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...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...and was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could no... ...e lacking, two heavy guns—the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service— had not to move out either of ... ... in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not ... ... I will tell you it from the beginning. You know how I was married. With the education mamma gave us I was more than innocent, I was stupid. I knew no... ...ming with the light of candles, white cloth, silver samovar, and transparent china tea things. The hostess sat down at the table and took off her glov... ... Countess Lidia Ivanovna had sent him a pamphlet by a celebrated traveler in China, who was staying in Petersburg, and with it she enclosed a note beg... ...ou may as well sit there,” he said to Levin. The dinner was as choice as the china, in which Stepan Arkadyevitch was a connoisseur. The soupe Marie Lo...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold ... ...o say that he had not even brought up his daughters. They had had no regular education and no permanent home; they had been at once spoiled and neglec... ...r frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of looking at life, of which his re... ...s at pains to intensify this light, however, by sending the boy home for his education. Ralph spent several terms at an American school and took a deg... ...would! For what do you take me, pray? Heaven help me, I’m not the Emperor of China! All I offer you is the chance of taking the common lot in a comfor... ...cious youth, with what are called cultivated tastes—an acquaintance with old china, with good wine, with the bindings of books, with the Almanach de G... ... her in amorous meditation a good deal as he might have thought of a Dresden china shepherdess. Miss Osmond, indeed, in the bloom of her juvenility, h...

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...idence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Im...

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