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...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...

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...ge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Col... ...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... ...ation is exceedingly pleasant of firm ground underneath and clean water, a basin, &c., to wash in. And yet I almost like coming back to my ship home: ... ... and would sooner go and sail the “Mary Jane” with you in some dear little basin among the rocks at low tide, and watch all the little crabs and other... ...tion to nearly the top of the peaks, clouds resting upon the summit of the range, from the evaporation caused by the vast amount of vegetable matter. ... ...erly described, but with low wattled side walls. Along the ridge-pole were ranged twenty-seven skulls, not yet blackened with smoke, and bones were sc... ...epted all that we are trying for, taking the right view in the question of Provinces, Metropolitans, position of Colonial Churches, joint action of th... ...ng before like it in Melbourne 386 Life of John Coleridge Patteson or the provinces. I did not feel nervous, much to my sur- prise; I really wonder a...

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...THE TRIAL or MORE LINKS OF THE DAISY CHAIN By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...THE TRIAL or MORE LINKS OF THE DAISY CHAIN By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or Mo... ...s Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...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... ...with me, here, let us have your pulse. You have let him get low, Averil. A basin of good soup will put more heart into you, and you will feel ready fo... ...t learnt, and was not willing to acquire. A man interfering in the woman’s province meets little tolera- tion; and Henry was extremely precise in his ... ... out over the top of her work to smile an answer, and her artistically ar- ranged hair and the crispness of her white dress and broad blue ribbons mar... ..., having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, surmounted by a pediment, carved wi...

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Excerpt: Nuttie?s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...to the Second Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however,...

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...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love and Life by... ...ARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...l a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, howe... ...ther;—but at that moment Corporal Palmer knocked at the door, bring- ing a basin of soup for his master, and announcing “Supper is served, young ladie... ...rchway con- ducting the traveller into a courtyard worthy of Chaucer, with ranges of galleries running round it, the balustrades of dark carved oak su... ... arm was broken, set out to send the groom for the doctor—he being used to range the park at night. The stupid fellow, coming home half tipsy from the... ...eddling, and knowing nothing about what don’t concern me, and is out of my province. Now, I wish I had let the poor young lady be more friendly with m... ... Aurelia felt so grimed and dusty that she ventured to beg for an ewer and basin; but her amiable hostess snarled out that she had enough to do withou...

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...The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Daisy Chain,... ...assics Series Publication The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ...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... ... 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 Pennsyl- vania S... ...a gave a glance of warning, but Ethel’s short-sighted eyes were beyond the range of correspondence, and Miss Anderson continued. “It must have been a ... ...et- tling the room. It was a tidy room, but it seemed very small when they ranged the benches, and opened the door to the seven-and- twenty children, ... ...e ushered into the drawing-room; and Blanche instantly fled away, with her basin, to hide herself in the schoolroom. Meta skipped out, and soon was es... ...to choose the words. “I believe!” he repeated. “What—when we go beyond the province of reason—human, a thing of sense after all! How often have I so a...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and...

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...Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Magnum Bonum, or... ... Series Publication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portabl... ...syl- vania 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... ...so much pleasure, and, but for Allen, the studio would never have been ar- ranged. But no sooner was her time engrossed, than the art- ist fever awoke... ...th an exclamation. Armine again offered to rub it for him, and the two ar- ranged themselves for this purpose, the curtain of damp woolliness seeming ... ... to go near him. Then, if he is awake—” “If—” ejaculated John. “Give him a basin of soup—Liebig, if you can’t get any- thing here.” “Liebig!” broke ou... ...responsible for your lordship to your mamma, and it does not lie within my province to leave you on any account.” 246 Magnum Bonum Reeves always call... ...midst, however, in marched Reeves, with a tray and a napkin, and a regular basin of invalid soup, 477 Yonge which he set down before John in his easy...