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...lways failed to note the perils of the passage through the shop; and while staring at the sheets of paper strung in groves across the ceiling, ran aga... ...ers; and before long David’s keen competitors, emboldened by his inaction, started a second local sheet of advertisements and announcements. The older... ... was worth; the old fox meant to reserve a right to interfere in his son’s affairs, and had taken care to appear in the bankruptcy as a privileged cre... ...a strong constitution, was by no means want- ing in the persistence of the Northern temper; and if he saw all the difficulties before him, none the le... ... Lucien a great lady to whom he paid his homage. Poetry had shaken out her starry robe above the workshop where the “monkeys” and “bears” were grotesq... ...one sig- nal advantage, for it can only be displayed in the conduct of the affairs of the great, and when discretion is the quality required, a man wh... ...a third. But in spite of this precaution, the whole town knew the state of affairs; and so extraordi- nary did it appear, that no one would believe th... ...ard-of rhymes. We are in quite another latitude, in fact; we have left the North for 86 Two Poets the East, but the darkness is just as thick as befo...

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...ble; and Countess Fanny (she had the name from the ballad ‘I am the star of Prince and Czar, My light is shed on many, But I wa... ...sung by the poor coachman and labourers at the village ale-house before he starts to capture his wife from the clutches of her seducer and meets his f... ...mbers were swelled by quite a host going along, for heavy bets were on the affair, dozens having backed Kirby; and it must have appeared serious to th... ...sson. Those men might as well not believe in the steadfastness of the very stars because one or two are reported lost out of the firmament, and now an... ...age We lived a happy domestic life in those old coaching days, when county affairs and county people were the topics of firesides, and the country enc... ...y in migratory broken lines, like wild birds shifting the order of flight, north and east, where the dawn sat in a web, but as yet had done no more th... ...is bachelor dinners. I suspect his twinges of gout come of the prospect of affairs when he lands in England. Remember our bill with Madame Clemence. T... ... right of Lekkatts. It was out of sight that the coach turned to the left, Northwestward. CHAPTER XV OPENING STAGE OF THE HONEYMOON A FAMOUS MAXIM in ... ...e’s safe.’ ‘Where?’ ‘Will you come, sir?’ ‘Step ahead.’ Madge set forth to north of the square. 197 George Meredith He judged of the well-favoured gi...

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...is to send you the money, to be used accord- ingly, if any one comes on to start the case, or to be re- tained by you if no one does. There is nothing... ...e Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fifth. Whether the people of that settlement, or a majority... ... Colonel Doniphan, too, the favorite Whig of Missouri, and who overran all Northern Mexico, on his return home in a public speech at St. Louis condemn... ...mit I do not certainly know what he would do on the Wilmot Proviso. I am a Northern man or rather a Western Free-State man, with a constituency I beli... ... Governor of Michigan terri- tory, and ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, from the 9th of October, 1813, till the 31st of July, 1831—a perio... ...ed for office rent, clerk hire, fuel, etc., in superintendence of In- dian affairs in Michigan, at the rate per year of $1500. (3) As compensation and... ...ve all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death. The like of that would never happen to General Cass. Pla... ...to 91 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two be best in their national affairs, but because he don’t want to tell what we ought to do, he is accus... ...stand he wants to live with me, so that he can go to school and get a fair start in the world, which I very much wish him to have. When I reach home, ...

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... ever, that they were declared to him in that marked man- ner in which the affair of the living had been broached. Lady Lufton was much too highly gif... ...o furnish his parsonage in the very best style of clerical comfort, and to start him on the road of life rejoicing. So much did Lady Lufton do for her... ... point to carry, she is very fond of carrying it. ’ ‘But, you see, in this affair of the school she is thinking more of her protege than she does of t... ...of a former curate, another protege of Lady Lufton’s; and there was a big, staring, brick house, in which the present curate lived; but this was a ful... ...e knife, was the alternative which he offered to a much-belaboured Head of Affairs—nothing doubting that the Head of Affairs would recognize the claim... ...fore you go, will you?’ the wife asked on the following morning. He was to start after lunch on that day, driving himself in his own gig, so as to rea... ...ways painful. There is a parish called Hogglestock lying away quite in the northern extremity of the eastern division of the county—lying also on the ... ...re for the due explanation of all these localities. Framley is also in the northern portion of the county, but just to the south of the grand trunk li... ...h is, however, in the western division of the county. Hogglesock is to the north of the railway, the 152 Framley Parsonage line of which, however, ru...

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........................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. 858—958........................................................ ...ople used to come over in boats across 9 Charlotte M. Yonge the North Sea and German Ocean. These people had their home in the country that... ...at last, they got all the country, and drove the Britons, some up into the North, some into the mountains that rise along the West of the is- land, an... ...d that is in our English, “Wise Men’s Meeting,” and there they settled the affairs of the kingdom. The king’s wife was not called queen, but lady; and... ...land as in England. Now, the English kings had never meddled with Scottish affairs before, and the Scots were furious at finding that he 41 ... ...ng. She came herself to the camp, just as the brave men of Calais had been starved out; and Edward had said he would only consent not to burn the town... ...yone. His father, King Edward, was now too old and feeble to attend to the affairs of the country. Queen Philippa was dead too, and as no one took pro... ...wice the number of the English—but, though Henry’s men were weary and half-starved, and many of them sick, they were not afraid, but believed their ki... ...fore the Council in a room at Westminster, that had a ceiling painted with stars—and so was called the Star Chamber—and there were sentenced, sometime...

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...nds of the valleyside to Bunker’s Hill, branching off there, and run- ning north to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Der... ...s it’s done,” replied the mother. “Isn’t it done?” he cried, his blue eyes staring at her in indignation. “Then I’m goin’ be-out it.” “You’ll do nothi... ...o leave the wakes. As she crossed the open ground in front of the Moon and Stars she heard men shouting, and smelled the beer, and hurried a little, t... ...n?” he asked. “No,” said the mother. “He’s helping to wait at the Moon and Stars. I seed him through that black tin stuff wi’ holes in, on the window,... ...de the family writhe with hate of the man. He was shut out from all family affairs. No one told him anything. The children, alone with their mother, t... ...e between was traced, violated by a great train rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkn... ...hey both looked up the road that ran in shadow right under the glow of the north-west sky. On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and ... ... her shame. That was because of him, Paul Morel. But, then, it was not his affair, it was her own, between herself and God. She was to be a sacrifice.... ...joke, that. Au revoir.” This was the end of the first phase of Paul’s love affair. He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin, ...

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...nning to cry, was Pip. “Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. “Keep sti... ... your name!” said the man. “Quick!” “Pip, sir.” “Once more,” said the man, staring at me. “Give it mouth!” “Pip. Pip, sir.” “Show us where you live,” ... ...okee here!” said the man. “Where’ s your mother?” “There, sir!” said I. He started, made a short run, and stopped and looked over his shoulder. “There... ... with the back of his head against the wall. Even after that crisis in our affairs, he got up and turned round and round confusedly a few times, not k... ... most impertinent manner, by wanting to know all about everybody’s private affairs) that he was the man with his white locks flowing, and that he was ... ...ght be that her meaning were – Make a end on it! – As you was! – Me to the North, and you to the South! – Keep in sunders!” I had thought of that too,... ...ngth and wearisomeness. What stung me, was the identification of the whole affair with my unoffending self. When Barnwell began to go wrong, I de- cla... ...n large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civili...

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...od deal ails me’—’Enough ails me.’ Then again, she would point them to the stars, and say, in her peculiar language, ‘Those are the same stars, and th... ...ies that his fellow-man had heaped upon him. Yes, he had died, chilled and starved, with none to speak a kindly word, or do a kindly deed for him, in ... ...eatened to separate her fa- ther and mother. A slave auction is a terrible affair to its victims, and its incidents and consequences are graven on the... ...and nothing doubting but he was sent in answer to her prayer; and she soon started off with him, walking while he rode; for he had bought her at the s... ...eal culprit, Solomon Gedney slipped into a boat, and was nearly across the North River, on whose banks they were standing, before the dull Dutch const... ...oofs irrefragable? The news- papers confirmed this account of the terrible affair. When Isabella had heard the letter, all being too much absorbed in ... ...nic, since dead. Leaving his brother, he proceeded on his mission over the Northern States, occasionally returning to Albany. After visiting Washingto... ...by a single dollar for a ‘rainy day. ’ When this had been the state of her affairs some time, she suddenly paused, and taking a retrospective view of ... ...icut. Land- ing at Bridgeport, she again resumed her travels to- wards the north-east, lecturing some, and working some, to get wherewith to pay tribu...

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...brimstone, and fill all the Plain; 350 A multitude, like which the populous North Pour’d never from her frozen loyns, to pass RHENE or the DANAW,... ...vel pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by suttle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and ASPHALTUS yeilde... ...Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, 745 On LEMNOS th’ AEGAEAN Ile: thus they relate, Erring; for he ... ...aw-built Cittadel, New rub’d with Baume, expatiate and confer Thir State affairs. So thick the aerie crowd 775 Swarm’d and were straitn’d; till t... ... Chief: As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the North wind sleeps, o’respread Heav’ns chearful face, the lowring Elemen... ...erce extreams, extreams by change more fierce, From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice 600 Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovab... ... saile Beyond the CAPE OF HOPE, and now are past 160 MOZAMBIC, off at Sea North-East windes blow SABEAN Odours from the spicie shoare Of ARABIE... ...ough Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit. If your joynt power prevaile, th’ affaires of Hell No detriment need feare, goe and be strong. So say...

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... shall hunt thee! Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest 9 to thy mother, burned beast of the jung... ...e Council Rock, too, when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so ... ... at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun. At other times he would pick the long thorns out of the pads... ...ast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laught... ...these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Se... ... tail tingles, that means there’s a gale in front of you and you must head north. Come along! The water feels bad here.” This was one of very many thi... ...the sea- weed, the seal roar, and the fighting. That very minute he turned north, swimming steadily, and as he went on he met scores of his mates, all... ...sick of rope and chain— I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar- cane: I wil...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving ...

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...ty university. 3 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe CHAPTER I – START IN LIFE I was born in the year 1632, in the city of Y ork, of a good... ...r mas- ter: so partly rowing and partly driving, our boat went away to the northward, sloping towards the shore almost as far as Winterton Ness. We we... ...e; our principal trading being upon the coast, from latitude of 15 degrees north even to the line itself. 16 Robinson Crusoe I was now set up for a G... ...his nose, that the slugs hit his leg about the knee and broke the bone. He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again;... ...m your own coun- try, if I should take from you what you have, you will be starved there, and then I only take away that life I have given. No, no,” s... ...bring you the produce of them, God willing, at my return; but, since human affairs are all subject to changes and disasters, I would have you give ord... ...d the like. The same day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the northward upon our own coast, with design to stretch over for the African c... ...ion, and the circumstances I was reduced to; and I drew up the state of my affairs in writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come afte... ...ung ones, which were very good meat. And now, in the managing my household affairs, I found myself wanting in many things, which I thought at first it...

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... requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the kin... ... other, and the higher came up last. 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and south ward; so that no beasts might stand before him, nei... ...t, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11 Yea, he magnified himself... ... gether; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the ar... ...hall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: 8 And shall also c... ...brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and se...

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...iss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the l...

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... good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, ... ...ren. Chapter II T HE LITTLE girl performed her long journey in safety, and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of b... ...ard, or without crying. Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree... ...ly afraid to appear before her uncle, nor did her aunt Norris’s voice make her start very much. To her cousins she became occasionally an acceptable c... ...eep Miss Lee any longer, when Fanny goes to live with you?” Mrs. Norris almost started. “Live with me, dear Lady Bertram, what do you mean?” “Is not s... ...found it expedient to go to Antigua himself, for the better arrangement of his affairs, and he took his eldest son with him in the hope of detaching h... ...ction, and leaving Antigua before the end of the summer. Such was the state of affairs in the month of July, and Fanny had just reached her eighteenth... ...— and did not recollect her. She came up to me, claimed me as an acquaintance, stared me out of countenance, and talked and laughed till I did not kno... ...nsfield Park, heard the good news; and though seeming to have no concern in the affair beyond politeness, and to have vented all her feelings in a quie...

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...reas before it was named Chamberlain gate. It is the public prison. On the north are four: 1. Aldersgate, as some think from alder trees; as others, f... ...ng Greek and Latin verses, and had them engraved on the marble:- How was I startled at the cruel feast, By death’s rude hands in horrid manner drest; ... ...ustering west, but open to the east, that blows serene weather, and to the north, the preventer of corruption, from which, in the opinion of some, it ... ...went through the little town of Henley; from hence the Chiltern Hills bear north in a continued ridge, and divide the counties of Oxford and Buckingha... ...bishop is employed upon business of more consequence, manages the ordinary affairs, but does not interfere with the archiepiscopal jurisdiction. Upon ... ...r her receipts could yield her relief at the pinch, nor the urgency of her affairs endure the delays of Parliamentary assistance. And for such aids it... ...n the first place, gave their supply, and according to the exigence of her affairs; yet failed not at the last to attain what they desired, so that th... ... there were others steered and stood at the helm besides himself, and more stars in the firmament of grace than Ursa Major. He was born, as they say, ...

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...sulted in the death of 32 persons, travelling in the over-crowded bus, carrying some teachers and their families, mostly residents of Nimri Colony in North Delhi. This group of 46 persons was on an All-India tour, organized by someone amongst themselves, to avail the benefit from their department under the `LTC scheme` during their summer vacation in 1981. Madan Bhaiya,...

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...sulted in the death of 32 persons, travelling in the over-crowded bus, carrying some teachers and their families, mostly residents of Nimri Colony in North Delhi. This group of 46 persons was on an All-India tour, organized by someone amongst themselves, to avail the benefit from their department under the `LTC scheme` during their summer vacation in 1981. Madan Bhaiya,...