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...hapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch ...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...mitate them. While we remained in the cathedral he talked of glory and Old England, and dropped his voice in the middle of a mur- mured chant to intro... ...dy: and this, he said, came of the emigration of the family from Venice to England. My father only seemed angry, for he went off with Shylock’s very g... ...bounding our home, there was a park containing trees old as the History of England, John Thresher said, and the thought of their venerable age enclose... ...away at a moment’s notice. In the evening I was introduced to a company of gentlemen, who were drinking wine after dinner with my father. They clapped... ... He drank off a glassful of wine and sighed prodigiously. ‘They are going, gentlemen, going there, like good wine, like old Port, which they tell us i... ...pectfully, sir, that fam- ily portraits are sacred things with the sons of gentlemen. Here, Richie, off!’ I found the portrait in my hand, and Heriot ...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...idence and re- spect. The middle of the nineteenth century was a time when England might well be proud of her Judges. There was much in the habits of ... ...ith two bands playing on a calm, blessed Sunday evening, with the Queen of England and all her retinue walking about. It gives you an idea of the Maje... ... and so sustained him as the sense of unity, whether with these at home in England, or with those in the inner home of the Saints. When the sermon con... ...main with, and be a great solace to me for the rest of my life. ‘ And now, gentlemen, I bid you farewell most affectionately . I wish you many years o... ... of society, &c. ‘Would the general of an army say to his officers, “Pray, gentlemen, don’t dirty your boots or fatigue your horses to succour the inh... ...m their book life and the proprieties, others are donnish, others are fine gentlemen, others are weak in health, most have preconceived and, many, mis...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of livin...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, an...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

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