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...rset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...d it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an ... ... that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or l... ...and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people. I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the ... ...one another. You’ll meet him if you dine there. But she doesn’t often have people to dinner. He’s very quiet. He’s not in the least interested in lite... ...a while. He had often spoken to me of the silent town, somewhere up in the north of Holland, where his parents still lived. They were poor people. His... ...petite enough to eat. I heard the con- cierge in the next room emptying my bath. There was a tinkle at my bell, and I left her to open the door. In a ... ...new he was fond of. He did not paint much. He wandered about the hills and bathed in the stream. And he sat about the front look- ing at the lagoon, a...

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...ns which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of that I rashly decided to abandon doctoring and earn my living as a writer; so, as soon as I was ?qualified?, I set out for Spain and spent the best part of a year in Seville. I amused myself hugely and ...

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...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ...ght, and the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. T... ...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... .... Adams THE BERKSHIRE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN Coutnins, 94 Bedrooms, 25 Baths, Cafe, Telephone and Electric Lights ill ever} room. —ELEVATOR— Ameri... ...vey Rice Stafford, of Cnnajoharie, N. Y., was drowned on September 6 while bathing in Canajoharia oreek. At the time of his death Mr. Stafford was in ...

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Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

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...rpt: Chapter 1. A South Sea Bridal. I saw that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. The land breeze blew in our faces, and smelt strong of wild lime and vanilla: other things besides, but these ...

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...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, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being sma...

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...T C H E S S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PEN... ... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...hat editor and his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., i... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...pposed energy that I had manifested, I was decorated with the Order of the Bath. My reading had been extensive enough to give me some vague aerial sen... ...tain select families, of conferring knightly honors? The red ribbon of the Bath he certainly did confer upon me; and once, in a 69 Autobiographic Ske...

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...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, an...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in tho...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A cri...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have th... ...that this novel has to tell. She had a compartment to herself in the train from Lon- don to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the se... ...id to herself… . Morningside Park was a suburb that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It consisted, like pre-Roman Gaul, of three parts. Th... ...about her seemed to be—how can one put it? —in wrappers, like a house when people leave it in the summer. The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept... ...om his wife, and had sworn unwontedly and with passionate sincerity in the bathroom. He was a manly man, free from any strong maternal strain, and he ... ...ith his riding gai- ters, smiling and saluting, while Ann V eronica turned north- ward and so came to Micklechesil. There, in a little tea and sweet-s... ...r five long years of adolescence—upon the leaded space above the built-out bath-room on the first floor. Once upon a time she and Roddy had descended ...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge 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 Sta... ...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...s the people about him. Gudrun lighted on him at once. There was something northern about him that 11 magnetised her. In his clear northern flesh and... ...over his arm. He was aloof and white, and somehow evanescent. ‘There’s the bath-room now, if you want it,’ he said gener- ally, and was going away aga... ...,’ Birkin replied, moving away. When Gerald went back to his room from the bath, he also carried his clothes. He was so conventional at home, that whe...