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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Two incidents, widely different in character yet bound together by results, marked the night of January the twenty-third. On that night the blackest fog within a four years' memory fell upon certain portions of London, and also on that night came the first announcement of the border risings against the Persian government in the province of Khorasan the announcement that, speculated upon, even smiled at, at the time, assumed such…mehr

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Two incidents, widely different in character yet bound together by results, marked the night of January the twenty-third. On that night the blackest fog within a four years' memory fell upon certain portions of London, and also on that night came the first announcement of the border risings against the Persian government in the province of Khorasan the announcement that, speculated upon, even smiled at, at the time, assumed such significance in the light of after events. At eight o'clock the news spread through the House of Commons; but at nine men in the inner lobbies were gossiping, not so much upon how far Russia, while ostensibly upholding the Shah, had pulled the strings by which the insurgents danced, as upon the manner in which the 'St. Geotge's Gazette', the Tory evening newspaper, had seized upon the incident and shaken it in the faces of the government.
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Katherine Cecil Thurston (née Kathleen Annie Josephine Madden) was an Irish novelist best known for two political thrillers. Kathleen Annie Josephine Madden was born at 14 Bridge Street in Cork, Ireland, the only daughter of banker Paul J. Madden (mayor of Cork from 1885 to 1886 and a friend of Charles Stuart Parnell) and Eliza Madden. She received her education privately at her family's home, Wood's Gift on Blackrock Road. By the end of the nineteenth century, she was writing short stories for several British and American journals, including Pall Mall Magazine, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Windsor Magazine, and others. On February 16, 1901, five weeks following her father's death, she married novelist Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933). They separated in 1907 and divorced in 1910 because of his adultery and desertion. The lawsuit went undefended. Thurston, on the other hand, "complained that she was making more money by her books than he was, that her personality dominated his, and had said that he wanted to leave her." Katherine Thurston's novels were successful in both Britain and the United States. Her best-known work was a political thriller titled John Chilcote, M.P. (also known as The Masquerader in the United States), which was released in 1904 and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for two years, placing third in 1904 and seventh in 1905.