...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...RK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...nks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river—and permitted himself to think of the end. With its approaches, his w... ...y’s Work the drivers’ sticks, and the swish and roll-down of the dirt. The river was very low, and on the dazzling white sand be- tween the three cent... ...ner yet no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ horse in the United States—them ez can an’ will do their work after bein’ properly broke... ...d for a constable! lock him up! “ said that man, adjusting his collar; and unitedly they cast him into the lamp-room, and turned the key, while the dr... ...vel over a swell of rising ground covered with short, withered grass, into valleys of wonder and unrea- son. Beyond the ridge, which was crowned with ...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, disco...

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...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...ity, the joys of an idleness natural to mankind, a peaceful fate by a slow river of sweet water under a plantain tree that bears its pleasant manna wi... ...ine, at the clamoring waves that reflected the lights of Paris. Above that river, in which but now he had thought to fling himself, the old man’s pred... ... ditions for existence for you is the heavier atmosphere of the plains and valleys. Yes, the vital air for a man consumed by his genius lies in the fe... ...ective; a pine-tree a hundred feet in height looks to be a mere weed; wide valleys look as narrow as meadow paths. The lake is the only one where the ... ... the hand of a pretty woman in his, went on board the Ville d’Angers. Thus united they both looked and wondered long at a white form that rose elusive...

...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted th...

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ...hing doesn’t often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know—it comes out in the sons. Clever sons, clever mo... ...ady Chettam, who attributed her own remarkable health to home-made bitters united with constant medical attendance, entered with much exercise of the ... ...ing wood; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modula- tions of light and shadow such as we travel f... ... kind as to propose a second favorite song of his—”Flow on, thou shin- ing river”—after she had sung “Home, sweet home” (which she detested). This har...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...