...Lacey Wilson when, at the tender age of seventeen, she was accepted at the University of Toronto and her father agreed that she could continue to live... ...there was a ‘for sale’ sign on her front lawn. IN SEPTEMBER, Lacey started university. She was so nervous on the first morning, she threw up almost as... ...ts that Lacey gave her for ‘her job’. Lacey enrolled in English Lit at the university. She took bridge lessons, and went once a week to the local dupl... ...tennis partner, David Cole, with his wife, Mary, attended. Peter and Peggy Mason had been close friends with Jake and Nicole, and after the break-up h... ...d a man- ager for the web site. Later on, he advised her to blog. “My dear George,” she laughed, “I do not even program phone numbers into speed dial....

...ABIAN ENTERT T T T TAINMENT AINMENT AINMENT AINMENT AINMENT By By By By By George Meredith George Meredith George Meredith George Meredith George Mere... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...g of Shagpat by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...n any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics S... ...bent bows, so that Khipil dared not move from his sitting posture. And the masons and the people crowded to see Khipil sitting on his master’s chair, ...

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...Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...dex of First Line ....................................508 14 The Poems of George Meredith CHILLIANWALLAH Chillanwallah, Chillanwallah! Where our brot... ...e common brotherhood By sign of Heaven indifferent, Nature foe. VII Anon a mason’s work amazed the sight, And long-frocked men, called Brothers, there...

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...DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...he Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...n any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...s. She felt mercenary, debased by comparison with the well- scourged verse-mason, Orpheus of the untenanted city, who had done his publishing ingenuou...

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... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the ... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...ny way. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton... .................................................................. 14 Serepta Mason ........................................................................ .......................................................................... 32 George Trimble ............................................................... .......................................................................... 39 George Gray .................................................................. ..................................................................... 50 Mrs. George Reece.................................................................. ... must submit to an epitaph Graven by a fool! 15 Edgar Lee Masters Serepta Mason MY life’s blossom might have bloomed on all sides Save for a bitter w... ...d a little in life, And I owe it all to a book I read. But why did I go to Mason City, Where I chanced to see the book in a window, With its garish co...

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...de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi- bility for the material contained within t... ... of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott Dedication To George Sand Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radi- ance on... ...ility the world from which I draw my models! Would it not be a fine thing, George, if the future antiquarian of dead literatures were to find in this ... ...tely sloping or 29 Balzac upright, according to the artistic taste of the mason, which finds here its only outlet. The mud in which they are set is f...

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... free and without any 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... ..., and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with... ...the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens,... ...ern police magistrates are not always the wisest men of the East, may be inferred from their course of procedure respecting the fancy-dressing and pan... ...ent of reasonable endurance. One poor parish in this very Union is rated to the amount of five and sixpence in the pound, at the very same time when t... ...r for reflection as I journeyed home, inasmuch as, before I altogether departed from the neighbourhood of Mr. Baker’s trap, I had knocked at the gate ... ...e no power here, I assure you. And if I had—’ ‘But, allow me, sir, to mention it, as between yourself and a man who has seen better days, sir. The mas... ... but all of us shold do as we wold be done by, and he’ll take it kind, if you’ll put a power man in the right road fur to jine his eldest son as has b... ... called ‘a top set,’ and all the eatables and drinkables introduced into them acquired a flavour of Cockloft. I have known an unopened Strasbourg pate...

... de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...g the twenty-franc piece. “I shall have the honor of calling again to tell Georges where you are to go this evening, for we never write anything in su... ...s Herrera had confidently counted. After his breakfast, the Baron sent for Georges, his body- servant, and desired him to go to the Rue Taitbout and a... ... “an’ make her valk up to my room, and tell her I shall make her fortune.” Georges had the greatest difficulty in persuading Europe- Eugenie to come. ... ...and Madame Elizabeth, and to those known as the secret cells. This maze of masonry, after being of old the scene of royal festivities, is now the base... ..., as the more dangerous of the two culprits, was placed in a cell of solid masonry, deriving its light from one of the narrow yards, of which there ar... ...ed on the impossibility of carrying out his intentions, for those boxes of masonry have no furni- ture but a sort of camp-bed and a pail for necessary...

...tion Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ... that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heights. His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he m... ...ed’s, Tinka’s, and the lone bath-towel with the huge welt of initial. Then George F. Babbitt did a dismaying thing. He wiped his face on the guest-tow... ...e was sufficiently roused by his wife to look at her. IV Myra Babbitt—Mrs. George F. Babbitt—was definitely mature. She had creases from the corners o... ... to the Rotarians, the Kiwanis, or the Boosters; to the Oddfellows, Moose, Masons, Red Men, Woodmen, Owls, Eagles, Maccabees, Knights of Pythias, Knig...

...ouis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...this Gondremark has one foot in the Court backstairs, and the other in the Masons’ lodges. He gives himself out, sir, for what nowadays they call a pa... ...o, sir, it is not equal; for I suffer for your faults – I pay for them, by George, out of a poor man’s pocket. And what have you to do with mine? Drun... ...ny.’ ‘O, not them!’ she cried. ‘Take Sabra, my own man.’ ‘Sabra! The grand-mason?’ returned the Chancellor, aghast. ‘If he but saw this, he would soun...

...ns. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...lated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Monsieur Eugene-Auguste-Georges-Louis Midy de la Greneraye Surville, Royal Engineer of the Ponts at... ...entations: he had the last payments to make on his house; the painter, the mason, 27 Balzac the upholsterers must be paid. Suzanne let him run on; sh...

...ns. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...as he thought of T ouraine, where the peasant works at his ease, where the mason lays a stone between breakfast and dinner, and idleness is wisely min... ...rried away by the fervor of youth, electrified by his intercourse with the Georges, the Billardiere, Montauran, Bauvan, Longuy, Manda, Bernier, du Gue... ... izing tone, “you will succeed.” “Therefore,” resumed Grindot, “employ the masons, paint- ers, locksmiths, carpenters, and upholsterers yourself. I wi... ... staircase (where you are to have no right of entry), at your own cost, in masonry. Don’t fear,—I shall ask you no indemnity for that at the end of yo...

...e Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...n any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...of good books and good company, as well as good din- ners and good houses. George Sand has somewhere a charming passage about the mildness, the conven... ...nd in what relation these very mighty and effectually de- tached masses of masonry stood to each other, but in 14 A Little Tour in France their gray ... ...ack and as a prison, part of it comes from the presence of restoring stone-masons, who have woven over a considerable por- tion of it a mask of scaffo... ...ent, however, I be- lieve, that these inches encroach little upon acres of masonry.) It was in the castle that Jeanne Darc ????? had 40 A Little Tour... ... was trans- mitted to their son, Dupin de Francueil, grandfather of Madame George Sand. This lady, in her Correspondence, lately published, describes ... ...ers through the province of Berry and through many of the novels of Madame George Sand; lifting from the sum- mit of a hill, which it covers to the ba...

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...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any... ...d in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the ... ...Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any re sponsibility for the material contained within... ... stand — nobody had asked for an autograph. I spoke to Clarence about it. By George! I had to explain to him what it was. Then he said nobody in the c... ...ground in a general collapse of consterna tion. Well, it rained mortar and masonry the rest of the week. This was the report; but probably the facts... ...oons and cyclones of frantic joy, and whole Niagaras of happy tears; and by George! we found the aforetime young matron gray ing toward the imminen... ...l, then sad; and when he heard me tell Dowley I should have Dickon, the boss mason, and Smug, the boss wheelwright, out there, too, the coal dust on h... ...ng around any more. So I got rid of Marco, by sending him off to invite the mason and the wheelwright, which left the field free to me. For I never ... ...k into the future and see her erect statues and monuments to her unspeakable Georges and other royal and noble clothes horses, and leave unhonored th...

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...in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylva nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...he Pickwick Papers Volume One by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleto... ...white trousers—a costume in which they looked very much like amateur stone masons— were sprinkled about the tents, towards one of which Mr. Wardle con... ...sir, let me refer you to the well known case in Barnwell and—’ ‘Never mind George Barnwell,’ interrupted Sam, who had re mained a wondering listener ... ...who will remember them but too well. ‘In the Borough High Street, near St. George’s Church, and on the same side of the way, stands, as most people kn... ...th her weight, like a helpless infant. Charles Dickens 279 ‘“Set me down, George,” she said faintly. He did so, and seating himself beside her, cover...

...ns. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ... a variety of foolish acts, and made debts, being led thereto by a certain Georges Marest, a clerk in the same office, but a rich young man, who revea... ...s slain as an “accapareur,” a monopolist, by the populace, instigated by a mason, the uncle of Godain, with whom he had had some quarrel about the bui... ... The Middle Classes Cousin Betty Lupin, Amaury A Start in Life Marest, Georges A Start in Life Minorets, The The Government Clerks Montcornet,...

...Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...d respectful. His wife threw herself, on three different occasions, before George II and the members of his family, was rudely repulsed from their pre... ...d his death remains in popular estima- tion a dark blot upon the memory of George II, being al- most publicly imputed to a mean and personal hatred of... ...respect dishonourable to his memory. But neither ought it to be imputed to George II that he suffered the laws to be en- forced against a person taken... ... as I discovered by removing a piece of tapes- try which covered the fresh mason-work. I found some of my clothes here, with linen and other articles,...