Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge 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 St... ...roned, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the lati... ...ike a torch in the bark of some fisherman,’ which is the shining star of a new world. Bruce is caged in Abyssinia, surrounded by the gory horrors whic... ...o tre mendous, that he is not hanged as he might be, but goes back to his old chained gang work. A little time, and he tempts one other prisoner away... ...prisoner away, seizes another boat, and flies once more—necessarily in the old hopeless direction, for he can take no other. He is soon cut off, and m... ...the enclosure number two—but he knows me better. He writes in a variety of styles; sometimes in low spirits; sometimes quite jocosely. When he is in l... ...to Pavilionstone. You shall find all the nations of the earth, and all the styles of shaving and not shaving, hair cutting and hair letting alone, for... ...’ll come again.’ In a week our bore was on his legs, and Jilkins’s success dates from that period! Our bore is great in secret information. He happens...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ..., helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspapers—the light of the library, an author... ...mogul in the public library. I was surprised. Didn’t hardly think you were old enough I thought you were a girl, still in college maybe.” “Oh, I’m dre... ...new bride, good-looker, nice legs, but she wore a hell of a plain suit, no style, I wonder will she pay cash, I bet she goes to Howland & Gould’s more... ...ich Ye Editor was leader. Dainty refreshments were served in true Oriental style, and one and all voted a delightful time. VI The week after, the Chet... ...psis and wife of the Congrega- tional pastor, reported the birth and death dates of Byron, Scott, Moore, Burns; and wound up: “Burns was quite a poor ...

Excerpt Details
...1. Introduces Mr. Lewisham. The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-- indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to aff...

Full Text Search Details
...M By H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...d, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old- fashioned paper. T o judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of ... ...n sunlight, and all the lower branches were shot with horizontal dashes of new-born green. “Tu, nisi ventis Debes ludibrium, cave.” was the appropriat... ...’s. 11 H G Wells Surely! “I say!” said Mr. Lewisham, struggling with, the new aspect and forgetting all his manners in his surprise…. He remembered g... ... the stress on his honesty and dropping his voice to a mumble, “a … a … an old friend of my mother’s. In fact, I met her once at Salisbury.” “Where?” ... ...lk. One such came after the holidays, when the ne- cessity of revising the dates of the Schema brought before his mind, for the first time quite clear... ...as to make things clearer. But his scientific studies ren- dered his prose style “hard,” and things he could whisper he could not write. His justifica... ...nd Ruskin. Too many prepositions. Tremendous English, no doubt, but not my style. Sort of thing a wholesale grocer’s daughter might read to get refine...

Excerpt Details
... been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... instead of being enormously pot-bellied, absurdly amorous, vain, drunken, old, and corrupted, Falstaff was one of the most distinguished men of his t... ... At the accession of Henry V. Sir John Falstaff was only thirty-four years old. This general, who dis- tinguished himself at the battle of Agincourt, ... ...eyes of France the Medici had selected a brilliant suite for her whom they styled, very unwarrantably, the Prin- cess of Florence, and who also went b... ...After a while he passed into the service of the dauphin as cup-bearer. The new Duchesse d’Orleans soon found herself a nullity at the court of Francoi... ...e case of one king succeed- ing another by insurrection or crime,— “If the new king desires to secure the safety of his throne and of his own life he ... ...ged sixty-six. She was therefore nineteen years older than Henri II. These dates, taken from her epitaph which was copied from her tomb by the histo- ... ...ineness of his linen, its cut, the material and scent of his clothing, the style and skin of his gloves, showed him to be a man of courts, just as his...

Excerpt Details
... worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, o...

Full Text Search Details
...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...els and no horses, the consuls had added a fifth wheel. In addition to the old conundrum, “Who is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the... .... In addition to the old conundrum, “Who is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alte... ...ornings of the bush. She went on a visit to her family, and returned in an old tablecloth, her whole wardrobe having been divided out among relatives ... ...11 Robert Louis Stevenson came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new posses- sion. “We have long been wanting a boat,” said they. “Give us t... ...1886) in Leulumoenga, chief place of his own province of Aana, usurped the style of king, and began to collect and arm a force. Weber, by the admissio... ...Strong suddenly disclosed his acquaintance with German, it attained a high style of comedy; at another, when a pistol was most foolishly drawn, it bor... ...the revolt were uneasy and impatient. They will still tell you, though the dates are there to show them wrong, that Mataafa, even after his coro- nati...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there ma...

Full Text Search Details
... Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of ... ...ylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...m those vices are seen to recoil. And I submit that their recoil upon that old man, in his unhonoured age, is not a mere piece of poetical justice, bu... ...LIC DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States ... ...ges in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of older cities almost out of recognition... ...a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records of all old families, with innumerable repeti- 7 Charles Dickens tions of the same... ...nothing in the meek and merciful way, but quite in the fierce and scornful style; the regular Satanic sort of thing—and he wore, besides, a vast quant... ...splaying a mighty dish of pink boiled beef; an instance of that particular style of loaf which is known to housekeepers as a slack-baked, crummy quart... ...resist her. She put such enticing questions to him; about books, and about dates of churches, and about organs and about the Temple, and about all kin...

Excerpt Details
...f the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by the very pillars that on... ...te—almost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderful... ... and more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The c... ...ide and dreary precincts of the catacomb, seeking, as some say, to beguile new victims into his own misery; but, according to other statements, endeav... ... which we see represented by the old masters so often, and in such various styles. Here, too, beginning with a passionate and fiery conception of the ... ...thing like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, but healthful... ...brown habits that they wore in life, and labelled with their names and the dates of their decease. Their skulls (some quite bare, and others still cov...

Excerpt Details
...f the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by the very pillars that on... ...te—almost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderful... ... and more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The c... ...ide and dreary precincts of the catacomb, seeking, as some say, to beguile new victims into his own misery; but, according to other statements, endeav... ... which we see represented by the old masters so often, and in such various styles. Here, too, beginning with a passionate and fiery conception of the ... ...thing like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, but healthful... ...brown habits that they wore in life, and labelled with their names and the dates of their decease. Their skulls (some quite bare, and others still cov...

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge 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 ... ... with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as... ...ked with hollyhocks, marigolds, touch me nots, prince’s feathers, and other old fashioned flowers; while on the windowsills of the houses stood woode... ...t, from the frosty Falls of St. Anthony down through nine climates to torrid New Orleans. Dawson’s Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave... ...o her own devices. In that same month of February, Dawson’s Landing gained a new citizen. This was Mr. David Wilson, a young fellow of Scotch parentag... ...gion.” The very next day after that gracious experience, while her change of style was fresh upon her and she was vain of her purified condition, her ... ...ithout society. He brought home with him a suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion—Eastern fashion, city fashion— that it filled ev... ...s, and Luigi followed with a third. Wilson marked the glasses with names and dates, and put them away. T om gave one of his little laughs, and said: “...

Excerpt Details
...t thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We drea...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... About this time his father died. His mother, who contented herself in her old age with two thousand francs a year, gave 7 Balzac the rest of the for... ...rovinces, where his liberal ideas, conflicting with the necessities of the new power, made him a troublesome instrument. Bitten with liberalism, he di... ...of her son. But the father had the business spirit which never abandons an old merchant, especially in matrimonial negotiations, and after a year of a... ...ral stairway winds up round a central shaft carved with a grape-vine. This style, which recalls the stairways of Louis XII. at the chateau of Blois, d... ... style, which recalls the stairways of Louis XII. at the chateau of Blois, dates from the fourteenth century. Struck by these and other evi- dences of... ...ith their mantels of painted stone, surmounted by mirrors in panels of the style of the seventeenth century. The apartment was square, like the house,... ...ignated one of the four men present) was satisfied, and she would do for a new tenant just as she did for the others. “I do not think,” said the pries...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Hart-Leap Well. Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem, which monu...

Table of Contents Details
....................................................................................................................................... 24 The WATERFALL and the EGLANTINE. ...................................................................................... 24 The OAK and the BROOM, ................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...................................................................... 58 THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR. ....................................................... ...................................................................... 59 The OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR, ....................................................... ...ughter sent to service, a web spun, The old house cloth is deck’d with a new face; And hence, so far from wanting facts or dates To chronicle th... ...cloth is deck’d with a new face; And hence, so far from wanting facts or dates To chronicle the time, we all have here A pair of diaries, one se... ...low to that pasture field. PRIEST. Why there, Sir, is a thought that’s new to me. 15 Wordsworth The Stone-cutters, ’tis true, might beg their b... ... the cicling by the chimney’s edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath, as duly ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...ity university. 3 Frank Norris The Pit A Story of Chicago By FRANK NORRIS NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YO NEW YORK RK RK RK RK 1903 1903 1903 1903 1903 D... ...will probably have for its pivotal episode the relieving of a famine in an Old World community. The author’s most sincere thanks for assistance render... ... in the preparation of the following novel are due to Mr. G. D. Moulson of New York, Whose unwearied patience and untiring kindness helped him to the ... ...d, and Page and her aunt came up just in time to hear Mrs. Cressler—a fine old lady, in a won- derful ermine-trimmed cape, whose hair was powdered— ex... ...tory. For the matter of that, it had been built for just that purpose. Its style of architecture was distantly ecclesias- tic, with a suggestion of Go... ...car, or rather their train of cars, coupled together in threes, in Chicago style, came, and Landry escorted them down town. All the way Laura could no... ...the op- erators departed, calling back and forth to one another, mak- ing “dates,” and cracking jokes. Washerwomen appeared with steaming pails, porte...

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...ny charge 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 S... ... No answer. “What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You Tom!” No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; ... ...a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for “style,” not service — she could have seen through a pair of stove lids ju... ...desperate — 4 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer “My! Look behind you, aunt!” The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fl... ...is time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my good ness, he never plays them alik... ...oked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. Then she had a new inspiration: “Tom, you didn’t have to undo your shirt collar where I ... ...minister gave out the hymn, and read it through with a relish, in a peculiar style which was much admired in that part of the country. His voice bega... ...venue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled web work of names, dates, post office addresses, and mot toes with which the rocky walls ha...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when ...

Full Text Search Details
...by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ons of lower middle-class life, she must moreover be- gin to study totally new interests and initiate herself in the intricacies of business. With mar... ...- rollers. Three months after his return to Angouleme, he had replaced the old fashioned round ink-balls by rollers made of strong glue and treacle, a... ...aited for an order for a bill-head or a trade circular. Marion, trained by old Sechard, prepared and wetted down the paper, helped Kolb with the print... ...ousers, black stockings, black waistcoat, and long puce-colored greatcoat (styled a levite in the south), all completed his resemblance to a Jesuit. B... ...d to accept the position. Very well, as it is now, so it will be with each new temptation—your brother will not look be- yond the enjoyment of the mom... ...re known, a man who honors your mother’s fears so much, that he desires to style himself your devoted ser- vant, “D’Arthez.” Two days after the letter... ... you that history as taught in schools is simply a collection of facts and dates, more than doubtful in the first place, and with no bearing whatever ...

Excerpt Details
...o 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 years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... of religion, such as would now be called that of a sound Churchman of the old school, thoroughly devout and scrupulous in observance, ruling his fami... ... Coleridge Patteson ing him, step by step, from grace to grace. Five years old is in many cases an age of a good deal of thought. The intelligence is ... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...cricket was to him; but the gentlemanlike and proper feeling of the better style of boys prevailed, and the eleven knew their own interests too well t... ...pens, almost of bewilderment. He did not at first like the Lombardo-Gothic style, but he studied it carefully, and filled his letter with measurements... ...d then the crown. ‘At the end of a fortnight (?—you must please to rectify dates) the “Southern Cross” sailed again, with Mr. Bice and Malagona on boa...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, an...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge 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 Sta... ...g before the morning when my father astonished us all by exclaiming, ‘Poor old James Winslow! So Chantry House is came to us after all!’ Previous to t... ...earlier days. I have no recollection of the disaster, which, at four years old, altered my life. The catastrophe, as others have described it, was tha... ...if there had been sufficient encouragement to him to make him try to win a new character, but it only added a fresh terror to his mind; and nurse grew... ...ejection of our family seems to have lasted for ages, but on comparison of dates it is plain that the first lightening of the burthen came in about a ... ...er have heard of them, ‘Though I don’t say,’ added the good man, casting a new light on the subject, ‘that it would have been better for him in the en... ...e house stood across. The main body was of the big symmetrical Louis XIV . style—or, as it is now the fashion to call it, Queen Anne—brick, with stone... ... provided herself with in Lon- don, and a black satin dress, had much more style than the more gaily-dressed country dames, and far more conversa- tio...

Excerpt Details
...ca were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies were conducted in view of the imperfections that experience had developed in the government of the Confederation, and they were, therefore, practical and thorough....

Full Text Search Details
... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...ntrast with Democracy in America. De Tocqueville was scarcely thirty years old when he be- gan his studies of Democracy in America. It was a bold ef- ... ...ct, the nature and value of the sys- tem of “local self-government,” as we style this most impor- tant feature of our plan, and (as has often happened... ...rom 12 Democracy in America the public service. In 1856 he published “The Old Regime and the Revolution.” He died at Cannes, April 15, 1859, at the a... ...s progress. Would it, then, be wise to imagine that a social impulse which dates from so far back can be checked by the efforts of a generation? Is it... ...r object was the triumph of an idea. The emigrants, or, as they deservedly styled themselves, the Pilgrims, belonged to that English sect the austerit...

Excerpt Details
...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 i...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...to the crowning achievement of his literary career. In the Preface to “Our Old Home” he alludes to it as a work into which he proposed to convey more ... ...pe which he lays upon his subject, like that of Hercules upon the slippery Old Man of the Sea; the clear and cool common sense, controlling the audaci... ...the superb phantoms summoned to the conflict by his own genius. The men of new times and new condi tions will achieve their triumphs in new ways; but... ...o the public, with my best wishes for their edification. Julian Hawthorne. New Yor, November 21, 1882. 8 Doctor Grimshawe s Secret DOCT DOCT DOCT DO... ...being in a small chamber, panelled with oak, and furnished in an an tique style. He was doubtful, too, whether or no there was a grim feudal figure, ... ...nable antiquity; so old, that in a record of the time of Edward IV . it is styled the yew tree of Braithwaite Green. That carries it back to Norman ti... ...nd the figures shall impress themselves strongly on his memory.” The above dates and places refer to passages in the pub lished “English Note Books.”...

Excerpt Details
...m in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention--spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had been conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he was one, and tha...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... and explain it, deal with the tiresome people, answer questions about the dates of the building, the styles of the furniture, the authorship of the p... ...the tiresome people, answer questions about the dates of the building, the styles of the furniture, the authorship of the pictures, the favourite haun... ...e from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour. It was most of all perha... ...y meagre. There weren’t, apparently, all counted, more than a dozen little old things that had succeeded in coming to pass between them; trivialities ... ...hich it was as an old friend that he saw she would have suited him. He had new ones enough—was surrounded with them for instance on the stage of the o... ...as surrounded with them for instance on the stage of the other house; as a new one he probably wouldn’t have so much as no- ticed her. He would have l...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...s, pardner.’ There was now a tender yellow moonlight on the river, and the new comer, keeping half his boat’s length astern of the other boat looked h... ...o fancies. Chapter 2 THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE MR AND MRS VENEERING were bran-new people in a bran- new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything... ...T wemlow can in nature care much for such insipid things as babies, but so old a friend must please to look at baby. ‘Ah! You will know the friend of ... ...s studs, his eyes, his buttons, his talk, and his teeth. Reflects charming old Lady Tippins on Veneering’s right; with an immense obtuse drab oblong f... ...n at her fellow-creatures. Here, too, the bride’ s trustee; an oilcake-fed style of business-gentleman with mooney spec- tacles, and an object of much... ... hair had come down on her being apostrophised, rearranged it, much in the style of the tail of a horse when proceeding to market to be sold. ‘Well? H... ...ey should lead to nothing but evil—was strong upon the moral timidity that dates from my childhood with my poor sister. ‘As to this hour I cannot unde...