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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost gla...

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...Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...r after the fashion of the West End than the City, and affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disconcerted and always annoyed Ann Veronica’s father... ...Man- ning; secondly, by some measure or other, she meant to go on with her studies, not at the Tredgold Schools but at the Imperial College; and, thir... ...r stagnant or dreaming along in the wake of fussy tugs; and above circled, urbanely voracious, the Lon- don seagulls. She had never been there before ... ...umpany—the most wonderful people! There you see them discussing, deciding, planning! Just think—they are making a new world!” “But are these people go... ...ather’s house in Morningside Park—thinking over the economic situation and planning a course of action. Her aunt had secretly sent on to Ann Veronica ... ... the sensible thing? Make yourself worth a decent freedom. Go on with your studies at the Imperial College, for example, get a degree, and make yourse...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzi...

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...................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 ...

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...D Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishm... ...nic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...ience, successes due always to the sub- stitution of analysis and reasoned planning for trial and the rule of thumb. But it has never yet been so beli... ...mfort and ugliness have brought home to us at last even the possibility of planning the extension of our towns and cities. It is only another step upw... ...ially dangerous power, and, on the other, labour hordes, for the most part urban, without any property or outlook except con- tinuous toil and anxiety... ...f farm work is seasonal, and that a migration to and fro between rural and urban conditions would be entirely practicable in a largely planned communi... ...duty of initiative should chiefly reside, who have minds atrophied by dull studies and deadening sugges- tions, and he thinks that this is a matter of...