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...ng in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr. and Mrs. Moreen's main purpose in life, it appears, is to win acceptance in the higher circles of French and Italian society, partly in the hope that Morgan's two elder sisters will be taken off their hands. Morgan, who is highly intelligent, is also precocious and perceptive enough to come to understand his pa...

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...The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her solicitation, have allowed them to be printed. They are published with the hope of aiding a work of charity,—the establi...

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...ponsible, solid young Christian woman. Everyone leans on her for support and depends on her to do much that needs to be done in her church and social circle. But then her businessman father dies unexpectedly and leaves the family almost penniless, interrupting her tranquil, fulfilling life. Written by Isabella Alden under the pen name Pansy. (Summary by TriciaG)...

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...The Austrian nobility in Rome forms a very close circle, into which only those of high rank and wealth are admitted. They managed to get along with Cecil Sterzl, who, although not one of their own, is regarded as quite an amiable man. However, when he brings his younger sis...

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...w months to be still a family, and did not succeed at all. They clung as closely to one another as ever they could, but there was always a gap in the circle where father had been….. The only thing to do was to remember father's pride and justify it, to recall his care for mother and take his place so far as might be; the only thing for all, as the months went on, was to be...

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...ves primarily around Janet and her Cap'n Billy Daddy and how their lives and their devotion to one another are touched by the others within the small circle of people of the dunes, the hills, and the light. (Summary by Roger Melin)...

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...Just sixty miles from ground zero in Nevada there lies Circle T Ranch run by Hetty Thompson the owner, Barney Hatfield the farmhand, and Johnny Culpepper the assistant manager. It was just another ordinary ranch until, that is, the two cows and the rooster hit the nuclear jackpot...

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...ll of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company empire -- and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother in Nova Scotia's finest circles. When a sick friend asks for a favour, becoming a substitute schoolmaster in the Prince Edward Island countryside seems the perfect post-graduation lark. But when Eric wanders into an old orchard at twilight, his life...

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... exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elite hostesses. In order to draw them into her social circle, she allows all the famous and moneyed populous of Gothem to believe that Thurley is the princess Thurvinia hiding in New York to escape an arranged marriage. This causes all manner of high drama and romance with a sui...

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...Inferno: Cantos I-VII (Virgil, Circles I-IV, Paolo & Francesca, Ciacco) Cantos VIII-XIV (Circles V-VII, Farinata, Pier delle Vigne, Capaneus) Cantos XV-XXI (Brunetto Latini, Geryon, Circle VIII, Manto) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Vanni Fucci, Ulysses, G. da Mo...

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...Inferno: Cantos I-VII (Virgil, Circles I-IV, Paolo & Francesca, Ciacco) Cantos VIII-XIV (Circles V-VII, Farinata, Pier delle Vigne, Capaneus) Cantos XV-XXI (Brunetto Latini, Geryon, Circle VIII, Manto) Cantos XXII-XXVIII (Vanni Fucci, Ulysses, G. da Mo...

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... youths who bullied Rickie at school. Rickie is not brilliant at argument, but he is intensely responsive to poetry and art, and is accepted within a circle of philosophical and intellectual fellow-students led by a brilliant but especially cynical aspiring philosopher, Stuart Ansell, who refuses, when he is introduced to her, even to acknowledge that Agnes exists. (from W...

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...The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who...

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...al punto de la rota’ I have reached that point of the circuit ‘Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra’ - Sestina I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, ‘Amor, tu vedi ben che questa donna’ – Double Sestina Love you may see how truly this lady ‘Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro’ I wish my speech to be as harsh ‘A ciascun’alma presa e gentil core’ ...

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...Excerpt INFERNO V They enter the second circle, the first of Hell proper, which encloses less space, (che men loco cinghia), than the previous one, but has so much greater pain, (tanto più dolor). Minos, the judge, guards the entrance, ex...

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... ................................................................. 22 CANTO IV. The further side of Acheron.?Virgil leads Dante into Limbo, the First Circle of Hell, containing the spirits of those who lived virtuously but without Christianity.?Greeting of Virgil by his fellow poets.?They enter a castle, where are the shades of ancient worthies.?Virgil and Dante depart. .....

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...III. O XXXIII. O XXXIII. N N N N Ninth cir inth cir inth cir inth cir inth circle: tr cle: tr cle: tr cle: tr cle: traitors. S aitors. S aitors. S ait... ...ess and the swiftness of time motion with which in unending de- light they circled around God were in proportion to their nearness to Him, —first the ... ...n race surpasseth all contained within that heaven which hath the smallest circles! 3 so pleas- ing unto me is thy command that to obey it, were it a... ... . . The further side of Acheron.—Virgil leads Dante into Limbo, the First Circle of Hell, containing the spirits of those who lived virtuously but wi... ...s us.” 25 Dante So he set forth, and so he made me enter within the first circle that girds the abyss. Here, so far as could be heard, there was no p... ...eech there where I was. We came to the foot of a noble castle, seven times circled by high walls, defended round about by a fair streamlet. This we pa... ...ive light. CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO O O O O V V V V V. . . . . The Second Circle, that of Carnal Sinners.— Minos.—Shades renowned of old.—Francesca d... ...ades renowned of old.—Francesca da Rimini. THUS I DESCENDED from the first circle down into the sec- ond, which girdles less space, and so much more w... ...edy – Hell CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO O O O O VI. VI. VI. VI. VI. The Third Circle, that of the Gluttonous.— Cerberus.—Ciacco. WHEN THE MIND RETURNED, ...

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...ardes do not. The motto of the paradoxism: All is possible, the impossible too! The symbol of the paradoxism: A spiral - optic illusion or vicious circle. ...

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...chased a half dozen 2nd generation I pads, which Quake hacked into it for the purpose of inter-dimensional time travel, by navigating wormholes that circle Earth,each version of it. So far with the help of the cube, Quake has found nine dimensions. It was the cube that allowed travel through time and dimensions, the Q pads were how they controlled the cubes. The cube c...