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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

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...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happe...

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...The War in the Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. W... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air 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... ...badge, and all; and to see him and Grubb going down to Brighton (and back)—heads down, handle-bars down, backbones curved— was a revelation in the pos... ... ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REFUSES TO LISTEN TO MR. BUTTERIDGE. GREAT MONO-RAIL DISASTER AT TIMBUCTOO. or this:— ... ...d. The beach, east and west, was dotted with little people—they seemed all heads and feet— looking up. And the balloon, released from the twenty-five ... ...rovidential. Last grace of Heaven. Like a sign. Hullo!” He stood still and listened. Outside there was a going to and fro of feet, a sound of distant ... ...onymously. See?” Still staring. Bert drifted on like a swimmer caught by a current. “Fact is, I’m going to edop’ the name of Smallways. I don’t want n... ...ke; a mine of ill-fitting “parts” to replace the defects of machines still current. And back among the trees was a second Asiatic aeroplane …. The kit...

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Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, Fr... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War 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... ...He was a little inclined to fatalism, he confessed. There were two stories current of two families of four sons, in each three had been killed and in ... ...efit on a much large scale, and disappointed me ex- tremely.) As I sat and listened to the uproar and watched the shells burst on Cimone and far away ... ...lowers; it is a disciplined array of uniform wooden crosses, each with its list of soldiers’ names. Unless I am wholly mistaken in France no Germans w... ... produces its val- iant sheets, and has done so since the siege began. The current number of Le Lion d’Arras had to report a local German success. Ove... ... and reinforce- ments; then, before the advance, the hammering down fire, “heads down,” upon the trenches. When at last this stops and the infantry go... ...d by aeroplane on or behind the British lines, about twenty go down on the heads of the Germans. British air bombs upon guns, stores and communication...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

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