...ograph By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte M. Yonge My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph By Charlotte M. Yonge PREF PREF PREF PR... ...y kept out of sight, and we came out into a very cold raw street, with the stars twinkling over- head, smiling at us with joy I thought, and the bells... ...ess on most people. Lord Erymanth rejoiced, and we agreed that it was very lucky for me that I preferred Harold, since I should have had to yield up m...

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... H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication England, My England by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. England, My England by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents England, My England ................................................................... ... the effort to recall what was too great. No, no; no recall! Were they the stars in the dark sky? Was it possible it was stars in the dark sky? Stars?... ...was stars in the dark sky? Stars? The world? Ah, no, he could not know it! Stars and the world were gone for him, he closed 34 D. H. Lawrence his eye... ...and the world were gone for him, he closed 34 D. H. Lawrence his eyes. No stars, no sky, no world. No, No! The thick dark- ness of blood alone. It sh... ...king girl. What’s wrong with her, my boy? I should have thought you were a lucky chap, myself.’ ‘I don’t want ‘er,’ Joe barked, with ferocity and rese... ...e pale grey pavements, under the wall of T rinity Church. ‘Well, strike me lucky!’ said the taxi driver at last, out of breath. ‘She wor th’ best o’ t...

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...ry James Preface “The Wings of the Dove,” published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old—if I shouldn’t perhaps rather say a very young—motive;... ...exion that fortunately grew and grew, however, in proportion as I focussed my image—roundabout which, as it persisted, I repeat, the interesting possi... ... it was worth, and I give it here but as one of the ambiguities amid which my subject ended by making itself at home and seating itself quite in confi... ...very one, in short, was to have enjoyed so much better a chance that, like stars of the theatre condescending to oblige, they have had to take small p... ...or the time unseen, though with scarce more to look at than the dim London stars and the cruder glow, up the street, on a corner, of a small public-ho... ...uld have meant the suspicion, the dread of the shadow, of an adverse will. Lucky therefore in the actual case that the scant minutes took another turn... ... had grown; and only the night before, as his ship steamed, beneath summer stars, in sight of the Irish coast, he had felt all the force of his partic... ...nk of their friends. Milly’s own state of mind, however,” she went on, “is lucky. That’s Aunt Maud’s security, though she doesn’t yet fully recognise ... ...st from time to time go to him. But that’s of course doing as I like. It’s lucky,” Milly smiled, “that I like going to him.” Mrs. Stringham was here i...

...Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication I and My Chimney by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. I and My Chimney by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville I and My Chimney by Herman Melville I AND MY CHIMNEY, two grey-headed old smokers... ... a method somewhat akin to those whereby the surprising distances of fixed stars are computed. It need hardly be said, that the walls of my house are ... ...e after another. In a dream I go about my fields, a sort of lazy, happy-go-lucky, good-for-nothing, loafing old Lear. Only by some sudden revelation a...

...Excerpt: Herman Melville. I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day. Though I always say, I and my chimney, as Cardinal Wols...

... By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Penn... ... the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frederick Douglas My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas By a principle essential to ... ...e best place; and few left the trough really satisfied. I was the most un- lucky of any, for Aunt Katy had no good feeling for me; and if I pushed any... ...was prepared to hail Him as my friend and deliverer. I had read, that the “stars shall fall from heaven”; and they were 123 Frederick Douglas now fal...

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...th 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 titl... ... 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 fol... ... visiting ticket, the world will avoid any of those awkward mistakes as to my person, which have been so frequent of late. There has been no end to th... ...but for the similarity of our names. The circumstance was this: I had been lucky enough to render the Nawaub of Lucknow some trifling service (in the ... ... Loll Mahommed’s feet, I felt peace return- ing to my mind, and thanked my stars that I was delivered of this danger. “Vizier,” said Holkar, who enjoy...

...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:--...

...NER THE READER MUST NOT EXPECT to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I sh... ...e may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my read ers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between... ...d attaching something of interest to matters ever so slightly connected with my fortunes or my specula tions, even my place of residence might one da... ...e. I have been called the gentlemanly chronicle. You may consider yourself a lucky dog; upon my soul, you may congratulate yourself, though I say so. ... ... upon his breast; an eye of fire looking up to Heaven in supplication to the stars that watched me at my work. I had to meet my wife, and break the ne...

...Excerpt: The reader must not expect to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my readers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between them and me feelings of homely affection and regard attaching somethi...

... OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE THE EVENING BEFORE my departure for Blithedale, I was re turning to my bachelor apartments, a... ...e V eiled Lady, it may not be amiss to mention, for the benefit of such of my readers as are unacquainted with her now forgotten celebrity, that she w... ...has cer tainly accorded with the event. I was turning over this riddle in my mind, and trying to catch its slippery purport by the tail, when the old... ...e, and has as little hope of personal intercourse as of climbing among the stars of heaven. We men are too gross to comprehend it. Even a woman, of ma... ... flickered on the topmost boughs; gray twilight made the wood obscure; the stars brightened out; the pendent boughs be came wet with chill autumnal d... ...rake, if it’s as deep as you say. Mr. Hollingsworth, I think you’ll be the lucky man to night, such luck as it is.” We floated past the stump. Silas F... ...had only lost her shoe in the mud, and saved her soul alive, after all. My stars! how she will laugh at us, to morrow morning!” It is indescribable wh...

...Excerpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

... it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re- quire. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided betwe... ...han with a hopeful glance to- wards the time when I shall again put forth my two green leaves once a month, and with a faith- 4 David Copperfield ... ... it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re- quire. My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided betw... ...a chop s the very thing to take off the bad effects of that beer! Ain t it lucky? So he took a chop by the bone in one hand, and a potato in the othe... ...g, he said, taking up a table-spoon, is my favourite pudding! Ain t that lucky? Come on, little un, and let s see who ll get most. The waiter cert... ...er- sonages in my eyes; but Steerforth was to them what the sun was to two stars. Steerforth continued his protection of me, and proved a very useful ... ...ion of favouritism to degrade me. To degrade you? said Mr. Creakle. My stars! But give me leave to ask you, Mr. What s-your- name ; and here Mr. C... ...the chaise again soon after dark, and drove cosily back, looking up at the stars, and talking about them. I was their chief exponent, and opened Mr. B... ...f my way to Dover in a shirt and a pair of trousers, and might deem myself lucky if I got there even in that trim. But my mind did not run so much on ...

...way from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearyi...

...southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, t... ...unded by all the cir- cumstances of wealth, there is a luxury in admitting my ex- tremity. I can admit, even, that to a certain extent my disas- ters ... ...n admit, even, that to a certain extent my disas- ters were conceivably of my own making. It may be there are directions in which I have some capacity... ...pied-a-terre while it was in hand that I came to Lympne. I reckoned myself lucky in getting that little bungalow. I got it on a three years’ agreement... ...out. I sat at the window and stared at the immensity of space. Between the stars was the void, the unfathomable darkness! I tried to recall the fragme... ...here, but the shape of the open window was marked by an infinite number of stars. Those who have only seen the starry sky from the earth cannot imagin... ...ce when the vague, half lumi- nous veil of our air has been withdrawn. The stars we see on earth are the mere scattered survivors that penetrate our m... ... we ran along it our way was lit by the irradiation of Cavor’s legs. “It’s lucky,” I panted, “they took off our boots, or we should fill this place wi...

...down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest pos...

...esent judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as t... ...in matters of religion.” May the double signification of your names be for my book a prophecy! Deign to find here the respectful grati- tude of him wh... ...” Made- moiselle Thuillier said one day; “but I am thinking of invest- ing my savings in a way that will cut out work for him. Yes; it will be somethi... ... by the Revolution. Pressed between the two floods, Jerome thought himself lucky not to have been dismissed under some frivolous pretext. He trembled ... ...by the one sentiment that lay within them, namely, their adoration for the lucky and selfish Thuillier. Moreover, these two women, both childless, had... ...st, where, seated on a bench, she read the sign-posts, and waited for some lucky chance; feeling all the while that night was coming on. Thus it happe... ... had interrupted, “Felix no longer inhabits this earth; he lives among the stars?” “My dear and former colleague,” said Phellion, “I am, as you are, a... ... added, pointing to the constellation of Ursa Minor, “beyond those visible stars a future lies before us; I will place you there. As for Pere Anselme,... ...You must be conscious of this yourself. ‘Divers Thoughts by Monsieur Three-Stars’ says nothing to the public.” Seeing that Phellion was about to make ...

...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 book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

...nity university. 3 Joseph Conrad THE SECRET SHARER by Joseph Conrad I O N MY RIGHT HAND there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious sy... ... a blue sea that itself looked solid, so still and stable did it lie below my feet; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly, wit... ...animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple. And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored... ...ide of darkness flowed on swiftly; and with tropical suddenness a swarm of stars came out above the shadowy earth, while I lingered yet, my hand resti... ...red for sea, the stretch of her main-deck seemed to me very find under the stars. V ery fine, very roomy for her size, and very inviting. I descended ... ...” “Y es—straight for it. It was something to swim for. I couldn’t see any stars low down because the coast was in the way, and I couldn’t see the lan... ...d repassing over our heads. It was an infinitely mis- erable time. It was lucky that some tins of fine preserves were 30 The Secret Sharer stowed in...

... with a preface by Mr. Stevenson Preface to the Biographical Edition WHILE MY HUSBAND and Mr. Henley were engaged in writ- ing plays in Bournemouth th... ...itles, hoping to use them in the future. Dramatic composition was not what my husband preferred, but the torrent of Mr. Henley’s enthusiasm swept him ... ...avours to keep up with Mr. Henley, play writing was abandoned forever, and my husband returned to his legitimate vocation. Having added one of the tit... ...ould think I was so easily to be deceived. It was a dark night, with a few stars low down; and as I stood just outside the door, I heard a hollow moan... ... clouds. For all that, and before the sun began to peep or the last of the stars had vanished, I made my way to the side of the burn, and had a plunge... ..., to realise that I must be lying somewhere bound in the belly of that un- lucky ship, and that the wind must have strengthened to a gale. With the cl... ... house. When I told him of my catechist, he shook his head, and said I was lucky to have got clear off. “That is a very danger- ous man,” he said; “Du... ...ir like frost, and a northerly wind that blew the clouds away and made the stars bright. The streams were full, of course, and still made a great nois...

... procures for an author more surprise than pleasure. I said to myself that my hero should work his way through life as I had seen real living men work... ... low need fear no fall.” Currer Bell. The foregoing preface was written by my wife with a view to the publication of “The Professor,” shortly after th... ... E P R O F E S S O R CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY THE OTHER DAY, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter, sent by me a ... ... curve of moonlight to be seen by the parish church tower, and hundreds of stars shone keenly bright in all quarters of the sky. Unconsciously I steer... ...dless night sky —splendid moonlight sub- dued the tremulous sparkle of the stars —below lay the gar- den, varied with silvery lustre and deep shade, a... ...ay nothing, and do nothing; I don’t clap my hands, and cry out ‘Bravo! How lucky I am!’ to attract the attention and envy of my neighbours—I am merely... ...ich still played among the retreating clouds, and flashed silvery over the stars, I at last fell asleep; and then in a dream were repro- duced the set...

...red with an asperity which I was as little pre- pared to expect, and which my judgment, as well as my feel- ings, assures me is more bitter than just.... ...ead it with a prejudiced mind or be content to judge it by a hasty glance. My object in writing the following pages was not simply to amuse the Reader... ...lowing pages was not simply to amuse the Reader; neither was it to gratify my own taste, nor yet to ingratiate myself with the Press and the Public: I... ...ts contents, and after turning them over a moment he cried out, -’Bless my stars, here’s another;’ and slipped a small oval of ivory paper into his wa... ...hat last misfortune, at least: bad luck could not last for ever; and every lucky hit was looked upon as the dawn of better times, till experience prov... ... the light clouds skimming the clear, dark sky; and then I saw the eternal stars twinkling down upon me; I knew their God was mine, and He was strong ... ... still: no light glimmered in the windows, no wreath of smoke obscured the stars that sparkled above it in the frosty sky. As I bade farewell for ever... ...et amaze- ment his former predilection, and to congratulate himself on the lucky escape he had made; but he never confessed it to me, or hinted one wo...

...N 1 1 1 1 1 S INCE I CAME TO THIS PLACE I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-con- ceived books. One does not ... ...the life I have aban- doned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my head. My mind has been full of confused protests and justifica- tions. I... ...n expressing the complex thing I have to tell, but it has added greatly to my trouble that I have a great analogue, that a certain Niccolo Machiavelli... ...ed one from the plumber who mixed his paint—and he had in his own happy-go-lucky way contrived a combina- tion of the garden fruit ladder with a batte... ...d faces under clouds of dark hair and with dark eyes like pools reflecting stars. I half turned, and the shorter one glanced back at me over her shoul... ...nguished from the wonder-lands of atomic and micro- scopic science and the stars and future time. I had travelled scarcely at all, I had never crossed... ...” “It waits outside, too big for our understanding. Like the night and the stars. And lust, Remington! lust and bitter- ness! Don’t I know them? with ...

...-minded person with a mathematical imagi- nation. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the r... ...dinary potency or accents of irresistible heroism. However humiliating for my self esteem, I must con- fess that the counsels of Marcus Aurelius are n... ...broil” is perhaps too strong an expression. I can’t imag- ine among either my enemies or my friends a being so hard up for something to do as to quarr... ... When I got to the end he nodded, and I flew out-of-doors, thinking myself lucky to have escaped re- proof for that piece of impulsive audacity. I hav... ... true to the emotions called out of the deep encircled by the firmament of stars, whose infinite numbers and awful distances may move us to laughter o... ...d not known for weeks whether the sun shone upon the earth and whether the stars above still moved on their appointed courses. I was just then giving ... ...e. Y et a certain longitude, once won, cannot be disputed. The sun and the stars and the shape of your earth are the witnesses of your gain; whereas a... ...ge of just feeling in the right place, some happy simplicity, or even some lucky subtlety, has drawn from the great multitude of fellow beings even as...

... a mathematical imagination. Mathematics 4 Some Reminiscences command all my respect, but I have no use for en- gines. Give me the right word and the... ...nary potency or accents of irresistible heroism. However humiliat- ing for my self-esteem, I must confess that the coun- sels of Marcus Aurelius are n... ... too strong an expression. I 5 Joseph Conrad can’t imagine either amongst my enemies or my friends a being so hard up for something to do as to quarr... ...e. When I got to the end he nodded and I flew out of doors thinking myself lucky to have escaped re- proof for that piece of impulsive audacity. I hav... ... true to the emotions called out of the deep encircled by the firmament of stars, whose infinite numbers and awful distances may move us to laughter o... ...d not known for weeks whether the sun shone upon the earth and whether the stars above still moved on their appointed courses. I was just then giving ... ...de. Yet a certain longitude, once won, cannot be disputed. The sun and the stars and the shape of your earth are the witnesses of your gain; whereas a... ...ge of just feeling in the right place, some happy simplicity, or even some lucky subtlety, has drawn from the great multitude of fellow-beings even as...

...was en- dowed with magic power, which enabled her to predict what would be lucky or unlucky days for her husband. His disre- gard of them was thought ... ...en or eleven years. “See mother!” cried the child, “I am holding the reins my- self. Uncle Eustace lays not a finger on them!” “As I was saying, madam... ...ought to be in our granary by this time. But you are too gentle with them, my Lady, and they grow insolent in Sir Reginald’s long absence.” “All goes ... ...er up, for he cannot but come soon.” “So many soons have passed away, that my heart is well- nigh too sick for hope,” said Eleanor. “And when he comes... ... his, in the scene before him: the unearthly moonlight, the few glimmering stars, the sky—whose southern clearness and brightness were, to his unaccus... ...you old hag,” he added in the Provencal patois, “take that, and thank your stars that ’tis not with a fire that your tender care, as you call it, is r... ...ded vale of Lynwood, and the bright lights of the Keep began to gleam like stars in the 58 The Lances of Lynwood darkness—stars indeed to the eager e...

...xon, one would presume, since it is thought something to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers i... ...said, ‘Good bread, and good beef, and enough of both, make good blood; and my children shall be stout.’ This is such a thing as maybe announced by for... ...e in power to legislate and crush agriculture, and “I’ve got a mi- ser for my brother-in-law,” said the farmer. Alas! the hun- dred pounds to back him... ... at the row of lamps, and listened to the noise remote, until the sight of stars was pleas- ant as the faces of friends. “People are kind here,” she r... ...sh I had it, or him. I’m afraid a fellow can’t anticipate his years—not so lucky!” “By Jove! we shall have to be philosophers before we break- fast!” ... ...elled him. “And, se- riously, I will take a part of your risk. I fear I am lucky, which is ruinous. We will settle that, by-and-by. Do you know, Algy,... ... seals of the placards—he would have bought one, had he not, by one of his lucky mental illuminations, recollected that it was within his power to pro... ...ible temptation it would be to some men, and how they ought to thank their stars that they were never thrown in the way of such a temptation, of which... ...the front door brought them in view of a white and silent earth under keen stars, and Dick Curtis and the bilious boatbuilder, foot to foot, snowball ...