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...WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Door in the Wall and other stories by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Door in the Wall and other stories by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Door in the Wall and other stories by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...ening and well being; there was something in the sight of it that made all its colour clean and perfect and subtly luminous. In the instant of coming ... ... towards me, a little curious as it seemed. It came right up to me, rubbed its soft round ear very gently against the small hand I held out and purred... ...s umbrella. ‘Poor little chap,’ said he; ‘and are you lost then?’—and me a London boy of five and more! And he must needs bring in a kindly young poli... ... the way to dinner with pretty women and distinguished men? I came down to London from Oxford, a man of bold promise that I have done something to red... ...it, but slept and fed in the little wooden shanty between the shed and the gates. 80 The Door in the Wall and other stories Holroyd delivered a theol...

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...mes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhaver to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil inces...

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... He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months a... ...occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to ... ... I heard, also, the sound of oars. Evidently the strange steamboat had lowered its boats. As the time went by I marvelled that I was still alive. I ha... ...cut the water there was a great foaming and gurgling, and I seemed directly in its path. I tried to cry out, but was too exhausted. The bow plunged do... ...plunge of a ship on the sea. The terrific gong was a frying pan, hanging on the wall, that rattled and clattered with each leap of the ship. The raspin... ...g toward the rigging, to which might have clung, and was met by the descending wall of water. What happened after that was very confusing. I was benea... ...hich is life destroyed), than you know what to do with. Have you ever seen the London dockers fighting like wild beasts for a chance to work?” He start... ...reciatory wave of his hand. “I don’t count. Go on, go on, I pray you.” But the gates of speech were closed, and we, too, rose from the table and laugh... ...purse and my soul have both been touched. At the current price of skins in the London market, and based on a fair estimate of what the afternoon’s cat...

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...Meat -- DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was...

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... -- III: The Hunger Cry, 16 -- Part II: Born of the Wild 24 -- I: The Battle of the Fangs, 24 -- II: The Lair, 32 -- III: The Gray Cub, 38 -- IV: The Wall of the World, 42 -- V: The Law of Meat, 50 -- Part III: The Gods of the Wild 55 -- I: The Makers of Fire, 55 -- II: The Bondage, 64 -- III: The Outcast, 70 -- IV: The Trail of the Gods, 74 -- V: The Covenant, 78 -- VI: T...

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...pyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents Part I: The Wild 1 I: The Trail of the Meat . . . . . ... ... Gray Cub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 IV: The Wall of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ... ...The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fa... ...he land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was ... ...ong behind. The sled was without runners. It was made of stout birch bark, and its full surface rested on the snow. The front end of the sled was turn... ...ry arose on the still air. It soared upward with a swift rush, till it reached its topmost note, where it persisted, palpitant and tense, and then slo... ...pened his mouth to speak, but changed his mind. Instead, he pointed toward the wall of darkness that pressed about them from every side. There was no ... ...med to him that the fort was besieged by wolves. They were howling at the very gates, and sometimes he and the Factor paused from the game to listen a... ... was trying to teach a spirited thoroughbred the method of opening and closing gates without the rider’s dismounting. Time and again and many times he...

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...Excerpt: ?But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this coun...

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... “To Build a Fire” And Other Stories By JACK LONDON 1899 1918 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2003 by Global Language R... ...pyright c 2003 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...UMP it in.” “But I say, Kid, is n’t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol ’s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and pepper sauc... ...randy and pepper sauce and” — “Dump it in. Who ’s making this punch, anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By ... ...teachers, All drink of the sassafras root; But you bet all the same, If it had its right name, To the Man on Trail 3 It ’s the juice of the forbidden... ...s, — “Oh the juice of the forbidden fruit; But you bet all the same, If it had its right name, It ’s the juice of the forbidden fruit.” Malemute Kid’s... ... was tired. She rested against his great breast like a slender flower against a wall, replying lazily to Malemute Kid’s good natured banter, and stirri... ...able for the terse simplicity of their humor. Prince always turned them to the wall before the arrival of ladies; but who could suspect that this na ... ...on. And he felt a great envy of the man who could go down serenely to the dark gates of death. Surely Christ, and not he, Sturges Owen, had been mould...

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...f the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining ...

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...Excerpt: Book First; Introduction -- Childhood and School-time -- OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messeng...

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...Excerpt: Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the falling...

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...tisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Part The First. Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for th...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis h...

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...Excerpt: For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--seemed to shatter themselves upon an adamantine surface into sparkling dust, into a dazzling vapor ...

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... with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted w...

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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDEN...

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...us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only....

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...ower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordinary track of tourists. Thither we must now accompany him, and endeavor to make our story flow onward, like a streamlet...

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... spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O---- (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy....

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagina...

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... the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the...

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...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by...

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... The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...f the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ...HAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CATHEDRAL TOWER? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massi... ...re in a sleep or 4 The Mystery of Edwin Drood stupor; the last is blowing at a kind of pipe, to kindle it. And as she blows, and shading it with her ... ...lied white robes, in a hurry, when he arrives among them, gets on his own robe, and falls into the procession filing in to service. Then, the Sacrista... ...ether in the echoing Close. Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia c... ...s mostly in shadow. Even when the sun shines brilliantly, it seldom touches the grand piano in the recess, or the folio music-books on the stand, or ... ... ‘It’s from Mr. Honeythunder, of course,’ said the old lady, folding her arms. ‘Of course,’ assented her son. He then lamely read on: ‘“Haven of Phila... ...two ends of any capacious old-fashioned chimneypiece, and by right should never have been seen apart, was the childless wife of a clergyman holding Co...

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