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...profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five min...

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...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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...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...

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...assics Series Publication Touch and Go by D. H. Lawrence 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... ...AWRENCE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE A nice phrase: “ A People’s Theatre.” But what about it? There’s no such thing in existence as... ...ple’s Theatre.” But what about it? There’s no such thing in existence as a People’s Theatre: or even on the way to existence, as far as we can tell. T... ...come. But she’s done her bit—now she’ll go again. My God, what a fool of a world!—You go on, Gerald—I’ll just go after her and see it out. (Calls.) On... ...ut perhaps there is to be no 25 DH Lawrence happiness—for our part of the world. ANABEL (after a pause). Yet I feel hope—don’t you? OLIVER. Yes, some... ...’t accept your figure of speech liter- ally, dear. No, Gerald, don’t go to war over trifles. GERALD. It’s just over trifles that one must make war, fa... ...the God that made me, and made me proud. With men who humiliate me I am at war. Between me and the shameful humble there is war to the end, though the... ...able, work was short. Either we must close down or introduce a new system, American methods, which I dislike so extremely. Now it really became a case...