...nless you want to die right now. Don’t tell me it’s no use.” ***** New York Morgan had the papers spread all over the parlor floor.... ...t again. Now, in her heart she knew somewhere, in Chicago or home again in New York, Daniel Connolly needed her. She turned to the last page and r... ...d, brushing past her and down the stairs. “Tell me, is she very rich, this new client of yours?” “What? She...?” Camilla paused in her descent t... ... Daniel chuckled. “Hardly. They grew up neighbors in Asbury Park.” “New Jersey? Rosalie?” “Surprised?” “I think I prefer to cast them as s... ...ots are in the South, but she cultivates that drawl of hers like a hothouse magnolia.” The arched door at the top of the stair came into the circle ...

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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER C... ...then I’ll make some notes and think about that order of ours out under the magnolias.” I hovered about the lounge for a time buying postcards 110 The... ...the slightest modifications in the Pas de Calais or Rhenish Prussia or New Jersey or North Italy. No doubt you would find it in New Japan. These men h...

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...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...f the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those... ...cher- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and ... ... pointed out to him as Mr. Welland’s, and saw May Welland standing under a magnolia with the sun in her hair, he wondered why he had waited so long to... ... Archers chanced to be lunching, the question as to who should meet her at Jersey City was immediately raised; and the material difficulties amid whic... ... to the debate. It was agreed that Mrs. Welland could not possi- bly go to Jersey City because she was to accompany her hus- band to old Catherine’s t... ...k May, at the close of a winter afternoon, to go alone across the ferry to Jersey City, even in her own carriage. Nevertheless, it might appear inhosp...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, t...

...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one half. An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, state... ...842 Belle of the West “ 1 18 1844 Sultana “ “ 19 45 1851 Magnolia “ “ 19 50 1853 A. L. Shotwell “ “ 19 49 1853... ...cattle, except what I was able to pick up in a week’s apprenticeship over in Jersey just before we sailed. My cattle culture and cattle enthusiasm hav... ... lute South now—no modifications, no compromises, no half way measures. The magnolia trees in the Capitol grounds were lovely and fragrant, with thei... ...e. Six miles below town a fat and battered brick chimney, sticking above the magnolias and live oaks, was pointed out as the monument erected by an ap...

...members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen ...

...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...ed hero. Then she found a hobby in sociology. The sociology instructor was new. He was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come... ...ered, “Juanita is a great hand for reading high-class stuff, like `Mid the Magnolias’ by this Sara Hetwiggin Butts, and `Riders of Ranch Reckless.’ Bo... ... thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache. He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves. She noted that he did n... ...ing. The stranger’s mouth was arched, the upper lip short. He wore a brown jersey coat, a delft-blue bow, a white silk shirt, white flannel trou- 341... ... reason- able for you, my soul, to ask that complete stranger in the brown jersey coat to come to supper tonight?” She brooded, not looking back. She ... ...s. Daily she passed a dark 437 Sinclair Lewis square house with a hint of magnolias and a courtyard behind it, and a tall curtained second-story wind... ...about the grocery talking of James G. Blaine. A Southern town, full of the magnolias and white col- umns which Carol had accepted as proof of romance,...

...olume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. They built a new factory the very year the commentary on Aristotle—was it?—appeared at t... ... about the Reality of Matter, or the Nature of Good. Round her men in blue jerseys knelt and scrubbed the boards, or leant over the rails and whistled... ...They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetu- ally, the same waves kept returning and washing against ... ...bbold, Mr. Grice, Willoughby, Helen, and an obscure grateful man in a blue jersey. “Oh, it’s time,” said Clarissa. “Well, good-bye. I do like you,” sh... ...ith fixed eyes, she burst out: “So that’s why I can’t walk alone!” By this new light she saw her life for the first time a creeping hedged-in thing, d... ...hand. From her position she saw his head in front of the dark pyramid of a magnolia-tree. With one foot raised on the rung of a chair, and her elbow o... ...think it sufficient. She looked at him against the background of flowering magnolia. There was something curious in the sight. Perhaps it was that the... ...ests of the mountains it swept until it reached the villa, the garden, the magnolia-tree, and the figures of Hirst and herself standing together, when...

... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ... and blue Scotch caps, and the more delicate a thick 195 Yo n g e woollen jersey in addition; and with all these precautions they were continually ca... ... fied against weather: ‘They wear a long flannel waistcoat, then a kind of jersey-shaped thing, with short trousers, reach- ing a little below the kne... ...d crotons, and pine-apples and almond trees, ba- nanas and tree-ferns, and magnolias and camellias, &c., all in the open air. ‘The ground slopes up be...

... Miss Mary. ‘So it was with the last regime’, said the vicar; ‘but now the new people are come I expect great things from them. I hear they are very f... ...ldren, with Miss Headworth and the German nurse, and our being told of our new sister. Uncle Alwyn and his yacht were there, and we went on board once... ...tched over her like a dragon. She made them put in at some little place in Jersey, put in the banns, all unknown to my uncle, and got them married. Ea... ...ts Quixotism all the time.’ ‘Have you done anything?’ ‘Yes. I have been to Jersey, seen the register—July 20, 1859—and an old French-speaking clerk, w... ...st, here joined the party, and the whole story was laid before him. He was new to Micklethwayte, having suc- ceeded a somewhat distant kinsman, and di... ...mont, to whom she had been married on the 20th of July at St. Philippe, in Jersey, and that she herself was obliged to leave the place almost imme- di... ...and Co. Mr. Dutton’s well-kept house, with the little conservatory and the magnolia, was judged sufficient for present needs, and the lease was taken ...

...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...hich I had ever been solaced. On the other hand, it will be obvious that a new hope at the same time arose to take its place, viz., the reasonable one... ...be leading them into little fibs. I don’t insist on a Yucca gloriosa, or a Magnolia speciosissima, (I hope there is such a plant)—a rose or a violet w... ... injury, in a more aggravated shape, is perpe- trated from time to time by Jersey upon ourselves, and would, upon a larger scale, right itself by war.... ... a larger scale, right itself by war. Convicts are costly to maintain; and Jersey, whose national revenue is limited, be- ing too well aware of this, ... ...ues- tion propounded by the injured scoundrels, when taking leave of their Jersey escort. ‘Anything you please,’ is the answer: ‘rise if you can, to b...

... the Day ....................................................132 Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?................................................. ... OREIGN L ANDS I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I sen... ...ns to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arou... ...ocust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 356 orange, magnolia, Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp, He likenin... ...S T HOUGHT OF S CHOOL (For the Inauguration of a Public School, Camden, New Jersey, 1874 ) An old man’s thought of school, An old man gathering youth...