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...The Point of View by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Point of View by Hen... ...The Point of View by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Point of View by Henry Ja... ...ries Publication The Point of View by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...ion The Point of View by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ... I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. …My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if that’s what you call it) proved perfectly ... ...rt some religious poem. I was only five years old, and I believe that as a child I was extremely timid; on the other hand, mamma, as you know, was dre... ..., though mamma says it is now that our real fatigues will begin. I like to abuse those dreadful old countries myself, but I am not sure that I am plea... ...os risques. I don’t know exactly what people talk about, for the supply of scandal is small, and it’s poor in quality. They don’t seem, how- ever, to ...

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...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Faded Photog... ...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Publication My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph ... ...g Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...ed Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...E INHERIT GHOUSE INHERIT GHOUSE INHERITANCE ANCE ANCE ANCE ANCE ONE OF THE CHILDREN brought me a photograph album, long ago finished and closed, and s... ...even saw my twin brothers—nor, indeed, knew of their ex- istence—during my childhood. I had one brother a year younger than myself, and as long as he ... ... itself by its own absurdity; and those two Miss Stympsons were well-known scandal-mongers. Miss Woolmer never believed a story of theirs without sift... ...t seemed the best place to watch in, so there we sat together, and Eustace abused the climate and I told stories— dismal ones, I fear—about sheep and ... ...ng against permitting any intercourse of the sweet child’s, which might be abused. Lady Diana was angered and vexed, but she was not a woman who rose ...

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...Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote: Part One by... ...lated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote: Part One by Miqu... ... Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...rvantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- ... ...unciation of the day. It has been the most freely used and the most freely abused of all the translations. It has seen far more editions than any othe... ...an, whose son Rodrigo married Dona Leonor de Cortinas, and by her had four children, Rodrigo, Andrea, Luisa, and Miguel, our author. The pedigree of C... ...s to be the envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage the silly, childish plays, the “mirrors of nonsense and models of folly” that were in ... ...ut Avellaneda chose to write a preface to it, full of such coarse personal abuse as only an ill- conditioned man could pour out. He taunts Cervantes w... ... unhappy being who, by no fault of hers, has furnished matter for talk and scandal at home and abroad.” CHAPTER XXIX Which treats of the droll device ...

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