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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the ho...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...02 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means... ...opened and there before them was the city of Mirapore with its white painted buildings, beautiful gardens and an artificial lake in the centre of wh... ...ndstone and white marble with intricately pierced marble screens, courts, fountains and exquisite gardens. Magnificent domes and minarets crowned it... ...’s David, the impressive sculpture she had so admired when she visited Audrey Blankenhagen 54 Florence with her father years ago. Gavin French wa... ... this city. The beautiful palace rising from the glistening lake, around the banks of which were gardens and marble pavilions. Then behind this gar...

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...Excerpt: Florence, April 5th, 1874.--They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ith her mother, the widow of a naval captain. Farther on, with ad- joining gardens, was another couple of houses, in one of which lived Mr. Dutton; in... ...ng about till the General’s death ten years ago.’ ‘Yes, I once met them at Florence, and thought them two weary pitiable men. One looked at the Genera... ...ould serve you right to send you to carry the invita- tion to go round the gardens and houses.’ ‘Do you mean it, aunt?’ ‘Mean it? Don’t you see your u... ...always forbid you to gossip.’ ‘We didn’t gossip, mother. We went up to the gardens to get some mulberries for our half-holiday feast; and Ronaldson ca... ...ieppe; for he was en garcon when I nearly came across him ten years ago at Florence.’ ‘Oh no! He inquired at Dieppe, but they had lost the ad- dress m... ...to me for doing him a good turn against his will. I tried to get at him at Florence to find out what he had done with you, but unluckily I was ill, an...

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..., should?st know of this. Ia. But you?l not heare me. If ever I did dream 8 Of such a matter, abhorre me. Rodo. Thou told?st me, Thou did?st hold him in thy hate....

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...orre me. 9 Rodo. Thou told’st me, 10 Thou did’st hold him in thy hate. 11 Iago. Despise me 12 If I do not. Three Grea... ...espise me 12 If I do not. Three Great- ones of the Cittie, 13 (In personall suite to make me his Lieutenant) 14 Off- capt to him: an... ... One Michaell Cassio, a Florentine, 23 (A Fellow almost damn’d in a faire Wife) 24 That neuer set a Squadron in the Field, 25 ... ...75 Marcus Luccicos is not he in Towne? 376 1.Sen. He’s now in Florence. 377 Duke. Write from vs, 378 To him, Post, Post- ha... ... ’tis in our selues that we are 673 thus, or thus. Our Bodies are our Gardens, to the which, 674 our Wills are Gardiners. So that if we will...

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...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...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... ... They walked about the streets and the wooded hills, they drove in cabs, they boated on the river, they sipped beer and coffee, after- noons, in the S... ...n property of the organization, like the corps steward or head servant; then there are other dogs, owned by individuals. On a summer afternoon in the ... ...lection often keeps him out when expo- sure to rain or sun is a positive danger for him. Newly ban- daged students are a very common spectacle in the ... ...an—not because I wanted to write about them again, but to see if I had learned anything in twelve years. I afterward visited the great galleries of Ro... ...ith Art. The brush may still deal freely with any subject, however revolting or indelicate. It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Ro... ...entatious sym- bol of modesty, whereas warm-blood paintings which do re- ally need it have in no case been furnished with it. At the door of the Uffiz...

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...Excerpt: ?Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the 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...

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... D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e of any kind. Any 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... Yellow celandines showed out from the hedge-bot- toms, and in the cottage gardens of Willey Green, currant- bushes were breaking into leaf, and littl... ...and so belittling. And still Gudrun did not appear. ‘I think I shall go to Florence for the winter,’ said Hermione at length. ‘Will you?’ he answered.... ...t I shall stay with Palestra. It is quite comfortable.’ ‘What takes you to Florence?’ ‘I don’t know,’ said Hermione slowly. Then she looked at him wit... ...pent several years of my girlhood there, with my mother. My mother died in Florence.’ ‘Oh.’ There was a pause, painful to Ursula and to Birkin. Hermio... ...veins like an exhilaration. Nevertheless she dreamed of a valley, and wild gardens, and peace. She had a desire too for splendour—an aristocratic extr...