Subject for March, 2020

CHAPTER V-1

Subject: Ivanhoe

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, he...

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CHAPTER IV

Subject: Ivanhoe

With sheep and shaggy goats the porkers bled,      And the proud steer was on the marble spread;      With fire prepared, they deal the morsels round,      Wine rosy bright the...

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CHAPTER III

Subject: Ivanhoe

     Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears      The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong,      And yellow hair’d, the blue-eyed Saxon came.      Thomson&#...

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III. A Disappointment – 4

Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread

He answered, in a tone that went to every heart, “A long imprisonment.” “Were you newly released on the occasion in question?” “They tell me so.” “Have you no remembrance of the...

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III. A Disappointment – 3

Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread

“Let me interrupt you for a moment. Had he come on board alone?” “No.” “How many were with him?” “Two French gentlemen.” “Had they conferred together?” “They had conferred toget...

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III. A Disappointment – 2

Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread

The virtuous servant, Roger Cly, swore his way through the case at a great rate. He had taken service with the prisoner, in good faith and simplicity, four years ago. He had ask...

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III. A Disappointment – 1

Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread

Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. Th...

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II. A Sight – 2

Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread

“What’s on?” he asked, in a whisper, of the man he found himself next to. “Nothing yet.” “What’s coming on?” “The Treason case.” “The quartering one, eh?” “Ah!” retu...

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II. A Sight – 1

Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread

You know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?” said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger. “Ye-es, sir,” returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. “I do know the B...

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I. Five Years Later -2

Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread

“And what do you suppose, you conceited female,” said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, “that the worth of your prayers may be? Name the price that you put your pray...

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