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Author: Ridgwell Cullum
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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'The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest' is a novel by Ridgwell Cullum set in the Western Canadian ranching world. The story begins at the annual ball of the Polo Club, a social function of the first water, where the rich and fashionable gather. John Allandale, or "Poker" John, is the uncle and guardian of Joaquina, or "Jacky," a beautiful and strong-willed girl who attracts the attention of many men. As the dance progresses, John realizes his responsibility towards his niece and her love life, but he is also burdened by his own problems. He is an addict to the game of poker, and his debts are starting to catch up with him.
Author: Ridgwell Cullum
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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'The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest' is a novel by Ridgwell Cullum set in the Western Canadian ranching world. The story begins at the annual ball of the Polo Club, a social function of the first water, where the rich and fashionable gather. John Allandale, or "Poker" John, is the uncle and guardian of Joaquina, or "Jacky," a beautiful and strong-willed girl who attracts the attention of many men. As the dance progresses, John realizes his responsibility towards his niece and her love life, but he is also burdened by his own problems. He is an addict to the game of poker, and his debts are starting to catch up with him.
Author: Ridgwell Cullum
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Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: Ridgwell Cullum
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Author: Robert Neilson Stephens
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465616713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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If, on the first Tuesday in June, in the year 1608, anybody had asked me on what business I was riding towards Paris, and if I had answered, "To cut off the moustaches of a gentleman I have never seen, that I may toss them at the feet of a lady who has taunted me with that gentleman's superiorities,"—if I had made this reply, I should have been taken for the most foolish person on horseback in France that day. Yet the answer would have been true, though I accounted myself one of the wisest young gentlemen you might find in Anjou or any other province. I was, of a certainty, studious, and a lover of books. My father, the Sieur de la Tournoire, being a daring soldier, had so often put himself to perils inimical to my mother's peace of mind, that she had guided my inclinations in the peaceful direction of the library, hoping not to suffer for the son such alarms as she had undergone for the husband. I had grown up, therefore, a musing, bookish youth, rather shy and solitary in my habits: and this despite the care taken of my education in swordsmanship, riding, hunting, and other manly accomplishments, both by my father and by his old follower, Blaise Tripault. I acquired skill enough to satisfy these well-qualified instructors, but yet a volume of Plutarch or a book of poems was more to me than sword or dagger, horse, hound, or falcon. I was used to lonely walks and brookside meditations in the woods and meads of our estate of La Tournoire, in Anjou; and it came about that with my head full of verses I must needs think upon some lady with whom to fancy myself in love. Contiguity determined my choice. The next estate to ours, separated from it by a stream flowing into the Loir, had come into the possession of a rich family of bourgeois origin whom heaven had blessed (or burdened, as some would think) with a pretty daughter. Mlle. Celeste was a small, graceful, active creature, with a clear and well-coloured skin, and quick-glancing black eyes which gave me a pleasant inward stir the first time they rested on me. In my first acquaintance with this young lady, the black eyes seemed to enlarge and soften when they fell on me: she regarded me with what I took to be interest and approval: her face shone with friendliness, and her voice was kind. In this way I was led on. When she saw how far she had drawn me, her manner changed: she became whimsical, never the same for five minutes: sometimes indifferent, sometimes disdainful, sometimes gay at my expense. This treatment touched my pride, and would have driven me off, but that still, when in her presence, I felt in some degree the charm of the black eyes, the well-chiselled face, the graceful swift motions, and what else I know not. When I was away from her, this charm declined: nevertheless I chose to keep her in my mind as just such a capricious object of adoration as poets are accustomed to lament and praise in the same verses.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author: Ridgwell Cullum
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Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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