...s Series Publication Washington Square by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Was... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. Washington Square by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...e and live with him indefinitely; he had suggested that she should make an asylum of his house while she looked about for unfurnished lodgings. It is ... ...the philosophers say. It seems to me likely that you would have offered an asylum to an interesting sufferer. Mr. Townsend has been a good deal in the... ...upon a system of her own, inter- ested herself in charitable institutions, asylums, hospi- tals, and aid societies; and went generally, with an even a... ... April day to see a patient of unsound mind, who was confined in a private asylum for the insane, and whose family greatly desired a medical opinion f...

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ...nished free and 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. N... ... 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 associate... ...ity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained ... ... for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Cle... ...entirely of maniacs would suddenly break forth, and then during two minutes, and sometimes three, I lived over again all that I suffered the time the ... ...y a thriving and diligent idiot-factory. I saw no idiots there, but the captain said, “Because of late years the government has taken to lugging them ... ...ishment’ that you hailed from, did they? What did they mean by ‘establishment’?” “I don’t know; it never occurred to me to ask.” “Well I know. they me... ...e’s nationality. However, we worried him enough to make him remember us and our ascent for some time. He even said, once, that he wished there was a l...

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Worme... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...tile painted on the sign of a wine-merchant, but even that house, its last asylum, has been demolished. Alas! old Paris is disap- pearing with frightf... ...de of the successive title-deeds of property in Paris! A private lu- natic asylum performs its functions in the rue des Batailles in the former dwelli... ...t before then, I don’t know but what we shall have to put him in a lunatic asylum.” “The pamphlet can be out in two days. But is it very cer- tain, li... ...eficiaries of the cause of his fall, that his instinct led him to claim an asylum. With these thoughts stirring in his mind la Peyrade obeyed the summ...

...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the ...

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ... weeks with him at Hanwell, Middlesex Co., one of the best-managed lunatic asylums in England,— Doctor Ellis being in charge of it. When he arrived at... ...don, he was surprised to learn that Hanwell was the most celebrated insane asylum in Great Britain. Had he reflected on the mental condition of Marie-...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...hat a priest who refused the oath had arrived from La Vendee and asked for asylum; but the day being Friday, the purchase of a hare embarrassed the go...

Excerpt: The Recruit by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ven... ...any way. Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ...l, what has brought you here, my poor Bartolomeo?” said Napoleon. “T o ask asylum and protection from you, if you are a true Corsican,” replied Bartol... ...NEVRA was driven from her father’s house she went to ask Madame Servin for asylum and protection until the period fixed by law for her marriage to Lui...

...Excerpt: In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the p...

...sine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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 any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ... University assumes any responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sar... ..., in any way. Sarrasine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...shame, and for- tunes stained with blood. Crime and infamy have a right of asylum here; virtue alone is without altars. But pure hearts have a fatherl...

...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Unc... ...onsious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva- nia State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ...me to pass?” said Gazonal, stupefied at hearing a man outside of a lunatic asylum talk in this way. “Through the extending of production. If men will ...

...l Hall by Anne Brontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...onic transmission, in any way. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...h a life, why should not I?—In- deed, I cannot be too thankful for such an asylum, while it is left me.’ The closing sentence was uttered in an under-... ... least—alike un- able to deter me from my duty. But where should I find an asylum, and how obtain subsistence for us both? Oh, I would take my preciou... ...se or disapproval, that I meditate escaping with that child to some secret asylum, where we can live in peace, and never see him again?’ ‘Is it really... ...still, till such a time of trial comes I will forbear to think of my quiet asylum in the beloved old hall. Mr. and Mrs. Hattersley have been staying a...

Excerpt: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.

... Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, 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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mar... ...mission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ...irsting to pour forth blood for blood, The kinsmen of the dead; Yet one asylum is my own Against the dreaded hour – A low, a silent, and a lone,...

...Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

...m Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray i... ...ures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. T... ... to trust his daughter to her keeping; but in vain he tried to find her an asylum among the respectable ladies of his regiment. Lady Gutch offered to ...

...Excerpt: ?Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

...olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a public... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...ealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed 133 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven of... ...ve, under the law of nations, to exclude enemies of the human race from an asylum in the United States. If Congress should think that proceedings in ...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, ...

...ication Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Tal... ...c transmission, in any way. Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ... He was quite mad, and instead of going to prison, had gone to Morningside Asylum. The murdered man, it appeared, was an evicted tenant who had for ne...

...Contents THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON....... 4 THE BODY-SNATCHER .............................................. 63 THE STORY OF A LIE.................................................. 81...

...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e, 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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...ried women, here care- less, decivilised fecund homes, here orphanages and asylums for the heedlessly begotten. It is just the disorderly prolifera- t...

Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

...ction Dynevor Terrace Volume II by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dyn... ...transmission, in any way. Dynevor Terrace Volume II by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...u. Jem was bemoaning himself about having nothing to give to the new Blind Asylum, and the next evening Isabel brought out the prettiest little manu- ... ...rt is out. She will have quite a sum for it, and all is to go to the Blind Asylum!’ ‘Capital!—Let me take it home to night, Clara, and I will stand an...

...Excerpt: As little recked Fitzjocelyn of the murmurs which he had provoked, as he guessed the true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribing much to her nephew?s...

... Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Class... ...ge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a p... ...e Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...d, to fetch the boat to his comrades, which had carried the women to their asylum, and lay moored in one of the creeks. His companions stood on the sh...

...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I ...

...eries Publication Countess Kate by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cou... ... electronic transmission, in any way. Countess Kate by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...grand relations provide for her, or of putting her into the “Clergy Orphan Asylum.” And there had been much displeasure when Mr. Wardour answered that...

...cs Series Publication Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sta... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ... father, but that didn’t matter. He behaved like a—like the Sanawar Orphan Asylum, and His Excellency gra- ciously spared him. Then he came round to m...

...AMBUSH? ................................................................................................................................. 6 SLAVES OF THE LAMP ............................................................................................................... 29 AN UNSAVORY INTERLUDE ..................................................................................

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ... lugubrious sigh. “He was the first sworn-in priest; and this was the only asylum where he was safe against the fury of the Chouans and the other prie...

...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on th...

...lication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ord... ...ic transmission, in any way. Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis,... ... should know dis- cipline—to some establishment for a few months?” “T o an asylum, Austin?” cried Mrs. Doria, controlling her indignation as well as s... ...aded to offer a reward which shall maintain the happy finder thereof in an asylum for life. Benson—superla- tive Benson—has turned his shoulders upon ...