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Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, a...

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Excerpt: A Little Tour in France by Henry James.

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...or the whole place is strangely vulgar and garish. The Catholic church, as churches go to-day, is certainly the most spec- tacular; but it must feel t... ...you feel that the building has something to say, and that you must stop to listen to it. Within, it has a vast and splendid nave, of immense height,—t... ... and some ad- mirable old glass. I spent half an hour there one morn- ing, listening to what the church had to say, in perfect solitude. Not a worship... ...n some rural novel of Madame Sand. I passed a couple of timber and plaster churches, which looked very old, black, and crooked, and had lumpish wooden... ...Protestant painter; no one can forget that, who in the National Gallery in London has looked at the picture in which he represents several young ladie...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication... ...f the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Wa... ...ion Moise Piedefer bought up the nationalized land, pulled down abbeys and churches with all the zeal of his ancestors, oddly enough, and married a Ca... ...e—He simply cannot pay—” “Monsieur—” “Y ou are hasty,” said des Lupeaulx. “Listen. He cannot pay in money. Well, then; you, a clever man, can take pay... ...er put down one hundred thousand—” “My dear sir, recrimination is useless. Listen to a simple statement in political arithmetic: The collectorship at ... ... said Bianchon. “This misfortune is unknown in England,” exclaimed Dinah. “London does not exert such tyranny as that by which Paris oppresses France—... ... form of superiority; it lives in the midst of magnificent parks; it is in London for no more than two months. It lives in the country, flourish- ing ...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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...assics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...pointment; and Sir Richard V arney the other, dying about the same time in London, cried miserably, and blasphemed God, and said to a person of note (... ...ot leave my house at this hour, and shalt e’en have whatever in reason you list to call for. But I would I knew that that purse of thine, which thou v... ...; and let my nephew and Master Goldthred swagger about their wager as they list.” “It seems to me, mine host,” said T ressilian, “that you know not we... ...es- ence-chamber—recommended from the pulpit—prayed for in the Calvinistic churches abroad—touched on by statists in the very council at home. These b... ...on his couch “Earth does wish for it. I have had advices from the reformed churches of Germany—from the Low Countries— from Switzerland—urging this as...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of...

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... Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not ...

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...ation Little Dorrit, Book Two: Riches by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Dorrit, Book Two: Riches by Charles Dickens, the Pennsyl... ...ders, walked through miles of palaces, and rested in dark corners of great churches; where there were winking lamps of gold and silver among pillars a... ...—is intimate with Mrs Merdle, and I know these two to be on their visiting list.’ ‘If so, a more undeniable guarantee could not be given,’ said Mrs Ge... ...hy, you see,’ said Fanny, with a frank action of her pretty shoulders, ‘in London one knows every one. We met her on our way here, and, to say the tru... ...anged so, and sprang at him. Henry believes it, but we do not. I see he is listening, but can’t hear. Good-bye, my love! Good-bye!’ The last words wer... ...st as the debtors had been brought into the prison. They prowled about the churches and picture-galleries, much in the old, dreary, prison-yard manner...

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...that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

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...y R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of t... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, ... ...ords and manners of the men you meet. Your other self will be always there—listening, dancing, feeling her finger-tips pressed—with you. If only I cou... ... for any of them; not one has roused in me the emotion which I feel when I listen to Garcia in his splendid duet with Pellegrini in Otello. Heavens! h... ...estations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtu... ...in regard to Sardinia are postponed. This country is simple ravishing. The churches—above all, the chapels —have a seductive, bewitching air, which mu...

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...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary...

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... Series Publication The Caged Lion 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Caged Lion in Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...atharine’s-by-the-T ower, its history is to be found in Stowe’s ‘Survey of London,’ and likewise in the evidence before the Parliamentary Commission, ... ...se.’ ‘The old purpose, Malcolm? Nay, that hath been answered before.’ ‘But listen, listen, dear Uncle. I have not spoken of it for a full year now. So... ...r the boy, talk- ing to him of books and of poems, while the usually pale, listless, uninterested countenance responded by looks of ea- ger delight an... ...d fruitful with mulberries, apples, and strawberries, and the mansions and churches that were never quite out of sight, though there were some open fi... .... I would kiss your every step, pray with you, bestow alms with you, found churches, endow your Beguines, and render our change from our childish purp...

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...Excerpt: Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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Excerpt: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur?s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...arge 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 Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Sa... ...le were gracious and courtly; and I noticed that they were good and serious listeners when anybody was telling anything — I mean in a dog fightless i... ...t pat tern with a most gentle and winning naivety, and ready and willing to listen to anybody else’s lie, and believe it, too. It A Connecticut Yanke... ...ountry, from one end to the other, was in a pitiable state of panic, and the churches, hermitages, and monkeries overflowed with praying and weeping p... ... in a peck at a time, in a dozen places. We could have blown up the Tower of London with these charges. When A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Co... ...fect freedom in that matter. But I confined public religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday schools, permitting nothing of it in my other ed...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State U... ...at sort would never think of retreating. Their spectral advance on quaking London through Kentish hopgardens, Sussex corn-fields, or by the pleasant h... ...they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laughter, but app... ...mpany better than that of his equals, and learnt more from them. They also listened deferentially to their instructor. The conversation he delighted i... ..., and spied for the Bianchina behind the window-bars. The count was in the churches or the Galleries. Renee thought she began to comprehend the spirit... ...is tired of standing gazing at pictures. There is a Veronese in one of the churches of the Giudecca opposite. Will you, M. Nevil, act as parade-escort...

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...d, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if ... ...on in itself indicates a profound ignorance of the nature of the Christian churches. With the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Chr... ...either in precedent or pro- fession, for expecting any plain lead from the churches in this tremendous task of organising and making effective the wid... ... different times have been of very different qualities; at the head of the list are the English who went over in the May- flower; at the bottom will b... ...unds so gal- lantly in our cordite factories—there is a not inconsiderable list of dead and wounded from those places—have killed for ever the poor ar...

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...Excerpt: PART I; CHAPTER I -- IN the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak --there might be seen in districts far away among the...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I, 1 -- CHAPTER II, 10 -- CHAPTER III, 16 -- CHAPTER IV, 25 -- CHAPTER V, 31 -- CHAPTER VI, 35 -- CHAPTER VII, 43 -- CHAPTER VIII, 48 -- CHAPTER IX, 55 -- CHAPTER X, 61 -- CHAPTER XI, 73 -- CHAPTER XII, 8...

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...Silas Marner GEORGE ELIOT 1861 SILAS MARNER: THE WEA VER OF RA VELOE. “A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to de... ...ENTS PART I CHAPTER I I N the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses — and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace,... ...eat ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak — there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes... ... lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak — there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, c... ... of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty ... ... he could never arrive at anything higher than hope mingled with fear, and listened with longing wonder when William declared that he had possessed un... ...usual posture of leaning on his knees, and supporting his head. “There was churches — a many — it was a big town. But I know nothing of ’em — I went t... ...ssions, rising to the climax of Mr. Kimble’s experience when he walked the London hospitals thirty years back, together with striking pro fessional a...

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Nau... ...ert Naunton A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragme... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert ... ...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... ...IN ENGLAND AND FRAGMENTA REGALIA INTRODUCTION QUEEN ELIZABETH HERSELF, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of ... ...utiful structure. It is magnificently ornamented with public buildings and churches, of which there are above one hundred and twenty parochial. On the... ...mous for the commerce of many nations; its houses are elegantly built, its churches fine, its towns strong, and its riches and abundance surprising. T... ...quent letters and complaints to the Deputy Mountjoy for cashiering of that list as soon as he could, might be collected, for the Queen was then driven... ... Moreover, it will be a true note of her providence, that she would always listen to her profit: for she would not refuse the *Fathers. **During Queen...

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...ajor Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw is a publication 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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernar... ...fight for the difference between the Christmas num- ber of the Illustrated London News and the Kelmscott Chaucer is silly: they prefer the News. The d... ... their own business. THE SALVATION ARMY WHEN MAJOR BARBARA was produced in London, the second act was reported in an important northern newspaper as a... ...must save the world’s honor if he is to save his own. This is what all the Churches find just as the Salvation Army and Barbara find it in the play. H... ...daily and diligently provoking. At such moments it becomes the duty of the Churches to evoke all the powers of destruction against the existing or- de... ...ry penalties, atonements, redemptions, salva- tions, hospital subscription lists and what not, to enable us to contract-out of the moral code. Not con...

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw, the Pen... ...ng tradesman who must be taken as the typical manager (for the West end of London is not the whole theatrical world) is by no means equally qualified ... ...f Lords then proceeded to its selection. As fashionable drama in Paris and London concerns itself almost exclusively with adultery, the first choice f... ...ilities of the Court on the one side, or the avowed prejudices of the Free Churches or the interests of the managers or theatri- cal speculators on th... ... abject Committee, and by a powerful smell of carnations, heading the long list of playwrights who came there to testify against the censorship, and w... ...If our judges had so little power there would be no law in England. If our churches had so much, there would be no theatre, no literature, no science,...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he w...

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...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence 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 docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylva- nia State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confidence by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...d been in 7 Henry James the church when he arrived; women liked to sit in churches; they had been there more than half an hour, and the mother had no... ...asion.” And he turned again with his sketch to her companion, who had been listen- ing to the girl’s conversation with this enterprising stranger, and... ...n, resting upon him her own two brilliant little specimens of the tint. He listened with that expression of clear amusement which is not always an ind... ...ripening orchard-boughs, and the gray tow- 117 Henry James ers of the old churches were silvered by the morning- light of France. At the end of some ... ...exclaimed; and she succeeded in making him promise to start that night for London. She had just done so when Mrs. Vivian presented her- self, and the ...

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...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pen... ...eased was to ask for a passport to England. V oltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a rich merchant at Wa... ...ill be moved by the Spirit or by folly. In this doubt and uncer- tainty we listen patiently to everyone; we even allow our women to hold forth. Two or... ... to preach. At first the spectators fell a-laugh- ing, but they afterwards listened to him; and as enthusiasm is an epidemical distemper, many were pe... ...e priests of this sect receive but very inconsiderable stipends from their churches, and consequently cannot emulate the splendid luxury of bishops, t... ...eaches through the nose, and gives the name of the whore of Babylon to all churches where the ministers are so fortunate as to enjoy an annual revenue...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...reader for my evenings; but I am fastidious in voices, and I cannot endure listening to an imperfect reader. It is a misfortune, in some senses: I fee... ...erverse Sir James. Why did he not pay attention to Celia, and leave her to listen to Mr. Casaubon?—if that learned man would only talk, instead of all... ...e in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke 16 Book I — Miss Brooke disliked London. Away from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James said... ... resist the rush of everything that is a little better than common towards London. Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer ... ...ef points of view, had been shown the grandest ruins and the most glorious churches, and she had ended by oftenest choosing to drive out to the Campag...