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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ..., as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Mid... ...a dying person, determined the celebrated tragic author Werner to become a Catholic. Almost the same effect was produced upon the dreamer when he look... ...ity of life, he dreamed awake, he saw with his eyes the fantastic world of romances he had read in his idle hours. Any Parisian leaving, as he did, th... ... might have seemed haughty; she was certainly imposing. “It is the will of Providence rather than mere chance that has brought us here together, monsi... ...is voice, and strives to make him- self a docile instrument in the hand of Providence? He has no longer vanity or self-love,—nothing of all that which... ... in its entirety. He grew impatient to enter the inner lives of these pure Catholics. In that small company of faithful souls, the majesty of practica... ...itors came in: a vicar-gen- 40 The Brotherhood of Consolation eral of the diocese of Paris, two canons, two former mayors of Paris, and one of the la...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who h...

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...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ... his first wife’s grave. Yes, you may smile, Maurice, as if I were talking romance; but only look at him, poor man! Did you ever see any one so utterl... ...is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be, as a sort of interesting romance. I am sure I pity the poor man heartily, but to see her at three-an... ...if she had known how to set about it. ‘I suppose Miss Belmarche is a Roman Catholic,’ she said, wishing to account for this wonderful ignorance, and a... ...in the town at Lauriston.’ Mr. Dusautoy, having a year ago come out of the diocese where had been Albinia’s home, they had many common friends, and pl... ...er pined away and died of grief. My daughter and granddaugh- ter go to the Catholic burying-ground at Hadminster on her fete day, to dress her grave w... ...hat did the esquire do with the good ladies?’ ‘He took them as a gift from Providence, he raised a sub- scription among his friends, and they were lod... ...lion, and never yet was too tired to sleep; but it is rather a tempting of Providence to keep 3589 people and fourteen services in a week resting upon...

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... a perilous infidel, A wolf for the meek lambs—if you can’t swim Beware of Providence.’ I looked on him, But the gay smile had faded in his eye. ‘ And... ...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... ... _55 To witness that I speak the sober truth;— And whose most favouring Providence was shown Even in the manner of their deaths. For Rocco Was knee... ...er they thought of hawks, and cats, and geese, By pastoral letters to each diocese. 74. 74. 74. 74. 74. The king would dress an ape up in his crown An...

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