...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis Th... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...se to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easi... ...h the nostrils. That produces mostly nasal sounds. Human voice boxes sit lower in the throat. When we talk, most of the air passes out through our ... ...ntieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central heating system with underground furnaces and ti... ... the main floor below.) A small glassed-in enclosure next to the newsroom houses noisy clattering teletypes. They spit out an endless stream of wire...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable book...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

...ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy... ...g, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, char... ...ormation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places a... ... is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any ... ...nd petite in Air force blues. With her superior remaining silent, Roxanne lowered her tone and continued. "No one survived this one; let’s just start... ...having been doused in fuel. With the torch lighting the accumulation, she lowered the binoculars. The moment called for an emotion, yet this she cou... ...vid’s, the newcomer instantly shifted his attention back to her. His eyes stated the obvious; the man wasn't comfortable with touch, yet he didn't p... ...Do I frighten you?" "No," David replied awkwardly, assuming his emotional state was more obvious than he realised. "No, you don't frighten me." He d... ... about her he thought artificial and dangerous. "I take it the backup unit houses the codes?" David asked Stephen. "Yes, and in the event of what hap...

...Obsession with genetic engineering segregated humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctri...

... i i i i n n n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... ...by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...ge 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 ... ..., and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...Sally—it is a family that has never married outside the Royal and Imperial Houses of Europe: our grand children will sit upon thrones!” “T rue as you... ...eant approval, and delivered a bene diction; when he came with a frown he lowered the tem perature ten degrees. He was a well beloved man in the hou... ...tories 48 “Begin, Hester.” Fingering at the fringes of her shawl, and with lowered eyes, Hester said, timidly: “We should not have disobeyed for any o... ...ll she come? will she come quickly? will she come now? … There are so many houses … and they oppress me so … and everything whirls and turns and whirl...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

...Contents THE $30,000 BEQUEST ............................................................................................................................................. 5 A DOG?S TALE ...................................................

...... ...als, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is... ...as, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serve the public, aid students and educator... ...s any service that offers this file for download or commercial distribution in any form, (See complete disclaimer http://WorldLibrary.net/Copyrights... ...racter must largely be decided upon its v own merits. Generally it may be stated that, where no question of good taste or good logic is involved, ... .... Neither is it an advocate of any radical scheme of reform; in the present state of the agitation for the improvement of spelling, progressive cons... ...IO), Middle High German (MHG), the Age of Elizabeth; Pleistocene, Silurian, Lower Carboniferous. 8 The University of Chicago Press 13. Names for ... ...) names of divisions, orders, families, and genera (the names of species in lower- case type, except when proper names in nominative or genitive ca... ...ith, capitalization of names of, 17. Congress: capitalization of names of houses of, lo; of sessions of, 11; members of, to. be lower-cased, 19; ...

...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into ...

...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had its ...

...Preface Table of Contents Rules for Composition Capitalization The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofreaders Hints to Copyholders Proofreader’s Marks ...

...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...hrough the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Nu... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the ... ...ime without a central filling from leaking outwardly. The sandwich includes a lower bread portion, an upper bread portion, an upper filling and a lower ... ...tion, an upper bread portion, an upper filling and a lower filling between the lower and upper bread portions, a center filling sealed be- tween the uppe... ...down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. Who were these sheep? Bizarre Dolly-like clones? Tran... ...leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the c...

... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

...Democracy and Education by John Dewey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by Jo... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngs compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physi- cal sustentation have... ...han in the other. A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons’ houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter 32 Democracy ... ...ber of instinctive tendencies than other animals. But the instincts of the lower animals per- fect themselves for appropriate action at an early perio... ...agencies to means of communication, transportation, lighting of cities and houses, and more economical pro- duction of goods. These are social ends, m...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwa...

................ 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education ......................................................... 85 Chapter Eight: Aims in Education ...............................................................................................

...Suzanne Harper Student Editor David Retz Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ...udent Editor David Retz Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity... ............................................................. 7 Decisions for the Futrue Joseph M. Schifano ................................................ ............................................................... 17 Technology in My Life Bryan Hunsinger ................................................... ....................................................... 23 Drinking is No Fun in the End Gwen Donmoyer ..................................................... ........ 40 Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by ... ...d students the change can be very dramatic. Their grades may suffer and be lower than ex- pected. Between the amount of homework, differ- ences in tea... ... Bush believes it’s the nation’s next biggest oil find and will enable the United States to stop depending so much on foreign imports from the Middle ... ... visited a village where all we saw were naked children running around and houses made of trees. There was no clean water in the area or electricity. ...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the sixth volume of Best of Four. That?s right, we have been in business long enough to publish six volumes of the best student writing published in English 4 classes each fall, on the Hazleton Campus of Commonwealth College....

...ll Giosa ............................................................................................................................ 7 Decisions for the Futrue Joseph M. Schifano ...................................................................................................... 8 Rewards Beyond Products Kari Barnett.........................................................

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis Th... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ... to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easi... ...the nostrils. That produces mostly nasal sounds. Human voice boxes sit lower in the throat. When we talk, most of the air passes out through our ... ...ieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central heating system with underground furnaces and ti... ...he main floor below.) A small glassed-in enclosure next to the newsroom houses noisy clattering teletypes. They spit out an endless stream of wire...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books...

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...

...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . .... ...ase the First — The Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Sha... ...le aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that ca... ...lable was native had hardly as yet settled into its definite shape, and her lower lip had a way of thrusting the middle of her top one upward, when the... ... on this snug property was bright, thriving, and well kept; acres of glass houses stretched down the inclines to the copses at their feet. Every thin... ... flower beds, and conservatories; and thence to the fruit garden and green houses, where he asked her if she liked strawberries. ‘Yes,’ said Tess, ‘wh... ...wandering desultorily thus, Tess eating in a half pleased, half reluctant state whatever d’Urberville offered her. When she could consume no more of ... ... do. After this she went downstairs to her husband, who was sitting in the lower room. ‘I’ll tell ’ee what ’tis, Durbeyfield,’ said she exultingly; ‘he... ...building in the rear; but no sound of dancing was audible — an exceptional state of things for these parts, where as a rule the stamping drowned the m...

...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carri...

...Table of Contents: Phase the First ? The Maiden, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 5 -- III, 10 -- IV, 16 -- V, 24 -- VI, 32 -- VII, 36 -- VIII, 39 -- IX, 43 -- X, 48 -- XI, 55 -- Phase the Second? Maiden No More, 61 -- XII, 61 -- XIII, 68 -- XIV, 70 -- XV, 80 -- Pha...

.... 1 MARLEY’S GHOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 T... ...the way from church, and had come home rampant. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall n... ...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 S... ...inclined, myself, to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my un... ... and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping ... ...ce belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of build ing up a yard, where it had so little business to... ...off the bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear in doors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast! Scrooge fell upon his knees, and ... ...benezer Scrooge or his order,” and so forth, would have become a mere United States’ security if there were no days to count by. Scrooge went to be ag... ...oblem to be worked all through, “Was it a dream or not?” Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three quarters more, when he remembered, o...

...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 ...

...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 IT, 61 -- ILLUSTRATION: BOB CRATCHIT AND TINY TIM., 67...

...Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moran of the Lady Letty by Fr... ...Frank Norris A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State... ...by his long coat and his high silk hat, and there was plenty of jaw in the lower part of his face. Nor was his tailor altogether answerable for his sh... ...Joaquin Valley; lumber vessels for Durban and South African ports settling lower and lower to the water’s level as forests of pine and redwood stratif... ...e. He had seen himself again in his former haunts, in his club, and in the houses along Pacific avenue where he was received; but no sooner had the an... ...oran refused to accompany him ashore and into the Lifeboat Station. Roofed houses were an object of suspi- cion to her. Already she had begun to be un...

...pt: Shanghaied This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes ?coming out? that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender...

...ens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classi... ...ies Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classi... ...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ge 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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...nd pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets. And if in the future works... ...outh. I had letters about that child, in England, from the dwellers in log houses among the morasses, and swamps, and densest forests, and deep soli ... ...consider the most prolific parent of misery and crime. Descending a little lower in the social scale, I should be glad to assist them in their calcula... ...eat people had been exhibited for many years. With shame and indig nation lowering among all classes of society, and this new element of discord pile...

...The Egoist A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith... ...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...cation The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and witho... ...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 Egoist by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...mparison.” “Y ou paint a cottage in colours that tempt one to run from big houses and households.” “You would run back to them faster, Sir Willoughby.... ...the letters to the county paper which gained him applause at various great houses, and he accepted it, and betrayed a tingling fright lest he should b... ... minutes earlier she would not have thought it; but humiliated pride falls lower than humbleness. She did not blame him; she fell in her own esteem; l... ...lse to ask, what changes? She stooped to pluck a cowslip. “I saw daffodils lower down the park,” she said. “One or two; they’re nearly over.” “We are ...

...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling out...

...MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Rob... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...on (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...ill farm will have a massy, square, cold and permanent appearance. English houses, in comparison, have the look of cardboard toys, such as a puff migh... ...ver becomes used. His eye can never rest consciously on one of these brick houses – rickles of brick, as he might call 9 Memories and Portraits them ... ...hough it was, it only taught me (so far as I have learned them at all) the lower and less intellectual ele- ments of the art, the choice of the essent... ...s cried up to heaven next day in the Courant, and the day after was dashed lower than earth with a charge of plagiarism in the Scots- man. Report woul...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...on and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...r own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ...r that reason my conversation seem’d to he more valu’d. They had me to their houses, introduced me to their friends, and show’d me much civility; whil... ... said, was often seen drunk in the streets, and playing at low games in ale houses, much to our discredit. These two friends were Will iam Coleman a... ...re being noth ing of his writing on which to found a censure and give him a lower character, his proselytes would be left at liberty to feign for him... ...t one for the security of that upper part of the country, and another to the lower part, with similar instructions; and I concluded to go myself with ...

...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was b...

...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and B... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...n and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...this, 40 Robert Louis Stevenson however pleasant to a thirsty vanity, was lowering to his na- ture. He sank more and more towards the professional Do... ... of the lawyers, “read him into fame;” he himself was soon welcome in many houses of a better sort, where his admirable talk, and his manners, which h... ...eye. His smell was so dainty that he could perceive the foetor of dwelling-houses as he passed them by at night; his palate so unsophisticated that, l... ...iety is precisely the reverse of friend- ship, in that it takes place on a lower level than the charac- ters of any of the parties would warrant us to...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and un...