...ion War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ... breathing, every slightest tone of which was familiar to his wife. As she listened to it she saw before her his smooth handsome fore- head, his musta... ... presence now that they had made it up. He did not ask if she was ready to listen to him. He did not care. A thought had occurred to him and so it bel... ...ly, under definite and known conditions, and to show that all limitations, conflicts, and even destructions of power result from a nonobservance by th... ...he Bourbons. Experience shows us that whatever event oc- curs it is always related to the will of one or of several men who have decreed it. The histo... ...er which all events occur, find that a command is executed only when it is related to a corresponding series of events. Restoring the essential condit...

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... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ..., held him in the highest estimation, and was never more satisfied than in listening to any that gave an account of him; especially those that had see... ...continual emulation stirred him up to perform the like. Besides, they were related, being born of cousins-german. For Aethra was daughter of Pittheus,... ...esenting that Aegeus first, an adopted son only of Pandion, and not at all related to the family of Erechtheus, should be holding the kingdom, and tha... ...ther to that Hostilius who reigned after Numa. There were many other brief conflicts, we may suppose, but the most memorable was the last, in which Ro... ... of order and tranquility, had so great an influ- ence on the minds of the listeners, that they were insensibly softened and civilized, insomuch that ... ...s was before intimated; but Poplicola was victorious in the most important conflicts, both as a private soldier and commander. In domestic politics, a...

.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... own hands, and never sparing himself, but exposing his body freely in all conflicts, he lost one of his eyes. This he always esteemed an honor to him... ... in years, and having been formerly en- gaged in many fights and dangerous conflicts, he had grown inclined to a more remiss, easy, and luxurious life... ...s endeavor to save his own life upon any dishonorable terms. When this was related to Mithridates, he was struck with amazement, and said to his intim... ...nd their horses fed without exercise. Accordingly, not only to prevent the listlessness of such inactive living, but to have them in condition to fly ... ...rest were unanimously instant and importunate to have him taken off. It is related that Eumenes inquired of Onomarchus, his keeper, why Antigonus, now... ...d full-grown appearance, was in some danger of not being admitted into the list, the Persian betook himself to Agesilaus, and made use of his friendsh...

... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

...y Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...r will see. The existence of the brute was a fact. The end of the brute as related in the story is also a fact, well-known at the time though it reall... ...tead of Valparaiso. The officer who had identified him had gone on without listening to his protestations. His doom was sealed; his hands were tied ve... ...ced the soldiers. An air of awestruck expectation had replaced their usual listless apathy. I heard the voice of Gaspar Ruiz shouting inside, but the ... ... them news of people they knew. He described their appearance; and when he related the story of the battle in which he was recaptured the two women la... ...ddle; and it is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of...

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...Contents AUTHOR?S NOTE .........................................................................................4 A SET OF SIX ..................................................................................................8 GASPAR RUIZ .................................................................................................8 AN IRON...

...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ... direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a “T ale of the Crusaders” would rese... ...poken,” he said, instantly composing himself to his usual serene gravity; “List to a Frank, and hear a fable.” “Thou art not courteous, misbeliever,” ... ... religion, neither sex nor age, in their depredations. The Scottish knight listened with indifference to the ac- counts of ravages committed by wild b... ...beth. FOR THE SPACE of a quarter of an hour, or longer, after the incident related, all remained perfectly quiet in the front of the royal habitation.... ... the practice of woodcraft, or venerie, as it was called, being those that related to the rules of the chase, which were deemed of much consequence du...

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...ctaion The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...ed our tilt-yard at Bletso. Two knights could gallop at one another in the lists, as if they were out hunting. Oh! to hear the lances ring against the... ...wn from minstrel to minstrel, from nurse to nurse, and they sat entranced, listen- ing to the stories, more than even Hal knew she possessed, and hold... ...PTION UDENT RECEPTION UDENT RECEPTION So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts, What may befall him to his harm and ours. —Shakespeare. THROUGH ... ...aster, had perished, chiefly by the hands of each other, and the distantly related descendant of John of Gaunt, Henry T udor, triumphed. The Threlkeld... ...Cliffords to show their heads; moreover, that the St. Johns of Bletso were related to the T udors. Though now an aged woman, she descended from her hi...

...Excerpt: On a Moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the...

...assics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...ried miserably, and blasphemed God, and said to a person of note (who hath related the same to others since), not long before his death, that all the ... ...ot leave my house at this hour, and shalt e’en have whatever in reason you list to call for. But I would I knew that that purse of thine, which thou v... ...; and let my nephew and Master Goldthred swagger about their wager as they list.” “It seems to me, mine host,” said T ressilian, “that you know not we... .... He was an old bachelor, of good family, but small fortune, and distantly related to the House of Robsart; in virtue of which connection, Lidcote Hal... ...al rank as the music varied. In this symbolical dance were represented the conflicts which had taken place among the various nations which had an- cie...

...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 ap...

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ...shment the pure gospel truth of the narrative could have been sullied. She listened, in a kind of breathless stupor, to my frank explana- tion—that no... ...dressing-room, her ladyship having something special to communicate, which related (as I understood her) to one Simon. “What Simon? Simon Peter?”—O, n... ... currish of enemies. Those who fancied so much adventurousness in the lion conflicts of Mr. Gordon Cumming appear never to have read the missionary tr... ...times in every week dinner invitations to all the families on her visiting list, and lying within her winter circle, which was measured, by a radius o... ...o; and I retired from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and ... ...eculiar denomination are also those which record its hon- orable political conflicts; so that his own connection, through his religious brotherhood, w...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, fir...

...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

...on Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville 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... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...nes were heard high above the low, smooth voice of the captain. Of all his conflicts with the men, this was the first in which Jermin had been worsted... ...l- culated to call forth. Little as I believed in such things, I could not listen to some of these stories unaffected. Above all was I struck by one o... ... swore that a wet hammock was flirted in his face. Stories like these were related as gospel truths, by those who declared themselves eye-witnesses. I... ...ayed Heaven that a fate might be his— altogether too remarkable to be here related. Much had he to say also concerning the vileness of what we had to ... ...ness of his looks. “Mr. Jermin, call off their names;” and he handed him a list of the ship’s company. All answered but the deserters and the two mari...

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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Joseph Turner: Sun Setting ov... ...they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laughter, but app... ...s genius in producing the object it con- ceives; and through marriages and conflicts, the seizure of lands, and brides bearing land, these sharp-feedi... ...mpany better than that of his equals, and learnt more from them. They also listened deferentially to their instructor. The conversation he delighted i... ...nd had met merchandize, and his vanity was offended. T o pacify him, Nevil related how he had heard that since the Venetian rising of ’49, V enetian l... ...posed toward the entire world, especially to women, also to men in any way related to pretty women, had just lit a cigar, and it was a cigar that he h...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...

...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ... churchyard. The delight which I had in Sergeant M’Alpin’s conversa- tion, related not only to his own adventures, of which he had encountered many in... ...either Wallenstein nor Pappenheim, nor old Tilly before them, would likely listen to the objurgations of boors or burghers against any com- mander or ... ... places of repose, and thrusting his shock pate from between the blankets, listened to Lord Menteith’s relation in a most luxurious state, between sle... ...y named Alister, or Alexander M’Donnell, by birth a Scottish islesman, and related to the Earl of Antrim, to whose patronage he owed the command assig... ...hich is stricken. Menteith, I entreat you by our relationship—by our joint conflicts and labours—draw your sword, and de- fend your life!” As he spoke...

...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumsta...

...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A ...

... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...ble Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...al works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...t, to such doings I ‘m a stranger, But hear these freedoms form the utmost list Of all o’er which such love may be a ranger: If people go beyo... ...ters sweep; ‘T is sweet to see the evening star appear; ‘T is sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; ‘t is sweet to view ... ... yet, for none Had suffer’d more—his hardships were comparative To those related in my grand dad’s ‘Narrative.’ Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Two” 66... ...s side,— So beautiful that art could little mend her, Though pale with conflicts between love and pride;— So agitated was she with her error, ... ... beseech’d she ‘d hear him through— He could not help the thing which he related: Then out it came at length, that to Dudu Juan was given in...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...of his youth, the sole bad step chargeable upon his antecedents. But do we listen to them? Shall we not have them turned out? He gives the sign for it... ... there, and he could not induce his legs to take advantage of the gaps; he listened to a warning that he would be down again if he tried it, among tho... ...ittering armies of her enthusiasm. He had proved it; he proved it daily in conflicts and in victories that dwarfed emotional troubles like hers: yet t... ...hus she thought, under pressure of the knowledge, that unless rushing into conflicts bigger than conceivable, she had to do it, and should therefore t... ... doing the like without his approval. The cause of her having done it, was related with the ac- companiments; brows twitching, flitting smiles, shrugs... ...o the records, down to posterity. Anecdotes of England’s happiest man were related, outlines of his personal history requested. His nomination in chie...

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ...use- ment which attaches to any real story , thoughtfully and faith- fully related, moving through a succession of scenes suffi- ciently varied, that ... ...n loudly proclaimed; but it is very likely to have indisposed them towards listening. Meantime, so far as I am acquainted with these Roman Catholic de... ...s in my family as otherwise might be unimportant, I here record the entire list of my brothers and sisters, according to their order of succession; an... ...eretofore, had opened themselves, as occassions arose, into the inevitable conflicts of life. One of the saddest among such conflicts is the necessity... ...fortunes, and not less of another truth equally affecting, viz., the dread conflicts with the will, the mighty agitations which silently and in darkne... ...ed to be, at starting, squire or “squireen,” lord or lordling, and however related to that city, hamlet, or solitary house from which yesterday or to-...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...

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

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...; I had rather injure the success of my statements than add my name to the list of those strangers who repay the generous hospitality they have receiv... ... a corrupt nature which is effected both by men and beasts to do what they list, and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all res... ...l the confidence of the Court in what he was about to say.* The newspapers related the fact with- out any further comment. * The New York “Spectator” ... ...fter talking to me at length on the inflexibility of the Indian character, related the following fact: – “I formerly knew a young Indian,” said he, “w... ... supremacy exercised by the majority; they never sustain any but necessary conflicts with it. They take no share in the altercations of parties, but t...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

...es Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State University The... ...e landlord’s brother, but by another father or mother. He is not so nearly related to him as he was last night. The landlord scratches his head. The b... ... arrive. You may know them by the way in which they stretch their necks to listen, when you enter; and by the sigh with which they fall back again int... ...nds, into the sunny air of Heaven. Not so the worshippers within, who were listening to the same drowsy chaunt, or kneeling before the same kinds of i... ...she puts to flight (instead of making kin) the puny world that claim to be related to her, in right of poor conventional forgeries! I saw in the Palaz... ...after a prodigious struggle at the Vatican staircase, and several personal conflicts with the Swiss guard, the whole crowd swept into the room. It was...

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...ntal beliefs, our rules of conduct, we must all make for ourselves. We may listen and read, but the views of others we cannot take on credit; we must ... ...the same thing and express the same thing in different words. Logomachies, conflicts about words,—into such death-traps of effort those ardent spirits... ...r and died and reproduced just like animals, and that economists following List have for the purposes of fiscal con- 26 First and Last Things trovers... ...he initiator and taken the affair in hand. That is a little model of human conflicts. So soon as we become militant and play against one another, come... ...war in life? War is manifestly not a thing in itself, it is something cor- related with the whole fabric of human life. That violence and killing whic...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook...

...or Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...these criticisms, which seemed indeed to affect him very little—if he even listened to them. For he was a man of singularly imperfect moral culture; i... ... by teaching him cudgel playing and pugilism. In short, in everything that related to accomplishments, whether of mind or body, no pains were spared w... ...trary to crusty Hannah’s advice, they persisted in entering. Crusty Hannah listened at the door; and it was curious to see the delighted smile which c... ...hich reminded him of the strange old story which good Doctor Grimshawe had related by his New England fireside, in those childish days when Edward dwe... ...f one mind, or seem so to an American politician, accustomed to the fierce conflicts of our embittered parties; where life was made so enticing, so re...

...Preface: A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and...

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...ued so that at times he produced an effect of weird world-forgetfulness. I listened puzzled, and at that time not upderstanding many things that after... ...to do any fine writing,” said Shoesmith. “What you’ve got to do is just to list all the chaps and put a note to their play:—’Naylor minor must pass mo... ...herself a very redoubtable Character in the Gyp-Bedder class; about her he related quietly absurd anecdotes. He displayed a marvel- lous invention in ... ... ideals and gave form to all our ambitions. Every man was to be definitely related to that, to have his predominant duty to that. Such was the England... ...never, so far as I know, dined out, and when at last after bitter domestic conflicts they began to go to dances, they went with the quavering connivan...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Vicar of Tours by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...tt Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Vicar of Tours by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...and as the abbe had won three francs ten sous in his rubber with Madame de Listomere, he bore the rain resignedly from the middle of the place de l’Ar... ...ng the evening several of the company who habitually gathered at Madame de Listomere’s had almost guaranteed to him his nomination to the office of ca... ... the dark circles 29 Balzac that surrounded those eyes told of the inward conflicts of her solitary life. All the wrinkles on her face were in straig... ...is friends gathered round him before a comfortable fire, Birotteau naively related the history of his troubles. His hearers, who were beginning to wea...

Excerpt: The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.