...ters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...y University. Bleak House – Volume Two 3 CHAPTER XXXV Esther’s Narrative I lay ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like... ... have no art, no disguise. If he takes me by the hand and leads me through Westminster Hall in an airy procession after fortune, I must go. If he says... ... you. Formerly Caroline Jellyby, spinster, then of Thavies Inn, within the city of London, but extra paro chial; now of Newman Street, Oxford Street.... ...ange, comes sauntering home. In the oven made by the hot pavements and hot buildings, he has baked himself dryer than usual; and he has in his thirsty... ...fect Blue Chamber. In his fondness for society and his adaptability to all grades, Mr. Bucket is presently standing before the hall fire—bright and wa... ...uch, mother—I am afraid not a great deal—for leav ing; and went away and ‘listed, harum scarum, making be lieve to think that I cared for nobody, no...

...Excerpt: I lay ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-roo...

...Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...pressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my ex perience of these birds. The... ...in the eaves. There were more pigeons about the dreary stable yard and out buildings than anybody but the landlord could reckon up. The wheeling and c... ...along, quite insensible to his progress. And, now, he approached the great city, which lay out stretched before him like a dark shadow on the ground,... ...ss of thought and action, and all his sympathies and good wishes, were en listed in favour of the young people, and were staunch in devotion to their... ...e midst of the loose concourse in the night cellar where outcasts of every grade resorted; and there he sat till morning. He was not only a spectre at... ... a dozen times more strange and singular than before, went down on foot to Westminster. Gashford, meanwhile, bestirred himself in business mat ters; ...

Excerpt: Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ?Eighty by Charles Dickens.

...ics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...r now or never,” said Ann Veronica, again as- cending this stile. “Much as I hate rows, I’ve either got to make a stand or give in altogether.” She se... .... She discovered a desire to enter as a student in the Imperial College at Westminster, where Russell taught, and go on with her work at the foun- tai... ...er pro- miscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and- twenty. The City worried him a good deal, and what energy he had left over he spent par... ... add a distinctive and culminating keenness to the day. The river, the big buildings on the north bank, Westminster, and St. Paul’s, were rich and won... ...ter that memorable con- flict with her father at Morningside Park. She was listed for the raid—she was informed it was to be a raid upon the House of ... ...ing. She would never love him as she loved Capes, of course, but there are grades and qualities of love. For Manning it would be a more temperate love...

...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before,...

...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ry, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (at which point I thought the judge’s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculat... ...he tiers of shipping and the waterside pol lutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping in... ...ther was confined was ‘On T uesday last, at her residence in Both eration Buildings, Mrs. Skimpole of a son in difficulties.’” Richard laughed hearti... ... where. The courts are all shut up; the public offices lie in a hot sleep. Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, ... ...al!” “You are right, Mat!” “When she took me—and accepted of the ring—she ‘listed under me and the children—heart and head, for life. She’s 474 Bleak... ...fect Blue Chamber. In his fondness for society and his adaptability to all grades, Mr. Bucket is presently standing before the hall fire—bright and wa...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which po...

...hop by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsy... ...Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...kens CHAPTER 1 NIGHT IS GENERALLY MY TIME FOR WALKING. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes al... ...en led to speak of them by way of preface. One night I had roamed into the City, and was walk ing slowly on in my usual way, musing upon a great many... ...e, and that the young gentle The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 21 men of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quanti ties of apples to conceal a... ... me. I should have a son pretty nigh as old as you if he’d lived, but they listed him for a so’ger—he come back home though, for all he had but one po... ...oys dropped in, on legal errands from three or four attorneys of the Brass grade: whom Mr Swiveller received and dismissed with about as professional ... ...they were already in the outskirts. Now, the clustered roofs, and piles of buildings, trembling with the working of engines, and dimly resounding with...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanke...

...Publication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...lication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...echcroft At Rockstone BEECHCROFT AT ROCKSTONE by Charlotte M Yonge CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. A DISP A DISP A DISP A DISP... ...ng against them, I am sure, for they mean to be very good; but she is some City man’s widow, and he is an only son, and they have more money than thei... ...ohun, that it was under disgraceful circumstances that he ran away and en- listed.’ ‘Many a youth who gets into a scrape becomes an excel- lent soldie... ...women from the cottages, as all thronged to the more open space beyond the buildings where they could see, while Miss Mohun found herself clasped by h... ... the little paradises of books and pic- tures in Northumberland Avenue and Westminster Sanctu- ary, and went to Evensong at the Abbey, Mysie’s first s... ... had made merry over them from childhood than to a stranger of an inferior grade; but there was a great charm to a man, able to appreciate refinement,...

...Excerpt: A Dispersion. ?A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,? said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and live...

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) WHAT IS MAN? I a. a. a. a. a. M M M M M an the M an the M an the M an the M an the M... ... the guidance and dic tatorship of Circumstance, and finally arrived in a city of Iowa, where I worked several months. Among the books that intereste... ...as sunk in abysmal obscurity, he was away beneath the notice of the bottom grades of officialdom. Three hours later he was the one subject of conversa... ...or an unlisted ac tor; and in ’94 a “regular” and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly valued and not much respected... ...de counterfeit of it gathered from books and from occasional loiterings in Westminster. Richard H. Dana served two years before the mast, and had ever... ...things as strange as any that are described in the Arabian T ales … amid buildings more sumptuous than the palace of Aladdin, fountains more wonderf...

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...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... blessed thee, And sit down, Robin, and rest thee. Thomas Tusser. I T CAME WITHOUT WARNING, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to cru... ... a multitude of laying sis- ters went about dropping drone-eggs where they listed, and said there was no more need of Queens. How, covered by this con... ... flew wooden kites over oil engines! They are a shining reproof to all low-grade German “ruby” enamels, so-called “boort” facings, and the dangerous a... ...ay General Call (all Mark Boats) out for: Jane Eyre, W. 6990 . Port Rupert—City of Mexico Santander, W. 6514 . . Gobi Desert—Manila Y. Edmundsun, E. 9... ...y-weight digs. MOSSAMEDES TRANSPORT ASSOC. 84 Palestine Buildings, E. C. MAN WANTED-DIG DRIVER for Southern Alps with Sa- haran sum... ... on their haunches for the amusement of their new masters in the parish of Westminster. One by one they fell away, sore and angry, to compare stripes ...

...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonderin...

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