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...which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of our religion, be true and just ideas, faithfully drawn from the divine testimony, or not....

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...IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. ... ...A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN... ...ge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates from Holy Scripture, the erroneous-ness of the opinion, almos... ...nd you, in that High and Holy name at which every knee shall bow, that you take leisure from your several avocations, lay aside your several speculat... ...e earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of refreshin... ...and real character upon the other; both centering in and radiating out from the Jewish people.’ And this appeared to me to be written in these the ... ...ersecuting the true and faithful servants and witnesses of the Lord, and both kings and people shall be confederates against the Lord and his anoint... ...quest the loan of Ben-Ezra to peruse during this visit, and subsequently to bring it to London. Deeply impressed with the truth and the importance of... ...ages of Ben Ezra and the substance of my discourses met together upon the same table in London, on their passage t o two different destinations. The ...

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...okenly, the sense of having lived. Long had I turned it over, standing off from it, yet coming back to it; convinced of what might be done with it, ye... ...s incurred, the precious experience somehow compassed. These things, I had from the first felt, would require much working-out; that indeed was the ca... ...ways to be invoked and cultivated, but that are absolutely to be jumped at from the moment they make a sign. Yes then, the case prescribed for its cen... ...nt compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to see whom the situation I had primarily... ...s him to watching her, as it were, through the successive windows of other people’s interest in her. So, if we talk of princesses, do the balconies op... ...anging unfinished, into no words nor any notes at all. Why should a set of people have been put in motion, on such a scale and with such an air of bei... ... Yet what were the dangers, after all, but just the dangers of life and of London? Mrs. Lowder was London, was life—the roar of the siege and the thic... ...t account of it. The accident meanwhile had been as natural as anything in London ever is: Kate had one afternoon found herself opposite Mr. Densher o... ...ar about it—was now her only possible basis; she was just the contemporary London female, highly modern, inevitably battered, honourably free. She had...

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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...e Autumn of 1844. Most faithfully yours, My dear Lewis, W. M. Thackeray. London:December 24, 1845. PREFACE ON THE 20TH OF AUGUST, 1844, the writer o... ...ople, Jerusalem, Cairo were to be visited, and everybody was to be back in London by Lord Mayor’s Day. The idea of beholding these famous places infla... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...dwelling in a city has rarely occasion to enjoy. They are coming away from London parties at this time:the dear little eyes are closed in sleep under ... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ...

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...nth are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers....

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...next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being far- ther imposed on by vulgar almanack- mak... ...arly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being far- ther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers. By Isaac Bick... ...nse, lyes, folly, and impertinence, which they offer to the world as genuine from the planets, tho they descend from no greater a height than their o... ...t, his prediction still stands good. And at last, God preserve King William from all his open and secret enemies, Amen. When if the King should happ... ...re will be an insurrection in Dauphine, occasion d by the oppressions of the people, which will not be quieted in some months. On the 15th will be a v... ...g suddenly of an appoplexy. In this month likewise an ambassador will die in London; but I cannot assign the day. August. The affairs of France will s... ...ade me compliments upon it as well as he could, in the condition he was. The people about him said, he had been for some time delirious; but when I sa... ...s reign. I found it in an old edition of Merlin s Proph- ecies, imprinted at London by John Hawkins in the year 1530, page 39. I set it down word for ...

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...Excerpt: He had been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the steps--they descended from a great height in two arms, with a circular sweep of the most charming effect--at the threshold of the door which, from the long bright gallery, overlooked the immense lawn. Thre...

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...been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the steps—they descended from a great height in two arms, w... ...ular sweep of the most charming effect—at the threshold of the door which, from the long bright gallery, overlooked the immense lawn. Three gentle- me... ...s room. The young man declined that privi- lege, conscious of no disrepair from so short and easy a journey and always liking to take at once a genera... ...nd on the admirable picture, the wide grounds of an old country-house near London— that only made it better—on a splendid Sunday in June. “But that la... ...h a rare complexion disdains a veil. When Paul Overt became aware that the people under the trees had no- ticed him he turned back through the open do... ...in in England?” the young man asked. “Oh yes; I’ve bought a small house in London.” “And I hope you like it,” said Overt, looking at Mrs. St. George. ... ...t kind of thing. She missed it in India and she finds it 7 Henry James in London, or she hopes she’ll find it. Mr. St. George has promised to help he... ...funded the money. Paul Overt suspected her of a ten- dency to figure great people as larger than life, until he noticed the manner in which she handle... ...e than once, on returning to his own country, he had said to himself about people met in society: “One sees them in this place and that, and one even ...

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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 l...

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... CIRCLE. IN A CERTAIN QUIET and sequestered nook of the retired village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate so... ...he duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many per- sons are in the days of thei... ...ttle bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, ... ...urs, much accustomed, one for the gentlemen of the shoulder-knot, who came from the houses of their employers hard by; an- other for some “gents who u... ...I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine was born in London)—”I’m a hartist; and show me a fine ‘ead of air, and I’ll dress it f... ...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... ....” Pooh! what’s money to you?” Walker looked down: it was Tom Dale. Who in London did not know little Tom Dale? He had cheeks like an apple, and his h... ...irm is, I flatter my- self, a little more up in the market than some other people’s names.” “Do you mean to insult the name of Archibald Eglantine, si...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. An excursion beyond the immediate suburbs of London, projected long before his pony-carriage was hired to conduct him, in fact ever since his retirement from active service, led General Ople across a famous common, with which he fell in love at once, to a lofty highway ...

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... By George Meredith CHAPTER I AN EXCURSION beyond the immediate suburbs of London, projected long before his pony-carriage was hired to con- duct him,... ...ony-carriage was hired to con- duct him, in fact ever since his retirement from active ser- vice, led General Ople across a famous common, with which ... ...alled country houses, cottages, or even sites for building, not too remote from sweet London: and as when Coelebs goes forth intending to pursue and o... ...ry houses, cottages, or even sites for building, not too remote from sweet London: and as when Coelebs goes forth intending to pursue and obtain, ther... ...at is to say, so long as he was not overlooked. He was perfectly concealed from the road. Only one house, and curiously indeed, only one window of the... ...rd aristocracy, and there was that in riches which aroused his admiration. London, for instance, he was not afraid to say he thought the wonder of the... ...oned in subscriptions for all the charities, and left her pew open to poor people, and none but the poor. She had trav- elled over Europe, and knew th... ...ked of Lady Camper and General Ople rather maliciously. They were all City people, and they admired the General, but mourned that he should so abjectl... ...ing,’ was her inscrutable re- joinder, uttered within earshot of the young people, to whom, especially to Elizabeth, she was gracious. The damsel’s bo...

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...at 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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...d. 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. Disc... ...f of filling the empty spaces on either side of the fireplace with benches from the antechamber, disregarding the baldness of their velvet covers whic... ...ld get out a word.” “And yet, my dear father,” said Simon Giguet, entering from the smaller salon, “you really must make that effort for me; for if th... ...ing the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold possession of the estate of Gondreville. [See “ An... ...arles Keller,—a par- liamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election. When Simon Giguet sounded the old notary Gre... ...the Comte de Gondreville, then senator, and formerly representative of the people, who had despoiled the Cinq-Cygne family of their property. [See “An... ...where you are going to dine?” asked Maxime. “Yes, with the director of the London opera-house, Emile Blondet, Finot, Lousteau, Felicien Vernon, Theodo... ...ough the medium of Madame de Saint- Esteve. The illustrious manager of the London opera-house is negotiating this treaty in order that she shall make ... ...er to hear the contract read and to affix her signature. Her departure for London with- 303 Balzac out further delay was fixed for the following day ...

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...his collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the moun tains i... ...hat Hawthorne had visited the moun tains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts o... ... were crushed under the weight of earth, rocks, and trees. In the Sketches from Memory Hawthorne gives an inti mation of the tale which he might writ... ... spacious that it con tained many thousand inhabitants. Some of these good people dwelt in log huts, with the black forest all around them, on the ste... ...in short, were numerous, and of many modes of life. But all of them, grown people and children, had a kind of famil 6 TheGreatStone Face iarity with... ...e. It was an education only to look at it. According to the belief of many people, the valley owed much of its fertil ity to this benign aspect that ... ... I shall hie me back to my attic chamber, in one of the darksome alleys of London. There, night and day, will I gaze upon it; my soul shall drink its ... ...umination of St. Peter’s Church; and finally perished in the great fire of London, into the midst of which he had thrust himself, with the des perate...

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...bout meeting him-- conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my countrypeople, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as well as the dignity of genius....

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...rtunity university. 3 Henry James The Author of Beltraffio By Henry James From the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition CHAPTER I M uch as I wished to see ... ...onvinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my country- people, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as w... ...rmented by strangers, and especially by my country- people, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as well as the dignity of g... ...ad yet been made of the gospel of art; it was a kind of aesthetic war-cry. People had endeavoured to sail nearer to “truth” in the cut of their sleeve... ...ion and “intimate” importance of theme. Nothing had been done in that line from the point of view of art for 4 The Author of Beltraffio art. That ser... ... so that there was nothing to do but to keep my letter till I should be in London again. It was of little use to me to hear that his wife had not left... ... many months—at a small place they had down in Surrey. They had a house in London, but actually in the occupation of other persons. All this I had pic... ...ent to the Continent, spent the following winter in Italy, and returned to London in May. My visit to Italy had opened my eyes to a good many things, ... ...ings in it, and they chased each other in and out of his face. I have seen people who were grave and gay in quick alternation; but Mark Ambient was gr...

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... to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I can touch it from point to point; for the thread, as I call it, is a row of colored beads on a string. None of the beads are missing--at least I think they?re not: that?s exactly what I shall amuse myself with finding out....

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...ndeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I c... ... my palette, I sniffed up the clean salt air and cooled my eyes with the purple sea. The place was full of lodgings, and the lodgings were at that sea... ... and free gestures, made it flutter in the breeze as if it had been the flag of her country. It consisted mainly of a big red face, indescribably out ... ...l more affected when I saw the face, at the sight of my companion, open like a win- dow thrown wide. A smile fluttered out of it an brightly as a drap... ...her com- panions, gazed at her and grinned: I could see there were very few moments of the day at which young men, these or others, would not be so oc... ...er, Mrs. Hammond Synge, the sister-in-law of one of the young men I had just seen. She had lots of friends, but none of them nice: she kept picking up... ...hall find out some day. So far as her settling with me goes it would be impossible moreover here; she wants naturally enough a much wider field. She m... ...nything was that of her incomparable aspect, which Mr. Dawling, smitten even like the railway porters and the cabmen by the doom- dealing gods, had fo... ...s bewildered sisters, whom he left behind, he made an he- roic effort to escape by flight from a fate of which he had already felt the cold breath. Th...

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... IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ?GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS? VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS...

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...BERT BOLTON: THE ‘GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS’ VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS PUBLIC LIFE OF MR.... ...ably pleasant town situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agree able scent of pitch, tar, coal... ...s of Mudfog are unanimous in asserting that there exists not a finer race of people on the face of the earth; here we have an indisputable and vera c... ...e morn ing they shall be permitted to open, how soon it shall be lawful for people to eat their dinner on church days, and other great political ques... ...sometimes, long after silence has fallen on the town, and the distant lights from the shops and houses have ceased to twinkle, like far off stars, to ... ...abit of indulg ing abroad in distant and mysterious allusions to ‘masses of people,’ and ‘the property of the country,’ and ‘productive power,’ and ‘... ...bout the middle of the month of October, Mr. Tulrumble and family went up to London; the middle of Oc tober being, as Mrs. Tulrumble informed her acq... ...las Tulrumble being a very important man, they elected him, and wrote off to London by the very next post to acquaint Nicholas Tulrumble with his new ... ... as the reflection would force itself on his mind, that, had he been born in London instead of in Mudfog, he might have been a Lord Mayor too, and hav...

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...Introduction: As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbea...

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...the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will se- cure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of man- kind, to whom only I would be u... ...those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page. Nevertheless, I am not unaware, that, a... ...vel (si fas sit dicere) of this our native realm of Scotland; so that men, from every corner thereof, when travelling on their concernments of busines... ...ted), must have seen more of the manners and customs of various tribes and people, than if I had sought them out by my own painful travel and bodily l... ...in the sequestered vale of the small river Manor, in Peeblesshire. The few people who had occasion to pass that way were much surprised, and some supe... ...ers doing business for the house of James and Com- pany, late merchants in London, now in Dunkirk, I think it right to send you this early and private... ...o him agony and breaking on the wheel. He regarded the laugh of the common people whom he passed on the street, and the suppressed titter, or yet more...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away 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 p...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...to the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I wer... ...have fallen on these leaves of David Copperfield, and made me happy. London, October, 1850. PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION I REMARKED IN... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I to do? If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? What am I ... ...knee, which would have lasted us out hand- somely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance. We ate a good deal, and slept a good deal. P... ... in, or some annual charge upon the profits of, a wine-merchant s house in London, with which his family had been connected from his great- grandfathe...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted ...

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...3 Frank Norris Blix by Frank Norris 1899 Chapter I IT HAD JUST STRUCK NINE from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, wh... ...hen and dining-room, so that the latter room was at the rear of the house. From its window one could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Co... ...e could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Contra Costa shore, from Mount Diablo, along past Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito, and Mount T ama... ... in Chicago; “but,” he always added, “I couldn’t help that, you know.” His people had come West in the early eighties, just in time to bury the father... ...lored globe of the little brass chandelier. The parlor was a small affair, peopled by a family of chairs and sofas robed in white drugget. A gold-and-... ...ck Carter and his dirty sto- ries; I simply don’t want to know the kind of people who have made Jack Carter possible. The other girls don’t mind it, n... ...ot of men there belonging to the wrecking gang, and some correspondents of London papers. But they would have it that she was below, and had me go dow...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?They?ve got him for life!? I said to myself that evening on my way back to the station; but later on, alone in the compartment (from Wimbledon to Waterloo, before the glory of the District Railway) I amended this declaration in the light of the sense that my friends would probably after all not enjoy a monopoly of Mr. Saltram. I won?t pretend to have ...

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...ing on my way back to the station; but later on, alone in the compartment (from Wimbledon to Waterloo, before the glory of the District Railway) I ame... ... to stay all the winter: Adelaide dropped it in a tone that drew the sting from the inevitable em- phasis. These excellent people might indeed have be... ...a tone that drew the sting from the inevitable em- phasis. These excellent people might indeed have been content to give the circle of hospitality a d... ...e Mulvilles were still in the stage of supposing that he might be snatched from them by higher bidders. At a later time they grew, poor dears, to fear... ...l possessive because if I was never able to do what the Mulvilles did, and people with still bigger houses and simpler charities, I met, first and las... ...t I came back from Wimbledon so agitated with a new sense of life that, in London, for the very thrill of it, I could only walk home. Walking and swin... ...asty second-rate gush. I may have held in my ‘for interieur’ that the good people at Wimbledon were beautiful fools, but when he sniffed at them I cou... ...of its consequences, on my return, had smartly to be faced. The season, in London, began to breathe again and to flap its folded wings. Confidence, un... ...am was that they had to give up their carriage. Adelaide drove gently into London in a one-horse greenish thing, an early Victorian landau, hired, nea...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ...ss, the cross and the money-changers’ offices, the splendid grime of giant London and the crowds going perpetually to and fro, the lights by night and... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...inctly my father rejoicing at the break- fast-table over the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of ... ...ere also School Boards; I was already practically in poli- tics before the London School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London C...

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...avor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ?Here, at any rate,? said I, ?I shall find peace and a chance to work!?...

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...ny one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself re- moved from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lym... ...but the things that have happened to me have rubbed something of the youth from my mind. Whether they have brought any wisdom to light below it is a m... ... All down the steep hill are boulders and masses of Roman brick- work, and from it old Watling Street, still paved in places, starts like an arrow to ... ...ofessor Lodge, or Professor Karl Pearson, or any of those great scientific people might have understood, but which simply reduced me to a hopeless mud... ...new element, I fancy—called, I believe, helium, which was sent to him from London in sealed stone jars. Doubt has been thrown upon this detail, but I ... ...ave lain and fizzled, like one or two other little things these scientific people have lit and dropped about us. When I realised this, it was I did th... ...h these persons. But not now— not now. If no other explanation is offered, people, in the present unsatisfactory state of meteorological science, will... ...among many other particulars learnt she had never 29 H. G . Wells been to London. “Canterbury’s as far as ever I been,” she said. “I’m not one of you... ...eeting of incompatible creatures. But conceive how it would seem to decent Londoners, for example, to come upon a couple of living things, as big as m...

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...Excerpt: One day--and that day was many years ago now--I received a long, chatty letter from one of my old chums and fellow wanderers in Eastern waters. He was still out there, but settled down, and middle-aged; I imagined him--grown portly in figure and domestic in his habits; in short, overtaken by the fate co...

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...E DAY—and that day was many years ago now—I received a long, chatty letter from one of my old chums and fellow- wanderers in Eastern waters. He was st... ... the sole exception of the Philippines. He would never approach that part, from a strange dread of Spaniards, or, to be exact, of the Spanish authorit... ...etired” in our time. He had bought, or else leased, part of a small island from the Sultan of a little group called the Seven Isles, not far north fro... ...s, that trip. This peaceful occasion was the last on which I saw all these people assembled together; the charmingly fresh and resolute Freya, the inn... ...ounting the days now.” I understood what he meant. I knew that those young people had settled already on a runaway match without official pre- liminar... ...“Not before my twenty-first birthday; so that there shall be no mistake in people’s minds as to me being old enough to know what I am doing.” Jasper’s... ...ten to the Mesmans asking for my ad- 66 Freya of the Seven Isles dress in London. That old Nelson (or Nielsen), the note of whose personality was a p... ...mended him there. I started to call on him on one of those January days in London, one of those wintry days composed of the four devilish elements, co...

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...rceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a fidgety habit, for it?s none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me a service. He had done more things than I, and earned more pence, though there were chances for cleverness I thought he sometimes missed....

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... (a fidgety habit, for it’s none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me ... ...o me to prepare for The Middle, the organ of our lucubra- tions, so called from the position in the week of its day of appearance, an article for whic... ...judged—that he should catch the night-mail to Paris. He had had a telegram from Gwendolen Erme in answer to his letter offering to fly to her aid. I k... ..., publicly demand if she hadn’t been right. The party was large—there were people from outside as well, but I had never seen a table long enough to de... ...lready of opinion that he saw much further into a certain affair than most people. He was quite as fired as I had been at Bridges. He was moreover in ... ... victor—with the critical laurel.” Meanwhile he really avoided the chances London life might have given him of meeting the distinguished nov- elist; a... ...ecome the familiar tor- ment of my days and my nights. There are doubtless people to whom torments of such an order appear hardly more natural than th... ...lish, from congestion of the lungs, and sec- ond in the greater break with London to which the event condemned me. I’m afraid that what was uppermost ... ...ad been a week or two in Munich and before, as I knew, Corvick had reached London, the announcement of the sudden death of poor Mrs. Erme. I instantly...