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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...an’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...; for, to young wives who come merely to say, “I have seen it,” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on... ...easure; the fashion of rats so completely went out, that in these days few people knew anything of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora-... ...bills by six months, Carlos had had them drawn on Esther by a man whom the county court had “misunderstood,” and whose adventures, in spite of the exc... ...e?” the parvenu went on—a man for whom the Duc de Maufrigneuse had won the Dauphin’s favor. “If these ladies are kind to me, I am willing to make myse... ...lace Royale was a replica of the 272 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding cour... ...e famous sixth chamber of the law (whose functions are those of an English county court). The same road is trodden by the prisoners committed for tria...

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... book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ?Pike County? dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with...

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...Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he conte...

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...ume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...ion Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...lzac Droll Stories Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERT... ...nguage of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, ... ...ge the hyperbolic title of your bud- get. You will never finish it.” These people are neither mis- anthropes nor cannibals; whether they are ruffians ... ...uld have lent it in her turn. “God has done very well to fix it,” said the Dauphine, quietly; “for our husbands would leave us rather badly off during... ...who could invent the best one. But out of respect for the royal blood, the Dauphin has credited a townsman with that which happened to the Lady of Can... ...30 Balzac nished with silver and gold that she could have bought the whole county of Touraine, if so it had pleased her. A thou- sand falsehoods and c... ...ounsel of a modest and middle-class life. Maintain this in thy family as a county charter; and when you die, let your successor maintain it as the sac...

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...ourt and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ... his influence chiefly to his friendly rela- 5 Saint-Simon tions with the Dauphin’s family. During the Regency, he tried to restrain the profligate D... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...he had, at the marriage of Monseigneur, been made Dame d’Atours to the new Dauphiness; and, if people were aston- ished at that, they were also astoni... ...otestant prince, capable of making a fortified place of it so close to the county of Bur- gundy, and on a frontier so little protected. Thereupon, the... ... driving us out of Italy, re- mained there some time, and then entered the county of Nice. Forty of the enemy’s vessels arrived at Nice shortly after-...

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...d Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...sylvania, viz., Lebanon, Centre, Franklin, Fayette, Mont- gomery, Luzerne, Dauphin, Butler, Alleghany, Columbia, Northampton, Northumberland, and Phil...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...sh Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...otest: viz., that, no matter though the sheriff and under-sheriff in every county should be running after you with his posse, touch a hair of your hea... .... 47 Thomas De Quincey rolled northwards from the southern quarter of the county that for a fortnight at least it occupied the severe exertions of tw... ...ave way; and she left her home for ever in order to present herself at the dauphin’s court. The educa- tion of this poor girl was mean according to t... ...d she may be as a witness, Joanna is better; and she, when speaking to the dauphin, calls her- self in the Latin report Bergereta. Even Haumette confe...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...TION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...uess even from the faithful records of the Duchesse d’Angoulême. The young dauphin, (it has been said, 1837,) to the infamy of his keepers, was so tra... ...a private signal from a lady had made known the glad tidings that it was a dauphin, (the first child having been a princess, to the signal disappoint-...

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...nore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...d. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Disc... ...f of filling the empty spaces on either side of the fireplace with benches from the antechamber, disregarding the baldness of their velvet covers whic... ...ing the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold possession of the estate of Gondreville. [See “ An... ...arles Keller,—a par- liamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election. When Simon Giguet sounded the old notary Gre... ... on the high-road to Paris, opposite to a farm called “La Belle Etoile,” a county road branches off from the main road, and leads to Arcis, crossing t... ...oyes and Arcis, so that the short- est route from Paris to Arcis is by the county road which turns off, as we have said, near the Belle Etoile. The Au... ...called national in Arcis,— “What does Monsieur think of Danton?” “Monsieur Dauphin,” said the chairman, “I have the honor to remind you that Danton be...

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...ication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...himself to be se- duced by their charms, endeavors to banish them from the county of Middlesex. But the truth is, that, however objec- tionable per se... ...t:) the answer was, with roars of laughter, from the under- sheriff of our county— “Non est inventus.” T oad-in-the-hole laughed outrageously at this:... .... Doubt gave way; and she left her home in order to present herself at the Dauphin’s court. The education of this poor girl was mean according to the ... ...d she may be as a witness, Joanna is better; and she, when speaking to the Dauphin, calls her- self in the Latin report Bergereta. Even Haumette confe...

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...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ...hose royal waters, quackle for crumbs from young royal fingers: the little Dauphin has a little railed garden, where he is seen delving, with ruddy ch... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...Expedition des Volontaires de Brest sur Lannion; Les Lyonnais Sauveurs des Dauphinois; Massacre au Mans; Troubles du Maine (Pamphlets and Excerpts, in... ...and such gesticulation and flirtation as there may be, interests the happy County-town, and makes it the envy of surrounding County-towns, how much mo... ...bre Jacobin, has to watch itself! Directories of Departments, what we call County Magis- tracies, being chosen by Citizens of a too ‘active’ class, ar...

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...noré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ...rst am- bitious project of his house had aborted, and that the hand of the dauphin had been refused to her. Alessandro still hoped that the Duke of Al... ...lio and Alessandro, a premedi- tated intention of making the Duc d’Orleans dauphin? What reward was promised to Sebastiano Montecuculi, who, be- fore ... ...purple, prefer- ring the sword of a connetable. When the Crown annexed the county of Blois to its do- main, Louis XII., who had a liking for this resi... ...or leaders of the Reform- ers,—are to be cut off. As the justiciary of the county of T ourine is quite distinct from that of the parliament of Paris, ...

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... King Henry VI, Part Two by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...h; but her grace in speech, Her words y clad with wisdom’s majesty, Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys; Such is the fulness of my heart’s co... ...ere the thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released and delivered to the king her father’— ... ..., And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York, We here discharge your grace from being regent I’ the parts of France, till term of eighteen months Be... ...ll the land. What! did my brother Henry spend his youth, His valor, coin and people, in the wars? Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter’s col... ...g words Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect. What though the common people favor him, Calling him ‘Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester,’ Cl... ...king—as who is king but thou?— The commonwealth hath daily run to wreck; The Dauphin hath prevail’d beyond the seas; And all the peers and nobles of t... ...me here, Without discharge, money, or furniture, Till France be won into the Dauphin’s hands: Last time, I danced attendance on his will Till Paris wa... ...shmen: To Ireland will you lead a band of men, Collected choicely, from each county some, And try your hap against the Irishmen? YORK: I will, my lor...

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...A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...ns 223 rible condition, that it had in it the party of the King’s son, the Dauphin Louis; the party of the Duke of Burgundy, who was the father of the... ...auphin Louis; the party of the Duke of Burgundy, who was the father of the Dauphin’s ill used wife; and the party of the Armagnacs; all hating each ot... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ...

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... King Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone a... ...e is slain, they’ll quickly fly. KING HENRY VI : Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house! Cousin of... ...And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget That we are those which chased you from the field And slew your fathers, and with colors spread March’d thro... ...Roger Mortimer, Earl of March: I am the son of Henry the Fifth, Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop And seized upon their towns and provinces... ...His father revell’d in the heart of France, And tamed the king, and made the dauphin stoop; And had he match’d according to his state, He might have k... ...h commixture melts. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, The common people swarm like summer flies; And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?... ...l us, all our hope is done: Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help; Our people and our peers are both misled, Our treasures seized, our soldiers ... ...lingness rids way; And, as we march, our strength will be augmented In every county as we go along. Strike up the drum; cry ‘Courage!’ and away. [Exeu...

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...he Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ...mpany for a couple of days, if I was for Hampshire, which I stated was the county I meant to visit. ‘Well then, here now, come along, d ‘ye see, look,... ...t woman alive, with a voice sweeter than flutes. There was a saying in the county that to marry a Beltham you must po’chay her. A great-aunt of mine, ... ...t reckoning that I was always the victim. ‘Heard o’ that new story ‘bout a Dauphin?’ he asked. ‘A Dauphin?’ quoth Captain Bulsted. ‘I don’t know the f... ... Lord- Lieutenant, brought it down. A trick they played the fellow ‘bout a Dauphin. Serve him right. Y ou heard anything ‘bout it, Harry?’ I had not. ...

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...lication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ... any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ... London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict with the gale by some sly strip of slipperiness, abound... ...at distinctive article of his attire. At the same time, for these friendly people about him to share the fun of the annoyance, he looked hastily brigh... ...ockney crow-word of the day, or a word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea o... ... the roar of cries and stilled it, by capping the cries in turn, until the people cheered him; and the effect of the scene upon Victor Radnor disposed... ... mother’s complacent questions con- cerning this Lakelands: the house, the county, the kind of people about, the features of the country. Physically u... ...ouse in the mind of Mr. Caddis, the sitting Member for the division of the county (said to have the seat in his pocket), a particu- lar inquisitivenes... .... She had a home in the modest home of Louise de Seilles on the borders of Dauphins; and with French hearts at their best in winningness around her, s...

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...ATION Adam Bede by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...e, busy upon doors and window-frames and wainscoting. A scent of pine-wood from a tentlike pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with th... ...sincere, Thy conscience as the noonday clear. Such a voice could only come from a broad chest, and the broad chest belonged to a large-boned, muscular... ... turn to something worse. Mester Irwine’s got more sense nor to meddle wi’ people’s doing as they like in religion. That’s between themselves and God,... ... says for ‘hevn’t you?’—the gentry, you know, says, ‘hevn’t you’—well, the people about here says ‘hanna yey.’ It’s what they call the dileck as is sp... ...ght divine and never met with any one so absurd as to question it. “There, Dauphin, tell me what that is!” says this magnificent old lady, as she depo... ...rely sees among our common people.” “I should like to see the young woman, Dauphin,” said Mrs. Irwine. “Make her come here on some pretext or other.” ... ... a chance; and it’s an unnat’ral thing to have one bit o’ your farm in one county and all the rest in another.” “Ah, the Scantlands would go much bett... ...an eye at measuring and a head- piece for figures, against any man in this county and you’ve had good teaching—you’ve had good teaching.” When they go...

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...sseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...consented. It was at a shoemaker’s; a pleasant, jovial fellow, who, in his county dialect, called his wife nothing but trollop; an appellation which s... ... His brother, the Chevalier de Montaigu, ‘gentilhomme de la manche’ to the dauphin, was acquainted with these ladies, and with the Abbe Alary of the F... ...contrary to custom, to the impatience with which it had been expected. The dauphiness, who was one of the first who read it, spoke of it to, M. de Lux... ...onged to her son in the village of Motiers, in the Val de T ravers, in the county of Neuchatel. I had only a mountain to cross to arrive at it. The of...

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...noré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...object. Perhaps this forgetfulness is only prudence in these days when the people are heirs of all the sycophants of royalty. We make criminals poetic... ... was, as you and other friends can well imagine, because my courage shrank from the many difficulties, the many essential details of a drama so doubly... ...dets of the year 1923; you shall estimate the distance at which we now are from the days when the Florines of the eighteenth century found, on awaking... ...called “the gate of the Avenue,” which plainly shows the hand of the Great Dauphin (to whom, indeed, Les Aigues owes it), seems to me none the less be... ... that of painted windows. At the other end of the canal we see Blangy, the county-town, containing about sixty houses, and the village church, which i... ...ri IV . rebuilt the chateau where it now stands. The favorite of the Great Dauphin, Made- moiselle Choin (to whom Les Aigues was given), added a numbe... ...omen and children, and rival the whimsical imagination of the Chinese,—the people who best understand, to my thinking at least, the art of decoration.... ...d of certain springs in the park of Les Aigues. It runs by the side of the county road as far as the lakelet of Soulanges, which it crosses, and then ...

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... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Thre... ... University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, ... ...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ... Villars-Cotterets hav- ing gone thither with the court on several occasions; for at that time Villars-Cotterets was a royal residence. He there- fore... ... spir- its; to-morrow we will hunt the hare on my plain, which is a superb tract of land, or pursue the deer in my woods, which are magnificent. I hav... ...icks on his back!” said D’Artagnan; “be off, you little villain, and forget not that I have your address.” Friquet, who did not expect to be let off s...

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...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...clared that he had been worn against that rock—Rupt is obviously de- rived from rupes. Scientific students of social phenomena will not fail to have o... ...n, would say of Monsieur de Watteville, “He has a noble soul! He perceived from the first days of his married life that he would never be his wife’s m... ...ikeness to them. 11 Balzac All this hidden labor, all this dust thrown in people’s eyes, this display of folly and latent prudence, had an object, or... ... which was accused of Liberal views, this, the first novel produced in the county, came under discussion that mid-winter at Madame de Chavoncourt’s. “... ...he physicians having recommended him the air of Lucerne. These two English people had arrived with no other servant than a little girl of fourteen, a ... ... State, attached to the supreme Ministerial Council, and in favor with the Dauphin and Dauphiness. It would be very good of you to say nothing against...

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...ation The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ... Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth... ...of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Pic... ...lf from dancing with the bridegroom. He therefore fell to the share of the Dauphiness Queen of Scots, a lovely, bright-eyed, laughing girl, who so com... ...if you do not mend your ways.’ ‘But I thought,’ said Annora gravely, ‘that people were mar- ried once for all, and it could not be undone.’ ‘So said A... ... some mysterious manner, had become felt rather than known among the young people, yet with- out altering the habitual terms that existed between them... ...it was only the young Abbe de Mericour, who had been newly brought up from Dauphine by his elder brother to solicit a benefice, and who knew nobody. T... ...ngere, m. Annora, daughter and heiress of Villiam, Baron of Valvem, in the county of Dorisette, England, who beareth, azure, a siren regardant in a mi... ...d to continue their march through Guyenne to Nerac, the capital of Henry’s county of Foix. The Duke suggested that 426 Yo n g e if Philip were well e...

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...The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...f brimstone. But then, 21 Thomas Carlyle on the other hand, what will the Dauphinists and Choiseulists say? Nay what may the royal martyr himself say... ... de Bourbon, one day Conde too, and famous among Dotards) to wait upon the Dauphin. With another few, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old R... ...and such gesticulation and flirtation as there may be, interests the happy County-town, and makes it the envy of surrounding County-towns, how much mo... ...bre Jacobin, has to watch itself! Directories of Departments, what we call County Magistra- 308 The French Revolution cies, being chosen by Citizens ...

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...ng Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ... this time, were able to get between them and the city. The people of each county were desired to state their grievances; the king engaged to do what ... ...el it a wicked and unfair thing to give the kingdom away from her son, the Dauphin Charles. He was not a good man, and had consented to the murder of ... ...s, but the Scots did not like this, and sent her away to be married to the Dauphin, Francois, eldest son of the king of France. If Edward’s sisters we... ... general election—by the men who have a certain amount of property in each county and large town. There must be a fresh election, or choosing again ev...