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...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ared proper to Miss Amelia to ask her friend to sing. “Y ou would not have listened to me,” she said to Mr. Osborne (though she knew she was telling a... ...delighted cook, and even Mrs. Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, condescended to listen on the landing-place. Among these ditties was one, the last of the c... ...nd the two gallant young men longed to see their own names in the glorious list, and cursed their unlucky fate to belong to a regiment which had been ... ...d the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, witho... ...ll this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he... ...which he found himself, in a house full of old women, jabbering French and Italian, and talking poetry to him. “Reglarly up a tree, by jingo!” exclaim...

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...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...think he’ d kill a schoolboy for honest doubt. Even old Roddles—” “I can’t listen to you,” cried Latham the humourist, “I can’t listen to you. It’s—ho... ... heavy with the reek of the crushed flowers. For some time Benham remained listening to and peering at these preoccupied gluttons. At last he shrugged... ...sps and suchlike con- 39 H G Wells solation with much patient sympathetic listening to his care- fully balanced analysis of his feelings. He declared... ...it, and then they commented on Amanda and Benham, assuming an ignorance of Italian in the visitors that was only partly justifiable. “Bellissima,” “br... ... up to when he wanted the money beforehand.” He came to the * This is vile Italian. It may—with a certain charity to Benham—be rendered: “The beastlie... ...it might have been almost any road. Then, again, it became specifically an Italian mountain road. Now and then only a row of all too infrequent granit...

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...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...potless and severe ladies of ton were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to thei... ...etimes he laughed madly at his own fears and went on drinking for an hour, listening all the while for the carriage which was to bring his fate back. ... ...ove stairs in the nursery superintending the toilettes of her children and listening to the morning prayers which the little creatures performed at he... ...g—but a truce to this gossip—the fact is that these two women were the two flags of the French and the English party at Pumpernickel, and the society ... ...too, knew some ladies here and there—French widows, dubious 159 Thackeray Italian countesses, whose husbands had treated them ill—faugh —what shall w...

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