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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...it’s Hand 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITION I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two year... ...ave been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and dem... ... of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to de... ... king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright—pointed weapons with little surface to betray them. They had no depth or change; th... ...arrying his daughter, three or four years old, and a basket. ‘How goes the world this forenoon, gentlemen? My little one, you see, going round with me... ...ood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the ... ...hat, if Mr Cripples had been the chief of the Cripplewayboo tribe with his war-paint on, they could scarcely have done greater justice to their educat... ...he streets against men, and especially women, running at me armed with any weapons they could lay their hands on. I have lain in prison for security, ...

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...s Senior Faculty Editor: Jim Manis Student Editor: Paul Surdi The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...nsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a publication... ...t ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 4 ACT I SCENE I: Verona. A public place. [Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the hou... ...l not carry coals. GREGORY: No, for then we should be colliers. SAMPSON: I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw. GREGORY: Ay, while you live, draw ... ... veins, On pain of torture, from those bloody hands Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground, And hear the sentence of your moved prince. Three ci... ...But saying o’er what I have said before: My child is yet a stranger in the world; She hath not seen the change of fourteen years, Let two more summers... ...irer than my love! the all seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun. BENVOLIO: Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself ... ..., sir, your passado. [They fight.] ROMEO: Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons. Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage! Tybalt, Mercutio, the ... ...amber. [Enter Nurse.] Nurse: Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I war rant her, she: Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug a bed! Why, love, ...

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...ries Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ......................................................................... 125 I: HOWE’S MASQUERADE ......................................................... ...gainst the house of Stuart. Here, also, were the veterans of King Philip’s war, who had burned villages and slaughtered young and old, with pious fier... ... and harsh tones. “How dare you stay the march of King James’s Governor?” “I have stayed the march of a King himself, ere now,” re- plied the gray fig... ...thout arms, and ready to convert the very stones of the street into deadly weapons. Sir Edmund Andros looked at the old man; then he cast his hard and... ...the trouble of acquiring it. The approaching marriage of this woman of the world with such an unworldly man as Mr. Ellenwood was announced soon after ... ...accidents of life. All the wonder was, how the gentleman, with his lack of worldly wisdom and agonizing consciousness of ridicule, could have been ind... ... the forest or the cornfield till evening made it prayer time again. Their weapons were always at hand to shoot down the straggling savage. When they ... ...ld country. He had remained in England during the first years of the civil war, in which he had borne some share as a cornet of dragoons, under Cromwe...

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...n Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...nd’s Conversion Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw ACT I On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a sea- port on the west... ...ffle all the traditional vowel pronunciations. He pronounces ow as ah, and i as aw, using the ordinary ow for o, i for a, a for u, and e for a, with t... ... captains, but of thr Maaker. And there are gentlemen and gentlemen in the world, espaecially in these latitudes. Which sort of gentleman is he? DRINK... ...ve matters as they were for many years; for I had my own posi- tion in the world to make. But at last I made it. In the course of a holiday trip to th... ...he railway from the Cape to Cairo. Who are you, that a nation should go to war for you? If you are missing, what will your newspapers say? A foolhardy... ...e hands of them that set the sea on fire but yesterday with their ships of war? Where are the Franguestani cap- tives? LADY CICELY. Here we are, Cadi.... ...earts and strike fire from the hard kind ones. He handles the other lethal weapons as familiarly as the pen: medieval sword and mod- ern Mauser are to...

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...HE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career o... ...ndertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chem... ...ificent high-minded laissez-aller neglect, has rarely been exceeded in the world. We hear sometimes of an action for damages against the unqualified m... ... NICHOLAS NICKLEBY incapable pettifoggers who have pretended to form them! I make mention of the race, as of the Y orkshire schoolmas- ters, in the pa... ... towards the attainment of a good one, have been furnished, of late years. I cannot call to mind, now, how I came to hear about Y ork- shire schools w... ...nious actor, Mr Punch: whose brilliant example, both in the fashion of his weapons and their use, this branch of the executive occasionally follows. S... ... accordingly. The only difference between them was, that Mrs Squeers waged war against the enemy openly and fearlessly , and that Squeers cov- ered hi... ...‘V ery ,’ replied Mr Lillyvick, with some vehemence of man- ner. ‘It’s the war time that I speak of; the last war. It may be a cheerful language. I sh... ...-swords, and as the whole party were quite as sharp set as either class of weapons, there was no time for talking until the supper had been disposed o...