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id: 59849
author: Sheinbaum, Fred
title: Filthy Rich
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words: 3556
sentence: 337
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Life, J.L. felt, would be all sweetness and light were it not for the unaccountable affection his pretty young daughter, Glory, bore for an ascetic looking young man of doubtful integrity as a consumer. J.L. bought most things out of a sense of duty, but Marge and Glory really enjoyed spending money, God bless them.


id: 23063
author: Coppée, François
title: The Lost Child
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words: 5805
sentence: 290
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Whereupon M. Godefroy rushed to the Prefect, whose hand he pressed till that functionary winced with the pain. What sort of weather this morning? demanded M. Godefroy curtly, as he buttoned his undervest of gray swandown upon a stomach that was already a little too prominent.


id: 59703
author: McConnell, James V.
title: Nor Dust Corrupt
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words: 5885
sentence: 466
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Steen was aware that two quintillion credits was beyond Krieg's wildest dreams, for Steen knew that Joseph Krieg had come to Earth determined to purchase his burial lot and then retire from the business world. Consolator Steen? Welcome to Earth, Joseph Krieg.


id: 49330
author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
title: The Stingy Receiver
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words: 28403
sentence: 2064
flesch: 85
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summary:
  As coolly as if she had been appraising a new dog or pussy, Mrs. Tome Gallien narrowed her eyes to both the vision and the announcement . . . When it comes right down to the matter of statistics, just how many times in your life you've had your own way and just how many times you haven't, Mrs. Tome Gallien was not exaggerating when she boasted to the Young Doctor that she was quite in the habit of having her own way.


id: 53711
author: Grant, Robert
title: The Orchid
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words: 31570
sentence: 1717
flesch: 75
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summary:
  It was a bold sort of beauty, and, though he wore neither mustache nor beard, the faintly bluish tinge of his complexion betrayed that, but for the barber, he would have been what Mrs. Herbert Cole might have termed an incarnate symphony in black. Mrs. Cole was a bright-eyed, vivacious woman, who talked fast and cleverly.


id: 27888
author: Buchanan, Thompson
title: Making People Happy
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words: 53888
sentence: 3492
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Mrs. Morton, who had by no means forgotten her conversation with Mrs. McMahon and cherished a distinct grudge against that excellent woman, voiced a caution: But, Mrs. Hamilton, she objected, due care should be exercised in the selection. Yes; Mrs. Hamilton is right, was her caustic comment.


id: 401
author: Norris, Frank
title: Blix
extension: .txt
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words: 53585
sentence: 3332
flesch: 86
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summary:
  See, Condy? You're fine, murmured Condy breathless. Condy, are you listening to me? Blix, he murmured, staring at her vaguely.


id: 37549
author: Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.
title: The Beauty
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words: 59706
sentence: 3725
flesch: 82
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summary:
  You may expect so beautiful a young woman as Dita Hepworth to be more or less talked about; but there is probably a perfect understanding between herself and Cress. Why Dita Hepworth and Eugene Gresham have known each other ever since they were children.


id: 4020
author: Leacock, Stephen
title: Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
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words: 67218
sentence: 3360
flesch: 77
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summary:
  There was, of course, little Mr. Spillikins, with his vacuous face and football hair, who was there, as everybody knew, on account of Dulphemia; and there was old Judge Longerstill, who sat leaning on a gold-headed stick with his head sideways, trying to hear some fraction of what was being said. * * A call for Mr. Tomlinson!


id: 33985
author: Miller, Alice Duer
title: Manslaughter
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words: 70809
sentence: 4335
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Good night Lydia. When women like Fanny Piers and May Swayne said, with a certain relish they couldn't keep out of their tones and reluctant dimples at the corners of their mouths, Isn't this too dreadful about poor Lydia?


id: 33117
author: O'Brien, Howard Vincent
title: Thirty
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words: 73645
sentence: 6040
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Mrs. Dodson, suddenly looking very old and tired and weak, faded away, and in her place Judith saw Good. And then watch little Roger proceed to climb the dizzy heights of industry.


id: 20201
author: Tynan, Katharine
title: Mary Gray
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words: 77180
sentence: 5384
flesch: 89
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summary:
  What could a man wish for sweeter and prettier beside his hearth than little Nelly? Noel! LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The men would salute their old General, the General salute his old regiment Sir Robin Drummond had come to Mary's side, and turned the page of her music 'Do you know what I came here in the mind to ask you?' 'Miss Nelly is in the drawing-room, sir' MARY GRAY CHAPTER I WISTARIA TERRACE The house where Mary Gray was born and grew towards womanhood was one of a squat line of mean little houses that hid themselves behind a great church.


id: 30848
author: Stockton, Frank Richard
title: Mrs. Cliff's Yacht
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words: 89053
sentence: 3407
flesch: 77
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summary:
  On a beautiful September afternoon in a handsome room of one of the grand, up-town hotels in New York sat Mrs. Cliff, widow and millionaire. Now, said Mrs. Cliff to herself, as she turned from the window and selected a fresh easy chair, and sank down into its luxurious depths, there is nothing in this world so delightful as to go back rich to Plainton.


id: 34065
author: Van Vorst, Marie
title: The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode
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words: 83580
sentence: 4500
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Regardez moi ce bon Bulstrode qui se promene, if it were a Frenchman, or, There's dear old Jimmy Bulstrode! They had drawn up before a portrait, and poor Bulstrode caught his breath with a groan: It's too awful!


id: 19746
author: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)
title: The Colonel's Dream
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words: 86445
sentence: 4298
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Old Peter was at Archie's shop one day, and they were talking about old times--good old times--for to old men old times are always good times, though history may tell another tale. There's a fine mind, colonel, that's never had a proper opportunity for development.


id: 62036
author: Scott, John Reed
title: The Unforgiving Offender
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words: 89818
sentence: 7023
flesch: 88
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summary:
  I see--you think that because Stephanie Lorraine had the courage to run off, and may have courage to return, she thereby has proven that she has nerve sufficient for both of them, so they would better hitch up again and go on in double harness! laughed Burgoyne. How would it be with Stephanie Lorraine?


id: 61582
author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins
title: Flaming Youth
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words: 89913
sentence: 8601
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Did you, little Pat? Her mother leaned forward to look into the queer, defiant, chivalrous little face. Little Pat is going to look right clean through the petty illusions of life, clear-eyed.


id: 3659
author: Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
title: The Rosary
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words: 107363
sentence: 6532
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Thus Sarah departed under the impression that Miss Jane had grown up into a rather a heartless young lady. At last Jane spoke.


id: 43703
author: Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
title: The Business of Life
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words: 121056
sentence: 8295
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Can you not imagine a more desirable marriage for a girl? Don't you _like_ Desboro? he demanded. Good-bye, Mr. Desboro.


id: 56310
author: Grant, Robert
title: The Undercurrent
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words: 130266
sentence: 6458
flesch: 72
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summary:
  It gave Mrs. Wilson time to think. Mrs. Wilson could fairly be termed the leader of social activity in Benham, if such a term be compatible with the institutions of a country where every women is supposed to be a law unto herself.


id: 154
author: Howells, William Dean
title: The Rise of Silas Lapham
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words: 133995
sentence: 7854
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Mrs. Lapham was even better satisfied with their bargain than the Colonel himself, and they had lived in Nankeen Square for twelve years. They had seen the saplings planted in the pretty oval round which the houses were built flourish up into sturdy young trees, and their two little girls in the same period had grown into young ladies; the Colonel's tough frame had expanded into the bulk which Bartley's interview indicated; and Mrs. Lapham, while keeping a more youthful outline, showed the sharp print of the crow's-foot at the corners of her motherly eyes, and certain slight creases in her wholesome cheeks.


