...DROLL STORIES COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN T... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a pub... ...sylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Penn- sylvania S... ...you will refresh yourself after your merry labour by washing yourself in a bath that I have had heated by Perrotte.” Amador was then bathed in scented... ...s, in order to keep him the longer in view, and waved him signals of fare- wells. When the clouds of dust raised by the heels of the horses were no lo... ...she kissed this pretty varlet of pleasure on the face, bound up his wound, bathing it with her tears, beseech- ing him not to die, and exclaiming that... ...v- ing, as she once said, spent much of her time with church- men, abbots, bishops, and cardinals, who had sprinkled her well with holy water, and und...

... Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other questions of a like character....

.................... 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT .......................................................................................................... 51 I HOW BERTHA REMAINED A MAIDEN IN THE MARRIED STATE ............................

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...e Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these m... ...e warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignoring Alfre... ... yourself by also taking a drug overdose. Your ex-wife found you lying on the bathroom floor and called the ambulance. She was smart enough to have ... ...d tell them that if they are not here by tomorrow night there will be a blood bath, the likes of which they have never known." "Is it that serious... ... thought Saddam Hussein stupid for invading Kuwait. Iraq did not need the oil wells of Kuwait. He now knew that Hussein was fanatical. If he couldn'...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of t... ... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...cs Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ...ms!” A disturbing thought struck him. He turned to the bench by the vapour bath, and then very quickly to his writing-table. Then he felt hastily in h... ...moke. But the queerest part of his vision came when Wade sent him out in a Bath-chair to get fresh air. The Davidsons hired a chair, and got that deaf... ...fully-dressed, conversationally dexterous, finally shal- low W edderburns, Bishops W edderburn, W edderburn M.P .’ s, Professors Wedderburn, Wedderbur...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... to refer. A report that Dalzell was approaching drove them from Lanark to Bathgate, where, on the evening of Monday the 26th, the wearied army stoppe... ...heir snow-clad summits, slanted obliquely into the rich plain before them, bathing with rosy splendour the leafless, snow-sprinkled trees, and fading ... ...ng interest: a job found, a shilling saved, a dainty earned, all these are wells of pleasure spring- ing afresh for the successful poor; and it is not... ...t the Covenant first; and it began to be ill days for Montroymont when the Bishops came in and the dragoons at the heels of them. Ninian (then laird) ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................