...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ring them magnificently, but who keeps the place up with loving care. Sham philosophers, studying themselves while they profess to be studying hu- man... ...Right enough, too,” replied Fourchon. “As Pere Niseron says (and he stayed republican long after everybody else), ‘The people are tough; they don’t di... ...f bell-ringer, beadle, grave-digger, sexton, and clerk, in defiance of his republican opinions,—I mean the grandfather of the little Genevieve whom yo... ... funds in our pockets, and I supply him with rope to ring his bell. He’s a republican and I’m not even a publican,—that’s all the difference as far as... ... served the de- coction, with a coolness worthy of a Parisian waiter, in a china cup which, if flung to the ground, would not have cracked. At this pe... ...iture of a new pattern, astral lamps, round tables with marble tops, white china with gilt lines for dessert, red morocco chairs and mezzo- tint engra...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... attention” which the Philosophy of Clothes was exciting in its own German Republic of Letters; on the deep significance and tendency of his Friend’s ... ...eign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,—to the length of ... ...siderable paper-bags, care- fully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China-ink, with the symbols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, be- ginning... ...uriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances o... ...ees of Tadmor; smoked a pipe among the ruins of Babylon. The great Wall of China I have seen; and can testify that it is of gray brick, coped and cove... ... Counsellor Heuschrecke ever existed; that the six Paper- bags, with their China-ink inscriptions and multifarious contents, are a mere figment of the...

Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... Catholics were supporters of absolute monarchy, and the Protestants for a republic.” “M. Vidal!” shouted an assistant. Vidal fled. “I don’t say, sir,... ...e and their genius, stands 65 Balzac a third, Michel Chrestien, the great Republican thinker, who dreamed of European Federation, and had no small sh... ...ra- tion scheme was more dangerous to the aristocracy of Eu- rope than the Republican propaganda; it was more feasible and less extravagant than the h... ...lue cotton stuff, and Berenice had managed to save a clock and a couple of china vases from the catastrophe, as well as four spoons and forks and half... ...nking-cup; Any catch is good, I wot, If good fellows take it up. Let philosophers protest, Let us laugh, And quaff, And a fig for the rest...

...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... cannot fail to quiver when you see that blazon. Yes, the most con- firmed republican would be moved by the fidelity, the noble- ness, the grandeur hi... ...w a man of seventy-three; but his long-continued guerilla warfare with the Republic, his exile, the perils of his five crossings through a turbulent s... ...intellect, without action upon the chastity of the body, would have amazed philosophers and observers, had any one in Nantes even suspected the powers... ...sued from their wrap- pings a silver teapot and some beautiful old English china sent to the baroness by her aunts. This appearance of modern splen- d... ...looked far handsomer than Beatrix. She wore also a little shawl of crimson China crape, crossed on her bosom and tied behind, as they dress a child. F...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...eorge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...use. Their own high food would kill them. You shall find great poets, rare philosophers, night after night on the broad grin before a row of yellow li... ...a cricketer. A swimmer and a cricketer is nowhere to be scorned in youth’s republic. Finding that manoeuvre would not do, Richard was prompted once or... ...s our history, as Benson would have written it, and a great many poets and philosophers have written it. Yet it was but the plucking of the Autumn pri... ...say Caesar loved Rome: but whether he did or no, Caesar when he killed the Republic was quite bald, and the hero we are dealing with is scarce beginni... ...n is extremely seductive to good women. Dear to their tender bosoms as old china is a bad man they are mending! Lord Mountfalcon had none of the arts ...

Excerpt: Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith.

...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...’t want him to sell his country to Germany, or to turn it into an American republic in order that he may be president. But when he gets the reins into... ...,—or perhaps an Irishman. We have learned the lesson from the divines, the philosophers, and the poets. Post equitem sedes atra cura. Thus was Ferdina... ...tion of his intention to live out the remainder of his period of office in republican simplicity. ‘We have tried it and it has failed, and let there b... ... made of finer material than other people. Men shouldn’t be made of Sevres china, but of good stone earth- enware. However, I don’t want to abuse him,...

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ...rise, but was not as essential to its economic miracle as it had been for China.. Even back in the early 1980's Singaling had begun a program fo... ... rather than an idealistic ideology, has been the secret of Singapore and China. The question is do you want to focus on ends or means. If the end j... ...ast some of your people are buying pollution free vehicles from us or from China. We are so far ahead of your people with fuel cells, natural gas and... ...ic philosophies and religions that are usually strongly influenced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment period. It is particularly true when tho... ...ng from very poor countries to poor countries—from Haiti to the Dominican Republic, from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, from Nepal to India, from Myanmar t... ...insights and your explaining your system. Is it true that as with Plato‟s Republic one‟s country influences what is good and bad, beautiful and ugly?...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication o... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania S... ...or, to speak in the phrase of writers upon politics, we may observe in the republic of dogs, which in its original seems to be an institution of the m... ...y, and snarling against the happy dog. Again, if we look upon any of these republics engaged in a foreign war, either of invasion or defence, we shall... ... though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline; Or, as philosophers, who find Some fav’rite system to their mind, In every point t... ...er copious upon the sub ject of their petticoats, or their fans, or their china. For which reason, although it be a piece of prudence, as well as goo... ... of the sun and moon—in short, the whole system of the universe, as far as philosophers have been able to discover and observe, are in the utmost degr...

...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happe...

...y by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...picked up by the worthy widow,—pictures bought for the sake of the frames, china services of a composite order; 42 Bureaucracy to wit, a magnificent ... ..., an old paper-dealer retired from business ever since the year II. of the Republic, and now sixty-nine years old, came to see them on Sundays only, b... ... played off upon Godard, presenting him with a butterfly just brought from China, which the worthy man keeps in his collection and exhibits to this da... ... who were taken young have been an honor to European monarchies and to the republics whose affairs they have directed. The 108 Bureaucracy world stil... ...ow, in the first place, a publicist would call the attention of Russia and China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the Ame... ...(where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that for this pr...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...een written on that much vexed theme, and very probably half as many more. Republican Rome had her prerogative tribe; the earth has its prerogative ci... ...threnodists of false liberty! hollow chant- ers over the ashes of a hollow republic! Without Cæsar, we affirm a thousand times that there would have b... ... of the Byzantine court ritual were arranged in the same spirit as that of China or the Birman empire; or fashioned by anticipation, as one might thin... ...rms in his hands, since the further bank lay within the ter- ritory of the Republic, ipso facto proclaimed any Roman a rebel and a traitor. No man, th... ...philosophic attainments, and perhaps upon philosophic glory. All the great philosophers of his own time, whether Stoic or Peripatetic, and amongst the...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...

...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d, is the cardinal assumption of all Utopian speculations old and new; the Republic and Laws of Plato, and More’s Utopia, Howells’ implicit Altruria, ... ... I doubt if anyone has ever been warmed to desire himself a citizen in the Republic of Plato; I doubt if anyone could stand a month of the relentless ... ...t isolation for a polity to maintain itself intact from outward force; the Republic of Plato stood armed ready for defensive war, and the New Atlantis... ...fensive war, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China and Japan through many centuries of effectual practice, held themselv... ...e—an end practically attained in the homely, old-fashioned civilisation of China by female infanticide, involves not only the cessa- tion of distresse... ...aching it pretty closely, and again in the inland and typical provinces of China, where even a strange pattern of hat arouses hostility. We had it in ...

...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...lic affairs. In spite of revo- lutionary principles, which made a hobby of republican hon- esty, the management of public business in those days was b... ...f mistresses, in which were given splen- did fetes to the Directors of the Republic. 19 Balzac The citizen du Bousquier was one of Barras’ familiars;... ...ike those of Monsieur de Talleyrand, though somewhat dulled. He still wore republican whiskers and his hair very long; his hands, adorned with bunches... ...quier’s meditation. He plumed himself on belonging to the class of cynical philosophers who could never be “taken in” by women,—putting them, one and ... ...eat and clean was again gone over and brushed and rubbed and scrubbed. The china of ceremony saw the light; the damask linen marked “A, B, C” was draw... ... out, in view of the whole company, a magnificent liqueur-stand of Dresden china which saw the light only twice a year. This circum- stance was taken ...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... speak but to think of a thousand bricks or a thousand sheep or a thousand Chinamen as though they were all absolutely true to sample. If it is brough... ...te my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living within t... ...til recently been segregated in pools; that in the great civi- lization of China, for example, humanity has pursued its own interlacing system of inhe... ... do not stave it off indefinitely. It needs only that one philoprogenitive Chinaman should have wan- dered into those regions that are now Russia, abo... ...ossible development of thought and concerted action which I called the New Republicanism, and afterwards I redrew the thing rather more elaborately in... ...rganizing forces that held my Uto- pian world together. They were the “New Republicans” of my “Anticipations” and “Mankind in the Making,” much develo...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ping up the state neces- sary for any European government, even if it be a Republic. In 1818, M. le Duc de Langeais commanded a division of the army, ... ...he only son of General de Montriveau, one of the ci-devants who served the Republic nobly , and fell by Joubert’s side at Novi. Bonaparte had placed h... ...ell on the battlefield, leaving their children under the protection of the Republic. Armand de Montriveau left school with his way to make, entered th... ...and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually confound. Love implies a give a... ...ded, holding out a hand, which he kissed. “We will be like two grey-headed philosophers who have learned how to enjoy life to the last moment. I will ... ...sible; a mouse might as well try to creep up the slippery sides of a plain china vase. Still there was a cleft, a straight line of fissure so fortunat...

...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

...ESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE OF MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . 213 ADVERTISEMENT T he following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occ... ... the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occasion of the work are described by the Author in his Preface to the Excursion, ... ...hy sound simplicity should reign, A seemly plainness, name it what you will, Republican or pious. 400 If these thoughts Are a gratuitous emblazonry Th... ...ht Of the Tartarian dynasty composed (Beyond that mighty wall, not fabulous, China’s stupendous mound) by patient toil 80 Of myriads and boon nature’s... ... academic institutes 225 And rules, that they held something up to view Of a Republic, where all stood thus far Upon equal ground; that we were brothe... ... Sicilian Tyrant’s overthrow, Sailed from Zacynthus,—philosophic war, Led by Philosophers. With harder fate, Though like ambition, such was he, O Frie... ...empty throne, and in proud haste Assumed the body and venerable name 40 Of a Republic. Lamentable crimes, ’Tis true, had gone before this hour, dire w... ...n’s liveliness, 195 In all their comprehensive bearings known And visible to philosophers of old, Men who, to business of the world untrained, Lived i...

...Excerpt: Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native mountains with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As sub...

...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS,...

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ... J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e conversations they frequently occasioned with my fa- ther, produced that republican spirit and love of liberty, that haughty and invincible turn of ... ...may so express myself with their illustrious heroes; born the citizen of a republic, of a father whose ruling passion was a love of his country, I was... ...tempting to make counterfeit money because our medals bore the arms of the Republic, though, I can truly aver, I had no conception of false money, and... ...h is seldom attached to pompous ostentation. She had very little plate, no china, no game in her kitchen, or foreign wines in her cellar, but both wer... ...me accordingly, with their waters and whey. In this respect physicians and philosophers differ widely from theologians; admitting the truth only of wh... ...ommon enmity to toleration, may become united; a proof of which is seen in China, and in the cabal against myself; whereas religion, both reasonable a...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classi- cal works of lit... ...the Marquis de Montauran, and the Baron du Guenic, in the wars against the Republic, counted for a good deal in the willingness of the younger Madame ... ...where, no doubt, the Rogrons chose it. Dinner was served on white and gold china, with a dessert service of light blue with green flowers, but they sh... ...provincial characteristics that go well with old fam- ily silver, precious china, and our simple habits. The prov- inces are provinces; they are only ... ... the hectic of death, is a wonderful fact worthy of the attention alike of philosophers and of heedless minds. He who has ever seen one of these subli...

...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...brary, was the conservatory, ornamented with rare flowers, that bloomed in china jars; and in the midst of the green- house, marvellous alike to sight... ... can that have been?” “I do not know; I have only heard that an emperor of China had an oven built expressly, and that in this oven twelve jars like t... ...that the four quarters of the globe could provide was heaped in vases from China and jars from Japan. Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant pluma... ...f this is seen in their yellow and dry appearance, like the florins of the republic, which, from being con- stantly gazed upon, have become reflected ... ...oat embroidered with green?” “Oh, that coat is not his own idea; it is the Republic’s, which de- puted David* to devise a uniform for the Academicians... ...nd because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth. Take the Republic for a tutor; let us return with renewed strength to the battle-fie...

...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

...t by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ter-cooper, able to read, write, and cipher. At the period when the French Republic offered for sale the church property in the arrondissement of Saum... ...e help of two hundred double louis given by his father-in-law to the surly republican who presided over the sales of the national domain, he ob- taine... ... were so little revolutionary that they thought Pere Grandet a bold man, a republican, and a patriot with a mind open to all the new ideas; though in ... ...later.” Wasted dignity! Grandet thought himself very generous to his wife. Philosophers who meet the like of Nanon, of Ma- 23 Balzac dame Grandet, of... ...ne?” (Wine costs nothing in Saumur, and they offer it as tea is offered in China.) “Why!” added Grandet, “you have got no light! That’s bad, very bad;... ... not fail of its destiny; Charles became hard, and eager for prey. He sold Chinamen, Negroes, birds’ nests, children, art- ists; he practised usury on...

...Excerpt: To Maria, may your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless t...

...erself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of th... ...e apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her la... ...aid the young man. ‘I pretend not to prevaricate.’ ‘Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?’ the lady asked. ‘Olive told me to tell you she ho... ...to be mistaken for the better. She talked to Ransom about the inferiority of republics, the distressing persons she had met abroad in the legations of... ...live what I suspect. She will be perfectly capable of carrying Verena off to China—or anywhere out of your reach.’ ‘And pray what is it you suspect?’ ... ... a union far more intimate— provided it be equal—than any that the sages and philosophers of former times have ever dreamed of. Therefore I shall not ... ...neral irresponsibility of the establishment and found no one but the village philosophers to address himself to. It was an estab lishment conducted b...

...sn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don?t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate.? These words were spoken with much volubility by a fair, plump, smiling woman who entered a narro...

...Table of Contents: Book First 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 8 -- Chapter 3, 12 -- Chapter 4, 20 -- Chapter 5, 26 -- Chapter 6, 30 -- Chapter 7, 38 -- Chapter 8, 45 -- Chapter 9, 51 -- Chapter 10, 55 -- Chapter 11, 62 -- Chapter 1...