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...ns and Wilkie Collins A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins is a publication of t... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, the Pennsylvania Sta... ... is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins THE OVERTURE D ay of... ...it sky, and below her there are the defilements of the pavement, so may 4 No Thoroughfare she, haply, be divided in her mind between two vistas of re... ...ou want of me? I have never done you any harm?” “Never.” “Do I know you?” “No.” “Then what can you want of me?” “Here are two guineas in this paper. T... ...arles Dickens and Wilkie Collins The lady lifts her veil, and shows a face no older than the nurse’s. A face far more refined and capable than hers, b... ...Now, is it kind, Poor Thing?” “Sally! Hear me, my dear. My entreaty is for no help in the future. It applies to what is past. It is only to be told in... ...Y ou do understand. What are the names they have given my poor baby? I ask no more than that. I have read of the 6 No Thoroughfare customs of the pla... ...tables, and halt at those points to bend down and say a word or two. It is no disparagement to their kindness that 7 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Colli...

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...exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers. His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about ...

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...e mystery is accom- plished under our very eyes without our perceiving it. No one suspects how much solidity the art of printing has given both to the... ...In France, and that, too, during the most serious epoch of modern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular e... ...ell that in a like case the people will do the same thing over again, have no excuse for blaming Catherine dé Medici and Charles IX. “All power,” said... .... left him governor of a province. The power of the many is accountable to no one; the power of one is com- pelled to render account to its subjects, ... ...d. The Opposition in France has always been Protestant, because it has had no policy but that of negation; it inherits the theories of Lutherans, Cal-... ...aterial interests,—without patriotism, without conscience; where power has no vigor; where election, the fruit of liberty of will and political libert... ...h the dogma of liberty of conscience, or demand political liberty. But, as no society can exist without guarantees granted to the subject against the ... ..., there results for the subject liberties subject to restriction. Liberty, no; liberties, yes,— precise and well-defined liberties. That is in harmony... ..., beyond the reach of human power to pre- vent the liberty of thought; and no sovereign can interfere with money. The great statesmen who were vanquis...

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...obody had the sangfroid to reply: ‘Run then, little fool.’ It was always, ‘No, darling. Very well, darling. In a moment, darling. Darling, you must be... ...wn—and nothing else but his very considerable personal attractions. He had no profession: he earned nothing. But he talked of literature and music, he... ...an of courage, not given to complaining, bearing his bur- dens by himself. No, he did not let the world intrude far into his home. He had a delicate, ... ... a delightful spontaneous passion. He was not clever, nor even ‘literary’. No, but the intonation of his voice, and the movement of his supple, handso... ...er occurred to her to refer to Egbert, if she were in difficulty or doubt. No, in all the seri- ous matters she depended on her father. For Egbert had... ...o, in all the seri- ous matters she depended on her father. For Egbert had no intention of coming to grips with life. He had no ambition whatsoever. H... ...rofession. He should have studied law or entered business in some way. But no—that fatal three pounds a week would keep him from starving as long as h... ...was idle. He was always doing something, in his amateurish way. But he had no desire to give himself to the world, and still less had he any desire to... ...the world, and still less had he any desire to fight his way in the world. No, no, the world wasn’t worth it. He wanted to ignore it, to go his own wa...

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...ncestors, within a given number of generations; thereby demonstrating that no prince exists who does not participate in the blood of some beggar, or a... ...e said to enjoy a precedency over the Bourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four different states of Europe, and who have sat on thrones t... ... but I have ever consid- ered it myself as a circumstance of which one has no more reason to be ashamed than a D’Uzes has to blush for the rob- beries... ...iny. Plants have sensation as well as animals. The latter, how- ever, have no consciousness anterior to their physical births, and very little, indeed... ...conceivable magnitude of space, to which, indeed, it is probable there are no more posi- tive limits than there are a beginning and an end to eternity... ..., inductions, evidence and revelations compel them to admit. “The moon has no atmosphere,” said our astronomer one day, “and if inhabited at all, it m... ...t be masses of ice, if water exist there to be congealed. But the moon has no seas, so far as we can ascertain; its sur- face representing one of stri... ...about 200,000,000 of miles, it is nevertheless so trifling as to pro- duce no apparent change of position in thousands of the fixed stars that are bel... ...rs it is different. If this planet has any atmosphere at all, it is one of no great density, and its orbit being without our own, we can easily trace ...

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... and all the forces that link life to life in modern commu- nities. It had no shops, no theatres, no lectures, no “business block”; only a church that... ... other Sunday if the state of the roads permitted, and a library for which no new books had been bought for twenty years, and where the old ones mould... ...buckram back of a disinte- grated copy of “The Lamplighter.” But there was no other way of getting any lace to trim her summer blouse, and since Ally ... ...not escape her attention, and she looked down and smiled. He smiled also. “No, I don’t suppose you do know,” he corrected himself. “In fact, it would ... ...ver looks at them, now Miss Hatchard’s too lame to come round.” 8 Summer “No, I suppose not.” He laid down the book he had been wiping, and stood con... ...e distrust: “My name is Harney—Lucius Harney. She may have spoken of me.” “No, she hasn’t,” said Charity, wishing she could have said: “Y es, she has.... ...She got up and began to move about vaguely before the shelves. But she had no idea where she had last put the book, and something told her that it was... ...dvantage thereby accrued either to North Dormer or to herself; and she had no scruple in decreeing, when it suited her, that the library should close ... ...e called “jography,” and of books relating to trade and book- keeping; but no one else asked for anything except, at inter- vals, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,”...

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...ything.” This is perfectly true. From first to last Hermann’s niece utters no word in the tale — and it is not because she is dumb, but for the simple... ...r she happens to come under the observation of the narrator she has either no occasion or is too profoundly moved to speak. The editor, who obviously ... ...ause, since he did not venture to say that “the girl” did not live, I felt no concern at his indignation. 6 Typhoon All the other stories were serial... ... material appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no marked charac- teristics of firmness or stupidity; it had no pronounced ... ...mbled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved ... ...ving just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more, he was tranquilly sure of himself; and from the very same cause he... ...he steamer Nan-Shan, he stood confronted by the fall of a barometer he had no reason to distrust. The fall — taking into account the excellence of the... ... was of a nature ominously prophetic; but the red face of the man betrayed no sort of inward distur- 9 Joseph Conrad bance. Omens were as nothing to ... ...l the fulfilment had brought it home to his very door. “That’s a fall, and no mis- take,” he thought. “There must be some uncommonly dirty weather kno...

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...t contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton, because when the case in Mary?s favor (or against her, if you please to consider that the Dark Lady was no better than she ought to have been) was complete, a portrait of Mary came to light and turned out to be that of a fair lady, not of a dark one. That settles the question, if the portrait is authentic....

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...’s favor (or against her, if you please to consider that the Dark Lady was no better than she ought to have been) was complete, a portrait of Mary cam... ... one. That settles the question, if the portrait is authentic, which I see no reason to doubt, and the lady’s hair undyed, which is perhaps less certa... ...s used daily by a gentleman of such astonishing and crushing ugliness that no one who had once seen him could ever thereafter forget him. He was of fa... ...discovering bears and bulls and swords and goats where, as it seems to me, no sane human being can see anything but stars higgledy-piggledy. Next to t... ...ys came to my desk at the Museum and spoke to me about something or other, no doubt finding that people who were keen on this sort of conversation wer... ...knowledge that such a forecast proved true. 9 GB Shaw Wilde, though under no illusion as to the folly of the quite unselfish suit-at-law he had been ... ...l Shakespear’s nice old women are drawn from his beloved mother; but I see no evidence whatever that Shakespear’s mother was a particu- larly nice wom... ...akespear was not an emblem: he was a man and the author of Hamlet, who had no illusions about his mother. In weak moments one almost wishes he had. Sh... ...is cruel blackguardism but an uproariously jolly rag, although they are by no means without genuine literary abil- ity, a love of letters, and even so...

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...on either same or next day. Wallace got lost in the snowstorm, while Elson, after a week of bushwhacking, building raft to cross swollen rivers (with no ax), reached the nearest occupied cabin. A search party found Wallace alive on October 30, 1903.( Summary from Wikipedia )...

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...evolution... which failed. Escaping into the tropical forests of Guyana Abel takes up gold hunting, then journal-writing, and fails at both. Now with no aim for his life, he drifts until he takes up residence with a remote Indian tribe. Soon he learns of a wood the Indians avoid, as it is inhabited by a dangerous Daughter of the Didi, who, they say, slew one of them with m...

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...emic against George Cruikshank's bowdlerisation of fairy tales for moralistic purposes, and the interesting revelation that 'product placement' is by no means a new phenomenon. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)...

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...haawi mai oia i ka aina kahi e ulu ai ka ai. Ua haawi mai oia i ka laau, i mea e paa ai na hale, i mea hoi e pono ai na hana he nui loa. Ua haawi mai no hoi oia i na mea ulu a pau, i mea e hooko ai i ka makemake o na kanaka. Ua haawi mai oia no kakou, i mau lima, a meka ikaika e lawelawe ai, a hooponopono i ka aina, a me na mea a pau e waiwai ai. Aka, i ka nohonaaupo ana o...

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...Ua pai ia He Moolelo Kaao no Iwa i ka nupepa Ka Hoku o Hawaii i ka makahiki 1908. A ua pai hou ia me ka hahai ana i ke kulekele no ka hoano hou, ka hooponopono a me ka loihape ana e ka Hale Kuamoo. O kekahi laana ka waiho ana i na huaolelo i hoomaaka ...

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...n of Life I was born in, seem’d to have provided against; that I was under no Necessity of seeking my Bread ; that he would do well for me, and endeav... ...e broke off the Discourse, and told me, his Heart was so full he could say no more to me. I was sincerely affected with this Discourse, as indeed who ... ...road, if I came home again and did not like Daniel Defoe 5 it, I would go no more, and I would promise by a double Diligence to recover that Time I h... ..., put my Mother into a great Passion: She told me, she knew it would be to no Purpose to speak to my Father upon my such Subject; that he knew too wel... ...ther had us’d to me; and that in short, if I would ruine my self there was no Help for me; but I might depend I should never have their Consent to it:... ...es abroad he will be the miserablest Wretch that was ever born: I can give no Consent to it. It was not till almost a Year after this that I broke loo... ...unes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. The Ship was no sooner gotten out of the Humber, but the Wind began to blow, and the Win... ...fore, went very high, tho’ nothing like what I have seen many times since; no, nor like what I saw a few Days after: But it was enough to affect me th... ... Sun went down perfectly clear and rose next Morning; and having little or no wind and a smooth Sea, the Sun shining upon it, the Sight was, as I thou...

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... queen in England, with such rogues for Ministers as have never been seen, no, not in our own day; and a General, of whom it may be severely argued, w... ...throat-cutting, and bodily suffering in gen- eral, as are not to be found, no, not in—; never mind compari- sons, for such are odious. * This, as your... ...ious goodness! this is more and more astonishing!” 10 Catherine: A Story “No, no, not my own legs, my horse’s I mean, sir; and the Prince gave me ‘Wi... ...n, sir; and the Prince gave me ‘William of Nassau’ that very day.” To this no direct reply was made; but the Doctor looked at Mrs. Dobbs, and Mrs. Dob... ...wing a whole glass of mountain by way of reply. Mr. Brock was, however, by no means so confounded as his captain: he was thirty years older than the l... ...e cannot say. “Hark ye, Mr. Brock,” he cried very fiercely, “I will suffer no such liberties in my pres- ence: remember, it is only my condescension w... ... did not appear to make any impres- sion on Mr. Brock, as indeed there was no reason that it should; for the Corporal, at a combat of fisticuffs, coul... ...minutes; so he contented himself by saying, “W ell, noble Captain, there’s no harm done; it IS an honour for poor old Peter Brock to be at table with ... ...hat?—three shillings a week and a puddn! Do you get pud- ding every day?” “No; only Sundays.” “Do you get money enough?” “No, sure.” “Do you get beer ...

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...from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again. We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours and rep... ...t, as it was chiefly among the people at that end of the town, it might go no farther; and the rather, because the next week, which was from the 9th o... ... these hopes for a few days, but it was but for a few, for the people were no more to be deceived thus; they searched the houses and found that the pl... ...died of it every day . So that now all our extenuations abated, and it was no more to be concealed; nay, it quickly appeared that the infection had sp... ...eft in it. This hurry of the people was such for some weeks that there was no getting at the Lord Mayor’s door without ex- ceeding difficulty; there w... ...icates of health for such as travelled abroad, for without these there was no being admitted to pass through the towns upon the road, or to lodge in a... ...I had once resolved to comply with his desires, but at that time could get no horse; for though it is true all the people did not go out of the city o... ...ce I resolved to travel on foot with one servant, and, as many did, lie at no inn, but carry a soldier’ s tent with us, and so lie in the fields, the ... ...s tent with us, and so lie in the fields, the weather being very warm, and no danger from taking cold. I say, as many did, because several did so at l...

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...d injuries from the same and from every other quarter. We could have acted no otherwise than we have done: yet it is impossible to think, without some... ...dom, in blockading the African coast, for a cause in which we not only had no interest, but which was contrary to our pecuniary interest, and which ma... ...ledged that we were injured, and declared with rare unanimity, that we had no choice but to resist, if necessary, by arms. But the consequences of suc... ...n the right, and the ungenerous refusal of all those just allowances which no country needs more than our own, whenever its circumstances are as near ... ...with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de nying that our attitude towards the contending parties (I mean our m... ...e contending parties (I mean our moral attitude, for politically there was no other course open to us than neutrality) has not been that which becomes... ...acle of irresponsible power exercised by one person over others; which has no moral repugnance to the thought of human beings born to the penal servit... ...ich had weighed on it ever since the Tr e n t out rage, and when we are no longer feeling towards the Northern Americans as men feel towards those ... ...ort, which would have been weak and timid and paltry. The only thing which no one seemed to expect, is what has actually hap pened. Mr. Lincoln’s Gov...

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...of 1999, and the essays appear here with their express written permission. No portion of Best of Four may be reproduced in any fashion without the exp... ............................................ 17 Huckleberries and Cranberries No More Jeff Bloss ........................................................... .......................................................................... 19 No More Dents Jessica Petrilak ............................................... ...d baseball, I was six years old. I remember being only as tall as the tee. No matter how hard I tried to hit the ball, it seemed I never would. When I... ...p himself, and he fell down the side of the cliff. Nate was screaming, but no one heard him. He fell into the creek and hit his head on a rock at the ... ...gether. True, we had heard about accidents happening at other schools, but no one thought it would ever happen in Nazareth. We did not want to face th... ...inded of all the good things he had done, and the fun we had with him. But no matter how much we tried, the sad and guilty feelings would not go away ... ...d not go away . The whole school was invited to attend the funeral. It was no surprise when many of his friends showed up. His family was grateful for... ...t was what his family was going through. As for all of his friends, I feel no sympathy. Anyone who has the nerve to go out and drink after a friend di...