...sics Series Publication The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...at she was messing about with now, when she got there. The visitor sat and listened to her retreating feet. He glanced inquiringly at the window befor... ...darkness smoking in the firelight— perhaps dozing. Once or twice a curious listener might have heard him at the coals, and for the space of five minut... ... things that came out of these crates besides the bottles were a number of test-tubes and a carefully packed balance. And directly the crates were unp... ...eady so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of t... ...PTER XVI IN IN IN IN IN THE “JOLL THE “JOLL THE “JOLL THE “JOLL THE “JOLLY CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” THE “JO... ...p the town at night. “Looks like a crowd down the hill,” he said, “by ‘The Cricketers,’” and remained watch- ing. Thence his eyes wandered over the to... ... the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last t...

...hapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch ...

...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... he knew she had a brother on the medical staff of one of the regiments in India: she asked 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and his cheeks we... ... were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our general of... ...oping over hedges and ditches to swell Napoleon’s ranks in distress. Matey listened to him there; he became grave; he nodded like a man saying, “I sup... ... what he was fit for, Matey gave no offence by choosing, half-way down the list, his little French friend, whom he stationed beside himself, rather of... ...pon the pre- tensions of several, and dismissed them to their limbo, after testifying against them. Who is to know the fit one in these mines of decep... ...speaking it; and she had always taken that pronunciation of her name for a test of people’s breeding. The expression of 66 Lord Ormont and His Aminta... ...e proved right, and the lady and he had descended at the sign of the Jolly Cricketers, and Boon had driven on for half an hour by order. This, too, ha...

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...e boy’s sharp, stormy gusts of passion, and his mother’s steady refusal to listen to his ‘I will be good’ until she saw that he was really sorry for t... ... Newcastle scholarship, just before the Easter holidays, and it is a great testimony to a boy’s ability 26 Life of John Coleridge Patteson and indust... ...ollege: ‘He was by common consent one of the best, if not the best, of the cricketers of the school. The second year of his appearance at Lord’s Crick... ... his last examination for the Newcastle, in the spring of 1845. Before the list was given out he had written to his father that the Divinity papers we... ...g that I believe never occurred before, and which is generally believed to test a boy’s knowl- edge well. My Iambics were good, I expect, though not w... ...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ... sympathise as I ought with those who are suffering so dreadfully from the Indian Mutiny, or the commercial failure, or the great excitement and agita...

...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...

...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...of the knocks and repeated bell-peals which assured all those who had ever listened in the servants’ hall to prognostications of a possible night atta... ...of outrages on his character in a Court of Law, where he must of necessity listen and lock his boiling replies within his indignant bosom. ‘Now, Sewis... ...parture. John stood like a soldier. We drove away from a cheering crowd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal ... ...ppenger. The fact is, I hear from little Roy that you are fond of tales of Indian adventure, and I gave him a book for you to read, if you like it. Mr... ...ay,’ said Heriot. ‘I took the liberty to write some notes. My father is an Indian officer, you know, and some of the terms in the book are difficult w... ... good race against the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, I say it is! What are you going to do to-day?’ ‘I am... ...with a report, and much in a similar attitude. ‘These young gentlemen will testify to you solemnly, Greg, that I took no unfair advantage,’ said the c...

...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

...Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publica- tion 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...y was old enough to take her place, and that Frank should then return from India and claim his bride. Well did she discharge the duties which she had ... ...ey were to return to Beechcroft, merely for a farewell, before sailing for India. It was half-past nine in the evening, and the wedding over— Mr. and ... ...ich Lily intended her sis- ter to govern the household, and to which Emily listened without knowing what she meant much better than she did herself. E... ...olroom table with her work, and summoned every one, however oc- cupied, to listen to the reading. CHAPTER IV—HONEST P CHAPTER IV—HONEST P CHAPTER IV—H... ...R VER ‘Jane borrowed maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule.’ THE QUESTION of Jane’s confirmation was decided in an un... ...nutes under the yew-tree where ‘Mohun’s chair’ ought to have been, and the cricketers were of all ranks, from the Marquis of Rotherwood to little Dick...

...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...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... ...carcely sit up in bed. It was piteous to see him lying with his door open, listening. He is full of warm sound feeling, poor fellow. You would like to... ... it is the nurse-maid that takes up the young ladies’ meals.’ Mary did not listen to the rest; she was desperate, and pounc- ing on the bread with one... ...that never has come. At last, in the height of that pestilential season in India, came a let- ter, warning me that my brother’s widow had got the mas-... ... at Coombe. The sisters soon followed, and were detained to drink tea. The cricketers’ mirth must have been fast and furious if it exceeded that at ho... ...ector and Harry were found deep in an argu- ment in which the lieutenant’s Indian reminiscences of the Naval Brigade were at issue with the captain’s ... ... been watching the various pairs of brothers; and I doubt if any stand the test as well as the house of May.’ ‘There’s only one in the field to-day.’ ... ...try to think it the right one.’ Ethel had mentally made this interview the test of her re- gard for Leonard. She had failed, and so had her test; her ...

Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith 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... ...wn that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of living tailors. The demise of a respectable member of this class do... ... Some minutes after, the two were joined by Grossby, the confectioner, who listened to the news, and observed: ‘Just like him! I’ d have sworn he’ d n... ...ulted from a clear sequence of ideas in the lady’s head. Evan did not con- test it. ‘ And assuredly you will lose her, Evan. Think of my troubles! I h... ...niless, consti- tuted a postillion’s gentleman, Evan would have passed the test. The sight of poverty, however, provokes familiar feel- ings in poor m... ...ir former comradeship; tickled by a recollection of his old schoolfellow’s India-rubber mind. Mr. Raikes stood about a head under him. He had extremel... ...olmate to the winds, in the pres- 108 Evan Harrington ence of these young cricketers; for he had a prognostication. The door was open, and the compan... ... was demanded. Mr. Raikes addressed the meeting. The three young gentlemen-cricketers had hitherto behaved with a certain propriety. It did not offend...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of livin...

...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... .... Oh, yes, we know,” interrupted Allen; “Janet does not think anyone worth listening to that hasn’t got a whole alphabet tacked behind his name.” “Jan... ...rs. Brownlow. “He knows how describe as few people do.” “Did you see Janet listening to him,” said her grandmother, “with her brows pulled down and he... ...something else. You are getting the school up again, which is at least one testimony.” David Ogilvie made a sound as if this were very base kind of so... ...where Mary looked in vain for her friend’s sons. “No, they are not much of cricketers,” said her brother; “they are small for it yet, and only take th... ...hether she was right in feeling it a duty to ex- postulate and deliver her testimony. There was no doing it on this day. Carey was always sur- rounded... ...nd this had never been forgiven. The young couple had gone out to the West Indian isles, where the early home of her husband had been, and where he he... ...ht to the pound. (H. S. H.) 6th.—Mr. B. keeps a bloodhound trained to hunt Indians, and has six pounds of prime beef steaks for it every day . (Emma.)...

...their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...