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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... ...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... ...l Mohun’s hospi- tality and Lancelot’s intention of leaving his bag at the rail- way hotel, but the former gained the day, the more easily because the... ...sed to hear that you had been at Agincourt than in Af- ghanistan. ‘It’s in history,’ he said with an awe-stricken voice.” When Fergus, after some shou... ...s.” “I can find out when father has time to let us look at the big natural history book in the shop,” said Felix. “We must not look at it unless he tu... ...y of the houses had been secured by ropes extending from the stalls to the rails of the garden, and Geraldine was conducted by her two generals to the... ... girl. When he found I could accompany my sister on piano or violin he was transported. Moreover, he could endure to be enlightened by a Britisher on ... ...deed more favour bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, That bloom their hour and fade. —J. H. Newman...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...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... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ...nate heart. He is merci- less and yet gentle with his mankind; he does not rail at their prudent fears and their small artifices; he does not despise ... ...ws. It would not be exorcised by the brutal jeers of Bismarck and the fine railleries of Gorchakov. As a Polish friend observed to me some years ago: ... ...ltar, the misty glimpse in the Bay of Biscay of an outward-bound convoy of transports, in the presence of British submarines in the Channel. Innumerab... ...pardonable stretching of the truth to say that the British Empire rests on transportation. I am speaking now naturally of the sea, as a man who has li...

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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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