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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ......................................................................256 THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. ....................................... ...r in “Eugene Aram,” or other works of our author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PA... ...he cheek of the parasite of pleasure; but there are mo- ments in life when History fortifies endurance: and past study renders present deprivation mor... ...ress Josephine, at Malmaison (whom we loved a thousand times more than her Austrian successor, a sandy-haired woman, between ourselves, with an odious... ...—an excellent, gentle creature, quite unlike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nich... ...he crowd, in which stood Ney, Murat, Lannes, the Prince of Wagram, and the Austrian ambassador, we showed to the beau monde of the French capital, I f...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...eries Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... the oc- casional despatch of commissions; and, in fine, we behold through History the Irish malady treated as a form of British constitutional gout. ... ...ing to the intimation sent by General Lamarmora on T uesday evening to the Austrian headquarters, the three days fixed by the general’s message before... ...ver, and, as everybody here hopes, to cross it in spite of any defence the Austrians may make. On my way to this ancient city last evening I met Gener... ...curo, or at any other point not far from it, it is to be supposed that the Austrians will make a stand there, and I should not be surprised at all tha... ...of illustrious personages, there are not a few humbler individu- als whose history is faithfully told (if you choose to credit it) by the painted insc... ...he satisfaction of having done my duty. I wait tranquilly the judgement of history.’ Assuming, for argument’s sake, that General Cerale mis- understoo...

...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quot...

...EN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ...d on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing of print and handwriting—o... ...cy, which must have been extremely gratifying to his natural tastes. As to Austria, it shed diplomatic tears over the transaction. They cannot be call... ...at they were in a measure sincere. They arose from a vivid perception that Austria’s allotted share of the spoil could never compensate her for the ac... ...e her for the accession of strength and territory to the other two Powers. Austria did not really want an exten- sion of territory at the cost of Pola...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One 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... ... Rhine is free to Prussia and to Holland. The Danube is not closed against Austria. It will be said that the Danube has in fact been closed against Au... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ...t weakness on one side and pride on the other, is a problem in the world’s history yet to be solved. The most successful child that ever yet has gone ... ...nity of a separate nationality. If the waters of the Danube be not open to Austria, it is through the fault of Austria. That the subject will be one o... ...hout a war? It may very likely be well that Hungary should be severed from Austria, or Poland from Russia, or Venice from Austria. Taking Englishmen i...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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The Lifted Veil

By: George Eliot

...CATION The Lifted Veil by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dopted towards me, but it was presently clear that private tutors, natural history, science, and the mod- ern languages, were the appliances by which ... ...urney will amuse you and do you good, for I shall go through the Tyrol and Austria, and you will see many new places. Our neighbours, the Filmores, ar...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I a...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...s 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... ... That nothing might be lacking to the sombre and mysterious poesy of their history, these Thirteen men have remained to this day unknown; though all h... ...this short preface is contracting for him; but he also knows enough of the history of the thirteen to be certain that his present tale will never be t... ...ative. Ferragus is a first episode which clings by invisible links to the “History of the thirteen,” whose power, naturally acquired, can alone ex- pl... ...to the head, and linen, the fineness of which might have satisfied Anne of Austria. Madame Jules had realized this charming programme, but that was no...

...fore innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,--criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain of the qualities that make great men, and recruiting their number only among men of mark....

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of th... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State Un... ...noese made by the Saracens in 936, for which event Vellutello refers to the history of Augustino Giustiniani. v. 91. This heav’n.] The planet Venus... ...ntury, Paulus Orosius, “acquired a considerable degree of reputation by the History he wrote to refute the cavils of the Pagans against Christianity... ...Emperor obtained the kingdom for his eldest son Rodolph. See Coxe’s House of Austria, 4to. ed. v. i. part 1. p. 87 v. 117. He.] Philip IV of France... ...he kingdom of Rassia, or Ratza, in Sclavonia, from 1161 to 1371, and whose history may be found in Mauro Orbino, Regno degli Slavi, Ediz. Pesaro. 1... ... Winceslaus, prince of Bohemia, son of Winceslaus II. See Coxe’s House of Austria, vol. i. p. 1. p. 86. 4to edit. v. 140. Navarre.] Navarre was no...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and they season their dish, the coxcombs do, by hinting a knowledge of her history. ‘Here we come to another portrait of the beautiful but, we fear, n... ... myself, and I own it to my shame; and if I happened to be ignorant of the history of Countess Fanny, I could not refute his wantonness. He has just t... ...an gave up the ghost and bequeathed him little besides a law-suit with the Austrian Government, and the care of Carinthia Jane, the second child of th... ...make them credible. Charles Dump, I say, is like a front-page picture to a history of those old quiet yet exciting days in England, and when once you ... ...he girl was born, and for the reason of her first seeing the light in that Austrian province, she was chris- tened Carinthia Jane. She was her old fat... ...sed him, so that he would not have been unwilling to see Chillon enter the Austrian service, which the young man was inclined for, subsequent to his r...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...ics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nster, a subject rejected of poets, taking no hue in the flat chronicle of history: but a faithless woman, how shall we speak of her! Women, sacredly ... ...ecious, for an inspec- tion of which, as Patrick was bidden to understand, History humbly knocked at the Earlsfont hall-doors; and the proud muse made... ... example. Prussia’s well horsed, and for the work it’s intended to do, the Austrian light cavalry’s a model. So I’m told. I’ll see for myself. Then we... ...She’s on the Continent and has been a long time, and it was the capital of Austria, which is a Catholic country, and they’ve Irish blood in the servic... ...ere will be, I suppose, a third partner. I might as well deposit my family history in the hands of a club. His partner is always visible. It is my bel... ...stcoat the miniature, ‘what don’t they say here! It’s a bright day for the Austrian capital that has her by 44 Celt and Saxon the river Danube. Yours...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landow...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...The Magic Skin 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...old!” All at once marble takes an animal shape, the dead come to life, the history of the world is laid open before you. After countless dynasties of ... ...ummon before me whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never ... ...ocked down. “What is all this about?” “Come along, and I will tell you the history of it as we go.” By fair means or foul, Raphael must go along with ... ...ho will undertake anything; whose perspicacity discovers the intentions of Austria, England, or Russia be- fore either Russia, Austria or England have...

...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gam...

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...llen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of th... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...le battles of Lutzen and Bautzen, to see himself treacherously deserted by Austria, Saxony, Ba- varia, and Bernadotte, and to dispute the dreadful fie... ... Englishman, the Honorable Arthur Ormand, Lord Grenville’s eldest son. His history is interest- ing. His physician sent him to Montpellier in 1802; it... ...en. “You have not a moment to lose, madame,” said the man. “The Prussians, Austrians, and English are about to effect a junction either at Blois or at... ... suspicion on her husband’s part she pretended to ring the bell. The whole history of that night has never been known, but no doubt it was as simple a... ...or of a nature so lofty. He wished for a fuller initiation into the secret history of a life blighted rather by fate than by her own fault. Mme. d’Aig...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...ce liker seem’d To glass than water. Not so thick a veil In winter e’er hath Austrian Danube spread O’er his still course, nor Tanais far remote The D... ...entury. For further particulars relating to this singular man, see Warton’s History of English Poetry, vol. i. diss. ii. and sect. ix. p 292, and th... ...ons publicly in his palace, that they might be criticized by all.” Mariana, History of Spain, b. xiii. c. 9. An account of Thibault, and two of his ... ..., with what were probably the original melodies, may be seen in Dr. Burney’s History of Music, v. ii. c. iv. His poems, which are in the French langu... ...Emperor obtained the kingdom for his eldest son Rodolph. See Coxe’s House of Austria, 4to. ed. v. i. part 1. p. 87 v. 117. He.] Philip IV of France... ... Winceslaus, prince of Bohemia, son of Winceslaus II. See Coxe’s House of Austria, vol. i. p. 1. p. 86. 4to edit. v. 140. Navarre.] Navarre was no...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 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... ... distance from both. The nations that, according to the best authenticated history, appear to have been first civilized, were those that dwelt round t... ...on of the Danube is of very little use to the different states of Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary, in comparison of what it would be, if any of them pos... ...r value, though perhaps the greatest, is by no means the only one of which history gives some account. But as a measure of quantity, such as the natur... ...to this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn’s History of the Poor Laws.}. In 1688, Mr Gregory King, whose skill in politi... ...h the medium of other countries, goods to it of their own produce, such as Austrian Flanders, and some provinces of Germany, which, through the medium... ...ere those which, in later times, the Swiss militia gained over that of the Austrians and Burgundians. The military force of the German and Scythian na...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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The Marriage Contract

By: Honoré de Balzac

...by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion 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... ...re nothing in your eyes, though three times the dowry of an archduchess of Austria. Bonaparte received only two hundred and fifty thousand francs with... ...wn beloved, is there not a tender calculation in thus revealing to you the history of the past? Does it not 102 The Marriage Contract extend our love...

...er 1. Pro and con monsieur de manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a d...

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The Greshams of Greshamsbury

By: Anthony Trollope

...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne 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... ... who can read aright, they explain more fully, more truly than any written history can do, how Englishmen have become what they are. England is not ye... ...e ten leading men of each great European people. Choose them in France, in Austria, Sardinia, Prussia, Rus- sia, Sweden, Denmark, Spain (?), and then ... ...her’s family was such as the Scatcherds! It was necessary that the child’s history should be known to none. Except to the mother’s brother it was an o... ...er information. She would have been most anxious to ask about her mother’s history had she dared to do so; but she did not dare to ask; she could not ...

...Excerpt: Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ing from a line of princes; and it is certain that he knew enough of their history to have instructed them on particular points of it. He never could ... ...ts natural shine, saying: ‘By the way, mother, I ‘ve written the half of a History of Portugal.’ ‘Have you?’ said Mrs. Mel. ‘For Louisa?’ ‘No, mother,... ...d as if he had just clapped down the full amount on the table. ‘Out of the History of Portugal, half written, and the pros- pect of a Government appoi... ...ent grandeur of soul inherited by him from the great Mel. He liked to prop Austria and arrest the Czar, and keep a watchful eye on France; but the Hon...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of livin...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...ions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Coleridge: Poems Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Easter Holidays . . . ... ...Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Julia . .... .... . . . . . . . 11 To the Muse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Destruction of the Bastile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Life . . . . .... ...blameless Prince of Peace! From all sides rush the thirsty brood of War! — Austria, and that foul Woman of the North, - 128 - Religious Musings A D... ...else: fair, but of import vague Or unconcerning, where the heart not finds History or prophecy of friend, or child, Or gentle maid, our first and e... ... fondly-fostered child! And did you hail the platform wild, Where once the Austrian fell Beneath the shaft of Tell! O Lady, nursed in pomp and ple... ...rrupted child, You hailed the Chapel and the Platform wild, Where once the Austrian fell Beneath the shaft of Tell! O Lady, nursed in pomp and ple... ... was the same! FRIEND This riddling tale, to whom does it belong? Is’t history? vision? or an idle song? Or rather say at once, within what spa...

...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?...

...Table of Contents: Easter Holidays, 1 -- Dura Navis, 2 -- Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vit‘, 4 -- Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, 5 -- Anthem for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To ...

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