... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ...nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. N... ... purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associate... ...s, and enchanted folk, and the rest of the pleasant legendary stuff; and so, by stimu- lating my fancy, I finally got to imagining I glimpsed small fl... ...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ...ied by a faithful squire, down the stream. The moon shed her silvery light over the whole country; the steep bank mountains appeared in the most fanta... ...ler ones to puddles— though they did not look like puddles, but like blue eardrops which had fallen and lodged in slight depressions, conform- able to... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ...

...ad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ulted brutally his brother-in-law, a member of the Da Souza family—of that band of his worship- pers. He did. Well, no! It was some other man. An- oth... ...And then began Omar’s second flight. It began arms in hand, for the little band had to fight in the night on the beach for the possession of the small... ...lem.” 149 Joseph Conrad “But, hang it all!” exclaimed Lingard—”Abdulla is British!” “Abdulla wasn’t there at all—did not go on shore that day. Yet Al... ... glanced sideways, and caught sight of muffled-up 181 Joseph Conrad human shapes that hovered for a moment near the edge of light and retreated sudde... ...ss filling the shutter-hole grew paler and became blotchy with ill-defined shapes, as if a new universe was being evolved out of som- bre chaos. Then ... ...is fingers, which he shook directly after with a grimace of pain. Sleeping shapes, covered—head and all—with white sheets, lay about on the mats on th...

Excerpt: An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad.

...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...t motion of the person; others were more properly golden stocks, or throat-bands, fitted so close as to produce in the spectator an unpleasant imagina... ...were threatened with attack, and with the desolation of their capital by a banded crusade of kings; and they rose in frenzy to meet the aggressors. Th... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m... ...s herself, not as a high poetic ab- straction, but in that one of her many shapes which to Pope had always seemed the most comic as well as the most h...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

... Classics Series Publication Kim by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...orthern Power that there was a leakage of news from their territories into British India. So those Kings’ Prime Ministers were seriously annoyed and t... ...s added. ‘Ah! The music,’ Kim explained. He knew the sound of a regimental band, but it amazed the lama. At the far end of the plain a heavy, dusty co... ...s we marched–marched– 76 Kim marched–with the Mulligan Guards! It was the band of the Mavericks playing the regiment to camp; for the men were route ... ... of a royal house who had been brought to book for kidnapping women within British territory. The Moslem Archbishop had been emphatic and over arrogan... ...r of his text, bidding Kim–too ready – note how the flesh takes a thousand shapes, desirable or detestable as men reckon, but in truth of no account e... ...ial faceelities by the Government. Of course, we always do that. It is our British pride.’ ‘Then what is to fear from them?’ ‘By Jove, they are not bl...

...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze pie...

... Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...bey, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, feeling his unrest as he drank the loathed British tea. Mrs. Shonts smiled, and took them in hand. She wrote widely an... ... that mantelpiece.” “Look at that view. It’s a framed Constable,” her hus- band cried. “No; it’s a Morland—a parody of a Morland. But about that couch... ...ild- ing pillars to keep ‘em out is purely a Cypriote trick, un- worthy of British bees. In the third, if you trust a Death’s Head, he will trust you.... ..., faceless drones, halfqueens and lay- ing sisters; and the ever-dwindling band of the old stock worked themselves bald and fray-winged to feed their ... ...out us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale flame that waits shivering wi... ...nded, him both ways. You see, he had slaved and exposed slaves for sale in British territory. That meant the double fine if I could get it out of him....

...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonderin...

...N ENFORCED ........................................................................................................................................ 4 THE RECALL ................................................................................................................................................................. 35 GARM?A HOSTAGE......................................

...sics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ore a long and lamentable blast. I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaki... ...ivers parch- ments, her jewel-casket, and a miniature of her deceased hus- band; and in those last words lies the secret of the red-room— the spell wh... ... round curls, according to the fashion of those times, when neither smooth bands nor long ringlets were in vogue; her dress, also in the mode of the d... ... was the answer; “and, ‘comme cela,’ she charmed my English gold out of my British breeches’ pocket. I have been green, too, Miss Eyre,—ay , grass gre... ...re, so much was I flattered by this preference of the Gallic sylph for her British gnome, that I installed her in an hotel; gave her a complete establ... ...hours you sit in yonder room with the fine people flitting before you like shapes in a magic-lantern: just as little sympathetic commun- ion passing b...

...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear...

...e Moon by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...an the darkness of the sky. But now its line was marked by strange reddish shapes, tongues of vermilion flame that writhed and danced. I fancied It mu... ...ised by little white threads of unthawed snow upon their shady sides, were shapes like sticks, dry twisted sticks of the same rusty hue as the rock up... ... masses, fungi, fleshy and lichenous things, strangest radiate and sinuous shapes. But we were so intent upon our leaping, that for a time we gave no ... ...dent became the wisdom of impenetrability. It is within the right of every British citizen, provided he does not commit damage nor indecorum, to appea... ...y learnt as much of these things as a Zulu in London would learn about the British corn supplies in the same time. It is clear, however, that these ve... ... honey in their distended abdomens. The lunar Somerset House and the lunar British Museum Library are collections of living brains… 159 H. G . Wells ...

...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest a...

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...RIES P P P P PUBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsyl... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...disconsolate, their feathers puffed out till their bodies assumed globular shapes. Delivery wagons trundled up and down the street at intervals, the h... ...fair? You remem- ber that row between England and Turkey. They tell me the British agent in Constantinople put it pretty straight to the Sultan the ot... ...e between England and Turkey over the Higgins-Pasha incident, and that the British Foreign Office has threatened the Sultan with an ultimatum. I can s... ...e. And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we get cables before noon that the British War Office had sent an ulti- matum.” And very naturally a few minut... ...ighbour, carefully stuck a file of paper javelins all around the Jew’s hat band, and then—still without mirth and still continuing to talk—set them on... ...the fibres of char- acter too intricate and mature to be wrenched into new shapes by any sudden revolution. But just so surely as the day was going, j...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

...s with other poems, Volume One by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...e, all perished: every tear Dried up, despairing, desolate, on board A British ship I waked, as from a trance restored. Peaceful as some immeasu... ... a ‘brook in mossy forest dell By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit, of... ...ble Knight! And that, unknowing what he did, He leapt amid a murd’rous Band, And sav’d from Outrage worse than Death The Lady of the Land; ... ...le hand; It loosens something at my chest; About that tight and deadly band I feel thy little fingers press’d. The breeze I see is in the tree... ... And thro’ the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen; Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— The Ice was all between. The Ice was... ...bay was white with silent light, Till rising from the same Full many shapes, that shadows were, In crimson colours came. A little distance...

...Preface: The First Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of t...

...................... 5 EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY .................................................................................................... 22 THE TABLES TURNED................................................................................................................... 23 ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY & DECAY ................................................................

... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... ...Breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6 The Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 7 T... ... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this ... ...d, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commander Davies of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...of the completed fabric; this savage’s sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must b... ...irely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro be fore his passive ... ...forded a wide hearth in front of them. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whale ship’s stokers. With huge... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop of war Rattler on a whali...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biogra...

...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...took aim at a viper thirty feet away and cut it in two. “Have you got that bandit’s weapon to protect your mas- ter?” said Violette. “Perhaps he gave ... ...pain- ful past. Marthe, agitated by the same thoughts as those of her hus- band, was also troubled in heart by the danger of the Simeuse brothers; for... ...hes, black silk stockings, and a black waistcoat on which lay his clerical bands, giving him a distinguished air which detracted nothing from his dign... ...the Emperor would have paid the nation for his election by the ruin of the British power. The camp at Boulogne had just been raised. Napoleon, whose s... ...e was shrouded in a seething vapor; even common things as- sumed fantastic shapes. The one thought, “If I do not suc- ceed they will kill themselves,”...

...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still gree...

... Bargain by Charles Dickens A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens is a publicat... ...nted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...amp a monstrous beetle on the wall, motion less among a crowd of spectral shapes raised there by the flickering of the fire upon the quaint objects a... ...ing waters when it sprang into a blaze. When they fantastically mocked the shapes of household objects, making the nurse an ogress, the rocking horse ... ...t had made a move in the millinery direction, which a few dry, wiry bonnet shapes remained in a corner of the window to attest. It had fancied that a ... ...a representation of a native of each of the three integral portions of the British Empire, in the act of consuming that fragrant weed; with a poetic l... ... same place, twist ing her ring round and round upon her finger. The hus band, with his head bent forward on his breast, was musing heavily and sull... ...to be raised upon his feet, and looked at. “Who washed them, and put those bandages where they were bruised and cracked?” asked the Chemist, pointing ...

...xcerpt: Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; ?but tha...

...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ndow-casings and the pillars, above which grotesque faces look down, while shapes of fantastic beasts climb up the angles, animated by that great thou... ...ourteenth century; the style and the orthography of the inscription on the banderols beneath each figure prove their age, but being, 12 Balzac as the... ...reserved in those parts where light has scarcely penetrated, are framed in bands of oak now black as ebony. The ceiling has project- ing rafters enric... ...The peninsula of Croisic is flanked on the sea side by gran- ite rocks the shapes of which are so strangely fantastic that they can only be appreciate... ...here. The imagination is at last fatigued by this vast gallery of abnormal shapes, where in stormy weather the sea makes rough assaults which have end... ...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...ne by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...robably excited beyond bearing, pricked by Danglars, as the bull is by the bandilleros, was about to rush out; for he had risen from his seat, and see... ...ierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours. I own that ... ...es; this is an adventure worthy a place in the varied career of that royal bandit. This fabulous event formed but a link in a long chain of marvels. Y... ...link in a long chain of marvels. Yes, Borgia has been here, a torch in one band, a sword in the other, and within twenty paces, at the foot of this ro... ...eme delicacy, made his bow and went away, proceeding with a characteristic British stride towards the street mentioned. M. de Boville was in his priva... ...dow of their umbrageous boughs, while fancy pictures a moving multitude of shapes and forms flitting and passing beneath that shade. Here I have a gar...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If...

...ries Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...hingly writes, “I will not leave him, I must not forget that he is my hus- band. Let his aunt come!” If this is not pathetic, if this is not woman’s d... ...mentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green glass-eyed cat... ...ursued Mr Podsnap, with dignity , ‘Many Evidences that Strike Y ou, of our British Constitution in the Streets Of The World’s Metropolis, London, Lond... ... Mr Podsnap explained, as if he were teaching in an infant school.’ We Say British, But You Say Britannique, You Know’ (forgivingly, as if that were n... ...ush certain pieces of cardboard and thin wood, previously cut into various shapes. The scissors and knives upon the bench showed that the child hersel... ...e window becoming from within, a wall of faces, deformed into all kinds of shapes through the agency of globular red bottles, green bottles, blue bott...

...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an ...

...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland 146 Moby Dick Fishery, under the corrupted title of Spec... ...ld, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...f the completed fabric; this savage’s sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, in- different sword must... ...irely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive ey... ...forded a wide hearth in front of them. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ship’s stokers. With huge... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British gov- ernment was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whal...

Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

... BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...the Chevalier of the devoirs of the demoiselles, and they rode on together bandying news and repartee so fast, that Berenger felt that his ears had be... ...d by way of asserting his property in them he did not detach them from the band of his black velvet cap, but gave it with them into her hand. She look... ...in peace too long.’ Elisabeth, who Brantome says was water, while her hus- band was fire, tried to murmur some hopeful suggestion; and poor little Eus... ...he moon was shin- ing in through the circular window, making strange white shapes on the floor, all quivering with the shadows of the ivy sprays. It l... ...o much.’ And Madame de Ribaumont mixed sugar and dough, and twisted quaint shapes, and felt important and almost light- hearted, and sang over her wor... ... his hat into the air, and was so near astonishing the donjon walls with a British hurrah, that Berenger had to put his hand over his mouth and strang...

...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by...

...Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English “On Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication “On Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery a... ...ve Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian Hawthowrne is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...mmortal poem of your Blind Bard (to whose sightless orbs no doubt Glorious Shapes were apparent, and Visions Celestial), how Adam discourses to Eve of... ...ment, in these queer old chambers in Shepherd’s Inn. Pinto passed a yellow bandanna handkerchief over his aw- ful white teeth, and kept his glass eye ... ...with my excellent, my ma- ligned friend, Cagliostro. Mesmer was one of our band. I seemed to occupy but an obscure rank in it: though, as you know, in... ...this garden, my friend, equaled exactly two hundred and sixty-five feet of British measure. “In the center of the garden was a fountain and a statue— ...

...Excerpt: On Being Found Out? and ?The Notch on the Ax? by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories -- Old Time English, ed. Julian Hawthowrne....

...lication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... great people to a pretty low pitch. He had welcomed them hospitably, as a British yeoman should; but not budged a foot in his demands: not to the bar... ...e’s chair to stay herself from falling, while she wriggled a dozen various shapes of refusal, and shook her head at the farmer with fixed eyes. “Aha!”... ...ung back in his chair. “Lie number Two,” said his shoulders, soured by the British aversion to being plotted at, and not dealt with openly. “And ye’ve... ... he delivered this information. She learnt that he had applied to her hus- band for money. It is hard to have one’s prop of self-respect cut away just... ...or statesmanship, and he and his father read his- tory and the speeches of British orators to some purpose; for one day Sir Austin found him leaning c... ...pe itself anew; but it is never the quality of vapour to reassume the same shapes. Briareus of the hundred unoccupied hands may turn to a monstrous do...

...s Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...s of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have grimly writhed into many shapes, down to the copying clerk in the Six Clerks’ Office who has cop ie... ...as no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. T o be sure, he has not a vital inte... ...e, and spirits is inseparable in his vocation from death in its most awful shapes. He is conducted by the beadle and the land lord to the Harmonic Me... ... state to be like Jo! T o shuffle through the streets, unfamiliar with the shapes, and in utter darkness as to the meaning, of those mysterious symbol... ...dmiring Mrs. Snagsby the regular acute professional eye which is thrown on British jurymen. “Now, ma’am, perhaps you’ll have the kindness to tell us ... ...om that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fash ion in every variety...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which po...