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... when th’ others come too’t: Hector shall not 242 haue his will this yeare. 243 Cre. He shall not neede it if he haue his owne. 244 ... ... That we come short of our suppose so farre, 467 That after seuen yeares siege, yet Troy walles stand, 468 Sith euery action that hath g...

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... child’s face. Down the avenue came boastfully sauntering a lad of six teen years, although the chronic sneer of an ideal man hood already sat upon ... ... about to happen. The two little boys fighting in the modes of four thousand years ago, did not hear the warning. Up the avenue there plodded slowly a... ...ardened at an early age. He became a young man of leather. He lived some red years without laboring. During that time his sneer became chronic. He stu... ... So, eventu ally, he felt obliged to work. His father died and his mother’s years were divided up into periods of thirty days. He became a truck driv... ...e money will yehs ever get, not a damn cent. I spent me money here fer t’ree years an’ now yehs tells me yeh’ll sell me no more stuff! T’hell wid yeh,... ...er own feller, what we useter know his fader.” “I could a’ tol’ yehs dis two years ago,” said a woman, in a key of triumph. “Yessir, it was over two y...

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...ary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It matter...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versit... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or mem... ...en very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others ... ...l increased very much during these weeks, although it was at a time of the year when usu- ally the bills are very moderate. The usual number of burial... ...the world. I had an elder brother at the same time in London, and not many years before come over from Portugal: and advising with him, his answer was... ...cially those who had been in the armies in the war which had not been many years past; and I must needs say that, speaking of second causes, had most ... ...ther places where he had been (for my brother, being a merchant, was a few years before, as I have already observed, returned from abroad, coming last...

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...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of...

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...GRAP OBIOGRAP OBIOGRAP OBIOGRAPHY HY HY HY HY IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas’s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to... ...n as I was ‘quali fied’, I set out for Spain and spent the best part of a year in Seville. I amused myself hugely and wrote a bad novel. Then I retur... ...so I had the day (and the flat) to myself and my work. During the next six years I wrote sev eral novels and a number of plays. Only one of these nov... ...ted as a member of the intelligentsia, an honourable condition which, some years later, when I became a popular writer of light comedies, I lost; and ... ...should not go on indefinitely in the same way, bringing out a novel once a year (which seldom earned more than the small advance the publisher had giv... ...e Belfort. It had two rooms and a kitchen, and cost seven hundred francs a year, which was then twenty eight pounds. I bought, second hand, such furni... .... Aleister Crowley.’ I did not do so, and he lived on for many disgraceful years. I was glad to get back to London. My old friend had by then rooms in... ...at, before consenting to this, I really should read it again. Nearly fifty years had passed since I had done so, and I had completely forgotten it. So... ...refused, and I had four running in London at the same time. I, who for ten years had earned an average of one hundred pounds a year, found myself earn...

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...iverance. For, sir, said they, the most part of us have been here this seven year their prisoners, and we have worked all manner of silk works for ou... ...e.” In his chamber, he said: “First, I kept a journal; then by and by, after years, I took the journal and turned it into a book. How long ago that w... ...ad a tire as broad as one’s hand. Presently a fair slip of a girl, about ten years old, with a cataract of golden hair streaming down over her shoulde... ...il at last he hap pened to mention that he was born in the beginning of the year 513. It made the cold chills creep over me! I stopped and said, a li... ...y: “Maybe I didn’t hear you just right. Say it again — and say it slow. What year was it?” “513.” “513! You don’t look it! Come, my boy, I am a strang... ...ea shudder its way home, and then said: “And according to your notions, what year is it now?” “528 — nineteenth of June.” I felt a mournful sinking at... ...n — never, never again. They will not be born for more than thirteen hundred years yet.” I seemed to believe the boy, I didn’t know why. Something in... ...knew that no total eclipse of the sun was due in what to me was the present year — i.e., 1879. So, if I could keep my anxiety and curiosity from eati... ...Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 13 the kingdom by a matter of thirteen hundred years and up ward. I’m not a man to waste time after my mind’s made up ...

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...act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many years before you. Search one out. Y.M. It does seem to me that when a man s... ...hrones, changing policies, and doing other tremendous work for two hundred years—and will go on. The chance reading of a book or of a paragraph in a n... ...ing to say? Y.M. W e have an old servant. She has been with us twenty two years. Her service used to be faultless, but now she has become very forget... ... keep back a scolding? Y.M. Oh, certainly—many times. O.M. More times this year than last? Y.M. Yes, a good many more. O.M. More times last year than ... ... than last? Y.M. Yes, a good many more. O.M. More times last year than the year before? Y.M. Yes. O.M. There is a large improvement, then, in the two ... ...new gospel? O.M. No. Y.M. It has been taught before? O.M. For ten thousand years. Y.M. By whom? O.M. All the great religions—all the great gospels. Y.... ... a procession of preparatory in fluences stretching back over a period of years. No single outside influence can make a man do a thing which is at w... ...uple of characters which have been refined and perfected in the virtues by years of diligent right training. Suppose you wanted to break down these st... ...t us continue the appli cation in a steady stream, and call each minute a year. By the end of ten or twenty minutes—ten or twenty years— the little i...

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...cation. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country,... ...ive me his Consent than force me to go without it; that I was now Eighteen Years old, which was too late to go Apprentice to a Trade, or Clerk to an A... ... that was ever born: I can give no Consent to it. It was not till almost a Year after this that I broke loose, tho’ in the mean time I continued obsti... ..., noEnglishman, Irishman, or Scots man there but my self; so that For two Years, tho’ I often pleased my self with the Imagination, yet I never had t... ... the least encouraging Prospect of putting it in Practice. After about two Years an odd Circumstance presented it self, which put the old Thought of m... ...is Medium, that he would give the Boy an Obligation to set him free in ten Years, if he turn’d Christian; upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to... ... as his; and we rather planted for Food that any thing else, for about two Years. However, we began to increase, and our Land began to come into order... ...egan to increase, and our Land began to come into order; so that the third Year we planted some Tobacco, and made each of us a large Piece of Ground r... ...nd made each of us a large Piece of Ground ready for planting Canes in the Year to come; but we both wanted Help, and now I found more than before, I ...

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...d this out as soon as possible. What’s New When we began Best of Four five years ago, it was the intention of the English faculty on the Hazleton camp... ...eam was to play in the majors. The first time I played baseball, I was six years old. I remember being only as tall as the tee. No matter how hard I t... ...I remember my parents cheering me on and the crowd going wild. That entire year was exciting for me, and I learned how to play the game. T wo years pa... ...ion. At the completion of Little League, I chose to play for only one more year. I hated it, so I decided to quit, and I have not picked up a baseball... ...e was a popular student who was friendly to everyone. It was Nate’s senior year in high school, and he was a star wrestler on the varsity team. He was... ...st having some of what they thought was innocent fun before the end of the year. The high-pitched sound of police sirens arose from all directions. Th... ... Christmas tree. The decorations for the tree have been collected over the years. Most of the ornaments were made by family members and have unique se... ... WA S BROUGHT UP in a depressed town for most of my childhood and teenage years. When I became thirteen my mother discussed drinking with me and to... ...hen I drank alcohol for the first time. In my town, when we turned fifteen years of age, we are pressured by our peers to drink with everyone. However...

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... which are the basis of a large part of his popular reputation. In 1758, the year in which he ceases writing for the Almanac, he printed in it “Father... ... get leisure for study, having now acquired comparative wealth; and in a few years he had made discoveries that gave him a reputation with the learned... ...t the influence of the Penns in the govern ment of the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministr... ...had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how much longer he knew not (perhaps from the time when the na... ...at Ecton, I found an account of their births, marriages and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no registers kept in that parish at any time ... ...d by the then Lord Halifax. He died in 17O2, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and... ...boy he came over to my father in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grand son, Samuel Franklin, now live... ...cle must have left them here, when he went to America, which was about fifty years since. There are many of his notes in the margins. This obscure fam... ...ll occasional pieces, but only one of them was printed, which I saw now many years since. It was written in 1675, in the home spun verse of that time ...

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.... Job has been written and read; the tower of Siloam fell nineteen hundred years ago; yet we have still to desire a little Christianity, or, failing t... ...emperor and the gossip of country market women, the gradual decay of forty years of a man’s life and the gesture of a passionate moment. He finds him-... ...ic sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om Jones is laid in the year forty-five, and that the only use he makes of the rebellion is to thro... ...tter irony that the paper, on which all this depends, is left to float for years at the will of wind and tide. What, again, can be finer in conception... ...me and his father. That father, William Burnes, after having been for many years a gardener, took a farm, married, and, like an emigrant in a new coun... ...ich he set himself to supply the deficiency by his own influence. For many years he was their chief companion; he spoke with them seriously on all sub... ...rticular colour, wrapped in a particular manner round his shoulders.” T en years later, when a married man, the father of a family, a farmer, and an o... ...rthography Burness from his cousin in the Mearns; and in his twenty-eighth year changed it once more to Burns. It is plain that the last transformatio... ...ugh the fame of his associate. I think we can conceive him, in these early years, in that rough moorland country, poor among the poor with his seven p...

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...onal misfortune that some of our most powerful journals have been for many years past very unfavorable exponents of English feeling on all subjects co... ...eings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of a few years we sentence our most hardened criminals, but keeps its indignation to... ...l sign of the moral state of the American mind which has appeared for many years. That a sense of justice should be the motive which the rulers of a c... ...ed their votes, that the object of the 9 J S Mill fight was slavery. Many years ago, when General Jackson was President, South Carolina did nearly re... ...orld knows what the question between the North and South has been for many years, and still is. Slavery alone was thought of, alone talked of. Slavery... ...on cultivation, exclusively adhered to, exhausts in a mod erate number of years all the soils which are fit for it, and can only be kept up by travel... ...alm and dispassionate Mr. Olmsted affirms that there has not been a single year, for many years past, in which this horror is not known to have been p... ...to be done any longer. If this knowledge does not come to them for several years, the abolition question will by that time have settled itself. For as...

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...dirty blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, revealed her pale white skin. She appeared more like a bewildered child and not the confident twenty-two year old she was known to be among her circle of friends. As they walked closer towards the mirror, she could faintly see the outline of her captor; his hooded jacket hid his facial features. Possibly six feet tall, his fram...

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...In 1854 Lorrin Andrews published his Hawaiian Grammar, a standard work for many years, and even today interesting to all students of the Hawaiian language. It is now out of print, howíever, and hence difficult to secure. In 1891 Prof. William D. Alexander published his “Short Synopsis of the Hawaiian...

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...ahiti or Raiatea in the Society Islands was the point from which the original migration of the alii and kahuna to Hawaii took place almost a thousand years ago. There are records of various voyages between Tahiti and Hawaii; the names of these pioneers have been handed down from generation to generation....

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...aised and to distinguish the molding forces which have entered into the recasting of such traditional story-telling as has survived the first hundred years of foreign contact. To the general student of mythology the number and length of proper names in an unfamiliar tongue may seem confusing. Hawaiian proper names are rarely made up of a single word but rather form a seri...

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...r extending further, Smarandache’s or combinatorial systems are also discussed in this paper, particularly, the CC conjecture presented by myself six years ago, which enables one to construct more symmetrical systems in mathematical sciences. Key Words: Smarandache sequence, labeling, Smarandache beauty, graph, group, Smarandache system, combinatorial system, CC conjectu...

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...tion cited in this study is divided into two primary categories, and focuses on accounts which have had little or no exposure over the last 80 to 150 years or more....

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...oxist tour to literary associations and universities in Brazil. Within 2o years of existence, 25 books and over 200 commentaries (articles, reviews) ... ...there. Moreover, the sentence is also indeterminate: we don't know if ten years from today it will be raining or not. Because any attempt to c... ... (?) How will the universe and humankind look like after one million years? (This is not a science-fiction/fantastic question, but a more sci... ... say, 50% true according to meteorologists who have investigated the past years' weather, between 20-30% false according to today's very sunny and dr... ...ay 50-54% true according to meteorologists who have investigated the past years' weather, 30 or 34-35% false according to today's very sunny and dro...

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...ard shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Two of the appointive members shall serve for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years, and one of the appointive members in his appointment shall be designated as chairman. Upon the termination of such initial terms the members shall serve f...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half the world, rat...

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...mes Eugene Pickering by Henry James CHAPTER I. I t was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gam- ing had been suppressed. The evening was very wa... ... you are not changed so utterly,” I said; “and after all, it’s but fifteen years since you used to do my Latin exercises for me.” “Not changed, eh?” h... ...this trepidation filled me with a great friendliness. “It’s nearly fifteen years, as you say,” he began, “since you used to call me ‘butter-fingers’ f... ... an account of, and yet they have been, for me, such eventless, monotonous years, that I could almost tell their history in ten words. You, I 11 Henr... ...ays up to his death we were always together. I don’t think that in fifteen years we spent half a dozen hours apart. We lived in the country, winter an... ...y virtue in tending I ought to take the prize at a flower show. Some three years ago my father’s health broke down, and he was kept very much within d... ...e used to watch me with it. A few days before his death I was twenty-seven years old, and the most innocent youth, I suppose, on the continent. After ... ... and in that sense I have lived more in the past six weeks than in all the years that preceded them. I am filled with this feverish sense of liberatio... ... past—the past I had no hand in! The marriage was ar- ranged by my father, years ago, when I was a boy. The young girl’s father was his particular fri...

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...R 2 Postal economics and statistics for strategy analysis – The short view Joëlle Toledano Bialot CHAPTER 3 Status of the postal service 20 years after the green paper: a Franco-European perspective José Ansón, Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos and Joëlle Toledano Bialot CHAPTER 4 The economics of postal delivery in developing countries: ...

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...e it there and bank our propulsion hopes on Bussard and others. An eight-year manned mission is planned to place a spacebuoy ¼-way to Alpha Centauri... ...e fastest the rocket can go, as measured in the fixed frame, is one light year per year. / The limiting velocity of material objects is the speed of ... ... Megalopolis at the hub of Galactic civilization had arrived at Earth 100 years ago to clandestinely and deliberately disuade Humanity from attempti... ...peed of light to be an electromagnetic property of space; (2) the light year is only a measure of distance And under the kinematical perspective v... ...mi: Edward, what do you think? How probable is it that within the next ten years we shall have clear evidence of a material object moving faster than... ...esick Centaurians. Alpha Centauri is the nearest star, being 4.3 light years distant. The G4-sun component of that binary system is similar to o... ...reated under general relativity which he did not develop for another 7-10 years. And if a steady acceleration of 1G were maintained throughout the t... ...world was blown. If there is a star-capable civilization within 105 light years, a probe may already be on its way to us; and if from ε Ursae Majori... ... of mindset? In the case of Zeno's paradoxes it took nearly two thousand years. Risky business. At the risk of incurring the wrath of hard-core...

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...vidences for Maturity Level 5, I and the Lead Appraiser has mapped the Scatter plot of Effort Variance vs Size for Process Performance Model. After 9 years when we look back, the Industry has moved on and so does the CMMI Model V1.3. There is much better clarity on what is expected in CMMI High Maturity. Similarly in 2007 there was a huge demand for Statistics Professors i...

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...riend and debating partner Leo Lim is retiring at the end of this academic year after over thirty years of teaching chemistry at Mount Mercy College....

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...ry logic, Yes or No. Or in a famous phrase by Shakespeare: “To be or not to be.” In the same way all computer hardwares from early sixties up to this year are built upon the same binary logic. It is known that the Classical Logic, also called Bivalent Logic for taking only two values {0, 1}, or Boolean Logic from British mathematician George Boole (1815-64), was named ...

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...ages gained from this dual track of lifestyle and its corresponding social costs models. “The ‘social cost’ of obesity averages around $150 billion a year. This comes to about 10 cents per item (of junk food). Every soda pop, hamburger and candy bar will now have this 10 cent premium. The more soda you drink, the more you have already paid into your own health coverage for...

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...o illustrate the demographic distribution of the Native Hawaiian population in the state of Hawaii. As the Office of Hawaiian Affairs marks its 25th year of serving the Native Hawaiian community, our staff continues to work diligently to advance the betterment of Native Hawaiians. Baseline data and information will continue to chart our improvements and give direction to ...

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...: 2004. -- Lunalilo Trust Land Holdings: 2004. -- Kamehameha Schools Land Holdings. 43 -- Education. 45 -- Educational Attainment Of Individuals 25 Years And Older: Census 2000. 48 -- Educational Attainment Of Individuals 18 Years And Older: Hhs 2003. 52 -- Kamehameha Schools Official Enrollment: Sy 2003-04. 53 -- Hawaiian Students In Hawaiis Department Of Education By D...

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...s father in a socially approved manner, the arrogant son had yelled out at the top of his voice, "Papa, you have had enough of her during the past 45 years. In case, you still need a woman's company, there is no dearth of this lot to provide warmth to your body. The following day, while exiting from the faculty meet, Vibha marked that Dr Rawat looked eager to join her, wh...

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..., statistics, combined with many anecdotes and names of the people who were an integral part of this incredible entity which lasted but less than two years, yet was instrumental in the successful settlement of two thirds of the land mass comprising the expanding country. (Introduction by Roger Melin)...

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...is scanty fair hair in its natural curls. He looked only about twenty-five years of age, and any trace of vice in his face seemed to be there by accid... ...ble that an art- ist might worship, carved after Jean Goujon’s designs, in years of toil, had been purchased perhaps at the price of firewood. Preciou... ...nna, scarcely drew a smile from him. The ruins of fifteen hundred vanished years oppressed him; he sickened under all this human thought; felt bored b... ...hands, but, with a touch of caution, due to the experience of some hundred years at least, he stretched his arm out to a sideboard as if to steady him... ... and said: “Have you been a supernumerary clerk of the T reasury for three years without receiving any perquisites?” The stranger could scarcely suppr... ...gged my bread; but for all that, I am now a centenar- ian with a couple of years to spare, and a millionaire to boot. Misery was the making of me, ign... ...e heat of youth and passion in husband and wife, even in hearts of seventy years.” A laugh burst from the little old man. It rang in the young man’s e... ...d fellows who have known their De 36 The Magic Skin Viris illustribus for years past, they reached a mansion in the Rue Joubert. Emile was a journali... ...pell on the mind of a needy man. “An income of a hundred thousand livres a year is a very nice beginning of the catechism, and a wonderful assistance ...

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...s, for example; • salinised irrigation systems that helped bring down civilisations such as the Sumerian states on the Euphrates river some 4,000 years ago, • deforestation leading to desertification and or massive erosion is a particularly widespread and pernicious example, • human induced climate change may be another that is unfolding before our eyes. The...

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...her unknown to their customers. Take any firm at random,--Brown, Jones, and Cox, let us say,--the probability is that Jones has been dead these fifty years, that Brown is a Cabinet Minister, and that Cox is master of a pack of hounds in Leicestershire....

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...d Cox, let us say,—the probability is that Jones has been dead these fifty years, that Brown is a Cabinet Minister, and that Cox is master of a pack o... ...of the city. The junior brother was a married man, with a wife some twenty years younger than himself, with two daughters, the elder of whom was now o... ...fe was past forty; and his eldest daughter, as I have said, was twenty-one years of age. His second child, also a girl, 5 Anthony Trollope was six ye... ...egarded the world, she made him one of the family. So things went on for a year,—nay, so things went on for two years with her, after Herbert Onslow h... ...f this, for it was understood that the money was of service. For the first year Herbert found that nothing especial happened. He always fancied that h... ... could not read it, even had he dared to show it to her. During the second year he went home to England for three months, and by confessing a passion ... ...ot take her by the hand and tell her that he loved her. And thus the third year of his life in Munich, and the second of his residence in the Ludwigs ... ...nd the second of his residence in the Ludwigs Strasse, went by him. So the years went by, and Isa was now past twenty. To Herbert, in his reveries, it... ...oom, having done the deed on which he had been meditating for the last two years. About half an hour afterwards he met her on the stairs as he was goi...