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...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...not more costly, and he recalled with tenderness these shabby but friendly asylums, the windows of which he should easily know again in passing on can...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...

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...s Series Publication Washington Square by Henry James 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Was... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. Washington Square by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...e and live with him indefinitely; he had suggested that she should make an asylum of his house while she looked about for unfurnished lodgings. It is ... ...the philosophers say. It seems to me likely that you would have offered an asylum to an interesting sufferer. Mr. Townsend has been a good deal in the... ...upon a system of her own, inter- ested herself in charitable institutions, asylums, hospi- tals, and aid societies; and went generally, with an even a... ... April day to see a patient of unsound mind, who was confined in a private asylum for the insane, and whose family greatly desired a medical opinion f...

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...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the ...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Worme... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...tile painted on the sign of a wine-merchant, but even that house, its last asylum, has been demolished. Alas! old Paris is disap- pearing with frightf... ...de of the successive title-deeds of property in Paris! A private lu- natic asylum performs its functions in the rue des Batailles in the former dwelli... ...t before then, I don’t know but what we shall have to put him in a lunatic asylum.” “The pamphlet can be out in two days. But is it very cer- tain, li... ...eficiaries of the cause of his fall, that his instinct led him to claim an asylum. With these thoughts stirring in his mind la Peyrade obeyed the summ...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the 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...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ... weeks with him at Hanwell, Middlesex Co., one of the best-managed lunatic asylums in England,— Doctor Ellis being in charge of it. When he arrived at... ...don, he was surprised to learn that Hanwell was the most celebrated insane asylum in Great Britain. Had he reflected on the mental condition of Marie-...

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Excerpt: The Recruit by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...hat a priest who refused the oath had arrived from La Vendee and asked for asylum; but the day being Friday, the purchase of a hare embarrassed the go...

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...Excerpt: In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the p...

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Excerpt: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...Excerpt: ?Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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...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, ...

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...Contents THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON....... 4 THE BODY-SNATCHER .............................................. 63 THE STORY OF A LIE.................................................. 81...

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...Excerpt: As little recked Fitzjocelyn of the murmurs which he had provoked, as he guessed the true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribing much to her nephew?s...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I ...

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...AMBUSH? ................................................................................................................................. 6 SLAVES OF THE LAMP ............................................................................................................... 29 AN UNSAVORY INTERLUDE ..................................................................................

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...cs Series Publication Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sta... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ... father, but that didn’t matter. He behaved like a—like the Sanawar Orphan Asylum, and His Excellency gra- ciously spared him. Then he came round to m...