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Excerpt: Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication San... ...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sandra Belloni by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...oy. Must set an example: do our duty. All the house goes to worship in the country.” “Why, in ze country?” queried Mr. Pericles. 17 George Meredith “... ...gue’s tip. She had really thought well of her men. Her heart sank. “In the country!” she began. “Yes, yes!” went my lady. These were the lessons that ... ...zen?” quoth Mr. Pericles. “Then, while my money lasts, I shall stay in the country.” “How much money?” “How much money have I?” Emilia frankly and acc... ...y constantly sending to her 243 George Meredith for advice concerning the economies of the feast. Neverthe- less, she exhibited good pretensions to s...

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...ernal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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

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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 in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching...

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...ll difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James?s phrase and story of ?The Great Good Place,? twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no l...

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... and they would pretend they did and mix you up. I’ll be back for you here by sunset—and don’t forget the tombs in the chapel.” I followed Lanrivain’s... ...hapel.” I followed Lanrivain’s directions with the hesitation occa- sioned by the usual difficulty of remembering whether he had said the first turn t... ...long tunnel through which the autumn light fell faintly. I know most trees by name, but I haven’t to this day been able to decide what those trees wer... ...e witnesses thereupon came forward to say that it was known throughout the country that Lanrivain had formerly been on good terms with the lady of Cor... ...t the last he had told her that he was starting the next day for a foreign country, on a mission which was not without peril and might keep him for ma... ...ficient to her. For many years she had cher- ished a desire to live in the country, to have a hen-house and a garden; but this longing had faded with ... ...y conscious purpose, he could but rejoice in the fact that his sentimental economies 76 Early Short Fiction had left him such a large surplus to draw...

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..., his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....

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... on Wall Street. General Washing ton had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice Presi de... ...e with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and re ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On th... ...ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love,... ... on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from ... ...her hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being suf ficient to awaken in the wisest and most ex... ...liated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such ... ...mong the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican INAUGURA...

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...t 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash sit... ...onsideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan di... ...nal oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. In pursuing our mandate, we have reviewed more than 2.5 ... ...nd prevent their ranks from swelling while at the same time protecting our country against future attacks.We have been forced to think about the way o... ... until 9:23. 69 By all accounts, the first 46 minutes of Flight 93’s cross-country trip pro- ceeded routinely. Radio communications from the plane wer... ... 10:00; the Secretary , shortly before 10:30.The Chair- man was out of the country. 199 At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked i... ...reserving the elite’s grip on national wealth. Unwilling to foster dynamic economies that could create jobs attractive to educated young men, the coun... ...y their societies. Far more acquired valuable skills but lived in stagnant economies that could not generate satisfying jobs. Millions, pursuing secul... ...onal security funding forced intelligence agencies to cut systems and seek economies of scale. Modern adversaries are skilled users of communications ...