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...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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...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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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ............................................. ................ 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK .......................................................... .......................................... ........... 108 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY ...................................................................... ... must be a genuinely and utterly self sacrific ing act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many years before you. Sear... ... 108 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION Note.—The assassination of the Empress of Austria at Geneva, Septem ber 10, 1898, occurred during Mark Twain’ s Aust... ...he mourning is universal and genuine, the consternation is stupefying. The Austrian Empire is being draped with black. Vienna will be a spectacle to s... ...Empress is murdered!” When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew Wha...