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...he provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more freq...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ed village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens—there was once a house of ent... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...nd some of these were at livery at the establishment of the Captain’s old “college” companion, Mr. Snaffle. It was easy, therefore, for the Captain to... ...s!” added the player. “Billingsgate and V auxhall were there too, and left college at eight o’clock.” When Morgiana was told of the circumstance by he... ...od-notes Wild of the sweet song-bird of Avon. Mr. Blazes is simply gone to Eton, where his son, Master Massinger Blazes, is suffering, we regret to he... ... (incident to youth) has raged, we understand, with frightful virulence in Eton School.” And if, after the above paragraphs, some London paper chooses... ...e said, the proudest moment of his life. He was proud to think that he had educated her for the stage, happy to think that his sufferings had not been...

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...niver- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, ... ...e sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmo- *First published in the Contemporary Review, April 1885 4 Robert Louis Stevenson nies in ... ...r. But it must not be forgotten that in some languages this element is almost, if not quite, extinct, and that in our own it is probably decay- ing. T... ... on all with the same ungenerous hand; they begin the consideration of all, in young and unprepared minds, in an unworthy spirit; on all, they supply ... ...d wholesome and beautiful elements of our life; he should tell unsparingly of the evil and sorrow of the present, to move us with instances: he should... ...ged to Robinson Crusoe. No doubt the skeleton is con- veyed from Poe. I think little of these, they are trifles and details; and no man can hope to ha... ...ad passed a landmark; I had finished a tale, and written ‘The End’ upon my manuscript, as I had not done since ‘The Pentland Rising,’ when I was a boy... ...adventures of Treasure Island are not yet quite at an end. I had written it up to the map. The map was the chief part of my plot. For instance, I had ...

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...m. The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-- indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a w...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...agonist does not certainly appear until the third—and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant ma... ...ending not to know gave her something to say. Mr. Lewisham nodded. “Of all people! Then”—frankly—”you have just found me out.” “I am afraid I have,” s... ...“It is nothing—it’s the proper thing for me to do, you know.” “But so many people won’t do it. Schoolmasters are not usually so—chivalrous.” He was ch... ...He bowed to her receding back, made a seventeenth-cen- tury sweep with his college cap, and then some hitherto un- explored regions of his mind flashe... ...- ful,” she said. “Living a lie! How can the world grow better, when sane, educated people use their sanity and enlighten- ment to darken others? It i... ...the proprietor might. There was also a vacant curatorship in the Museum of Eton College. The typewriting business was less varied and more defi- 124 ... ...isham nite. Those were the days before the violent competition of the half-educated had brought things down to an impos- sible tenpence the thousand w... ... of things that would have affected the welcome of himself and his wife at Eton College. At the outset he was inclined to regard the South Kensington ...