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Excerpt: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.

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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... fullest consciousness there was to have been marked in fine stitches, all silk and gold, all pink and silver, that have had to remain, alas, but entw... ...her’s life, her sister’s, her own, that of her two lost brothers—the whole history of their house had the effect of some fine florid voluminous phrase... ...s exactly by reason of the trimmings and lace, was a matter of ribbons and silk and velvet. She had a dire accessibility to plea- sure from such sourc... ... her there, making her at times circulate more endlessly between the small silk- covered sofa that stood for her in the firelight and the great grey m... ... she subsequently remembered that though on this occasion she had left the history of her new alliance as scant as the facts themselves, Mrs. Lowder h... ...one to church, she broke it to me by the school-room fire. I was reading a history-book by the lamp—when we didn’t go to church we had to read his- to...

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Excerpt: The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith.

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...rrasine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...recess and concealed behind the undulating folds of a curtain of wa- tered silk, I was able to contemplate at my leisure the garden of the mansion at ... ...verings of the body, voluptuous move- ments, made the laces and gauzes and silks swirl about their graceful figures. Sparkling glances here and there ... ...ford to overlook its little mysteries. But, unfortunately, the enigmatical history of the Lanty family offered a perpetual subject of curiosity, not u... ...f his limbs, proved that he had always been of slight build. He wore black silk breeches which hung about his fleshless thighs in folds, like a lowere...

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...s Publication A Modern T elemachus 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... ...h renegade, who treated her well, and to whom she gave her watch. Algerine history confirms what is said of his treatment. Louis XIV. had bombarded th... ...ut sent seven men on board the prize and took it in tow. Curiously enough, history mentions the very tempest which drove the tartane apart from her ca... ...account of these captors was a great difficulty, till in the old Universal History I found a description of Algeria which tallied wonderfully with the... ...own velvet coat with blue embroi- dery on the pockets, collar, and skirts, silk stockings to match, as well as the knot of the tiny scabbard of the se... ...tle daughter’s glib mythology, while going to the rescue of the embroidery silks, in which her youngest son was entangling himself. At that moment the... ...ned in her corner, usefully em- ployed in disentangling the embroilment of silks, and with the illustrations to her beloved T elemaque as a resource i...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion 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... ...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... ...ublic edifices were erected. It seems to me to have been the period in all history when society was the least natural, and perhaps the most dis- solut... ...nset with a pleased, withered old face, he gave me a little account of his history. I take it he is in nowise disinclined to talk about it, simple as ... ...is princely income. Is it breaking a confidence to tell Lieutenant Bundy’s history? Let the motive excuse the deed. It is a good, kind, wholesome, and... ...in white or crimson robes; dark Spanish smugglers in tufted hats, with gay silk handkerchiefs round their heads; fuddled seamen from 27 Thackeray men... ...Sultan has not swept her off, or that the Persian merchants, who come with silks and sweetmeats, have not kidnapped her for the Shah of Tehran. We wen... ...an. We went to see the Persian merchants at their khan, and purchased some silks there from a swarthy black-bearded man, with a conical cap of lambswo...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...old him in bondage? The answer to all these questions would require a long history, which would injure our present tale. Let us only re- mark here tha... ...and anxious face was evidently looking for him. She was dressed in a black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown bonnet, an old French cashmere shawl, raw-... ... aged twenty-seven, who was said to be a rising man. At that period of our history, government clerks were apt to become persons of importance; for Na... ...ld be moved to envy by a young man of twenty-two in a frogged surtout-coat silk-lined, a waist- coat of fancy cashmere, and a cravat slipped through a... ... disor- der of the curly brown hair which fell upon his shoulders. A black-silk cravat drew a line round his very white neck, and added to the vivacit... ...onorine Lupin, Amaury The Peasantry Marest, Frederic The Seamy Side of History The Member for Arcis Marest, Georges The Peasantry Maufrigneuse...

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... CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Rescue by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ... his achievement has vindicated the purity of his mo- tives. He belongs to history. But there were others— obscure adventurers who had not his advanta... ...He wore a grey flannel shirt, and his white trou- sers were held by a blue silk scarf wound tightly round his narrow waist. He had come up only for a ... ...nly curtains closed the doorways. They seemed to be made of yellow Chinese silk, and fluttered all together, the four of them, as the two men entered ... ... in the households of chiefs, only the gold threads were tarnished and the silk frayed in the folds. His head was thrown back, the dropped eyelids nar... ...ated world could have been more inspiring to the most famous adventurer of history. From time to time he interrupted himself to ask, confidently, as i... ...s of belief in their importance befitting the chronicle of a crisis in the history of an empire. The shade of Jorgenson had, indeed, stepped back into...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, ...

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...ris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...s followed in the smallest details, and even to the ceiling of fluted blue silk, with long bands of white cash- mere falling at equal distances on the... ... drawing. A worthy priest instructed them in grammar, the French language, history, geography, and the very little arithmetic it was thought necessary... ..., but others were scattered upon the carpet, together with her gloves, her silk pelisse, and muff and hood. T ears were mingling with the pearls on he... ...adame Felix de Vandenesse is connected with so many points of the latter’s history for the last six years, that it would be unintel- ligible without a... ...ut a succinct account of the principal events of her life. CHAPTER III THE HISTORY OF A FORTUNATE WOMAN AMONG THE REMARKABLE MEN who owed their destin... ...entelled, waved, and scalloped; spider’s webs of gold and silver; mists of silk embroidered by fairy fingers; plumes col- ored by the fire of the trop...

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

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...Excerpt: The reader must not expect to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my readers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between them and me feelings of homely affection and regard attaching something of interest to matters e...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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