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... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty. This Por- table 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 Pennsylvania State U... ... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...hip came into being. (Swathinglea, Clayton, and Overcastle were contiguous towns, I should mention, in the great in- dustrial area of the Midlands.) W... ...turned to me. “Wouldn’t you like to see?” I had to look, and then I had to listen, how that this scarce- visible intruder was to be, was presently to ... ...a beerhouse or so, and round until all the valley in which four industrial towns lay crowded and confluent was overlooked. I will admit that with the ... ...want to start meetings of an evening on Howden’s Waste.” “You think they’d listen?” “They’d listen fast enough now.” “They didn’t before,” said Parloa...

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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... ...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. Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yon... ...be said of the room, where heavy old-fashioned furniture, handsome but not new, was concealed by various flimsy modernisms, knicknacks, fans, brackets... ...n if you cannot unpack.” She led the way, and disposed of each girl in her new quarters, explaining to Agatha that her’s and her little lodger were on... ...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... ... a course of lectures on electricity at Canterbury, Auckland and the other towns, and proposing to her to come out with her lady assistant, when she m...