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...the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- troni... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION O... ...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ... boot, Sewis, and say it ‘s mine; you ‘ve my leave.’ Sewis withdrew a step from the bedside. At a safe distance he fronted his master steadily; almost... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ...d him to me as a sort of shadow about a pastrycook’s shop. But I surprised people by speaking of him. I made remarks to our landlady which caused her ...

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...Excerpt: Hart-Leap Well. Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of th...

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...ELL -LEAP WELL Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from ... ...LEAP WELL Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richm... ...de of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is de- rived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments ... ...s do now exist as have there described them. The Knight had ridden down from Wensley moor With the slow motion of a summer’s cloud; He turn’d a... ...er shade, To pipe a simple song to thinking hearts, As I from Hawes to Richmond did repair, It chanc’d that I saw standing in a dell Three asp... ...another. —Some little I’ve seen of blind boisterous works In Paris and London, ‘mong Christians or Turks, Spirits busy to do and undo: At reme... ...th Pedlar’s wares, And with this Basket on his arm, the Lad Went up to London, found a Master there, Who out of many chose the trusty Boy To g... ...ng her best fare Did she bring forth, and all together sate Like happy people round a Christmas fire. Next morning Isabel resum’d her work, An...

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... evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the reb...

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... question whether any govern- ment not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cie... ...Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. Now that the election is ov... ...to Lincoln as the vicious and unpatriotic themselves. His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because other- wise adherence to rig... ...eive 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One of a man farther removed from baseness, farther removed from corruption, from mere self-seeking; but... ...f great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American statesman... ...out much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridi- cule.” On Easter Day, 1865, the world knew how little this ridic... ...ous confusion in the Union ranks. The failure of McClellan’s movement upon Richmond increased immensely the prestige of the enemy. The need of some gr... ...Union flag through the South. Grant had his iron hand upon the ramparts of Richmond. The days of the Confederacy were evidently numbered. Only the las... ...country a great service in another direction. A few days after the fall of Richmond, he pointed out to a friend the crowd of office-seekers be- siegin...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of l...

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...he duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many per- sons are in the days of thei... ...ttle bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, ... ...urs, much accustomed, one for the gentlemen of the shoulder-knot, who came from the houses of their employers hard by; an- other for some “gents who u... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...ogether, you don’t spare your money. I myself, at the “Star and Garter” at Richmond, once paid—” “Eighteenpence?” “Heighteenpence, sir!—I paid five-an... ...irm is, I flatter my- self, a little more up in the market than some other people’s names.” “Do you mean to insult the name of Archibald Eglantine, si... ...y of calling the “Star and Garter”), “and I’ll ride by them all the way to Richmond. It’s rather a long ride, but with Snaffle’s soft saddle I can do ... ...uests the honour and pleasure of their company at the ‘Star and Garter’ at Richmond to an early 37 Thackeray dinner on Sunday next. “If agreeable, Mr...

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...e precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

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...t, floated on the Thames, be- tween Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in. The f... ...tention. So the girl eyed him. But, it happened now, that a slant of light from the setting sun glanced into the bottom of the boat, and, touching a r... ...t or barge that split the cur- rent into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats ... ... the action in her sculling; presently the boat swung round, quiv- ered as from a sudden jerk, and the upper half of the man was stretched out over th... ...s changed swiftly , and the deepening shad- ows and the kindling lights of London Bridge were passed, and the tiers of shipping lay on either hand. It... ...ncies. Chapter 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE MR AND MRS VENEERING were bran-new people in a bran- new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything abo... ...o was inveigled by Lady Tippins (a friend of his boyhood) to come to these people’s and talk, and who won’t talk. Reflects Eugene, friend of Mortimer;... ...nd possible accidents. The V eneering dinners are excellent dinners—or new people wouldn’t come—and all goes well. Notably, Lady Tippins has made a se... ...ould have outwalked him betwixt anywheres about where he lost the tide—say Richmond—and this, if you had a mind to it.’ ‘You think I have been followi...

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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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...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... ...EDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have things ... ...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... ...ore them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was... ...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... ...ng subsidiary devel- opments, such as flirtation and “being interested” in people of the opposite sex. She approached this field with her usual liveli... ... corncob pipes in the Avenue on Sun- day morning, travelled third class to London by unusual trains, and openly despised golf. He occupied one of the ... ...s P P P P Par ar ar ar art 6 t 6 t 6 t 6 t 6 THEY SPENT the next Sunday in Richmond Park, and mingled the happy sensation of being together uninterrup...

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...t: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker,...

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...t tidy, fidg- ety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Grea... ...te, with the interesting in- scription ‘Mrs. Tibbs,’ had never caught fire from con- stant friction, so perseveringly was it polished. There were meat... ...the wandering Jew of Joe Millerism. Mr. Tibbs enjoyed a small independence from the pen- sion-list—about 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, an... ...out 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, and five interesting scions from the same stock, drew a like sum from the revenue of a grateful country... ...wn. But, as this said independence was not quite sufficient to furnish two people with all the luxuries of this life, it had occurred to the busy litt... ...s Rampart; and one day, when we were exercising on the ground on which the London University now stands, he says, says he, Tibbs (calling me from the ... ...ens parlour. Mrs. Maplesone and Mr. Calton played cribbage, and the ‘young people’ amused themselves with music and conversation. The Miss Maplesones ... ... as if he were on the stool of an electrifying machine in full operation. ‘People must know that, some time or other—within a year, I imagine, ’ said ... .... Alfred Tomkins, addressing the company in general, ‘I shall ride down to Richmond to-day, and come back by the steamer. There are some splendid effe...

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...d III. Brothers to the King. A young son of Clarence. (Boy:) HENRY: Earl of Richmond, (RICHMOND:) afterwards King Henry VII. CARDINAL BOURCHIER : Ar... ...:) TRESSEL and BERKELEY: Gentlemen attending on the Lady Anne. Lord Mayor of London. (Lord Mayor:) Sheriff of Wiltshire. (Sheriff:) ELIZABETH: Queen ... ...nger:) (Fourth Messenger:) SCENE: England. KING RICHARD III ACT I SCENE I: London. A street. [Enter GLOUCESTER, solus .] GLOUCESTER: Now is the win... ...I do not: but, as I can learn, He hearkens after prophecies and dreams; And from the cross row plucks the letter G. And says a wizard told him that b... ...Woodville, her brother there, That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower, From whence this present day he is deliver’d? We are not safe, Clarence; ... ... the heart that had the heart to do it! Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence! More direful hap betide that hated wretch, That makes us wret... ...d make your majesty joyful as you have been! QUEEN ELIZABETH : The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby. To your good prayers will scarcely say a... ...hem; And ask’d the mayor what meant this wilful silence: His answer was, the people were not wont To be spoke to but by the recorder. Then he was urge... ...s to children. If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas, And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaught...

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...ee what you can do for me,” he said. “I’m sure I don’t,” said the doctor. “People come here and talk.” There was something reassuringly inaggressive a... ...s something reassuringly inaggressive about the figure that confronted Sir Richmond. Dr. Martineau’s height wanted at least three inches of Sir Richmo... ...m too high so that he seemed to have grown out of them quite recently. Sir Richmond had been dreading an encounter with some dominating and mesmeric p... ... with his hands in his trouser pockets, seemed intent only on disavowals. “People come here and talk. It does them good, and sometimes I am able to of... ... can’t leave off working.” “Your name,” said the doctor, “is familiar. Sir Richmond Hardy? In the papers. What is it?” “Fuel.” “Of course! The Fuel Co... ...afford to have you ill.” “I am ill. But you can’t afford to have me absent from that Commission.” “Your technical knowledge—” “Technical knowledge be ... ... far. Everything short and running shorter—food, fuel, material. But these people go on. They go on as though nothing had changed…. Strikes, Russia, n... ...t feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They hide all their troubles from the road. Their backyards are tucked away out of sight, they show a br... ... well as far as it goes. But it does not cover my case. I am not suffering from inadaptation. I have adapted. I have thought things out. I think—much ...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... 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... ...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... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...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... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ... side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, was then called the Oxford Road; and dur- ing the currency of our a... ...blic, (viz., of Mrs. Evans,) a regular gazette, which, in imitation of the London Ga- 68 Thomas de Quincey zette, was published twice a week. I suppo... ...at he was passionately devoted to the beautiful sister of the then Duke of Richmond. That was before his mar- riage; and I believe it is certain that ...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...iver and putting W ool and Burnside in communication, with an open road to Richmond, or to you, had effected something in that direction. I am still u... ...on. I am still unwilling to take all our force off the direct line between Richmond and here. A. LINCOLN. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...ut consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON, May 18, 1862. GEN... ... march. In order, therefore, to in- crease the strength of the attack upon Richmond at the earliest moment, General McDowell has been ordered to march... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your r...

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................ 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .............................................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart disapproved. ............................................................................................

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................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY , whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led h... ........................................ 96 A TOUR THROUGH W ALES—in a LETTER from a YOUNG LADY— ........................................................... ...he author. “Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.” Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that yo... ...the World. She had passed 2 Years at one of the first Boarding-schools in London; had spent a fortnight in Bath and had supped one night in Southampt... ...osed to? What probability is there of my ever tasting the Dissipations of London, the Luxu- 7 Jane Austen ries of Bath, or the stinking Fish of Sout... ...nly inconvenience attending it was the Scarcity of Plays which for want of People to fill the Characters, we could perform. We did not mind trifles h... ...ut one genteel family since we came. Mr and Mrs Marlowe are very agreable people; the ill health of their little boy occasioned their arrival here; y... ...sley Castle) you will not be sorry to find yourself. In spite of all that people may say about Green fields and the Country I was always of opinion t... ...did not reign long in peace, for 64 Love and Friendship Henry Tudor E. of Richmond as great a villain as ever lived, made a great fuss about getting ...

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... used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere. He wore it, he said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,--but that is neither here nor there....

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... said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,—but that is neither here nor there. In the middle of ... ...Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond a plate of blue enamel, and it was from the Great Hoggarty Diamond (as we called it in the family) that the co... ...ought I. “Samuel, my dear nephew,” said she, “your first name you received from your sainted uncle, my blessed husband; and of all my nephews and niec... ...- tary indeed: I’m unworthy of it—indeed I am.” “As for those odious Irish people,” says my aunt, rather sharply, “don’t speak of them, I hate them, a... ...air, and his love for the fine arts. As for the poor artist, my dear, some people said it was the profuse use of spirit that brought on delirium treme... ... the City of London for establishing companies of all sorts; by which many people made pretty fortunes. I was at this period, as the truth must be kno... ...ses to do something for you. We are going down, meanwhile, to his house at Richmond; and be sure, Mr. Titmarsh, I will not fail to keep you in his min... ...and I laughed, and we were all very happy: and sure enough there came from Richmond a letter to me, stating that I was appointed fourth clerk in the T... ...than any of us imagined; for I do believe he invited his brother-in-law to Richmond for no other purpose than to pay court to his son’s nurse. And one...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them. Things written either live or die; unless it be for a pla... ...umbfounded. “Of course he is eccentric,” she meditated. “But running about London—in the height of the season, too—in his socks!” A happy thought stru... ...aid it was Asiatic cholera. And he ran away with it to poison the water of London, and he certainly might have made things look blue for this civilise... ...e expedients, among others a dress of green silk for herself and a trip to Richmond, when a jangling of the front door bell summoned her into the shop...

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...hout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom....

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...utely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his kingdom.... ...aving been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- pilation of the early part of the century, with an accoun... ...atharine’s-by-the-T ower, its history is to be found in Stowe’s ‘Survey of London,’ and likewise in the evidence before the Parliamentary Commission, ... ... in the widest part of the valley, a sort of plat- form of rock jutted out from the hill-side, and afforded a station for one of those tall, narrow, g... ...e as well as to suffer,’ there was an approach of footsteps, and two young people entered the hall; the first a girl, with a family likeness to Malcol... ...dom hath he? What hope is there of his return? Can he brook to hear of his people’s wretchedness?’ This was the first question at which Sir James atte... ... with blood. Perhaps, both Lilias and old Halbert suggested, some of their people had returned and taken him to the Abbey of Coldingham, and as this w... ...ur of Richemont, and some old Welsh rhymester hath whispered to Harry that Richmond shall come out of Brit- tany, and be king of England.’ ‘ Arthur is... ...hear him when I was a lad. “T urn again, Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor of London town!” I told my good old friend I must have come over from France o...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... ...copse, every row of suburban villas on the hilly slopes about Kingston and Richmond, masked an expectant black muzzle. And through the charred and des... ..., I take it are the Martians, and Londonward, where those hills rise about Richmond and Kingston and the trees give cover, earthworks are being thrown... ...my brother. “It wants showing up,” he said. One or two trains came in from Richmond, Putney, and Kingston, containing people who had gone out for a da...

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...nder the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Y our shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at e... ...led me the hyacinth girl.’ 4 The Waste Land Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Sp... ...to see. I do not find The Hanged Man. Fear death by water. I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring. Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone, ... ... 60 Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, ... ...he marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80 (Another hi... ...nshaven, with a pocket full of currants 210 C.i.f. London: documents at sight, 8 The Waste Land Asked me in demotic French To... ... 290 Wallala leialala ‘Trams and dusty trees. Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees Supine on the floo... ...an connect Nothing with nothing. The broken fingernails of dirty hands. My people humble people who expect Nothing.’ la la To Carthage then I cam... .... The Phoenician Sailor and the Merchant appear later; also the ‘crowds of people’, and Death by Water is executed in Part IV . The Man with Three St...

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...hree Heads by Charles Dickens DEDICATION To The Right Reverend THE BISHOP OF LONDON MY LORD, You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on... ...r, if you had been at all ac quainted with the wants and necessities of the people who indulged in them, I cannot imagine possible. That a Prelate of... ...ded to illustrate; but I claim for them one merit — their truth and freedom from exaggeration. I may have fallen short of the mark, but I have never ... ...me, to be injustice on the part of others, I hope I have carefully abstained from committing it myself. I am, My Lord, Your Lordship’s most obedient, ... ...ervant, TIMOTHY SPARKS. JUNE, 1836. CHAPTER I AS IT IS T here are few things from which I derive greater plea sure, than walking through some of the p... ...o shake their heads with an air of profound wis dom, and tell you that poor people dress too well now a days; that when they were children, folks kn... ... a great deal of very unnecessary cant about the over dressing of the common people. There is not a manu facturer or tradesman in existence, who woul... ...e are dozens of steamers to all sorts of places Gravesend, Greenwich, and Richmond; and such numbers of people, that when you have once sat down o... ...dy James’s Folly; or to glide past the beautiful mead ows of Twickenham and Richmond, and to gaze with a de light which only people like them can kn...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...ome great among the cities of the earth. They are beaten by none except by London and Paris. But Washing- ton is but a ragged, unfinished collection o... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ...mpare them with his ideas as to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Richmond, and Memphis. I do not name such towns as Baltimore and St. Louis,... ...- ery movement of the Federal army was communicated to the Confederates at Richmond, at which city was now es- 140 North America V ol. 2 tablished th...