The Career of a Nihilist: A Novel

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Harper, 1889 - Nihilism - 320 pages
 

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Page 146 - Every day, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon, when there was a sitting in the hall, this window was watched with an opera-glass from the row of houses opposite the prison.
Page 46 - ... considerable exertion, but a very dream of delightful movement, like flying, like — she could not tell what. By this time she was a little ashamed about Charlie ; and the waltz put it out of Mr. Rivers's mind. "Do you think I may call to-morrow?" he said, when they stopped again. " Will your mother let me ? There are so many things I should like to talk over with her. You are too young, of course, to remember anything about a certain horrid bank.
Page 320 - He had perished. But the work for which he died did not perish. It goes forward from defeat to defeat towards the final victory, which in this sad world of ours cannot be obtained save by the sufferings and the sacrifice of the chosen few.

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