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...The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Page The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. We... ...e Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...he glanced at me from the shadow of the trees, a half-luminous colour that van- ished as he turned his head again. He was motionless for a moment, and... ...steep-walled gap, which came without warning, like the ha-ha of an English park,— turned with an unexpected abruptness. I was still running with all m... ...might prove a con- venient substitute for the common rabbit in gentlemen’s parks. We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips and... ... came on; fired again, point-blank, into its ugly face. I saw its features van- ish in a flash: its face was driven in. Yet it passed me, gripped Mont... ...he house. “Drink!” cried Montgomery, “drink, you brutes! Drink and be men! Damme, I’m the cleverest. Moreau forgot this; this is the last touch. Drink... ...looked back at me over his shoulder. He went slanting along the beach, and van- ished beneath the driving masses of dense smoke that were still pourin...

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...VANITY FAIR BY William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepe... ...y Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated wit... ...light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; not a moral place certainly; nor a merry one, though very no... ...em on his return with consid- erable assiduity. He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as... ...’ve always been accustomed to travel like a gentleman,” George said, “and, damme, my wife shall travel like a lady. As long as there’s a shot in the l... ...y occupied too: he’s shearing a Southdown. What an in- nocent mutton, hey? Damme, what a snowy fleece!” Rebecca’s eyes shot out gleams of scornful hum... ...ion; oftener he forgot her, as he had done wife, children, love, ambition, van- ity. But he remembered his dinner-hour, and used to cry if his wine-an... ...don’t know how fond I was of that one,” Rawdon said, half-inarticulately. “Damme, I followed her like a foot- man. I gave up everything I had to her. ...

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...Bleak House by Charles Dickens Volume One Chapters 1 34 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House, Volume One, Cont... ...gh Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ..., and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any one associated wit... ...llor, being aware of him, has dexterously vanished. Everybody else quickly van ishes too. A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of pape... ...he Court of Chancery are things of precedent and usage: over sleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery wea... ...olnshire. The waters are out in Lincolnshire. An arch of the bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped away. The adjacent low lying ground for hal... ...d I don’t care who knows it,” says Mr. Jobling. “They are great weaknesses—Damme, sir, they are great. Well,” proceeds Mr. Jobling after a defiant vis... ...l arrived here, the physician stopped, and taking off his hat, appeared to van 347 Bleak House – Vol. One ish by magic and to leave another and quit... ...and round me,” says the trooper, putting his pipe between his lips again, “damme, if I don’t feel as if I was being smothered!” And he inflates his br...

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...Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dicke... ...tion Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated wit... ... ever: muttering and growling some not at all complimentary remarks. ‘Why, damme, Sir,’ said the Major, rolling his lobster eyes round and round Princ... ...s head. ‘Would you give Joey B. the go-by, Ma’am? Not yet, Ma’am, not yet! Damme, not yet, Sir. Joe is awake, Ma’am. Bagstock is alive, Sir. J. B. kno... ...our service—is not ashamed to confess it.’ Here the Major lifted his hat. ‘Damme, Sir,’ cried the Major with sudden warmth, ‘I envy you.’ Then he reco... ...y to Staggs’s Gardens. There was no such place as Staggs’s Gardens. It had van- ished from the earth. Where the old rotten summer-houses once had stoo... ...vidence, Captain Cuttle began to think that the Instrument-maker must have van- ished of his own accord; to which logical conclusion he was assisted b... ... glass, until he all at once became aware that all eyes were upon him, and van- ished. These proceedings on the part of Mr T oots, and the strong indi...

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...ral Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ..., and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained with... ...tion. The various departments of this Institution are erected in a kind of park or common in the middle of the town, where they are dimly visible amon... ...otels in this city. ’ There are three principal theatres. Two of them, the Park and the Bowery, are large, elegant, and handsome buildings, and are, I... ...as a public gar den, and kept in the best and neatest order. The river is dammed at this point, and forced by its own power into certain high tanks o... ...ohnny Cake, — I an’t. I’m from the brown forests of the Mississippi, I am, damme!’ I am inclined to argue from this, that he had never left off saying... ...ble quick time, they should, within two years, sing ‘Yankee Doodle in Hyde Park, and Hail Columbia in the scarlet courts of Westminster!’ I found it a... ...e weather very fine; and for many miles the Kaatskill mountains, where Rip Van Winkle and the ghostly Dutchmen played at ninepins one memo rable gust...

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...Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin... ...artin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...orphan was 155 Charles Dickens commended to their care by one on whom the dammed-up love of years was gushing forth, what exhaustless stores of pure ... ...to the window out of its regular turn; and there he beheld a kind of light van drawn by four horses, and laden, as well as he could see (for it was co... ...h on a truss of straw, high and dry at 205 Charles Dickens the top of the van, with the tilt a little open in front for the conve- nience of talking ... ...ht when they reached Hounslow. A little short of the stables for which the van was bound, Martin got down, paid his crown, and forced his silk handker... ...clear, they’re whipped off; so this is kind advice. Do you understand? Eh? Damme, who are you,’ cried Jonas, with increased contempt, ‘that you should... ... Duke, “Here’s Pip. Ask Pip. Pip’s our mutual friend. Ask Pip. He knows.” “Damme!” said the Duke, “I appeal to Pip then. Come, Pip. Bandy or not bandy...

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...The Old Curiosity Shop The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Cha... ... Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ..., and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...due conveyance of these idea, he cast himself upon his friend’s track, and van ished. ‘Humph!’ said the dwarf with a sour look and a shrug of his sho... ...s been somebody ill here, that you knock as if you’d beat the door down?’ ‘Damme!’ answered Dick, ‘that’s why I did it. I thought there was somebody d... ...giant, and a little lady without legs or arms, who had jogged forward in a van; the other, a silent gentleman who earned his living by showing tricks ... ...joying the prospect. It happened that at that moment the lady of the cara van had her cup (which, that everything about her might be of a stout and c... ...by the same authorities; but ‘Mizzler, you know where I’m to be found, and damme, sir, find me if you want me’—which, of course, entirely changed the ... ...losers in that light. As to plunder!’ cried the fellow, raising his voice—‘Damme, what do you mean by such ungentlemanly language as plunder, eh?’ The...

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... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...se, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...y nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained wi... ...y? because a little—odd—old man, Stript to his shirt, was come to lead the van. But so it was; and every preparation Was made with all alacrit... ... there is scarce a crimson varlet But deems himself the first in Glory’s van. But Glory’s glory; and if you would find What that is — ask the ... ... good, plain, old, temperate man, Who fought with his five children in the van. To take him was the point. The truly brave, When they behold t... ...cates a moment, too, his stream, Though hardly heard through multifarious ‘damme’s’ The lamps of Westminster’s more regular gleam, The breadt... ... (See Billingsgate) made even the tongue more free. And yet the British ‘Damme’ ‘s rather Attic: Your continental oaths are but incontinent, ... ...d be schismatic In politesse, and have a sound affronting in ‘t:— But ‘Damme’ ‘s quite ethereal, though too daring— Platonic blasphemy, the so...

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...N ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, ... ... Three by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...iers; and settle down at Castlewood. Perhaps I’ll represent the county—no, damme, you shall rep- resent the county. Y ou have the brains of the family... ...a horseman’s coat and hat, the foremost after the stag-hounds and over the park fences, a crowd of young fellows at her heels. If the English country ... ...ts it, and by George, Webb will take an Archbishopric, and Jonathan a— no,—damme—Jonathan will take an Arch-bishopric from James, I warrant me, gladly... ...heverel. Give us more wine; here’s a health to the bonne cause, kneel- ing—damme, let’s drink it kneeling.” He was quite flushed and wild with wine as... ...nd Mohun, too, the bloody villain, who was set on him. They fought in Hyde Park just before sunset; the Duke killed Mohun, and Macartney came up and s... ...x’s marriage were begun. A few months after the horrid catastrophe in Hyde Park, my mistress and her daughter re- tired to Castlewood, where my lord, ...

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...THE LETTERS OF R OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis S... ...s of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...wns. Melford scattered all round a big green, with an Elizabethan Hall and Park, great screens of trees that seem twice as high as trees should seem, ... ...it. Nor why I have written a real letter. If you write a real letter back, damme, I’ll try to correspond with you. A thing unknown in this age. It is ... ...h sight, squall, calm, or sunrise! An art is a fine fortune, a palace in a park, a band of music, health, and physical beauty; all but love – to any w... ...s, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Letter: TO W. H. LOW BONALLIE TOWERS, BRANKSOME PARK, BOURNEMOUTH, HANTS, ENGLAND, FIRST WEEK IN NOVEMBER, I GUESS, 1884 MY... ... that holds you comfort- ably. Mine is a strange contrivance; I don’t die, damme, and I can’t get along on both feet to save my soul; I am a 312 The ...

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...Middlemarch By George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot i... ...lication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and witho... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ... lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks, van- ity, and merely canine affection. With all this, she, the elder of 6 ... ...ho had on her bonnet and shawl, hurried along the shrubbery and across the park that she might wander through the bordering wood with no other visible... ...tead of Lazarus at the gate, we should put the pigsty cottages outside the park-gate.” Dorothea was in the best temper now. Sir James, as brother in-l... ...” Fred paused an instant, and then added, in politic appeal to his uncle’s van- ity, “That is hardly a thing for a gentleman to ask.” But he was disap... ...up the “Pio- neer”—which had a motto from Charles James Fox and was in the van of progress—because it had taken Peel’s side about the Papists, and had... ...his secrets. However, he blabbed to me at Bilkley: he takes a stiff glass. Damme if I think he meant to turn king’s evidence; but he’s that sort of br...

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...peace Thackeray “Catherine” A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine: A Story by William... ... Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated wit... ...t. “Take my life, then,” said Mr. Trippet: “I’m drunk, but I’m a man, and, damme! will never say die.” “I don’t want your life, you stupid fool. Hark ... ...es.’ Which he did in a twinkling, and off we rode. “We did not go into the Park, but turned off and cantered smartly up towards Kilburn; and, when we ... ...ar 1695, had never been the lovely inmate of a Spielhaus at Amsterdam, Mr. Van Silverkoop would never have seen her; if the day had not been extraordi...