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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the ho...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...02 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means... ...ng eyes glared down on him, her terrible fanged mouth with its lolling tongue poised to drink his blood. He cried out for mercy, but he knew ‘The De... ... flexed like claws, as she reached down and scratched at his bare chest, forming tiny rivulets of blood. He stared at her in bewilderment. She laugh... ...ght, when ten thousand miles separated her from her charming cousin. Not that Gavin was really a blood relative. His father, the squire of Charnwoo... ... of your countrymen, he is without prejudice and loves this country and its people. What are your impressions of India and Mirapore in particular, L... ... England.’ ‘Sussex, a county in the Southern part of the British Isles, Your Highness. As for my impressions of India, from what I have observed on ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were be...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the sam...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in s...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before,...

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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...Excerpt: Book First; Introduction -- Childhood and School-time -- OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets th...

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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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...and the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Book Seventh Residence in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrosp... ...ospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Reside... ...in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution . . . . . . . . . 176 Book Eleventh Imagi... ...attendants, ’mid that giddy bliss 615 Which, like a tempest, works along the blood And is forgotten; even then I felt Gleams like the flashing of a shi... ...0 With Chaises, Grooms, and Liveries, and within Decanters, Glasses, and the blood red Wine. In ancient times, or ere the Hall was built On the large ... ... setting orb, In many a thoughtless hour, when, from excess Of happiness, my blood appear’d to flow With its own pleasure, and I breath’d with joy. And... ...90 The household might be summoned, doubting not But that they might receive impressions then Friendly to human kindness. Vaudracour (This heard I fro... ...eenth Conclusion 231 To rouze them—in a world of life they live, By sensible impressions not enthralled, But quickened, rouzed, and made thereby more ... ...bitually infused Through every image, and through every thought, 110 And all impressions; hence religion, faith, And endless occupation for the soul, ...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself deligh...

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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 ... ...way and that, in sympathy with the alertness with which she evidently caught impressions. Her impressions CHAPTER 2 13 were numerous, and they were a... ...ination and of what is called the historic consciousness; but to many of the impressions usually made by English life upon the cultivated stranger his... ...he had ever encountered—her idea of cousins having tended to gloom. Then her impressions were still so fresh and so quickly renewed that there was as ... ...sn’t certainly as if his nature had been soft, so that pin pricks would draw blood from it; and from the first of her acquaintance with him, and of her... ... render the answer to this question an insipidly easy one. If he had English blood in his veins it had probably received some French or Italian commix... ...adjusting the knots of ribbon on her dress. “You Osmonds are a fine race—your blood must flow from some very pure source. Your brother, like an intellig...

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....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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...Excerpt: The Parsonage. All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am...

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...Idylls of the King In Twelve Books In Twelve Books In Twelve Books In Twelve Books In Twelve Books by Alfred, ... ...n A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Idylls of the King: In Twelve Books by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a publication of the Pennsylva-... ...rge 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 State U... ...ed him: last a heathen horde, Reddening the sun with smoke and earth with blood, And on the spike that split the mother’s heart Spitting the child, b... ...m either side, with trumpet-blast, And shouts, and clarions shrilling unto blood, The long-lanced battle let their horses run. And now the Barons and ... ...cipitancy— And yet thou art but swollen with cold snows And mine is living blood: thou dost His will, The Maker’s, and not knowest, and I that know, ... ... thy knights— To whom my false voluptuous pride, that took Full easily all impressions from below, Would not look up, or half-despised the height To w...

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...lle, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a delightful residence owned by his wife...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

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...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... be curious in homi- cide; amateurs and dilettanti in the various modes of blood- shed; and, in short, Murder-Fanciers. Every fresh atrocity of that c... ...atre, the hand which inflicts the fatal blow is not more deeply imbrued in blood that his who sits and looks on: neither can he be clear of blood who ... ...t out life: he fell; and, deadly pale, Groan’d out his soul with gushing blood effus’d. Par. Lost, B. XI. Upon this, Richardson, the painter, who ... ... Fugue, as well as other variations not now recorded. Confluent with these impressions, from the terrific experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mai... ...experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mail, were other and more general impressions, de- rived from long familiarity with the English mail, as deve... ... long familiarity with the English mail, as developed in the former paper; impressions, for instance, of animal beauty and power, of rapid motion, at ...