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You Never Can TellYouthQuote, "We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale--the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightn...YvetteQuote, "But now, all at once, Servigny, by a few words, the brutality of which she felt without understanding them, awakened in her a sudden disquietude, unr...DeruesQuote, "And I am not in the habit of running useless risks, most noble cavaliers. You are, it is true, two against one; but," he added, throwing back his clo...Karl Ludwig Sand Celebrated CrimesQuote, "March 23, 1819, Karl-Ludwig Sand murdered August von Kotzebue, a playwright in the service of the Russian government, because of his criticism of the...
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Marquise de Brinvilliers Celebrated CrimesMarquise de Brinvilliers is Alexandre Dumas's story about this French poisoner. She was sentenced to death for the poisoning murder of her father, brother an...Vaninka Celebrated CrimesQuote, "About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I--that is to say, towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century--just as four o'cloc...Edinburgh Picturesque NotesThe Sea FogsQuote, "Robert Louis Stevenson first came to California in 1879 for the purpose of getting married. The things that delayed his marriage are sufficiently set...Father DamienThe StormQuote, "KATERINA. Yes, I am well.... It would be better if I were ill, it's worse as it is. A dream keeps creeping into my mind, and I cannot get away from i...The Ebb-TideHedda GablerSpeeches: Literary and SocialQuote, "CAPTAIN HEWETT, - I am very proud and happy to have been selected as the instrument of conveying to you the heartfelt thanks of my fellow-passengers...Sunday Under Three HeadsQuote, "But you hold out no inducement, you offer no relief from listlessness, you provide nothing to amuse his mind, you afford him no means of exercising h...