Love Stories: Tag – Romance
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Send And Receive Chapter 1
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Pietermaritzburg, January 2003
Angie Wilson twirled her wine glass as she glanced at the faces around her. Everyone looked either suitably solemn, or suitably sad. She hoped her face was schooled into the suitably solemn mould, because she certainly didn’t feel sad.
Perhaps that made her a bad person, Angie thought, but you couldn’t make yourself feel sad when you didn’t feel sad. Could you? Even though she had just come from her great-aunt’s funeral.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5
Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 1
It was dark on the night they came to kill Daniel Feelding. There were no stars and only a shiver of silver played on the black sea. The slap of the waves against the bow of the large East Indiaman, the sigh of the oak beams rolling through the wide ocean, the creak of the foremast and the dull clatter of the reefed topsails and main against the salt-stained wooden cross-trees were the only sounds on that long dogwatch, but still Daniel did not hear them coming.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 6
The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was soon returned in due form. Miss Bennet’s pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with them was expressed towards the two eldest.
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The Romance of Trees
A romantic fairy-tale about the love between a young prince and princess, turned into trees by an evil witch. Finding ways to whisper messages in the wind and knotting their roots together like lover’s holding hands, the trees romance lasts for thousands of years until a violent storm threatens their special bond.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 2
Daniel Feelding was a young man from a good family. His back was straight, his limbs were strong and he looked a man in the eye and shook his hand firm. He was not the sort you would expect to find working a passage as an able seaman on a 740-ton Indiaman returning from Madras to England, through the wild African seas off that barbarous green coast, laden with tea for the drawing rooms of London.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 7
Mr. Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 3
How did he survive those black hours? Daniel had no idea. The water was warmer than he first thought but still the sea winds chilled his back and made him shiver, draped across the barrel. At various times he thought he sensed great things moving nearby and under him, but he tried to put them out of his thoughts
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 8
At five o’clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner. To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley’s, she could not make a very favourable answer.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 4
By the time Daniel fetched up on the white sand of the shore he was buffeted, cut and bleeding from being scraped against rock and sea-floor. His clothes were lacerated, there was a long, open gash in his left thigh, but he hugged that sand in the falling blackness with the fervour of a man reborn.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 9
Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister’s room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 5
His companions fanned out in a shell-formation behind him. The young warrior’s eyes were fixed at a point on Daniel’s chest just over the heart. He drew back his stabbing arm … and stopped. His eyes slowly raised and stared over Daniel’s shoulder, with growing terror, at a sight behind him.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 10
The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who continued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 6
Into the silence, the king barked something, and a man hurried forward from the crowd. He had been the leader of the group that had taken Daniel captive. On the long walk, he had been tall and regal - kinglike himself - but now he threw himself to the floor, pressed his forehead to the dirt, and grovelled like a washerwoman.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 11
When the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared.
Erotic Short Stories
Self Portrait
It was hot - and she was bored. She couldn’t face gym, and her coffee tasted insipid. She didn’t want to think about her comatose marriage. She wandered into an art gallery and instead of seeing only the art, she was artfully seduced into seeing her sensuous self....
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Blood Diamond Chapter 7
When he thought back on it, Daniel was surprised at how the months flew by. It was not enjoyable exactly – seldom did he wake of a morning with a smile on his lips and a song in his heart – but he was folded into the Annuba tribe with an instant acceptance and was welcomed into the daily rituals and customs of the people with such ease and grace, that soon it felt as though he had long been there, years and years, like the weathered old translator, Tregoning.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 12
In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to their mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane’s week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
Short Stories
No Greater Love
For as long as Sarah can remember, the photograph of a young soldier graced the dresser in Aunt Jane’s home. As she grows up and falls in love, she remains intrigued by Aunt Jane, and the story of the love that was too great to die.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 8
Preparation took most of the night. In the company of the ten initiates – young men of nearly twenty – and following their example, Daniel bathed in cold water, rubbed himself dry with fragrant bark from a local tree, then massaged his skin and muscles with animal fat until his arms, legs and torso gleamed in the firelight.
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