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...e M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a pub... ...Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publica- tion 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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pen... ...lfil her daily duties. Years passed on, and still she felt the blank which Harry had left, almost as much as the first day that she heard of his death... ...ich Lily intended her sis- ter to govern the household, and to which Emily listened without knowing what she meant much better than she did herself. E... ...olroom table with her work, and summoned every one, however oc- cupied, to listen to the reading. CHAPTER IV—HONEST P CHAPTER IV—HONEST P CHAPTER IV—H... ...re. Well, it is curious that you should know him; and did you ever hear of Harry, the brother that we lost?’ ‘I remember Captain Mohun’s being called ... ...nes and Characters the rest of the holidays between the Cathedral and Paul Potter’s bull. No, I shall have nothing to say to you at that rate,’ said C...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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...roods, or Developments Unlooked For 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... ...hen you met her at Castle T owers, she asked you whether you had a brother Harry.” “Yes, she did. I only said yes, but he was going to be a clergyman,... ... is a painful matter to mention to Bessie or any of the Stokesley cousins. Harry was never like the rest, I believe, but I had never seen him since he... ...Mrs. Best. She was glad that at the moment the sound of the piano set them listening. She did not feel bound to mention to “sister” any more than she ... ... countenance in the world. All this passed through her mind while Magdalen listened, and pronounced— “That is brilliant—a clever touch—only—” “Yes, th... ...n out to take a certain public part; Aunt Jane, who only wished to live to potter about among neighbours, poor and rich, must needs come out of her tr... ...rs ways that had certainly produced fine strong healthy frames and upright characters, but she for- bore to say that if her little girl had to be left...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII.

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...nd brought to us regularly by a woman in the neighborhood, who had from me a list of forty dishes to be prepar’d for us at different times, in all whi... ...er the re ceipt of my letter, persuaded her to marry another, one Rogers, a potter, which was done in my absence. With him, however, she was never ha... ...se bought, intending him for a compositor, of whom more presently; and David Harry, a country boy, whom he had taken apprentice. I soon perceiv’d that... ...and there lived some years in very poor circumstances. His apprentice, David Harry, whom I had instructed while I work’d with him, set up in his place... ...erhaps more persons are at a loss for the means of improving their minds and characters, than they are for the time or the inclination to do it. But t... ...son, that I am anxious to see the opinion es tablished, that there are fair characters existing among the individuals of the race; for the moment tha... ... anxiety and too much injured by pain. In the hope, therefore, that you will listen to the prayer addressed to you in this letter, I beg to subscribe ...