... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...ease to observe, expected. I have said, I am hungry; perhaps I might say, with greater point and force, that I am to some extent exhausted, and that I... ...ry orchards, apple orchards, corn-fields, and hop-gardens; so went I, by Canterbury to Dover. There, the sea was tumbling in, with deep sounds, after ... ...he postilions Charles Dickens 62 counting what money they got, into their hats, and never making enough of it; there were the standard population of ... ...ys in my ears. And now I came to the land of wooden houses, innocent cakes, thin butter soup, and spotless little inn bedrooms with a family likeness ... ...for his own comfort. In Lon- don, on the contrary, the fashions descend; and you never fully know how inconvenient or ridiculous a fashion is, un- til...

...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ...nty street Beneath the coursers’ clattering feet, As slowly down the steep descent Fair Scotland’s King and nobles went, While all along the crowded w... ...despised the soil That paid so ill the labourer’s toil; Their rolls showed French and German name; And merry England’s exiles came, T o share, with il... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...any other argu- ment, whereof their rhymes intreat. They speak the ancient French language, altered a little.”[FN#6] ‘The harp and chairschoes are now... ...s fair lady chose to make her final exit was composed on the defeat of the Swiss of Marignano. The burden is quoted by Panurge in Rabelais, and consis... ...urge in Rabelais, and consists of these words, imitating the jargon of the Swiss, which is a mixture of French and German: ‘Tout est verlore, L...

...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One A Penn State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...orted with his like; whereas Donatello has known cities a little, and such people as ourselves. But the resemblance is very close, and very strange.” ... ...at he must 9 Hawthorne heretofore have been chiefly conversant with rural people. “Well, well,” said Miriam, “your tender point—your two tender point... ...hine peeped into a burial niche; then again, they went downward by gradual descent, or by abrupt, rudely hewn steps, into deeper and deeper recesses o... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...“but when you pray next, dear friend, remember me!” She went down the long descent of the lower staircase, and just as she reached the street the floc... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...n artists in gray flaccid hats and flaunting beards; and one of the Pope’s Swiss guardsmen in the strange motley garb which Michael Angelo contrived f...

...pter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of 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 sinki...

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...pathy is expressed with truth and power; especially is the weakness of the Swiss philosopher’s character summed up in the fol- lowing admirable lines:... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...under- taking was executed with ardor, but did not immediately succeed—our descent was not skilfully planned—the water did not run, the earth falling ... ...imself from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure ... ...eral books over fair, and trans- late commercial letters from Italian into French. All at once he thought fit to accept the before rejected proposal, ... ...o thank me for some books I had presented to the library of that city; the Swiss are great speakers; these gentlemen, ac- cordingly, made me a long ha...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 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... ...ing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; sketch of Dumas in 1869, French artist Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsy... ...n in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.” “There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master,” ... ...ground, covered with blood and almost fainting. It was at this moment that people came flocking to the scene of action from all sides. The host, fearf... ...t the safety of the state, or to serve the intrigues of a woman who in not French and who has a Spanish heart. Fortunately we have the great cardinal;... .... At three o’clock came two companies of the Guards, one French, the other Swiss. The company of French guards was composed of half of M. Duhallier’s ... ...re, they had scarcely seen each other for a moment at the apartment of the Swiss guard, Germain, whither D’Artagnan had sent for her. The haste which ... ...l follow you, then, sir.” Accepting the hand of the officer, she began the descent of the ladder, at the foot of which the boat waited. The officer fo...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

...assics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry James 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... ...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...summer sunrise. Rome, for the past month, had been delicious. The an- nual descent of the Goths had not yet begun, and sunny leisure seemed to brood o... ...om he lived in a certain intimacy. One of them was an American sculptor of French ex- traction, or remotely, perhaps, of Italian, for he rejoiced in t... ...made no difference in their friendship. The artist might have passed for a French- man. He was a great talker, and a very picturesque one; he was almo... ...efore his eyes, and a volume of Wordsworth in his pocket. His face, on the Swiss hill- sides, had been scorched to within a shade of the color nowaday... ... he presently telegraphed for his box, which, according to the excel- lent Swiss method, was punctually delivered by post. The nights were cold, and o...

...cs Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...especially of my mother, will not do them justice in the eyes of the young people of the present day, who are accustomed to a far more indulgent gover... ...e than Griffith, and thought he posed for admiration, for she used to tell people that no one could guess what a child he was for slyness; so that he ... ...rayers might be offered for the souls of her husband and son, slain in the French wars. The poor lady’s intentions, which to our Prot- estant minds ap... ...ate admitted us into a drive cut out in a slant down the other- wise steep descent, and coming out into an open space. And there we were! The old hous... ... a glass door at the end leading into an old-fashioned greenhouse, and two French windows to the south opening upon the lawn, which soon began to slop... ...and courtship among the dolls; the hero being a small jointed Dutch one in Swiss costume, about an eighth part of the size of the resuscitated Celesti... ...s her strength served her. The little figures in costume, coloured prints, Swiss carvings, French knicknacks, are preserved in many a Hillside cottage...

...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more...

... Classics Series Publication Vittoria 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ow. Monte Boscero is un- veiled; the semicircle of the Piedmontese and the Swiss peaks, covering Lake Orta, behind, on along the Ticinese and the Gris... ...Spring of the great Italian uprising, when, though for a tragic issue, the people of Italy first felt and acted as a nation, and Charles Albert, calle... ...o. “If he marches out of his dominions, the king confers a blessing on his people perchance.” “Our king, signore!” The mountaineer waved his finger as... ...d restlessly the slopes just surmounted by them, and occasionally the deep descent over the green-glowing Orta Lake. It was still early morning. The h... ...l soon shoot up from Paris that will be a signal for Christendom. The keen French wit is sick of its compromise-king. All Europe is in convulsions in ... ...ave Signori Tedeschi? The sources are partly to be traced to a neat little French vaudeville, very sparkling—Camille, or the Husband Asserted; and aga... ...po was seen struggling to secure the arms of a man in a high-crowned green Swiss hat, who was apparently disposed to give the signorina’s faithful ser...

...ion A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell 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... ...of which the lower classes are lavish, not guarding it with reticence like people of the world, the Black Gentleman’s face brightened, and seemed to r... ...ollowed her daughter and Monsieur Roger into the park, where the two young people had agreed to wander through the smiling meadows and fragrant copses... ... derers made their way by the bank of an artificial stream and came to the Swiss valley, where stands a chalet that had more than once given shelter t... ...ense of distinction and decorative fit- ness which mark the work of modern French architects. For above a month Caroline had been at home in this apar... ...mation of dismay— qualified, however, by the spirit which rarely deserts a French- man—at seeing no hackney coach waiting outside the gates, and heari... ...rs of wretch- edness, the craving for happiness led me by an imperceptible descent to love another woman and make a second home. And do not imagine th...

...Excerpt: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here sto...

...on Nuttie’s Father Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...eter voice, ‘or the Ufizzi.’ ‘Now, Mr. Dutton, that’s not what I want. Our people aren’t ready for that, but what they have let it be real. Miss Mary,... ...s Mary. ‘So it was with the last regime’, said the vicar; ‘but now the new people are come I expect great things from them. I hear they are very frien... ...daisies never durst lift their heads on his little lawn, which even bore a French looking- glass globe in the centre. Miss Nugent, or Miss Mary as ev-... ...uite sure while I am thinking about it, or reading Robinson Crusoe, or the Swiss Family.’ ‘Oh!’ ‘Miss Mary, has no one ever told you anything about my... ...ut she did not like being caught upon the wall, and therefore made a rapid descent, though not without a moment’s entangle- ment of skirt, which delay... ...he could guess what had become of her, he held up his hands with a hideous French grimace. I could have taken him by the throat.’ ‘Nay, one must pity ... ...BROAD! Such had been the fairy castle of Nuttie’s life. She had dreamed of Swiss mountains, Italian pictures, Rheinland castles, a perpetual panorama ...

... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...e best part of the jugful of beer…. But there seems to be no pleasing some people. “Tantrums!” said Mrs. Polly at the sink, struggling with the mustar... ... tumbrils…. I do not know why the east wind aggravates life to un- healthy people. It made Mr. Polly’s teeth seem loose in his head, and his skin feel... ... where there were no ob- ject lessons, and the studies of book-keeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken) under the guid- ance ... ...washbuckling carriage. And then came the glorious revelation of that great French- man whom Mr. Polly called “Rabooloose.” The Three Ps thought the bi... ...le like you.” “We don’t even know each other’s names,” she remarked with a descent to matters of fact. “Yours is the prettiest name in the world.” “Ho... ... again upon a more flamboyant pattern, and the new fire station was in the Swiss-T eutonic style and with much red paint. Next door in the place of Ru...

...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!?...

...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne Complete Two Volumes in One A Penn Sta... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...orted with his like; whereas Donatello has known cities a little, and such people as ourselves. But the resemblance is very close, and very strange.” ... ...at he must 9 Hawthorne heretofore have been chiefly conversant with rural people. “Well, well,” said Miriam, “your tender point—your two tender point... ...hine peeped into a burial niche; then again, they went downward by gradual descent, or by abrupt, rudely hewn steps, into deeper and deeper recesses o... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...“but when you pray next, dear friend, remember me!” She went down the long descent of the lower staircase, and just as she reached the street the floc... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...n artists in gray flaccid hats and flaunting beards; and one of the Pope’s Swiss guardsmen in the strange motley garb which Michael Angelo contrived f...

...pter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of 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 sinki...

...odern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley , is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... “I have, doubtless, excited your cu riosity, as well as that of these good people; but you are too considerate to make inquiries.” “Certainly; it wo... ...and had died on giving her birth. The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then. They had not been long marrie... ...s of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home—the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the season... ...om the other end of the street. As it drew nearer I observed that it was the Swiss diligence; it stopped just where I was standing, and on the door be... ... his spirits, and is reported to be on the point of marrying a lively pretty Frenchwoman, Madame Tavernier. She is a widow, and much older than Manoir... ...e possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of the... ...f her lover by the aid of an old man, a servant of her father who understood French. She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended service...

...Excerpt: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....

...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...ine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds th... ...in point of fact, he was only following out the evil tendencies which many people shelter under the terrible axiom that “men should have strength of c... ...ocer depended; on the contrary, he endeavored to enlighten them. Enlighten people in those days! As well might he have begged them to bring back the B... ...brary which Cardinal Mazarin presented to the city of Paris, and which the French Academy was in after days to inhabit, cast chill shadows over this a... ...ed by Elie Magus, the picture-dealer. The original be- longed to a wealthy Swiss banker, who had only lent it for ten days, and the next day was the l... ...distinct ages. The tower is, therefore, the apex of a cone, from which the descent is equally steep on all sides, and which is only approached by a se...

...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...nt compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to see whom the situation I had primarily... ...s him to watching her, as it were, through the successive windows of other people’s interest in her. So, if we talk of princesses, do the balconies op... ... the bird’s-eye view of his early years abroad, his migratory parents, his Swiss schools, his German uni- versity, as she had easy attention for. A ma... ...unge into London, which filled up the measure. But brave enough though his descent to English earth, he had passed, by the way, through zones of air t... ...l need of you!” Book Third Chapter 1 The two ladies who, in advance of the Swiss season, had been warned that their design was unconsidered, that the ... ...all busts and curls, preserved, though so exposed, in the marble of famous French chisels—all this, to say nothing of the effect of closer growths of ... ... pity; and when pity held up its telltale face like a head on a pike, in a French revolution, bobbing before a window, what was the inference but that...

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...ics Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...n predicted by the Astrologer; and thus his confi- dence, which, like most people of the period, he had freely given to the science, was riveted and c... ...ope about the beginning of the fifteenth century, and vagrants of European descent. The individual gipsy, upon whom the character of Meg Merrilies was... ...prevail on her to accept so much as a single guinea. “I have heard the old people at Jedburgh say, that all Jean’s sons were condemned to die there on... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h... ...wn communication to his special friend and confidant, Captain Delaserre, a Swiss gentleman, who had a company in his regiment. “Let me bear from you s... ...ousand a year. She would be ill pre- pared for the privations of that real Swiss cottage we have so often talked of, and for the difficulties which mu...

...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in ...

...liaction Dynevor Terrace Volume II by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...tel, and he de- vised going to his old quarters at Ebbscreek, and making a descent upon them from thence. When he came to take up his credentials, he ... ... all over the place here.’ Louis pressed to hear what. ‘Why, that when the French were going on like Robert Spear and them old times, he had convoyed ... ... point abruptly. ‘In short, Isabel, my dear, what can you have done to set people saying that you have been corresponding with the young men at Ebbscr... ...y dear, you may mean, very rightly -I am sure you do, but you must not set people talking! It is not acting rightly by me, Isabel; but I would not car... ..., and rec- tified errors of the workmen. It might not be poetical, but the French sky-blue paper, covered with silvery fern-leaves, that Louis took su... ...enda and grazing llamas dwindled, so that they could have been taken for a Swiss farm and flocks of sheep. Not till the middle of the day did they mee... ...er thoughts and watch the steps of her mule. The worst difficulties of the descent had precluded all conversation; and the party were just beginning t...

...Excerpt: As little recked Fitzjocelyn of the murmurs which he had provoked, as he guessed the true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribing much to her nephe...

...tte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...ery touching one that he wrote to me on my father’s death. Those Redclyffe people certainly have great force of character.’ ‘And was it then he settle... ...s fly in and out. Well, what does Master Guy do, but go down this headlong descent after the nest. How he escaped alive no one could guess; and his gr... ...The sisters were again charmed and surprised, and Guy looked gratified, as people do at the discovery of a faculty which they are particularly glad to... ...e you to make much of this talent in public; it is too much a badge of his descent.’ ‘Mamma did not think so,’ said Amy. ‘She thought it a pity he sho... ...uy into showing you those verses?’ ‘Oh yes,’ said Charlotte, with what the French call “un air capable”.’ ‘Well, what were they?’ ‘That I mustn’t tell... ...y one belonging to you, Laura.’ Laura’s heart had that sensation which the French call “se serrer”, as she heard him allude to the long separation to ... ... William of Deloraine, waiting to hold Whiteface; there was Arnaud, an old Swiss, first courier and then butler to old Sir Guy; there was Mrs. Drew, t...

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...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James 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... ...dful little old tradition, one of the platitudes of the human comedy, that people’s moral scheme does break down in Paris; that nothing is more freque... ... a splendid particu- lar economy. Other persons in no small number were to people the scene, and each with his or her axe to grind, his or her situati... ...s was the re- gion—Chad had been quite distinct about it—in which the best French, and many other things, were to be learned at least cost, and in whi... ...s effective little use of the name of which, like his allusion to the best French, appeared to have been but one of the notes of his rough cunning. Th... ...an affinity and in which he might be trusted a while to float. It wasn’t a descent to earth to say after an instant and in sustained response to the r... ... all events to the mention of her having met the young thing—again by some Swiss lake—in her first married state, which had appeared for the few inter... ...ors and amused by the consciousness of what he had found at the end of his descent. It was very much what he had told Maria Gostrey he should like to ...

...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book...

...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. 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... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ...they laughed uproariously among themselves, joshing one of their number, a Frenchman, whom they called “Skeezicks.” Their hilarity reverberated in a h... ...like going to bed than dancing. The two girl cousins, in dresses of dotted Swiss over blue sa- teen, were doing their utmost to pacify her. She could ... ...as a noise of imprecations mingled with shouts of derision. Skeezicks, the Frenchman, had turned upon the joshers. “Ah, no,” he was heard to exclaim, ... ...ere.” They set off. It was a terrible ride. T wice during the scram- bling descent from the hills, Presley’s pony fell beneath him. Annixter, on his b...

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