Excerpt Details
...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ll that pleasant afternoon, while the children were pursuing their various sports far off or near at hand, Sometimes you would have said, “Grandfather... ...t him the merri est of them all. At last the children grew weary of their sports. because a summer afternoon is like a long lifetime to the young. So... ... to follow the sea for a living. In the year 1684 he happened to hear of a Spanish ship which had been cast away near the Bahama Islands, and which wa... ...he expenses of his voyage. But, before he returned, he was told of another Spanish ship, or galleon, which had been east away near Porto de la Plata. ... ...h attention, and thought this a fine opportunity to fill his treasury with Spanish gold. He appointed William Phips to be captain of a vessel, called ...

Excerpt Details
...nct, and showing the green summits, and below, the tossing waves breaking white against the dark rocks, and the distance becoming more and more hazy, in spite of the bright sun which made a broken path of glory along the tossing, white-crested waters....

Full Text Search Details
...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. Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...most peculiar to Scottish women; and Jean was equally charming for all the sports in which she could take part, while the little ones, whom, to his cr... ...the King; we may not have them fighting down here, though it would be rare sport to look on, if you were not to be the prize. So my Lord Bishop here t... ...the day when they were entering Northamptonshire, had given a caution that sport was not free in the more frequented parts of England, and that hound ... ...ring the Cross was carved over the ample chimney, and the hangings were of Spanish leather, with all the wondrous history of Santiago’s relics, includ... ...cape, as he came slowly into the cloistered court on his large sober-paced Spanish mule; a knight and the chaplain of the convent assisted him from it...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to make acquaintance wi...

Full Text Search Details
...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. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...e or two chivalrous manoeuvres, till a summons to supper put an end to the sport. CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 THE HOUSE of Lynwo... ...ook of the Priest, to horse and hound, or even to the sight of the martial sports of the tilt-yard. The last five years had, however, wrought a great ... ...proudly in the midst, and beside it the royal Lions and Castles of the two Spanish monarchies. To the south, the snowy peaks of the Pyrenees began to ... ...nstant combat, though knowing how little dependence could be placed on his Spanish allies. The challenge of the Prince of Wales was therefore accepted... ...ot speedily, there will be foul slaughter made among the prisoners by your Spanish butcher—King I would say.” “I come, I come, Chandos,” answered Edwa...

Excerpt Details
... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... of exposing a life in mere gaiety of heart. Such was the gallantry of the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city o... ...nso de Ojeda, who figured in 7 Yo n g e like manner upon the tower of the Spanish cathedral. The same daring afterwards carried him in the track of C... ... show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infantry origi- nally formed by the Great Captain, Gonzalo de Cordo... ..., and on the ramparts, he saw the Spartans, some of them engaged in active sports, and others in combing their long hair. He rode back to the king, an... ...ays of their law, and thought them old-fashioned. They joined in the Greek sports, played games naked in the theatre, joined in riotous processions, c...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Henrietta ’s Wish; or, Domineering by Charlotte M. Yonge, the P... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... as she often said to herself, not the one best calculated for the holiday sports of a boy of sixteen, yet Frederick, having been used to nothing else... ...atures, and she would willingly have been proud of his excellence in manly sports, but in lieu of this she was proud of the spirit which made him long... ...ad often played on the verge of the ocean, watching with mysterious awe or sportive delight the ripple of the advanc- ing waves, the glorious sea itse... ...y has a certain black-lace scarf that will make an 115 Yo n g e excellent Spanish mantilla. Or else suppose you are Berengaria, coming to see King Ri...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: On a Moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away,...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ll asleep there. ‘Her horse fell with her, and they were too bent on their sport to heed her,’ explained the boy, as he trudged along beside Hob and h... ...squire was hurt—I did not like it! It is gruesome.’ ‘Oh, no! It is a noble sport! I loved our tilt-yard at Bletso. Two knights could gallop at one ano... ... CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV A SPOR A SPOR A SPOR A SPOR A SPORTING PRIORESS TING PRIORESS TING PRIORESS TING PRIORESS TING PRIORESS Y... ...ir tasting the good sherris sack that had been sent with his last cargo of Spanish leather. ‘I would I could send a flask to our good Prioress,’ he sa...

Full Text Search Details
...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. A Modern T elemachus by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... war with England, France, and Austria, the Count was transferred from the Spanish Embassy to that of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two elder chil... ...t of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two elder children to join him at a Spanish port. This arrangement was so strange that I can only account for i... ...can only account for it by supposing that as this was the date of a feeble Spanish attempt on behalf of the Jacobites in Scotland, Comte de Bourke may... ...same, but her mother and Mademoiselle 31 Yo n g e Julienne considered the sport not convenable for a demoi- selle. Arthur was once or twice induced t... ...Ulysse was very happily at play with some little brown children, as if the sports of childhood de- fied the curse of Babel, and a sailor from the tart...

Excerpt Details
...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

Full Text Search Details
...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment 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. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ng it, he was so much more gentle than Griff, and would always give up any sport that incommoded me, instead of calling me a stupid little ape, and be... ... Griffith was very happy, and brilliantly success- ful, alike in study and sport, though sports were not made prominent in those days, and triumphs in... ...ying spread out before it, and the woods behind affording every promise of sport. The house, my father said, was good, odd and irregular, built at dif... ...what Peter called his language-master. He was taking lessons in French and Spanish, finding a knowledge of these useful in busi- ness. To his extreme ...

Full Text Search Details
...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. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... burden of these dismal reminiscences. The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector’s junior cle... ...adows in my view: white headed and wrinkled images, which my fancy used to sport with, and has now flung aside for ever. The merchants—Pingree, Philli... ...irrespon sibility of character. This vessel had recently arrived from the Spanish Main, and within three days’ time would sail for Bristol. Hester Pr... ...thy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew from the Spanish Main. And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wicked... ...ly be claimed by some mariners—a part of the crew of the ves sel from the Spanish Main—who had come ashore to see the humours of Election Day. They w...

Full Text Search Details
...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. The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...then lifting them high aloft, while the hound, perfectly entering into the sport, leapt high after them with open mouth, and pretended to seize them, ... ... at least lead a merrier life than in the castle halls, when we hunted for sport, and not for sustenance! Well-a-day, my Leon!”—as the creature closed... ..., the Northern French, which was as little serviceable in dealing with her Spanish and Provencal as with the rude West-Saxon-English. Edward’s deep ma... ... hunters rode down the woodland glade, and he figured to himself the brave sport in which they would soon be engaged. The most part of the day was spe... ...anor of Castille slowly moved towards the woodland path, with her graceful Spanish step, followed, but at some distance, by two of her women. She turn...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...other, Anne of Austria—a pi- ous and well-meaning, but proud and ignorant, Spanish Prin- cess—who pinned her faith upon Mazarin with helpless and excl... ...ets. 6 Stray Pearls The Queen-Regent was enraged through all her despotic Spanish haughtiness at such resistance. She tried to step in by the arrest ... ... to market, and proverbs, and all that you, my children, call very English sports, because we knew only too well that we should never play at them alt... ...Pearls And yet he could not but shudder as he spoke. When they had asked a Spanish prisoner how many there had been in the army, ‘Count the dead,’ he ... ...plunging deeper and deeper into dissipation, gambling, and all those other sports which those about him made him think the privileges of manhood. We c...

Table of Contents Details
.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

Full Text Search Details
...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. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ULL 4 4 4 4 4 First in these fields I try the sylvan strains, Nor blush to sport on Windsor’s blissful plains: Fair Thames, flow gently from thy sacre... ... And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend, For each ill ... ...ef still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ‘Know further yet; whoever fair and... ...lled.—P . 181 ‘Cropp’d our ears:’ said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins, the captain of an English one. He cut off his ...

Excerpt Details
...nts and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms o...

Full Text Search Details
...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. The Caged Lion in Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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.... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...sake, draw his teeth and clip his claws, whereupon he found himself made a sport for her father’s hounds.’ ‘I promise you, Sir Patrick,’ replied the g... ...the tongue of his stepmother, too active-minded not to indulge in freakish sports and ex- periments in life very astounding to commonplace minds, some... ...!’ said the Queen. ‘See what you say when he has cased those fair hands in Spanish gloves. You ladies should know better than to fall out with a merce... ...ch guest found at his or her place a beautiful fragrant pair of gloves, in Spanish leather, on the back of which was once more embroidered, in all her... ...lked up to James, ‘I have found my signet. It was left in the finger of my Spanish glove, which I had not worn since the beginning of winter. Thanks t...

Excerpt Details
... as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost...

Full Text Search Details
...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. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...arls understood, all it led to was certain outer receptacles of fra- grant Spanish gloves, knots of ribbon, and kerchiefs strewn over with rose leaves... ...went out his hawk on his wrist, and he never does take Ysonde for any real sport, as thou and I would do, Follet. He says it is all vanity of vanities... ...s no chance now! Here comes demure Mistress Lucy, and she is the worst mar-sport of all.’ A gentle girl of seventeen was drawing near, her fair deli- ... ...; nay, but means would be found—the King would not be impeded by the Pope; Spanish influence—nay, the King had thrown himself at the head of the Refor... ... deep mourning, and with three or four such stately- looking, black-robed, Spanish-looking duennas round her as to prove her to be a person of high co...

Full Text Search Details
...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. My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge, the ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...nth. “And a very fashionable young man,” he went on, “distinguished in the sporting world.” “An excellent good fellow, with plenty of pluck,” said Har... ...he fancied he had made for himself. He had learnt something of Mr. Tracy’s sporting renown, and saw himself introduced to all the hunt- ing world of t... ...grouse, came home and shot partridges, and Eustace and Harold shared their sport with him, though Harold found it dull cramped work, and thought Engli... ...he ticket was, “Belt, supposed to be of Peruvian workmanship. Taken in the Spanish Armada, 1588. Champion belt at the Northchester Archery Club. Lent ...

Excerpt Details
...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

Full Text Search Details
...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic... ...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. Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... to be made one with Him after passing through 4 Love and Life Death. The Spanish poet Calderon made it the theme of two sacred dramas, in which the ... ...nd she saw that a horseman had halted at the gate, and was gazing at their sports. It was from the distance of a field, but this was enough to fill Ha... ...ying, ‘Thank you, sir, the rascals need to learn not to interfere with our sport,’ all in that gentle sounding low voice of hers, enough to drive one ... ...character of Marshal Berwick, recently slain at Philipsburg, an account of Spanish outrages at sea, or mayhap the story of a marvel- ous beast, half-t... ...ick grizzled brows overhanging searching dark grey eyes, shaded by a great Spanish hat. “Sir! oh sir, is it you?” he cried, breathlessly; “now all wil...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottlan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... him to aver that the letter—if such it were—was neither Scottish, French, Spanish, nor High or Low Dutch. He looked at it in all directions, and shoo... ...re and two large tankards had been filled with Xeres sack, cap- tured in a Spanish ship, “the only good thing that ever came from Spain,” quoth the sa... ...r blandishments. Her Majesty should have women warders for her. ’Twas good sport to see the furrows in his old brow smoothing out against his will as ... ...thered her own chicks to herself, smoothed the plumage somewhat ruffled by sport, and advanced to the head of the stone steps, William Cavendish, the ... ...though Master Goatley would have been sharp to detect the least token of a Spanish galleon on the most distant horizon, the signal fell utterly short....

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life:...

Full Text Search Details
...otte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsyl... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...hout spur? I am sick of being mewed up here within these walls of rock! No sport, not even with falling on a traveller. I am worse off than ever were ... ...by enjoining Friedel to remember 135 Yo n g e that the work that had been sport in the mountains would be basely mechanical in the city, and Friedel ... ...ed each youth in the open street, and then, removing his long, embroidered Spanish glove, he offered his hand, or rather the tips of his fingers, to l... ...was just opening to give exit to a very tall knight, in one of those short Spanish cloaks the collar of which could be raised so as to conceal the fac... ... his sons spring from their horses and come up to her. The Baron doffs his Spanish hat, bends the knee, kisses her hand, and receives her kiss on his ...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: It is sometimes treated as an impertinence 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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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. The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...re there was some reason for it. The girl had, in fact, been named after a Spanish lady, whom her mother had known and admired in early girlhood, and ... ...man. Lady Merrifield only laughed, said she had been beguiled into wet day sports with the chil- dren, begged him to excuse her for a moment or two, a... ... excluded from the decoration thereof, since that was the best part of the sport to those too old for the mystery—and yet young enough to fasten sconc... ... people. But I do want the note taken, so go and come back in time for the sports; which I don’t think you will find much damaged.’ Meantime, Aunt Jan...

Full Text Search Details
...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. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...s, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world. All this will be passing, as ... ...le of disinter- ested feeling, even if it amounts only to enthusiasm for a sport or an industrial employment well done, for an art, or for a locality ... ...games in public or to watch them being played. Certain dangerous and hardy sports and exer- cises are prescribed for him, but not competitive sports b... ... at present prospering politically, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the *The T rue-born Englishman. 200 A Mod...