<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:33:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@livechart/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #13/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hear me, when I swear that the farm is your ownThrough all changes Fortune may make;The base charge of falsehood I never have known;This promise I never will break. ROSE and LUCY. Hear him, when he swears]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/squire/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-13-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/squire/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-13-21</guid><category><![CDATA[squire]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:13:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #12/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[If, by some dexterous stroke, I could manage to curry favour with Norton, and procure some handsome present in return for services rendered,—for ‘work and labour done and performed,’ as my obedient servant,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/servant/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-12-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/servant/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-12-21</guid><category><![CDATA[servant]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:56:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #11/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keep back, Squire. Knew there’d be something wrong,—ready to come in at the nick of time,—capital custom. FLAM enters and stands next the SQUIRE. SQUIRE. Exposed, baited! Benson, are you mad? Within the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/squire/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-11-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/squire/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-11-21</guid><category><![CDATA[squire]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:10:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #10/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[By the bye, I have lost sight of her, and I am interrupting you. (Aside to SQUIRE, as he goes out.) I came to tell you that she is ripe for an elopement, if you urge her strongly. Edmunds has been reproaching]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/squire/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-10-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/squire/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-10-21</guid><category><![CDATA[squire]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:38:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #9/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the suspicions of the family are aroused, no time is to be lost: the girl must be carried off to-night, if possible. With Flam’s assistance and management, she may be speedily removed from within the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/honour/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-9-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/honour/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-9-21</guid><category><![CDATA[honour]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:35:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #8/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[And what are these tales, that idle busy fools prate of with delight, among themselves, caring not whose ears they reach, so long as they are kept from the old man, whose blindness—the blindness of a fond]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tales/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-8-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tales/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-8-21</guid><category><![CDATA[tales]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:32:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #7/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here stand I,—the Honourable Sparkins Flam,—on this second day of September, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine; and positively and solemnly declare that all the coffee-houses, play-houses,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/flam/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-7-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/flam/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-7-21</guid><category><![CDATA[flam]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:43:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #6/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here I shall stop; let him touch me, and he shall feel the weight of my indignation. Enter FLAM. FLAM. Ah, my charmer! Punctual to my time, you see, my sweet little Damask Rose! JOHN (coming down). A great]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/flam/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-6-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/flam/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-6-21</guid><category><![CDATA[flam]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:31:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #5/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[GEORGE EDMUNDS enters, with a stick in his hand. EDMUNDS. How thickly the fallen leaves lie scattered at the feet of that old row of elm-trees! When I first met Lucy on this spot, it was a fine spring]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/autumn/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-5-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/autumn/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-5-21</guid><category><![CDATA[autumn]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:28:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #4/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your honour will not object to taste our ale, after your day’s sport. The afternoon is fresh and cool, and ’twill be pleasant here in the air. Here, Ben, Thomas, bring mugs here—quick—quick—and a seat]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/edmunds/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-4-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/edmunds/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-4-21</guid><category><![CDATA[edmunds]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:33:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #3/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[text-indent:0;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0} .p3{text-indent:0} You will at once, and without delay, bestow your hand on John Maddox; or if you would aspire to a higher rank in life, and a loftier station]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/rose/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-3-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/rose/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-3-21</guid><category><![CDATA[rose]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:12:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #2/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[text-indent:0;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0} .p3{text-indent:0} (Exit Villager.) That’s right, my lads, stow these sheaves away, before the sun goes down. Let’s begin fresh in the morning, without any]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/villagers/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-2-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/villagers/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-2-21</guid><category><![CDATA[villagers]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:24:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Village Coquettes - There Are Dark Shadows on the #1/21]]></title><description><![CDATA[font-size:1.3em;line-height:115%;font-weight:bold} .t8{font-weight:bold} text-indent:0;line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0} .p3{text-indent:0} DEDICATION To J. P. HARLEY, ESQ. MY DEAR SIR, My dramatic bantlings]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-1-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dickens/@livechart/literature-charles-dickens-the-village-coquettes-there-are-dark-shadows-on-the-1-21</guid><category><![CDATA[dickens]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livechart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:53:45 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>