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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania St... ...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...e been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw’s Continental Rail- way Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables 18 Around the World in 80 D... ...was double-locked, and at the end of Saville Row they took a cab and drove rapidly to Charing Cross. The cab stopped before the railway station at twe... ...sy crowd, Fix, according to habit, scrutinised the passers-by with a keen, rapid glance. It was now half-past ten. “The steamer doesn’t come!” he excl... ... he wished to have visaed. Fix instinctively took the passport, and with a rapid glance read the description of its bearer. An involuntary motion of s...

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...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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Excerpt: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

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... D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rom the boat-house, a white figure ran out, frightening in its swift sharp transit, across the old landing- stage. It launched in a white arc through ... ...nikov, do let us go.’ ‘He’s only drunk one glass—only one glass,’ came the rapid, hushed voice of the young Russian. They all moved off to the door. T... ... small clasp. It was so utterly dark, and yet such a naked statement, that rapid vibrations ran through his blood and over his brain, he was no longer... ...ather obscene?’ he asked, disapproving. ‘I don’t know,’ murmured the other rapidly. ‘I have never defined the obscene. I think they are very good.’ Ge... ... 108 guard’s-van came up, and passed slowly, the guard staring out in his transition on the spectacle in the road. And, through the man in the closed... ...stasy of bliss in fore-knowledge that she knew. To him, the wonder of this transit was over- whelming. He was falling through a gulf of infinite dark-...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...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, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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... Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To my Publishers, for the a...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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...Excerpt: I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintan...

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...ition. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania ... ...ce which crossed his naked, bony chest, and a pair of trousers. He blinked rapidly as if dazed by the faint light, while his patron, the old bandit, g... ...ase. He trotted out the sailor-brother in a pretty wide range of subjects: Indian and colonial affairs, matters of trade, talk of travels, of seaside ... ...ar legs in cycling stockings of little Fyne. He passed along the carriages rapidly towards the rear of the train, which presently pulled out and left ... ...erests than financial. I see you remember the crash ….” “I was away in the Indian Seas at the time,” I said. “But of course—” “Of course,” Marlow stru... ...eparably associated with the visual impression of Fyne. Where, why, how, a rapid striding rush could be brought in helpful relation to the good Fyne’s... ...ing her head and gazing wistfully across the street noisy with the endless transit of innumerable bargains, she said with intense gravity: “He has bee...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, ...

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