... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... contiguous towns, I should mention, in the great in- dustrial area of the Midlands.) We had shared each other’s secret of religious doubt, we had con... ... to- gether. And if in the daytime we went right over the crest and looked westward there was farmland, there were parks and great mansions, the spire... ... said I, standing in the darkness, outside even his faint glow of traveled culture… My mother let me in. She looked at me, mutely, because she knew th... ...ing afterglow of the sunset threw up all the con- tours and skyline to the west, and the comet rose eastward out of the pouring tumult of smoke from B... ... home about five minutes to three, resolved to start by the five train for Birmingham in any case, but still dissatisfied about my money. I thought of... ... sort of innocent zest. “I’m glad they mean fighting.” There was an air of culture about his room that always cowed me, and that made me constrained e... ...drawer for hours. I glanced at his clock. T wenty minutes still before the Birmingham train. Time to buy a pair of boots and get away. 103 H. G . Wel...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State... ... Chinaman, with a yel- low face and an expansive smile, who was study- ing Western conditions at the University. He spoke so quickly , with a queer ac... ...not realise that he was merely putting up in its stead the other fetish of culture. They wandered up to the castle, and sat on the terrace that overlo... ...r an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for the vanquished West. Cacilie was flaunting and cynical. At last even the Frau Professor co... ...Philip. “I see the better course, but do not follow it. Miss Price, who is cultured, will remember the Latin of that.” “I wish you would leave me out ... ...ar obse- quiously . “Ultima Thule was the place of its manufac- ture, even Birmingham the place of my birth.” “Fifteen francs,” cringed the bearded ma... ...with the fair moustache? I haven’t seen him lately” “Oh, he’s gone back to Birmingham. He’s in 356 Of Human Bondage business there. He only comes up ... ...g paper; he had been 565 W. Somerset Maugham sub-editor of a paper in the Midlands and editor of another on the Riviera. From all his occupa- tions h...

...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....