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...of your former favors, as by them to be encouraged to entreat, that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall not be denied, because it is a discourse of Fish and Fishing, which you know so well, and both love and practice so much....

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...y be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall not be denied, because it is a discour... ...t too grave or too busy men. And this is all the confidence that I can put on, concerning the merit of what is here offered to their consideration and... ...lmanack, and no surer; for those very flies that used to appear about, and on, the water in one month of the year, may The Compleat Angler — Walton 6... ...s as useful as an Almanack out of date. And of these, because as no man is born an artist, so no man is born an Angler, I thought fit to give thee thi... ... be capable of learning it? angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be height ened b... ...And to parallel this Cock, there be divers fishes that cast their spawn on flags or stones, and then leave it uncovered, and exposed to become a prey ... ...h them, he is the man, and indeed such a companion should have his charges borne; and to such company I hope to bring you this night; for at Trout hal... ...the ground out of which they are got; as the marsh worm, the tag tail, the flag worm, the dock worm, the oak worm, the gilt tail, the twachel or lob ... ...he moor fly, the tawny fly, the shell fly, the cloudy or blackish fly, the flag fly, the vine fly; there be of flies, caterpillars, and canker flies, ...

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...xcerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creat...

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... my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occu pations of those who fill the streets. The glar... ...resent to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie... ...est for centuries to come. Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toil at last), where many stop o... ...ugh I cannot and that I hope to triumph yet. All is for her sake. I have borne great poverty myself, and would spare her the sufferings that poverty... ...n this boy and the dwarf that existed a strange kind of mutual liking. How born or bred, and or nourished upon blows and threats on one side, and reto... ...the looks they cast about—the church bells rang out their noisy peals, and flags streamed from win dows and house tops. In the large inn yards waiter... ... doors to see the stroller woman dance, and add their uproar to the shrill flageo let and deafening drum. Through this delirious scene, the child, fr... ...—’Be quiet, ’—‘Wo a a, ’ and the like, which by a pony of spirit cannot be borne. Consequently, the pony being deterred by no considerations of duty o... ...h. And in any one of these his many cares, from first to last, Quilp never flagged nor faltered. At length, when they had played a great many rub ber...

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...Excerpt: The wolf and the lamb. Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf?s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: ?Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.? ?Indeed,? bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, ?I was not then bor...

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....89 THE H UNTER AND THE H ORSEMAN ........................89 THE K ING’S S ON AND THE P AINTED L ION .............90 THE C AT AND V ENUS ........... ...AMEL AND THE A RAB .................................91 THE M ILLER, H IS S ON, AND T HEIR A SS ................91 THE C ROW AND THE S HEEP ......... ... meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to... ...e.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” rep... ...ND THE F ULLER A CHARCOAL BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with hi... ...yourself the trouble,” said the Bull; “I knew that way long before you were born.” The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep A STAG asked a Sheep to lend him... ... Thief sat down beside him and talked with him. As the conversation began to flag, the Thief yawned terribly and at the same time howled like a wolf. ... ... own hurt. The Wolf and the Fox AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow wolves in strength, s... ... The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck ...

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... has; another at Los Angeles; owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope, and lets his wife spend the money ,” the Philadelphia... ...Pacific slope, and lets his wife spend the money ,” the Philadelphian went on lazily . “The West don’t suit her, she says. She just tracks around with... ...d in over the high footway . His pasty yellow complexion did not show well on a person of his years, and his look was a mixture of irresolution, brava... .... The deck was deserted, and he crawled to the extreme end of it, near the flag- pole. There he doubled up in limp agony , for the Wheel- ing “stag” j... ...u told me jest now, that you never done a hand’ s turn o’ work in all your born life? 20 Captains Courageous Must feel kinder awful, don’t it?” “I’m ... ... was rather back-breaking work, for in a dory the weight of a cod is water-borne till the last minute, and you are, so to speak, abreast of him; but t... ...eling cross-trees, and let his eye rove till it caught the tiny black buoy-flag on the shoulder of a mile-away swell. “She’ s all right,” he hailed. “... ... haow the money was earned, I presoom,-an’ they was all iced up, an’ I was born at Disko. Don’t remember nothin’ abaout it, o’ course. We come back wh... ...r home, envying their good fortune. At last she cleared decks, hoisted her flag, – as is the right of the first boat off the Banks, – up-anchored, and...

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...perant, nous nous marions tous!” Every marriage was like another gray hair on his head; and the jolly church bells seemed to taunt him with his fifty ... ... has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness repose... ...nth, destitute of all. Marriage is certainly a perilous remedy. Instead of on two or three, you stake your happiness on one life only. But still, as t... ... happily together, they should be versed in the niceties of the heart, and born with a faculty for willing compromise. The woman must be talented as a... ...ather, one would do one’s utmost to keep it from their knowledge, as a red flag of adventure and disinte- grating influence in life. The time would fa... ... full of the placidity and stillness of the country; and while the body is borne for- ward in the flying chain of carriages, the thoughts alight, as t... ...t is always characteristic of the dress of these southern women, will come borne to him unexpectedly, and awake in him that satisfaction with which we... ...d doings of the English Admirals. Duncan, lying off the Texel with his own flagship, the venerable, and only one other vessel, heard that the whole Du... ...n the depth of the water,” added he, “and when the venerable goes down, my flag will still fly.” And you observe this is no naked Viking in a prehisto...

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...d be pleased with them would read them with more than common pleasure: and on the other hand I was well aware that by those who should dislike them th... ...uld be found no dis cordance in the colours of our style; as our opinions on the subject of poetry do almost entirely coincide. Several of my Friends... ...portant in the multiplicity and in the quality of its moral relations: and on this account they have advised me to prefix a systematic defence of the ... ... the promise which by the act of writing in verse an Author in the present day makes to his Reader; but I am certain it will appear to many persons th... ...lways expressed in language pure and universally intelligible even to this day. I cannot be insensible of the present outcry against the triviality an... ...erfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribu... ...her earth, As if she for no purpose bore you; As if you were her first born birth, And none had lived before you!” One morning thus, by Esthwa... ...ame of this poor child There’s none that ever knew: And if a child was born or no, There’s no one that could ever tell And if ’twas born alive... ...e so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life And a hundred fire flags sheen To and fro they were hurried about; And to and fro, and in ...

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...her. Just as she was beginning to think it rather tiresome to lie there with nothing to do, except to watch the flies buzzing about, there was a step on the stairs and up came the doctor....

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...h nothing to do, except to watch the flies buzzing about, there was a step on the stairs and up came the doctor. He was an old friend, very good-natur... ...Lucy about having turned into a spotted leopard, just like the cowry shell on Mrs. Bunker’s mantel-piece. Indeed, he said he thought 4 Little Lucy’s ... ...es and show wonders. He was away now. He had gone away to wear a red cross on his arm, and help to take care of the wounded in the sad war between the... ...er’s nation; indeed she could hardly be said to have any, for she had been born at sea, and had been a sailor’s wife; but whether she was mostly Engli... ... to sleep. The next evening she was sitting up by the fire, and the fourth day she was running about the house as if nothing had ever been the matter ... ...e boy laughed, but the little girl whispered, “Good white men say so. Some day Lavo will go and learn, and leave off fighting.” Lavo shook his head. “... ...est; indeed, they have gourds of milk beside them, and are drinking it all day long to keep themselves fat. No sooner however is Lucy led in among the... ...in a coach, he told Lucy, with some more Americans and En- glish, and with flags with stars and stripes or else Union Jacks all over it; and whenever ...

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...pt: Chapter 1. It was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half the world, rather, for the crowd was equally dense in the gaming-rooms around the tables. Everywhere the crowd was great. ...

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...been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the e... ...ad captured one, but it seemed no easy matter to find a mate for it. I was on the point of giving up in despair, and proposing an adjournment to the s... ... silken ottomans of the Kursaal, when I observed a young man lounging back on one of the objects of my quest, with his feet supported on the rounds of... ...being an exception. One of the charms of Homburg is the fact that of a hot day you may walk about for a whole afternoon in unbroken shade. The umbrage... ...cine to school and take a dose in a glass of water before lunch; and every day at two o’clock, half an hour before the rest of us were liberated, an o... ...gle select companion was prescribed. The choice, mysteriously, fell on me, born as I was under quite another star; my par- ents were appealed to, and ... ...ut if there was an old grievance on one side, was there not possibly a new-born delusion on the other? It would be unkind to withhold a reflection tha... ...w facts and with an anecdote. Madame Blumenthal is Prussian, and very well born. I remember her mother, an old Westphalian Grafin, with principles mar... ...g as you amuse it, well and good; she’s radiant. But the moment you let it flag, she is capable of dropping you without a pang. If you land on your fe...

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...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive finan...

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...arch J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the... ...Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang " TheMountains, " all enmity bet... ...he transparencies, the sharp, short struggle between the two lower classes on the old campus, the speeches and the final burial of the enormous tin ha... ...d in the progress of their development in the art of painting. Raphael wos born in Urbino, Italy, a distinctly rural land, rolling in hills. He was fo... ...ntings reveal more and more a tendency toward the orti- ficial. Rembrandt, born in Leyden, Holland, was surrounded by dis- tinctly Dutch scenery. At f... ... city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was born in Boston on May 27, 1836 and graduated from WillianiB in the class of... ...and white bunt- ing with the usual adornment of Williams and 1909 banners, flags and pennants. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunt... ...luipliia, Haverford being only a few miles from that city. 1910 Wins First Flag Rush Immediately after the M. A. C. game on Saturday, a flag rush Ije-... ...a flag rush Ije- tween the lower classes was held on Weston Field. A white flag, on which were the sophomore nu- merals, was nailed to the flag pole n...

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...rs he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop woul...

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...ver it, and there would be speeches. Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that ran along one of the main revetments—the huge s... ...e huge stone- faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river—and permitted himself to think of the end. With... ...ngth; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick pies. Each one of those piers was twenty-four fee... ...legs apart to keep his balance— this was the most important point—would be borne with great and easy speed to the shore. But yet a better plan came to... ...epul overshadowing a Hindoo shrine, from whose dome floated a tattered red flag. The holy man whose sum- mer resting-place it was had long since aband... ... ran round the circle. “Their Gods! What should their Gods know? They were born yesterday, and those that made them are scarcely yet cold,” said the M... ... come to us without punishment, and Gunga knows that the fire-carriage has borne to her scores upon scores of such anx- ious ones; and Kali knows that... ...s painted lead-colour with a red funnel—looked very fine indeed. Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes... ...g Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list of our mercantile ma- rine. She was a nine-hundred-ton, ir...

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...he greeny, cream-coloured, waxy blossoms were heat-killed before they were born, and only a few bad- smelling petals came down when he stood on his hi... ...hey were born, and only a few bad- smelling petals came down when he stood on his hind legs and shook the tree. Then, inch by inch, the untempered hea... ...the hidden pools sank down and caked over, keeping the last least footmark on their edges as if it had been cast in iron; the juicy-stemmed creepers f... ...y direction. Mowgli, who had never known what real hunger meant, fell back on stale honey, three years old, scraped out of de- serted rock-hives—honey... ...bove them, too exhausted to move off. The deer and the pig had tramped all day in search of something better than dried bark and withered leaves. The ... ...ches!” “We wish so, very greatly,” bleated a young fawn, who had only been born that spring, and did not at all like it. Wretched as the Jungle People... ...ept leaves and flowers and grass and fruit and bark.” “I am glad I was not born in those days,” said Bagheera. “Bark is only good to sharpen claws.” “... ...ripe upon his yellow hide. and those stripes do this children wear to this day! When he came to the cave, Fear, the Hair- 15 Rudyard Kipling less One... ...hern Lights would roll across the hollow of the high heavens, flick like a flag, and disappear; or a meteor would crackle from darkness to darkness, t...

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...er, the horses were climbing the steep ac- clivity which leads from the river to the castle, several shop- boys approached the last horse, from whose ... ... influ- ence of that long pale face, of those watery eyes, and that languid address; so that the worthy prince was almost cer- tain to find the street... ...sion of Mazarin to power, no heads had been cut off, Monsieur’s occupation was gone, and his morale suffered from it. The life of the poor prince was,... ...pose to me — for you are proposing an affair, are you not? —” “A superb one, Planchet.” “But as it is business you propose to me, I have the right to ... ...e men of the sword, with sheath of leather, be it understood, found lodging, table, food, and all the com- forts of life, for thirty sous per diem. D’... ...yet, if he had presented himself to them two months ago, they would have sent as many bullets and balls at him as they now throw flowers. Decidedly it... ...now throw flowers. Decidedly it is 234 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 worth something to be born in a certain sphere, with due respect to the lowly, who p... ... in one direction and then in an- other. The English fleet was soon recognized by the line of the ships, and by the color of their pennants; the one w... ... spread that the princess was arriving. The whole French court ran to the harbor, while the quays and jetties were soon covered by crowds of people. T...

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...nd you know what a dread they have of moping. She was famous for her fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the co...

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...d high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen’s collections of pictures in En- ... ...ight arm to defend her reputa- tion with; and she would have done anything on earth to please him. There is a picture of her in an immense flat white ... ...le blue, like a pavilion, the broadest brim ever seen, and she simply sits on a chair; and V enus the Queen of Beauty would have been extinguished und... ... she was indeed very blamable. Women should walk in armour as if they were born to it; for these cold sneerers will never waste their darts on cuirass... ...gaze at one of our big ships coming out of an engagement home with all her flags flying and her crew manning the yards. That will give you an idea of ... ...ty. He was more, if he died at ninety-one; and Chillon Switzer John Kirby, born eleven months after the elopement, was, we know, twenty- three years o... ...arinthia Jane, the second child of this extraordinary union; both children born in wedlock, as you will hear. Sixty-three, or sixty-seven, near upon s... ...ts among sailors as ‘Old Showery,’ because of a remark he once made to his flag-cap- tain, when cannon-balls were coming thick on them in a hard- foug... ...o much to do more than nod a short approval of his fortitude. To sink with flag flying is next to sinking the enemy. There was talk of a girl present ...

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...now the name of your hatter, or your own, if you happen to have written it on the lining inside? Or, after all, is the measurement of your skull requi... ...s to the cerebral capacity of gamblers? The executive is absolutely silent on this point. But be sure of this, that though you have scarcely taken a s... ...chedness lying in the hospital, the vagrant lives of ruined folk, inquests on num- berless suicides, life-long penal servitude and transportations to ... ...on the glutinous soups at Darcet’s, and gambled away his mea- gre earnings day by day. Like some old hackney which takes no heed of the strokes of the... ...oughts as these, which passed in fragments through his mind, like tattered flags flut- tering above the combat. If he set aside for a moment the burde... ...f delirium! Pas- sionate women’s forms should grace that night! I would be borne away to unknown regions beyond the confines of this world, by the car... ...d by Gravity intoxicated, or by Inebriation grown sober and clear-sighted. Borne away by a kind of tempest, their minds, like the sea raging against t... ...sion that surged tempestuously in my own breast. Oh! to feel that you were born to love, to make some woman’s happiness, and yet to find not one, not ... ...oulders lay around the deep basin, and willows, mountain-ash trees, yellow-flag lil- ies, and numberless aromatic plants bloomed about it, in a realm ...

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...ence of their own authenticity, and that I had consequently little to fear on the score of popular incredulity. This exposé being made, it will be see... ... father was a respect- able trader in sea-stores at Nantucket, where I was born. My maternal grandfather was an attorney in good practice. He was fort... ...is school until I was sixteen, when I left him for Mr. E. Ronald’s academy on the hill. Here I became intimate with the son of Mr. Barnard, a sea-capt... ...named Augustus, and he was nearly two years older than myself. He had been on a whaling voyage with his father in the John Donaldson, and was always t... ...ued themselves to notice our jaded appearance—of course, it would not have borne a very rigid scrutiny. Schoolboys, however, can accomplish wonders in... ... on the deck of the stranger, who im- mediately afterward ran up a British flag, and, hauling her wind, bore up directly upon us. In half an hour more... ...ength, that the reader may have an opportunity of seeing how far they were borne out by my own subsequent experience. In 1831, Captain Briscoe, in the... ...r, and with a hand upon either cheek. They were eyeing, from behind a huge flagon of unpaid-for “humming- stuff,” the portentous words, “No Chalk,” wh... .... Bottles of various wines and cordials, together with jugs, pitchers, and flagons of every shape and quality, were scattered profusely upon the board...

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... the version he most considered full and complete. While it was a commercial and critical failure during Whitman’s lifetime, LEAVES OF GRASS has gone on to become one of the most canonical books of poetry ever written, influencing and inspiring countless artists in the last two centuries. Written in a groundbreaking prosodic style Whitman referred to as “free verse” LEAVES...

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...d daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,                                    Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and r...

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... To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Th...

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...tched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanated from the Tabernacle on the altar where the Holy Eucharist was kept. A singular focus began... ...ords, only the rhythmic pulsing. He saw what he thought to be a smile forming on the face of the unworldly presence, his being filled with a soothin... ...e way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Berini is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that ... ...of young Jesuit Priests from Venice. After that...” As Alfredo read off the day’s business, the Pontiff’s mind drifted off into the strange event ... ...the prelates how long the group would be visiting the Vatican. “Most of the day, Your Holiness,” he responded. “We’re giving them a complete tour,... ...any trouble.” Antonio relaxed, but only slightly. “Well, Holy Father, I was born in a small town just outside of Palermo...” Ah, Angelo Gallucci... ... agree to become part of this mission, the Angel of Death will visit his first-born." The words struck Antonio like lightening, sending shock waves ... ...lling these drugs are going to die. Except, in some cases, worse. Their first-born is going to die first." "What are you talking about?" Gallucci'... ...w the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned stre...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I ...

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...r Dostoevsky T ranslated by Constance Garnett. PART I CHAPTER I LAST YEAR, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I ... ...YEAR, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one ... ... cough. Ever since the au- tumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In... ...d hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In the first place I wanted a separate tenement, not a room in other p... ...very ill. Something like a fever set in. Moreover, I had been all day long on my legs and was tired. T owards evening, just before it got dark, I was ... ...at the beginning, though my autobiogra- phy won’t be a long one, I was not born here but far away in a remote province. It must be assumed that my par... ...eminded Natasha of the first lines: “ Alphonso, the hero of my story , was born in Portugal; Don Ramiro his father,” and so on, I almost shed tears. T... ...r. After the first year of marriage, he left his wife, who had mean- while borne him a son, at Moscow, in charge of her father, the contractor, and we... ...ly twinkling in the damp mist, to the dirty houses, to the wet and shining flags of the pavement, to the cross, sullen, drenched figures that passed b...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve...

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... CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE??...

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... . . . . 6 CHAPTER III — SHIP’S DUTIES—TROPICS CHAPTER IV — A ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 HO!’’—POMPERO—CAPE HORN . . ... .... . . . . . 46 DUTIES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—... .... . . . 52 BOARD—SAN DIEGO . . . . . . . . . . 59 CHAPTER XVI — LIBERTY DAY ON SHORE CHAPTER XVII — SAN DIEGO—A DESERTION—SAN PEDRO AGAIN—BEATING U... ...ft it to the captain. He picked out an active and intelligent young sailor, born near the Kennebec, who had been several Canton voyages, and proclaim... ...d by something like a palisade, from which an old and dingy looking Chilian flag was flying. This, of course, was dignified by the title of Presidio... ...e sun about an hour high, and every- thing looking pleasantly. The Mexican flag was flying from the little square Presidio, and the drums and trump... ... piracy or submission are his only alternatives. Bad as it was, it must be borne. It is what a sailor ships for. Swinging the rope over his head, a... ...procession as the other did like a house of mourning. The little coffin was borne by eight girls, who were continually relieved by others, running f... ..., men appointed to each, cartridges served out, matches lighted, and all the flags ready to be run up. I took my place at the starboard after gun, an...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the r...

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...ce that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in conne... ...ically driven road vehicle possible, the motor-car set an enormous premium on the development of very light, very efficient en- gines, and at last the... ... try, was going meticulously at four miles an hour behind a man with a red flag. Over there, where the prosperous classes have some regard for educati... ...make good by fussing and demanding eight, and saying we won’t wait, and so on, and then subsiding into indolence again. They are just the first-fruits... ...franchised Uitlanders. Every country finds a grow- ing section of its home-born people either living largely abroad, drawing the bulk of their income ... ...icial, and all the rest of it. As reasonable to complain that the children born last year were immature. A little army of teachers does not flash into... ...ing enemy or other. The burthen upon Bumble’s shoulders is too heavy to be borne, and we want the contemporary novel to give us a score of other figur... ... sort of radiation convivial. We drink limitless old October from handsome flagons, and we argue mightily about Pride (his weak point) and the nature ... ...s against association with any human being who sings any song but the “Red Flag” and doubts whether Marx had much experience of affairs. Well, there i...

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...cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? ...

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...es under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the th... ...years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unf... ...seemed mere inconsistency 4 Middlemarch and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could... ...ing stream in fellowship with its own oary- footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and so... ... tion from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but ... ... cated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and aft... ...imes into impatience of her uncle’s talk or his way of “letting things be” on his estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would... ...ng subservience to Bulstrode. That Mr. Farebrother, whose name was a chief flag of the anti-Bulstrode party, always defended Lydgate and made a friend... ... as made this association of her body with the victims of Burke and Hare a flagrant insult to her memory. Affairs were in this stage when Lydgate open...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly...

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...’s Conversion Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw ACT I On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a sea- port on the west c... ... two, is the sole product of his pet flower-bed. He is sitting to his work on a Moorish stool. In the middle of the garden there is a pleasant seat in... ...r. RANKIN. Well, sit ye doon. DRINKWATER. Aw thenk yr honor. (He sits down on the seat under the tree and composes himself for conversation.) Hever ea... ...ife more genially and easily in his character of tourist, which is further borne out by his white hat and summery racecourse attire. The lady is betwe... ...sland to take up the case against him. RANKIN. Is such a thing possible to-day in the British Empire? SIR HOWARD (calmly). Oh, quite. Quite. LADY CICE... ...odding affably to Marzo). Howdyedo? I love Italy. What part of it were you born in? DRINKWATER. Worn’t bawn in Hitly at all, lidy. Bawn in Ettn Gawdn ... ... up as long as you please. The customary charge is half a dollar a man per day and his food. I charge double. SIR HOWARD. I suppose you answer for you... ...R HOWARD. I have already met the only member of your escort who might have borne a grudge against me, Cap- tain; and he was acquitted. BRASSBOUND. You... ... ez is chawce of henny flegstown agin thet wall. They deposit Marzo on the flags against the wall close to the little door. He groans. Johnson phlegma...