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...NDBOX ..................................................................................................................... 74 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN IN HOLY ORDERS .................................................................................... 96 STORY OF THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN BLINDS ................................................................................1...

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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...e from the tight dress coat, silk cap and kid gloves of an undergraduate at Cambridge, to the loose duck trowsers, checked shirt and tarpaulin hat of... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...t. ‘‘Well, D——,’’ said the second mate to me, ‘‘this does not look much like Cambridge college, does it? This is what I call ’head work.’’’ To tell th... ...when the yard reached the deck, with as much satisfaction as I ever felt at Cambridge on seeing a ‘‘bene’’ at the foot of a Latin exercise. - 37 - ... ...ives, they soon get nearly all the trade into their hands. They usually keep shops, in which they retail the goods purchased in larger quantities fro... ...re are foreigners engaged in this kind of trade, while I recollect but two shops kept by natives. The people are generally suspicious of foreigne...

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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...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 under the eye of the very best of ...

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...irty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and...

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...d pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a... ...most equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at ... ... herself obliged to be attached to the Rev Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother in law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet w... ... that it is now. My plan was laid at Westminster — a little altered perhaps at Cambridge, and at one and twenty executed. I am inclined to envy Mr. 4... ...e High Street. He took care, however, that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out expressly to visit; and it did not delay them long,...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ...—the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now there was something singular. I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him—and I dined with h... ...and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, did not hinder quackery from having an excellent time of it; for... ... means became a subject of compassionate conversa tion in the neighboring shops of Churchyard Lane as being afflicted with a tumor at first declared to...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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