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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...ge 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 State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five throug... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...hat she sees going wrong, sits in her gown of ceremony, an honoured guest. Quebec and Malta lay the cloth for dinner, while Woolwich, serving, as bese... ...s ever you was. If you wasn’t younger. Which you are. As everybody knows.” Quebec and Malta here exclaim, with clapping of hands, that Bluffy is sure ... ...king “salt!” at Malta with her right eye, and shaking the pepper away from Quebec with her head, “I begin to think George is in the roving way again. ... ... with somebody and being ashamed of it. Caddy Jellyby passed her very last holidays with us and was a dearer creature than ever, perpetually dancing i...

...ll through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Before I had been confined to it many days, everything else seemed to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by W... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays—”When I was a girl at school,” said she, laughing—a promise that h... ...turdays. He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had be... ...eneral tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail- coat after the holidays. Dobbin was much too modest a young fellow to suppose that this ha... ...b. He rode his own horse, Greased Light- ning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races. There were other people besides Amelia who worshipped him. St... ... I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec.” “So do I,” William responded. “I was a deuced deal more nervous th... ...mpanies, was an old General who had made his first campaign under Wolfe at Quebec, and was long since quite too old and feeble for command; but he too...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...missionarying among them, and drawing whole populations of them at a time to Quebec, and later to Montreal, to buy furs of them. Necessarily, then, th... ... relic of a time when one could travel from the mouths of the Mississippi to Quebec and be on French territory and under French rule all the way. Pres... ... like it i wish i was nere you so i could send you chuck (RE- FRESHMENTS) on holidays; it would spoil this weather from here, but i will send you a bo...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ll the whole was deposited within, leaving him im- pregnable in his little Quebec. I pondered some time without fully comprehending the rea- son for t... ...utworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known so... ...ial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race. For ... ...trading-ship Dey of Algiers, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with the lord of Tranque, at his retired palm villa at Pupella; a ...

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Verses 1889-1896

By: Rudyard Kipling

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... lie, The Warden of the Honour of the North, Sleepless and veiled am I! QUEBEC AND MONTREAL Peace is our portion. Yet a whisper rose, Foolish and... ...eeper And I’ll say where you were born! West away from Melbourne dust holidays begin — They that mock at Paradise woo at Cora Lynn — V erses 188...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays—”When I was a girl at school,” said she, laughing—a promise that h... ...turdays. He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had be... ...eneral tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail- coat after the holidays. Dobbin was much too modest a young fellow to suppose that this ha... ...b. He rode his own horse, Greased Light- ning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races. There were other people besides Amelia who worshipped him. St... ... I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec.” “So do I,” William responded. “I was a deuced deal more nervous th... ...mpanies, was an old General who had made his first campaign under Wolfe at Quebec, and was long since quite too old and feeble for command; but he too...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...ge 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 State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... and I never went. I never went out at all. It was my birthday. There were holidays at school on other Birthdays—none on mine. There were rejoicings a... ...d of greens and taking her tub into the little room behind the shop. “Why, Quebec, my poppet,” says George, following, on invitation, into that depart... ...luous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shel... ...lk up and down the little street, keeping step and time, until summoned by Quebec and Malta to do justice to the pork and greens, over which Mrs. Bagn... ... with somebody and being ashamed of it. Caddy Jellyby passed her very last holidays with us and was a dearer creature than ever, perpetually dancing i...

...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...ge 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 State ... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House, Volume One, Containing Chapters One through Thirty... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... and I never went. I never went out at all. It was my birthday. There were holidays at school on other Birthdays—none on mine. There were rejoicings a... ...d of greens and taking her tub into the little room behind the shop. “Why, Quebec, my poppet,” says George, following, on invitation, into that depart... ...luous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shel... ...lk up and down the little street, keeping step and time, until summoned by Quebec and Malta to do justice to the pork and greens, over which Mrs. Bagn...

...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...aret Hall.” “Yes, it incited her to worry Wilfred beyond sufferance in his holidays. I know if you or Lily had been always at me I should have kicked ... ...on the Winchester roll, and that he was sure of entering college after the holidays. Gillian alone was allowed to go up to the station with her uncle ... ... and exposure before the boat was picked up, and she was finally landed at Quebec, where she was laid up with pleurisy in the hospital. And there was ... ...ar was over, was at home, having broken down, and having spent most of her holidays with Mrs. Peter Brown, the wife of Sir Ferdinand’s partner. She ha...

...gged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods....

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...and’ ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,—crowd round thee... ...ing: “Sire, these are your faithful Lorrainers.” Cheerier verily, in these holidays, is this ‘skyblue faced with red’ of a National Guardsman, than th...

............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...r stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in “Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed”; and the Po... ... The two clerks, its crew, do not even look up as it comes into place. The Quebec letters fly under their fin- gers and leap into the docketed racks, ... ..., all down the Park that the wisdom of our fathers—but every one knows the Quebec run. We dropped to the Heights Receiving Towers twenty min- utes ahe... ... of schoolboys—sons of Anglo-Indians whom the Infant had collected for the holidays, and they nearly broke his keeper’s heart. 115 Kipling But my las... ...e Agent-General mildly. “Lord Lundie’s at Credence Green now—he spends his holidays there. It’s only forty miles off.” “Shan’t I disturb his Holiness?...

...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

............................................................................................................................................. 113 A DEAL IN COTTON .................................................................................................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ..............................................

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge 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 State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...“I believe, your Excellency, Tatua has done good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill,... ...ble study of novels—ever since the day when, lying on sunny slopes of half-holidays, the fair 313 Burlesques chivalrous figures and beautiful shapes ... ...ng, making friends, and play- ing tricks from morning to night, during the holidays. Indeed, it 368 Thackeray was from young Mac that we first heard ...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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