... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by ... ...wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed go... ...-- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding thei... ...landers -- Concerning their domestic customs 428- 435 CHAPTER XLII. The Female Dancers of Bolabola. -- A unique and pleasurable entertainment -- Costu... ...cers of Bolabola. -- A unique and pleasurable entertainment -- Costumes of the dancers -- First conflict with New Zealanders -- Killing of a chief -- ... ...to display the astonishingly variety of their movements. "To this grand female ballet succeeded one performed by fifteen men. Some of them were old; b...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- T...

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...d. It became even weaker, more inefficient and more corrupt than the corrupt Royal regimes that still opposed it. Napoleon won all of his most bri... ...amed of. You will see tackling rise to such a high art, that it will surpass ballet in its pure poetic beauty. You will see foot races, tumbles. …... ...Greek males strutting openly together in public? And Spanish male and female dancers strutting around in public? They barely move their bodies…they... ...their inner auras. They do not pick out the best mathematicians, or the best dancers, or the superficially pretties girls, or the superficially pret...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... .... Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western... ...ich gave a blurred version of this other part of humanity; and of course the dancers, who were rather boring after a few minutes of seeing the ends of... ...oul were the traditional weddings at the Korean Folk Village and traditional dancers no longer on the street corners but contained in a theatre. He th... ... met at the zoo in front of the spider monkeys. From there they went to the ballet. At the ballet he spoke to her in Russian. She thought of it as ...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... tender a mother may be, she cannot fulfil the function of the patriarchal royalty any more than a woman can take the place of a king upon the throne.... ...ek which was horribly costly, she dared not ask him to make terms with the royal government and apply to the minister 38 The Two Brothers of war. She... ...ious li- quors, Giroudeau pointed out to Philippe a plump and agile little ballet-girl whom he called Florentine, whose good graces and affection, tog... ...ig stom- ach, a face like a ploughman, and a nose like a potato, can get a ballet-girl, I ought to be the lover of the first actress in Paris. Where d... ...re- quently meet with men so fascinated with actresses, singers, or ballet-dancers, that they are willing to become directors of a theatre out of love...

Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...on Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville 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... ...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... ... two clans, and the next morning brought all the others to the feet of his royal ally. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Cor... ...rise, the farewell shouts from the canoe, as we dashed along under bellied royals, were heard unmoved by our islander; but it was not long thus. That ... ...round with- out. Voices also were heard. We went up, and had a peep at the dancers who were getting ready for the ballet. They were some twenty in num... .... We went up, and had a peep at the dancers who were getting ready for the ballet. They were some twenty in number;-waited upon by hideous old crones,... ...rmore, made us promise to remain where we were until all was over, and the dancers had retired. We waited impatiently; and, at last, they came forth. ...

Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ...ream.” “Don’t you eat anything between meals? How bourgeois, Marais, Place Royale, that is!” cried Georges. “When he ‘blagued’ just now about his cros... ...o the office about his own affairs, would take Oscar to dine in the Palais-Royal, 112 A Start in Life and to some theatre in the evening. Oscar had b... ...im to my sister, where he would see a pretty sort of society!—ac- tresses, ballet-dancers, elegant young fops, spendthrifts who are wasting their fort... ...y sister, where he would see a pretty sort of society!—ac- tresses, ballet-dancers, elegant young fops, spendthrifts who are wasting their fortunes! H... ...lowed her to the rue Pastourel, where he found that the future star of the ballet was the daughter of a portress. T wo weeks later, the mother and dau...

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...nic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ... that his fa- ther, as a young page of Louis XIII., gained favour with his royal master by his skill in holding the stirrup, and was fi- nally made a ... ... to private life. Upon his return to Court, taking up apartments which the royal favour had reserved for him at Versailles, Saint- Simon secretly ente... ... de Bourgogne. At one of these balls at Marly a ridiculous scene occurred. Dancers were wanting and Ma- dame de Luxembourg on account of this obtained... ... the slight- est mistrust of her. On this occasion, because of the want of dancers, the King made older people dance than was cus- tomary, and among o... ...ity, and of sweet recollections of his early years, his grace at fetes and ballets, his splendid gallantries, wished that the King, in imitation of th...

Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

...by Frank Norris A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...Frank Norris A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ... 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... ... ger steamers—to catch the T rades from the northwest. The sun was setting royally, and the floor of the ocean shim- mered like mosaic. The sea had go... ...oks, a chest or two, and a flaring picture cut from the advertisement of a ballet, was the room’s inven- tory in the matter of furniture and ornament.... ...n tops’ls and to’gallants’ls were set, as also were her lower stays’ls and royals. But the braces seemed to have parted, and the yards were swinging b... ... with pitch, and all manner of the dirt of an uncared-for ship. And as the dancers of the cotillon pressed about, and a hundred kid-gloved hands stret...

...Excerpt: Shanghaied This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been ...

... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...ment file is furnished 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... ...main, if there were spirit to support or to revive them. At the last feast of the Bastille, Stanislao Moanatini shed tears when he beheld the inani- m... ...h the back, mounting forest glades and coronals of precipice. Here, in the strong thorough-draught, Her Maj- esty received us in a simple gown of prin... ...ly errand; but, in the time of the feast, the clan trooped to the high place in a body, and each had his appointed seat. There were places for the chi... ... our European horror of human bones and mummies. Of the first they made their cherished orna- ments; they preserved them in houses or in mortuary cave... ...not very often join in the performance, but stood disengaged at the back part of the stage, and looked (in Ridi, necklace, and dressed hair) for all t...

Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

...on Some Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Some Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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... ... hark! I hear the cock-crow, and snuff the morning air.” And with this the royal ghost vanishes up the chimney — if there be a chimney in that dismal ... ...er’s birth. I daresay her father was absent in the Low Countries, with his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, under whom he had the honour of carr... ... yawn; she ceases to invite us, and we are resigned. The last time I saw a ballet at the opera — oh! it is many years ago — I fell asleep in the stall... ...la bonne heure. In the reign of George IV ., I give you my honour, all the dancers at the opera were as beautiful as Houris. Even in William IV .’s ti...

...tents ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI ............................ 4 DE JUVENTUTE.......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19...

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ...nt of saying: “What proof do you need?” The question had been asked with a royal air, and Memmi had ardently kissed the beautiful and guileless hand. ... ...rd Wellington with the gout, than the paralyzed Regent, than the epileptic royal fam- ily of Austria, than the King of France—” But as he thought of t... ...titutional spirit.” “Are you not bound,” said the Duchess, pointing to the ballet now being danced, “to find all our dancers detestable and our singer... ...aid the Duchess, pointing to the ballet now being danced, “to find all our dancers detestable and our singers atrocious? Paris and London rob us of al... ...ion put the house into a good humor again. Contrary to Italian custom, the ballet was not much at- tended to. In every box the only subject of convers...

...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate ...

...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ne through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...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... ...rt of Cato in Mr. Addison’s tragedy of that name, performed be- fore their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Bishop of Osnaburgh, and Prince W... ...the body. Marry somebody else, hay?” was the ap- posite remark made by His Royal Highness. “Mrs. Rawdon Crawley was quite killing in the part,” said L... ...stormy excitement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in t... ...e of all ages and ranks, and consorted with generals, dog-fanciers, opera- dancers, bruisers, and every kind of person, in a word, was resting himself... ...g for toffy, and used to be birched at Eton. So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down and joined th...

...s by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...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... ...a to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit odd, of course, but the whole sit... ...d.” 24 When the Sleeper Wakes They did not answer him. “The Queen and the Royal Family, her Ministers, of Church and State. High and low, rich and po... ...vance we shall use,” said Ostrog, “used by some of the posturers and women dancers. It may be novel to you. You stand in a very bright light, and they... ... might prefer—?” He paused. “Yes,” said Graham. “We had prepared a show of dancers— they have been brought from the Capri theatre.” “I hate ballets,” ... ...a show of dancers— they have been brought from the Capri theatre.” “I hate ballets,” said Graham, shortly. “Always did. That other—. That’s not what I...

Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

...es Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 ... ..., 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... ... of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And there is the cathedral to boot: scene like: all grim, and swart... ...gigantic, and almost blots out an actor. They usually play a comedy, and a ballet. The comic man in the comedy I saw one summer night, is a waiter in ... ...knocking himself off his legs at every blow. These failing to delight her, dancers appear. Four first; then two; two two; the flesh coloured two. The... ...se beard, who, to my knowledge, has gone half through the catalogue of the Royal Academy. This is the venerable, or patriarchal model. He carries a lo... ...obliged to dress in black at these ceremonies, and to wear black veils), a royal box for the King of Naples and his party; and the table itself, which...

...s Publication Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ublication Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...rs. Crump sat in a little bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fa... ...ossip in which the other mentioned journal abounds. The fact is, that the “Royal Bootjack,” though a humble, was a very genteel house; and a very litt... ... had himself once drawn off with that very boot- jack the top-boots of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the first gentleman in Europe. While... ...orio of “Purgatorio,” which made such an immense sensa- tion, of songs and ballet-musics innumerable. He is a German by birth, and shows such an outra... ...essors conduct their academies on very opposite principles. Baroski writes ballet music; Thrum, on the contrary, says “he cannot but deplore the dange...

...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlor...

... Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is fu... ... Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furni... ... 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 i... ...ile, 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 anyo... ... his great adversary Napoleon Bonaparte. Some, brought up as mountebanks and ballet dancers, were performing a figure dance (he regretted to observe, ... ...eat adversary Napoleon Bonaparte. Some, brought up as mountebanks and ballet dancers, were performing a figure dance (he regretted to observe, that, o... ...hest honour. ‘A Member wished to know how many thousand additional lamps the royal property would be illuminated with, on the night after the descent.... ...irst rate vessel of war for the use of her Majesty’s navy, to be called “The Royal Skewer,” and to become under that name the terror of all the enemie...

...Contents: I. PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE - ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ...

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ns Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ...sement to his rival. And while the poet looked ill at ease and awkward Her Royal Highness’ ex- secretary was quite in his element. He smiled at his ri... ...as no idea of the direction of the streets, who stands close to the Palais Royal and cannot find it, and asks his way to the Louvre of a passer-by, wh... ...e end. At times he thought of nothing but the magnificent spectacle of the ballet in the great Inferno scene in the fifth act; sometimes the sight of ... ...to- morrow, for I have put my initials to a terrific attack on a couple of dancers under the protection of two Generals. I am giving it them hot and s... ...Suddenly the door was flung open, and T ullia, one of the prettiest opera- dancers of the day, dashed into the room. “They agree to take the hundred c...

...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual pre...

...y R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of t... ... of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...and that you would not wish for me. You will not see me here again till my royal lover has deserted me, and I warn you that if I catch him, death alon... ...in Paris. Miss Griffith has found out also that Alphonse is in love with a ballet-girl at the Opera. How is it possible to fall in love with legs and ... ...gates of Cadiz and I read peril for my life in the dissembling words of my royal master. Vainly I tried to discover the cause of your displea- sure, a... ... me. Often when, at the Opera, I seem absorbed in watching the pirouetting dancers, I am saying to myself, “It is half-past nine, perhaps she is in be... ... I had sunk to the level of the gutter, by the side of courtesans, op- era-dancers, mere creatures of instinct; even the vulgar shop- girl or humble s...

...nce on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

...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... ...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...I shall endeavor to interest in Edmond’s favor. I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a ... ...e — a Bonapartist, and is called Noirtier; I, on the contrary, am a stanch royalist, and style myself de Villefort. Let what may remain of revolu- tio... ...her, she recommended Franz to take the next best, if he wished to view the ballet, and pointed to the one behind her own chair. Albert was soon deeply... ...ethod, and elegance in which the whole corps de ballet, from the principal dancers to the humblest supernumer- ary, are all engaged on the stage at th... ...e to repose themselves and change their costume, when necessary, while the dancers are ex- ecuting their pirouettes and exhibiting their graceful step...

...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...

...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...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... ...) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are ope... ...rs as the carriage crossed Westminster bridge. The party was landed at the Royal Gardens in due time. As the majestic Jos stepped out of the creaking ... ... liked it just as well—wanted a pipe for the Commander- in-Chief. He’s his Royal Highness’s right-hand man.” “It is devilish fine wine,” said the Eyeb... ...n full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. And when the time for the ballet came (in which there was no dancer that went through her grimaces or... ...nd gambling- table; all previous loves and courtships of milliners, opera- dancers, and the like easy triumphs of the clumsy military Ado- nis, were q...