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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...ograph By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte M. Yonge My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph By Charlotte M. Yonge PREF PREF PREF PR... ...y kept out of sight, and we came out into a very cold raw street, with the stars twinkling over- head, smiling at us with joy I thought, and the bells... ...ess on most people. Lord Erymanth rejoiced, and we agreed that it was very lucky for me that I preferred Harold, since I should have had to yield up m...

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...Excerpt: Herman Melville. I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day. Though I always say, I and my chimney, as Cardinal Wols...

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... H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication England, My England by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. England, My England by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents England, My England ................................................................... ... the effort to recall what was too great. No, no; no recall! Were they the stars in the dark sky? Was it possible it was stars in the dark sky? Stars?... ...was stars in the dark sky? Stars? The world? Ah, no, he could not know it! Stars and the world were gone for him, he closed 34 D. H. Lawrence his eye... ...and the world were gone for him, he closed 34 D. H. Lawrence his eyes. No stars, no sky, no world. No, No! The thick dark- ness of blood alone. It sh... ...king girl. What’s wrong with her, my boy? I should have thought you were a lucky chap, myself.’ ‘I don’t want ‘er,’ Joe barked, with ferocity and rese... ...e pale grey pavements, under the wall of T rinity Church. ‘Well, strike me lucky!’ said the taxi driver at last, out of breath. ‘She wor th’ best o’ t...

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... By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Penn... ... the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frederick Douglas My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas By a principle essential to ... ...e best place; and few left the trough really satisfied. I was the most un- lucky of any, for Aunt Katy had no good feeling for me; and if I pushed any... ...was prepared to hail Him as my friend and deliverer. I had read, that the “stars shall fall from heaven”; and they were 123 Frederick Douglas now fal...

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...Excerpt: ?Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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...th is strange, Stranger than fiction.” I THINK IT BUT RIGHT that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titl... ... before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as fol... ... visiting ticket, the world will avoid any of those awkward mistakes as to my person, which have been so frequent of late. There has been no end to th... ...but for the similarity of our names. The circumstance was this: I had been lucky enough to render the Nawaub of Lucknow some trifling service (in the ... ... Loll Mahommed’s feet, I felt peace return- ing to my mind, and thanked my stars that I was delivered of this danger. “Vizier,” said Holkar, who enjoy...

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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 somethi...

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...NER 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 sh... ...e may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my read ers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between... ...d attaching something of interest to matters ever so slightly connected with my fortunes or my specula tions, even my place of residence might one da... ...e. I have been called the gentlemanly chronicle. You may consider yourself a lucky dog; upon my soul, you may congratulate yourself, though I say so. ... ... upon his breast; an eye of fire looking up to Heaven in supplication to the stars that watched me at my work. I had to meet my wife, and break the ne...

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... receipt of any salary, and consequently was not obnoxious to the implacable Jorkins, there was no difficulty about it. I took that opportunity, with my voice sticking in my throat, and my sight failing as I uttered the words, to express my hope that Miss Spenlow was quite well; to which Mr. Spenlow replied, with no more emotion than if he had been speaking of an ordinary ...

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...e Jorkins, there was no difficulty about it. I took that opportunity, with my voice sticking in my throat, and my sight failing as I uttered the words... ...king in my throat, and my sight failing as I uttered the words, to express my hope that Miss Spenlow was quite well; to which Mr. Spenlow replied, wit... ... of proctors, were treated with so much con- sideration, that I was almost my own master at all times. As I did not care, however, to get to Highgate ... ...ight, rarely did I look up at David Copperfield Vol. II 55 the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his so... ...e Memorial than ever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that un- lucky head of King Charles the First got into it. Seriously apprehending th... ...rted. I glanced at the serene face looking upward, and thought it was the stars that made it seem so noble. There has been no change at home, said ... ...ttle Dora in her company. I stood awhile, looking through the porch at the stars, with a heart full of love and gratitude, and then walked slowly fort...

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...Excerpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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... OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE THE EVENING BEFORE my departure for Blithedale, I was re turning to my bachelor apartments, a... ...e V eiled Lady, it may not be amiss to mention, for the benefit of such of my readers as are unacquainted with her now forgotten celebrity, that she w... ...has cer tainly accorded with the event. I was turning over this riddle in my mind, and trying to catch its slippery purport by the tail, when the old... ...e, and has as little hope of personal intercourse as of climbing among the stars of heaven. We men are too gross to comprehend it. Even a woman, of ma... ... flickered on the topmost boughs; gray twilight made the wood obscure; the stars brightened out; the pendent boughs be came wet with chill autumnal d... ...rake, if it’s as deep as you say. Mr. Hollingsworth, I think you’ll be the lucky man to night, such luck as it is.” We floated past the stump. Silas F... ...had only lost her shoe in the mud, and saved her soul alive, after all. My stars! how she will laugh at us, to morrow morning!” It is indescribable wh...

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...laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...n’d out a Tory at Last,— yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of ... ... With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ‘four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye;’ ‘Which pye being o... ... your lakes for ocean. I would not imitate the petty thought, Nor coin my self love to so base a vice, For all the glory your conversion broug... ...ught about himself, and the whole earth Of man the wonderful, and of the stars, And how the deuce they ever could have birth; And then he th... ...anto One” 28 ‘T was, as the watchmen say, a cloudy night; No moon, no stars, the wind was low or loud By gusts, and many a sparkling hearth w... ...pleasantly, And if you had it o’er again— ‘t would pass— So thank your stars that matters are no worse, And read your Bible, sir, and mind you... ... men, saving Sylla the man slayer, Who passes for in life and death most lucky, Of the great names which in our faces stare, The General Boo... ...lowing eulogy much more than satire, he May like being praised for every lucky blunder, Call’d ‘Saviour of the Nations’ — not yet saved, And ‘... ...onours, Which show’d what great discernment was the donor’s. But she was lucky, and luck ‘s all. Your queens Are generally prosperous in reign...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you no...

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... of the Ottoman Empire. Dear Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you ha... ...teenth Century,” you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some po... ... gained your good opinion, that I have striven to deserve it by continuing my labors with the unflagging courage character- istic of your methods of s... ...ot talk. You have robbed us of the most charm- ing woman in the world, you lucky rogue; we may be al- lowed to steal your less brilliant ideas,” cried... ...teal your less brilliant ideas,” cried Rastignac. 51 Balzac “Yes, he is a lucky rascal,” said the Vidame, and he twitched Blondet’s ear. “But perhaps... ...uld like to see that man,” she said, letting her eyes shine like two fixed stars. “What would you do?” “Why, he should manage my affairs for me.” Dian... ...e clever enough always to give a new charm to the moon, to romanticize the stars, to roll in the same sack of charcoal and emerge each time whiter tha... ...extremities with the heir-presumptive of the house. Chesnel turned the un- lucky letters over one by one, and asked the enemy to keep the secret. This...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of a...

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...ed in Love.” Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of ... ...etail of the Misfor- tunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said “No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in ... ...; and may the fortitude with which I have suffered the many afflictions of my past Life, prove to her a useful lesson for the support of those which m... ...m him a single sigh, nor induced him to bestow one curse on our vindictive stars—. He told Sophia that his Daughter depended on her returning with hi... ...a I was most fortunately releived by an accident truly apropos; it was the lucky overturning of a Gentleman’s Phaeton, on the road which ran mur- muri... ...old turkey, a cold tongue, and half a dozen Jellies with us, which we were lucky enough with the 44 Love and Friendship help of our Landlady, her hus...

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...way from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearyi...

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... it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re- quire. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided betwe... ...han with a hopeful glance to- wards the time when I shall again put forth my two green leaves once a month, and with a faith- 4 David Copperfield ... ... it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re- quire. My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided betw... ...a chop s the very thing to take off the bad effects of that beer! Ain t it lucky? So he took a chop by the bone in one hand, and a potato in the othe... ...g, he said, taking up a table-spoon, is my favourite pudding! Ain t that lucky? Come on, little un, and let s see who ll get most. The waiter cert... ...er- sonages in my eyes; but Steerforth was to them what the sun was to two stars. Steerforth continued his protection of me, and proved a very useful ... ...ion of favouritism to degrade me. To degrade you? said Mr. Creakle. My stars! But give me leave to ask you, Mr. What s-your- name ; and here Mr. C... ...the chaise again soon after dark, and drove cosily back, looking up at the stars, and talking about them. I was their chief exponent, and opened Mr. B... ...f my way to Dover in a shirt and a pair of trousers, and might deem myself lucky if I got there even in that trim. But my mind did not run so much on ...

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...used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fullness...

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...ill not go out of the flesh,” was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years’ affliction, and ... ...ought that the native propensity to rambling which I gave an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predomi- nant in my thoug... ... sit still, and fully enjoy what I had got, and see it increase daily upon my hands. Yet all these things had no effect upon me, or at least not enoug... ...er, who thereupon made a most generous offer: “You know it has been an un- lucky ship,” said he, “and we both resolve not to go to sea in it again; if... ...were mere pagans, sacrificing to idols, and worshipping the sun, moon, and stars, or all the host of heaven; and not only so, but were, of all the hea... ...lude we were still there; but as soon as it was dark, and we could see the stars (for our guide would not stir before), having all our horses and came...

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...ped) by Robert Louis Stevenson DEDICATION. To Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet. My Dear Charles, IT IS THE FATE OF SEQUELS to disappoint those who... ...harles, IT IS THE FATE OF SEQUELS to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustr... ...s when I last addressed you – in the venerable city which I must always think of as my home. And I have come so far; and the sights and thoughts of my... ...u why; it just seems it was the thing he wanted. She had wonderful bright eyes like stars, and I daresay the eyes had a part in it; but what I remembe... ...etition you will not forget me. David Balfour is the name I am known by. This is my lucky day, when I have just come into a landed estate, and am not ... ...e in mind for the sake of Balwhidder,” said I, “and I will yours for the sake of my lucky day.” “My name is not spoken,” she replied, with a great dea... ...ll pleased with Neil of the T om.” “Miss Drummond,” I said, “I told you I was in my lucky day. Here I am, and a bank-porter at my tail. And remember I... ...h it. I was in this frame, my heart beating, the grey eyes plain before me like two stars, when Andie broke in upon my musing. “I see ye has gotten gu... ...warmth) from the first blink of the sun till eight or nine at night under the clear stars. The merchants or Captain Sang would sometimes glance and sm...

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........................................................................... 4 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY ...................................................... ...Stories by Rudyard Kipling THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest. —Evening Hymn. ONE OF THE FEW ad... ...lls. Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as a right, have, even within my memory, blunted this open-heartedness, but none the less to-day, if you ... ...lls. These haunt well curbs and the fringes of jungles, and wail under the stars, or catch women by the wrist and beg to be taken up and carried. Thes... ...where on the nape of my 53 Rudyard Kipling neck. A hundred thousand fiery stars danced before my eyes, and I fell forwards senseless at the edge of, ... ... night Mail set me down at Marwar Junction, where a funny little, happy-go-lucky, na- tive-managed railway runs to Jodhpore. The Bombay Mail from Delh...

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...s of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...opular preju dice (at which point I thought the judge’s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admit ted, a triv... ... have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand: Pity me, th... ...spontaneous com bustion has been denied since the death of Mr. Krook; and my good friend Mr. Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing th... ... a beautiful view (we saw a great expanse of darkness lying underneath the stars), to which there was a hollow window seat, in which, with a spring lo... ...irst they were faintly dis cernible in the mist, and above them the later stars still glim mered. That pale interval over, the picture began to enla... ...he Giant Killer or of Sinbad the Sailor than he knows of the people in the stars. He could as 289 Bleak House – Vol. One soon play at leap frog or at... ...s the appointed time at last. Shall I go?” Mr. Guppy nods and gives him a “lucky touch” on the back, but not with the washed hand, though it is his ri...

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...bours, ran often in his mind at sea to the tune of slatting canvas, and were dismissed (something of the suddenest) on the approach of squalls. It is my hope that these surroundings of its manufacture may to some degree find favour for my story with seafarers and sea-lovers like yourselves....

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...urs, ran often in his mind at sea to the tune of slatting canvas, and were dismissed (something of the suddenest) on the approach of squalls. It is my... ...something of the suddenest) on the approach of squalls. It is my hope that these surroundings of its manufacture may to some degree find favour for my... ...pical island near upon ten thousand miles from Boscombe Chine and Manor: scenes which rise before me as I write, along with the faces and voices of my... ..., there was nothing in this contretemps to affect the mind of any soldier; but he had a quick perception of the men’s wishes, and it was plain this lu... ... I remember his laying his finger on the clean lozenge of the painted window one day when we three were alone together in the hall. “Here went your lu... ...either slept nor yet sat down, but kept his watch with a perpetual and straining vigilance, and it was even with unconcern that (when he saw by the st...

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...our: Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while cove...

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...ud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon ... ...l discordant wavering multitude, 4 Can play upon it. But what need I thus My well known body to anatomize Among my household? Why is Rumour here? I r... ...n Even with the rebel’s blood. But what mean I To speak so true at first? my office is To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell Under the wrath of no... ...uiet. PISTOL: Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf: what! we have seen the seven stars. DOLL TEARSHEET : For God’s sake, thrust him down stairs: I cannot e... ...friend, And helter skelter have I rode to thee, And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price. FALSTAFF: I pray thee...

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...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made...

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...n the original edition. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between... ...s. Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following papers in my hands, with the liberty to dis pose of them as I should think fit. I ... ...the work as much as possible to the general capacity of readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes... ...t, and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would i... ... lie on the ground, wrapped up in my coverlet. CHAPTER VIII The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some difficulti... ...th. Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars... ...g. He showed me also, in one of his books, the figures of the sun, moon, and stars, the zo diac, the tropics, and polar circles, together with the de...

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...Excerpt: Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has...

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...eorge Sand Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radi- ance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-i... ...hange. The goodly company of friendly names, which will remain attached to my works, forms an element of pleasure in the midst of the vexation caused ... ...ct, gives rise to fresh annoyance, were it only in the reproaches aimed at my too prolific pen, as though it could rival in fertility the world from w... ...s I was going to bed, to look at the sky, which was wonderfully clear. The stars were like silver nails, holding up a veil of blue. In the silence of ... ...of the night I could hear some one breathing, and by the half-light of the stars I saw my Spaniard, perched like a squirrel on the branches of one of ... ... and heard nothing of the letter, then I said aloud: “Come and look at the stars, Griffith.” Griffith was sleeping as only old maids can. But the Moor... ...moted. He can now wear the ribbon of an officer of the Le- gion. You are a lucky woman, Renee, and you will probably have a little girl, since that us... ...th of the streets. Where is the change, pray—in them or in you? Y ou are a lucky woman to be able to believe in happiness. I 180 Letters of Two Bride...