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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...rtunity university. 3 George Meredith SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I WE ARE TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE wit... ...hbourhood that the ladies were preparing one; and moreover that they had a new kind of plum; in other words, that they intended to exhibit a prodigy o... ... and rapidly spoke, in an undertone, what seemed to be a vivid sketch of a new course of fortune for her. Emilia gave one joyful outcry; and now Wilfr... ... Adela inquired, pleased with the subject under such high patronage. “Each new experience is your accomplished professor,” said T racy. “One I’ll call... ...e that pleasure sat like an inextinguishable light on her face. A splendid new harp arrived one day, ticketed, “For Miss Emilia Belloni.” “He does not... ... and then, and a music-score, and perhaps a good violin for my father, and new strings for him and me, and meat dinners now and then, and perhaps a da... ...little estate, sir,” he said. “You’ve seen plenty bigger in Ger- many, and England too. We can’t get more than this handful in our tight little island... ...; right—left. Ha! ha! You’ve seen better. No need to tell me that. But, in England, we look to the meaning of things. We’re a practical people. What’s...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER C... ... ceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of th... ...tive spirit in politics to individual character and weaknesses, and 4 The New Machiavelli so far his achievement lies like a deep rut in the road of ... ...rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big... ...orgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for each of ... ...write more than perhaps a clumsy signature, were to be found everywhere in England; and great masses of the popu- lation were getting no instruction a... ...ried in vain to interest me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queechy and the...

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...t down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers....

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...particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being far- ther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers. By Is... ... other abuses of this art, too tedious to repeat, I resolved to proceed in a new way, which I doubt not will be to the general satisfaction of the kin... ...to inform the reader, that I all along make use of the Old Style observed in England, which I desire he will compare with that of the news-papers, at ... ...will be the cause of mighty turns and revolutions in the following year. The new King makes yet little change either in the army or the ministry; but ... ...e any thing of the stars influence, if there were not a great revolution in England in the year 1688. Since that time I began to have other thoughts,... ...picuity, and calmness: In this dispute, I am sen- sible the eyes not only of England, but of all Europe, will be upon us; and the learned in every cou... ...I never lent it; one of which, a few days ago, was pleased to father on me a new sett of predic- tions. But I think those are things too serious to be... ...very smat- terer in anatomy knows, that a woman is but an introverted man; a new fusion and flatus will turn the hollow bottom of a bottle into a conv... ...ut alas! such will be the impatience and curiosity of people to act in their new capacity, that many of them will be compleated men and women that ver...

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...ont of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new....

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ...onourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new part- ner in such a House, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stir... ...me, all that even his alliance could have made his own wife, that in every new rejection of a candidate he felt a secret pleasure. The time had now co... ...close-cut moneyed gentlemen who 22 Dombey & Son are glossy and crisp like new bank-notes, and who seem to be artificially braced and tightened as by ... ...ithin ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of gold and silver ‘down among the dead men’ under... ...ight in a howling garret remote from the lodgers, where, when gentlemen of England who lived below at ease had little or no idea of the state of the w... ...ike Richard Whittington—that is a tame comparison—but like Saint George of England, with the dragon lying dead before him. ‘Don’t cry, Miss Dombey,’ s... ...- gether, from top to bottom, it was the most inconvenient little house in England, and the crookedest; but then, Miss T ox said, what a situation! Th...

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...ned that privilege, conscious of no disrepair from so short and easy a journey and always liking to take at once a general perceptive possession of a new scene. He stood there a little with his eyes on the group and on the admirable picture, the wide grounds of an old country-house near London-- that only made it better--on a splendid Sunday in June. ?But that lady, who?s ...

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...y and always liking to take at once a general per- ceptive possession of a new scene. He stood there a little with his eyes on the group and on the ad... ...gh: he was “Fancourt,” but was also “the General”; and he mentioned to the new visitor in the course of a few moments that he had but lately returned ... ...t lately returned from twenty years service abroad. “And now you remain in England?” the young man asked. “Oh yes; I’ve bought a small house in London... ...he expres- sion of his figure and even the indications of his dress, so in England this identification was as little as possible a matter of course, t... ... side of her and on the other the accomplished Mr. Mulliner, editor of the new high-class lively evening pa- 13 Henry James per which was expected to... ...ose who came into it plenty to talk about. Miss Fancourt sat down with her new acquaintance on a flow- ered sofa, the cushions of which, very numerous... ...to meet so many celebrated people.” “So I should think—but surely it isn’t new to you.” “Why I’ve never seen any one—any one: living always in Asia.” ... ... the delightful place where they sat. “Nothing to compare to this. I adore England!” she cried. It fairly stirred in him the sacred chord. “Ah of cour... ...n’t have met.” “It’s not really so odd as it strikes you. I’ve been out of England so much—made repeated absences all these last years.” She took this...

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...nfinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, or to reflect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel fears,--caused less by the dread of a first lying-in, which terrifies most women, than by certain dangers which awaited her child. In order not to awaken...

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...ture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, or to re- flect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel f... ...called La Belle Romaine. The distrust resulting from 8 The Hated Son this new misfortune made him suspicious to the point of not believing himself ca... ...nors and more wealth, and yet, tete-Dieu! you receive me like an enemy. My new govern- ment will oblige me to make long absences until I can ex- chang... ...and and shells, algae and verdure seemed to him a universe, ever fresh and new. Etienne imbibed all the benefits of this physical and abso- lutely inn... ... room, opened it, and showed on his saddened face the re- flection of some new misfortune. “Monseigneur,” he said, “Madame la duchesse is in so sad a ... ...e Hated Son all the variations of a marine atmosphere in which the fogs of England come to die and the sunshine of France is born, there rose within h...

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...uth, Which Ile maintaine as long as life doth last: And with the Queene of England joyne my force, To beat the papall Monarck from our lands, And keep... ...rall Queene? Did he not cause the King of Spaines huge fleete, To threaten England and to menace me? Did he not injure Mounser thats deceast? Hath he ... ...r soveraigne. Goe call the English Agent hether strait, Ile send my sister England newes of this, And give her warning of her trecherous foes. [Enter ... ...hou seest. [The Surgeon searcheth .] [Enter the English Agent .] Agent for England, send thy mistres word, What this detested Jacobin hath done. Tell ... ...y practices. And heere protest eternall love to thee, And to the Queene of England especially, Whom God hath blest for hating Popery. NAVARRE. These w... ...hat damned villaine were alive againe, That we might torture him with some new found death. BARTUS. He died a death too good, the devill of hell Tortu...

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...d went to another part of the boat. Once across the river, I encountered a new danger. Only a few days before, I had been at work on a revenue cutter,... ...phia in the after- noon, I inquired of a colored man how I could get on to New York. He directed me to the William-street depot, and thither I went, t... ...m-street depot, and thither I went, taking the train that night. I reached New York T uesday morning, having completed the journey in less than twenty... ...ious and most perilous but safe journey, I found myself in the big city of New York, a free man—one more added to the mighty throng which, like the co... ...n my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath and the “quick ro... ... and Northern civilization to flow into the South, and make a man from New England as much at home in Caro- lina as elsewhere in the Republic. No Chin...

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...of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, ... ...elstein’s ear over the latter’s great tarred sides. He noticed that in the new contingent there were many young girls, and he remembered what a lady i... ...how had the effect of bringing out their peculiar facial type. At last the new voyagers began to emerge from below and to look about them, vaguely, wi... ...see what one could think of the ship, of the weather, of the appearance of England, from such a position as that; possibly even of one’s fellow- passe... ...or of the American continent one of their fellow-passen- gers, a lady from New York with whom he had a good deal of conversation, pronounced her “atro... ... high spirit appeared to have no taint either of fastness, as they said in England, or of subversive opin- ion, and whose mouth had charming lines, sh... ...lstein asked, as if that fact too would be typical. “Well, I’m working for New York. I flatter myself I’ve loosened them while we’ve been away,” the g... ...ot to watch HIM. He has promised me something.” “It must be the mission to England,” the judge of the Supreme Court suggested. “A good position for a ...

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...ix it with satisfactions more superficial and usual. In the little game of new sensations that I was playing with my ingenuous mind I wished to keep m... ...er. This will give you about the date of my first visit—of any duration—to England for you will not have forgotten the commotion, I may even say the s... ... as the discerning reader will be able to judge for himself. I had been in England, briefly, a twelve-month before the time to which I began by alludi... ...ondon again. It was of little use to me to hear that his wife had not left England and was, with her little boy, their only child, spending the period... ...the first of June. Moreover I had heard he was this year hard at work on a new book, into which some of his im- pressions of the East were to be wroug... ...d. He asked me about his friend in America, about the length of my stay in England, about the last news in London and the people I had seen there; and... ...h me.” “But please don’t ask me, mamma,” said the child in his small clear new voice. “I must ask you when I want you. Come to me, dear- est.” And Mrs... ...t have been a touch of the ridiculous in such a confession, but I liked my new friend so much that it took nothing for me from his dignity. “She tells... ...nced. These early pages, the premices, in the language of letters, of that new fruit of his imagination, I should take to my room and look over at my ...

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...s.” She flattered herself that she knew at a glance where to pigeon-hole a new-comer, and if she made any mistakes her deportment never betrayed them.... ...d as one of the attractions of the estab- lishment. In the salon I found a new-comer, a tall gentle- man in a high black hat, whom I immediately recog... ...at you were American or En- glish. I’m from the United States myself; from New York 9 Henry James city. Many of our people here?” “Not so many as, I ... ...ry fair fame,” I said, smiling. “I should never dream of comparing it to a New York boarding-house,” said Mrs. Ruck. “It’s quite a different style,” h... ...nd his high hat pushed back, swinging one of his long legs and reading the New York Herald. He paid a daily visit to the American banker’s, on the oth... ...hat it was apparently a signal for my departure; my brother had arrived in England, and proposed to me to meet him there; he had come on business, and...

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...idence and re- spect. The middle of the nineteenth century was a time when England might well be proud of her Judges. There was much in the habits of ... ...ith two bands playing on a calm, blessed Sunday evening, with the Queen of England and all her retinue walking about. It gives you an idea of the Maje... ... 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 ... ... and so sustained him as the sense of unity, whether with these at home in England, or with those in the inner home of the Saints. When the sermon con... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ...et- ters from Australia, Newfoundland, &c. 21 Yo n g e When the Bishop of New Zealand came to take leave, he said, half in earnest, half in playfulne... ... all to take pattern by the self-denial and true devotion of the Bishop of New Zealand, on whom he spoke for a long-while. The whole ceremony was perf... ...strongest. It was true that the master mind had been lost to the Church of England, but the men whom he and his companions had helped to form were the...

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... my dealings were mainly with the ladies and the minor poets. This was his new novel, an advance copy, and whatever much or little it should do for hi... ... he had himself noted, liked him; and what now occurred was simply that my new intelli- gence and vain preoccupation damaged my liking. I not only fai... ... was more he must understand. What he would have said, had he reviewed the new book, was that there was evidently in the writer’s inmost art something... ...would bound off on false scents as I had done—he would clap his hands over new lights and see them blown out by the wind of the turned page. He was li... ...hed nov- elist; a danger, however, that disappeared with Vereker’s leaving England for an indefinite absence, as the news- papers announced—going to t... ...the books. 23 Henry James CHAPTER VI Six months after our friend had left England George Corvick, who made his living by his pen, contracted for a pi... ...ly calculated. The elements were all in his mind, and in the secousse of a new and intense experience they just struck light.” She positively struck l... ...s had ever happened to me than to become aware before Corvick’s arrival in England that I shouldn’t be there to put him through. I found myself abrupt... ...at the end of which we had to face the absolute prohibition of a return to England. The consid- eration of climate imposed itself, and he was in no st...

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...n with the progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very great... ...iled and failed and was still to be tested again and rejected again in the New World; Christianity and Mohammedanism swept away a thousand more specia... ...hem. For a time they could not make instruments sound enough to stand this new force even for so rough a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first gun... ...stag- gering fight against wind and wave. Steam was the first-comer in the new powers, it was the beginning of the Age of Energy that was to close the... ... America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised that something new had come into human life, a strange swirl different altogether from any... ...th the very fabric of that pioneer school in the educational renascence in England. After the customary exchange years in Heidel- berg and Paris, he w... .... Mylius was of opinion that we could take a line westward and get back to England across the North Sea. He calculated that with such a motor barge as... ...sly tragic after Barnet’s return to En- gland, it is, if anything, harder. England was a spectacle of fear-embittered householders, hiding food, crush... ... order. He came home to a famine- stricken country, and his picture of the England of that spring is one of miserable patience and desperate expedient...

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... him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. All England wanted him too. England had ... ...ts great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, Edward ... ...t every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wa... ... the king my father hath taken from the monks and given for a home for ever for poor and forsaken chil- dren, and new-named it Christ’s Church. Right ... ... the horse-pond, to the horse-pond! Where be the dogs? Ho, there, Lion! ho, Fangs!” Then followed such a thing as England had never seen before—the sa... ...o rain, the wind rose, and a raw and gusty night set in. The houseless prince, the homeless heir to the throne of England, still moved on, drifting de... ... waiting lord, and said— “Nay, it likes me not, my lord: it hath a pretty flavour, but it wanteth strength.” This new eccentricity of the prince’s rui... ... voice— “Mind thy tongue, thou mad fool, and speak not our 49 The Prince and the Pauper name. I will choose me a new name, speedily, to throw the law... ...l not come amiss in it, likewise … these be very good and sound, and will keep his small feet warm and dry—an odd new thing to him, belike, since he h...

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...py and perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on the bank of her new country, and was already looking anxiously back to- wards the sad frien... ... else’s) company, this amiable lady told all her birth and pedigree to her new friend. “My dear,” said she, good-naturedly, “it was my intention that ... ...r, grinning at each other over his head. 15 Thackeray And, now having her new friend to herself, the impetuous Mrs: O’Dowd proceeded to pour out such... ... streaky beef, really mingled with fat and lean, there was no country like England.” “Except Ireland, where all your best mate comes from,” said the M... ...oon ended, Mrs. Amelia was as pleased and happy as any little bride out of England. Every day during this happy time there was novelty and amusement f... ...nds of the regiments were making music at all hours. The greatest folks of England walked in the Park —there was a perpetual military festival. George... ...—there was a perpetual military festival. George, taking out his wife to a new jaunt or junket every night, was quite pleased with himself as usual, a... ..., “I suppose, as Papa wants to go, we must go; but we needn’t know them in England, you know.” And so, determined to cut their new ac- quaintance in B... ...e needn’t know them in England, you know.” And so, determined to cut their new ac- quaintance in Bond Street, these great folks went to eat his dinner...

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...o the Senate with that clause stricken out. He then shows that there was a new clause inserted into the bill, which would in its nature prevent a refe... ...isely as he originally made it. Then, in addition thereto, he brought in a new piece of evidence. He shifted no ground. He brought no new piece of evi... ...piece of evidence inconsistent with his former testimony; but he brought a new piece, tending, as he thought, and as I think, to prove his proposition... ...here was no shifting of ground, nor inconsistency of testimony between the new piece of evi- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four dence and ... ...at had the point been made it would have been yielded to, or that it was a new discovery, you will determine.” So I say. I do not know whether Judge D... ...aw. It was introduced and forced upon the colonies by the paramount law of England. Do you believe that in mak- ing that declaration the States that c...

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...n- tured to hope. I remember that at dinner that evening he wore slippers, new and predominantly purple, of some queer carpet-stuff; but the Mulvilles... ...ith Frank Saltram, the night I came back from Wimbledon so agitated with a new sense of life that, in London, for the very thrill of it, I could only ... ...e fanatic— she was but a generous, irresponsible enquirer. She had come to England to see her aunt, and it was at her aunt’s she had met the dreary la... ...er I was now talking. “Do you say that because he’s—what do you call it in England?— of humble extraction?” “Not a bit. His father was a country schoo... ...thheld. My friend of the other evening, Miss Anvoy, had but lately come to England; Lady Coxon, the aunt, had been established here for years in conse... ...to do The Empire, the great newspaper, was there to look to; but it was no new misfortune that there were delicate situa- tions in which The Empire br... ...d reflected that at such a time I should do so most effectually by leaving England. I wanted to forget Frank Saltram—that was all. I didn’t want to do... ...began to breathe again and to flap its folded wings. Confidence, under the new Ministry, was understood to be reviving, and one of the symptoms, in a ... ...rily vague I added: “Those about her husband.” “Oh yes, but there are some new ones.” “None for me. Ah novelty would be pleasant!” “Doesn’t it appear ...

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...l as hearing was at work to produce the abundance; and it was a novelty in England, where (in company) the men are the pointed talkers, and the women ... ...is more, the beautiful creature can talk.’ He wondered, for she was young, new to society. Subsequently he is rather ashamed of his wonderment, and ac... ...views of her own, he would not, one fan- cies, have been so stingless. Our England exposes a sorry figure in his Reminiscences. He struck heavily, rou... ... There was a distinction; most analogies will furnish one; and here we see England and Ireland changeing their parts, until later, after the breach, w... ...The dog periodically puts on madness to win attention; we gather then that England, in an angry tremour, tries him with water-gruel to prove him sane.... ... on the spin when he said, ‘Who is she?’ Sir Lukin did not know. ‘She ‘s a new bird; she nodded to my wife; I’ll ask.’ He manoeuvred a few steps cleve... ...to live to her end. It seemed remote, where an invigorating upper air gave new bloom to her cheeks; but she kept one secret from her friend. 38 Diana... ...his; and he was ral- lied. He confessed to being absorbed in railways, the new lines of railways projected to thread the land and fast map- ping it. ‘... ... Her destiny of the Crossways tied a knot, barred a gate, and pointed to a new direction of the road on that fine spring morning, when beech-buds were...