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...hapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch ...

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...sics Series Publication The Invisible Man 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire. Communication with the world beyond the village he had none. His temper continued very uncertain; ... ...ood,” he said, as if sobbing for breath. It was the strangest thing in the world to hear that voice coming as if out of empty space, but the Sussex pe... ...PTER XVI IN IN IN IN IN THE “JOLL THE “JOLL THE “JOLL THE “JOLL THE “JOLLY CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” Y CRICKETERS” THE “JO... ...p the town at night. “Looks like a crowd down the hill,” he said, “by ‘The Cricketers,’” and remained watch- ing. Thence his eyes wandered over the to... ...equently that they had bolted the front door. The old lady peered into the cup- board and under the bed, and one of the young men pushed up the regist... ... the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last t... ...ee sovereigns and about thirty shillings’ worth of silver, and in a locked cup- board I burst in the inner room were eight pounds in gold. I could go ...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...ew the best-bottled temper right or left, go where you will one end o’ the world to the other, by God! And here ‘s a scoundrel stinks of villany, and ... ... she knew, and more than could be expected of a lone widow woman. ‘Not for worlds!’ she answered my peti- tion to accompany her. She would not, she sa... ...parture. John stood like a soldier. We drove away from a cheering crowd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal ... ...ppenger. The fact is, I hear from little Roy that you are fond of tales of Indian adventure, and I gave him a book for you to read, if you like it. Mr... ... fact that I had escaped from school. We loitered half the morning round a cricketers’ booth in a field, where there was moderately good cricketing. T... ...ce. I knew her without need of pause or retrospect. The crocus raising its cup pointed as when it pierced the earth, and the crocus stretched out on e... ...er the busy little workmen setting up the fabric of my wits. A lighted oil-cup stood on a tripod in the middle of a tent- roof, and over it the crease...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...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... ... grenouilles. —Mme. Emile. De Giradin ‘RICHARD? THAT’S RIGHT! Here’s a tea-cup waiting for you,’ as the almost thirty-year-old Incumbent of Cocksmoor,... ... leisure to read the county newspaper, while she continually filled up her cup with tea or milk as occasion served, indifferent to the increasing pall... ...on, was, though perfectly lady like, always re- garded by the Stoneborough world as something on the borders of presumption on the part of the entire ... ...w he won’t let me go back to Leonard.’ ‘But, Averil, the best nurse in the world can’t hold out for ever. People must sleep, and make themselves fit t... ...that never has come. At last, in the height of that pestilential season in India, came a let- ter, warning me that my brother’s widow had got the mas-... ... at Coombe. The sisters soon followed, and were detained to drink tea. The cricketers’ mirth must have been fast and furious if it exceeded that at ho... ...ector and Harry were found deep in an argu- ment in which the lieutenant’s Indian reminiscences of the Naval Brigade were at issue with the captain’s ...

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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 ... ... generosity grew up almost spontaneously to- wards one another and all the world. On this disposition was grafted that which was the one leading chara... ...ather, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be One in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.’ And here again we find one of th... ...ollege: ‘He was by common consent one of the best, if not the best, of the cricketers of the school. The second year of his appearance at Lord’s Crick... ...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ...perienced this sorrow of heart Himself, filling up the full measure of His cup of bitterness. So I don’t learn that I ought exactly to wish it to be o... ... sympathise as I ought with those who are suffering so dreadfully from the Indian Mutiny, or the commercial failure, or the great excitement and agita... ...onary Bishop. Bless their hearts! if they could see me sipping a delicious cup of coffee, with some delightful book by my side, and some of my lads si...

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...their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of livin...

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...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...III THE DAUGHTERS OF THE SHEARS THREE DAUGHTERS and a son were left to the world by Mr. Melchisedec. Love, well endowed, had already claimed to provid... ...ir new position, and their husbands, and their husbands’ families, and the world, and what it would say, if to it the dreaded rumour should penetrate!... ...ir former comradeship; tickled by a recollection of his old schoolfellow’s India-rubber mind. Mr. Raikes stood about a head under him. He had extremel... ...olmate to the winds, in the pres- 108 Evan Harrington ence of these young cricketers; for he had a prognostication. The door was open, and the compan... ... was demanded. Mr. Raikes addressed the meeting. The three young gentlemen-cricketers had hitherto behaved with a certain propriety. It did not offend... ...and hypocrisy. For the sake of him she loved, she had swallowed a nauseous cup bravely. The Countess was too much for her. She felt sick to think of b...