...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A... ...e Dove by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., in this view, offered scant relief from the vulgar little room; its main office was to suggest to her that the narrow black house-fronts, adjusted t... ...ust mentioned had never been really in the note of the situation. The main office of this relative for the young Croys—apart from giving them their fi... ...duced into the cage of the lioness. The cage was Aunt Maud’s own room, her office, her counting-house, her battlefield, her especial scene, in fine, o... ...y small with the very great, he would freely have likened to the rapids of Niagara. An uncriticised acquaintance between a clever young man and a resp...

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...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...RIES P P P P PUBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsyl... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...n the inner vestibule of the Audito- rium Theatre by the window of the box office, Laura Dearborn, her younger sister Page, and their aunt—Aunt Wess’—... ...o Mrs. Wessels: “By the way, Aunt Wess’; look at that man there by the box office window, the one with his back towards us, the one with his hands in ... ...nd forth, furious quarrels broke out between hansom drivers and the police officers, steaming horses with jingling bits, their backs covered with dark... ...c and majestic in a vast 64 The Pit flood from West to East, here, like a Niagara, finding its flow impeded, burst suddenly into the appalling fury o... ...llowing morning would the whirlpool, the great central force that spun the Niagara of wheat in its grip, thunder and bellow again. Later on even the w... ...through his ears, through his very brain, the combined bellow of a hundred Niagaras. Hands clutched and tore at him, his own tore and clutched in turn...

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...olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a public... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are de- serving of serious blame. No court-martial is deemed nece... ... I substitute the following: That, all provost-marshals and other military officers do pre- vent all disturbance and violence at or about the polls, w... ...United States under the super- vision and upon the responsibility of naval officers of such gov- ernments and in conformity to such regulations as may... ...N. HENRY J. RA YMOND. MY DEAR SIR:—I have proposed to Mr. Greeley that the Niagara correspondence be published, suppressing only the parts of his lett...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, ...

...y Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...to be summoned thence, like him, for apos tolic errands—were Custom House officers. Furthermore, on the left hand as you enter the front door, is a c... ...ermore, on the left hand as you enter the front door, is a certain room or office, about fifteen feet square, and of a lofty height, with two of its a... ... vain for the Locofoco Surveyor. The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emolumen... ...that much aided me in renewing and re creating the stalwart soldier of the Niagara frontier—the man of true and simple energy. It was the recollection...

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...d A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ich was very often on his lips, “We never make mistakes.” To the Company’s officers it took the form of a severe injunction, “We must make no mistakes... ... local authori- ties of Sulaco had fled for refuge to the O.S.N. Company’s offices, a strong building near the shore 18 Nostromo end of the jetty, le... ...ture with 20 Nostromo many windows two hundred yards away from the O.S.N. Offices, and the only other building near the harbour. Captain Mitchell, af... ...e United States through Cali- fornia, visit Yellowstone Park, see Chicago, Niagara, have a look at Canada, perhaps make a short stay in New York, a lo...

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State El... ...James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by Jame... ...squehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nish... ...t his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; and his rude dwelling was soon abandoned. The author... ...andoned. The author remembers it, a few years later, reduced to the humble office of a smoke-house. In 1779 an expedition was sent against the hostile... ...ith and yet unwilling to refuse her request. The Judge, for such being his office must in future be his title, watched with no little interest the dis... ...ccupants of the soil. Any one of our readers who has occasion to cross the Niagara may easily observe not only the self importance, but the real estim... ... sound of Bow-bells is out of his ears, within the roar of the cataract of Niagara; but shall only add that at a very early day , even before Elizabet... ... carry it about in. When I went with Sir William agin’ the French, at Fort Niagara, all the rangers used the rifle; and a dreadful weapon it is, in th...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ...nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. N... ... purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associate... ...wn our backs—an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. Harris carried the little watch- like machine called a “pedometer,”... ... logs and relieved the pilot of his pole and his responsibility. We went tearing along in a most exhilarating way, and I performed the delicate duties... ... young girls sit pottering at some sort of ladylike sewing-work in your neighborhood and can’t seem to see you—polite as three-dollar clerks in gov- e... ...ndred feet, mainly over (not around) boulders averaging six feet high, and in the course of the journey climb up and jump from the top of one precipic...

...opeans by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...h’s classmate at Harvard Col- lege in the year 1809, and who came into his office in Devonshire Street. (Mr. Wentworth, in his later years, used to go... ...r. Wentworth, in his later years, used to go but three times a week to his office, where he had a large amount of highly confidential trust-business t... ...you like to travel about and see something of the country? Won’t you go to Niagara? You ought to see Niagara, you know.” “With you, do you mean?” “I s... ...sults,” said Acton, “I am glad I am what I am. You had much better come to Niagara.” “If you wish to ‘amuse’ me,” the Baroness declared, “you need go ... ... Madame M; auunster seemed, however, half to break it. “I will tell you—at Niagara!” she said. She had hardly spoken when the door at the further 115... ...ment denominated, for reasons not immedi- ately apparent, Mr. Wentworth’s “office:” an extremely neat and well-dusted room, with an array of law-books...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage h...

...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...nd was then caught up by the war and had a year of soldiering, first as an officer in the English infantry and then in the army of pacification. His b... ...l cold and a little hungry.’ He bethought himself of the John Burns Relief Offices which stood upon the Thames Embankment. He made his way through the... ...he hotel colonnade to the Embankment. He had long known of these admirable offices, which had swept the last beggars and matchsellers and all the casu... ...across the country. They came with a deep, roaring sound. I had expected a Niagara, but the total fall of the front could not have been much more than...

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... Idyll by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wheels of Chance, A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells is a publication of ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi- bility for the mate... ...!” He spoke with such conviction that he half believed that that defective office of his in London—Baker Street, in fact—really existed. With that the... ...n if they had no news. If they did not come on, a wire to the Fareham post office was to explain why. It was Napoleonic, and more than consoled Dangle... ...essie met with a disap- pointment. There was no letter for her at the post office. Opposite the hotel, The Chequered Career, was a machine shop with a... ... and a good mile away. “We’re gaining,” said Mr. Hoopdriver, with a little Niagara of perspiration dropping from brow to cheek. “That hill—” But that ...

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...entures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...illage; for the village itself; for the county; for the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for the churches of the United States; f... ...he churches of the United States; for Congress; for the Presi dent; for the officers of the Government; for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for ... ...g their candles aloft and reading the tangled web work of names, dates, post office addresses, and mot toes with which the rocky walls had been fres... ...ediment with it, had, in the slow dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleam ing and imperishable stone. Tom squeezed his small body...

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...e A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...a leader in the famous ‘Boston Tea Party’ of 1773 and afterwards became an officer in the Continental Army. He is reported to have been a Conservative... ...ed by Mr. H. A. Smyth, a former travelling companion in Europe, a district officer in the New York Custom House. He held the position until 1886, pref... ...quadron, should receive, in state, a visit from the royal pair. The French officer likewise represented, with evident satisfaction, that under their t... ...indeed appeared to depress or intimidate this in- trepid fellow. Typees or Niagaras, he was as ready to engage one as the other, and I could not avoid...

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...Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...was a barrister, and held 4 Chantry House an appointment in the Admiralty Office, which employed him for many hours of the day at Somerset House. My ... ...iral had carefully chosen ship and captain; there were an excellent set of officers, a good tone among the midshipmen, and Clarence, who was only twel... ...ferring to it in public. As to his terrors, he took it for granted that an officer of H.M.S. Calypso, had left them behind, and in fact, he naturally ... ...like this before us, by a great poem, an orato- rio, or, as I supposed, by Niagara or the Alps. Ellen put it ’Oh! and by feelings for the great and go...

...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been ...

...ing by Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...een Clerk of the Irish House of Commons at the time of the Union, of which office the lost salary was compensated in this way. The 12 The Life of Joh... ...the arrival of the London mail;” thence hurries into Cowbridge to the Post-office; and has a wide web, of threads and gossamers, upon his loom, and ma... ...; and was, in this way, turning his military capabilities to some use. The office involved pretty frequent absences, in Cardiff and elsewhere. This do... ...riences here were poured upon his mind and sense, not in streams, but in a Niagara cata- ract.” This too, however, was but a scene; lasted only some s... ...faces of the Castle and of the scaffoldings round it, and seemed a burning Niagara. Of course there were abundance of serpents, wheels and can- non-sh...

...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world se...

...ne through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...use as very valuable acquisitions. He led off the first charade. A Turkish officer with an im- mense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were supposed t... ...amp ran round and placed himself in front of Colonel Crawley. That gallant officer at once knew what had befallen him. He 21 Thackeray was in the han... ...ing,” whispered Mr. Moss, of Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, and assistant officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex—”One hundred and sixty-six, six and eig... ...t dreadful groans out of their lead conchs— there is the nymphbath and the Niagara cataract, which the people of the neighbourhood admire beyond expre...

...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...yself. Fifty thousand sneering faces would not have troubled me now in any office of ten- derness to my sister’s memory. T en legions would not have... ...ve long disappeared. Being a modest man- sion, which (including hot walls, offices, and gardener’s house) had cost only six thousand pounds, I do not ... ...hat I was, fancied myself exhibiting a soldier’s loyalty to his commanding officer. My brother thought oth- erwise: he was more angry with me than wit... ...d vis- ibly at every half mile, pretty much as one may suppose the roar of Niagara and the thrilling of the ground to grow upon the senses in the last...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... composed the difficulty in Marquette’s case; the pipe of peace did the same office for La Salle. The white man and the red man struck hands and enter... ...om door; she glittered with no end of prism fringed chandeliers; the clerk’s office was elegant, the bar was mar velous, and the bar keeper had been ... ...m in gratitude. My distress vanished; I would have felt safe on the brink of Niagara, with Mr. Bixby on the hurricane deck. He blandly and sweetly too... ...m, and said I hadn’t had any hail. “Ah! Then it was for wood, I suppose. The officer of the watch will tell you when he wants to wood up.” I went on c...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

...James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ut distant; for the Indian had been too much accustomed to mingle with the officers of the different military posts he had frequented not to understan... ...e Oswego Falls, neither,” put in Pathfinder; “for, thought they may not be Niagara, nor the Genessee, nor the Cahoos, nor Glenn’s, nor those on the Ca... ...tter of it. Eau- douce, we shall have to carry the Sergeant’s brother over Niagara yet, to show him what may be done in a frontier.” “The devil! Maste... ...e; for, sooth to say, he had never suspected the possibility of going down Niagara, feasible as the thing must appear to every one on a second thought... ...imes of peace; although I am more especially engaged in the service of one officer, who is now absent in the settlements, where I never follow him. No... ...g the humble but responsible situation of the oldest sergeant. A few young officers also, who were natives of the colonies, were to be found in the co...

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...te Two Volumes in One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a p... ...n, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...an altar and a crucifix, and a priest was in the performance of his sacred office. By divine indulgence, there was a single moment’s grace allowed to ... ...read; a shoe shop; a linen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and... ...a virgin’s love! Would it have been worth Hilda’s while to relinquish this office for the sake of giving the world a picture or two which it would cal... ...embled the rage of the sea made calm by its im- mensity,’ or the tumult of Niagara which ceases to be tumult because it lasts forever. Thus, in the La...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most patheti...

...ES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...es. From the lower level of which I speak—the square in front of the post- office—the palace of Jacques Coeur looks very big and strong and feudal; fr... ...gether as if, had he not been a monk, he would have made a distin- guished officer of engineers. When he was not reading the “Figaro” he was conning h... ...e residence of the sixteenth cen- tury to that of a warehouse and a set of offices; but a certain dignity lingers in its melancholy court, which is 1... ...e recess which they form. The Sorgues rushes and rushes; it is almost like Niagara after the jump of the cataract. There are dreadful little booths be...