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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now ...

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....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...e in one case as in the other; that of the two presbyteries travelled upon lines diametrically opposite. The first case was that of Auchterarder. The ... ... not drawn about the church until the disease had spread widely within the lines. Past votes may not absolutely pledge a man to a future course of act... ...rub, which should be exact duplicates or facsimiles of each other in those lines which variegate the surface. The challenge was accepted; but the resu... ... whether Samson himself could have pulled up his namesake on the Liverpool railway. Recently, indeed, in the Court of Com- mon Pleas, on a motion to s... ... Bompas, in Hewitt v. Price, Tindal (Chief-Justice) said—‘We cannot call a railway a public 1 security, I think,’ (laughter:) but we think otherwise.... ...ef-Justice was still more in error, as he will soon learn. For the British Railways now yield a regular income of three millions per annum—one tenth o...

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...e, how many women to concerts and races, simply because it is the thing to do? They have perhaps, a vague idea that they may ultimately find some joy in the pastime; but, though they do the thing constantly, they never like it. Of all such men, the hunting men are perhaps the most to be pitied....

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State ... ...solitary, and much mutilated; but it nestles with a kind of wasted friend- liness beneath the big walls of the cathedral. Its lower arcades have been ... ...f the old guard-room, which is now a stable; and there are other vague out-lines and inconsequent lumps, which I have forgotten. You need all your ima... ...ancis I.—which is the last work of free and joyous invention— to the ruled lines and blank spaces of the ponderous pa- vilion of Mansard, one makes on... ...stle; what I owe to exactitude compels me to add that it is crossed by the railway-line. The place is so arranged, however, that the chateau need know... ... the buffet, and to observe the proceedings of a family who had entered my railway carriage at Tours and had conversed unreserv- edly, for my benefit,... ... and it was my daily fate to sit oppo- site to him at tables d’hote and in railway trains. He may be known by two infallible signs,—his hands are fat,...

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... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ...bour the Black or Blue Boar, or Bull, who de- parted this life I don’t know when, and whose coaches are all gone I don’t know where; and I had come ou... ...o several such wards, one after another. I find it very difficult to indicate what a shock- ing sight I saw in them, without frightening the reader fr... ...eeing him posted in the bill of the night, I attended the performance. His first scene was eminently successful; but, as it occupied a second in its r... ...ok The Uncommercial Traveller 195 the affecting form of a paper to be left on my table after my departure to the confines of the globe. As thus: ‘For...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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...d without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pen... ...r the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...d as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to ... ...so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, nor all the king’s horses and all the king’s men... ...e has not surrendered his will and con- tracted for the next hundred miles, like a man on a railway. He may change his mind at every finger-post, and,... ...to sing the same air myself in a more diffident manner. T ring was reached, and then T ring railway-station; for the two are not very near, the good p... ...ng raiment. Here it clings, there bulges; and the human body, with its agreeable and lively lines, is turned into a mockery and laugh- ing-stock. Anot... ...ies the silent lark?’— does the reader recall the moment when his eye first fell upon these lines in the Fourth Reader; and ‘surprised with joy, impat... ... wearisome to read and the richest in mat- ter; the course of roads and rivers, the contour lines and the forests in the maps—the reefs, soundings, an...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ... hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, ... ... immovable inscriptions! What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the bei... ...of the voyage most depends. Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and ... ...ndless hill. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet is it bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far ... ...separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the... ...able as the steadfast land. And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in the...

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sandra Belloni by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...o farther than the door. There I kissed her, full of love, and reached the railway. They asked me where I was going, and named places to me: I did not... ...as sure good news had been heard. It proved that Mrs. Chump had sent a few lines in a letter carried by Braintop, to this effect: “My dears all! I fou... ...d not look till the letter was done; and, observing his pen travelling the lines in quick succession, Mrs. Chump became inspired by a great but uneasy... ...ndoubtedly she served Georgiana by giving her a warning. Through this sil- liness went the current of a clear mind, nevertheless. The lady’s heart was... ...on with her in dead silence through the night, to the third station of the railway for London. “Is this a mad person?” asked the Hon. Mrs. Bayruffle. ... ...gh his veins even with that clumsy effort of imitation. He walked from the railway to Brookfield through the circle of firs, think- ing of some seriou...

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...in part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him ...

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........................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ........................................................................................

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