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...ne recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions, nor even their comp...

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...are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to ... ...complete idea of the man as he was. Many letters relate to home and family matters, such as it would be useless and impertinent to divulge; and yet it... ...quite early at six. My tutor said that, without any absurd feelings on the matter, he should not think himself of going to such a thing in Lent. “It w... ...ays, ‘His speeches were singularly free from the bombast and incon- gruous matter with which Eton orators from fifteen to eigh- teen are apt to interl... ...t, I should be his guest, and therefore any similar act of mine would make matters worse. You can therefore see why I wish T ues- day to be the day fo... ...t seem needful to account for the catastrophe. Altogether, these lads were exotics in New Zealand, and exceedingly fragile. In the very height of summ... ...ound theology of the Church of England; the fragrance is rather that of an exotic plant; here and there I mean—though I feel angry with myself for dar...

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...o crystallize about it, and after a time the Boynes had laughingly set the matter down to their profit-and-loss account, agreeing that Lyng was one of... ...he gesture of one who handles something harmless and familiar. “What’s the matter with you this afternoon, Mary? I thought you’d got bad news.” She st... ...enhouses, among the spiced scents and waxy pinks and reds of old-fashioned exotics,—even the flora of Lyng was in the note!—she learned that the great... ... And when?” “He went out of the front door, up the drive, Madam.” It was a matter of principle with Trimmle never to answer more than one question at ... ...tances of Elwell’s death. And then people are talking of it now; the whole matter’s been raked up again. And I thought, if you didn’t know, you ought ... ...ed: “He will not understand you here any better than he did on earth.” “No matter,” she said; “I shall be the only sufferer, for he always thought tha... ...stimation.” Mrs. Roby, returning to Hillbridge from a prolonged sojourn in exotic regions—the other ladies no longer took the trouble to remember wher...

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...P P P PIERR IERR IERR IERR IERRO O O O OT T T T T: Ah, Columbine,—as if it mattered! Wednesday …. Will it be T uesday, then, to-morrow, By any chance?... ...ERRO O O O OT T T T T: Why?—I am a student, Columbine; And search into all matters. COL COL COL COL COLUMBINE UMBINE UMBINE UMBINE UMBINE: La, indeed?... ... OT T T T T: But why?—well, as to that, my dear, I cannot say. It’s just a matter of form. COL COL COL COL COLUMBINE UMBINE UMBINE UMBINE UMBINE: Pier... ...RR IERRO O O O OT T T T T: Hello, what’s this, for God’s sake?— What’s the matter? Say, whadda you mean?—get off the stage, my friend, And pinch yours... .... I think you’ll find you can. One wall is like another. And regarding The matter of your insufficient mood, The important thing is that you speak the... ...ine’s end should contain persimmons, pomegranates, grapes and other bright exotic fruits. Pierrot’ s bowl has confetti and colored paper ribbons, the ...

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... critically on the circle of ladies who were the product of the system. In matters intellec- tual and artistic Newland Archer felt himself distinctly ... ...ts were exchanged. The New Y ork ritual was precise and inflexible in such matters; and in conformity with it Newland Archer first went with his mothe... ...n its due stress. “Oh, well—at the pass we’ve come to nowadays, it doesn’t matter,” said Mrs. Archer indifferently. The ladies were not really interes... ...he young man, himself mindful of the bad taste of discussing such intimate matters in public, hastily branched off into an account of his visit to old... ... formidable business. Dining with the van der Luydens was at best no light matter, and dining there with a Duke who was their cousin was almost a reli... ...ike Winsett see that; and that was why the New Y ork of literary clubs and exotic restaurants, though a first shake made it seem more of a kaleidoscop... ...ad grown up among, too much like expensive and rather malodorous hot-house exotics, to detain his imagination long. To introduce his wife into such a ...

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...ty. Was it a commercial impropriety? Com- mercial impropriety is a serious matter, for it aims at one’s pocket. Or was he only a purist in conduct who... ... hole in the ground? And then my thoughts escaped me altogether— away into matters of life—and no very high matters at that— ships, freights, business... ...ly to keep the cabin-table in a perpetual mess of mould and dead vegetable matter. “Rear most beautiful flowers,” he insisted with an upward glance. “... ...mu- latto lad may resemble a big, stout, middle-aged white man. It was the exotic complexion and the slightness of his build which had put me off so c... ...al- ity? Heavens! It goes into the bill, of course. He spreads such little matters all over his account. He can take care of himself! Why, it’s busine... ...t to do with himself or even how to get home to his island again. It was a matter of two hundred rupees or so, but, when I turned up, the family made ...

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... object the way to which was clear before his eyes. Silence therefore on a matter which is common in the mouths of most men was less difficult to him ... ...belief abroad that he was ruined, but they who interest themselves in such matters had found out,—or at any rate believed that they had found out,—tha... ...e present day won’t give themselves the trouble to occupy their minds with matters which have, or should have, real interest. Pope knew all about when... ...ct all the while to a cold east wind, he went home and thought of the same matter while he lay in bed. Even were he to get the girl’s assurances of lo... ...te battle, might perhaps be fought with other strategy; but, giving to the matter his best consideration, Lopez thought it expedient to go at once to ... ...s with flowers. Of course there would be the bill;—and he, when he saw the exotics, and the whole place turned into a bower of every fresh blooming fl... ...ing left towards the end of the house he came upon a new conservatory. The exotics with which it was to be filled were at this moment being brought in...

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...len into my memory, without my exercising any choice or volition about the matter. Of course—permit me to say you do not think of relinquishing an occ... ...primly—without curls, or other ornament, except a single flower. It was an exotic of rare beauty, and as fresh as if the hothouse gardener had just cl... ...here already) will take the domestic and indoor part of the business, as a matter of course. T o bake, to boil, to roast, to fry, to stew,—to wash, an... ...eal better if the philanthropy had been left out. At all events, as a mere matter of taste, I wish he would let the bad people alone, and try to benef... ...nderstood him—she had friends; and this is positively all I know about the matter.” Grim Silas Foster, all this while, had been busy at the sup per t... ...committee for pro viding our infant community with an appropriate name,—a matter of greatly more difficulty than the uninitiated reader would suppose...

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... lain or his wife; so the latter spoke to the Englishman, and told him how matters stood in Lispeth’s heart. He laughed a good deal, and said it was v... ...remmil can afford to laugh 11 Rudyard Kipling now, but it was no laughing matter to her at the time. Y ou see, Mrs. Hauksbee appeared on the horizon;... ... tively as too much assorted vice or too much drink. Flirta- tion does not matter because every one is being transferred and either you or she leave t... ... either you or she leave the Station, and never return. Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes a... ... another man takes all the credit of his best as a rule. Bad work does not matter, because other men do worse, and incompetents hang on longer in Indi... ...vement of its capacities as a flesh-former. (b) The acclimatization of the exotic Pig, maintaining its distinctive peculiarities.” Pinecoffin replied ... ...g its distinctive peculiarities.” Pinecoffin replied exhaustively that the exotic Pig would become merged in the indigenous type; and quoted horse-bre... ...ton went back to the second section of his fifth ques- tion. How could the exotic Pig be brought to give as much pork as it did in the West and yet “a...

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... theme as formidable. The image so figured would be, at best, but half the matter; the rest would be all the picture of the struggle involved, the adv... ... difficult and to require much handling; though giving perhaps, with other matters, one of those chances for good taste, pos- sibly even for the play ... ... “old” New York stem; the happy congrui- ties thus preserved for her being matters, however, that I may not now go into, and this even though the fine... ...y might constitute for herself?--which is what I mean when I speak of such matters as “natural.” They would be as natural, these tragic, pathetic, iro... ...d little by little to be laid on it was, by way of example, to have been a matter of as many hun- dred close-packed bricks as there are actually poor ... ...ight be to see what had become of large high-coloured Maud, florid, alien, exotic—which had been just the spell— even to the perceptions of youth. The... ...feel uncertain; of his certain- ties about a mere little American, a cheap exotic, im- ported almost wholesale and whose habitat, with its con- dition... ...d, even had it been brought straighter home to her, to passing for a cheap exotic. Provisionally, at any rate, that protected her wish to keep herself...

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...ice of such stalks as one finds floating therein deserves that title, is a matter all shipowners must settle with their consciences. A cube of salt be... ...s far, and everything respecting the ship and its present condition. These matters I will now throw together in the next chapter. 7 Melville CHAPTER ... ...ing with them; such a set would have thrown him and his dignity overboard. Matters being thus, there was nothing for the ship but to keep the sea. Nor... ...appear- ance on the forecastle, resolved, as his best policy, to treat the matter lightly. “Why, why,” he begun, speaking pettishly, and very fast, “w... ...fitting opportunity, the carpenter should be cordially flogged; though, as matters stood, the experiment would be a hazardous one. Upon this Jermin re... ... along the Broom Road: perhaps a band of pale, little white urchins—sickly exotics—and, oftener still, sedate, eld- erly gentlemen, with canes; at who...

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...ultivate appeared somehow ex- travagantly overgrown, as if belonging to an exotic clime; and Captain Hagberd’s upright, hale person, clad in No. 1 sai... ...ear, he would be well on his way to not saying any more about it. In other matters he was quite rational, so this, too, was bound to come. Such was th... ...rned for himself the reputation of an awful skinflint, of a mi- ser in the matter of living. He mumbled regretfully in the shops, bought in-ferior scr... ...ngly. “For the present,” he muttered, in a crest- fallen tone. “What’s the matter with him?” The stranger addressed Bessie with the utmost familiarity... ...ss seemed involved together. “Oh—I am so sorry,” she murmured. “What’s the matter?” he said, with serenity. “Y ou needn’t be afraid of upsetting me. I... ... perhaps bundle him into chokey for that without asking questions—no great matter, only he was confoundedly afraid of being locked up, even in mistake...

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...elders with doubtful pride, lest they should denote a lack of attention to matters of greater importance. All his achievements were, however, poured f... ...s in his studies; but the idea that learn- ing had anything to do with the matter was derided, and as time went on, there was vexation and displeasure... ...larence, and made him fear that his friend might be taken in. However, the matter was discussed be- tween the elders, and it was determined that this ... ... whose spoons reposed in the plate-chest, never troubled themselves on the matter. I re- member Clarence leaning over me and saying, ‘Mr. Castleford t... ...now when they have enough;’ and, on my observing that it might have been a matter of justice, she waxed hotter, declaring that what the Winslows felt ... ... for a pair of drop-earrings, the other from a nurseryman for a bouquet of exotics. Doubting of these two last, Clarence had written to Griff, but had...

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...attention, by securing his interest and en- listing his sympathies for the matter in hand, whatever it may be, within the limits of the visible world ... ...ed a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his... ... loquacious nor taciturn he found very little occasion to talk. There were matters of duty, of course —directions, orders, and so on; but the past bei... ... and then remarked, “Queer flag for a man to sail under, sir.” “What’s the matter with the flag?” inquired Captain MacWhirr. “Seems all right to me.” ... ..., holding on, showed his eyes above the upper edge, and asked, “What’s the matter?” “Swell getting worse, sir.” “Noticed that in here,” muttered Capta... ...liance of the whites, giving to his youthful face something of a feminine, exotic and fascinat- ing aspect. When the ship pitched he would with hasty ...

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... myself, but that any one should deceive through me; I will neither afford matter nor occasion to any such thing. In the little I have had to mediate ... ... by the gods, favourably conspiring for his justification. The end of this matter is excusable, if any can be so; but the profit of the augmentation o... ...ding man alive: secondly, that never any man pen- etrated farther into his matter, nor better and more distinctly sifted the parts and sequences of it... ...tion?” He who talks at a very ordinary rate, and writes rare 23 Montaigne matter, ’tis to say that his capacity is borrowed and not his own. A learne... ...es itself and steals away from my reason, and that does not proceed in the matter by the consent of all my faculties, without divi- sion or intestine ... ...overed the poet I had last read, and some of my first essays have a little exotic taste: I speak something another kind of language at Paris than I do...

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...and made another note. ‘Ever any madness in your fam- ily?’ he asked, in a matter-of-fact tone. I felt very annoyed. ‘Is that question in the interest... ... that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages. Behind this raw matter one of the reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolle... ...th bank. I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river. ... ...tache which makes up the rest of the price. And indeed what does the price matter, if the trick be well done? You do your tricks very well. And I didn... ...’ by a man Tower, Towson— some such name—Master in his Majesty’s Navy. The matter looked dreary reading enough, with illustrative dia- grams and repul... ...icent, though difficult to remember, you know. It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with ent...

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...r branches of literature, at the expense of my deficiency in the weightier matters of the law, I am not yet audacious enough to enter the portal which... ...o, at dinner.’ ‘Latimer paid that, sir,’ I replied, thinking to soften the matter; but I had much better have left it unspoken. ‘The reckoning, sir!’ ... ...ived under my roof since he left the school, why, there is really no great matter in coming under this small obligation to him.’ As I saw my father’s ... ...is superiority in the legal argument, I took care to accept my pardon as a matter of grace, rather than of justice; and only replied, we should feel o... ...houses amounted only to one night at La Pique’s ball—the novels (so far as matter of notoriety, Darsie) to an odd volume of Tom Jones. ‘But he danced ... ...rdens, which, with their shaven turf, pleached alleys, wil- dernesses, and exotic trees and shrubs, greatly excelled any- thing of the kind which had ... ...RDIA, out of pity. EXCEPTIO FIRMAT REGULAM, the exception proves the rule. EXOTIC, of foreign origin. FACTOR LOCO TUTORIS, an agent acting in place of...

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...resent to us. “Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you have... ... nothing betrayed, I seem to make out, in this full and sound sense of the matter; it shed from any side I could turn it to the same golden glow. I re... ...on in predominance or as his prime faculty, nor should I, in view of other matters, have found that convenient. So particular a luxury —some occasion,... ...is head at any price. In consequence of all which, for the interest of the matter, I might seem here to have my choice of narrating my “hunt” for Lamb... ... doing (as we Anglo- Saxons, and we only, say, in our foredoomed clutch of exotic aids to expression) in that galere? To answer these questions plausi... ... there was a general probability in his narrower localism; which, for that matter, one had really but to keep under the lens for an hour to see it giv...

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... them in alternation; and they seemed to give a point to her Ori- ental or exotic aspect. A compliment had once been paid her, which, being repeated t... ... her companion’s touch. “Well, some day you must do it for me. It does n’t matter now. Indeed, I don’t think it matters,” she added, “how one looks be... ...n’t think it matters,” she added, “how one looks behind.” “I should say it mattered more,” said Gertrude. “Then you don’t know who may be observing yo... ...e of a pensive cast; they take things hard. I think there is something the matter with them; they have some melancholy memory or some depressing expec... ...ed to be founded upon a degree of material abundance for which, in certain matters of detail, one might have looked in vain at the frugal little court... ...x, smiling. And she closed her eyes a little. It had by this time become a matter of almost exciting anxiety to Charlotte what Gertrude would say or w...

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... chains, With God and man’s abhorrence for its gains. If we may judge of matter by the mind, Emasculated to the marrow It Hath but two objec... ...ge lord into a scrape. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 9 This was an easy matter with a man Oft in the wrong, and never on his guard; And eve... ...ever find, Although their porter afterwards confess’d — But that ‘s no matter, and the worst ‘s behind, For little Juan o’er me threw, down st... ...heir friends had tried at reconciliation, Then their relations, who made matters worse. (‘T were hard to tell upon a like occasion To whom i... ...t ‘Verbum sat.’ I think I pick’d up too, as well as most, Knowledge of matters — but no matter what — I never married — but, I think, I know ... ... To the kind reader of our sober clime This way of writing will appear exotic; Pulci was sire of the half serious rhyme, Who sang when chi... ...ose around, Like flowers of different hue, and dime, and root, In some exotic garden sometimes found, With cost, and care, and warmth induce...

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...love procure access to. But, on the other hand, was it not clear that such matter as must here be revealed, and treated of, might endanger the circula... ... had not previously corresponded. The Hofrath, after much quite extraneous matter, began dilating largely on the “agita- tion and attention” which the... ...lcome; the world enjoyed what good was in them, and thought no more of the matter. The man Teufelsdrockh passed and repassed, in his little circle, as... ...? His Life, Fortunes, and Bodily Pres- ence, are as yet hidden from us, or matter only of faint 21 Thomas Carlyle conjecture. But, on the other hand,... ...al enough, in his Transcendental Philosophies, and humor of looking at all Matter and Material things as Spirit; whereby truly his case were but the m... ...ces: what is ours still but a continuation of the same; be the Appearances exotic-vegetable, organic, mechanic, stars, or starry move- ments (as in Sc...