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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ...ssumes any responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of M... ...ge, and with greatly increased emphasis: “‘Ole!” He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. “Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze ... ...eness of a sky that was blue because the wind was in the east, he had come out in the hope of snatch- ing something of the joyousness of spring. The m... ...e spring. He had had a little difficulty in finding his cap before he came out. He wanted his cap—the new golf cap—and Mrs. Polly must needs fish out ... ...round, and kicked it with extraordi- nary fury across the kitchen. It flew up against the door and dropped to the ground with its ribbon band half off... ...r hard. “Beauty!” said Mrs. Polly at last to a tremendous silence, picking up and dusting the rejected headdress. “T antrums,” she added. “I ‘aven’t p... ...re not more transparent. If Mr. Polly, for ex- ample, had been transparent or even passably translucent, then perhaps he might have realised from the ... ... intentionally dadda, had washed him in the utmost detail, and wrapped him up in soft, warm blankets, and smothered him with kisses. A regal time that...

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...s born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his freedom, he made his first escape from slavery in 1842. He was recaptured and escaped, recaptured and escaped over and over; but he never gave up on...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection o... ...r less connected with real people than the conventional Belval, Floricour, or Derville of the stage, or the Adalberts and Mombreuses of romance. Af- t... ...dic- tions, anachronisms, improbabilities, and absurdities, the truth will out in spite of him. You uproot a vine-stock, as you imag- ine, and the ste... ... of him. You uproot a vine-stock, as you imag- ine, and the stem will send up lusty shoots after you have ploughed your vineyard over. The “Hotel d’Es... ...ere lords para- mount in the estates of a province where the people looked up to them with superstitious awe, as to the image of the Holy Virgin that ... ...hich Maitre Chesnel—for he was now a notary—had contrived to save for them out of the wreck. Alas! was not the plundered and dismantled castle all too... ...n the midst of the empty courtyard, gazing round upon the moat, now filled up with rubbish, and the castle towers razed to the level of the roof. The ... ...ient home of his forefathers, with the air that he breathed; then he flung out a most mel- ancholy exclamation. “Chesnel,” he said, “we will come back...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Caged Lion i... ... Henry’s first return to England, after the battle of Agincourt; but human—or at least story-telling—nature could not resist an anachronism of a few y... ... reader’s convenience. Alice Montagu, though her name sounds as if it came out of the most commonplace novelist’s repertory, was a veritable per- sona... ...Just in the widest part of the valley, a sort of plat- form of rock jutted out from the hill-side, and afforded a station for one of those tall, narro... .... The castle was necessarily narrow and confined; its mas- sive walls took up much even of the narrow space that the rock afforded; but it had been so... ... even of the narrow space that the rock afforded; but it had been so piled up that it seemed as though the builders wished to make height compensate f... ...ith its mighty flanking tow- ers, and of the lofty donjon tower, that shot up like a great finger above the Massy More, as the main building was com- ... ... on the land. 7 Yo n g e Have mercy on my son,—and guard him when he goes out and when he comes in. Have mercy on the children I have toiled for, and...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of H... ...kfulness; and my sons’ children, whether established here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quar... ...to understand), how this person, having left her family and fled to Paris, out of jealousy of the Pretender be- trayed his secrets to my Lord Stair, K... ...ckeray THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS ... ...ich turns its stone back upon St. Paul’s, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser than you and me, tho... ... shall History go on kneeling to the end of time? I am for having her rise up off her knees, and take a natural posture: not to be for ever performing... ...ming cringes and congees like a court-chamberlain, and shuffling backwards out of doors in the presence of the sovereign. In a word, I would have Hist... ...e, a dozen faithful and tipsy companions of defeat, and a landlord calling out for his bill; and the dignity of misfortune is straightway lost. The Hi...

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...HE EBBING WELL ................................................................................................................ 162 CHAPTER XVIII CIS OR SISTER ....................................................................................................................... 177 CHAPTER XIX THE CLASH OF SWORDS ..............................................................

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Unknown To His... ....................................................... 162 CHAPTER XVIII CIS OR SISTER .................................................................... ..., that this had once been the refectory of a small priory, or cell, broken up at the Reformation. Of furniture there was not much, only an open cupboa... ...n cradle, scarcely large enough, however, to contain him, as he lay curled up, sucking his thumb, and hugging to his breast the soft fragment of a sea... ...-man, Gervas, to watch for further tidings. Yet, so does one trouble drive out another, that whereas she had a few days ago dreaded the sorrow of his ... ...ith ill news! No, no, it bounded as never did Gervas’s step! It was coming up. She started from the chair, quivering with eagerness, as the door opene... ...of soft bread soaked in beer, and I misdoubt me whether it did not all run out at the corners of its mouth.” This was interspersed with little Humfrey... ...h might be seen some mysterious object neither husband nor wife could make out, but which they agreed must be carefully preserved for the identificati...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revol... ...culent bullyings;—and lo now, ye have pricked her to the quick, and she is up, and her blood is up. The dead cerements are rent into cobwebs, and she ... ... its hideousness: the Gospel (God’s Message) of Man’s Rights, Man’s mights or strengths, once more preached irrefragably abroad; along with this, and ... ...e may “have done with Kings;” and fast as powder under spark, we all blaze up once more, and with waved hats shout and swear: “Yes, nous le jurons; pl... ... - V olume Three denied. Complaints are made; attempts are made: but with- out effect. The attempts even recoil; and must be desisted from, for fear o... ...eavens; miraculously a winged Perseus (or Impro- vised Commune) has dawned out of the void Blue, and cut her loose: but whether now is it she, with he... ...mbly, ‘naturalise’ the chief Foreign Friends of humanity: Priestley, burnt out for us in Birmingham; Klopstock, a genius of all countries; Jeremy Bent... ...ll this, and reel. But happily hu- man brains have such a talent of taking up simply what they can carry, and ignoring all the rest; leaving all the r...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revol... ................................................. 102 Chapter 2.3.IV . To fly or not to fly................................................................. ...ainly in the King’s face, and not died! When the assembled crows can pluck up their scarecrow, and say to it, Here shalt thou stand and not there; and... ...King’s hand be seen in that work. The house- hold goods of the Poor shall, up to a certain amount, by royal bounty, be disengaged from pawn, and that ... ...an indeed, and King Louis like other men, lives in this world to make rule out of the ruleless; by his living energy, he shall force the absurd itself... ...nd 10 The French Revolution—V olume Two see a wild-fermenting France work out its own destiny, and theirs. Months bleak, ungenial, of rapid vicissitu... ...ricken, accursed: an Atreus’ Palace; for that Louvre window is still nigh, out of which a Capet, whipt of the Furies, fired his signal of the Saint Ba... ... new Faith rose suddenly into miraculous fire, and old Feudality was burnt up, men remarked that Mirabeau took no hand in it; that, in fact, he luckil...

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... life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the li...

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...noon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightf... ...th his face turned to the house. His companions had either finished their tea or were indifferent to their privilege; they smoked cigarettes as they co... ...ity in the faint smile that played upon his lean, spacious cheek and lighted up his humorous eye as he at last slowly and carefully deposited his big ... ...en him when he wasn’t cheerful—about as he is at present. He often cheers me up.” The young man so described looked at Lord Warburton and laughed. “Is... ...n so described looked at Lord Warburton and laughed. “Is it a glowing eulogy or an accusation of levity? Should you like me to carry out my theories, ... ... it a glowing eulogy or an accusation of levity? Should you like me to carry out my theories, daddy?” “By Jove, we should see some queer things!” crie... ...ould see some queer things!” cried Lord Warburton. “I hope you haven’t taken up that sort of tone,” said the old man. “Warburton’s tone is worse than ... ...ve it—I believe things are getting more serious. You young men will find that out.” “The increasing seriousness of things, then—that’s the great opport... ... writes that she has discovered a niece and that she has invited her to come out with her.” “I see—very kind of her,” said Lord Warburton. “Is the you...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ... ...onic Classics Series Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne... ...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ...k ing round for a seat. There is certainly no method by which the shadowy out lines of departed men and women can be made to assume the hues of life... ...us. The author, it is true, has sometimes assumed the li cense of filling up the outline of history with details for which he has none but imaginativ... ...ts, is quite as difficult an attempt as to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite, rocks on which New England is founded. 6 TheWholeHisto... ...iking for Biblical names for their children, and they sometimes gave names out of the Bible to places, Salem means Peace. The Indian name was Naumkeag... ...rdships of the wilderness. Every morning and evening the Lady Arbella gave up her great chair to one of the ministers, who took his place in it and re... ... of wolves have seized a young calf in the pasture; and every man snatches up his gun or pike and runs in chase of the marauding beasts. Poor Lady Arb...

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...rivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few ficti...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Agnes Grey by An... ... the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove us... ...r buf- feting with the cares and turmoils of life. Mary and I were brought up in the strictest seclusion. My mother, being at once highly accomplished... ...carefully husbanded in the half-empty grate: especially when my father was out on his parish duties, or confined to bed through illness—then we sat wi... ...t so constantly in the house.’ ‘Help me you cannot, Agnes; and I cannot go out with you—I have far too much to do.’ ‘Then let me help you.’ ‘You canno... ...here was always plenty of sewing on hand; but I had not been taught to cut out a single garment, and except plain hem- ming and seaming, there was lit... ...ssed the valley, and began to ascend the opposite hill. As we were toiling up, I looked back again; there was the village spire, and the old grey par-... ...were ‘very heavy’; and certainly, his horse was very heavy too: it crawled up the hills, and crept down them, and only condescended to shake its sides...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Tale of Chlo... ...ious gentleman who was inflamed by Cupid’ s darts to espouse the milkmaid, or dairymaid, under his ballad title of Duke of Dewlap: nor was it the smal... ...rship at the sight of one of their number, a young maid, suddenly snatched up to the gaping heights of Luxury and Fashion through sheer good looks. Re... ...irt-frill was grand as a fifty-pound note; The diamonds glittered all up him so bright, She thought him the Milky Way clothing a Sprite! ... ...Ah, Mr. Beamish, pictures are ours, when we have bought them and hung them up; but who insures us possession of a beautiful work of Nature? I have lat... ... Play she will; she is sure to play. Put it down at a thousand. We map her out a course of permissible follies, and she plays to lose the thousand by ... ...u. ‘Yet, as you know, these fellows have been ex- ercised. I have had them out in a meadow for hours, baked and drenched, to get them rid of their nat... ...trust us, and it is a declaration of war!’ ‘T rust you, and the stopper is out of the smelling-bottle.’ ‘Mr. Beamish, we are women, but we have souls....

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has be...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to Hi... ...ines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the m... ...oves thus imaginary, the debit side is actual and heavy. For he is now set up to be the mark of consuls; he will be bad- gered to raise taxes, to make... ... where a hundred played upon a side, en- dured at times for weeks, and ate up the country like the 9 Robert Louis Stevenson presence of an army. Fish... ...has another side. In one or two words of the language the fact peeps slyly out. The same word (afemoeina) expresses “a long call” and “to come as a ca... ... and returned in an old tablecloth, her whole wardrobe having been divided out among relatives in the course of twenty-four hours. A pastor in the pro... ...reen and level and overlooked by inland mountain-tops, the town lies drawn out in strings and clusters. The western horn is Mulinuu, the eastern, Mata... ...ll be the more surprised 13 Robert Louis Stevenson to observe a board set up, and to read that this historic vil- lage is the property of the German ...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis,... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Legend of Mont... ...vided Perthshire. The former, being the most numerous and powerful, cooped up eight score of the Murrays in the kirk of Monivaird, and set fire to it.... ...e and his descendants were distinguished by the name of Drummond-Eirinich, or Ernoch, that is, Drummond of Ire- land; and the same title was bestowed ... ...ll, however, that could be done, the devoted tribe of MacGregor still bred up survivors to sustain and to inflict new cruelties and injuries. [I embra... ...is brother antiquaries.] Meanwhile Young James Stewart of Ardvoirlich grew up to manhood uncommonly tall, strong, and active, with such power in the g... ...ained or predesti- nated these things, which to us are contingent, to fall out by ane uncontrollable and unavoidable necessitie, is a question not yet... ...r has nowhere shown more affinity to that matchless spirit who could bring out his Falstaffs and his Pistols, in act after act, and play after play, a... ...s of her brother, to her the greatest man upon earth, and actively looking out for him, in his silver-clasped Bible, the texts which the minister quot...

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...son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis,... ...ty assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Coriolanus by... ...ntenorides, with massy staples And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, Sperr up the sons of Troy. Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits, On one a... ...and hither am I come A prologue arm’d, but not in confidence Of author’s pen or actor’s voice, but suited In like conditions as our argument, To tell ... ...: for my part, I’ll not meddle nor make no further. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. TROILUS: Have I not tarr... ...is is gored with Menelaus’ horn. [Alarum.] AENEAS: Hark, what good sport is out of town to day! TROILUS: Better at home, if ‘would I might’ were ‘ma... ...ba and Helen. CRESSIDA: And whither go they? ALEXANDER: Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, T... ...merry against the hair: he hath the joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use, or purb... ... when I came? Was Hector armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium? Helen was not up, was she? CRESSIDA: Hector was gone, but Helen was not up. PANDARUS: ...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of T... ...ng BOOK I CONTAINING AS MUCH OF THE BIRTH OF THE FOUNDLING AS IS NECESSARY OR PROPER TO ACQUAINT THE READER WITH IN THE BEGIN NING OF THIS HISTORY Ch... ...ise give the reader particular bills to every course which is to be served up in this and the ensuing volumes. The provision, then, which we have he... ...onsists less in the subject than in the author’s skill in well dressing it up. How pleased, therefore, will the reader be to find that we have, in the... ...ill of fare no longer from their diet, and shall proceed directly to serve up the first course of our history for their entertainment. Chapter 2 A ... ...self, about five years before the time in which this history chuses to set out. This loss, however great, he bore like a man of sense and constancy, t... ...n. She had indeed given her master suf ficient time to dress himself; for out of respect to him, and regard to decency, she had spent many minutes in... ...on was rather greater than his had been; nor could she refrain from crying out, with great horror of accent as well as look, “My good sir! what’s to b...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Friends... ...ose I have already experienced, yet to avoid the im- putation of Obstinacy or ill-nature, I will gratify the curiosity of your daughter; and may the f... ... me. “Had we better not go and see who it is? (said she) the servants are out.” “I think we had.” (replied I.) “Cer- tainly, (added my Father) by all... ...n to his will. “Where, Edward in the name of wonder (said he) did you pick up this unmeaning gibberish? You have been studying Novels I suspect.” I s... ...ove and Friendship Resolution I was Mistress of, I arose and after packing up some necessary apparel for Sophia and myself, I dragged her to a Carriag... ...and myself, I dragged her to a Carriage I had ordered and we instantly set out for London. As the Habitation of Augustus was within twelve miles of T... ...th agreed to acquaint him with it by an anonymous Letter which Sophia drew up in the following manner. “Oh! happy Lover of the beautifull Janetta, oh... ...ance. Great as was my astonishment, it was yet increased, when on looking out of Windows, I beheld the Husband of Philippa, with Philippa by his side...

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...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revol... ...on and, Popular Tribunals of, purges mem- bers, to become dominant, locked out by Legendre, begs back its keys, decline of, mobbed, suspended, hunted ... ... Marquis de, Governor of Bastille, besieged, unassisted, 17 Index to blow up Bastille, massacred. LAVERGNE, surrenders Longwi. LAVOISIER, Chemist, gu... ...eries riot, in National Conven- tion, against Girondins, for Danton, locks out Jacobins, in First of Prairial. LENFANT, Abbe, on Protestant claims, ma... ... of Guards, deposition of, proposed, October Fifth, women deputies, to fly or not? grants the acceptance, Paris propositions to, in the Chateau tumult... ...nd. PETITIONS, on capture of King, for deposition, &c. PHELIPPEAUX, purged out of the Jacobins. PHILOSOPHISM, influence of, on Revolution, what it has...

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...Complete short story by me as something that will offer up access to a story where it will be offered up for the masses to read and enjoy. This is part of the Gutenberg shorts series from me as I hope some of you can take this story in the spirit I've written this. Advance Warni...

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...eir version of Barney Fife within their nonfictional version of Mayberry – unable to handle little bit of controversy when it comes to when they seek out monsters; don’t they realize they do that. They do end up becoming one… Yest ye become one as Nietzsche had warned us. That’s the history of Chicago for you; seeking out monsters. Chasing an urban legend or...

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...ia, Greer's Disclosure Project has convinced hundreds of insiders, including military brass and CIA ops, to defy nondisclosure pacts. They've coughed up documents (some still classified) and signed testimonials. Greer's got it all -- in fact, he gave Peter Jennings's producers access to these bombshell revelations for the ABC special on UFOs that aired last spring. But, as...