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.... Who Passes by this Road so late? 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams 24. The Evening of a Long Day 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office 26. Reaping the Whirlwind 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea 30. Closing in...

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...Little Dorrit, Book Two: Riches by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished ... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...Promise, respecting her Dreams 24. The Evening of a Long Day 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office 26. Reaping the Whirlwind 27. The Pupil ... ...e duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General. At length a county- widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the ... ...and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ Pursuing the light so fortun... ...c nature already recorded, Mr Dorrit took the trouble of going down to the county of the county-wid- ower to see Mrs General, in whom he found a lady ... ...ve nothing to do with the entertainment beyond being in its way. The Chief Butler, the Avenging Spirit of this great man’s life, relaxed nothing of hi... ... state of agitation, Mr Merdle, evasively rolling his eyes round the Chief Butler’s shoes without raising them to the index of that stupendous creatur...

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...lication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ... any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...illery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks. —Butler. It was during the period of that great and bloody Civil War which a... ...I e’en gave up my commission, and took service with Wallenstein, in Walter Butler’s Irish regiment.” “And may I beg to know of you,” said Lord Menteit... ... rencontre; and as, in the perquisitions which followed, it pleased Walter Butler, our oberst, or colonel, to give the lighter punishment to his count... ...autious to avoid those nearer and more secret paths, by means of which the county of Argyle was accessible from the eastward; for his relation and chi... ...of the Highlands of Perthshire, so as to menace the principal town of that county. His enemies were not unprepared for his reception. Ar- gyle, at the... ...pt the southern side of the Grampian ridge, moving along eastward into the county of Angus, resolving from thence to proceed into Aberdeenshire, in or...

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...ies Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- rial... ...olesale coal trade, she was of good seventeenth- century attorney blood, a county family, and distantly re- lated to Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. Sh... ...es we will loiter among the rocks and trees about Saas or peep into Samuel Butler’s chapels, and sometimes we will climb up out of the way of the othe...

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...ding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur nished f... ...r any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone a... ...Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Univer sity assumes any responsibility for the material... ...er, he was decreed to the inheritance of one of the largest estates in the county. This gentleman had in his youth married a very worthy The History... ...rn historians, nay, per haps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the pota... ...where Hudibras and Trulla fought, if thou wert not starved with thy friend Butler, assist me on this great occasion. All things are not in the power o... ...leasure he proposed in seeing her married to one of the richest men in the county. Jones was not so vain and senseless a coxcomb as to expect, from an... ...t is true, indeed, there be larger estates in the kingdom, but not in this county, and I had rather bate something, than marry my daughter among stran... ... bred under an attorney, and the other was son to the wife of a nobleman’s butler. As soon as dinner was ended, Jones informed the com pany of the ...

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...Himself: Book Three by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...unt my harriers; and settle down at Castlewood. Perhaps I’ll represent the county—no, damme, you shall rep- resent the county. Y ou have the brains of... ...James’s. “Two years since my uncle died, leaving me a pretty estate in the county of Kent; and being at Tunbridge Wells last sum- mer, after my mourni... ... and now, on his return, behold his lordship was just married to Lady Mary Butler, the Duke of Ormonde’s daughter, and his fine houses, and twelve tho...

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...A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ... ...complaining of the injury that had been done to Mr. Hampden, who was their county man and much beloved and honoured. When the King set off for Hampton... ...ntry gentleman, with dogs at his heels. It happened that Sir John Winter’s butler had been servant in Richmond Palace, and knew Charles the moment he ... ...ichmond Palace, and knew Charles the moment he set eyes upon him; but, the butler was faithful and kept the secret. As no ship could be found to carry...

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...y of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...lliam Heathcote needed to be recorded in their relations to the parish and county. This has, therefore, here been attempted, together with a record of... ... to whatever was required of him. He had been member of Parliament for the county of Hants, and had been placed at the head of the list of his father’... ... by his widow Frances, one of the daughters of Sir Charles Wyndham, in the county of Southampton. Mrs. White thus lost her husband and her mother in t... ...s 63 Charlotte M. Yonge by the architect; the font by the Rev. William Butler and Emma his wife, and the clergy and sisters of Wantage. Mr. Butler... ...der Forbes of Brechin, Bishop Walter Hamilton of Salisbury, the Rev. W. J. Butler of Wantage (Dean of Lincoln), and Canon Liddon. T o them Hursley Vic... ...rbes, Bishop of Brechin, Dr. Pusey, Dean Hook, Sir William Heathcote, Dean Butler, and others, de- cided that the most fitting memorial would be the b...

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...rans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...mongst frogs; the soul never dwells in a dry place, drouth kills it. O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennit... ... There I catch you, I awake you. Argus had a hundred eyes for his sight, a butler should have (like Briareus) a hundred hands wherewith to fill us win... ...tro de Padua. At St. Helen. At Casa Nuova. At St. Bartholomew, in the county of Boulogne. At the Porrette, and a thousand other places. And I wo... ...shall have me, seeing I cannot be their fellow-soldier, for their faithful butler, refreshing and cheering, according to my little power, their return... ...as the senior fellows of the college of iniquity, the very outcasts of the county gaol’s common-side. As you love yourself, do not go among ‘em. If yo...

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...ster; or, Ursala’s Narrative by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...in any way. Lady Hester; or, Ursala’s Narrative by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Facul... ...t he was told, but in an uninterested sort of way, just as if politics and county business, and work at the estate, were just as much tasks thrust on ... ...e, so it is silly to linger! There stood the fly at the hall-door, and the butler met us, saying— “There’s a person with his lordship, my lord. She wo... ...e better for him; so he got him to go to bed, and sent good old Blake, the butler, who had been his servant in the army, to sit in the dressing-room. ... ...ll—a sort of hush of awe—and then some of the maids began sobbing, and the butler tried to say something, but he quite broke down; and just then a tro... ...ell in the salt marshes, and twice following showed up the prize ox at the county show, that they began to believe in “Farmer T orwood,” or think his ... ... farm for occupation, and no society but our- selves; no newspaper but the County Chronicle once a week; no new books, for Mudie did not exist then, e...

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...Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one a... ...University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- rial... ... Wallace, Huxley, Helmholtz, Tyndall, Spencer, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Samuel Butler, would not have been published, as they were all immoral and hereti-... ... the public. It was this practical impossibility that prevented the London County Council from attempting to apply a censorship of the Lord Chamberlai... ...s of a jury what they are debarred from get- ting from the prejudices of a County Council or City Corporation. Moral Reform Societies, “Purity” Soci- ... ...eretical or immoral. D. The licensing area shall be no less than that of a County Council or City Corporation, which shall not delegate its licensing ... ...he directors of the Irish Na- tional Theatre, Lady Gregory and Mr. William Butler Yeats, rose to the occasion with inspiriting courage. I am a concili...

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...k Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...—”—Shooting a slave.—We learn, upon the authority of a letter from Charles county, Mary- land, received by a gentleman of this city, that a young man,... ...n in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he kn... ...UCKAHOE, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in T albot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen... ...d time to make any engagement for me, I went out and got employment of Mr. Butler, at his ship-yard near the draw- bridge, upon what is called the Cit...

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...tion An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished ... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ..., I’m browed!” exclaimed Jane incredulously. “I like that.” “For a girl of county family, you are inexcusably vulgar, Jane. I don’t know what I said; ... ... well watched, and I can wait at table equal to the Lord Mayor o’ London’s butler.” “I cannot employ you without a character,” said Miss Wil- son, amu... ...han I can lift myself up by the waist- band and carry myself into the next county, as some one 62 An Unsocial Socialist challenged a speculator in pe... ...in England.” “And what more can man desire than wealth with descent from a county family! Could a man be happier than I ought to be, sprung as I am fr...

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... Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one a... ...University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...ces made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great ... ... title, and presently after to take possession of his house of Castlewood, county Hants, in the year 1691, almost the only tenant of the place besides... ... was performed in the most quiet manner), got her no favor at first in the county or village. By far the greater part of the estate of Castlewood had ... ... and now, on his return, behold his lordship was just married to Lady Mary Butler, the Duke of Ormonde’s daughter, and his fine houses, and twelve tho...