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...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ..., and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian. “The True History.” “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse- whal... ...an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” —Ibid. “History of Life and Death.” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti ... ...d family in the land, the V an Rensselaers, or 16 Moby Dick Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just previ- ous to putting your hand in... ...e house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,—rather weary for me, when I struck my foot agains... ...y say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give succor; the port is... ...ed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dig- nity which, on all hands, radiates wit... ...the sun and tropic token-pieces. Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun’s disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are i...

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...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...f recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and sta... ...s, if one could do so subtle, if not so monstrous, a thing as to write the history of the growth of one’s imagination. One would describe then what, a... ... (which is usually the one that tips the balance of interest): press least hard, in short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especial... ...ntirely theoretical, you know; it doesn’t seem to affect his spirits. I’ve hardly ever seen him when he wasn’t cheerful—about as he is at present. He ... ...lenty of other subjects, there are subjects all round you. We’ll take some drives; I’ll show you some charming scenery.” “Scenery’s not my department;... ... more than she. But she had seen only half his nature then, as one saw the disk of the moon when it was partly masked by the shadow of the earth. She ... ... trans- ferred to a sheet of immaculate paper the delicate, finely- tinted disk. His back was turned toward the door, but he recognised his wife witho...

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...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing i...

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... E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ity. 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... ...e purpose. It struck him at once that she was waiting for some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bar... ...hall like it better.” She waited while he cut the lemon and dropped a thin disk into her cup. “But that is not the reason,” 8 House of Mirth she insi... ...rry the first man who came along.” “I didn’t mean to imply that you are as hard put to it as that. But there must be some one with the requisite quali... ...d to all the reviews dealing with book-collecting in general, and American history in particular, and as allusions to his library abounded in the page... ...leapt into her brain before she was conscious of reading them, told a long history—a history over which, for the last four years, the friends of the w... ...e an- swered with a laugh: “I don’t see how one can very well take country drives in town, but I am not always surrounded by an admiring throng, and i...

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...ssics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...and the sigh annoyed Ralph, and he exclaimed with irritation: “It’s pretty hard lines to stick a boy into an office at seventeen!” “Nobody wants to st... ...question that she should put any more household work upon herself. No, the hardship must fall on him, for he was determined that his family should hav... ... Cromwell cutting the King’s head off. Some of the most terrible things in history have been done on principle,” she concluded. “I’m afraid I take a v... ...other asking for news of John, and to her aunt replying with the authentic history of Hilda’s engagement to an officer in the Indian Army, but she cas... ...time she was in fancy looking up through a telescope at white shadow-cleft disks which were other worlds, until she felt herself possessed of two bodi... ...ng, tempted them to sit upon a seat in a glade of beech-trees, with forest drives striking green paths this way and that around them. She sighed deepl...