Subject for July, 2016
Chapter 8 – The ‘Coming Out’
Subject: Agnes Grey
AT eighteen, Miss Murray was to emerge from the quiet obscurity of the schoolroom into the full blaze of the fashionable world – as much of it, at least, as could be ha...
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Chapter 7
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
When they came to the mountain it proved to be a rugged, towering chunk of deep green glass, and looked dismal and forbidding in the extreme. Half way up the steep was a yaw...
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Chapter 7 – Horton Lodge
Subject: Agnes Grey
THE 31st of January was a wild, tempestuous day: there was a strong north wind, with a continual storm of snow drifting on the ground and whirling through the air. My frien...
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Chapter 6
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
When the Wizard awoke the six colored suns were shining down upon the Land of the Mangaboos just as they had done ever since his arrival. The little man, having had a good sl...
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Chapter 6 – The Parsonage Again
Subject: Agnes Grey
FOR a few months I remained peaceably at home, in the quiet enjoyment of liberty and rest, and genuine friendship, from all of which I had fasted so long; and in the earnest ...
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Chapter 5
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
The words of the cold and moist vegetable Prince were not very comforting, and as he spoke them he turned away and left the enclosure. The children, feeling sad and desponde...
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Chapter 5 – The Uncle
Subject: Agnes Grey
BESIDES the old lady, there was another relative of the family, whose visits were a great annoyance to me – this was ‘Uncle Robson,’ Mrs. Bloomfield’s...
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Chapter 4
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
After the Wizard had wiped the dampness from his sword and taken it apart and put the pieces into their leathern case again, the man with the star ordered some of his people ...
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Chapter 4 – The Grandmamma
Subject: Agnes Grey
I SPARE my readers the account of my delight on coming home, my happiness while there – enjoying a brief space of rest and liberty in that dear, familiar place, among t...
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Chapter 3
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
The doorway of the glass palace was quite big enough for the horse and buggy to enter, so Zeb drove straight through it and the children found themselves in a lofty hall that...
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