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The Romance of the Forest, interspersed with some pieces of poetry

The Romance of the Forest, interspersed with some pieces of poetry

by Ann Ward Radcliffe

When once sordid interest seizes on the heart, it freezes up the source of every warm and liberal feeling; it is an enemy alike to virtue and to taste—this it perverts, and that it annihilates. The time may come, my friend, when death shall dissolve the sinews of avarice, and justice be permitted to resume her rights.Such were the words of the Advo..

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

by Hugh Walpole

The soul of Charles Percy Harkness slipped, like a neat white pocket-handkerchief, out through the carriage window into the silver-blue air, hung there changing into a tiny white fleck against the immensity, struggling for escape above the purple-pointed trees of the dark wood, then, realising that escape was not yet, fluttered back into the carria..