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...er; and, to the raging, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow-horn, emit his Horet ihr H... ...ult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. Nay... ...then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of this su... ...r natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...lled Biographical Documents are in his hand. By the kindness of a Scottish Hamburg Merchant, whose name, known to the whole mercantile world, he must ... ...er wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zuruckgefordert. ‘Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed thereof, in all... ...nal satisfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon- meat, into whiteness, ...

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...nly 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that t... ..., the first step of military prepara- tion. The religious sentiment of the people is indeed for peace at any price; no pastor can bear arms; and even ... ...ief, “we have just been puzzling ourselves to guess where that custom came from. But, Misi, is it not so that when David killed Goliath, he cut off hi... ...able. They are easy, merry, and pleasure-loving; the gayest, though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dre... ...the long hours. But the special delight of the Samoan is the malanga. When people form a party and go from village to village, junketing and gossiping... ...e shaken. Pot boil and caldron bubble! Within the memory of man, the white people of Apia lay in the worst squalor of degradation. They are now unspea... ...e of the Deutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschaft fur Sud-See Inseln Zu Hamburg. This piece of literature is (in practice) shortened to the D. H. a... ...er combined the offices of director of the firm and consul for the City of Hamburg. No question but he then drove very hard. Germans admit that the co... ...e saw also wharves and immense buildings; perhaps Dover and its castle. In Hamburg, after breakfast, Mr. Weber, who had now finally “ceased from troub...

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...lf. I have often heard persons of good judgment say that all the stir that people make in the world about ghosts and appa- ritions is owing to the str... ...hat there is no such thing as a spirit appearing, or a ghost walking; that people’s poring affectionately upon the past conversation of their de- ceas... ...her there are any such things as real apparitions, spectres, or walking of people after they are dead; or whether there is anything in the stories the... ...ou willing I should go?” – “No,” says she, very affectionately , “I am far from willing; but if you are resolved to go,” says she, “rather than I woul... ...g to increase it; that as to what my wife had said of its being an impulse from Heaven, and that it should be my duty to go, I had no notion of that; ... ... things, and to engage in some busi- ness that might effectually tie me up from any more excur- sions of this kind; for I found that thing return upon... ..., and from thence might be sure of shipping either to England, Holland, or Hamburg. Now, to go any one of these journeys in the winter would have been... ...ks for the ar- rival of the ships, and must have tarried longer, had not a Hamburgher come in above a month sooner than any of the 220 The Further Ad... ...nson Crusoe English ships; when, after some consideration that the city of Hamburgh might happen to be as good a market for our goods as London, we al...

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... Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From the National Manuscripts preser... ... selff Gode of Inglonde, or rather an Inglyssh Gode, yf we consydyr and pondyr welle alle Hys procedynges with us from tyme to tyme. He hath over cumm... ...ett us alle pray for hys preservatione. Ande I for my partt wylle wyssh that hys Grace allways have, and evyn now from the begynynge, Governares, Inst... ... England had so longed for him, and hoped for him, and prayed God for him, that, now that he was really come, the people went nearly mad for joy. Mere... ...o explain and enlarge upon them. His dreamings and read- ings worked certain changes in him, by-and-by. His dream-people were so fine that he grew to ... ...monious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom’s influence among these young people began to grow now, day by day... ...t was inflicted on coiners and coun- terfeiters. Taylor, the Water Poet, describes an execu- tion he witnessed in Hamburg in 1616. The judgment pronou...

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...Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad From the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition. A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...y university. 3 Joseph Conrad Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad From the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition. PART I—THE DAMSEL CHAPTER ONE: YOUNG P... ...nd then turned to us. “If we at sea,” he declared, “went about our work as people ashore high and low go about theirs we should never make a living. N... .... And moreover no ship navi- gated and sailed in the happy-go-lucky manner people con- duct their business on shore would ever arrive into port.” Sinc... ...their business on shore would ever arrive into port.” Since he had retired from the sea he had been astonished to discover that the educated people we... ... retired from the sea he had been astonished to discover that the educated people were not much better than the others. No one seemed to take any prop... ...teamer for 133 Joseph Conrad London. Did I tell you these people lived in Hamburg? W ell yes—sent to the docks late on a rainy winter evening in char...

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...his lane of the sea. He had been on these coasts for the last three years. From Low Cape to Malantan the dis- tance was fifty miles, six hours’ steami... ...ithout a change; better than the faithful Serang, whom he had brought over from his last ship to keep the captain’s watch; better than he himself, who... ...s round, up and down the Straits; he knew its order and its sights and its people. Malacca to begin with, in at daylight and out at dusk, to cross ove... ... ship before he started her again in inverse order, seeing the same shores from an- other bearing, hearing the same voices in the same places, back ag... ... no matter how much love has gone to the bottom. And the world is not bad. People had been very kind to him; espe- cially Mrs. Gardner, the wife of th... ...as a boy how frequently waiters at the inns, country trades- men and small people of that sort, used to “My lord” the old warrior on the strength of h... ..., eh? Pretty. Write to Schnitzler—let in the green-funnel boats—get an old Hamburg Jew to ruin him. No, re- ally he could laugh… . He laughed sobbingl...

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...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintanc... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ...ND HIS IDEAL “Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s ... ...s are equal to any in speed and comfort, did not leave until the 14th; the Hamburg boats did not go directly to Liverpool or London, but to Havre; and...

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...O CTOBER, 1829, Monsieur Simon Babylas Latournelle, notary, was walking up from Havre to Ingouville, arm in arm with his son and accompanied by his wi... ...nice,” the notary looked about to see if any one could overhear him either from the terrace above or the path beneath, and when he spoke he lowered hi... ...of the su- preme court, feels that her birth authorizes her to claim issue from a parliamentary family. This conviction explains why the lady, who is ... ...Modeste Mignon the habitual companions of Modeste Mignon, for, at her age, people and things have as much influence upon the future life as a person’s... ...de La Bastie, now citizen Mignon, found it more wholesome to cut off other people’s heads than to let his own be cut off. The sham ter- rorist disappe... ...with admiration for that Mon- sieur Hugo. I’m sure I don’t know where such people” (Vic- tor Hugo, Lamartine, Byron being such people to the Ma- dame ... ...marry Modeste. They chose the son of a rich 37 Balzac banker, formerly of Hamburg, but established in Havre since 1815,—a man, moreover, who was unde...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...that’s 8 Babbitt got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to... ...s the recognized center of cul- ture and high-class enterprise;” and that “Hamburg, the Big Little City with the Logical Location, where every man is ...

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...d now about to come into this busy and changeful world. I will not conceal from you that I am skilful in understanding and interpreting the movements ... ... the family. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. “I fear from your looks,” said the father, “that you have bad tidings to tell me of... ...hip in the Temple by his parents. You must regard him as a being separated from the rest of the world. In childhood, in boyhood, you must sur- round h... ...n predicted by the Astrologer; and thus his confi- dence, which, like most people of the period, he had freely given to the science, was riveted and c... ...prevail on her to accept so much as a single guinea. “I have heard the old people at Jedburgh say, that all Jean’s sons were condemned to die there on... ...quipt in a habit which mingled the national dress of the Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern costume, she spun a thread, drawn from ... ...to her to show colours and bring-to, fired upon her. The chase then showed Hamburgh colours, and returned the fire; and a running fight was maintained... ...ay,” replied Glossin. “And yet if she could be carried over to Zealand, or Hamburg, or—or— anywhere else, you know, it were as well.” Hatteraick jumpe...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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... square miles of the city were instantly and completely devastated. 66,000 people were killed, and 69,000 injured. On August 9th, three days later, at... ...th, 1945, two days after the bombing of Nagasaki, a message was dispatched from Major General Leslie R. Groves to Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell,... ... scientific, technical and medi- cal intelligence in the atomic bomb field from within Japan as soon as possible after the cessation of hostilities. T... ...ated that all available specialist personnel and instruments would be sent from the United States, and that the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacifi... ...ction of targets to produce the greatest military ef- fect on the Japanese people and thereby most effectively shorten the war. F. The morale effect u... ...ot be highly accurate. Hiroshima thus had approximately the same number of people as the city of Providence, R.I., or Dallas, Tex. Nagasaki Nagasaki l... ...us bombing attacks on Ger- many and Japan, such as the incendiary raids on Hamburg in 1943 and on Tokyo in 1945, were not comparable to the paralyzing...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... ... is a book of ocean travel—not, however, as un- derstood by Herr Ballin of Hamburg, the Machiavel of the Atlantic. It is a book of exploration and dis... ...al way by the crossing of the North Sea. We should proceed from Harwich to Hamburg. Besides being thirty-six times longer than the Dover-Calais passag... ...ishing minutes of peace. It was the hour of the boat-trains to Holland, to Hamburg, and there seemed to be no lack of people, fearless, reckless, or i...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...ps. One, chiefly mascu- line, had formed round the abbe. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful Princess Helene, Prince Vasili’s da... ...o- mans, inhabitants of the Thirty-second Military Division, of Bremen, of Hamburg, and so on: it included scarcely a hundred and forty thousand who s...

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...graphy blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but ... ... in the depths of his own con- sciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no on... ...oice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will... ... an interruption, he said that tragedy ought to be the school of kings and peoples; that there was no subject worthier of treatment than the death of ... ... a commotion in our young heads that was not easily settled. But the young people felt the in- convenience less, because they had somewhat more space ... ...urts, and back buildings extend to the Zwinger; and we saw many thou- sand people amid their little domestic and secluded circum- stances. From the or... ... postscript. T o another brother, holding the place of mercantile clerk at Hamburg, the En- glish correspondence naturally falls; while a still younge... ... to music by Hiller in an easy style, gave us much pleasure. Schiebler, of Hamburgh, pursued the same track; and his “Lisuard and Dariolette” was like...

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...at motion; but at the same time, a large propor- tion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of con- tinuous motion into discontinuous eleme... ...tortoise. By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahea... ...absurd answer (that Achilles could never over- take the tortoise) resulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discontinuous elements,... ...eteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. Men leave their customary pursuits, hasten from one side of Europe ... ...evolution”; then they give a detailed biography of Napoleon and of certain people favorable or hostile to him; tell of the influence some of these peo... ...FORCES OF A DOZEN EUROPEAN nations burst into Russia. The Russian army and people avoided a collision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolen... ...yed. ‘How could you have written it yourself?’ said he, and he took up the Hamburg Gazette that was lying on the table. ‘Here it is! Y ou did not writ...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s... ...lace to start from. Pittsburg is only about twenty miles from Corinth, and Hamburg landing, four miles further up the river, is a mile or two nearer. ... ... is a mile or two nearer. I had not been in command long before I selected Hamburg as the place to put the Army of the Ohio when it arrived. The roads... ... to put the Army of the Ohio when it arrived. The roads from Pittsburg and Hamburg to Corinth converge some eight miles out. This disposition of the t...

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...er; and, to the rag ing, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow horn, emit hisH¨ oret ih... ...umult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. N... ...and then, by quite foreign suggestion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of thi... ... or natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...lled Biographical Documents are in his hand. By the kindness of a Scot tish Hamburg Merchant, whose name, known to the whole mercantile world, he mus... ...nal sat isfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon meat, into whiteness,... ...ething of the partiality with which I have ever since regarded that singular people. Towgood was not without an eye, could he have come at any light. ...

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...rs, and it seemed to her that she knew every stone, every tree on the road from the town to her school. Her past was here, her present was here, and s... ..., all that was left was a pho- tograph of her mother, but it had grown dim from the damp- ness of the school, and now nothing could be seen but the ha... ...omen. He lived in his big homestead alone, and was not in the service; and people used to say of him that he did nothing at home but walk up and down ... ...walk up and down the room whistling, or play chess with his old foot- man. People said, too, that he drank heavily. And indeed at the examination the ... ...ragging the heavy 6 Anton Chekhov carriage through the mud. Semyon tacked from side to side, keeping to the edge of the road, at one time through a s... ... beauty, this graciousness, and sad, sweet eyes to weak, unlucky , useless people — why they are so charming.” “Here we must turn off to the right,” s... ...o do with the hundred thousand in Lon- don? What’s one to do with those in Hamburg?” The lamp in which the oil had burnt down began to smoke. V assily... ...at it did not last long. Vassilyev was soon tired. The cases in London, in Hamburg, in W arsaw, weighed upon him by their mass as a mountain weighs up...

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...es in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bo... ...ical sym- pathy announced itself; a desolating war of thirty years, which, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the bank... ... was the result of the war. As the sparks of de- struction found their way from the interior of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, to kindle Ger- many, Fr... ...werless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so willing to espouse their cause,... ...r blood for the personal objects of their princes. And well was it for the people that, on this occasion, their interests coincided with those of thei... ...nnect the in- terests of the cabinet with some one that sits nearer to the people’s heart, if such exists, or if not, to create it. In such a position... ...elf-devotion enough to en- ter into a formal alliance with him. Lubeck and Hamburg engaged to advance him money, and to accept Swedish copper in retur... ... from the disasters of the unfortunate Danish war. They held a congress at Hamburg, and re- solved upon raising three regiments, which they hoped woul... ...ary, renewed at different times at Compiegne, and afterwards at Wismar and Hamburg. France had already come to a rup- ture with Spain, in May, 1635, a...

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...ol, had read the same books, and learned the same science, and though some people said this celebrated doctor was a bad doctor, in the princess’s hous... ... in favor of foreign travel I would urge the change of habits, the removal from conditions calling up remi- niscences. And then the mother wishes it,”... ...The celebrated doctor announced to the princess (a feeling of what was due from him dictated his doing so) that he ought to see the patient once more.... ...ly, if—God forbid—it should be scarlatina.” The old prince too had come in from his study after the doctor’s departure, and after presenting his cheek... ...ear the slightest reference to the cause of it. Ah! to be so mis- taken in people!” said the princess, and by the change in her tone both Dolly and th... ...onsky. “I don’t know why there aren’t laws against such base, dishonorable people.” “Ah, I can’t bear to hear you!” said the prince gloom- ily, gettin... ...y knew his open-handedness; and half an hour later the invalid doctor from Hamburg, who lived on the top floor, looked 139 Tolstoy enviously out of t...

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...ts an unbroken array of es- tablishments of this order, of every category, from the “grand hotel” of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front, a h... ...n, with a chalk-white front, a hundred balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof, to the little Swiss pension of an elder day, with its name i... ...e hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical, being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors by an air both of luxury and of maturity... ...w resting upon those of Winterbourne, now wan- dering over the garden, the people who passed by, and the beautiful view. She talked to Winterbourne as... ...ason could not help him. Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely innocent. Some people had told him that, after all, American girls were exceedingly inno- ... ...k and another who was now in Europe. This young man was amusing himself at Hamburg, and, though he was on his travels, was rarely perceived to visit a... ... he was going to elope with her. He passed out with her among all the idle people that were assembled there; they were all looking at her very hard; s...

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...aped upon this young man’s head. His first step forward in life had arisen from his having been sent, while still very young, as a private pupil to th... ...de; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had been delighted, she said, in having such ... ... means inclined to throw away any advantage which might arise to his child from such a friend- 4 Framley Parsonage ship. When, therefore, the young l... ... assistance. And Lord Lufton was there of course; and 8 Framley Parsonage people protested that he would surely fall in love with one of the four bea... ... You know I don’t mean it. But Lady Lufton does not like those Chaldicotes people. You know Lord Lufton was with you the last time you were there; and... ...and then. And as I was invited there, especially to preach while all these people are staying at the place, I could not well refuse. ’ And then he got... ..., my dear, ’ said Mrs Proudie to Griselda. ‘Lord Dumbello is well known at Hamburg and Ems, and places of that sort; so you will find yourself quite a... ...ace. ‘Did you not know that I was here? I came down yesterday; landed from Hamburg only yesterday morning. How do you do, Mrs Robarts? This is a terri...

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...inter,” said a thin, lank, angu- lar, sallow girl, just fifteen, trembling from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone ... ...r girl, nearly two years older than her sister. “Will you—” began to burst from Etheldred’s lips again, but was stifled by Miss Winter’s inquiry, “Is ... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ... the walk, and will like it very much, and he will undertake to defend you from the quarrymen.” “Is Miss Winter afraid of the quarrymen?” hallooed Har... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ...of, mamma. Car- ing to be clever, and get on, only for the sake of beating people.” “I think that might be better expressed.” “I know,” said Ethel, be... ...ball, now a magistrates’ meeting, a concert or a poultry show, where rival Hamburg and Dorking uplifted their voices in the places of Mario and Grisi,... ...rge, and gained great credit with him, for admiring the prettiest speckled Hamburgh present; indeed, George was becoming very fond of “poor Ethel,” as...

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... my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an ... ... an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the in- scription, “ Also Georgiana Wife of ... ...he low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of ... ...ds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon h... ... said she, “I didn’t bring you up 14 Great Expectations by hand to badger people’s lives out. It would be blame to me, and not praise, if I had. Peop... ...nce that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how... ... point, almost indifferent what port we made 382 Great Expectations for – Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp – the place signified little, so that he was go... ... after breakfast to pursue our investigations. We found that a steamer for Hamburg was likely to suit our purpose best, and we directed our thoughts c... ...for a resting-place. There, we meant to lie by, all night. The steamer for Hamburg, and the steamer for Rotterdam, would start from London at about ni...