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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... 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 ... ...ing the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold possession of the estate of Gondreville. [See “ An... ...arles Keller,—a par- liamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election. When Simon Giguet sounded the old notary Gre... ...ur oblivi- ous friend was willing to agree that he studied with you at the college of T ours and also that hew as the same Monsieur Dorlange who, in 1... ...week two news (to use the schoolboy phrase of my son Armand) en- tered the college of Tours. One had a charming face, the other would have been though... ...rom which issued an enormous shirt-frill of point d’Angleterre, this skel- eton had cheeks covered with a thick layer of rouge which heightened still ... ...rewd in business, Laurent Goussard, whose niece Mother Marie-des-Anges had educated gratu- itously, seemed to pique himself on the great liberality of... ...ygne, without paying a visit to Mother Marie-des-Anges, who in former days educated her daughter Berthe, now the Duchesse Georges de Maufrigneuse. But...
...he 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 deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...s of the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor S... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...ately manner to open the door, and making an elegant bow at her egress. At Eton he was called Miss Crawley; and there, I am sorry to say, his younger ... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...s of the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor S... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...ately manner to open the door, and making an elegant bow at her egress. At Eton he was called Miss Crawley; and there, I am sorry to say, his younger ... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te...
...per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...rd—. The illness of the good old man was long and lingering, and it became at last a matter of intense inter- est to those concerned whether the new a... ... by the bye, in many respects the most comfortable, as well as the richest college at Oxford,—was the archdeacon’s most intimate friend and most trust... ...piter. His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrific... ...nd the question as to Hiram’s heirs did not ap- pear to interest very many people either in or out of the House. The bill, however, was read and rerea... ...a disinclination to exert himself in any way not to his taste. He had been educated at Eton, and had been intended for the Church, but had left Cambri... ...tion to exert himself in any way not to his taste. He had been educated at Eton, and had been intended for the Church, but had left Cambridge in dis- ... ..., ha! Why, in the way we’ve left the matter, it’s very odd if the heads of colleges don’t have their own way quite as fully as when the hebdomadal boa... ...s shoulder to the wheel as a clergyman of the Church for which he had been educated. The intercourse of those among whom he familiarly lived kept him ...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...lia, for the first time, and with exceeding shyness and timidity, presided at what George called her own table. George pooh-poohed the wine and bullie... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...ever endure them, because they are not pretty!” Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, wh... ... the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked. He... ...at the very least—and then there are the splendid dinners, the two boys at Eton, the prize governess and masters for the girls, the trip abroad, or to... ...as an edifying one to strangers. They were so cheerful, so loving, so well-educated, so simple! Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half ... ...which he had travelled so many a time, when he and Pitt were boys going to Eton. At Mudbury a carriage and a pair of horses received them, with a coac...
...Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...nic Classics Series Publication Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania ... ...nt and sympathetic ears. And then came the impulse to literature for young people given by the example of that memorable book the Fairy Bower, and fol... ...be like the old days, when every birthday of yours was a happy day for the people at Hetherington,’ said Emily. ‘ Ah! those were happy old days,’ said... ...nion of his sisters. A danger- ous illness had occasioned his removal from Eton, and he had since been at home, reading with his cousin Mr. Devereux, ... ...ty reading, and very useful read- ing, and you can hardly be called a well-educated person if you do not know them; but read them only after the dutie... ...s the younger ones. He never was in any scrape, had all sorts of prizes at Eton, besides getting his scholarship before he was seven- teen.’ Whenever ... ...the Oxford vacation Claude ac- companied Lord Rotherwood on visits to some college friends, and only came home the same day as the younger ones. Mauri... ... cousin was not yet well enough to leave the room; but just at this time a college friend of the Rector’s, hearing of his illness, wrote to propose to...
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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader AFTER BECKY’S APPEARANCE at my Lord Steyne’s private and select parties, the claims of that estimabl... ...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...gland are governors: and as the boys are very comfortably lodged, fed, and educated, and subse- quently inducted to good scholarships at the Universit... ...f polite learning were connected with the floggings which he re- ceived at Eton in his early youth, had that decent and honest reverence for classical... ...parlour, had a still lingering liking for toffy, and used to be birched at Eton. So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, un... ...s grandson in a fair way to such honours. He would have none but a tip-top college man to educate him—none of your quacks and pretenders— no, no. A fe... ...as a useful accomplish- ment for them to learn. English youth have been so educated time out of mind, and we have hundreds of thousands of apolo- gist...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ds are torn apart by rancor- ous hands, whose flowers are touched by frost at the mo- ment of their blossoming? What poet will sing the sorrows of the... ...glad to answer all in detail. “What in the world do they teach you in your colleges?” he exclaimed at last in astonishment. On this first day the coun... ...s I found the same sufferings that assailed me elsewhere; but in Paris, at college, at school I evaded them by abstinence; there my privations were ne... ...Here I draw upon myself the storms I fear may break upon my children or my people; and in doing so I feel a something I cannot explain, which gives me... ...her Madame la duchesse, and to speak to her in the third person. The young people of the present day have lost these polite manners; you must learn th... ...st; I can love, I can die for you if you will; but I have never studied at Eton, or at Oxford, or in Edinburgh. I am neither a doctor of laws nor a re... ...love. The Englishwoman, on the contrary, makes her love bend to the world. Educated to maintain the icy manners, the Britannic and egotistic deportmen...
...te M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...of them; and lords and ladies aren’t a bit better to play with than, other people. In fact, Ivy is what Japs calls a muff and a stick.’ 14 Charlotte ... ...d into a train for Rockstone, and Harry was to return to his theo- logical college, after seeing Mysie and Primrose off with nurse on their way to the... ...nd of anxieties that have ended happily, only a crowd of examples of other people’s misfor- tunes. The difference is in the greater elasticity and pow... ... their promotion is an awkward thing for their families, who have not been educated up to the mark.’ ‘It is an anomalous position, and I have a great ... ...t were old enough occupation at the works, and see that the young ones got educated.’ ‘So he lets the little boys go to the National School, though th... ....’ ‘Bad form,’ observed Lord Ivinghoe, shaking his head. ‘I’m not going to Eton,’ replied Wilfred audaciously. ‘I should hope not!’—in a tone of ineff... ...oe. ‘She is a regular stunner.’ Whereby it may be perceived that a year at Eton had considerably modified his Lordship’s correctness of speech, if not...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, however, it is not impossible that the appellation... ...n; the pious, self-denying, laborious, and ill-paid mission- ary; the half-educated, litigious, envious, and disreputable law- yer, with his counterpo... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...ted some of the privileges of his offspring. Still, as young Marmaduke was educated in a colony and society where even the ordinary intercourse be- tw... ...hose little niceties; though, for the matter of that, my grandfather was a college-bred physician, and the best in the colony , too—that is, in his ne... ...h disposed to have the institution designated a university , or at least a college. Meet- ing after meeting was held, for this purpose, year after yea... ...” were put to the test of experiment. The frame fitted well; and the skel- eton of the fabric was reared without a single accident, if we 88 The Pion...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...d as soon drive papa out as walk with Blanche. Flora was quite scandalized at it.’ ‘I should not imagine that George had often driven my father out,’ ... ...rs’ respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had b... ...mmunities of ill-health. He had been Ethel’s pupil till Tom’s last year at Eton, when he was sent thither, and had taken a good place; but his brother... ...pe- cially when diligently kept down by his brother. Even the half year at Eton had not produced superciliousness, though it had given Eton polish to ... ...read district of very colonial 8 The Trial colonists, and the charge of a college for their uncultivated sons, was quite as troublesome as the most a... ...Trial it a wholesome one, because it is so visible and unjustifiable, that people strive against it. And the rest? Was Henry able to see his father or... ...apothecary’s half measures. She believed that the son had been much better educated than the father, and after the fearful lesson he had received, tho... ...s things are now, who knows what good may be done by the presence of a man educated, religious, unstained by crime, yet in the same case as those arou...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...hem, the ascending Night came up the mountain like a rising water. When it at last rose to the walls of the convent of the Great Saint Bernard, it was... ...a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Blackened skel- eton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent as if the gh... ... is very important.’ Again Monsieur was right. The dog was very important. People were justly interested in the dog. As one of the dogs celebrated eve... ...t a beautiful sacrifice? What do we want more to touch us? Because rescued people of interesting appearance are not, for eight or nine months out of e... ...er’s. Being a remarkably fine woman with no bigodd nonsense about her—well educated, too—she was too many for this chap. Regularly pocketed him.’ ‘If ... ...ot very intimate with her; and Little Dorrit, as an enforced sizar of that college, was obliged to submit herself humbly to its ordinances. Neverthele... ...ear-tree formerly growing in a garden near the back of his dame’s house at Eton, upon which pear-tree the only joke of his life perennially bloomed. I... ...t have been acquired, for Mr F. himself said frequently that although well educated in the neighbourhood of Blackheath at as high as eighty guineas wh...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ed village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens—there was once a house of ent... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...nd some of these were at livery at the establishment of the Captain’s old “college” companion, Mr. Snaffle. It was easy, therefore, for the Captain to... ...s!” added the player. “Billingsgate and V auxhall were there too, and left college at eight o’clock.” When Morgiana was told of the circumstance by he... ...od-notes Wild of the sweet song-bird of Avon. Mr. Blazes is simply gone to Eton, where his son, Master Massinger Blazes, is suffering, we regret to he... ... (incident to youth) has raged, we understand, with frightful virulence in Eton School.” And if, after the above paragraphs, some London paper chooses... ...e said, the proudest moment of his life. He was proud to think that he had educated her for the stage, happy to think that his sufferings had not been...
...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more freq...
... Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose,... ...art for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys,... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...imes had made him tremble. He drew no water but by stealth and under the cloak of night. After an interval of futile and at length hopeless expectatio... ...e felled trees are, opposite the sign of the Three Jolly Hedgers. But, the most vicious, by far, of all the idle tramps, is the tramp who pretends to ... ...nd that his confederate may be at this moment taking impressions of the keys of the iron closets in wax, and that a delightful robbery may be in cours... ...e famous ‘Dance of Death,’ and to-day the grim old woodcuts arose in my mind with the new significance of a ghastly monotony not to be found in the or...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...om a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the sincerity of their praise by one hesi- tating ... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...om- mercial class of readers: amongst the aristocracy all are thor- oughly educated, excepting those who go at an early age into the army; of the comm... ...three or four months be- fore the accession of George III., he was sent to Eton, at the age of eleven; and from Eton, in his eighteenth year, he was s... ... republication of Walton’s Lives] edited by the present master of T rinity College, Cam- bridge, who is held in the highest esteem wherever he is know...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...team whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from the ranch house that morning, he had fo... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ...ld, and had graduated and post-graduated with high honours from an Eastern college, where he had devoted himself to a pas- sionate study of literature... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ...nipeg to Guadalupe. It is the man who is lack- ing, the poet; we have been educated away from it all. We are out of touch. We are out of tune.” Vaname... ... Farther on, he could make out Annixter’s ranch house, marked by the skel- eton-like tower of the artesian well, and, a little farther to the east, th... ...t Hooven’s ranch house near the irrigating ditch on Los Muertos, the skel- eton-like tower of the windmill on Annixter’s Home ranch, the clump of will... ...little daughter Sidney, guided only by the one ambition that she should be educated at a seminary, slipping a dime into the toe of her diminutive slip...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim... ...man, not to be ashamed, not to conceal the old fam- ily circumstances, not at any rate to be silent, is difficult. And the difficulty is certainly not... .... It assists a man in getting a seat as the director of certain companies. People are still such asses that they trust a Board of Directors made up of... ...er. Indeed it had been perhaps a misfortune with Everett Wharton that some people had believed in him,—and a fur- ther misfortune that some others had... ...noted as Christians since St James first preached in the Peninsula. ‘I was educated altogether in England,’ continued Lopez, 27 Anthony Trollope ‘til... ...s a business, and lives with gentlemen. He is Everett’s friend. He is well educated;—oh, so much better than most men that one meets. And he is clever... ...ourse I do. How should I not, if you remember him?’ ‘Young men are boys at college, rowing in boats, when women have been ever so long out in the worl... ...y weary and travel-worn, and the two boys, the elder of whom was home from Eton and the younger 154 The Prime Minister from some minor Eton, were alr... ...he father and mother, with Lord Silverbridge, the eldest son, who was from Eton, and the private Secretary dined together. As the Duke sat at table, h...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...tish Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- ditions of the 52nd Regiment. There is a c... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...isdom of Sir Thomas, or conversing with the daughters, who had been highly educated, and had much of their father’s humor and sprightliness. Even Henr... ...for the ministry, even selling the oxen from the plough to provide for the college expenses. A small legacy had just fallen to the young man, from a r... ...birthday in Jersey ‘sixty years since’—in 1804, when that 4th of June that Eton boys delight in, was already 222 A Book of Golden Deeds in the forty-... ...cent fireworks, and had blocked up the passage leading out by the Military College. A woman fell down in a fainting fit, others stumbled over her, and...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...s after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, how- ever, a true impe... ...d the plates, really came as near to feeding the pair as was possible with people above three years old. The one was a dark, thin man, with a good dea... ...thing,—and sharks, and volcanoes, and hurricanes.’ ‘I don’t think they eat people there now.’ ‘It’s bad enough if they don’t! And you know those aunts... ... I ever heard of her, I should think she was, and cleverer and more highly educated than any of us.’ ‘Yes,’ said Hal, ‘that was the kind of pretension... ...e had been his correspondent in school 96 The Two Sides of the Shield and college days, and being a person never easily rebuffed, she had kept up mor... ... Sides of the Shield ‘The Fitzhughs said they would knock it out of him at Eton,’ returned Mysie. ‘They got very nice after the first day, and said Fl... ...ill make much difference to you.’ ‘Oh, but I do want to be thoroughly well educated. I meant to go through them all, like Gillian and Mysie, and I am ...
...rtinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very great to justify the very small!...
...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ing a stay of several weeks made in Venice. I had rooms on Riva Schiavoni, at the top of a house near the passage leading off to San Zaccaria; the wat... ...ving ‘story’ enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need—to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my meas... ... attendants and enter- 15 Henry James tainers who come down by train when people in the coun- try give a party; they represented the contract for car... ...m dwindling. He had received the better part of his educa- tion at Harvard College, where, however, he had gained renown rather as a gymnast and an oa... ...and had social ties in a dozen different countries. “I don’t pretend to be educated,” she would say, “but I think I know my Europe;” and she spoke one... ...a military man and as he had had a classical education—he had been bred at Eton, where they study nothing but Latin and Whyte-Melville, said Miss Stac... ...le before him. “This kind of thing doesn’t find me unprepared. It’s what I educated her for. It was all for this—that when such a case should come up ...