Among these topics the dangers

In July 1909, while the Imperial Conference on Defence was in session, Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg succeeded Prince Bülow as German Chancellor. Up... 続きをみる

That Russia did not desire

I found the Chancellor very agitated. His Excellency at once began a harangue which lasted for about twenty minutes. He said that the step taken by H... 続きをみる

The truth was that she enjoyed

Kalle Blomkvist—she remembered his nickname and suppressed the impulse to say it out loud—suddenly looked serious. He also looked very tired. The sel... 続きをみる

A week

The two women had been friends since kindergarten and their lives had followed very similar paths. After Ronald F. Rickman, Esquire had packed his ba... 続きをみる

I’m proud that my name is a byword

“The Vanger companies are still among the few family-held firms in the country. Thirty family members are minority shareholders. This has always been... 続きをみる

From that evening his former shyness

disappeared, and he pushed his suit with as much ardor as he dared, utterly ignoring Aneth’s evident desire to restrain him from speaking too plainly... 続きをみる

laughed with unrestrained liberty

Kāra wandered about the streets. Cairo is a marvel to the most blasé traveler; it could not fail to impress an inexperienced native. But the Egyptian... 続きをみる

which make a man totally indifferen

Nature took sides against Love on that evening, and made Mrs. Damerel’s warning unnecessary, and all the anticipations of the young persons of no ava... 続きをみる

Nothing in the nature of a cart horse

As regards weight, however, the L.G.S. wagon holds its own against the G.S. on roads, and is superior in roadless or hilly country. That is to say, t... 続きをみる

The porter closed the street door

"This evening there is a ball at the Embassy. The Countess will be there. We shall remain until two in the morning. You may manage to see me alone. A... 続きをみる

They withdrew

The horses, already thin and tired after the heavy work and short rations of the past month, went back rapidly in condition. They were standing alway... 続きをみる

A few days later a special train

The judge had scarcely uttered the last words of the sentence, when Frederick's arms were grasped on either side by a stalwart “Garde de Paris,” and ... 続きをみる

The self-chastisement of the man

When the girl had gone he turned again into the little grove and once more found the seat under168 the trees where a few minutes before he had impati... 続きをみる

There was no sound in heaven or earth

“Why, I have not seen you since this good news came!” he cried, fondly kissing her in his delight and heartiness of congratulation, a thing he had ne... 続きをみる

The house was a handsome house

, raised on a slightly higher elevation than the rectory, surrounded by a pretty though not very extensive park, and commanding the same landscape as... 続きをみる

There was more length than was either

The result of William's reflections was, that, in order to draw and work the large iron now in his possession, he must have better tools and a heavy ... 続きをみる

The hour was favourable

He waited for no reply, but hurried from the café like one possessed. So swiftly did he walk, that he had almost passed the door of the Palace Hotel ... 続きをみる

A similar persistence

At Arica, for example, a considerable interval would seem to have elapsed before the terrible sea-wave, which has always characterised Peruvian earth... 続きをみる

These considerations cannot

When Scheer actually did break off battle, we shall find that he turned his fleet in succession through an angle of 135°. There were special reas... 続きをみる

I had never had an overcoat

Books to the amount of about seven dollars were required if I should enter the Vail school and that was a large sum of money in our large family. The... 続きをみる

The importunate friend

For very often, without question, our prayers fail to move the Father, because they are not urged upon Him, nor are they upheld by that hopeful trust... 続きをみる

Turning his head with warlike pride

He had once drawn a prize of ten thousand pesetas in the National Lottery, and the whole of this sum he had spent on a uniform suitable to his rank. ... 続きをみる

This painful impression soon disappeared

The two mites stared religiously at the hero whose portraits they had so often seen on the prints which adorned the walls of their poor little home, ... 続きをみる

The trader in charge of them rode

"These have gathered there from the ends of the earth. A hermit thriveth best where there be multitudes of pilgrims. Ye shall not find no hermit of n... 続きをみる