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Excerpt: Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling.

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...... 27 FALSE DAWN ................................................................................................................................ 31 THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES .................................................................................................... 38 CUPID?S ARROWS ......................................................................................

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...ling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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 any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...hundred this would have happened. You can see the principle working in any Indian Station. But this particular case fell through because The Boy was s... ...es enough for that. She was the exception which proved the rule that Anglo-Indian ladies are in every way as nice as their sisters at Home. She spent ... ...ountry with his regiment. Mrs. Larkyn went home when her husband’s tour of Indian service expired. She never forgot. But Platte was quite right when h... ...should never allow even little things, such as appointments of subordinate clerks, to leak out till the proper time. He was always remarkable for his ... ... matter being in MS. on soft crinkley paper. It was addressed to “The Head Clerk, etc., etc.” Now, between “The Head Clerk, etc., etc.,” and “Mrs. Hau... ...ate for a first-class ticket to Khasa, where he was stationed. The booking-clerk said something to the Station-Master, the Station-Master said somethi...

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Excerpt: The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad.

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight...

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...DYNEVOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V V VOL OL O... ...I A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the P... ...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... ...ol 1 black teapot and willow-patterned plates, though the two cups of rare Indian porcelain were not unworthy of it. The furni- ture was the same mixt... ... was a quiet lad, of diligent, methodical habits, and willingly accepted a clerkship in a mercantile house, which owed some obligations to his father.... ...‘and thought the Faithfull sisters would like to be reminded of their West Indian feasts.’ And, ‘to make the balance true,’ he had in the other pocket... ...e dark merino gowns, black silk aprons, white cap-ribbons, the soft little Indian shawl worn by the elder sister, the ribbon bow by the younger, disti... ... newspaper, and began to turn it over. ‘’As butler—as single-handed man—as clerk and accountant.’ There, those are the lucky men, with downright work,... ... escape for him. It would serve her right to marry a horrid little crooked clerk in her father’s office; and poor dear, dear Louis must get over it, a...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existenc...

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...Excerpt: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which p...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subjec...

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...erson. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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