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...ith Tom, a sudden revelation raises important questions. Will Christine be able to see Tom? Will their relationship survive? Don't forget "The Boy Next Door: Intrigue" (Book 2), and "The Boy Next Door: Resolution" (Book 3). If you'd like all three books at once, see "The Boy Next Door."...

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...the garage, I smelled new mown grass. That’s one of the things about the dog days that I actually enjoy – that smell. As I look up, I spot Tom, the next door neighbor’s son and one other thing that I enjoyed about the dog days, or any other day, for that matter. His back glistened as he pushed the mower up a small hill. I paused to watch. There wasn’t much pleasur...

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...meat and vegetables are exhausted. Then we will be reduced to salt beef and sauerkraut until our next port of call.’ Helen found herself seated bet... ...her degree, her medical experience and her reasons for choosing medicine as her profession. The next morning Helen reported to the ship’s hospital.... ... recovered,’ replied Helen confidently, glad that she had specialised in tropical diseases. Her next test was a young blonde woman, the wife of one... ...structed to take light exercise each day in the fresh air, if weather conditions permitted. The next day Helen arrived at the hospital area to find... ...gain, but Helen knew that in this giant Scot, she had found the staunchest friend. ******** The next day the Prince George sailed into the lovely, ... ...ds twenty minutes to open the doors.’ The officer concluded this gory story and Helen sensed his next words were to reassure the new British arriva... ...r in the morning. Then shaking off a feeling of unease, she went back to her still warm bed. The next morning at breakfast, Helen decided to ignore ... ...reception - the wedding breakfast and the speeches - that it was not her, but someone else seated next to Gavin and she recalled the painted Goddess... ... acceptance to the invitation on Residency notepaper and handed the envelope to the servant. The next day, the Residency phaeton conveyed Helen acro...

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... It is not a state of mind into which you can fall one day and out of the next. You can't imagine the extent to which, as you are now, thought perva... ...ly, nothing. That is the one and only action in that particular situation. Next time the action will be different. There are new factors. You may ... ...e's trouble, fine, it cannot stay there for long. It is pushed out by the next thing. Before you realize what is happening it is gone. When you try t... ...ture. That is what all the teachers promise you, and they just promise, a next life or an afterlife. Till then he is in business, he is assured. If h... ...kes no difference whom. And you keep hoping that somehow, tomorrow or the next day, by listening more and more, you will get off the merry-go- round.... ...ent it or do something about it is false. That will be tomorrow or in your next life, not now. So that is what you are. You are not a spiritual ma... ... of dying with each thought and breath, you hook up each thought with the next, creating a false continuity. It is that continuity that is the proble... ...rst thing you do is to name it and categorize it as pleasure or pain. The next step is that you want to continue the pleasurable sensations and stop ... ...omises and simply, out of sheer survival motives, cooperates with the cell next to it. Out of the terror of annihilation, man, like the cells of his ...

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...me as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, ... ...hink I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!’ ... ...ter all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, ... ...he simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, ... ...be going messages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah’ll be sending me on messages next!’ And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: ‘“Miss... ... possible it had fallen into a cucum ber frame, or something of the sort. Next came an angry voice—the Rabbit’s—‘Pat! Pat! Where are you?’ And then... ...of cucumber frames there must be!’ thought Alice. ‘I wonder what they’ll do next! As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they could! I’m s... ...‘This is Bill,’ she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next. The first thing she heard was a general chorus of ‘There goes Bil... ...ilence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, ‘I wonder what they will do next! If they had any sense, they’d take the roof off.’ After a minute or...

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...t upon my own resources, I got through an hour in con- sidering what to do next. Ultimately, it came into my head (from which I was anxious by any mea... ...y pause into the breeches of the ostler, and, smearing itself off into the next 12 The Holly-Tree—Three Branches division, became rum in a bottle. Th... ..., which had pleasanter recollections about it than any of these. I took it next. It was the Inn where friends used to put up, and where we used to go ... ...It had an ecclesiastical sign,— the Mitre,—and a bar that seemed to be the next best thing to a bishopric, it was so snug. I loved the landlord’s youn... ...dead; it being All Souls’ Eve. T o return to the Holly-T ree. When I awoke next day , it was freezing hard, and the lowering sky threatened more snow.... ...edside, repeating the Athanasian Creed in a terrific voice. I paid my bill next day, and retired from the county with all possible precipitation. That... ...de of putting a possible accuser out of his way. All of which he confessed next day, like a sulky wretch who couldn’t be troubled any more, now that t... ...-travellers and I were discussing how to pass the night and so much of the next day as must intervene before the jovial blacksmith and the jovial whee... ...uld have converted Blue-Beard. Casting my eyes upon my Holly-T ree fire, I next discerned among the glowing coals the pictures of a score or more of t...

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...the rest was a different as possible. For instance, the pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney p... ...begin kicking: she watched it with great curiosity to see what would happen next. ‘It is the voice of my child!’ the White Queen cried out as she r... ... a sudden twist and shook itself (as she de scribed it afterwards), and the next moment she found her self actually walking in at the door. ‘Oh, i... ...to disbelieve it. ‘I’ll try it when I go home,’ she thought to herself. ‘the next time I’m a little late for dinner.’ ‘It’s time for you to answer n... ...asting and fun!’ Alice got up and curt seyed, and sat down again. At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, ‘Speak in French... ...he did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on quickly to the next peg, where she turned for a moment to say ‘good bye,’ and then hurri... ... her breath away at first. ‘And what enormous flowers they must be!’ was her next idea. ‘Something like cottages with the roofs taken off, and stalks ... ...’s going, even if she doesn’t know her own name!’ A Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman in white, shut his eyes and said in a loud voice, ‘... ...office, even if she doesn’t know her alphabet!’ There was a Beetle sitting next to the Goat (it was a very queer carriage full of passengers altoget...

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... then, before I put the horse in and drive away, and make the offer to the next most magnificent town that can be discovered, I’ll tell you what I’ll ... ...d I had said to myself, “If not already disposed of, I’ll have that lot.” Next Saturday that come, I pitched the cart on the same pitch, and I was in... ...offer this lot for money; 10 Doctor Marigold but I mean to give it to the next of you beauties that laughs, and I’ll pay her a visit to-morrow mornin... ..., as well as worse hurt generally, and her mother made com- plaints to the next people we lighted on, and the word went round, “Here’s a wretch of a C... ... her. Such a brave child I said she was! Ah! with reason. “Don’t you mind next time, father dear,” she would whisper to me, with her little face stil... ...I give for ‘em, and I am consequently to be elevated to the House of Peers next week, by the title of the Duke of Cheap and Markis Jackaloorul. Now l... ...ther!” Then my wife stopped her ears, and ran away like a wild thing, and next day she was found in the river. Me and my dog were all the company lef... ...ce. We left Lancaster within an hour or two, on our way towards Carlisle. Next morning, at daybreak, I looked out again for the strange young man. I... ...eak, I looked out again for the strange young man. I did not see him. But next morning I looked out again, and there he was once more. I sent anothe...

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...have Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 10 another chance to see a balloon; and next, he found out that Nat Parsons was going down to see it, and that de... ...so good to see again, and the horses and cattle standing sober and thinking. Next, the sun come a blazing up gay and splen did, and then we began to ... ...wful still, and I reckon a person could ‘a’ counted four thousand before the next flash come. When it come I see Jim on his knees, with his arms on th... ...all dark again, and I was glad, be cause I didn’t want to see. But when the next flash come, I was watching, and down there I see somebody a swinging... ...he rain come down. One second you couldn’t see your hand before you, and the next you could count the threads in your coatsleeve, and see a whole wide... ...that is, the stretching did, but the sand scorched our feet like hot embers. Next, we see somebody coming, and started to meet him; but we heard Jim s... ... at that, and I was ready for him, and Jim was warming his opinion, too, and next minute we’d ‘a’ broke loose on another argument, if T om hadn’t drop... ...d horses — for that is what they was — and we see them mount in a hurry; and next, here they come, like a house afire, some with lances and some with ... ...ing the best they could. They come a tearing down on to the caravan, and the next minute both sides crashed together and was all mixed up, and there w...

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...got to itching, but I dasn’t scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right be tween my shoulders. Seemed like I’d die if I cou... ...me into my eyes. But I dasn’t scratch. Then it begun to itch on the inside. Next I got to itching underneath. I didn’t know how I was going to set s... ...t my teeth hard and got ready to try. Just then Jim begun to breathe heavy; next he begun to snore — and then I was pretty soon comfortable again. H... ... under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it. And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, af... ... give him five cents to keep quiet, and said we would all go home and meet next week, and rob somebody and kill some people. Ben Rogers said he coul... ...gers said he couldn’t get out much, only Sundays, and so he wanted to begin next Sunday; but all the boys said it would be wicked to do it on Sunday... ... and talk about Providence in a way to make a body’s mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again. I judg... ...to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A rabs was going to... ... and A rabs, but I wanted to see the camels and elephants, so I was on hand next day, Saturday, in the ambuscade; and when we got the word we rushed...

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...go abroad with her.” Glennard looked up with a start. “Abroad? When?” “Now—next month. To be gone two years.” He permitted himself a movement of tende... ...ke it easier for myself,” he retorted. 18 The Touchstone IV GLENNARD, THE NEXT AFTERNOON, leaving his office earlier than usual, turned, on his way h... ...st the cushions of her bamboo-seat, “He wants us to go for a sail with him next Sunday.” Glennard meditatively stirred his tea. He was trying to think... ...nly well. I believe we shall be able to go to town for two or three months next winter if we can find something cheap.” She smiled luxuriously: it was... ...of five thousand sold out before leaving the press. Sec- ond edition ready next week. The Book of the Year… .” He looked up stupidly. His wife still s... ...t if she were to see them? He stretched his arm to gather them up, but his next thought showed him the futility of such concealment. The same advertis... ...honey-suckle; then, as they turned indoors, “If we mean to go on the yacht next Sun- day,” she suggested, “oughtn’t you to let Mr. Flamel know?” Glenn... ...hout the sense of sick mistrust that now loosened his joints… . ALEXA, THE NEXT MORNING, over their early breakfast, sur- prised her husband by an une... ...orecasting her judgment and powerless to evade its effects. To escape, the next morning, the confidences of the break- fast-table, he went to town ear...

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...iffs with a brass telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very strong. Mostly he would not spea... ...s instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes.” Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captai... ...e already seated on either side of the captain’s breakfast-table—Black Dog next to the door and sitting sideways so as to have one eye on his old ship... ...ash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the 12 Treasure Island next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing... ...e to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him. He got downstairs next morning, to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little ... ... not many hundred yards away, though out of view, on the other side of the next cove; and what greatly encouraged me, it was in an opposite direction ... ...’ll take this to square the count,” said I, picking up the oilskin packet. Next moment we were both groping downstairs, leaving the candle by the empt... ...re both groping downstairs, leaving the candle by the empty chest; and the next we had opened the door and were in full retreat. We had not started a ... ...rough the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar. The next moment his voice showed me that I was right. “Down with the door!” he ...

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...ervousness and folly , and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should pro- duce in them no similar emotion; an... ...first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened with rage. Who dares, he demanded hoarsely of t...

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... con gregated together. ‘Miss Lambert, let me introduce Mr. Hopkins for the next quadrille.’ Miss Lambert inclines her head graciously. Mr. Hopkins ... ...ashful young gentleman is going to talk, whispers her mamma, who is sitting next her, which whisper the bashful young gentle man immediately suspect... ...hought no more about Mincin until we duly pre sented ourselves at the house next day, when, after a hearty welcome, our friend motioned towards a gen... ...was of such an ad mirable kind, that two morning papers took the same view next day: to this our friend replied, with a little triumph, that in that... ...n to sing, become nervous afterwards, Mr. Mincin leads her tenderly into the next room, and restores her with port wine, which she must take me dicin... ...s upon the fainthearted civilians who linger to look upon his glory; how the next young gentleman elevates his head in the air, and majestically place... ...g gentlemen who are standing by him, and coughs to induce some ladies in the next box but one to look round, in order that their faces may undergo the... ...articularly than by this delicate allusion, was happily brought round by the next morning, and enabled to go to business as usual. Our friend is not a... ...that young lady to her house, five doors off: the Miss Greys who live in the next house but one stopping Sketches of Young Gentlemen by Charles Dicke...

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...ty from Madeira?’ ‘You know we cannot hear again. They were to sail by the next packet, and it is uncertain how soon they may arrive.’ ‘ And—and—your ... ..., who has a curacy in the Lake country. Your brother is at Wrangerton, the next town.’ ‘Arthur is well?’ cried she, starting. ‘Yes, yes, you need not ... ...coming confusion, and by no means lessened the favourable impression. ‘The next morning Arthur was engaged, and left her to be the guide to the cathed... ...l face?’ She was coaxed out of vexation for the present; but she awoke the next morning with a feeling of culpability and dread of all the Martindale ... ... glimpse of yel- low satin, gilding and pictures, in the saloon, which was next to the drawing-room where she had been received, and be- yond it the d... ...ce might not be extended, especially when she found that by the end of the next two months it was likely that the regiment would be in London, so that... ...r his first thought. The sensation of loneliness often returned during the next few weeks; there was no real neglect, and she would not so have felt i... ...were surprised to find that dinner had been an- nounced. Violet was placed next to Mr. Martindale, and was able to ask the name of her new acquaintanc... ...h all the evening. Violet expected Theodora to monopolize Miss Brandon the next morning, but Theodora had reasons of her own for not breaking her habi...

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...fore Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.” “What is his name?” “Bingley.” “Is he married or single?” “... ... “I do not cough for my own amusement,” replied Kitty fretfully. “When is your next ball to be, Lizzy?” “To morrow fortnight.” “Aye, so it is,” cried ... ...though you are the youngest, I dare say Mr. Bingley will dance with you at the next ball.” “Oh!” said Lydia stoutly, “I am not afraid; for though I am... ...hand some, extremely agreeable, and to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party. Nothing could be more delightful! To ... ...ce. So, he enquired who she was, and got introduced, and asked her for the two next. Then, the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth ... ...ther he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase. His sisters were very anxious for his havi... ...JANE AUSTEN he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made... ...rter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London. “I am astonished, my dear,” said Mrs. Bennet, “... ... more than once, as if the credit of making it rain were all her own. Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her con...

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...elow the doorstep I could see the still tree- tops of the grove of death. “Next day I left that station at last, with a caravan of sixty men, for a tw... ...s, not one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right. An afterwards I ... ... do in fishing my command out of the river. I had to set about it the very next day. That, and the repairs when I brought the pieces to the station, t... ... broke the stick of seal- ing-wax and seemed dumb-founded by the accident. Next thing he wanted to know ‘how long it would take to’ … I interrupted hi... ...e had esti- mated the time requisite for the ‘affair.’ “I went to work the next day, turning, so to speak, my back on that station. In that way only i... ...rised. He paid no attention. ‘Y es. Today he is chief of the best station, next year he will be assistant-manager, two years more and … but I dare say... ...an inva- sion, an infliction, a visitation. It came in sections during the next three weeks, each section headed by a donkey carrying a white man in n... ...eep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day’s steaming. When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the... ...n-wheel flopped languidly, and I caught myself listening on tiptoe for the next beat of the float, for in sober truth I expected the wretched thing to...

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...y much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: it... ...ng out of the candle. But how the trick was done he could not explain. The next Thursday I went again to Richmond—I suppose I was one of the Time T ra... ...‘Good heavens! man, what’s the matter?’ cried the Medical Man, who saw him next. And the whole tableful turned towards the door. He was in an amazing ... ...riously, ‘these chaps here say you have been travelling into the middle of next week! Tell us all about little Rosebery, will you? What will you take ... ...o holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping... ...attempt to learn the speech of these new men of mine. Clearly that was the next thing to do. The fruits seemed a convenient thing to begin upon, and h... ...ved the last possible insult. I tried a sweet-looking little chap in white next, with exactly the same result. Somehow, his man- ner made me feel asha... ... wanted to be with me always. She tried to follow me everywhere, and on my next journey out and about it went to my heart to tire her down, and leave ... ... the Eloi, whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to ap- preciate. ‘The next night I did not sleep well. Probably my health was a little disordered...

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... her smile to hold 18 A GIRL ON HORSEBACK—CONVERSATION good for Gabriel’s next remark, whatever that might prove to be. ‘How did you find me¿ ‘I heard... ...most over for the season, and I shall not come here after this week or the next). The dog saw me, and jumped over to me, and laid hold of my skirt. I ... ... as usual to the dogs, previously to shutting them up in the outhouse till next morning. Only one responded — old George; the other could not be found... ...y making inquiries he learnt that there was another fair at Shottsford the next day. ‘How far is Shottsford?’ ‘Ten miles t’other side of Weatherbury.’... ...ough interest attaching to it to lead Oak to choose Shottsford fair as his next field of inquiry, because it lay in the Weatherbury quarter. Moreover, ... ... an inch or more from the depth of its contents, and duly passed it to the next man. ‘ I wouldn’t think of giving such trouble to neighbours in washin... ...ved through the summers, didn’t I? That’s my question. I suppose ye’ll say next I be no age at all to speak of?’ ‘Sure we shan’t,’ said Gabriel, sooth... ...own head and hands.’ The men breathed an audible breath of amazement. ‘The next matter is, have you heard anything of Fanny?’ ‘Nothing, ma’am. ‘Have y... ...e rustle of wind among dead leaves. ‘Here it is and ten shillings. Now the next — Andrew Randle, you are a new man, I hear. How come you to leave your...

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...o-day all preliminaries will be arranged at my father’s, and to-morrow, or next day at latest, the wedding festival here at La Reserve. My friends wil... ...ps, and he could not utter a word. “To-day the preliminaries, to-morrow or next day the ceremony! You are in a hurry, captain!” “Danglars,” said Edmon... ...us it is,” replied Dantes. “Thanks to the influence of M. Morrel, to whom, next to my father, I owe every blessing I enjoy, every difficulty his been ... ...o sit down at the first vacant place, and this was, by mere chance, placed next to the seat on which poor Mercedes had fallen half fainting, when rele... ...captain.” “Oh,” replied Danglars, “since we cannot leave this port for the next three months, let us hope that ere the expiration of that period Dante... ...rds he gave me a ring. It was time — two hours after he was delirious; the next day he died.” “And what did you do then?” “What I ought to have done, ... ...uperior are commands. I sailed for the Island of Elba, where I arrived the next day; I ordered everybody to remain on board, and went on shore alone. ... ...was mad- dening, and Dantes threw himself furiously down on his straw. The next morning at the same hour, the jailer came again. “Well,” said the jail... ...l, who quitted his own house at nine o’clock in the evening, was found the next day in the Seine.” “And who told you this fine story?” “The king himse...