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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the ho...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...02 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means... ... all the flotsam and jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages and British ‘stations’, small enclaves of... ...l centre of English banks, stores and, incongruously, an English tea shop run by two ladies from Devonshire. Higher up on the hillocks nestled pink ... ... last she was satisfied with her purchases, Helen instructed the driver to return and stop at the Devon tea shop. The smoke from the dung fires, Ros... ... sub-continent, had settled in Mirapore and opened their tea shop. The little shop was a slice of Devon set in the foothills of the Himalayas. It had... ...he owner of the gun which kills “Sher Saitan” the name given to a tiger, which is preying on the villages around the forest hunting site.’ ‘But is ... ...nged to tear off her enveloping shroud and immerse herself in any little stream they passed. The villages were scattered, the people very suspicious...

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...Contents ?IN AMBUSH? ................................................................................................................................. 6 SLAVES OF THE LAMP ..................................................................

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sandra Belloni by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...coat. There was my father; and at night he used to steal out to one of the villages, where was a good, true woman—so they are, most, in Italy! She gav... ...ld on board the yacht. Wilfrid and Lady Charlotte gave their votes for the Devon coast. All were ready to be off, when Miss Ford received a telegram f... ...hore, and said, “No; it must be Dover.” Now, Mrs. Chump’s villa was on the Devon coast. Lady Charlotte had talked to Wilfrid about her, and in the sim... ...that she must be got on board. This was the reason of their decid- ing for Devon. But Georgiana stood for Dover; thither Merthyr said that he must go,...

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............................................................................................................................................. 34 LETTING IN THE JUNGLE .................................................................................................................................. 35 MOWGLI?S SONG AGAINST PEOPLE....................................................

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...knolls, and rising into blue hills beyond. We became proud of counting the villages and church towers we could see from thence. There was a still olde... ...perty. Here were all the others discussing a proposed tour in the north of Devon, to be taken conjointly with the Fordyces, as soon as Griff should co... ...ving the notion up on hearing of our pro- jected excursion to the north of Devon. Pending this, Clarence was, for nearly a week, fit for nothing but l... ...ee from the railway. It was a beautiful day, with the intensely blue South Devon sea dancing in golden ripples, and break- ing on the shore with the s...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d, was the daughter of James Coleridge, of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Colonel of the South Devon Vol- unteers. He was the eldest of the nu... ...date September 19, 1871. The boy’s first school was at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire, of which his great-grandfather and great-uncle had both been he... ...London was a great fatigue to an invalid, her desire to spend Christmas in Devonshire led to her remaining there with her daughters, when her husband ... ...ss and of Dissent with life, which infected even the most carefully tended villages, and with which Patteson was do- ing his best to contend at Alfing... ... several of which I saw; but I found considerable parties at the different villages, and had, on the whole, satisfactory conversations with them. They... ... spirits of deceased friends. A walk inland at Vanua Lava disclosed pretty villages nestling under banyan trees, one of them provided with a guest-cha...

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...rtant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty vi...

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...9 THE HOMESTEAD? A VISITOR ? HALF-CONFIDENCES 59 -- 10 MISTRESS AND MEN, 64 -- 11 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS ? SNOW? A MEETING, 70 -- 12 FARMERS ? A RULE ? IN EXCEPTION, 75 -- 13 SORTES SANCTORUM ? THE VALENTINE, 79 -- 14 EFFECT OF THE LETTER ? SUNRISE, 83 -- 15 A MORNING MEETING? THE LETTER AGAIN, 87 -- 16 ALL SAINTS? AND ALL SOULS?, 96 -- 17 IN THE MARKET-PLACE, 99 -- 18 BOLDW...

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... OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR — ANOTHER IN TERIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ... ...1 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS — SNOW — A MEETING . . . . 70 12 FARMERS — A RULE — IN EXCEPTION . . . . . . . . . . . 75 13 SORTES SANCTORUM — THE V ALENTINE ... .... . 87 16 ALL SAINTS’ AND ALL SOULS’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 17 IN THE MARKET PLACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 18 BOLDWOOD ... ...idea of such a slight wind catching it.’ The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as ab... ...and. ‘Tomorrow morning I wish two or three of you to make inquiries in the villages round if they have seen such a person as Fanny Robin. Do it quietl... ...ny lass, Jolly O, Spot, Twinkle eye, etc., etc. — the respectable dairy of Devon cows belonging to Bathsheba aforesaid. Her way back to the house was ... ...first great principle of provincial existence, namely that God made country villages to supply customers to county towns, should have confused ideas ab...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the sam...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter ...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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