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...ould, he would always look like a snob, and that there was only one man in England who could make a gentleman of him, went to the perfumer’s soul; and... ...o take twenty pounds in a single night from as many of the first ladies of England when ringlets were in fashion. The introduction of bands, he says, ... ..., in spite of his misfortunes and precarious position, there was no man in England whose conscience was more calm, and whose slum- bers were more tran... ...and his hair curled every morning, and a little blue stock, and always two new magazines under his arm, and an umbrella and a little brown frock-coat,... ...mself quite willing to en- ter into any hamicable arrangement by which the new candi- date for Miss Crump’s favour must be thrown over. It was accordi... ...tter man than you, and look what a figure we turn him out. Can any firm in England dress Lord Bolsterton but us, so as to make his Lord- ship look dec... ...in the evening: and of course he told the ladies to look out for a certain new coat he was going to sport on Sunday; and of course Mr. Walker happens ... ...eople; how could she, moving in her exalted sphere, receive at her genteel new resi- dence in the Edgware Road the old publican and his wife? Being, t... ... multiply into a plum. Woe is me! Has not many a simple soul examined five new hundred-pound notes in this way, and calculated their powers of duratio...

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...t were not a fading memory of things gone for ever. It was the big port of England in Roman times, Portus Lemanus, and now the sea is four miles away.... ...and activ- ity. And the afternoon was my brightest time!—effervescing with new ideas—new points of view.” “But why not come by still?” “It would be al... ...or his ruined walk still hung about me. “Why not,” said I, “make this your new habit? In the place of the one I spoilt? At least, until we can settle ... ...opaque to gravitation out of a compli- cated alloy of metals and something new—a new element, I fancy—called, I believe, helium, which was sent to him... ...dustry. The chance that had brought me into the very birth-chamber of this new time—it was an ep- och, no less—was one of those chances that come once... ...d have dropped this bombshell into the world as though he had discovered a new species of gnat, if it had not happened that I had come along. And ther... ...cognised the cloud-dimmed coast-lines of France and Spain and the south of England, and then, with a click, the shutter closed again, and I found myse... ...ss over his arm, appeared up the beach. I knew instantly that I must be in England. He was staring most intently at the sphere and me. He advanced sta...

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... off to London by the very next post to acquaint Nicholas Tulrumble with his new el evation. Now, it being November time, and Mr. Nicholas Tulrumble ... ... which Mr. Nicholas Tulrumble and family returned to Mudfog, Mr. Tulrumble’s new secretary, just imported from London, with a pale face and light whis... ... eyes were turned towards Mudfog Hall, in the confident anticipation of some new wonder. ‘They won’t laugh now, Mr. Jennings,’ said Nicholas Tulrumble... ...ts, and all. Such a creaking as the bedstead made, under Ned’s weight in his new suit! It didn’t break down though; and there Ned lay, like the anonym... ...eads to consider poor Ned a martyr. Nicholas was formally in stalled in his new office, in acknowledgment of which cer emony he delivered himself of... ...ntable. One child, on being asked whether he would rather be Saint George of England or a respectable tallow chandler, instantly replied, “Taint Georg... ... accomplished, if Her Majesty’s Government would cause to be brought over to England, and maintained at the public expense, and for the public amuseme... ...f providing some harmless and wholesome relaxation for the young noblemen of England.” His proposi tion was, that a space of ground of not less than ...

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... well as the deceiving kisses I gave her. Somehow, from that hour, I had a new vision Dear Emily Sparks! Emily Sparks WHERE is my boy, my boy In what ... ...rer blooded than the white trash here? And of more direct lineage than the New Englanders And Virginians of Spoon River? Y ou would not believe that I... ...blooded than the white trash here? And of more direct lineage than the New Englanders And Virginians of Spoon River? Y ou would not believe that I had... ...h, dear God, my soul trembled, scarcely able To hold to the railing of the new life When I saw Em Stanton behind the oak tree At the grave, Hiding her... ...ul. True, I trailed back home, a broken failure, When Ralph disappeared in New Y ork, Leaving me alone in the city— But life broke him also. In all th... ...her In the love of larger truth, Rapt in the expectation of the birth Of a new Beauty, Sprung from Brotherhood and Wisdom. I with eyes of spirit see t... ...own into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn from New England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers, Hating me, yet fearin... ... pearl with a glint like meadow rue: Then betimes a letter from Tyndall in England, Stamped with the stamp of Spoon River. I, lover of Nature, beloved... ...er side And came to us for vengeance. More’s at stake Than triumph for New England or Virginia. And whether rum be sold, or for two years As in the pa...

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...such a store of pleasant recollections for after days— and creates so many new sources of interest (a newspaper letter from Beyrout, or Malta, or Algi... ...d with much majesty; and in the twinkling of an eye, the Royal standard of England, about the size of a pocket-handkerchief,—and at the bows of the bo... ...agero-o!” 11 Thackeray We all went down to tea rather melancholy; but the new milk, in the place of that abominable whipped egg, revived us again; an... ...ed a year for his ser- vices, and has an old mother and a sister living in England somewhere, who I will wager (though he never, I swear, said a word ... ...turesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house wi... ... custom-houses, and protection to free trade. Perhaps ere a very long day, England may be acting that part 31 Thackeray towards the world, which Gibr... ...And though the November climate of Malta is like the most delicious May in England, and though there is every gaiety and amusement in the town, a comf... ... houses of the city. As we went from Galata to Pera up a steep hill, which new- comers ascend with some difficulty, but which a porter, with a couple ... ...the late Sultan Mahmoud’s family, a good subject for a Ghazul, in the true new Oriental manner. These Royal burial-places are the resort of the pious ...

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...ustfulness of the golden age; or what is more to the purpose, with that of New England’s silvery prime. Gertrude slowly passed through it, and went fr... ...ulness of the golden age; or what is more to the purpose, with that of New England’s silvery prime. Gertrude slowly passed through it, and went from o... ...her a singular one. It ‘s a morganatic marriage.” “Morganatic?” These were new names and new words to poor Gertrude. “That ‘s what they call a marriag... ...d that the landscape seemed to be all foreground. Felix had fixed with his new friends the hour at which he should bring his sister; it was four o’clo... ...worth. “I am convinced they are more delicate. There are very good ones in England— in Holland; but they are very apt to be coarse. There is too much ... ...ountry is superior in many respects to those you men- tion. I have been to England and Holland.” “Ah, you have been to Europe?” cried the Baroness. “W... ...ickly, had already learned that the silences frequently observed among his new acquain- tances were not necessarily restrictive or resentful. It was, ... ...” replied Mr. Brand, impres- sively. “Ah, I see,” said Eugenia. “Something new.” She had never heard of this form of worship. Mr. Acton began to laugh... ...ame sensible. He had never known anything so infinitely rural as these New England fields; and he took a great fancy to all their pastoral roughnesses...

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....................................................... 83 SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND. ..................................................................... ............................................... 85 FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. ..................................................................... ........................................................................ 86 A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. ......................................................... ................................................................. 87 SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819. ............................................................. ...hts; but he had now begun to feel that the time for action was not ripe in England, and that the pen was the only instrument wherewith to prepare the ... ...it to read aloud to me in the evening; in this way we read, this year, the New Testament, Paradise Lost, Spenser’s Faery Queen, and Don Quixote. 33 S... ...ister band Might adorn this sunny land, T wining memories of old time With new virtues more sublime; If not, perish thou and they!— ... ...re ye: while like flowers, In the waste of years and hours, From your dust new nations spring _165 With more kindly... ...ed flame, When it lit not many a hearth On this cold and gloomy earth: Now new fires from antique light _265 Sprin...

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...y venerated friend, the late Don Jose Avellanos, Minister to the Courts of England and Spain, etc., etc., in his impartial and elo- quent “History of ... ...ilence to anarchist speeches at the meeting, the enigmatical patron of the new revolu- tionary agitation, the trusted, the wealthy comrade Fidanza wit... ...nrad Aristocrat and Nostromo the Man of the People are the artisans of the New Era, the true creators of the New State; he by his legendary and daring... ...lic of the past disregarded by men awaiting impatiently the Dawns of other New Eras, the coming of more Revolutions. But this is the idlest of dreams;... ...ment was bound to carry out its part of the contract with the board of the new rail- way company, even if it had to use force for the pur- pose. But h... ...ld family, established in Costaguana for three generations, always went to England for their education and for their wives) imagined that he had falle... ...yes, auburn hair, and a thin, fresh, red face, Charles Gould looked like a new arrival from over the sea. His grandfather had fought in the cause of i... ...ven Mr. Gould’s letters to his fourteen-year-old boy Charles, then away in England for his education, came at last to talk of practically nothing but ... ...were worth while to try,” he added, grimly. But he had breathed the air of England longer than any of his people had done for three generations, and r...

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...he Chief began to speak. He touched upon the condi- tion of Italy, and the new lilt animating her young men and women. “I have heard many good men jee... ...signorina’s voice, who affects to have first discovered it when she was in England, and is a connoisseur, a millionaire, a Greek, a rich scoundrel, wi... ...nd heard it go off. Yes; I am a spy. But I am honest. I, too, have visited England. One can be honest and a spy. Signorina, I have two arms, but only ... ...annot dance upon nothing.” The days of Vittoria’s youth had been passed in England. It was not unknown to her that old English friends were on the way... ...em; I know it, I feel it; it turns my blood. But let me hear their voices! England is half my coun- try, though I am so willing to forget her and give... ...rnina yonder, and fancy you behold a rout of phantom Goths; a sleepy rout, new risen, with the blood of old battles on their shroud-shirts, and a Nort... ...haken once during the collo- quy. It was now a fixed defence. “What is her new name?” Mrs. Sedley inquired. “That I cannot tell. Wilfrid merely mentio... ...gained the consent of his Chief. Barto then fell silent. He despatched his new spy, Luigi, to the Motterone, more for the purpose of giving him a scho... ...ead again and again the letter of her whom he had loved in England, to get new lights from it, as lovers do when they have lost the power to take sing...

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...ENT though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England States, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for t... ...though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England States, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the c... ... cut, would distinguish those who had begun to acquire the polish of their new residence; and the air of superiority, the paler cheek, the less robust... ...ors. Mrs. Melmoth, who, indeed, anticipated with pleasure the arrival of a new subject to her authority, threw no difficulties in the way of his inten... ...valier in a little excursion over the rough bridle-roads that led from her new residence. She was an experienced equestrian,—a necessary accomplishmen... ...ind a few hours had done the work of many. Almost in spite of himself, the new sensation was inexpressibly delightful. The recollection of his ruined ... ...imed. He then read on, “be- ing the vessel wherein that eminent son of New England, John Langton, Esq., had taken passage for his native coun- try, af... ... vessel that was lost.” “And where is he now?” she inquired. “He is in New England. Perhaps he is at this moment on his way to us,” replied her husban...

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...of the master, at least of the prize pupil. Allan Wayworth had returned to England, at two-and- twenty, after a miscellaneous continental education; h... ...ating fate took no account of the difference. He was at last able to leave England for three or four months; he went to Germany to pay a visit long de... ...ces at London and the morrow. Loder, as our young man was aware, meant the new “Renaissance,” but though he reached home in the evening it was not to ... ...at is for every one but Nona. He was con- scious, in these days, of an odd new feeling, which mixed (this was a part of its oddity) with a very natura... ...arried out imperfectly her own side of the bar- gain. She came to him with new questions—she waited for him with old doubts, and half an hour before t... ...tely spent enough money in cabs to add to his hope that the profits of his new pro- fession would be great. His anxiety, his suspense flamed up again,... ...Mr. Loder, al- most more bewildered than gratified. “She has gone in for a new reading—a blessed somersault in the air!” “Is it quite different?” Wayw...

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...hard went; and the sisters took up their employments— Ethel writing to the New Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of... ... Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of a New Zealand letter for her brother, the lieutenant in command of a gun-boat... ...father had over-lived the first pangs of change and separation, had formed new and con- genial habits, saw the future hope before him; and since poor ... ... luxurious than what she ever saw, except when visiting with Flora, and so new as to tell a tale of the mother’s fond prepara- tion for the return of ... ...n thrust on her but what did fill her with a certain apprehension, was the new and lofty beauty of expression that sat on that sleeping countenance. ‘... ...atch, Miss May?’ ‘Match? Oh, the cricket match?’ ‘Stoneborough against All England, on St. Matthew’s Day, so I shall have got my hand in.’ ‘ All Engla... ...hers had done as well, Stoneborough might have had a chance. But when ‘All England’ went in, the game seemed to be more equally balanced. Aubrey May, ... ...g, and the score still low, Tom May came forward, as the last hope of ‘All England,’ lissom, ac- tive, and skilled, walking up to his wicket with the ... ...ping poor Leonard a living, not a dead, sorrow. He was determined to leave England as soon as possible, that his sisters might never feel that they we...

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... to give time for a little tranquillity before the commencement of James’s new duties. As soon as this intelligence arrived, Mrs. Frost removed hersel... ...d Miss Mercy herself had hardly so many resources for making old furniture new. Many of her happiest half-hours with Louis were spent as she sewed the... ...r. Ponsonby professed to have been unwilling to enter so speed- ily on the new tie; but to have been compelled, by the spe- cies of persecution which ... ...ith a long breath; ‘I knew you would see it so.’ ‘It will be a very pretty new style of wedding tour. Andes for Alps! No, Mary, you need not suspect m... ... CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V V V V V THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NEW W W W W W W W W WORLD ORLD ORLD ORLD ORLD Still onward, as to southern... ...of having deeply offended, hung upon her; and her heart was so entirely in England, that had her home been perfect, her voyage must still have been a ... ...e; but Robson continued mak- ing conversation about Mr. Dynevor’s visit to England, and the quantity of work this temporary absence entailed on him; a... ... her large eyes. ‘My father commanded me.’ 60 Dynevor Terrace V olume II ‘England is a long way off,’ said Rosita, languidly, ‘he could not have reac... ...the Illustrated London News which delighted Jane Beckett’s simple heart in England, caused no small sensation at Lima. Dona Rosita cast one glance at ...

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... in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair, who had successfull... ... life and the leisure to taste it. They had never for a moment meant their new state to be one of idle- ness; but they meant to give themselves only t... ...n the hearth, the subject of their earlier curiosity revived in her with a new sense of its meaning—a sense gradually acquired through close daily con... ...ht to the life they always dreamed of living. Once or twice, now that this new life had actually drawn its magic circle about them, she had asked hers... ...ion. If she had indeed been careless of her husband’s affairs, it was, her new state seemed to prove, be- cause her faith in him instinctively justifi... ...resemble her preconceived notion of an authority on hot-house boilers. The new-comer, on seeing her, lifted his hat, and paused with the air of a gent... ...t at her suddenly, like a grin out of the dark, that they had often called England so little—”such a confoundedly hard place to get lost in.” A confou... ...h in his hand,—had set forth the object of his visit. He had “run over” to England on business, and finding himself in the neighborhood of Dorchester,... ... was her husband’s, taken from a photograph made the year they had come to England. It was the picture of 30 Early Short Fiction – Part 2 him that sh...

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... Miss Mary. ‘So it was with the last regime’, said the vicar; ‘but now the new people are come I expect great things from them. I hear they are very f... ...o far, and it will be very good for her. I shall make her.’ ‘There’s young England’s filial duty!’ said Mary. ‘Why, I know what is good for her, and s... ...ldren, with Miss Headworth and the German nurse, and our being told of our new sister. Uncle Alwyn and his yacht were there, and we went on board once... ... the West Indies, where it was burnt; but they, as you know, never came to England again, going straight off to the Medi- terranean, having their head... ... over forget-me-nots, more likely.’ ‘My dear Mark, for a specimen of young England, you are greatly behindhand in perception of progress!’ ‘Ah! you ar... ...st, here joined the party, and the whole story was laid before him. He was new to Micklethwayte, having suc- ceeded a somewhat distant kinsman, and di... ...ssel, and they had been long in communicating with home. The General hated England, and was in broken health. He had spent the remaining years of his ... ...living at Bridgefield Egremont, now, that his sister May was very like his new cousin, that Blanche was come out and was very like his mother, etc. et... ... somewhat late, Ursula, but better late than never.’ She looked up at this new father, and understood instantly what she had heard of his being a gran...

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...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ...oon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of ... ...ong those low spurs of the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New Y ork, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn through the c... ... a meridional line drawn through the centre of the State. As the waters of New York flow either southerly into the Atlan- tic or northerly into Ontari... ...iances, and which refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, however, it is not im... ... the United States to denote a traineau. It is of local use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter ... ...orgotten among the inhabitants of New Y ork, until the emigration from New England brought in the opinions and usages of the Puritans, like the “bon h... ...nal owners of the soil, all that section of country which contains the New England States, and those of the Middle which lie east of the moun- tains, ... ...ied the district between the Hudson and the ocean, in- cluding much of New England. Of course these two tribes were the first who were dispossessed of...

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... transported nearer to see the show, and stood like friends anxious to re- new acquaintance. Dahlia and Rhoda taught the children to perceive how they... ...do,” thought the farmer in an interval of his wrath; and the wrath is very new which has none of these cool intervals. The pas- sions, do but watch th... ...had to be packed up and despatched. Rhoda lived on abashed by the adorable new refinement of Dahlia’s features, and her heart yearned to her uncle for... ... himself with dumpling. He relaxed his exertions sufficiently to take this new burden on his brain, and imme- diately cast it off. “Ah never thinks wh... .... It ain’t respectful t’ age, I say. Gammon don’t understand nothing about new feeds for sheep, and dam nonsense about grow- ing such things as melons... ...s which have taken root with the fortunes of the country—are honourable as England’s name, solid as her prosperity, and even as the flourishing green ... ...on thunder. The letter ran thus:— “My Own Innocent!—I am married. We leave England to-day. I must not love you too much, for I have all my love to giv... ...ays tell you the history of the places to instruct you, poor heart in dull England. Adieu! Good-bye and God bless my innocent at home, my dear sister.... ...r Father,— “My husband will bring me to see you when I return to dear England. I ought to have concealed nothing, I know. T ry to forgive me. I h...

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...th health damaged by a wound, to teach languages and military draw- ing in England, and, unhappily, to spread his principles among his pupils, during ... ...of home—my father did not like it, you see—and Aunt Alice had moved off to New Zealand, so that we could not go and talk about it to her. Mr. Smith ha... ...r and my Aunt Alice tell of it. It was at the first place where we were in New South Wales. I came run- ning out screaming, I believe—I was old enough... ...oor, holding a snake tight by the neck and enjoying its contortions like a new toy.” “Of course,” said Harold, “if it were poisonous, which I doubt, t... ...rom actual servitude they had sent up their statement to the Government of New South Wales; but in the meantime Prometesky had fared much worse than t... ...use. And then she told me that the whole county was up in arms against the new comers, not only from old association of their name with revolutionary ... ...t like a weight on his heart. “They told me a great deal had been done for England. It is just nothing,” he said, and hardly anything else that whole ... ...himself introduced to all the hunt- ing world of the county, not to say of England. It gave me a great deal to consider, knowing, as I did full well, ... ...t in Sydney an order which he signed for the transmission of some money to England. He had learnt from Mr. Y olland that morning that the “Dragon’s He...

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... Alice went on in her mild, wise way. ‘We must educate, we must pretend in a new man ner, we must wait.’ The colonel clenched his teeth, — four out ... ...tist despot, but had escaped from his guards. ‘How educate? How pretend in a new manner? How wait?’ ‘Educate the grown up people,’ replied Alice. ‘We ... ...ces, pre sume to teach any boy anything any more. 2. That, if taken back to England, he should pass his life in travelling to find out boys who want... ...dheart gave orders to weigh the anchor, and turn ‘The Beauty’s’ head towards England. These orders were obeyed with three cheers; and ere the sun went...

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... looked from him to me was really extraordinary. I couldn’t imag- ine what new bee had stung the mate now. The Captain being silent, nobody else cared... ...g type were the most moved—perhaps because they had less “manner” than the new generation. The old sea- dog, away from his natural element, was a simp... ... rudder—any working part of a ship; but where was the use of sticking up a new figurehead? What satisfac- tion? How could one care for it? It was easy... ...hat I had never been shipmates with a figurehead for over twenty years. “A new figurehead!” he scolded in unquenchable indigna- tion. “Why! I’ve been ... ...and-twenty years come next May and I would just as soon think of getting a new wife. Y ou’re as bad as that fellow Jacobus.” I was highly amused. “Wha... ...tions, burglaries, stabbing affrays, and every sort of desperate violence. England and France, Paris and London (the only two towns of which she seeme... ... was impossible to give her a sense of proportion. I sup- pose she figured England to herself as about the size of the Pearl of the Ocean; in which ca...