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...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicte...

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...my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform?d my task and was espoused: And humbly now upon my bended knee, In ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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...me Short Stories by Henry James “Brooksmith,” “The Real Thing,” “The Story of It,” “Flickerbridge,” and “Mrs. Medwin” A PENN S TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSIC... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Short Stories by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...letters must have rubbed off on him from the mere handling of his master’s books, which he was always carrying to and fro and putting back in their pl... ...he had told them how I worked in black-and-white, for magazines, for story-books, for sketches of contemporary life, and consequently had co- pious em... ...M into my branch of the enterprise. They knew I was to do the first of the books, Rutland Ramsay, but I had to make clear to them that my participatio... ... the current fashion for young women so equipped was to enter the Parisian lists. Addie had accordingly chanced upon her, on the slopes of Montparnass...

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...Introduction: The poems of Emily Dickinson, published in a series of three volumes at various intervals after her death in 1886, and in a volume entitled The Single Hound, published in 1914, with the addition of a few before omitted, are here collec...

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