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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butte...

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...such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must neces...

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...y 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 University nor Jim... ...By Herman Melville CHAPTER I. A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi AT SUNRISE on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at t... ...the elbows and toes of the crowd, he concluded his opera- tions by bidding people stand still more aside, when, jumping on a stool, he hung over his d... ...eece and good-natured, honest black face rubbing against the upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it... ... and so still be poison, moral poison. Too well I know this Tacitus. In my college-days he came near souring me into cynicism. Yes, I began to turn do... ...t Tacitus! I have long been of opinion that these classics are the bane of colleges; for—not to hint of the immorality of Ovid, Horace, Anacreon, and ... ...ct, not dis- similar to yours, was by me thrown out at the World’s Fair in London.” “World’s Fair? You there? Pray how was that?” “First, let me—” “Na... ...sm what was ever achieved but commonplace? But again: consider the poor in London. T o that mob of misery, what is a joint here and a loaf there? I am... ...e, of various nations, both employers and employed, genteel and ungenteel, educated and unedu- cated; yet—of course, I candidly admit, with some rando...

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