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...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...RK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling 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 a... ...h their caste, or indeed with anything at all. He ate the offerings of his church, and slept and smoked, and slept again “for,” said Peroo, who had ha... ... “Help! Oiler! Fitter! Stoker! Help I’m choking,” it gasped. “Never in the history of maritime invention has such a calamity over-taken one so young a... ...entirely changes the situa- tion. We have found, for the first time in the history of ship- building, that the inward pull of the deck-beams and the o... ... had been born, and things were not much changed since he had been sent to England, a child, fifteen years ago. There were a few new buildings, but th... ...d, where he had sat of evenings with his nurse, and at the ten-by-fourteen church, where the officers went to service if a chaplain of any official cr...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...Crocodiles, monkeys, and serpents stuffed with straw grinned at glass from church windows, seemed to wish to bite sculp- tured heads, to chase lacquer... ...rals, when torture was the sport of sover- eigns; and from their councils, churchmen with courtesans’ arms about them issued decrees of chastity for s... ...old!” All at once marble takes an animal shape, the dead come to life, the history of the world is laid open before you. After countless dynasties of ... ...ummon before me whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never ... ...ndertake anything; whose perspicacity discovers the intentions of Austria, England, or Russia be- fore either Russia, Austria or England have formed a...

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