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...s Publication Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...Makepeace Thackeray MEN’S WIVES BY G. FITZ-BOODLE THE RAVENSWING – CHAPTER I. WHICH IS ENTIREL Y INTRODUCTORY – CON- TAINS AN ACCOUNT OF MISS CRUMP, H... ... her!) in her simple Cockniac dialect, and who formed a little club there. I forgot to say that while Mrs. C. was sipping her eternal tea or washing u... ...aths to assert) was thrown on his own re- sources, and became a man of the world at a very early age. What Mr. Howard Walker’s age was at the time of ... ...o thousand pounds a year in his in- come; and if there is one thing in the world he hates and de- spises, it is a Madonna. “I’m not,” says he, “a trad... ... said he would get him the nominal rank of Captain, the fees at the Panama War Office were five-and-twenty pounds, which sum honest Eglantine produced... ...he Captain’s exchequer was rather low at that moment, and the fees at the “War Office” were pe- remptory. Meanwhile His Highness left Regent Street, w... ...: puffs of the English school of music appeared perpetually in “Notices to Correspondents” in the Sunday prints, some of which Mr. Slang commanded, an...

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...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...ill be in no way connected with each other save only in their relation to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American ... ... village of Western Europe. The first novel, “The Octopus,” deals with the war be- tween the wheat grower and the Railroad Trust; the sec- ond, “The P... ... probably have for its pivotal episode the relieving of a famine in an Old World community. The author’s most sincere thanks for assistance rendered i... ... him?” she hazarded. “Oh, Laura, I couldn’t,” gasped Page. “I wouldn’t for worlds.” “Couldn’t she, Aunt Wess’?” appealed Laura. “Wouldn’t 10 The Pit ... ...remained fast friends, almost brothers. Then, in the years just before the War, had come the great movement westward, and Cressler had been one of tho... ...ould buy up any time he wants to. I want you to get me some good, reliable correspondents in Europe; smart, bright fellows that we can depend on. I wa... ...ssa—I don’t know. I couldn’t say just this minute. But I’ll fix it.” These correspondents began to report at the end of July. All over Europe the dema...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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.......... 4 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY................................................................................................ 25 THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES ................................................................... 33 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING........................................................................................... 54 ?THE FINEST STO...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...ut either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don?t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate.? Thes...

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...ou, because she doesn’t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn’t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chance... ...erself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of th... ..., is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, a... ...e apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her la... ..., only exposed him the more. ‘If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn’t you come and see me?’ the lady inquired. ‘Well, you see, I d... ...the whole she preferred these two classes of the human race. Since the Civil War much of her occupation was gone; for before that her best hours had b... ...d? It is well known that the Empress of France was at the bottom of the last war in that country. And as for our four fearful years of slaughter, of c... ...as so inter ested in woman’s having a free field. They certainly made lovely correspondents; 98 The Bostonians they picked up something bright before... ... can say. It takes in Miss Verena and it takes in all others—except the lady correspondents,’ the young man added, with a jocosity which, as he percei...

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... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which co...

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..................................................................................................................................... 32 THE BALZAC PLAN OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE ............................................................ 32 Comedie Humaine .............................................................................................................................

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