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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity University. 3 A Tramp Abroad A TRAMP ABROAD By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 C... ...ing that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, and the army followed. So a great Frankish victory or defeat was gained or avoided; ... ...ted saloon, the clang- ing music invited to dance, and splendidly appeared the rich toilets and charms of the ladies, and the festively costumed Princ... ... bing; meanwhile two others scrubbed the four marble steps which led up to the door; beyond these we could see some men-servants taking up the carpet ... ...pendix B] with empty window arches, ivy- mailed battlements, moldering towers—the Lear of inani- mate nature—deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storm... ...dents’ Dueling- Ground Dueling by Wholesale One day in the interest of science my agent obtained permis- sion to bring me to the students’ dueling-pla... ...ing,” said the man, joyously, “and it’s the biggest luck in the world that I’ve found you. My name is Lykins. I’m one of the teachers of the high scho...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...e by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abando... ...agus, in the building of which, according to a family tradition, his great-grandfather had a share. Both brothers founded families. The Cervantes bran... ...the line that settled in Andalusia, Deigo de Cervantes, Com- mander of the Order of Santiago, married Juana Avellaneda, daugh- ter of Juan Arias de Sa... ...ng on “Don Quixote.” A man who could look back upon an ancestry of genuine knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of ... ...undertake a venture of so novel a character; and so little faith in it had Francisco Robles of Madrid, to whom at last he sold it, that he did not car... ... It is difficult to imagine a community in which the never-ceasing game of cross- purposes between Sancho Panza and Don Quixote would not be recognize... ...ly tree; And such a one thy kindly star In Bejar bath provided thee: A royal tree whose spreading boughs A show of princely fruit display; 38 D...