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THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

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...ENEDICT ARNOLD. JOSHUA SMITH. kox ANDR~. Mas. ARNOLD. W- ABNOLD, A Boy of Eight, Sun to Benedict. FATHER HUDSON. CHOBUS OF WAVEB (Men). C~oaus ... ... HUDSON. CHOBUS OF WAVEB (Men). C~oaus OF CLOUDS (Women). CHORUS-LEADER OF MEN. CHORUS-LEADER OF WOMEN. TREASON. DEATH. Two PICEETS. A SEBVANT... ... And I, stiff with watching, suspect some evil. Some foul play is in the mountains, stalking in the shadows of the dawn. Would God the releasing t... .... Would God the releasing trumpet would blow and the flag flutter on the mountain side, and that I might find all well! General Washington is on a... ...ount Washington - And where the haughty deer on Hudson's Bay Sniffs the north wind, We bring you Mist. Chorus of Women. From the rank low- lands ... ...here the shadow falls! [Enter Benedict Arnold. He is in the Unifwm of an American General. He limps.] Both Choruses. A light thing is man and his... ...The reasonable payment of a debt; Nor treason for the savior of a land - Listen: -There was a stripling in the town Where I was born; and this ras... ...to speak to; I could roar,- Sound it against the mountains, - that these peaks Should bandy my intentions back and forth; Or tell it to the talki... ...t trust me. Mrs. Arnold. Is there a soldier in the British Isles has a list of battles like your own? nold. It may be not. Mrs. Armld. Then make...

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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machination...

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...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...ody covered in sweat even though the temperature in the cave was very low. He raised his head to listen. Scuttling noises - bats or rats - these wer... ...f Rosita, who hated storms even on terra firma. She would be terrified on her own in their cabin, listening to the storm’s mounting intensity. She h... ...ng the ship. Above the roar she heard the helmsman shout, ‘Hard to Port’! This was the end: that mountainous swell would surely overpower her and sw... ...ral Indian panorama as the train snaked its way through the grand scenery of gorges, flat-topped mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At l... ...river whose source, she was told, was in the glaciers of the mighty Himalayas, their snow-capped peaks rising majestically in the distance. ‘You wi... ... and I will have to comply to avoid further delay. You lads ride on. Follow the city walls to the North Gate, where I will meet you after making sur... ...ean than Indian in architecture.’ John MacGregor pointed with his riding whip to one of the high peaks towering above the city, on which stood the ...

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...An insightful journey into the power of a positive attitude, Amos asserts that it’s not one’s circumstances that determine happiness, but rather how those circumstances are viewed. This book emphasizes the impact of everyday choices, while stressing the importan...

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... for Inner Strength Lifo Other Books by Wally Amos Published by Blue mountain Arts® Be Positive! Be Positive! Insights on How to Live an Inspi... ...tive! Insights on How to Live an Inspiring and Joy-Filled Life The Power of Self-Esteem: How to Discover and Fulfill Your Life Dreams with Stu Gla... ...with Stu Glauberman Lifo 10 Secret Ingredients for Inner Strength Blue Mountain Prelili® Boulder, Colorado Copyright © 2006 by Wally Amos. Cop... ...pyright © 1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or tran... ...d by whom you want to be loved. I've met people who keep a mental laundry list of the qualities they expect from the person they want to fall in lov... ...talking about falling in love with someone who doesn't match your laundry list of suitors. The love I'm describing is blind because it does not dis... ...ster boy for the affliction known as an Inferiority Complex. I arrived up north from Tallahassee, Florida, as a twelve-year-old thinking I was a no... ... the day after Christmas in 2004, a powerful earthquake in Sumatra at the northern tip of Indonesia triggered a killer tidal wave that tore across t... ...rence. Life is an adventure. If you choose to, you can scale the highest peaks, jump out of airplanes, and spelunk or scuba dive to the depths of e...

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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....

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ...for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached ... ... parting, and we’ll never see some of the bunch again!” “Carol, you got to listen to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you ... ...ere on their way to Gopher Prairie after a wedding journey in the Colorado mountains. The hordes of the way-train were not altogether new to Carol. Sh... ...ey had lain side by side in a tent pitched among pines high up on a lonely mountain spur. His hand swallowed hers as he started from thoughts of the p... ...o how many of them the Thanatopsis and the Jolly Seventeen were icy social peaks; how many of them might be toiling through boredom thicker than her o...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ... with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. The building seems very airily situated. It has the appearance of being on a shelf half-way up the ... ...er and drawing-room. They are like long, narrow, high-ceiled bird-cages hung against the building. My room was a corner room, and had two of these thi... ... this one gives. The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable... ...ld, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woo... ...or. Well, one Sunday morning 13 A Tramp Abroad I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hill... ...an on the railing and watch the schools of fishes darting about in the clear water, or gaze out over the lake at the stately border of snow-hooded mou... ... The great cloud-barred disk of the sun stood just above a limitless expanse of tossing white-caps—so to speak—a billowy chaos of massy moun- tain dom...

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Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

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...nrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...eets of Sulaco, calling on the widow of the cargador, attending the Lodge, listen- ing in unmoved silence to anarchist speeches at the meeting, the en... ...mi-circular and unroofed temple open to the ocean, with its walls of lofty mountains hung with the mourning draperies of cloud. On one side of this br... ...e towering and serrated wall of the Cordillera, a clear-cut vision of dark peaks rearing their steep slopes on a lofty pedestal of for- est rising fro... ...of snow. Then, as the midday sun withdraws from the gulf the shadow of the mountains, the clouds begin to roll out of the lower valleys. They swathe i... ...re tatters the naked crags of precipices above the wooded slopes, hide the peaks, smoke in stormy trails across the snows of Higuerota. The Cordillera... ...mself that they cared nothing for the wrongs of down-trodden nations. They listened to his tales of war readily, but seemed to ask themselves what he ... ...romo She had watched her carriage roll away with the three guests from the north. She smiled. Their three arms went up simultaneously to their three h...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...nd flushed under his matted hair, gesticulating to his gaping, incredulous listener, gripping his wrist to keep him attentive, was the most marvellous... ...ions of intellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 191... ... gas mantle—cer- tainly is; actinium. I feel that we are but beginning the list. And we know now that the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetr... ...rilliance with the motor bicycles, aeroplanes, and ski-men among the Swiss mountains, and a sudden swoop upon Vienna; the thing was to listen—and wait... ... a great crimson flare leap responsive to each im- 79 H G Wells pact, and mountainous masses of red-lit steam and flying fragments clamber up towards... ...itadel of porcelain, that gothic pile, the Lio Porgyul, walls, towers, and peaks, a clear twelve thousand feet of veined and splintered rock above the... ...tered rock above the river. And beyond it and east- ward and westward rise peaks behind peaks, against the dark blue Himalayan sky. Far away below to ...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...s all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. Perhaps it is proof of the stunted condition in which pure Science,... ...istory, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by un- k... ...her silent and smoked; while the visitor had liberty either to say what he listed, receiving for answer an occasional grunt; or to look round for a sp... ...Chancery suitors; but rather the gravity as of some silent, high-encircled mountain-pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black d... ...lded mantles, based on light sandals; tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell-girdles; swell out in starched ruffs, buck- ram st... ...into relation with the Nifl and Muspel (Darkness and Light) of the antique North, it may be enough to say, that its cor- rectness of deduction, and de... ...idents of walking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic- arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an...

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...ourney in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...KIDNAPPED Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevens... ...s Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...timate vocation. Having added one of the titles, The Hanging Judge, to the list of projected plays, now thrown aside, and emboldened by my husband’s o... ...ry long, serious upper lip, and the sun now shining in upon us between two peaks, put his pocket-handkerchief over his cocked hat to shelter him. Ther... ...the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all that, and before the sun bega... ...oor, and set forth upon our walk. The wind, being in that cold quarter the north-west, blew nearly in our faces as we went. It was the month of June; ... ...ear the song of the sailors as they pulled upon the ropes. After all I had listened to upon the way, I looked at that ship with an extreme abhorrence;... ...s very pleasant; sailing, as we were, in a bright sun- shine and with many mountainous islands upon different sides. Alan and I sat in the round-house... ... Ardshiel had to flee like a poor 73 Robert Louis Stevenson deer upon the mountains — he and his lady and his bairns. A sair job we had of it before ...

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... Classics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...akes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the distant Southern mountain range, which lie stretched to a faint cloud- like line, in shape l... ...ckening and swelling upward, en- wrap the scored bodies of the ashen-faced peaks and the pas- tures of the green mountain, till the heights become isl... ...the scored bodies of the ashen-faced peaks and the pas- tures of the green mountain, till the heights become islands over a forgotten earth. Bells of ... ...nte Boscero is un- veiled; the semicircle of the Piedmontese and the Swiss peaks, covering Lake Orta, behind, on along the Ticinese and the Grisons, l... ...Old legs must be the pupils of young ones mark that piece of humility, and listen with respectfulness to an old head by-and-by.” It was the autumn ant... ...e, I cannot predict the movements of the king. Will the wind blow from the north to-morrow, think you?” The mountaineer sent a quick gaze up the air, ... ...ng of the buttoned coat across his chest, the air as of one who waited and listened, which distinguished his figure, detracted from the promise of oth...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...a matter of many weeks now—diversified indeed by some long drives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purpl... ...ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire blue, and cloud-like baseless mountains hanging in the sky, and I think of lank and coaly steamships heav... ...always successful manner in the unoccupied gardens. The three houses faced north, and the back of the one we occupied was covered by a 16 The New Mac... ...ued so that at times he produced an effect of weird world-forgetfulness. I listened puzzled, and at that time not upderstanding many things that after... ...rom London,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London, twelve miles to the north-west, was making itself felt more and more. But this was only the beg... ...to do any fine writing,” said Shoesmith. “What you’ve got to do is just to list all the chaps and put a note to their play:—’Naylor minor must pass mo... ...a- cier. All about us the monstrous rock surfaces rose towards the shining peaks above, and there were winding moraines from which the ice had receded...

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...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e loading gnus for him while he knocks over the foremost carabineer on the mountain-ledge below, who drops on his back with a hellish expression. Brow... ...ed in the stables when a boy. Honour to Murat, of course, for climbing the peaks! Shalders, too, might interest him in mili- tary affairs and Murat; h... ...oping over hedges and ditches to swell Napoleon’s ranks in distress. Matey listened to him there; he became grave; he nodded like a man saying, “I sup... ... what he was fit for, Matey gave no offence by choosing, half-way down the list, his little French friend, whom he stationed beside himself, rather of... ...e of information, the answer became important. Ici was twenty miles to the north- west of London. How long would it take Matey to reach Donvres? Or at... ...will lead an unsatisfied heart of a woman, by way of sleep, to scale black mountains, jump jagged chasms. Sleep is a horse that laughs at precipices a... ...n to stand the loss of two big battles on the Sussex weald or more East to North-east, if fortune willed it. He rose from his chair, paced some steps,...

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...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the wood; to the last it seemed still but a little way beyond the distant mountains. For this reason this story has been called The Research Magnific... ...think he’ d kill a schoolboy for honest doubt. Even old Roddles—” “I can’t listen to you,” cried Latham the humourist, “I can’t listen to you. It’s—ho... ...hen he had picked up his strength, his father was to join him and take him mountain- eering, that second-rate mountaineering which is so dear to dons ... ...ay to the west of us, and the endless grey-blue flats of the Thames to the north. The sun was low behind a bank of cloud. I was watching a motor-car, ... ...nd unsubstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itsel... ... heavy with the reek of the crushed flowers. For some time Benham remained listening to and peering at these preoccupied gluttons. At last he shrugged... ...a and his struggle with the Bisse; the two went to Zermatt and did several peaks and crossed the Theodule, and it was clear that their joint expeditio...

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...Excerpt: As little recked Fitzjocelyn of the murmurs which he had provoked, as he guessed the true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribing much to her nephe...

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...liaction Dynevor Terrace Volume II by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...isfied. She says the subject has never been broached since the flight from Northwold, and that Lady Conway’s kindness never varies; and she told me sh... ...eech rewarded Louis for the conflict by which he had kept himself still to listen to the beginning. Lord Ormersfield had pity on him, and went in sear... ...o be blamed! He and my aunt were always trying to stop me, but I would not listen to their scruples. I knew his happiness depended on his success, and... ... lection which would lead to repining. And when at Cape Horn, a mighty ice mountain drifted within view, spired, pinnacled, encrusted with whiteness, ... ...to hollows of sapphire blue, too deeply dazzling to behold, or rising into peaks of clear, hard, chill green; the wild fantastic points sometimes glim... ...ions, snowy, white-winged albatross, leaping flying-fish, and white-capped mountain-coast, had been joined in her mind with some- thing higher, deeper... ...eel anything but admiring astonishment at the fan- tastic craggy height of peaks and spires, rising against the darkening sky, like the very stronghol...

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...e 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 kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the p...

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...ris A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t came to be an understood thing between them. They were “pals.” McTeague, listening, heard Marcus go up-stairs to his room above. In a few minutes hi... ...biased by personal interests,” “eyes blinded by party prejudice.” McTeague listened to him, awestruck. “There’s where the evil lies,” Marcus would cry... ...say?” Mrs. Sieppe laughed immoder- ately, her huge fat body shaking like a mountain of jelly. She exclaimed from time to time, “Ach, Gott, dot fool!” ... ... dressed in Tyrolese costume; they were yodlers, and sang in German about “mountain tops” and “bold hunters” and the like. The yodling chorus was a ma... ...every side, heaving their gigantic crests far up into the night, the black peaks crowding together, and looking now less like beasts than like a compa... ...th a gang of tramps who attempted to ride the brake beams, and once in the northern part of Inyo County, while they were halted at a water tank, an im... ...en system of arroyos, and little can- yons tumbled down to meet it. To the north faint blue hills shouldered themselves above the horizon. “Well,” obs...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e case, and discreetly, over-discreetly; and pictures the trial, tells the list of witnesses, records the verdict: so the case went, and some thought ... ...or chatter was disregarded. It was visible that the hero of the night hung listening and in expectation. He and the Beauty were named to one another, ... ...etic. Yet Lady Dunstane herself could name the bank of smoke, when looking North-eastward from her summerhouse, the flag of London: and she was a pers... ...lve hundred acres, ex- tending across the ridge of the hills to the slopes North and South. Seven counties rolled their backs under this command- ing ... ...eenly comrade, 65 George Meredith and a spirit leaping and shining like a mountain water. She did not seduce, she ravished. The judgement was taken c... ...ve to endure. They are really trifles, and I should once have thought them mountains!’ 114 Diana of the Crossways For the moment Diana stipulated tha... ... of waters below for a home scene, 137 George Meredith the southern Swiss peaks, with celestial Monta Rosa, in pros- pect. It was there that Diana re...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to 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...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ...e boy’s sharp, stormy gusts of passion, and his mother’s steady refusal to listen to his ‘I will be good’ until she saw that he was really sorry for t... ... his last examination for the Newcastle, in the spring of 1845. Before the list was given out he had written to his father that the Divinity papers we... ...at first sight. After the wonders of Vienna and the mines of Salzburg, the mountain scenery of the Tyrol was an unspeakable plea- sure, which tries to... ...o dense that I could scarcely see 30 feet before me, and the crevasses and mountains of snow loom- ing close round us looked awful. At this moment the... ...Espiritu Santo. A grand mountainous chain runs along the whole island, the peaks we estimate at 4,000 feet high. This alone is a fine sight—luxuriant ... .... This alone is a fine sight—luxuriant vegetation to nearly the top of the peaks, clouds resting upon the summit of the range, from the evaporation ca...

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...iver, command this rich valley, which is framed in the far distance by the mountains of a lesser Switzerland, called the Morvan. These forests belong ... ...a around Paris in advance of the days when a tem- pest shall blow from the north and overturn our plaster pal- aces and our pasteboard decorations. No... ...of this cottage. In the first place, the door and the window looked to the north. The house, placed on a little rise in the stoniest angle of a vine- ... ...arts of the valley of Les Aigues, as in all places protected by a chain of mountains, in Piedmont and in Lombardy for instance, there are spots where ... ...her-in-law. “If you will give me a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and some list braces, so as not to disgrace Vermichel on the mu- sic stand at Tivoli... ...owever, and their guests, hungry as hounds after ascending the surrounding peaks, very gladly pay three and four francs a bottle for it. In the homes ... ...ges of France cannot be reached. They make it a law unto themselves not to listen to us; whereas the church does get some hold on the savages of Ameri...

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...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of control. The Hooman...

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...magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or tr... ...ical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publis... ...oryteller W ith the rising of the second crescent moon over the Kraggy Mountains, the Bloons realised that it was almost time for the Story to be... ... eyes. They seemed to protrude so far from their sockets that each of his listeners felt he was looking directly at them. A hush fell as his eyes tu... ...have told you the Story, and for ten thousand nights you have gathered to listen. Once, the looks on your faces inspired me to carry on living, as e... ...cumstance with the odds heavily stacked against those who live far to the North. They invent all kinds of long words to describe things they don’t u... ... far, far older than any- one he had seen before. It was like looking at a mountain. Indeed, the Storyteller sat so still that he could have been mist... ..., has short, brown hair, blue eyes and was last seen in a taxi heading to north London.’ The teenager surfaced from counting his friends on his Fone ... ...now but also with the aromatic hint of wood smoke. Glacier-white mountain peaks rose on either side of the valley and pierced a perfectly blue sky. ...

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...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies, the hall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer,...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Master of... ...bert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of... ...y all accounts that Mr. Henry was more made up to from that hour. Altogether it was in pretty ill blood with his family that the Master rode to the No... ...ad that grievous weakness, a long tongue; and as the only man in that country who had been out – or, rather, who had come in again – he was sure of li... ...mediable distress. Chew, who took a great pride in his knowledge, had indeed often lectured us on the geog- raphy; and Ballantrae, I believe, would li... ...n myself. He knew we must continue to go up one stream; then, by way of a portage, down another; and then up a third. But you are to consider, in a mo... ...ssible even to have a guess in what direction we were moving. A little before sundown, in an open place with a stream, and set about with barbarous mo... ...ITUATION OF THE MASTER’S grave was, between guides, easily described; it lay, indeed, beside a chief landmark of the wilderness, a certain range of pe... .... Before us was the high range of mountains toward which we had been all day deviously drawing near. From the first light of the dawn, their silver pe...