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Chapter I Four years at Wellesley; two years about equally divided amongParis, Dresden and Florence. And now Jane Hastings was at homeagain. At home in the unchanged house--spacious,old-fashioned--looking down from its steeply sloping lawns andterraced gardens upon the sooty, smoky activities of Remsen City,looking out upon a charming panorama of h ... more>>
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Chapter 1: Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a goodfamily, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner ofBremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate bymerchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York,from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were namedRobinson, a v ... more>>
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Chapter I. Revisits Island That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz."That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh," wasnever more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one wouldthink that after thirty-five years' affliction, and a variety ofunhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went throughbefor ... more>>
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Preface Indeed the public has too often been imposed upon by fictitiousstories, and some of a very late date, so that I think myselfobliged by the usual respect which is paid to candid and impartialreaders, to acquaint them, by way of introduction, with what theyare to expect, and what they may depend upon, and yet with thiscaution too, that it is ... more>>
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Chapter I. Sisters URSULA AND GUDRUN Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay oftheir father's house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula wasstitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun wasdrawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostlysilent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds. `Ursula,' ... more>>
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The Crucifix Across the Mountains The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol,through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the mountains. Here thegreat processions passed as the emperors went South, or came homeagain from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how much has that old imperial vanity clung to the Germansoul? Did not the ... more>>
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Chapter 1 'Take off that mute, do!' cried Louisa, snatching her fingersfrom the piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked slowly from her music. 'My dear Louisa,' she replied, 'it would be simply unendurable.'She stood tapping her white skirt with her bow in a kind of apathetic forbearance. 'But I can't understand it,' cried ... more>>
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Part OneChapter I. The Early Married Life of the Morels "The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row". Hell Row was a block ofthatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on GreenhillLane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pitstwo fields away. The brook ran under the alder trees, scarcelysoiled by these small mines, whose coal ... more>>
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England, My England He was working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brookthat ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying thegarden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common.He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryishsoil bare. But he was worried because he could not get the pathstraight, th ... more>>
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Chapter I. The Blue Ball There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight,and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Alsothe War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost anew menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released nowinto the general air. Also there had been another wrangle amon ... more>>
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Chapter One Gissing lived alone (except for his Japanese butler) in a littlehouse in the country, in that woodland suburb region called theCanine Estates. He lived comfortably and thoughtfully, as bachelorsoften do. He came of a respectable family, who had always conductedthemselves calmly and without too much argument. They hadbequeathed him just ... more>>
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Chapter I. The Haunted Bookshop If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets andmagnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to behoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a veryremarkable bookshop. This bookshop, which does business under the unusual name"Parnassus at Home," is housed in one of the ... more>>
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Prologue. The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd,When he arrived last upon the stage,Have made our poet pen his Second Part,Where Death cuts off the progress of his pomp,And murderous Fates throw all his triumphs down.But what became of fair Zenocrate,And with how many cities' sacrificeHe celebrated her sad funeral,Himself in presence shall unfo ... more>>
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Prologue. From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits,And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,Where you shall hear the Scythian TamburlaineThreatening the world with high astounding terms,And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.View but his picture in this tragic glass,And then applaud his fortune ... more>>
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Dramatis Personae CHARLES THE NINTH--King of FranceDuke of Anjou--his brother, afterwards KNIG HENRY THE THIRDKing of NavarrePRINCE OF CONDE--his brother brothersDUKE OF GUISECARDINAL OF LORRAINEDUKE DUMAINE SON TO THE DUKE OF GUISE--a boyTHE LORD HIGH ADMIRALDUKE OF JOYEUXEPERNOUNPLESHEBARTUSTWO LORDS OF POLANDGONZAGORETESMOUNTSORRELLCOSSINS,--Cap ... more>>
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