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...ly healthy. “You look happy, Tweedy,” Alice said. “You bet I am,” I replied. “I’m looking forward to being on the move and seeing more of this great big world. “I wonder if we will flow westward towards the Pacific or eastward towards the Gulf of Mexico” Alice mused. “Roger said that if we went east, we’d go to the Atlantic Ocean” I corrected her, “not the Gul...

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... around the fire 1910 CANK COMMITTEE had subsided. Northrop Clarey '07, of Great Barrington made the opening address. "Fellow students: members of the... ...nical improve- ment; but the spiritual element had begun to wane. His last great work was his Sistiue Madonna. After this, none of his works may be ca... ...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, --•... 150,000 Surplus and Net Profits, ij.ocxj Usua... ... every way. A full line of Ua«an, Mtrapi>,Cups, llruiihei, etc, Atotit for Parkor'a Fountain Pen—Lucky Curve Pan l>eiileria WutcticH, Cloi-ki, Jewvlry... ...he Christian ministry will be held at tlie Union Theological seminary, 700 Park avenue, New York city, March 22 to 24. Meetings will bo held Fri- day ... ..." Alinet Reed Latson, Jr., '09 5 "Mammy Loo" Cartwright Glee Club t") "The Mountains" Washington Gladden 'oO The Clubs The following men were taken on... ...CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH President's Address Arthur James Pierce. Song — "The Mountains," By the Class. Poem. George Burweli Dutton. BY HOPKINS HALL ' Co... ...cient and Modem Self-defense." "Grinds," "The Removal of Clark Hall," and "Smoky Moke, Pittsburg's only Representative," who afford- ed a charming sym...

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...of his life he paced the two rooms of himself like a member of the Burmese National League for Democracy under house arrest. Having exhausted the rese... ...with the dead freaks there, to sit on remote bleachers in tiny and obscure parks, to prop themselves on the ground against the side walls of public to... ...nd pedestrian blockage rails near the Khao San Road police station and the National Gallery) it was apparent that the planet was non-welcoming of the ... ...ou know that there is a closet back here? And in it is another one of your mountains of folded underwear. Why would anybody need so much underwear? - ... ...ect, finicky, and slow to move as squatting, urinating bitches in Lumphini Park, enamored and distracted by some such bitches, or preoccupied with mat... ...making of a saint. Clearly, were they not so soft and his need for love so great, he would not have stayed in that uncomfortable posture on a tree stu... ... them. He repudiated them by telling himself that he would never rank as a great artist, that he was void of color, theme, and technique. A knee doter... ...silent thought, with only partial belief. The gecko, barely visible in the smoky fog of marijuana, reaffixed itself on a portion of wall above the nig...

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... experienced fact.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An important writer... I find great pleasure in his work. Really beautiful and distinguished.” ALICE S.... ...erception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBAUM, historian: “...written with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...bri... ...fire as we cooked the mutton meat. I don’t like mutton meat. I don’t like smoky fires. Papa sings badly. My dog got sick. I suppose all that was v... ...d we have talked far into the night: “He liked a gold cup...he liked the mountains...he liked the cove...yes, he went farther out to sea than anyon... ...those who have died. Dreaming, I counted our island, our town, our trees, mountains and sea. I added my home. However childish to enumerate like thi... ... combers. “Do you know his name? Is there any record?” I asked. “Timothy Parkes.” “Where was he from?” “Dover. He was wanted there for murdering t... ...n in Bewick, when we were on a summer’s tour. How vividly I remember that smoky inn—the crowd, the torches. In Chester, my lines once more escaped m... ...one’s intellect, guard one’s health. It is also an opportunity to perfect national and international law. Cer- tainly, freedom should not be a code b... ...g room, I face away from it. Carpenter says he will take the picture on a national tour. I believe that is an error. Monday evening Fireplace fir...

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...CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beli... ...istress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking na... ...-- Splendid equipment of the expedition -- Among the Brazilians -- Lost on the mountains of Terre del Fuego -- Habits of the Fuegans -- An extraordina... ...ards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, islands of the deep, active v... ...ion of those of Vinland, as the two were bound together by both commercial and national ties; and unless the Vinland colonists had been self-supportin... ...n circuit, a portion of which was again divided, so as to form an enclosure or park, which was stocked with deer and other game, and where hawks and ... ...ergo, as by hatred and jealousy of the commander because he was of a different nationality from themselves, the four captains formed a conspiracy to d... ...e deck men and women could be seen wringing their hands and weeping while the "smoky reindeer," as they called the vessel, bore away those who for man...

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...NS by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in th... ...went to church at Westminster Abbey, and in the afternoon we walked in the Parks; and I wondered who shod all the horses there, and wished Joe did. On... ...Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occa- sioned so great a sensation in local dramati... ... him employment. So mean is extrem- ity, that I sometimes sent him to Hyde Park Corner to see what o’clock it was. Dinner done and we sitting with our... ...ering over all its other anxieties like a high moun- tain above a range of mountains, never disappeared from my view. Still, no new cause for fear aro... ...he great table, and that patches of tinder yet alight were floating in the smoky air, which, a moment ago, had been her faded bridal dress. Then, I lo... ...a few minutes she had ascended out of that clear field, in among the piled mountains of cloud. There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very ...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and ...

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...he river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and val- leys which lie between Sheffie... ...e wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of W a... ...head of such forces as might 4 Ivanhoe enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the i... ...d so multiplied were the means of vexation and oppression possessed by the great Barons, that they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to h... ...parate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great national distinctions betwixt them and their conquerors, the recollection o... ...esquires, had given rise to a combination of certain false brethren in the mountains of Palestine, terming themselves 337 Sir Walter Scott T emplars,... ...ain to—I sacrifice mighty ambition, I destroy schemes built as high as the mountains with which heathens say their heaven was once nearly scaled— and ... ...ly quite dark but for two flambeaux or torches, which showed, by a red and smoky light, the arched roof and naked walls, the rude altar of stone, and ... ...astle of Coningsburgh, as right was; and thither had I gone, but for Mabel Parkins, who—” “Ay, dead was Athelstane,” said the old man, shaking his hea...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a m...

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...ER 1. DOMBEY AND SON D OMBEY SAT IN THE CORNER of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little bask... ...hich Mr Dombey sat jingling and jingling his heavy gold watch-chain in the great arm-chair by the side of the bed, had had no issue. — T o speak of; n... ...olved some compromise of his dignity, went, awkwardly enough, away. Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reputation f... ...ly expectation day and night of being summoned, in conjunction with Doctor Parker Pep. 7 Charles Dickens ‘Well, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps in a ro... ...shed and returned incessantly like its life’ s blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in e... ...bering. The Captain pretended to be in tip-top spirits, and brought a very smoky tongue in one of the pockets of the of the broad blue coat for breakf... ...anding the Captain’ s excessive joviality , he made but a poor hand at the smoky tongue, though he tried very hard, when anybody looked at him, to app... ...s—though I will think of them, when night comes on a hurricane and seas is mountains rowling, for which overhaul your Doctor Watts, brother, and when ... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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...ubject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; ...

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...ley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the... ...ee that the passages to the sleeping apartments were barred, and flung the great chain loose. He was acting under strong control of his temper. It was... ...merciful. I submit to any conditions: only let me see her. I will walk the park till morn- ing, but say that an interview shall be granted in the morn... ...y to receive us. As for the cities and cathedrals, the hot mead- ows under mountains, the rivers and the castles-they were little more to me than an a... ...: you might have fancied yourself peering at the head of an old saint on a smoky can- vas; it was like the painting of light rather than light. Figure... ...of meadow ran to the West, and the West from flaming yellow burned down to smoky crimson across it. Temple bade—me ‘catch the disc—that was English en... ...backward to his first introduction to her at some Austrian Baths among the mountains. She wanted amusement—he provided it; she never let him quit her ... ...et- mirror in his hand. I thank him from my soul for not culti- vating the national cat’s whisker. None can imagine what I suffer from the oppressive ... ...ncesses in England. ‘Oh! but,’ said she, ‘you are having a—shall I call it—national revenge on them? “I will take one of your princesses,” says you; a...

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...h had been really divided by years. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore....

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...d a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore. My housekeeping duties, though at fir... ...on the healthy shore. My housekeeping duties, though at first it caused me great anxiety to think that they were unperformed, were soon as far off as ... ...nst his and what not. Whereas, heaven knows that if I could get out of the mountains of wiglomeration on which my unfortunate name has been so long be... ...o eat or drink in her hand; I could not even be heard of as resting in the park but she would come trotting after me with a basket, her cheerful face ... ... in his whole head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers. CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some we... ...g Doodle, now in frocks and long stockings, were grown up. This stupendous national calamity, however, was averted by Lord Coodle’s making the timely ... ...the sun rise and behold it still upon its weary road. Phil Squod, with his smoky gunpowder visage, at once acts as nurse and works as armourer at his ... ...st. Its steeples and towers and its one great dome grow more ethereal; its smoky house tops lose their grossness in the pale effulgence; the noises th... ...wrenched into eccentric and perverse forms as separate parts of machinery; mountains of it broken up, and rusty in its age; distant furnaces of it glo...

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... year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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...reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together 16. Getting on 17. Missing 18. A Castle in the Air 19....

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...s of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Ta... ...s. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva. The air the... ...d the Chief, ‘is quite restored, and has been greatly interested.’ ‘New to mountains, perhaps?’ said the insinuating traveller. ‘New to—ha—to mountain... ...ner (the fire-light was the chief light in the sombre room, the lamp being smoky and dull) to what had been said of the absent lady, glided out. She w... ...ould answer, ‘we don’t go creeping into people’s rooms on the tops of cold mountains, and sitting perishing in the frost with people, unless we know s... ...e. They bring him in such vast sums of money that they are regarded as—hum—national benefits. Mr Merdle is the man of this time. The name of Merdle is... ...eet from end to end, and leave nearly a quarter of a mile to spare for the park (Immense cheering and laughter); while of tape—red tape—it had used en... ...pe—red tape—it had used enough to stretch, in graceful festoons, from Hyde Park Corner to the General Post Office. Then, amidst a burst of official ex... ...oke of his pipe, he told Pancks how and why he was occupied with the great National Department. ‘A hard case it has been, and a hard case it is on Doy...

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... miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths o...

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...his basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The... ...lley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the might... ...subordinates reached the junction of the Wisconsin with the Mississippi. Mr. Parkman says: ‘Before them a wide and rapid current coursed athwart their... ...kasaw Bluffs,” where they halted and built Fort Prudhomme. ‘Again,’ says Mr. Parkman, “they embarked; and with ev ery stage of their adventurous prog... ...ulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and grass... ...iece out of the moon and hurry the seasons; I shake my self and crumble the mountains! Contemplate me through leather—don’t use the naked eye! I’m th... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ...change, this—no more Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 136 flickering, smoky, pitch dripping, ineffectual torch baskets, now: their day is past...

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...ark. He as sitting on the fence at the end of his garden and surveying the great Bun Hill gas- works with an eye that neither praised nor blamed. Abov... ...the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clear blue outline ag... ...ildings, and dropped to within shouting distance of the crowds in West End Park and on the slope of Gilmorehill. The thing flew quite steadily at a pa... ... piled in great snowy masses, so that he was half dis- posed to think them mountains; northward and eastward 49 H G Wells they were in wavelike level... ...h him far below, following him down there, indefatiga- bly, over the cloud mountains. Why should such a thing follow him? What could it be?… He had an... ...eau en fait, a son propre jeu. Je desire de vendre ceci a votre government national. Voulez vous me directer la? “Bit rummy, I expect, from the point ... ...sible to mankind. The world of Bert Smallways did nothing of the sort. Its national governments, its national interests, would not hear of anything so... ...velation was that the left upper wing was burning downward with a reddish, smoky flame. But this was not the most wonderful thing about this apparitio... ...cled about each other, and for a time threw Goat Island and Niagara into a smoky twilight, through which the sunlight smote in shafts and beams. They ...

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...oor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England?s Elizabeth....

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...ice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England’s Eliza- beth. I ha... ... Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was thought, and commonly reported, ... ... precise in his apparel as if he was named for mayor. He talks of breaking parks, and taking the highway, in such fashion that you would think he haun... ...party, “being shot with a crossbow bolt, by old Thatcham, the Duke’s stout park-keeper at Donnington Castle.” “ Ay, ay, he always loved venison well,”... ...and which mingled its cold, pale, blue diffusion with the red, yellow, and smoky beams of expiring lamps and torches. The young gallant, whom we notic... ... whole country around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her ... ...an?” As, at the blast of that last trumpet, the guilty shall call upon the mountains to cover them, Leicester’ s inward thoughts invoked the stately a... ...r Owen Hopton is at my devotion; he commands the T ower of London, and the national treasure deposited there. My father and grand-father needed never ...

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...idly ferocious, morose, of mean appearance, and altogether unworthy of the greatness this opportunity had thrust upon him. What was interesting was th... ...avishness with his gifts, in his manly vanity, in the obscure sense of his greatness and in his faithful devotion with some- thing despairing as well ... ...mi-circular and unroofed temple open to the ocean, with its walls of lofty mountains hung with the mourning draperies of cloud. On one side of this br... ...of snow. Then, as the midday sun withdraws from the gulf the shadow of the mountains, the clouds begin to roll out of the lower valleys. They swathe i... ...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ...d it- self, with green young crops, plains, woodland, and gleams of water, park-like, from the blue vapour of the distant sierra to an immense quiveri... ... find himself with- out money after a run of bad luck at monte in the low, smoky room of Domingo’s posada, where the fraternity of Cargadores gambled,... ...will strangle you with my two hands.” He bounded downwards into the black, smoky hall. With a grunt of astonishment, Dr. Monygham threw himself reckle...

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... melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing an... ...had a smaller circle of admirers, has yet been carved and dressed with the greatest care by the artist; the Dobbin Figure, though apparently clumsy, y... ...em on his return with consid- erable assiduity. He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as... ...happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. The feasts there were of the grandest in London... ...beauty. She falls down on her knees and entreats him to restore her to the mountains where she was born, and where her Circassian lover is still deplo... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ... any time since the conclusion of the war, and 636 V anity Fair carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...ns. Pleasant Rhine gardens! Fair scenes of peace and sunshine—noble purple mountains, whose crests are reflected in the magnifi- cent stream—who has e... ...look; and, delighted to give her his arm and to take her out of the horrid smoky place, he would have walked off without even so much as remembering t...

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...that estimable woman as regards fashion were settled, and some of the very greatest and tallest doors in the metropolis were speedily opened to her—do... ...t and tallest doors in the metropolis were speedily opened to her—doors so great and tall that the beloved reader and writer hereof may hope in vain t... ...And some day or other (but it will be after our time, thank goodness) Hyde Park Gar- dens will be no better known than the celebrated horticultural ou... ...e next day at the Club, and to compliment Mrs. Crawley in the Ring of Hyde Park with a profound salute of the hat. She and her husband were invited im... ...beauty. She falls down on her knees and entreats him to restore her to the mountains where she was born, and where her Circassian lover is still deplo... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ...ave invaded Europe any time since the conclusion of the war, and carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...29 Thackeray Rhine gardens! Fair scenes of peace and sunshine—noble purple mountains, whose crests are reflected in the magnifi- cent stream—who has e... ...look; and, delighted to give her his arm and to take her out of the horrid smoky place, he would have walked off without even so much as remembering t...

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...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...e likening of it, at an introduction, to an army on the opening march of a great campaign, should plead ex- cuses for tardy forward movements, in cons... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... ... should not be seen. A trifle more impressible, he might have imagined the smoky figure and magnum of pursiness barring the City against him. He could... ...the waistcoat. Mr. Fenellan was compassionate over the ‘Poor virgin of the smoky city!’ ‘They have their ready-made at these shops—last year’s: perhap... ...e and the attrac- tive Old Veuve: a champagne of a sobered sweetness, of a great year, a great age, counting up to the extremer maturity attained by w... ...of the spacious country-house danced him behind a sober demeanour from one park to another; and along beside the drive to view of his townhouse— unbel... ...d to pros- perity, and Fenellan in it, previously an untutored rill of the mountains, if ever was one. Useless to be dwelling on holiday pictures: Lak... ...wide awake. “What ‘s Fredi thinking of?”— ”I’m thinking of the tops of the mountains at night, dada.”— She could climb them now; she has the legs.’ Na...

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...ty, any number of these crosses on the ship’s track from land to land. The greatest number in my experi- ence was a hundred and thirty of such crosses... ...duties, myself a commander for all practical purposes. Still, whatever the great- ness of my illusion, the fact remained that the real com- mander was... ... ship. And the characteristic aspect of westerly weather, the thick, gray, smoky and sinister tone sets in, circumscribing the view of the men, drench... ...hart lying limp and damp upon a cold and clammy table under the light of a smoky lamp. Sprawling over that seaman’s silent and trusted ad- viser, with... ...ured so many to a violent death, its immensity has never been loved as the mountains, the plains, the desert itself, have been loved. Indeed, I suspec... ...f various poets. When not engaged in reading Virgil, Homer, or Mistral, in parks, restaurants, streets, and such- like public places, he indited sonne... ...his hands, untrammelled by orders, a divi- sion of his fleet, and Sir Hyde Parker gave him two more ships at Copenhagen than he had asked for. So much... ...adlong be- low the hard edge of an implacable horizon, we must turn to the national spirit, which, superior in its force and continuity to good and ev...

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...followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, and the army followed... ... cordingly to no plan at all. In the chapter devoted to “Legends of Frankfort,” I find the following: “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN” “In Frankfort at the Romer... ... with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. The building seems very airily situated. It has the appearance of being on a shelf half-way up the ... ...ld, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woo... ... it, therefore his cham- pionship ceased. A rule which forbids social intercourse between members of different corps is strict. In the dueling-house, ... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...mmits, but there was always another one just ahead. It came on to rain, and it rained in dead earnest. We were soaked through and it was bitter cold. ... ...ot equal to imagining a Girdlestone; it was all I could do to even realize him, while looking straight at him at short range. I would rather face whol...