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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...t see you when you go.” The sound of pounding feet caused him to turn and see Dees Rollins’ big frame lumbering up the hall. “What the hell…?” T... ...Jackson Rhodes. “What the hell’s going on here?” he demanded of Chief Deputy Dees Rollins, who loomed against the background of the gabled house-t... ...ottage, she eased open the front door and recognized the men on the doorstep. Dees Rollins’ fist was poised to knock and she jumped back. If the fi... ...to Prague, hired a nanny for them, and continued on with her work. Instead she was rolling up Cotton Street in a car that belonged to her mother – b... ...hurry, Johnnie,” Clay said. “Royce isn’t going anywhere.” Once he had the presses rolling, he and Johnnie left Nawithla, the Hartwell family planta... ...ed until his car lights disappeared up the street, then draped a black coat over her jeans and red satin blouse. A silk paisley scarf hung outside t... ...ell will remain jailed without bond.” A file tape showed Donald Martell in blue jeans and a white short sleeve dress shirt walking between two s... ... He nodded, and said, “You look sleek in black, just like Pearl.” He had on blue jeans — standard attire for him — and a black leather jacket. Th...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...y found ourselves seated in this wily woman’s most commodious vehicle, and rolling, neither too fast nor too slow, along the margin of the Loire. The ... ...e inches encroach little upon acres of masonry.) It was in the castle that Jeanne Darc ????? had 40 A Little Tour in France her first interview with ... ... the few hours that we passed at this exquisite residence. “In 1747,” says Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his “Con- fessions,” “we went to spend the autumn... ... The eighteenth century con- tented itself with general epithets; and when Jean-Jacques has said that Chenonceaux was a “beau lieu,” he thinks himself... ...s the dent in the marble top of the table on which, in the hotel de ville, Jean Guiton, the mayor of the city, brought down his dagger with an oath, w... ...ucts you over the place is to call your attention to the indented table of Jean Guiton; but she shows you other objects of interest besides. The inter... ...he Hotel- Dieu, simply, as they call it there, founded in 1443 by Nicholas Rollin, Chancellor of Burgundy. It is adminis- tered by the sisterhood of t... ...van der Weyden,—given to the hospital in the fifteenth century by Nicholas Rollin aforesaid. I learned, however, to my dismay, from a sympathizing but...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...The word is too feeble,” said he, placing his right hand on his heart, and rolling his eyes in a way which almost al- ways makes a woman laugh when sh... ... common: Bianca Capella, whose portrait is one of Bronzino’s masterpieces; Jean Goujon’s Venus, painted from the famous Diane de Poitiers; Signora Oly... ...hich Benvenuto Cellini was the master, by Mademoiselle de Fauveau, Wagner, Jeanest, Froment-Meurice, and wood-carvers like Lienard, this little master... ...four years they had dwelt under the same roof as Lisbeth Fischer. Monsieur Jean-Paul-Stanislas Marneffe was one of the class of employes who escape sh... ...d, as we may count the few poets among men. Michael Angelo, Michel Columb, Jean Goujon, Phidias, Praxiteles, Polycletes, Puget, Canova, Albert Durer, ... ... 318 Cousin Betty “And the flowers fresh?” “Yes, mademoiselle.” “Just tell Jean to look round and see that everything is as it should be before showin... ...eek, had related to the ignorant damsels the famous anecdote, preserved in Rollin’s Ancient History, concerning Combabus, that volun- tary Abelard who... ...ound the squalid shop, melted into tears. “He has been living here, and we rolling in wealth!” said she to herself. “Poor man, he has indeed been puni...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

... in the entertainment of Philip’s deformity . One of them invented an odd, rolling limp that struck the rest as supremely 48 Of Human Bondage ridicul... ...merous studios where art is taught. T uesday was the day upon which Michel Rollin came to Amitrano’s. He was an elderly man, with a white beard and a ... ...cted the public, sale bete, to their works. The genial dis- dain of Michel Rollin, who called them impos- tors, was answered by him with vituperation,... ...t her plate, regardless of the passing spectacle, and two heavy tears were rolling down her cheeks. “What on earth’s the matter?” he exclaimed. “If yo... ...hat his uncle did not even see how truly heroic his determination was. “‘A rolling stone gathers no moss,’” pro- ceeded the clergyman. Philip hated th... ...hey recall only the woodland glens seen in dreams, but of the more prosaic Jean-Baptiste Pater . Philip’s heart was filled with lightness. He realised...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...of greed. Most likely he had been drawn thither by that most convincing of Jean Jacques’ eloquent periods, which expresses, I think, this mel- ancholy... ...te littleness. An ebony table that an art- ist might worship, carved after Jean Goujon’s designs, in years of toil, had been purchased perhaps at the ... ...red letters cannot be removed, and hangs out just as it did in the time of Jean Jacques, that Leonarda of yours told us that you were off into the cou... ...he street was a blind alley and but little frequented. I remem- bered that Jean Jacques had once lived here, and looked up the Hotel Saint-Quentin. It... ... but I know that I have never found in all the ready rhetorical phrases of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in whose room perhaps I was lodging; nor among the f... ... identified the number that had been given to him, this rein- carnation of Rollin knocked meekly at the door of a splen- did mansion. “Is Monsieur Rap... ...ssion; “we ought to have subjected that pecu- liar skin to the action of a rolling machine. Where could my eyes have been when I suggested compression... ...skin. He lay back again in the corner of his carriage, which was very soon rolling upon its way. The next day found him back in his home again, in his...

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