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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia Stat... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...e and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...p to this town, but salmon and dace cannot come up, by reason of the rocky falls, which causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the whic... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ...e, then, could the Red Man set his foot? The honey bee hummed through the Massachusetts woods, and sipped the wild flowers round the Indian’s wigwam,...

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Excerpt: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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...niel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... He drew aside the window curtain and suffered the light of natural day to fall into the room and rest upon her cheek. At the same time he heard a gro... ... least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness.” “W... ...at he could distinguish the accents of towns 26 Mosses from an Old Manse people of his own, men and women, both pious and un godly, many of whom he... ...sadly into her face, and passed on with out a greeting. Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meetin... ...s, that a multitude of shining ones had assembled on the other side of the river, to welcome two poor pilgrims, who were just emerging from its depths... ...be off directly, and in three minutes you will be on the other side of the river. No doubt you will find coaches to carry you up to the city gates.” A... ... beginning to simmer over the blaze, was the perusal of the current year’s Massachusetts Almanac, which, with the exception of an old black letter Bib...

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Contents MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY ...... 4 RECONSTRUCTION ..................... 16

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...ick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publication of th... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ry. It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers. These instruments they were re... ...ft Baltimore till I reached Philadelphia. The pas- sage of the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace was at that time made by ferry-boat, on board of wh... ...ould decently do so, and went to another part of the boat. Once across the river, I encountered a new danger. Only a few days before, I had been at wo... ...erners re- 10 turning from the Northern watering-places; that the colored people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were hired men of my ... ...d, I was safe in New Bedford, a citizen of the grand old common- wealth of Massachusetts. Once initiated into my new life of freedom and assured by Mr... ... Mr. Johnson told me that there was nothing in the laws or constitution of Massachusetts that would prevent a colored man from being governor of the S... ...and without him failure, so in peace it will be found that the nation must fall or flourish with the negro. Fortunately, the Constitution of the Unite...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...hey made a settlement, and called it Plymouth, which, though now a part of Massachusetts, was for a long time a colony by itself. And thus was formed ... ... verge of the forest for his homestead; an other is hewing the trunk of a fallen pine tree, in order to build himself a dwelling; a third is hoeing i... ...ut any regular gov ern ment. There were likewise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various po... ...Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session of that region many... ... 26 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair rosy Miss Betsey did Samuel Sewall fall in love. As he was a young man of good character, industrious in his b...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a du...

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... A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, in- different city, seen from the windows of a gloomy- looking inn, is at no time an object of enliv... ...al umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall. If, while the air is thickened by this frosty drizzle, the cal- endar... ... six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards... ...a couple of remark- ably small horses. When it reached a certain point the people in front of the grave-yard, of whom much the greater number were wom... ...er had given her. It was a bold, expressive sketch of a group of miserable people on the deck of a steamer, clinging together and clutching at each ot... ...ouse to tea. She had let the proposal that she should regularly dine there fall to the ground; she was in the enjoyment of whatever satisfaction was t... ...rs together, there were almost no houses; there were nothing but woods and rivers and lakes and hori- zons adorned with bright-looking mountains. It s... ... within sight. There was a wilderness of woods, and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts. The road had a... ..., and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts. The road had a wide, grassy margin, on the further side of w...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... 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... ...n- tains nor deep valleys. Streams meander through it irregu- larly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast ... ... have themselves created; and thus, at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are... ... tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from ... ...n immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly ca... ...he Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- shire; 6, Maine. 49 Tocqueville m...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...all do all I could and can to sustain you. Hoped that the opening of James River and putting W ool and Burnside in communication, with an open road to... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork rivers than by a land march. In order, therefore, to in- crease the strengt... ...e to prevent the main body of the enemy’s forces from leaving Richmond and falling in over- whelming force upon General McDowell. He will move with be... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...es, and processes which Congress had provided, I should let the government fall at once into ruin or whether, availing myself of the broader pow- ers ... ...ac: Owing to the press in behalf of Daniel Sullivan, Company E, Thirteenth Massachusetts, and the doubt; though small, which you express of his guilty...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ...tages of a sea-port. Ships can come up, but not ships of large burden. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it i... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...es the country is wild, trackless, unbridged, uninhab- ited, and desolate. Massachusetts Avenue runs the whole length of the city, and is inserted on ... ...sion. Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfac- tory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the gr... ... some degree, I can say that the design is grand. The thing done, however, falls so infinitely short of that design, that nothing but disappointment i... ...olute foundation of the edifice is bad— that the ground, which is near the river and swampy, would not bear the weight intended to be imposed on it. A... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ...ly the size and fur niture of an ordinary drawing room by seven, and then fall short of the reality. When the man in reply avowed the truth; the blun... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...tly immense feasibility of sitting there at all times and seasons, and had fallen into a momen tary silence, leaning our faces on our hands and look ... ...d out of dock yesterday afternoon and was now lying at her moorings in the river. And there she is! all eyes are turned to where she lies, dimly disce... ...water side, and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. The market is abundantly supplied; a... ...ly believe that the public institu tions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, be ne...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...the place, that he is not closely invested, and that he forages across the river. The other brings the firing up to 11 A.M. yesterday, being twenty-t... ...f establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, and under... ...recated the policy on the ground that it would cost the administration the fall elections. Nothing, however, was offered that I had not already fully ... ...well intended, but from what I hear I fear that, if persisted in, it would fall dead within its own entangling details. Go there and be the judge. A ... ...o telegraph the officer in military command at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, suspending the execution of Charles Carpenter, to be execute...

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...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ... our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, and hardly less... ...cation and fair talents for this work; but, one after an- other, they have fallen through, although, in several instances, anti-slavery friends contri... ...OF BIRTH—CHARACTER OF THE DIS- TRICT—TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GR... ...la- tion of the place would have quitted it long ago, but for the Choptank river, which runs through it, from which they take abundance of shad and he... ...ark of reverence, “Old Master.” Thus early did clouds and shadows begin to fall upon my path. Once on the track—troubles never come singly—I was not l...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...m the land—and as I stood upon the beach and observed it dimpling the light swell that was coming in, I cast a stone over it. So orderly, so quiet, so... ...d sea, with other chafe and The Uncommercial Traveller 5 trouble, and for the moment nothing was so calmly and monotonously real under the sunlight a... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...on the whole, I should say, it was considered rather a distinction to have a complication of disorders, and to be in a worse way than the rest. From s... ... deaf, wonderfully preserved, and amazingly conversational. She had not long lost her husband, and had been in that place little more than a year. At ... ...erers, all the rigging in the docks was shrill in the wind, and every little steamer coming and going across the Mersey was sharp in its blow- ing off...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...e. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one t... ...er this nation is to ultimately become all slave or all free, and though I fall early in the contest, it is nothing if I shall have contributed, in th... ... come, and he fixes the place at Ossawatomie. This I believe is off of the river, and will require more time and labor to get to it. It will push me h... ...stitutional provision in regard to naturalized citizens, lately adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans ... ...rritories south 51 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five of the Ohio River, Mr. Jefferson expressly provided for the prohibition of slavery. Jud...

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...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... ...ea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the best grapes grow to make the Ger... ...arose in England, which were called the Saxon Heptarchy. The poor Britons, falling back be fore these crowds of fighting men whom they had innocently... ...e Saxon government. He restored such of the old laws as were good, and had fallen into disuse; made some wise new laws, and took care of the poor and ... ... King, that once, when the King held his court at Chester, and went on the river Dee to visit the monastery of St. John, the eight oars of his boat we... ...endure their country, and sailed away across the seas to found a colony in Massachusetts Bay in America. It is said that Hampden himself and his relat...

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...s see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people ap- pear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jac... ...r with a life of adventure. In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats... ...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...of eight brothers and sisters to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River. There Herman remained until 1835, when he attended the Albany Classi... ... a lad, and added that while ‘gamming’ on board another vessel he had once fallen in with a member of the boat’s crew which rescued Melville from his ... ...e poems originated, according to the author, in an impulse imparted by the fall of Richmond; but they have as subjects all the chief incidents of the ... ...l the year 1791, when they were discovered by Captain Ingraham, of Boston, Massachusetts, nearly two centuries after the discovery of the adjacent isl... ...urface. I remember upon one occasion plunging in among a par- cel of these river-nymphs, and counting vainly on my supe- rior strength, sought to drag...

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...d it was necessary to transport the bag gage of the troops by means of the rivers—a devious but practicable route. One brigade ascended the Mohawk unt... ...its source, was much filled with “flood wood,” 5 James Fenimore Cooper or fallen trees; and the troops adopted a novel expedient to facilitate their ... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...of this book was drawn after the sister of the writer, who was killed by a fall from a horse now near half a century since. So ingenious is conjec- tu... ...gh the valleys until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...ere tempted by their representations to leave the farms of Connecticut and Massachusetts, to make a trial of fortune in the woods. During all this tim...

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...lver 4 The Blithedale Romance sheen, like the sunny side of a cloud; and, falling over the wearer from head to foot, was supposed to insulate her fro... ...omance sheen, like the sunny side of a cloud; and, falling over the wearer from head to foot, was supposed to insulate her from the material world, fr... ...pon the grate, lighted a cigar, and spent an hour in musings of every hue, from the brightest to the most som bre; being, in truth, not so very confi... ...dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken kerchief, between which and her gown ... ...and vigor, which she possessed in such overflow that a man might well have fallen in love with her for their sake only. In her quiet moods, she 12 Th... ...e had broken through many hindrances that are powerful enough to keep most people on the weary treadmill of the established system, even while they fe... ... like a lifeless copy of the world in marble. From the bank of the distant river, which was shimmering in the moonlight, came the black shadow of the ... ..., midway to Hollingsworth, she paused, looked round about her, towards the river, the road, the woods, and back towards us, appearing to listen, as if... ... Arcadians, besides being as practical as the hardest fisted husbandmen in Massachusetts. We did not, it is true, spend 64 The Blithedale Romance muc...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ... wife. You’d under- stand his clients. I’m going to be a lawyer. I admit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people ... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties... ...before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters a... ...ntended to get acquainted,” and the half dozen young men who were ready to fall in love with her. But it was Stewart Snyder whom she encouraged. He wa... ...ad seen it on a summer trip to Cape Cod. “Have you been clear to Cape Cod? Massachusetts? I knew you’d traveled, but I never realized you’d been that ...

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...he reasons she gave for its being obtainable on these terms—its remoteness from a station, its lack of electric light, hot-water pipes, and other vulg... ...inued to exult as the avowal of each disadvantage was suc- cessively wrung from her; but he had cut short his rhapsody to ask, with a sudden relapse t... ...bably not been of the most vivid order: for long periods, no doubt, it had fallen as noiselessly into the past as the quiet drizzle of autumn fell, ho... ... she had seen, as she glanced, a shadow of anxiety, of perplexity, rather, fall across his face; and, following his eyes, had beheld the figure of a m... ...you appear to—I mean about the cir- cumstances of Elwell’s death. And then people are talking of it now; the whole matter’s been raked up again. And I... ...ll, and most of the prominent names in the place are down on the list, and people began to wonder why—” Parvis broke off to fumble in an inner pocket.... ... obstinate presentments of pictures once beheld, indistinct impressions of rivers, tow- ers, and cupolas, gathered in the length of journeys half for-... ...t plain, aerial forms of mountains, and presently the silver crescent of a river in the valley, and a blue stencilling of trees along its curve—someth... ... estates,” he cried. “My father is a plain India merchant in the colony of Massachusetts—but if you—” “Oh, hush, I say! I don’t know what your long wo...

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...“UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE. Please don’t come till thirtieth. Anna.” All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had ham- mered the words of the teleg... ...m like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind-swept platform ... ...obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts. It was as though all the people about him had taken his measure and known his plight; as though they... ...ndages of the shrieking unescapable Mrs. Murrett, into whose talons he had fallen in the course of his head-long pursuit of Lady Ulrica Crispin. Oh, t... ...ething else: the music, or the cook—when there was a good one—or the other people; generally ONE of the other people.” “I see.” She was amusing, and t... ...e train left Calais her head had dropped back into the corner, and she had fallen asleep. Sitting opposite, in the compartment from which he had con- ... ...th vague yearnings for enfranchisement, who lived in Paris as if it were a Massachusetts suburb, and dwelt hope- fully on the “higher side” of the Gal... ...ade no difficulty about satisfying it in Darrow’s com- pany. Regaining the river they walked on in the direction of Notre Dame, delayed now and again ... ...chitecture, every arch of the bridges, the very sweep of the strong bright river between them, while contributing to this effect, sent forth each a se...