...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 Uni- versity nor Jim... ...was inaudible. Behind him the little rufous man with the big eyes twitched at his robe and offered suggestions. And behind these two clustered a great... ...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ...h and reality. London had not disillusioned him. It was a strange waste of people, it made him feel like a mis- sionary in infidel parts, but it was a... ...ings have gone further than that. She seems to think—that she is not being educated properly here, that she ought to go to a College. As if we were ke... ...nk—that she is not being educated properly here, that she ought to go to a College. As if we were keeping things from her….” The bishop reconsidered h... ...ixteen hundred or two thousand five hun- dred years ago…. the increasingly educated and practical- minded working classes will not come to church, wee... ... not know that her own eldest son, a dark, romantic-looking youngster from Eton, had also come to the theological stage of development. She did how- e... ...ned to? Why for instance must you insist on the T rinity?” “Yes,” said the Eton boy explosively, and flushed darkly to find he had spoken. “Here is a ...

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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 ...

...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...

...When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ...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... ...ER I CHAPTER I INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA ONE AFTERNOON, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked fro... ... part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs... ...he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but in those cases I have known, people have usually found something—” “I dare make no experiments.” He spok... ...and him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit odd, of course, but the whole situation... ...arrier upon the wide expanse of the flying stage, its aluminium body skel- eton was as big as the hull of a twenty-ton yacht. Its lateral supporting s... ...rteen, and they pay two years’ service. You may be sure these children are educated for the blue can- vas. And so it is the Company works.” “And none ...

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...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 University nor Jim M... ...WER WER WER WER WER I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so ... ...ering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because of the curvature o... ... Change, so far as it has affected my own life and the lives of one or two people closely connected with me, primarily to please myself. Long ago in m... ... has been in most things accomplished, in a time when every one is be- ing educated to a sort of intellectual gentleness, a gentleness that abates not... ...the Days of the Comet my time, I was ill clothed, ill fed, ill housed, ill educated and ill trained, my will was suppressed and cramped to the pitch o... ...ndred altogether, including the reverend gentleman’s photograph albums and college and school text- books. This suggestion of learning was enforced by... ...passed from nurse to governess, from governess to preparatory school, from Eton to Oxford, from Oxford to the politico-social routine. Even their vice... ... tions of good form. They had all gone to the races surrepti- tiously from Eton, had all cut up to town from Oxford to see life—music-hall life—had al...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the suns...

...The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War of the W... ...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 Uni- versity nor Jim... ...t is curious to re- call some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...had arisen at the Horse Guards. The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated than the common soldier, and they dis- cussed the peculiar conditi... ...starting out upon the lawn, I saw the tops of the trees about the Oriental College burst into smoky red flame, and the tower of the little church be- ... ...to ruin. The pinnacle of the mosque had vanished, and the roof line of the college itself looked as if a 34 The War of the Worlds hundred-ton gun had... ...t man left alive. Hard by the top of Putney Hill I came upon another skel- eton, with the arms dislocated and removed several yards from the rest of t...

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