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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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...cs Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...his pocket, as if unwilling to trust them even to the chances of being re- united and deciphered; and instead of ringing, as usual, for little Paul, h... ...nd seeing what a long way down it was, he answered: ‘Gold, and silver, and copper. Guineas, shillings, half-pence. You know what they are?’ ‘Oh yes, I... ...aul. ‘Your invitation,’ returned Mr Feeder. Paul, looking at it, found, in copper-plate print, with the exception of his own name and the date, which ... ...en and making the streets hum, flashing out into the meadows for a moment, mining in through the damp earth, booming on in darkness and heavy air, bur... ... furi- ously: burrowing with his head at the bottom, as if he were bent on mining his way out. 670 Dombey & Son ‘Can there be anybody there!’ asked F...

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...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to lov...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue ...

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...01 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A ... ...The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A Scandal in Bohemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I . . ... .... 9 III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...e Beryl Coronet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 A Scandal in Bo... ...nture of the Copper Beeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 I T O SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always... ...fing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by an other loafer, who had rushed up wit... ...rs. For some years the organiza tion flourished in spite of the efforts of the United States government and of the better classes of the community in ... ... be the richest man on the Pacific slope.” “And how did he make his money?” “In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, invested i... ...twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or mountains, so that her educat...

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...ies Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ob Joe, for I never thought of any of the house- keeping property as his – united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread-and-butter a... ...? It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock. I tried it with the l... ...nging with it any relief to my feelings, and the company came. Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice ... ...59 Charles Dickens in the store-house, no smells of grains and beer in the copper or the vat. All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evapor... ...urance shares, and cut into the Direction. I shall also do a little in the mining way . None of these things will interfere with my char- tering a few...

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...cation Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...th of the City of Mexico; of Toluca, nearly as far west, and of Pachuca, a mining town of great importance, some sixty miles to the north-east. Vera C... ...uit every class and condition of people. In many of the booths tlackos—the copper coin of the country, four of them making six and a quarter cents of ... ... in gambling away their scanty week’s earnings. Their coin was principally copper, and I do not believe there was a man among them who had received as... ... the first. We lost none in the second. From this time forward the work of mining and pushing our position nearer to the enemy was prosecuted with vig...