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VITTORIA By George Meredith BOOK 4. XX. THE OPERA OF CAMILLAXXI. THE THIRD ACTXXII. WILFRID COMES FORWARDXXIII. FIRST HOURS OF THE FLIGHTXXIV. ADVENTURES OF VITTORIA AND ANGELO XXV. ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS CHAPTER XX THE OPERA OF CAMILLA She was dressed like a noble damsel from the hands of Titian. An Italian audience cannot but be critical in their first glance at a prima donna, for they are asked to do homage to a queen who is to be taken on her merits: all that they have heard and have been taught to expect of her is compared swiftly with the observation of her appearance and her manner....

WAVERLY WAVERLY, By Sir Walter Scott WAVERLEY OR ‘TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE Complete BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. With Introductory Essay and Notes By ANDREW LANG With Illustrations 1893 THIS NEW EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS IS DEDICATED TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD AND HER CHILDREN, Walter, Mary, Michael, Alice, Malcolm Margaret and Herbert GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR, BY THE PUBLISHERS TO THE KING’S MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY....

What Is Man? The Death of Jean The Turning-Point of My Life How to Make History Dates Stick The Memorable Assassination A Scrap of Curious History Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty At the Shrine of St. Wagner William Dean Howells English as She is Taught A Simplified Alphabet As Concerns Interpreting the Deity Concerning Tobacco Taming the Bicycle Is Shakespeare Dead? WHAT IS MAN? I a. Man the Machine. b....

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WILD KITTY. BY L. T. MEADE CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Bessie, Alice, Gwin, and Elma CHAPTER II. The Blarney Stone CHAPTER III. Is that the Girl? CHAPTER IV. Tiffs all Round CHAPTER V. Incorrigible Kitty CHAPTER VI. The Tug-of-War CHAPTER VII. Elma CHAPTER VIII. The Little House in Constantine Road CHAPTER IX. The Head Mistress and the Cabbage-Rose CHAPTER X. Paddy Wheel-About CHAPTER XI. In Carrie’s Bedroom CHAPTER XII. The “Spotted Leopard” CHAPTER XIII....

WILDFIRE by ZANE GREY CHAPTER I For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotions–a sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly content–a vague loneliness of soul–a thrill and a fear for the strangely calling future, glorious, unknown. She longed for something to happen. It might be terrible, so long as it was wonderful....

Within the Tides Contents: The Planter of MalataThe PartnerThe Inn of the Two WitchesBecause of the Dollars THE PLANTER OF MALATA CHAPTER I In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper. The other’s name was Renouard....

WYNDHAM TOWERS by Thomas Bailey Aldrich TO EDWIN BOOTH. MY DEAR BOOTH: In offering these verses to you, I beg you to treat them (as you have many a time advised a certain lord chamberlain to treat the players) not according to their desert. “Use them after your own honor and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.” These many years your friend and comrade, T....

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy....

Williams was a dreamer, and only twenty-three, and when he moved into the ancient house he felt a strangeness and a breath of cosmic wind about the grey wizened man in the next room. He forced his friendship where old friends dared not force theirs, and marvelled at the fright that sat upon this gaunt, haggard watcher and listener. For that the man always watched and listened no one could doubt....

Calera Recognition Systems475 PotreroSunnyvale, CA 940861-408-720-8300mikel@calera.com Mike Lynch The footnotes have been incrementally numbered in [ ] marks, and placed after the paragraph in which they appear The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Author of “The Mystery of the Yellow Room” and “The Perfume of the Lady in Black” The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Contents Chapter PROLOGUEI IS IT A GHOST?II THE NEW MARGARITAIII THE MYSTERIOUS REASONIV BOX FIVEV THE ENCHANTED VIOLINVI A VISIT TO BOX FIVEVII FAUST AND WHAT FOLLOWEDVIII THE MYSTERIOUS BROUGHAMIX AT THE MASKED BALLX FORGET THE NAME OF THE MAN’S VOICE XI ABOVE THE TRAP-DOORSXII APOLLO’S LYREXIII A MASTER-STROKE OF THE TRAP-DOOR LOVER XIV THE SINGULAR ATTITUDE OF A SAFETY-PIN XV CHRISTINE!...

THE POCKET R. L. S.Being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson. SELECTED PASSAGES When you have read, you carry away with you a memory of the man himself; it is as though you had touched a loyal hand, looked into brave eyes, and made a noble friend; there is another bond on you thenceforward, binding you to life and to the love of virtue. * It is to some more specific memory that youth looks forward in its vigils....

The Poems of Henry Kendallby Henry Kendall [Native-born Australian Poet — 1841-1882.] [Note on text: Italicized words or phrases will be marked by tildes (~). Lines longer than 78 characters have been broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces. A few obvious errors have been corrected.] This edition of Kendall contains: (i) The poems included in the three volumes published during the author’s lifetime; (ii) Those not reprinted by Kendall, but included in the collected editions of 1886, 1890 and 1903; (iii) Early pieces not hitherto reprinted; (iv) Poems, now first printed, from the Kendall MSS....

[Illustration: George William Curtis] THE POTIPHAR PAPERS BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS [Illustration: ILLUSTRATED BY A. HOPPIN] “Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place.” Goldsmith’s Deserted Village. “Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.” Burke’s First Letter on a Regicide Peace. “And I do seriously approve of that saying of yours, ‘that you would rather be a civil, well-governed, well-grounded, temperate, poor angler, than a drunken lord....

** Transcriber’s Notes ** The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt’s 16th-century original. In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: – vowels with macrons = vowel + ‘n’ or ‘m’ – q; = -que (in the Latin) – y[e] = the; y[t] = that; w[t] = with This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes....

THE RAPE OF THE LOCK AND OTHER POEMS BY ALEXANDER POPE EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY THOMAS MARC PARROTT, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY THIS EDITION PUBLISHED 1906 PREFACE It has been the aim of the editor in preparing this little book to get together sufficient material to afford a student in one of our high schools or colleges adequate and typical specimens of the vigorous and versatile genius of Alexander Pope....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE RED LILY By ANATOLE FRANCE The real name of the subject of this preface is Jacques-Anatole Thibault. He was born in Paris, April 16, 1844, the son of a bookseller of the Quai Malaquais, in the shadow of the Institute....

I “Unexpected obstacle. Please don’t come till thirtieth. Anna.” All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had hammered the words of the telegram into George Darrow’s ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of musketry, letting them, one by one, drip slowly and coldly into his brain, or shaking, tossing, transposing them like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind- swept platform and the angry sea beyond, they leapt out at him as if from the crest of the waves, stung and blinded him with a fresh fury of derision....

THE ROMANY RYE CHAPTER I The Making of the Linch-pin–The Sound Sleeper–Breakfast–The Postillion’s Departure. I awoke at the first break of day, and, leaving the postillion fast asleep, stepped out of the tent. The dingle was dank and dripping. I lighted a fire of coals, and got my forge in readiness. I then ascended to the field, where the chaise was standing as we had left it on the previous evening....

THE SCEPTICS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT JOB * KOHELETH * AGUR with English text translated for the first time from the primitive Hebrew as restored on the basis of recent philological discoveries. by E. J. Dillon Late Professor of Comparative Philology and Ancient Armenian at the Imperial University of Kharkoff; Doctor of Oriental Languages of the University of Louvain; Magistrand of the Oriental Faculty of the Imperial University of St....