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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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...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... .............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ... broken coach-panels, and owe his life to furious driv- ing. The Gardes-du-Corps (Body-Guards), which you were draw- ing out, had better be drawn in a... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar... ...Guard do duty at the Chateau? Had they not Swiss; Hundred Swiss; Gardes-du-Corps, Bodyguards so-called? Nay, it would seem, the number of Bodyguards o...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made...

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...AND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP T...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...e Three NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure... ... NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the... ...ers had died about eleven in the forenoon, in violent convulsions; and the corpse presented in a few minutes after death one of the most horrid and lo... ...me on with great fury, and the design was aban- doned for the present. The corpse, left to itself, was washed into the larboard scuppers, where it sti... ...er as far as we could on the ladder, and giving a pull against it with our united strength, succeeded in breaking it down. The third attempt was equal... ...ter, or that the eating of some unknown venomous species of fish, or other marine animal, or oceanic bird, might have induced it—but it is utterly use... ...igator, and this, too, without encountering extraordinary difficulties. He states that although he was fre- quently hemmed in by ice before reaching t...