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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a bright Autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small, set i...

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...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, an...

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... Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...ans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between ... ...ict that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison V auquer) receives men and w... ...so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart. The lodging-house is Mme. Vauquer’s own pr... ...shall set out on my journey; I mean to bury myself in the remotest part of Normandy. I have had very little time to make my arrange- ments; since thre... .... If I fail, I shall go into a convent. Clara, where are you going?” “Into Normandy, to Courcelles. I shall love and pray there until the day when God...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... wide and far across a purple valley whose sides are terraced and set with houses of pine and ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire blue, and c... ...again at eventful dinners in those old dining-rooms like cellars below the House—dinners that ended with shrill division bells, I think of huge clubs ... ...ring project I could undertake. I could build whole towns with streets and houses and churches and citadels; I could bridge every 11 H G Wells gap in... ...y, who was also with us. “You know his reputa- tion,” said Margaret. “That Normandy girl. Every one knows about it. I shiver when I look at him. He se...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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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... ...Balzac. 4 A Daughter of Eve CHAPTER I THE TWO MARIES IN ONE OF THE FINEST HOUSES of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at half-past eleven at night, two yo... ... residence. T wo jardinieres were filled with the exotic product of a hot- house, pale, but divine flowers, the treasures of botany. In this cold, ord... ...the richest bankers in Paris, is enough to explain the luxury of the whole house, of which this boudoir is but a sample. Though without either rank or... ...tesse de Granville, she was living a retired life on one of her estates in Normandy, economizing and praying, ending her days between priests and mone... ...avorite child. Well, then! in case all other means failed, she would go to Normandy. The dreadful sight of the morning, the effects she had made to re...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l 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... ...oun- tain, at the foot of which lies the village of Conches (the last post-house), I had seen the long valley of Aigues, at the far- ther end of which... ...a veil of threads whose delicacy puts to shame the lace-makers. Beside the house blue larkspur, nas- turtium, and sweet-peas are blooming. From a dist... ...f some great cathedral, the choir being formed of the main building of the house seen at the end of it. When the setting sun casts its orange tones mi... ... for men, commodities, and money were obeyed in Provence, in the depths of Normandy, on the borders of Brittany, as they were at the great centres of ... ...sville, “I would not leave it. I myself have had just such difficulties in Normandy, only under another form; I persisted in my course, and now everyt... ...d now everything goes well.” “Monsieur le marquis,” said the sub-prefect, “Normandy and Burgundy are two very different regions. The grape heats the b...

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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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...ics Series Publication The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac 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... ...ed him finely!” The Comte d’Herouville, one of the most rabid royalists in Normandy, kept the part of that province which adjoins Brittany under subje... ...tory closed the discussion, impru- dently started by a seigneur from Lower Normandy. The guests were silent, looking with a sort of terror at the pret... ...ancy in watering them. Next, she saw confusedly the vast town and the vast house blackened by age, to which her mother took her when she was seven yea... ...n of her father; she saw him getting off his mule at the door of the manor-house, and taking her by the hand to lead her up the stairs; she recalled h... ... Chaverny’s care she and her mother found refuge in a little town of Lower Normandy. Soon the deaths of other relatives made her one 14 The Hated Son... ...,—a man, moreover, whose influence was destined to make itself felt in the house of Herouville. Never in any age were the nobles so little informed as...

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...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. 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... ...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... ...ow of the loss of my little brother Percy from measles. The dear old place—house with five gables on the garden front, black timbered, and with white ... ...e town which is al- most at our park-gates. She was always confined to the house by rheumatic-gout. She had grown up with my brothers. I sometimes won... ... T racy.” Viola’s carriage was now actually coming, and as I went into the house with her, she held me, whispering to me to come home at once with her... ...elf so that he will sleep. He says he will see me at once to my retreat in Normandy. I think it will be best for him.” Count Stanislas was, in fact, o...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... high distinction for wit and beauty, the daughter of an illustrious Irish House, came under the shadow of a calumny. It has latterly been exam- ined ... ...roken loose from her husband for good, and she entered the room absolutely houseless!’ She was not the less ‘astonishingly brilliant.’ Her observa- ti... ...ld me a word of yourself. What has been done with the old Crossways?’ ‘The house, you know, is mine. And it’s all I have: ten acres and the house, fur... ...sk paused rayless on the western hills. ‘A Dacier ought to feel at home in Normandy; and you may have sprung from this neighbourhood,’ said she, sim- ...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...x by Honore 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... ...nto a mall where the inhabitants took their pleasure beneath the elms. The houses of the old town have suffered no change; and they have neither incre... ... circulate, the floor planks bending beneath them, but never breaking. The houses of the mer- chants are small and low; their fronts are veneered with... ...snics have never had it quar- tered; it is always itself, like that of the house of France, which connoisseurs find inescutcheoned in the shields of m... ... the reason of this peculiarity, which ceases in the adjoining province of Normandy. Waiting its solution, this odd fact is there before our eyes; fai... ...fallen at his feet saying, “T ake me!” But Beatrix, born on the borders of Normandy and Brittany, belonged to the race of Casterans; desertion had dev...

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...Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to mak...

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...E M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...hus it was with the village of Lynwood, where, among the cottages and farm-houses oc- cupying a fertile valley in Somersetshire, arose the ancient Kee... ...an end to the sport. CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 THE HOUSE of Lynwood had long been famed for loyalty, which had often cost them... ...ast time he would leave her. “I will but bestow Eustace in some honourable household, where he may be trained in knightly lore—that of Chandos, percha... ...r had been treacherously put to death by King John of France, when Duke of Normandy, and his brother had been murdered by an Englishman—his native Bri...

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... Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is fu... ...sity. 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 i... ...itor, Hazle ton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. [Exit.] SCENE III: A room in Polonius’ house. [Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA .] LAERTES: My necessaries are embark’... ...burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul... ...r. [Exeunt.] Hamlet, Act I, scene v 27 ACT II SCENE I: A room in POLONIUS’ house. [Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO .] LORD POLONIUS : Give him this mon... ..., Importing health and graveness. T wo months since, Here was a gentleman of Normandy:— I’ve seen myself, and served against, the French, And they can...

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...r 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... ...ts curvature; it seemed on the point of giving way under the weight of the house, the gable of which overhung it by at least half a foot. The municipa... ...d to the two upper floors which were in turn sur- mounted by an attic. The house, backing against two ad- joining houses, had no depth and derived all... ... de la Vieille-Poste. In the middle-ages no artisan was better lodged. The house had evidently belonged in those times to makers of halberds and battl... ...llion to-day. Divided ad infinitum by our present system of inher- itance, Normandy will lose half her production of horses and cattle; but she will h...

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...Excerpt: In the early spring of 1822, the Paris doctors sent to Lower Normandy a young man just recovering from an inflammatory complaint, brought on by overstudy, or perhaps by excess of some other kind. His convalescence demanded complete rest, a light...

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...Deserted Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...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... ... August 1835. IN THE EARLY SPRING OF 1822, the Paris doctors sent to Lower Normandy a young man just recovering from an inflamma- tory complaint, brou... ...ng Parisian in ques- tion, had spent two or three evenings in his cousin’s house, or with the friends who made up Mme. de Sainte-Severe’s circle, he v... ... to the Cadignans, and the Blamont-Chauvrys. The head of the il- lustrious house is invariably a determined sportsman. He has no manners, crushes ever... ...oyally devoted to princes whom they only see at a distance. The historical house incognito is as quaint a sur- vival as a piece of ancient tapestry. V... ... seed. M. de Nueil did not know that Mme. de Beauseant had taken refuge in Normandy, after a notoriety which women for the most part envy and condemn,... ...whom he had spent two months of exile in that out-of-the-world district of Normandy, that he could not but find in her the realization of his romantic...

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...Excerpt: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hier...

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...lara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publicati... ...the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell 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... ...ner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The thr... ...ng each other like slates, in order, no doubt, not to overweight the frail house. One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully wrap... ...y wrapped in his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In point ... ...discount, which, as was his wont, he never refused point- blank. T wo good Normandy horses were dying of their own fat in the stables of the big house...

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...Excerpt: At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, and there was therefore no need of any clue to his name. But...

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...Series Publication Going into Society by Charles Dickens 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... Going into Society by Charles Dickens A T ONE PERIOD of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its... ...stered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, and there was therefore no need of any clue to his name. But, he him... ... if he had been tattooed, was found smoking a pipe at the door of a wooden house on wheels. The wooden house was laid up in ordinary for the winter, n... ...th a Pedigree), and Mr. Chops said to this Bon- net, who said his name was Normandy, which it wasn’t: “Normandy, I’m a goin into Society. Will you go ... ... it wasn’t: “Normandy, I’m a goin into Society. Will you go with me?” Says Normandy: “Do I understand you, Mr. Chops, to hintimate that the ‘ole of th... ... and Mr. Chops said: “Gentlemen, this is a old friend of former days:” and Normandy looked at me through a eye-glass, and said, “Magsman, glad to see ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s...

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...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...er 58 M. Noirtier de Villefort. WE WILL NOW RELATE what was passing in the house of the king’s attor- ney after the departure of Madame Danglars and h... ...forehand that Valentine’s future husband will consent, not to live in this house, for that might not be pleasant for the young people, but that you sh... ...so where he has everything to gain.” “And,” said Villefort, “is it at your house in the Champs-Elysees that you receive your visitors?” “No,” said Mon... ...“I now advise you to go in quest of the little estate I spoke to you of in Normandy.” Bertuccio bowed, and as his wishes were in perfect harmony with ... ... which had not occurred to Andrea either, by the arrival of Bertuccio from Normandy with intelligence respecting the house and sloop. The house was re... ...are alone, — although it is immaterial to me, — where are we going?” “Into Normandy, if you like.” “Delightful; shall we be quite retired? have no soc...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...

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...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...tion, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the gr... ...k-walnut bookcases and finial-topped chairs which was the only room in the house where Mrs. Ar- cher allowed smoking. But, in the first place, New Y o... ...box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facing him was the box of old Mrs. Manson Mingott, whose mo... ...laken and Grindelwald, and August at a little place called Etretat, on the Normandy coast, which some one had recommended as quaint and quiet. Once or...

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...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James 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... ...e. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi- cally national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Bur- gundy, Provence is Provence; but Tou... ...Balzac, of good books and good company, as well as good din- ners and good houses. George Sand has somewhere a charming passage about the mildness, th... ...- sions to the monumental; it was constructed a hundred years ago, and the houses, all alike, have on a moderate scale a pompous eighteenth-century lo... ...walked toward the bridge on the right-hand trottoir you can look up at the house, on the other side of the way, in which Honore de Balzac first saw th... ...ohier, a public functionary who had grown rich in handling the finances of Normandy, and had acquired the estate from a family which, after giving it ...