item: #1 of 3 id: 19485 author: Weyman, Stanley John title: The Long Night date: None words: 116518 flesch: 90 summary: There were times, bitter times, dark hours, when the pains were upon him, and he saw his fate clear before him; for he had known men die of the disease which held him in its clutches, and he knew how they had died. With her face hidden on his breast she told him of her thoughts upon her knees, of the pain and obloquy through which, if the worst came, she knew she must pass, and of her trust that she would be able to bear them; speaking in such terms, so simply, so bravely, and with so lofty a contemplation, that he who listened, and had been but a week before a young man as other young men, grew as he listened to another stature, and thought for himself thoughts that no man can have and remain as he was, before the tongues of fire touched his heart. keywords: act; action; afraid; alarm; alas; anne; answered; arm; arms; arrest; aspect; astonishment; attack; attempt; aught; basterga; baudichon; bearing; bed; beginning; bell; bent; best; better; bible; big; black; blandano; blondel; blood; blow; body; bore; bottle; bourg; bowed; box; brain; breast; breath; bridge; broken; brow; business; captain; care; cast; certain; chair; chance; chapter; charge; cheeks; child; children; city; claude; clear; cloak; closed; cold; colour; comfort; coming; common; companion; company; confidence; contempt; content; corner; corraterie; council; country; courage; course; coward; cruel; cry; cæsar; d'albigny; daily; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desire; despair; die; direction; disease; distant; door; doubt; dozen; dreadful; drink; duke; dull; ears; easy; end; enemy; entrance; escape; evening; evil; excitement; eyes; fabri; face; fact; faint; faith; fall; fancied; fancy; far; fashion; fate; father; fear; feeling; feet; figure; fingers; fire; fit; flight; floor; fool; foolish; foot; force; form; forward; fourth; free; fresh; friend; future; gain; gate; gaze; geneva; gentilis; gesture; girl; glance; god; gold; good; grand; grasp; great; greater; grio; ground; guard; half; hand; happy; hard; harm; haste; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; higher; hold; home; honour; hope; horror; hot; hour; house; huge; ill; impossible; inner; instant; joy; key; kind; knees; knowledge; lad; lamp; late; laugh; leant; learned; leave; left; length; letters; lie; life; like; line; lips; little; live; living; locked; lodging; long; longer; look; lost; louis; love; low; madame; magistrate; making; man; manner; marcadel; marked; matter; meal; mean; meaning; mercier; mercy; messer; messer basterga; messer blondel; messer syndic; midnight; mind; minute; moment; morning; morrow; mother; movement; moving; narrow; nature; nay; near; nearer; need; neuve; new; night; noise; note; notion; old; open; outer; paces; pain; pale; passage; passing; passion; paused; people; peril; person; petitot; phial; physician; pike; pity; place; plan; play; point; pointed; poor; porte; position; pot; power; prepared; presence; present; proof; prospect; pure; question; quiet; rage; ramparts; reason; remedium; rest; return; rhone; rich; risk; room; royaume; safety; save; savoy; scholar; scream; seat; second; secret; self; sense; set; settle; shadow; shame; short; shoulders; shutters; sigh; silence; silent; simple; sir; sleep; small; smile; soul; sound; speak; staircase; stairs; stand; startled; state; stay; steel; step; story; strange; street; strength; strong; strove; student; success; sudden; sure; surprise; suspicion; syndic; table; talk; task; temper; terror; tertasse; things; thinking; thought; threshold; thrust; time; tissot; tone; tongue; touch; town; trembling; true; truth; turning; unable; upper; upstairs; vain; view; voice; wait; wall; want; warning; watch; watching; water; way; weakness; weapon; week; weight; white; wide; wild; window; wine; wish; witness; woman; wonder; word; work; worse; wrong; year; young; young man; youth cache: 19485.txt plain text: 19485.txt item: #2 of 3 id: 30647 author: Macaulay, Rose title: Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings date: None words: 46675 flesch: 78 summary: And who, if I may ask, is Mr. Henry Beechtree? The correspondent, sir, of one of the newspapers of your country--the _British Bolshevist_. (Monday, 8 a.m., Bathe, Kra----') Ch. 42, p. 214, added period after 'Mr'. (And who, if I may ask, is Mr. Henry Beechtree?) keywords: affairs; africa; afternoon; air; american; amusing; ancient; anxious; armenians; assembly; attention; away; bad; bed; beechtree; bergues; best; better; black; blanc; blood; blue; bolshevist; book; bridge; british; burnley; business; calvinist; cardinal; care; case; catholic; central; certain; chair; chang; charles; charles wilbraham; charming; chat; children; church; château; city; cité; clergyman; close; cold; colleagues; committee; company; conversation; correspondent; council; country; course; crime; cristofero; croza; curious; daily; dark; day; days; deal; dear; delegates; delegation; delightful; deputy; des; desire; detective; different; difficult; dinner; disappearance; disarmament; discussion; dogs; door; doubt; dressed; drink; end; english; europe; evening; evidence; eyes; face; fact; far; feeling; feet; fergus; fish; floor; france; franchi; free; french; friends; funny; gallery; garth; general; geneva; gentlemen; germans; girl; god; good; government; grattan; great; greek; half; hall; hand; happy; head; heart; henry; henry beechtree; high; hold; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; human; ill; important; information; inquiry; interest; interesting; international; irish; italian; jetty; john; journalist; kind; known; kratzky; ladies; lady; lake; language; large; late; latin; law; league; left; lester; levis; life; like; little; live; long; longfellow; looking; lord; love; lunch; macdermott; mademoiselle; man; manner; matter; means; meeting; members; message; mind; minutes; miss; mlle; moment; money; montana; morning; mystery; nations; near; necessary; news; newspaper; night; non; o'clock; official; old; open; order; outside; paper; paraguay; paris; party; passage; past; pastor; peace; people; persons; platform; play; pleasure; plot; point; police; poor; pope; possible; post; present; president; press; private; proceedings; proud; public; quai; quarter; queer; question; race; read; reason; refugees; republics; room; roumanian; round; russia; russians; secretariat; secretary; sense; session; set; sex; shop; signor; silence; sinister; sinn; sir; sleep; small; smile; society; sort; south; spanish; speaking; speech; spoke; staff; state; steps; story; strange; streets; subject; sure; suspect; suspicions; svensen; system; table; taking; talk; telegrams; things; thinking; thought; time; trap; true; truth; turks; turning; type; ulster; unfortunate; union; unprotected; view; voice; waiting; walk; war; wars; water; way; white; wilbraham; women; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; wrong; years; young cache: 30647.txt plain text: 30647.txt item: #3 of 3 id: 42973 author: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) title: The House of the White Shadows date: None words: 134035 flesch: 84 summary: Said one: I have not set eyes upon this man-monster, but I shall know him if I meet him in the light. Christian Almer is different from other men; that is your own opinion of him. keywords: able; account; action; adelaide; admiration; advocate; afraid; almer; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; assistance; attention; aware; aye; bad; beatrice; beautiful; beauty; bed; belief; best; better; black; blood; body; book; boy; brandy; bright; business; capel; care; case; cell; certain; chair; change; chapter; character; child; children; christian; christian almer; circumstances; clear; clever; close; clothes; cold; coming; common; company; confession; conscience; conversation; conviction; country; course; court; creature; crime; cruel; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deed; deep; defence; delight; desire; devoted; different; difficulty; dionetta; direction; discovery; distance; disturbed; door; doubt; dream; duty; dying; earth; easy; edward; engaged; escape; evening; events; evidence; evil; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; faithful; fall; false; family; fatal; fate; father; fear; features; feeling; feet; fine; fire; flower; following; fond; food; fool; force; forgiveness; form; free; friend; friendship; frightened; fritz; gabriel; gates; gautran; geneva; gentleman; girl; glad; glass; god; gold; good; grandmother; grave; great; grief; grounds; guests; guilty; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hartrich; having; head; hearing; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; hill; hold; home; honour; hope; horrible; hour; house; human; husband; hut; idea; idle; important; inner; innocence; innocent; intention; interest; interview; jacob; john; judge; judgment; justice; kind; knife; knowing; knowledge; known; lady; lamont; late; laugh; lawyer; leave; left; letters; lies; life; like; likely; lips; little; living; long; longer; look; looking; love; lovers; madame; madeline; maid; making; mamma; man; manner; marriage; married; martin; master; master lamont; matters; mdlle; meaning; means; men; mercy; midnight; mind; minutes; mistress; moment; money; monster; mood; morning; morrow; mother; movement; murder; murderer; mystery; natural; nature; nay; near; necessary; neck; need; new; news; night; note; old; open; opportunity; pain; papa; paper; parents; pass; passions; past; pauline; pay; peasant; people; person; picture; pierre; pierre lamont; pity; place; pleased; pleasure; pocket; point; poor; portrait; position; possession; possible; power; presence; present; pretty; priest; prisoner; promise; proof; public; punishment; purpose; question; quiet; ready; reason; reply; rest; return; river; road; room; rose; sad; safe; satisfaction; saying; secret; self; sense; servant; set; shadows; shame; short; silence; silent; simple; sleep; slightest; small; smile; society; soft; solitude; soul; sound; speech; spirit; spot; standing; state; steps; storm; strange; strength; strong; struggle; study; subject; sudden; suffering; sufficient; summer; sweet; tender; terrible; terror; thank; things; thinking; thought; time; tone; treachery; tree; trial; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; unhappy; uttered; value; vanbrugh; verdict; villa; village; visit; voice; walk; walls; want; watch; way; weak; weeks; welcome; white; wife; wild; window; wine; wise; wish; witness; witnesses; woman; words; work; world; worth; wretch; wrong; years; young; younger cache: 42973.txt plain text: 42973.txt