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...Excerpt: About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comfor...

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...lassics Series Publication Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s ... ...od and agreeable. It was a connexion exactly of the right sort—in the same county, and the same interest—and his most hearty con- 35 Jane Austen curr... ...he Crawfords’ arrival. He had been visit- ing a friend in the neighbouring county, and that friend having recently had his grounds laid out by an impr... ...r possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had 215 Jane Austen noth...

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...ublication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... think this was merely taken from his crusading cross. He bore the arms of Sicily, to which he had not yet resigned his claim. His eye wandered, but n... ... the gulf where lay the fleet that had brought the crusaders of France and Sicily, whom they hoped to join in the conquest and conversion of Tunis. On... ... Aigues Mortes, they had found that the French King had already sailed for Sicily; and following him thither, learnt that his brother, Charles of Anjo... ...d spurs ever did—and have been more to me than English earl- dom or French county. Poor Richard!” he added with feeling; “I told him his was the bonda...

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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... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...m sorry for that; I like so much to see people.” “Oh, we’ll invite all the county to amuse you,” said Ralph. “Now you’re making fun of me,” the girl a... ...red rather gravely. “Who was the gentleman on the lawn when I arrived?” “A county neighbour; he doesn’t come very often.” “I’m sorry for that; I liked... ...on,” said the younger sister. “It’s the first position in this part of the county.” “I dare say you think me very irreverent,” Isabel took occasion to... ...Calcutta. Nevertheless he had suddenly taken it into his head to start for Sicily. I didn’t believe in it—neither did the doctors, nor any of his frie... ...ph announced to Lord Warburton that he thought after all he wouldn’t go to Sicily. The two men had been dining together after a day spent by the latte... ...s lighting a cigar, which he instantly removed from his lips. “Won’t go to Sicily? Where then will you go?” “Well, I guess I won’t go anywhere,” said ...

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... S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ous of renewed irritation at this display of scrupulousness, said that the county police had been notified from the first of Michaelis’ arrival, and t... ...with the con- vict Michaelis, perhaps it’s just as well I didn’t start the county police after him.” This took such a long time to say that the unflag... ...ice of ber- ries, discoursed of Olympian Gods to the innocent shepherds of Sicily, he talked to Stevie of domestic matters and the af- fairs of men wh...

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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... up farm- ing: the local paper constantly reported the cases he had in the county court against this one and that, labourers he would not pay their wa... ...made Cronshaw’s conversation so captivating. Athelny was very proud of the county family to which he belonged; he showed Philip photographs of an Eliz... ...h Philip; and he found him- self an object of interest because his family, county people in a very good position, had cut him off with a shilling beca... ...e yellowing, and to him they had the beauty and the passion which poets in Sicily have found in the purple grape. As they walked along Philip felt him...

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...Preface: It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very grea...

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.... Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...em,’ said Miss Mohun, ‘though it may be about as close as be- tween us and Sicily.’ ‘She is looking out for Maurice,’ said Aunt Ada. ‘She wrote, only ... ...Alfred is at Darminster. He is sub-editor to the Poli- tician, the Liberal county paper. I do not suppose Aunt Lilias will let me see him, for she doe... ...ppeared.’ ‘Is it not the way of poetry of that calibre to see the light in county papers?’ ‘This seems to me of a lower calibre than is likely to get ...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...

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...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e remarkable than the ‘still-vex’d Bermoothes’ getting between Argiers and Sicily.” “It really was one of the Outer Hebrides,” said Gerald, with the e... ...oating accident, there he would be the ruling Sir Roger de Coverley of the county, a pillar of Church and State, and I should be a free man.” “Won’t t... ... appear at the next Petty Sessions. Reginald Mohun, used to the justice of county magistrates, and the unflinching dealings of courts-martial, was det... .... And now he has set up for himself, and has been going about all over the county. Mother has been quite different ever since she met him one day in A... ...ing,” said Lance, “if the Italian mar- riage were before the revolution in Sicily, I expect the eccle- siastical ceremony would be valid, but after th... ...r his yacht to meet him there, and be ready for him to convey the party to Sicily. He pro- fessed that he could not lose sight of Franceska, with whom...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...aturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their b... ...e duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General. At length a county- widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the ... ...and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ Pursuing the light so fortun... ...e is here, and still more certainly is not when he is away at Naples or in Sicily. I was going to say—but you are such a beloved little Marplot for pu... ...of order that they can wait until my brother Edward recovers his health in Sicily, suffi- ciently to come over, and administer, or execute, or whateve...

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... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ich inhabits deep water and has been found fos- 259 Charles Darwin sil in Sicily, whereas not one other species has hith- erto been found in any tert... ... conditions has caused so great a difference in num- ber. Even the uniform county of Cambridge has 847 plants, and the little island of Anglesea 764, ...