None words: 58933 flesch: 88 summary: In the meantime, Rose had been told that the gentleman she had snubbed in the passage was Mr. Hubert Price, the author of _Divorce_. Relieved of much detail and much cumbersome legal circumlocution, it was to the following effect:--That about three months ago Mr. Burnett had come up from his place in Sussex, and at the offices of Messrs. Grandly & Co. had made a will, in which he had disinherited his adopted daughter, Miss Emily Watson, and left everything to Mr. Hubert Price. keywords: act; bentley; day; dear; emily; end; eyes; face; girl; good; house; hubert; julia; leave; letter; life; london; long; look; love; man; miss; moment; mrs; night; play; price; room; things; thought; time; want; way; woman; work cache: 11303.txt plain text: 11303.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 20225 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Story of a Play A Novel date: None words: 68170 flesch: 83 summary: It shall go on the bills, 'The Second Chapter,' a demi-semi-serious comedy by Mrs. Louise Hilary Maxwell--in letters half a foot high--and by B. Maxwell--in very small lower case, that can't be read without the aid of a microscope. They had settled for the summer, when they got home after their brief wedding journey, at a much cheaper house in Magnolia, and the actor and the author were then only three miles apart, which Mrs. Maxwell thought was quite near enough. keywords: actor; brice; business; course; fact; godolphin; good; grayson; haxard; husband; louise; love; man; manager; maxwell; mind; moment; mrs; new; people; piece; play; right; salome; stage; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work cache: 20225.txt plain text: 20225.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 28492 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Light of the Star: A Novel date: None words: 45250 flesch: 86 summary: Would it be so with Helen Merival? From the very moment the door had opened to him the glittering woman had been receding into remote and ever remoter distances, for the Helen Merival before him was as simple, candid, and cordial as his own sister. keywords: act; audience; author; day; douglass; eyes; face; good; hand; heart; helen; hugh; know; life; man; merival; moment; morning; mother; new; night; play; playwright; public; self; stage; thought; time; want; westervelt; woman; work cache: 28492.txt plain text: 28492.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 31374 author: Reynolds, Frederick title: The Dramatist; Or, Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, in Five Acts date: None words: 18713 flesch: 94 summary: Yes, sir, and my lord has sent to know if Mr Vapid, or her ladyship, have been here;--he was in bed, but on receiving a letter, got up, and will be here in an instant. Now, Mr Vapid, tell us how you came in that closet? _Vapid._ keywords: comedy; ennui; exit; flor; lady; letty; lord; louisa; ma'am; mari; nev; neville; peter; sir; thing; vapid; waitfor't; willoughby cache: 31374.txt plain text: 31374.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 31471 author: Jordan, Elizabeth Garver title: The Girl in the Mirror date: None words: 63929 flesch: 88 summary: There are seven million things about you that I love, she ended, but the one I think I love the best of all is this: even in your biggest moments, Laurie darling, you never, never 'emote'! CHAPTER XIX WHAT ABOUT LAURIE? And why didn't she say what a prince Laurie Devon was, instead of all dat stale stuff keywords: bangs; boy; burke; car; chair; come; course; devon; door; doris; epstein; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; laurie; life; look; man; miss; moment; mrs; new; place; right; rodney; room; shaw; sonya; things; thought; time; voice; way; window; young cache: 31471.txt plain text: 31471.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 32353 author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney) title: The Mind Digger date: None words: 5943 flesch: 86 summary: At least I'm Hillary Hardy, and your girl just told me you'd see me. You--are Hillary Hardy? In the morbid flesh, he said jamming out five enthusiastic fingers that gulped my hand and jack-hammered until I broke his grip with a Red-Cross life-saving hold. keywords: agent; author; business; hardy; hillary; play; recall; right; time; updraft; work cache: 32353.txt plain text: 32353.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 37788 author: Black, William title: Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures date: None words: 150685 flesch: 81 summary: At all events, he read out, and they sang, no further than these two verses: Then they to whom we prisoners were, Said to us tauntingly: Said he that of the King? She looked up in quick alarm. keywords: answer; church; coming; country; cousin; dame; day; dear; dear judith; eyes; face; fair; father; friend; garden; gentleman; going; good; grandmother; hand; hath; head; heart; home; house; ill; judith; kind; king; left; life; london; look; man; master; mind; mistress judith; moment; morning; nay; new; parson; perchance; place; play; poor; prudence; prue; quiney; right; set; sir; speak; stratford; sweet; sweetheart; tell; thee; things; thought; thy; time; tis; town; truth; twas; way; wench; wish; word cache: 37788.txt plain text: 37788.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 38610 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's New Comedian; Or, The Rise of a Star date: None words: 56313 flesch: 90 summary: So you are Mr. Frank Merriwell? he said. Yesterday afternoon, through the courtesy of Manager Frank Merriwell, an invited audience of at least five hundred persons witnessed the first performance of Mr. Merriwell's revised and rewritten play at the Orpheum Theater, and the verdict of that audience, which represented the highest and most cultured element of Denver society, was that the sprightly, sensational, four-act comedy drama was a success in every way. keywords: actor; bart; burns; company; denver; door; ephraim; eyes; face; fellow; fowler; frank; frank merriwell; gallup; good; hand; havener; head; hodge; look; man; merriwell; merry; money; play; right; room; stage; thing; thought; time; train; way; window; woman; yeou cache: 38610.txt plain text: 38610.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 41328 author: Jordan, Elizabeth Garver title: May Iverson's Career date: None words: 71389 flesch: 89 summary: I had little time for such mournful reflections. She hesitated, then added dreamily, It's high time men was told whut their women are thinkin' an' can't say fer themselves. keywords: chair; convent; day; door; editor; eyes; face; gibson; girl; godfrey; good; great; half; hand; head; home; house; hurd; iverson; left; life; look; miss; moment; morris; mother; mrs; near; new; night; place; play; room; story; table; thing; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; work; years; york cache: 41328.txt plain text: 41328.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 46258 author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) title: Thorley Weir date: None words: 92194 flesch: 83 summary: * * * Charles saw Craddock, from where he stood, just behind Mr. Ward, give him an almost imperceptible nod, to confirm this valuation. But when Charles spoke Frank looked up at Craddock again. keywords: armstrong; charles; course; craddock; crowborough; day; dear; eyes; face; father; frank; good; half; hand; head; heart; hour; house; joyce; lady; lathom; left; life; like; look; love; man; mind; moment; morning; mother; night; paint; people; philip; picture; play; portrait; pounds; reggie; reynolds; room; saw; studio; things; thought; time; want; water; way; white; work; world; wroughton; years; young cache: 46258.txt plain text: 46258.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 58436 author: Masefield, John title: Multitude and Solitude date: None words: 82221 flesch: 90 summary: There would be her house, up on the hills, and all those sycamores, like ghosts in the twilight, ghosts of old men brooding on her beauty, like the old men in Troy when Helen passed. Who was this fumbling little City man, with his Surrey villa and collection of Meryon etchings, to patronise, and condemn, and to bid him not to be discouraged? keywords: atoxyl; away; beauty; bed; blood; boat; day; dead; death; disease; door; eyes; face; fever; friend; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; john; kind; lady; left; leslie; life; lionel; london; look; looking; man; men; mind; moment; nature; new; night; ottalie; people; place; play; pollock; roger; room; round; sickness; sir; sleeping; talk; thing; thinking; thought; time; tsetse; village; voice; want; water; woman; work; world cache: 58436.txt plain text: 58436.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 7998 author: Aristophanes title: The Frogs date: None words: 14872 flesch: 96 summary: Nothing else smart? DIO. Come now, that comical joke? DIO. keywords: aeac; aesch; aeschylus; aye; bottle; chor; dio; eur; euripides; god; good; iacchus; man; men; oil; right; thou; way; words; xan; zeus cache: 7998.txt plain text: 7998.txt