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...DAY, 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... ...e 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 ... ...st when the father died, corroded with alcohol, collapsing in a few hours. Two or three years later a travelling dentist visited the mine and put up h... ...im the branch post-office was opening its doors, as was its custom between two and three o’clock on Sun- day afternoons. An acrid odor of ink rose upw... ...ssion of the sidewalks, then suddenly disappeared, leav- ing behind one or two stragglers who hurried along with great strides of their little thin le... ...cheap enough to compete with the turning lathe, that could throw off whole tribes and peoples of manikins while she was fashioning one family. Everyth...

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Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.

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...The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fi... ...lassics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable D... ...c transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...Early Short Fiction – Part 2 The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Part Two AFTERWAR January 1910 I “Oh, there is one, of course, but you’ll never... ...and other vulgar necessities—were exactly those pleading in its favor with two romantic Americans per- versely in search of the economic drawbacks whi... ...after a difficult and dangerous expedition through a region in- habited by tribes still in the Stone Age of culture.’” The ladies received this commun...

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... 35 -- 34: Why didst thou promise such a beautious day, 36 -- 35: No more bee greeu?d at that which thou hast done, 37 -- 36: Let me confesse that we two must be twaine, 38 -- 37: As a decrepit father takes delight, 39 -- 38: How can my Muse want subiect to inuent, 40 -- 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I singe, 41 -- 40: Take all my loues, my loue, yea take them all,...

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...t which thou hast done . . . . . . . . . . 38 36: Let me confesse that we two must be twaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 37: As a decrepit father t... ...substance of my flesh were thought . . . . . . . . . . . 47 45: The other two, slight ayre, and purging fire . . . . . . . . . . . 48 46: Mine eye a... ... Loe as a carefull huswife runnes to catch . . . . . . . . . . . 146 144: Two loues I haue of comfort and dispaire . . . . . . . . . . . 147 145: Th... ...hat which thou hast done Shakespeare: Sonnets 36: Let me confesse that we two must be twaine Let me confesse that we two must be twaine, Although ou... ...that do with me remaine, Without thy helpe, by me be borne alone. In our two loues there is but one respect, Though in our liues a seperable spight... ...im Ile liue in this poore rime, While he insults ore dull and speachlesse tribes. And thou in this shalt finde thy monument, When tyrants crests an...

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...Bleak House by Charles Dickens Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House, Volum... ...o A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dicken... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by Charles Dicken... ...tate University is an equal opportunity University. Bleak House – Volume Two 3 CHAPTER XXXV Esther’s Narrative I lay ill through several weeks, and ... ...d up to the sky’, I think!” and labouring on again. Bleak House – Volume Two 4 Dare I hint at that worse time when, strung together some where in g... ...icking plaster patches on to terrify commoners as the chiefs of some other tribes put on their war paint. There was a Sir Somebody Dedlock, with a bat...

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...rst Conspirator)(Second Conspirator)(Third Conspirator) A Citizen of Antium. Two Volscian Guards. VOLUMNIA: mother to Coriolanus. VIRGILIA: wife to ... ...room in Marcius’ house. [Enter VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA: they set them down on two low stools, and sew .] VOLUMNIA: I pray you, daughter, sing; or expr... ... help our fielded friends! Come, blow thy blast. [They sound a parley. Enter two Senators with others on the walls .] Tutus Aufidius, is he within you... ...mp of the Volsces. [A flourish. Cornets. Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, bloody, with two or three Soldiers .] AUFIDIUS: The town is ta’en! First Soldier : ‘... ... [Exeunt.] ACT II SCENE I: Rome. A public place. [Enter MENENIUS with the two Tribunes of the people, SICINIUS and BRUTUS .] MENENIUS: The augurer... ... I have; ’tis ready. SICINIUS: Have you collected them by tribes? AEdile: I have. SICINIUS: Asse... ...rs .] First Senator : Behold our patroness, the life of Rome! Call all your tribes together, praise the gods, And make triumphant fires; strew flower...

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...y young days. I have no doubt of that because there could hardly have been two exploits of that peculiar kind in the same part of the world and both c... ... Conti- nent of Latin America, famed for its hospitality, lasted for about two years. On my return I found (speaking somewhat in the style of Captain ... ... which there is no escape in this world. About Nostromo, the second of the two racially and socially contrasted men, both captured by the silver of th... ...r on my first love. How we, a band of tallish schoolboys, the chums of her two brothers, how we used to look up to that girl just out of the school- r... ...e had perished in the search. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for ce... ...laves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones. Whole tribes of In- dians had perished in the exploitation; and then the mine was... ...in the wildest parts of the Republic, wandering with almost unknown Indian tribes in the great forests of the far interior where the great rivers have...

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... unromantic appeared this sleeping-porch, which looked on one sizable elm, two respectable grass-plots, a cement driveway, and a corrugated iron garag... ... and slicking back his hair. It gave him a tremendous forehead, arching up two inches beyond the former hair-line. But most wonder-work- ing of all wa... ...h- chain were a gold penknife, silver cigar-cutter, seven keys (the use of two of which he had forgotten), and inciden- tally a good watch. Depending ... ...sters’ Club button. With the conciseness of great art the button displayed two words: “Boosters-Pep!” It made Babbitt feel loyal and important. It ass... ... tacks?” He marched upon them: Verona, a dumpy brown-haired girl of twenty-two, just out of Bryn Mawr, given to solici- tudes about duty and sex and G... ...nd he be- lieved that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that mome...

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... eye the landscape; possibly also to get their breath. They were Italians. Two were fair- haired muscular men, bronzed by the sun and roughly bearded,... ...to predict the king’s movements save by such weighty indications.” He laid two fingers hard against the rib which shields the heart. It had become app... ... Ammiani, and do me the favour to attend to these trifles for the space of two minutes,” said Corte. “Have you seen Barto Rizzo? Is he acting for Medo... ...crip. I wrong our Barto:—Medole would be the jackal, if it lay between the two.” Carlo Ammiani had corrected Corte’s manner to him by a complacent rea... ...emona, and Venice had spoken upon all points through their emissaries, the two latter cities being represented by Sana and Corte. “We’ve had enough of... ...ne. Hannibal is the historic example of what a General can accomplish with tribes who are thus, enrolled in a new citizenship; and (as far as we know ...

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...erlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. 11 And the wings ... ...ine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon. 15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on th... ...id compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. 4 It stood upon twelve oxen, ... ... that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of th... ...o pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters ... ...d. 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem,... ...ght forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; nei th... ...ls, and for the calves which he had made. 16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel ca... ...en years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had cho sen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah a...

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...mplest inflections of the voice. Philologists have said that there are but two or three lan- guages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes ... ...re but two or three lan- guages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United Sta... ...lects. The writer re- members to have been present at an interview between two chiefs of the Great Prairies west of the Mississippi, and when an inter... ... each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and i... ...tled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and ... ...Lenope, Delawares, W apanachki, and Mohicans, all mean the same people, or tribes of the same stock. The Mengwe, the Maquas, the Mingoes, and the Iroq... ...the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover. The two united to rob the untutored possessors of its wooded scenery of their n... ...inforcement. It has already been mentioned that the distance between these two posts was less than five leagues. The rude path, which originally forme... ...so that the distance which had been trav- eled by the son of the forest in two hours, might easily be effected by a detachment of troops, with their n...

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...ertain. In fact, we have very little information on the subject. There are two “lives” of Apollonius in the Scholia, both derived from an earlier one ... ...ry. Suidas also informs us elsewhere that Aristophanes at the age of sixty two succeeded Apollonius in this office. Many modern scholars deny the “bib... ...rs old. Eratosthenes died 196 193 B.C. This would make Apollonius seventy two to seventy five when he succeeded Eratosthenes. This is not impossible... ...of Amphrysus Eupolemeia bare, the daughter of Myr midon, from Phthia; the two others were sprung from Antianeira, daughter of Menetes. (ll. 57 64) F... ...mphidamas and Cepheus, who inhabited T egea and the allotment of Apheidas, two sons of Aldus; and Ancaeus followed them as the third, whom his father ... ...Philyres: and above the Philyres are the Macrones, and after them the vast tribes of the Becheiri. And next in order to them dwell the Sapeires, and t... ... Phrygians also, who inhabit the lands next to us, and he made his own the tribes of the Bithynians and their land, as far as the mouth of Rhebas and ... ...rus, where, as the tale goes, the Nysean son of Zeus, when he had left the tribes of the Indians and came to dwell at Thebes, held revels and arrayed ... ...red to gether in one city, but scattered over the land, parted into three tribes. In one part dwelt the Themiscyreians, over whom at that time Hippol...

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... a ledge above the house parted the avalanche so that it was diverted into two paths and swept past the house on either side. Mr. and Mrs. Willey, the... ...st the house on either side. Mr. and Mrs. Willey, their five children, and two hired men were crushed under the weight of earth, rocks, and trees. In ... ...they spoke of. By the roadside there chanced to be an old beggar woman and two little beggar children, stragglers from some far off re gion, who, as ... ...y. Ernest saw him. There he was, over the shoulders of the crowd, from the two glit tering epaulets and embroidered collar upward, beneath the 14 Th... ...tatesman and the Great Stone Face, smiling familiarly at one another, like two brothers. If the pictures were to be trusted, the mutual resemblance, i... ...ure than the biographer of the Indian chiefs. His subject, as referring to tribes which have mostly vanished from the earth, gives him a right to be p...

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.............................................................. 84 SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819. ............................................ ............................................ 104 FRAGMENT: ‘A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG’. ........................................................... ..................................................................... 142 THE TWO SPIRITS: AN ALLEGORY. .................................................... ...235 Index of First Lines...................................243 12 V olume Two THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDI... ...membrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile. 14 V olume Two T T T T TO HAR... ...lley’s note. 149 Shelley Like Chaos o’er creation, uncreating; An hundred tribes nourished on strange religions And lawless slaveries,—down the aerea...

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...ley, the Rev. E. Codrington, and Captain Tilly, for their valuable aid—the two first men- tioned by correction and revision, the others by contribu- t... ... Sophia Coleridge, a year older than, and one brother, James Henry, nearly two years younger than Coleridge, made up the family. Three years later, in... ...ge, a solicitor, whose three boys were near contempo- raries of Coley, and two of them already in the school. From first to last his letters to his pa... ...on the exact number of fibs he had told. He did not think it was more than two or three at the utmost: and when I brought him to book, I had much to d... ...tle brother, who soon joined him at Ottery. Indeed, the love between these two brothers was so deep, quiet, and fervid, that it is hard to dwell on it... ...fs. Unfortunately the place where we landed was neutral ground between two tribes, who both brought yams to the place to sell. One party said another ... ...as still entertained; but he had not much hope of this being useful to the tribes, though it might be to the individuals, and none of them ever were s...

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...nslated by Ellen Marriage NOTE A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is part two of a trilogy. Part one, T wo Poets, begins the story of Lucien, his sis... ...ister Eve, and his friend David in the provincial town of Angouleme. Part two is centered on Lucien’s Parisian life. Part three, Eve and David, rever... ...vent in our inner history, and Mme. de Bargeton had been reflecting. About two o’clock that afternoon, Sixte du Chatelet made his appearance in the Ru... ...m staying with the Re- ceiver-General in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, two steps away from Mme. d’Espard’s. I am sufficiently ac- quainted with th... ...y far from the Rue de l’Echelle. “We shall be neighbors,” she told Lucien. Two hours afterwards Louise stepped into the hired car- riage sent by Chate... ... as if you beheld all the colors that glow in the plumage of the feathered tribes of India and America, instead of the sober European families. Those ... ...ect of the Solitary on domestic animals.— The Solitary explained to savage tribes, with the most bril- liant results.—The Solitary translated into Chi...

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...ation from an au- thentic source, although she suppressed the names of the two persons chiefly concerned. I will not avail myself of any par- ticulars... ...ved chimney- stalks. The wall of the park ran alongside of the highway for two or three hundred yards; and through the different points by which the e... ...oly, aspect. But nothing could blaze more brightly and cheerfully than the two large wax candles; or if aught could rival them, it was the flaming, bi... ...The warlike Border-land,” 19 Sir Walter Scott to render the habits of the tribes who inhabited it before the union of England and Scotland familiar t... ...rland, Westmoreland, or Northumberland could en- dure the sway of the huge two-handed sword which he wielded, and which few others could even lift. Th... ...n was scarce yet entitled by age and experi- ence to be entrusted with the two-handed sword, by the use of which he had himself been so dreadfully dis...

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...A C E Most of the adventures recorded in this book really oc curred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmat... ... new tricks, as the saying is. But my good ness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what’s coming? He ‘pears to know just... ... door he said: “Siddy, I’ll lick you for that.” In a safe place Tom examined two large needles which were thrust into the lapels of his jacket, and ha... ...e village. He knew the model boy very well though — and loathed him. Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because... ...ok out.” “Well, you said you’d do it — why don’t you do it?” “By jingo! for two cents I will do it.” The new boy took two broad coppers out of his p... ...to attack an English settlement. By and by they separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful war whoops,...

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...hip of Your devoted servant, De Balzac. 4 A Daughter of Eve CHAPTER I THE TWO MARIES IN ONE OF THE FINEST HOUSES of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at h... ...INEST HOUSES of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at half-past eleven at night, two young women were sitting before the fireplace of a boudoir hung with bl... ... might call it, of the rest of the room. On either side of a large window, two etageres dis- played a hundred precious trifles, flowers of mechanical ... ... gay and capricious disor- der of a happy home. At the present moment, the two young women were weeping. Pain seemed to predominate. The name of the o... ...d been making confidences such as are made only from sister to sister when two sisters love each other; and these two sisters did love each other tend... ...the corner of a garret on an earthenware stove, to that which convokes the tribes of pot-bellied chefs and saucemakers. She had lived on credit and no...

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...rred from the Spanish Embassy to that of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two elder children to join him at a Spanish port. This arrangement was so s... ...n on board his own vessel, being evidently afraid of his crew of more than two hundred Turks and Moors, but sent seven men on board the prize and took... ..., where, under the shade of a lime-tree, her little petticoated brother of two years old was asleep, cradled in the lap of a large, portly, handsome w... ... “if you 10 A Modern Telemachus will go with us to Sweden, you shall have two lackey’s suits, and a couple of louis d’or to cross your pocket with by... ... his flight from Waterford; and his wife had followed him, attended by her two faithful servants, Patrick Callaghan, and his wife Honor, carrying her ... ...—Southey. THE WHOLE NORTHERN COAST of Africa is inhabited by a med- ley of tribes, all owning a kind of subjection to the Sultan, but more in the sens...

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...dians of this region. There is a tradition which says that the neighboring tribes were accustomed to meet on the banks of the lake to make their treat... ...through a gorge in the low banks just mentioned, which may have a width of two hundred feet. This gorge was dammed and the waters of the lake collecte... ...s character and the deceased relative! It is scarcely possible to describe two females of the same class in life who would be less alike, personally, ... ...ns of streams, composed the country, which was then inhabited by less than two hundred thousand souls. Within the short period we have mentioned, the ... ... district we have described. The day had been fine for the season, and but two or three large clouds, whose color seemed brightened by the light refle... ...sleigh, the sleigh being shod with metal. Sleighs are also subdivided into two -horse and one-horse sleighs. Of the latter, there are the cutter, with... ...The Pioneers CHAPTER VII “From Sesquehanna’ s utmost springs, Where savage tribes pursue their game, His blanket tied with yellow strings, The shepher... ...cupied by two great nations of Indians, from whom had descended numberless tribes. But, as the original distinctions between these nations were marked... ...e, until after the power and inroads of the whites had reduced some of the tribes to a state of dependence that rendered not only their political, but...