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Der junge Textilkaufmann namens Samuel Smith nennt sich in Gesellschaft Horatio Sparkins. Er gibt sein Geld für elegante Kleidung aus und verbringt die Abende bei Zusammenkünften und Tanzveranstaltung. Dort gibt er sich als Dichter und Mann mit großem Einfluss aus. Auf einem Ball lernt er die Maldertons kennen, die ihn gerne als Ehemann für ihre in die Jahre gekommene Tochter Teresa sehen würden. Sie laden ihn ein und führen ihn in die feine Gesellschaft. Bevor es jedoch zur Hochzeit kommt, gehen Mutter und Tochter Malderton auf Einkaufstour und lernen in einem Kleidergeschäft den Textilverkäufer Samuel Smith alias Horatio Sparkins kennen. Teresa bricht in Hysterie aus und ihre Mutter überbringt diese schlimme Neuigkeit der Familie.

Ruby’s my best friend and bandmate. The sister of my good friend, too. Which makes her “triple off-limits” to me. I’d even say she’s like a sister to me, if it weren’t for the unbrotherly dreams I’ve had about her since age sixteen. But when Ruby drunkenly kisses me at a party to piss off her ex, the spark I’ve been working hard to snuff out for years bursts into a raging pyre. And now, I can’t stop obsessing about that kiss and yearning for another one.

Donovan and I met at a coffee shop to do the suitcase exchange. Turned out, it wasn’t just his voice that was sexy. The man holding my luggage was absolutely gorgeous, and we had an immediate spark. He got me to admit that I’d snooped in his bag and then convinced me to make it up to him by letting him buy me coffee. Coffee led to dinner, dinner led to dessert, and dessert led to spending an entire weekend together. So what did I do to repay him for his kindness? I waited until he was in the shower, then ghosted him.

Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became...

Take one wizard - that's me - add a hot female vampire, give them a nice place in the country and what do you get? Paradise. Heaven on earth. So, of course, someone decided to go spoil it. No, it wasn't me, not this time. The Hidden world is in chaos, and apparently I'm the one that's supposed to deal with it! Smart trolls, even smarter vampires - and not the nice ones like Kate - witches on the rampage, inebriated gremlins, and imps intent on causing nuclear Armageddon, they have all combined to ruin my perfect life.

In den schmutzigen Gassen des alten Londons dominieren Armut und großes menschliches Elend. Immer mehr Leute der Londoner Unterschicht greifen daher zur Flasche. Das spiegelt sich in Dickens Erzählung "Der Tod des Trinkers" wider, in der ein Mann durch seine Alkoholsucht vergisst, Verantwortung für seine Familie zu übernehmen. Anstatt die bitter benötigte Medizin für Frau und Kinder zu kaufen, vergeudet er seine letzten Münzen für einen Schluck Alkohol und besiegelt damit sein Schicksal und das seiner Familie. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) war ein britischer Schriftsteller.

Discover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive, fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it. We’re all born with a certain “imprint” for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype," your DNA-level driver...

In a world where heroism and self-sacrifice sometimes seem to be in short supply, the exploits of the famed Admiral Horatio Nelson stand out to us as a refreshing reminder. His noble actions serve to show us of what it means to go above and beyond the call of duty and to put petty differences aside for the greater good. Despite the larger-than-life legend that two centuries have brought us, Horatio Nelson was not some swashbuckling caricature, he was a real flesh and blood human being, just as flawed as the rest of us.