.... 1 MARLEY’S GHOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 T... ...MARLEY’S GHOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 THE S... ...’S GHOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 THE SECOND ... ... OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 THE LAST OF THE TH... ...HE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 THE LAST OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 THE END OF ... ... straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant. THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 17 STA VE TWO. THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS ... ...dergone a surprising transformation. The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grove; from every part of which, b... ...him,” observed Scrooge’s niece. Scrooge’s niece’s sisters, and all the other ladies, expressed the same opinion. “Oh, I have!” said Scrooge’s nephew. ... ...ccount was stated on the wall in the same manner. “I always give too much to ladies. It’s a weakness of mine, and that’s the way I ruin myself,” said ...

...Excerpt: PREFACE; I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Serv...

...Table of Contents: ILLUSTRATION: HE HAD BEEN TIM?S BLOOD HORSE, ii -- PREFACE, 1 -- MARLEY?S GHOST, 2 -- THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 17 -- THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 31 -- THE LAST OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 49 -- THE END OF I...

...roods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ds, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia 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... ...ods “No, thank you, Mrs. Best. I shall like to have a little time with you first. I can stay till a quarter-past three.” “Then come and take off your ... ...agdalen, I am so glad,” said Mrs. Best, crossing over to kiss her; for the first stiffness had worn off, and they were together again, as had been the... ... for an engagement, and finding that beside your high-school diploma young ladies I am consid- ered quite passee—” “My dear! With your art, and music,... ... sing were placed near the harmonium, which was played by one of the young ladies from the large gabled house to which the chapel was attached, and th... ...No; but I do not think this is the same family. This is a retired general, living in a house of Lord Rotherwood’s. I once met one of his little girls,... ...er companion was away, attending a sick person. “May I ask whether you are living here?” “T wo miles off at the Goyle, at Arnscombe, with our sister.”...

...ssics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the... ...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...about dose ting?” “I don’t hear about anything, Bismarck. I don’t know the first thing about how the ranch is run.” “Und der pipe-line ge-mend,” Hoove... ...e it became realism, grim, unlovely, unyielding. To be true—and it was the first article of his creed to be unflinchingly true—he could not ignore it.... ...r generation, standing for a different or- der of things, absolutely idle, living God knew how, happy with their cigarette, their guitar, their glass ... ...of San Juan de Guadalajara, Father Sarria. He remained always a mys- tery, living a life half-real, half-legendary. In all those years he did not seem... ...e could see, stunned her a little. The one-time writing-teacher of a young ladies’ seminary, with her pretty deer-like eyes and delicate fingers, shra... ...antity of purses, tennis belts, and hat bands, which he presented to young ladies of his acquaintance. It was his policy never to make an enemy. He wa...

Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

...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... ...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... ...be doing an excellent business. At that time, the old Descoings were still living. They had retired from the wool-trade, and were employing their capi... ... was told by Madame Hochon,—though not until after the doctor’s death. The first words of Madame Rouget, when informed by her husband that he meant to... ...t. She con- sidered the opinions of the grocer insulting to Maximilian the First. Already displeased with the manners of Descoings, this illustrious “... ...d his mother to let him go to Monsieur Regnauld, promising to earn his own living. He declared he was quite sufficiently advanced in the second class ... ... Agathe Bridau, Madame Hochon, and her friend Madame Borniche, the two old ladies who laid down the law to the society of Issoudun. The bride was much... ...ressed by this concession, obtained by Philippe, and in- tended by the two ladies as a mark of protection to a repen- tant woman. Flore was in dazzlin...

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

...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens 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 ... ... felt that the world was not utterly to be despised; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has sai... ...hat you were disap pointed—I mean the death of the little heroine. When I first conceived the idea of conducting that simple story to its termination... ...f the story, I daily received letters of remonstrance, especially from the ladies. God bless them for their tender mercies! The Profes sor was quite ... ...ng, I kept to my purpose, and I am happy to know that many of those who at first condemned me are now foremost in their approbation. If I have made a ... ...Hewett, in the truest sense of the word; and the devoted admiration of the ladies, God bless them, is a sailor’s first boast. I need not enlarge upon ... ...full in the moonlight—go among the water carriers and the village gossips, living still as in days of old—and who has travelled among them before you,...

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...ic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds 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... ...and makes us feel eager and full of suspense. This taste, though it is the first step above the dullness that cannot be interested in anything beyond ... ...ok of Golden Deeds may we pass by her to whom our title page points as our living type of Golden Deeds—to her who first showed how woman’s ministratio... ...o whom our title page points as our living type of Golden Deeds—to her who first showed how woman’s ministrations of mercy may be carried on, not only... ...lised with vines, and clouded with grey olive, and of the cool cisterns of living water by the gate of which he loved to sing— ‘He shall feed me in a ... ... the woods, sometimes crossing the lakes in small boats. Many 27 Yo n g e ladies were among them, and their summer life had some wild charms of roman... ...ought in the salmon, the roe, and the deer that formed their food, and the ladies gathered the flowering heather, over which soft skins were laid for ...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...RIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson 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... ...Louis Stevenson LAY MORALS CHAPTER 1 T HE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an ... ...- plained and applied. And thus, to learn aright from any teacher, we must first of all, like a historical artist, think ourselves into sympathy with ... ...till wonderful to himself. He inhabits a body which he is continually out- living, discarding and renewing. Food and sleep, by an un- known alchemy, r... ...s bosom with a cruel pang. I do not speak of it to hardened theorists: the living man knows keenly what it is I mean. ‘Perceive at last that thou hast... ..., after hav- ing exhausted Byron’s poetry and Scott’s novels, informed the ladies of his belief in phrenology. In the present day he would dilate on ‘...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken image...

..............................................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS..................................................

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEA... ...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...TLEWOOD, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in his Majesty’s cause by the... ...r by ourselves or for a great enter- tainment. They say he liked to be the first in his company; but what company was there in which he would not be f... ..., very soon began to grow sleek, and to show signs of the benefits of good living and clean linen. He fasted rigorously twice a week, to be sure; but ... ...ed the more because the poor lady, who had pretty well passed the age when ladies are accustomed to have children, nevertheless determined not to give... ... 26 Henry Esmond exile from Court, and there had been war between the two ladies before. The village people began to be reconciled presently to their... ... repair, was the great hall, near to the kitchen and butteries. A dozen of living-rooms looking to the north, and communicating with the little chapel...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

...CE. ........................................................................................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND ...