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ഇനി മനുഷ്യമനസ്സിനെ ബാധിക്കാൻ സാധ്യതയുള്ള അതീന്ദ്ര്യ സംവിധാനങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് പറയാം. ഈ കാര്യം വിശദ്ധമാക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നതിന് മുൻപായി സോഫ്ട്വേർ എന്ന വേദിയെക്കുറിച്ച് ചില കാര്യങ്ങൾ പറയാം. ഇന്ന് പലവിധ ഡിജിറ്റൽ ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ മനുഷ്യർ എന്ന് പൊതുവായി നിർവ്വചിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന പലവിധ ജീവജാലങ്ങൾ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. അവ ന...

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ഇനി നേത്രങ്ങളുടെ കാര്യം നോക്കാം. നേരത്തെ പറഞ്ഞതുപോലെ, നേത്രങ്ങൾ എന്നത് ഒരു നിർജ്ജീവമായ ഒരു cameraയോ lensസോ അല്ല. മറിച്ച്, പുറത്തുള്ള ഭൗതിക യാഥാർത്ഥ്യത്തെ സോഫ്ട്വേർ കോഡുകളിലൂടെ ഒപ്പിയെടുത്ത്, അവ തലച്ചോറിലുള്ള സോഫ്ട്വേർ സംവിധാനത്തിൽ എത്തിച്ച്, ഭൗതിക യാഥാർത്ഥ്യത്തെ ഒരു 3-D ചിത്രമായി മാറ്റുന്ന ഒരു സംവി...

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ഫ്യൂഡൽ ഭാഷകളിലെ വാക്കുകൾക്ക് വൻ പ്രകോപന ശക്തിയുണ്ട്. എന്നാൽ, ഇത് മറ്റൊരു കാര്യത്തേയും ആശ്രയിച്ചിരിക്കാം. ഇങ്ങൾ👆 - ഇഞ്ഞി👇ഏണിപ്പടിലെ കീഴ്സ്ഥാനക്കാരൻ ഉന്നത സ്ഥാനക്കാരനെ വളരെ ലഭിതമായ സ്വരത്തിൽ ഇഞ്ഞി, നീ, അവൻ, അവള്, തുടങ്ങിയ വാക്കുകളിൽ നിർവ്വചിച്ചാൽ ഉന്നത സ്ഥാനക്കാരനിൽ / സ്ഥാനക്കാരിയിൽ മാനസിക സമനിലതെറ്റ...

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ഫ്യൂഡൽ ഭാഷകളിലെ ചെറിയതും കേൾക്കാൻ പോലും സ്വര ദൈർഘ്യം ഇല്ലാത്തതുമായ ചില വാക്കുകൾക്ക് വൻ പ്രഹര ശക്തിയുണ്ട് എന്ന് മനസ്സിലാക്കുക. എല്ലാരും സാർ എന്ന് സംബോധന ചെയ്യുന്ന വ്യക്തിയെ, ആനുപാതികമായി ഇങ്ങൾ👆 - ഇഞ്ഞി👇 ഏണിപ്പടിയിൽ താഴെ നിൽക്കുന്ന ആൾ ഒന്ന് നീ എന്നോ ഇഞ്ഞി എന്നെ സംബോധന ചെയ്താൽ, ഉന്നത വ്യക്തിയിൽ വരുന്ന...

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മനുഷ്യമനസ്സിനെ പല കാര്യങ്ങൾക്കും ബാധിക്കാനാവും. അതിൽ പലതും ഭൗതിക കാര്യങ്ങൾ ആയിരിക്കേണം എന്നില്ല. ഇങ്ങിനെ പറയുമ്പോൾ, ആദ്യം ഈ ഭൗതിക യാഥാർത്ഥ്യം എന്താണ് എന്ന് ഒന്ന് പറയേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. നമ്മൾ കാണുന്ന ഈ ഭൗതിക പ്രപഞ്ചം ഒരു അതീന്ദ്ര്യ സോഫ്ട്വേർ സംവിധാനത്തിൻ്റെ സൃഷ്ടിയാണ്. സോഫ്ട്വേർ എന്നത് ഭൗതിക ശാസ്ത്രത...

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ആളുകൾ തിങ്ങി നിറഞ്ഞു നിൽക്കുന്ന ഈ ലോകത്തിലും, പോരാത്തതിന്, വ്യക്തികൾ തമ്മിൽ പലവിധ വ്യക്തി ബന്ധങ്ങളിൽ കുടുങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുന്ന പല വീടുകളിലും തൊഴിൽ സ്ഥലങ്ങളിലും പലരും പലവിധ മാനസിക സമ്മർദ്ദൾക്ക് വിധേയമാകാം. https://victoria.org.in/img/a/155.png ഇതിൽ തമ്മിൽ സംസാരിക്കുന്ന ഭാഷകളുടേയും മറ്റുള്ളവർ അടുത്ത് നിന്...

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Note I.—FIDES ET FIDUCIA SUNT RELATIVA. The military men of the times agreed upon dependencies of honour, as they called them, with all the metaphysical argumentation of civilians, or school divines. The English officer, to whom Sir James Turner was prisoner after the rout at Uttoxeter, demanded hi...

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No. I The scarcity of my late friend’s poem may be an excuse for adding the spirited conclusion of Clan Alpin’s vow. The Clan Gregor has met in the ancient church of Balquidder. The head of Drummond-Ernoch is placed on the altar, covered for a time with the banner of the tribe. The Chief of the tri...

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My maid—my blue-eyed maid, he bore away, Due to the toils of many a bloody day.—ILLIAD. It was necessary, for many reasons, that Angus M’Aulay, so long the kind protector of Annot Lyle, should be made acquainted with the change in the fortunes of his late protege; and Montrose, as he had undertaken...

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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. —CONQUEST OF GRANADA The Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more closely the story told by Ranald of the Mist, which was corroborated by the exam...

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—After you’re gone, I grew acquainted with my heart, and search’d, What stirr’d it so.—Alas! I found it love. Yet far from lust, for could I but have lived In presence of you, I had had my end.—PHILASTER. Annot Lyle had now to contemplate the terrible gulf which Allan M’Aulay’s declaration of love ...

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Faint the din of battle bray’d, Distant down the hollow wind; War and terror fled before, Wounds and death remain’d behind.—PENROSE. Montrose’s splendid success over his powerful rival was not attained without some loss, though not amounting to the tenth of what he inflicted. The obstinate valour o...

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As meets a rock a thousand waves, so Inisfail met Lochlin. —OSSIAN. The trumpets and bagpipes, those clamorous harbingers of blood and death, at once united in the signal for onset, which was replied to by the cry of more than two thousand warriors, and the echoes of the mountain glens behind them....

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Piobracht au Donuil-dhu, Piobrachet au Donuil, Piobrachet agus S’breittach Feacht an Innerlochy. The war-tune of Donald the Black, The war-tune of Black Donald, The pipes and the banner Are up in the rendezvous of Inverlochy. The military road connecting the chains of forts, as it is called, and ru...

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The march begins in military state, And nations on his eyes suspended wait; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost. He comes,—nor want, nor cold, his course delay. —VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. By break of day Montrose received in his cabin old MacEagh, and que...

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Such mountains steep, such craggy hills, His army on one side enclose: The other side, great griesly gills Did fence with fenny mire and moss. Which when the Earl understood, He council craved of captains all, Who bade set forth with mournful mood, And take such fortune as would fall. —FLODDEN FIEL...

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But if no faithless action stain Thy true and constant word, I’ll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword. I’ll serve thee in such noble ways As ne’er were known before; I’ll deck and crown thy head with bays, And love thee more and more.—MONTROSE’S LINES. We must now leave, with whate...

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This was the entry then, these stairs—but whither after? Yet he that’s sure to perish on the land May quit the nicety of card and compass, And trust the open sea without a pilot.—TRAGEDY OF BENNOVALT. “Look out for the private way through the chapel, Ranald,” said the Captain, “while I give a hasty...

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Whatever stranger visits here, We pity his sad case, Unless to worship he draw near The King of Kings—his Grace. —BURNS’S EPIGRAM ON A VISIT TO INVERARY. The Captain, finding himself deprived of light in the manner we have described, and placed in a very uncertain situation, proceeded to descend th...

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For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix’d in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. —ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. The village of Inverary, now a neat country town, then partook of the rudeness of the seventeenth century,...

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Is this thy castle, Baldwin? Melancholy Displays her sable banner from the donjon, Darkening the foam of the whole surge beneath. Were I a habitant, to see this gloom Pollute the face of nature, and to hear The ceaseless sound of wave, and seabird’s scream, I’d wish me in the hut that poorest peasa...

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Dark on their journey lour’d the gloomy day, Wild were the hills, and doubtful grew the way; More dark, more gloomy, and more doubtful, show’d The mansion, which received them from the road. —THE TRAVELLERS, A ROMANCE. Angus M’Aulay was charged with a message which he seemed to find some difficulty...

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. . . . In a rebellion, When what’s not meet, but what must be, was law, Then were they chosen, in a better hour, Let what is meet be said it must be meet, And throw their power i’ the dust.—CORIOLANUS. In a small apartment, remote from the rest of the guests assembled at the castle, Sir Duncan Cam...

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Our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant: a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation: an excellent plot, very good friends.—HENRY IV Part I. No sooner had the general acclamation of joyful surprise subsided, than silence was eagerly demanded for reading the ro...

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When Albin her claymore indignantly draws, When her bonneted chieftains around her shall crowd, Clan-Ranald the dauntless, and Moray the proud, All plaided and plumed in their tartan array—LOCHEIL’S WARNING. Whoever saw that morning, the Castle of Darnlinvarach, beheld a busy and a gallant sight. T...

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Coming events cast their shadows before.—CAMPBELL. At an early hour in the morning the guests of the castle sprung from their repose; and, after a moment’s private conversation with his attendants, Lord Menteith addressed the soldier, who was seated in a corner burnishing his corslet with rot-stone...

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Thareby so fearlesse and so fell he grew, That his own syre and maister of his guise Did often tremble at his horrid view; And if for dread of hurt would him advise, The angry beastes not rashly to despise, Nor too much to provoke; for he would learne The lion stoup to him in lowly wise, (A lesson ...

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Once on a time, no matter when, Some Glunimies met in a glen; As deft and tight as ever wore A durk, a targe, and a claymore, Short hose, and belted plaid or trews, In Uist, Lochaber, Skye, or Lewes, Or cover’d hard head with his bonnet; Had you but known them, you would own it.—MESTON. A hill was ...

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For pleas of right let statesmen vex their head, Battle’s my business, and my guerdon bread; And, with the sworded Switzer, I can say, The best of causes is the best of pay.—DONNE. The difficulty and narrowness of the road had by this time become such as to interrupt the conversation of the travell...

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His mother could for him as cradle set Her husband’s rusty iron corselet; Whose jangling sound could hush her babe to rest, That never plain’d of his uneasy nest; Then did he dream of dreary wars at hand, And woke, and fought, and won, ere he could stand.—HALL’S SATIRES It was towards the close of ...

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Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks.—BUTLER. It was during the period of that great and bloody Civil War which agitated Britain during the seventeenth cent...

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Sergeant More M’Alpin was, during his residence among us, one of the most honoured inhabitants of Gandercleugh. No one thought of disputing his title to the great leathern chair on the “cosiest side of the chimney,” in the common room of the Wallace Arms, on a Saturday evening. No less would our se...

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The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the unfortunate...

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Sir Walter Scott https://victoria.org.in/img/button/front.gif https://victoria.org.in/img/button/all.gif https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/montrose.gif I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). III. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV...

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The Confessions of Medium.—Spiritualistic Phenomena Explained on Theory of Telepathy.—Interesting Statement of Mrs. Piper, the Famous Medium of the Psychical Research Society. The subject of spiritualism has been very thoroughly investigated by the Society for Psychical Research, both in England an...

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Telepathy and Clairvoyance.—Peculiar Power in Hypnotic State.—Experiments.—“Phantasms of the Living” Explained by Telepathy It has already been noticed that persons in the hypnotic state seem to have certain of their senses greatly heightened in power. They can remember, see and hear things that or...

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A Scientific Explanation of Hypnotism.—Dr. Hart’s Theory. In the introduction to this book the reader will find a summary of the theories of hypnotism. There is no doubt that hypnotism is a complex state which cannot be explained in an offhand way in a sentence or two. There are, however, certain a...

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Hypnotism of Animals.—Snake Charming. We are all familiar with the snake charmer, and the charming of birds by snakes. How much hypnotism there is in these performances it would be hard to say. It is probable that a bird is fascinated to some extent by the steady gaze of a serpent’s eyes, but fear ...

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Hypnotism in Medicine.—Anesthesia.—Restoring the Use of Muscles.—Hallucination.—Bad Habits. Anaesthesia—It is well known that hypnotism may be used to render subjects insensible to pain. Thus numerous startling experiments are performed in public, such as running hatpins through the cheeks or arms,...

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Dangers in Being Hypnotized.—Condemnation of Public Performances.—A. Common Sense View.—Evidence Furnished by Lafontaine.—By Dr. Courmelles.—By. Dr. Hart.—By Dr. Cocke.—No Danger in Hypnotism if Rightly Used by Physicians or Scientists. Having considered the dangers to society through criminal hypn...

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Criminal Suggestion.—Laboratory Crimes.—Dr. Cocke’s Experiments Showing Criminal Suggestion Is not Possible.—Dr. William James’ Theory.—A Bad Man Cannot Be Made Good, Why Expect to Make a Good Man Bad? One of the most interesting phases of hypnotism is that of post-hypnotic suggestion, to which ref...

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Simulation.—Deception in Hypnotism Very Common.—Examples of Neuropathic Deceit.—Detecting Simulation.—Professional Subjects.—How Dr. Luys of the Charity Hospital at Paris Was Deceived.—Impossibility of Detecting Deception in All Cases.—Confessions of a Professional Hypnotic Subject. It has already ...

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Self-Hypnotization.—How It may Be Done.—An Experience.—Accountable for Children’s Crusade.—Oriental Prophets Self-Hypnotized. If self-hypnotism is possible (and it is true that a person can deliberately hypnotize himself when he wishes to till he has become accustomed to it and is expert in it, so ...

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How the Subject Feels Under Hypnotization.—Dr. Cooper’s Experience.—Effect of Music.—Dr. Alfred Marthieu’s Experiments. The sensations produced during a state of hypnosis are very interesting. As may be supposed, they differ greatly in different persons. One of the most interesting accounts ever gi...

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Lethargy—Catalepsy—The Somnambulistic Stage—Fascination. We have just given some of the amusing experiments that may be performed with subjects in one of the minor stages of hypnotism. But there are other stages which give entirely different manifestations. For a scientific classification of these ...

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Hypnotizing on the Stage—“You Can’t Pull Your Hands Apart”—Post Hypnotic Suggestion—The News boy, the Hunter, and the Young Man with the Rag Doll—A Whip Becomes Hot Iron—Courting a Broomstick—The Side Show. Let us now describe some of the manifestations of hypnotism, to see just how it operates and...

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Dr. Cocke’s Method—Dr. Flint’s Method—The French Method at Paris—at Nancy—The Hindoo Silent Method—How to Wake a Subject from Hypnotic Sleep—Frauds of Public Hypnotic Entertainers. First let us quote what is said of hypnotism in Foster’s Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary. The dictionary states the de...

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There is no doubt that hypnotism is a very old subject, though the name was not invented till 1850. In it was wrapped up the “mysteries of Isis” in Egypt thousands of years ago, and probably it was one of the weapons, if not the chief instrument of operation, of the magi mentioned in the Bible and ...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/hypnotise.gif How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by A. Alpheus 1903 INTRODUCTION History of hypnotism—Mesmer—Puysegur—Braid—What is hypnotism?—Theories of hypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis Theo...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/75.jpg THE next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a number of workmen. The three fellows still ...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/73.jpg THERE never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men was as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost instantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money; well, he was brought...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/71.jpg PARTLY from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent. The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused comma...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/69.jpg IM,” said Silver when we were alone, “if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I’ll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for it—with the tail of my eye, I did; and I seen you say no, as plain as hearing. Jim, that’s one to you. This is the f...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/67.jpg WAS wakened—indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the sentinel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the door-post—by a clear, hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the wood: “Block house, ahoy!” it cried. “Here’s the doc...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/65.jpg HE council of buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them re-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which had in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment’s loan of the torch. Silver briefly agreed, and this emissary retired ...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/63.jpg THE red glare of the torch, lighting up the interior of the block house, showed me the worst of my apprehensions realized. The pirates were in possession of the house and stores: there was the cask of cognac, there were the pork and bread, as before, and w...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/62.jpg 28. In the Enemy’s Camp 29. The Black Spot Again 30. On Parole 31. The Treasure-hunt —Flint’s Pointer 32. The Treasure-hunt —The Voice Among the Trees 33. The Fall of a Chieftain 34. And Last https://victoria.org.in/img/cover/top.gif

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/60.jpg OWING to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay. Hands, who was not so far up, was in consequence nearer to the ship and fell between me and the ...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/58.jpg THE wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run so much the easier from the north-east corner of the island to the mouth of the North Inlet. Only, as we had no power to anchor and dared not beach her till the tide had flowed a good...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/56.jpg I HAD scarce gained a position on the bowsprit when the flying jib flapped and filled upon the other tack, with a report like a gun. The schooner trembled to her keel under the reverse, but next moment, the other sails still drawing, the jib flapped back a...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/54.jpg IT was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island. The sun was up but was still hid from me behind the great bulk of the Spy-glass, which on this side descended almost to the sea in formidable cliffs. Haulbowli...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/51.jpg HE coracle—as I had ample reason to know before I was done with her—was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both buoyant and clever in a seaway; but she was the most cross-grained, lop-sided craft to manage. Do as you pleased, she always...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/49.jpg THERE was no return of the mutineers—not so much as another shot out of the woods. They had “got their rations for that day,” as the captain put it, and we had the place to ourselves and a quiet time to overhaul the wounded and get dinner. Squire and I coo...

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22. How My Sea Adventure Began

23. The Ebb-tide Runs

24. The Cruise of the Coracle

25. I Strike the Jolly Roger

26. Israel Hands

27. “Pieces of Eight”

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/46.jpg AS soon as Silver disappeared, the captain, who had been closely watching him, turned towards the interior of the house and found not a man of us at his post but Gray. It was the first time we had ever seen him angry. “Quarters!” he roared. And then, as we...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/45.jpg SURE enough, there were two men just outside the stockade, one of them waving a white cloth, the other, no less a person than Silver himself, standing placidly by. It was still quite early, and the coldest morning that I think I ever was abroad in—a chill ...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/43.jpg AS soon as Ben Gunn saw the colours he came to a halt, stopped me by the arm, and sat down. “Now,” said he, “there’s your friends, sure enough.” “Far more likely it’s the mutineers,” I answered. “That!” he cried. “Why, in a place like this, where nobody pu...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/41.jpg WE made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer. Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of the branches as they breasted acro...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/39.jpg HIS fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded. Five grown men, and three of them—Trelawney, Redruth, and the captain—over six feet high, was already more ...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/37.jpg IT was about half past one—three bells in the sea phrase—that the two boats went ashore from the Hispaniola. The captain, the squire, and I were talking matters over in the cabin. Had there been a breath of wind, we should have fallen on the six mutineers ...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/80.jpg 16. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned 17. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip 18. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting 19. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/34.jpg FROM the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged and fell rattling and bounding through the trees. My eyes turned instinctively in that direction, and I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a p...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/31.jpg WAS so pleased at having given the slip to Long John that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in. I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/29.jpg THE appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was altogether changed. Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low ea...

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13. How My Shore Adventure Began

14. The First Blow

15. The Man of the Island

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/27.jpg HERE was a great rush of feet across the deck. I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the forecastle, and slipping in an instant outside my barrel, I dived behind the fore-sail, made a double towards the stern, and came out upon the open deck i...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/25.jpg "NO, not I,” said Silver. “Flint was cap’n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me—out of college and all—Latin by the bucket, and what...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/23.jpg ALL that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire’s friends, Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return. We never had a night at the Admiral Benbow when I had hal...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/21.jpg THE Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we got alongside, and were met and saluted a...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/19.jpg THEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the Spy-glass, and told me I should easily find the place by following the line of the docks and keeping a bright lookout for a little tavern with a large brass...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/17.jpg https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/78.jpg IT was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea, and none of our first plans—not even Dr. Livesey’s, of keeping me beside him—could be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to go to Londo...

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7. I Go to Bristol

8. At the Sign of the Spy-glass

9. Powder and Arms

10. The Voyage

11. What I Heard in the Apple Barrel

12. Council of War

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/15.jpg WE rode hard all the way till we drew up before Dr. Livesey’s door. The house was all dark to the front. Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by. The door was opened almost at once by the maid. “Is Dr. Livesey i...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/13.jpg MY curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door. I was scarcely in position ere my enemie...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/11.jpg LOST no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man’s money—if he had any—was certainly due to us, but it was not l...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/9.jpg ABOUT noon I stopped at the captain’s door with some cooling drinks and medicines. He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little higher, and he seemed both weak and excited. “Jim,” he said, “you’re the only one here that’s worth anything, and you...

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https://victoria.org.in/img/books/a/7.jpg IT was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain fro...

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SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pe...

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1. The Old Sea-dog at the “Admiral Benbow”

2. Black Dog Appears and Disappears

3. The Black Spot

4. The Sea-chest

5. The Last of the Blind Man

6. The Captain’s Papers

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https://victoria.org.in/img/button/front.gif https://victoria.org.in/img/button/all.gif https://victoria.org.in/img/cover/Tisland.png TREASURE ISLAND PART ONE —The Old Buccaneer 1. The Old Sea-dog at the “Admiral Benbow” 2. Black Dog Appears and Disappears 3. The Black Spot 4. The Sea-chest 5. The ...

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For a whole week after the happy arrival of Mr. Winkle from Birmingham, Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were from home all day long, only returning just in time for dinner, and then wearing an air of mystery and importance quite foreign to their natures. It was evident that very grave and eventful proc...

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Mr. Pickwick was sitting alone, musing over many things, and thinking among other considerations how he could best provide for the young couple whose present unsettled condition was matter of constant regret and anxiety to him, when Mary stepped lightly into the room, and, advancing to the table, s...

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Samivel,’ said Mr. Weller, accosting his son on the morning after the funeral, ‘I’ve found it, Sammy. I thought it wos there.’ ‘Thought wot wos there?’ inquired Sam. ‘Your mother-in-law’s vill, Sammy,’ replied Mr. Weller. ‘In wirtue o’ vich, them arrangements is to be made as I told you on, last ni...

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The object that presented itself to the eyes of the astonished clerk, was a boy—a wonderfully fat boy—habited as a serving lad, standing upright on the mat, with his eyes closed as if in sleep. He had never seen such a fat boy, in or out of a travelling caravan; and this, coupled with the calmness ...

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When Arabella, after some gentle preparation and many assurances that there was not the least occasion for being low-spirited, was at length made acquainted by Mr. Pickwick with the unsatisfactory result of his visit to Birmingham, she burst into tears, and sobbing aloud, lamented in moving terms t...

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Considering it a matter of delicacy to abstain from introducing either Bob Sawyer or Ben Allen to the young couple, until they were fully prepared to expect them, and wishing to spare Arabella’s feelings as much as possible, Mr. Pickwick proposed that he and Sam should alight in the neighbourhood o...

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The morning which broke upon Mr. Pickwick’s sight at eight o’clock, was not at all calculated to elevate his spirits, or to lessen the depression which the unlooked-for result of his embassy inspired. The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke ...

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The horses were put to, punctually at a quarter before nine next morning, and Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller having each taken his seat, the one inside and the other out, the postillion was duly directed to repair in the first instance to Mr. Bob Sawyer’s house, for the purpose of taking up Mr. Benjam...

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My uncle, gentlemen,’ said the bagman, ‘was one of the merriest, pleasantest, cleverest fellows, that ever lived. I wish you had known him, gentlemen. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don’t wish you had known him, for if you had, you would have been all, by this time, in the ordinary course of natu...

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Mr. Ben Allen and Mr. Bob Sawyer sat together in the little surgery behind the shop, discussing minced veal and future prospects, when the discourse, not unnaturally, turned upon the practice acquired by Bob the aforesaid, and his present chances of deriving a competent independence from the honour...

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Job Trotter, abating nothing of his speed, ran up Holborn, sometimes in the middle of the road, sometimes on the pavement, sometimes in the gutter, as the chances of getting along varied with the press of men, women, children, and coaches, in each division of the thoroughfare, and, regardless of al...

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It was within a week of the close of the month of July, that a hackney cabriolet, number unrecorded, was seen to proceed at a rapid pace up Goswell Street; three people were squeezed into it besides the driver, who sat in his own particular little dickey at the side; over the apron were hung two sh...

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Afew mornings after his incarceration, Mr. Samuel Weller, having arranged his master’s room with all possible care, and seen him comfortably seated over his books and papers, withdrew to employ himself for an hour or two to come, as he best could. It was a fine morning, and it occurred to Sam that ...

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Mr. Pickwick felt a great deal too much touched by the warmth of Sam’s attachment, to be able to exhibit any manifestation of anger or displeasure at the precipitate course he had adopted, in voluntarily consigning himself to a debtor’s prison for an indefinite period. The only point on which he pe...

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In a lofty room, ill-lighted and worse ventilated, situated in Portugal Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, there sit nearly the whole year round, one, two, three, or four gentlemen in wigs, as the case may be, with little writing-desks before them, constructed after the fashion of those used by the judg...

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When Mr. Pickwick opened his eyes next morning, the first object upon which they rested was Samuel Weller, seated upon a small black portmanteau, intently regarding, apparently in a condition of profound abstraction, the stately figure of the dashing Mr. Smangle; while Mr. Smangle himself, who was ...

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Mr. Tom Roker, the gentleman who had accompanied Mr. Pickwick into the prison, turned sharp round to the right when he got to the bottom of the little flight of steps, and led the way, through an iron gate which stood open, and up another short flight of steps, into a long narrow gallery, dirty and...

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The remainder of the period which Mr. Pickwick had assigned as the duration of the stay at Bath passed over without the occurrence of anything material. Trinity term commenced. On the expiration of its first week, Mr. Pickwick and his friends returned to London; and the former gentleman, attended o...

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During the whole of next day, Sam kept Mr. Winkle steadily in sight, fully determined not to take his eyes off him for one instant, until he should receive express instructions from the fountain-head. However disagreeable Sam’s very close watch and great vigilance were to Mr. Winkle, he thought it ...

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The ill-starred gentleman who had been the unfortunate cause of the unusual noise and disturbance which alarmed the inhabitants of the Royal Crescent in manner and form already described, after passing a night of great confusion and anxiety, left the roof beneath which his friends still slumbered, ...

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Mr. Weller,’ said Mrs. Craddock, upon the morning of this very eventful day, ‘here’s a letter for you.’ ‘Wery odd that,’ said Sam; ‘I’m afeerd there must be somethin’ the matter, for I don’t recollect any gen’l’m’n in my circle of acquaintance as is capable o’ writin’ one.’ ‘Perhaps something uncom...

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As Mr. Pickwick contemplated a stay of at least two months in Bath, he deemed it advisable to take private lodgings for himself and friends for that period; and as a favourable opportunity offered for their securing, on moderate terms, the upper portion of a house in the Royal Crescent, which was l...

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But surely, my dear sir,’ said little Perker, as he stood in Mr. Pickwick’s apartment on the morning after the trial, ‘surely you don’t really mean—really and seriously now, and irritation apart—that you won’t pay these costs and damages?’ ‘Not one halfpenny,’ said Mr. Pickwick firmly; ‘not one hal...

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Iwonder what the foreman of the jury, whoever he’ll be, has got for breakfast,’ said Mr. Snodgrass, by way of keeping up a conversation on the eventful morning of the fourteenth of February. ‘Ah!’ said Perker, ‘I hope he’s got a good one.’ Why so?’ inquired Mr. Pickwick. ‘Highly important—very impo...

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The morning of the thirteenth of February, which the readers of this authentic narrative know, as well as we do, to have been the day immediately preceding that which was appointed for the trial of Mrs. Bardell’s action, was a busy time for Mr. Samuel Weller, who was perpetually engaged in travelli...

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There is a repose about Lant Street, in the Borough, which sheds a gentle melancholy upon the soul. There are always a good many houses to let in the street: it is a by-street too, and its dulness is soothing. A house in Lant Street would not come within the denomination of a first-rate residence, ...

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Scattered about, in various holes and corners of the Temple, are certain dark and dirty chambers, in and out of which, all the morning in vacation, and half the evening too in term time, there may be seen constantly hurrying with bundles of papers under their arms, and protruding from their pockets...

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Well, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, as that favoured servitor entered his bed-chamber, with his warm water, on the morning of Christmas Day, ‘still frosty?’ ‘Water in the wash-hand basin’s a mask o’ ice, Sir,’ responded Sam. ‘Severe weather, Sam,’ observed Mr. Pickwick. ‘Fine time for them as is well wr...

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’ In an old abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago—so long, that the story must be a true one, because our great-grandfathers implicitly believed it—there officiated as sexton and grave-digger in the churchyard, one Gabriel Grub. It by no means follows that because a m...

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As brisk as bees, if not altogether as light as fairies, did the four Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the twenty-second day of December, in the year of grace in which these, their faithfully-recorded adventures, were undertaken and accomplished. Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff...

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There still remaining an interval of two days before the time agreed upon for the departure of the Pickwickians to Dingley Dell, Mr. Weller sat himself down in a back room at the George and Vulture, after eating an early dinner, to muse on the best way of disposing of his time. It was a remarkably ...

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Having accomplished the main end and object of his journey, by the exposure of Jingle, Mr. Pickwick resolved on immediately returning to London, with the view of becoming acquainted with the proceedings which had been taken against him, in the meantime, by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg. Acting upon this ...

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Violent was Mr. Weller’s indignation as he was borne along; numerous were the allusions to the personal appearance and demeanour of Mr. Grummer and his companion; and valorous were the defiances to any six of the gentlemen present, in which he vented his dissatisfaction. Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkl...

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When Mr. Pickwick descended to the room in which he and Mr. Peter Magnus had spent the preceding evening, he found that gentleman with the major part of the contents of the two bags, the leathern hat-box, and the brown-paper parcel, displaying to all possible advantage on his person, while he himse...

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In a small room in the vicinity of the stableyard, betimes in the morning, which was ushered in by Mr. Pickwick’s adventure with the middle—aged lady in the yellow curl-papers, sat Mr. Weller, senior, preparing himself for his journey to London. He was sitting in an excellent attitude for having hi...

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That ‘ere your governor’s luggage, Sammy?’ inquired Mr. Weller of his affectionate son, as he entered the yard of the Bull Inn, Whitechapel, with a travelling-bag and a small portmanteau. ‘You might ha’ made a worser guess than that, old feller,’ replied Mr. Weller the younger, setting down his bur...

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’ Aha!’ said the old man, a brief description of whose manner and appearance concluded the last chapter, ‘aha! who was talking about the inns?’ ‘I was, Sir,’ replied Mr. Pickwick—‘I was observing what singular old places they are.’ ‘You!’ said the old man contemptuously. ‘What do you know of the ti...

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In the ground-floor front of a dingy house, at the very farthest end of Freeman’s Court, Cornhill, sat the four clerks of Messrs. Dodson & Fogg, two of his Majesty’s attorneys of the courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, and solicitors of the High Court of Chancery—the aforesa...

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The birds, who, happily for their own peace of mind and personal comfort, were in blissful ignorance of the preparations which had been making to astonish them, on the first of September, hailed it, no doubt, as one of the pleasantest mornings they had seen that season. Many a young partridge who s...

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