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...present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain?. The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts in the case....

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... election, oc- curring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain…. The strife of the election is but hu- man nature pra... ...lor critic who condemns others but has no power himself to do good and but little power to do ill—all these were as alien to Lincoln as the vicious an... ...s not quite free from ridi- cule.” On Easter Day, 1865, the world knew how little this ridicule, how much this kindness, had really signi- fied. There... ...gather some knowledge, and sometimes he would astonish the girls with such startling remarks as that the earth was moving around the sun, and not the ... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One deprecated all political agitation, were startled out of their security by a sudden alarm, and excitedly took sides.... ...ent that, in the convention, he had not only the whole vote of Illinois to start with, but won votes on all sides without offending any rival. A large... ...people knew that the man at the head of affairs, on whose haggard face the twinkle of humor so frequently changed into an ex- pression of profoundest ...

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...llow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Li...

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...it by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Dorrit Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Little Dorrit Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens CONTENTS Preface to the 1857... ...time, before or since. Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at the fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring hab... ...n return, until a staring habit had become universal there. Strangers were stared out of coun- tenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, s... ...nance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt awa... ...And the people of those other two places, now,’ pursued Bar, with a bright twinkle in his keen eye, as it slightly turned in the direction of his magn...

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...was where they hauled the guns That smote King Philip’s fleet! See you our little mill that clacks, So busy by the brook? She has ground her corn and ... ...the Fairies, asleep. Then they skipped to the part where Bottom asks three little fairies to scratch his head and bring him honey, and they ended wher... ...s and a foxglove wand. The Theatre lay in a meadow called the Long Slip. A little mill-stream, carrying water to a mill two or three fields away, bent... ...ry Queen?’ He stopped, hollowed one hand round his ear, and, with a wicked twinkle in his eye, went on: ‘What, a play toward? I’ll be an auditor; ... ...id he; ‘but that’s the way my part ought to be played.’ Still the children stared at him—from his dark-blue cap, like a big columbine flower, to his b... ...ed at him 8 Puck of Pook’s Hill for quite half a minute. His eyes did not twinkle any more. They were very kind, and there was the beginning of a goo... ...d of—little buzzflies with butterfly wings and gauze petticoats, and shiny stars in their hair, and a wand like a schoolteacher’s cane for punishing b... ...d leather breastband and crupper. ‘Look!’ said Una, as though Dan were not staring his very eyes out. ‘It’s like the picture in your room—“Sir Isumbra... ... ‘On account of your great wisdom and learning,’ Puck re- plied, without a twinkle. ‘Us?’ said Una. ‘Why, I don’t know my Nine Times -not to say it do...

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.......................................................... 81 THE SONG OF THE LITTLE HUNTER ................................................................ ...e’s back and no one could escape. “When thou hast lived as long as I have, Little Brother, thou wilt see how all the Jungle obeys at least one Law. An... ...is life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo’s words came true, and Mowgli ... ...see. Is there any more diving into the deep rock-pool below the Bee-Rocks, Little Brother?” “No. The foolish water is going all away, and I do not wis... ... now all that life-and-death fun was ended, and the Jungle People came up, starved and weary, to the shrunken river,—tiger, bear, deer, buffalo, and p... ...ading into the water and looking across at the lines of clicking horns and starting eyes where the deer and the pig pushed each other to and fro. “Goo... ...e. If they had been alone he would not have cared, but the Adjutant”s eyes twinkled with mirth at the ugly jest. “Assuredly, Father, I might have know... ...g made?” Bagheera half opened his eyes—he was very sleepy—with a malicious twinkle. “It was made by men to thrust into the head of the sons of Hathi, ... ...I will finish the running.” The marsh ended in a broad plain where a light twinkled. It was a long time since Mowgli had concerned himself with the do...

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...Excerpt: ?But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the ti...

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... To the Man on Trail 1 D UMP it in.” “But I say, Kid, is n’t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol ’s bad enough; but when it comes... ...fully out of the cabin, to find his dogs harnessed and everything ready for the start. The company wished him good luck and a short chase, while Father... ..., and you can’t get dog food at Pelly, as you probably expected.” The stranger started, and his eyes flashed, but he did not interrupt. “You can’t get ... ...think they ’re cheap at ten dollars a pound. You can get them at Five Fingers, Little Salmon, and the Hootalinqua. And watch out for wet feet,” was hi... ...nswered; “but he had four hours’ rest for himself and dogs.” “Fifteen minutes’ start, and he ’s fresh! My God!” The poor fellow staggered back, half f... ...but too stubborn to make amends, Mason toiled on at the head of the cavalcade, little dreaming that danger hovered in the air. The timber clustered th... ...r an open book; yet Prince An Odyssey of the North 63 caught the appreciative twinkle in her eye as she read the Rules of the Camp. These rules had b...

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... in hand, but as my account of somebody?s impression of it--the terms of this person?s access to it and estimate of it contributing thus by some fine little law to intensification of interest. The somebody is often, among my shorter tales I recognise, but an unnamed, unintroduced and (save by right of intrinsic wit) unwarranted participant, the impersonal author?s concrete...

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...his person’s access to it and estimate of it contributing thus by some fine little law to intensification of interest. The somebody is often, among my s... ...get and to keep finished and dismissed work well behind one, and to have as little to say to it and about it as possible, had been for years one’s only... ...nnels. It is over the fact of such a phenomenon and its so pos sibly rich little history that I am moved just fondly to linger—and for the reason xi... ...ugh he’s not old, it’s a young thing com pared with him—a younger one. He started there, he has a feeling about it, and the place has grown, as he sa... ...n, to which he had given a certain intensity, had made her, he remembered, stare an instant, her colour rising as if it had sounded to her still stran... ...The Golden Bowl his sincerity—for it was sincerity—fuller expression. “I’m starting on the great voyage—across the unknown sea; my ship’s all rigged a... ... of light, sat somewhere in his inward vagueness as a lamp before a shrine twinkles in the dark perspective of a church; and while youth and early mid... ... house, not quite easily, yet not quite awkwardly either, with tapers that twinkled in the large dark spaces, and for the most part so late that the l... ...l, was not, on her side, an ignis fatuus, a mere subjective phenomenon, it twinkled there at the direct expense of what the Prince was inviting her to...

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...l, neglected peasant, sunk in matter, insolent, gross and servile, makes a startling contrast with our own long-legged, long-headed, thoughtful, Bible... ... the streets where he has been wandering fancy- free. His college life has little of restraint, and nothing of necessary gentility. He will find no qu... ...d, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous. It is not s... ...ss away swiftly enough on the high seas of life; more swiftly still in the little bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a sc... ...le bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a scale startlingly diminished, the flight of time and the succession of men. I loo... ...in, nor to learn charity and modesty and justice from the sight; but still stared at them externally from the prison windows of my affectation. Once I... ...e both Roberts; and as we took our places at table, he addressed me with a twinkle: “We are just what you would call two bob.” He offered me port, I r...

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...noon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer....

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...roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoul- ders of the hi... ...e the church and skirts the black hemlock wall enclosing the cemetery. The little June wind, frisking down the street, shook the doleful fringes of th... ... as the young and care- less laugh at such mishaps. Her heart contracted a little, and the shrinking that some- times came over her when she saw peopl... ... an architect, you see, and I’m hunting up old houses in these parts.” She stared. “Old houses? Everything’s old in North Dor- mer, isn’t it? The folk... ...rence with Mr. Royall, who, in pursuance of her plan, departed one day for Starkfield to visit the institution she recommended. He came back the next ... ...t time she had had some experience. When she asked him how soon she was to start he answered shortly, “Y ou ain’t going,” and shut himself up in the r... ...’ll make all the other girls mad,” he said, looking at her with a sheepish twinkle in his deep-set eyes; and she immediately guessed that the unwonted... ... with her quick flight through the night, and her eyes were dazzled by the twinkle of the kitchen lamp. She felt like a night-bird suddenly caught and...

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...rofess them- selves enthralled by the good child’s book, the Adventures of Little Margery , who resided in the village cottage by the mill; severely r... ...t came out in Miss Peecher the schoolmistress, watering the flowers in the little dusty bit of garden attached to her small official residence, with l... ...ll official residence, with little win- dows like the eyes in needles, and little doors like the covers of school-books. Small, shining, neat, methodi... ... I’m the person of the house.’ ‘Who else is at home?’ asked Charley Hexam, staring. ‘Nobody’s at home at present,’ returned the child, with a glib ass... ...soothe him when she carried him about, a child as heavy as herself. T ears started to his eyes. ‘Upon my word, Liz,’ drawing the back of his hand acro... ...Her hand was just within it, when she drew it back. He looked round with a start, as if he thought she had detected something that repelled her, in th... ...’ ‘Now, look here, Lammle,’ said Fascination Fledgeby, with the meanest of twinkles in his meanest of eyes: which were too near together, by the way: ...

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...goin’ to begin,’ said Sam, endeavouring to disen gage himself. ‘Now, Sir, start off!’ ‘Stop an instant, Sam,’ gasped Mr. Winkle, clinging most affect... ...hese remarkable words— ‘You’re a humbug, sir.’ ‘ A what?’ said Mr. Winkle, starting. ‘A humbug, Sir. I will speak plainer, if you wish it. An impostor... ...owly round on the slide, with his face towards the point from which he had started; to contemplate the playful smile which mantled on his face when he... ...yer on the advisability of bleeding the company generally, as an improving little bit of professional practice— it was at this very moment, that a fac... ... card. ‘Lant Street, Borough; it’s near Guy’s, and handy for me, you know. Little distance after you’ve passed St. George’s Church—turns out of the Hi... ...persuasive smile, said, ‘Now, come; don’t let’s have no words about such a little matter as this. Which of you gentlemen’s name’s Snodgrass?’ At this ... ...et ter,’ said the pretty housemaid; and as she said so, she made the eyes twinkle with such slyness and beauty that they were perfectly irresistible....

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...h restaurant in Soho, which had enjoyed an exaggerated reputation for some little while, but had already begun to be forgotten, and in a private room ... ... gaiety. “Shake hands upon the bargain!” (his hand was cold and wet). “You little know in what a company you will begin the march! Y ou little know in... ...re so dark, and may be so grave, that I feel myself justified in pushing a little farther than usual the liberty which your Highness is so condescendi... ... bald top to his head, and a veiled grey eye, which now and then emitted a twinkle. His mouth, which embraced a large cigar, he kept continu- ally scr... ...an make out,” answered the Prince; “unadulterated laziness.” The President started. “D-n it,” said he, “you must have something better than that.” “I ... ...ion; others full of a hope that that very night they should be scaling the stars and commencing with the mighty dead. “To the eternal memory of Baron ... ... eye. It was fixed upon him from across the room with a frowning and angry stare. And in a moment Geraldine recovered his composure. “After all,” he a... ... in the verandah, so that the garden was fairly illuminated and the leaves twinkled in the darkness. For perhaps the tenth time Miss Vandeleur entered... ...eliminary inspection in search of the handi- est point of attack, a little twinkle of light caught his eye from behind a curtained window. “The devil!...