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...er commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I don?t think there is any recollection more agreeable than that it was the occasion of making your friendship....

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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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...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... ...tion project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... of them; my nature was not his nature, and its signs were to him like the words of an unknown tongue. Ere long he turned away abruptly, as if baffled... ...strike an impartial spectator, when a voice close behind me pronounced the words— “Humph! there’s some sense in that face.” I turned; at my elbow stoo... ...ed to me like the sign of a sudden and strong inward doubt of himself, his words and actions-an energetic discontent at his life or his social posi- t... ...voices spoke within me; again and again they uttered the same monoto- nous phrases. One said: “William, your life is intolerable.” The other: “What ca... ...ir temporary eclipse. It is astonishing what ease and courage their little phrases of flip- pancy had given me; the idea by which I had been awed was ... ...hat heavenly muse, who on the “secret top of Oreb or Sinai” had taught the Hebrew shep- herd how in the womb of chaos, the conception of a world had o...

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Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

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... Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...sylvania 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... ... together seem as under her con- duct; and she took a slide on some French phrases with little Emile. Her young ladies looked shrinking and envious to... ...art of it by no means difficult when they imag- ined the lines without the words, or, better still, the letter without the lines. A holy satisfaction ... ...Olmer, the desire to fling herself on his neck and breast took form in the words: “Here you are home again, Rowsley; glad to have you.” They shook han... ...f the tutor’s profes- sion. “Think you understand boys?” she caught up his words; “you can’t. You can humour them, as you humour women. They’re just a... ...r- ward, and had to retire. He preferred to the fathering of tricky, windy phrases, the being undervalued—even by her. He was taught to see again how ... ... He is a Thing to cry to, a Punisher, not much of a Supporter—the Biblical Hebrew’s right reading of Nature, favouring man, yet prompt to confound him...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? M...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two ki...

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...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...

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...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its hones...

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