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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

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... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment 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. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State... ...ed eyes; the sea even was strange. Only twice in my life had I been at the seaside before, and then I had gone by excursion to places on the Welsh coa... ... that time had led to the plotting out of nearly all the country round the seaside towns into roads and building-plots—all but a small portion of the ... ... central areas of—I quote the local guidebook —”one of the most delightful resorts in the East Anglian poppy-land.” Then more mean houses, the gaunt u... ...e against the costly and uncomfortable social stiffness of the more formal seaside resorts of that time. It was, you must understand, the custom of th... ...t the costly and uncomfortable social stiffness of the more formal seaside resorts of that time. It was, you must understand, the custom of the steam-... ... the brightest contrast conceivable to the dull rigidities of the decorous resorts. Of course there were many discomforts in such camping that had to ...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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...d without any charge 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 Pen... ...r the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...d as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to ... ... Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England; and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and ... ...or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twang in a New England Port; from a cockney skipper, even a Scotsman some... ...ght still succeed, all had already failed. We were a shipful of failures, the broken men of England. Yet it must not be supposed that these people exh... ...ttish moor with birches and firs grouped here and there upon a knoll, or one of those rocky seaside deserts of Provence over- grown with rosemary and ... ...gnation, the cowardice that apes a kind of courage and that lives in the very air of health resorts, is cast 142 Essays of Travel aside at a breath o...

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... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ...ndividually addressed, would have been tended in her own room, and would have had her life gently assimilated to a comfortable life out of doors. Woul... ...day night, and Friday night was considered not a good night for Jack. At any rate, Jack did not show in very great force even here, though the house w... ...t week, accompanied by the amiable and fascinating Mrs. Grazinglands. Mr. G. is a gentle- man of a comfortable property, and had a little business to ... ...int Ghastly Grim, from a cer- tain air of extra repose and gloom pervading a vast stack of warehouses. From the hush of these places, it is congenial ... ...- verse that route may retrace my steps. CHAPTER XXXIII A LITTLE DINNER IN AN HOUR I T FELL OUT ON A DAY in this last autumn, that I had to go down fr... ...DAY in this last autumn, that I had to go down from London to a place of seaside resort, on an hour’s business, accompanied by my esteemed friend Bull...

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...rles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our n...

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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. The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...o him; he had been so willing to put it off, and to prolong those pleasant seaside days, when there had been such pleasant reading, walk- ing, musing,... ... it, Sophy. He was French, but of the Protestant French sort, that came to England a great many years ago, when they ran away from the Sicilian Vesper... ...ook,’ she said. ‘O dear! if you would let me see whether d’Artagnan got to England. I must know that! I’m sure there can’t be any harm in that. Do you... ...en driven at length to fly in utter destitution, and had made their way to England in a wretched, unprovisioned open boat. The child for whose sake th... ...ursued, ‘as his uncle says, nothing can be worse than driving him to these resorts, and when he is once of age, there’s an end of all power over him t...

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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. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ntil the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attracted settlers out of England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD fr... ...adows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which gives the ac count of New England from 1628 to 1652, and see how matters looked to him. He says of th... ...ere the Grecian cities then, The Romes of modern birth, Where the New England husbandmen Have shown a Roman worth. In vain I search a foreig... ...from the world, just as the aged read their Bibles. Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prairie, it concerns us to a... ... we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he... ...obably Massachusetts does not furnish a more grand and dreary walk. On the seaside there are only a distant sail and a few coots to break the grand mo...

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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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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. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... may study the subject,” said the Doctor; “I shall pack you all off to the seaside in a day or two.” There was one outcry from mother, wife, and boys,... ...irits, which had made his elder sister contrive to spend her Easter at the seaside with him, and give him a few days at the beginning of the term. Ind... ...y has always seemed like holiday. You see we used to go— all of us—to some seaside place, and be quite free there, keeping no particular hours, and be... ...Mr. Barnes had gone back to the West Indies at once, and never appeared in England again till he came home, a broken 143 Yonge and soured old man, to... ...so they went to Florence instead, and have been wandering about in all the resorts of rather shady people, where Lisette can cut a figure. Mr. Wakefie... ...- ting of the yacht, while she kept the party wandering over Europe in the resorts of second-rate English residents. No doubt she wished to make the m...