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...A FLIGHT..................................................................................................................................... 102 THE DETECTIVE POLICE.........................................................................................................112 THREE ?DETECTIVE? ANECDOTES ...........................................................................

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..................................................... ............... 102 THE DETECTIVE POLICE.............................................................. ..................................................................11 2 THREE ‘DETECTIVE’ ANECDOTES ......................................................... ...any other. He always belongs to a Corresponding Society of Begging Letter Writers. Any one who will, may ascertain this fact. Give money to day in re... ... never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their de... ... creature making a bar of his arm. T wo ideas are generally present to the British mind during these cer emonies; first, that it is necessary to make... ...al affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.’ The British mind and body becoming heated by these fantasies, delirious answers... ...puts a placard outside her house announcing her possession of that curious British instrument, a ‘Mingle;’ or when a tavern keeper pro vides accommod... ...ing were possible. Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was... ...s in eleven hours. It is so well done, that there really is no hurry!’ THE DETECTIVE POLICE WE ARE NOT BY ANY MEANS devout believers in the old B...

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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ...ter Is- land there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...e without looking; and when her eyes were wide they had not to dwell to be detective. It did not escape her that the Englishman of the two hurried for... ... not take it as the compensation for their departure.’ The Bull’s Head, or British Jury of T welve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter ha... ... of the yacht. A stout champion in the person of T om Redworth was left on British land; but for some reason past analysis, intermixed, that is, among...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an e...

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... almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficul... ...ich therefore had the honor of producing perhaps the most char- acteristic writers of the nineteenth century in prose and verse respectively . The fam... ... his sister tells us, enthusiastically, though there are probably no three writers of any considerable repute in the history of French literature who ... ...t—the most interesting of all of which, I think, is the mention of certain British products as “mufflings.” “Muf- fling” used to be a domestic joke fo... ...n given with a scrupulous and micro- scopic accuracy of reporting which no detective could outdo. Defoe is not more circumstantial in detail of fact t...

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... you got to say against my profession?” “Well, really, you know. There are detectives of an inferior description—watchers. The whole class. Private In... ...rious tumult of exultation, the passion of laughter, that came boiling up. Detective! Even in the shadow Bechamel saw that a laugh was stifled, but he... ...he interview terminated. Bechamel went back to the Angel, perturbed. “Hang detectives!” It wasn’t the kind of thing he had anticipated at all. Hoopdri... ... ally a girl. She knew the thing to do was to have a flat and to go to the British Museum and write leading articles for the daily p,tpers until somet... ...—and, well—a Ouida or so. They’re good stories, of course, and first-class writers, but they didn’t seem to have much to do with me. But there’s heaps... ... Ringwood, and had told him everything forthwith, having met him once at a British As- sociation meeting. He had immediately constituted himself 146 ...

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...roes and to Diderot’s homespun characters (see the first editions of those writers’ works). The Marquis always wore a white, gold-embroidered, high wa... ...esnel’s instructions, they would have been compelled to take three private detectives into their pay. And 43 Balzac yet there was ample wisdom shown ... ...eshing coolness to the atmosphere of any room in which a certain number of British females are gathered together. The young men grew serious as a coup... ...on were lucid, clear-sighted, and perspicacious. They kept up a vigor- ous detective system throughout the kingdom; they did the work of spies, and ur... ... colors, and always appeared at balls adorned with the turban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in Fran...

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... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means... ... cessor, Bibi-Lupin, has had misfortunes; but he is to-day the head of the detective police, the important functions of which office he fulfils with r... ...ow all about him,” replied Rastignac; “do you sup- pose there are no other detectives in Paris? I know that since 1830, when he took Bibi-Lupin’s plac... ..., who had given him a letter to Monsieur de Saint-Esteve, the chief of the detective police. Aware of the antecedents of that man, Monsieur de Sallena... ...ar producing unpleasant complications, inas- 245 Balzac much as the young British scion of nobility had assumed a boxing attitude. That fray pacified...

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...a matter of will-power.” He started a magazine serial about a scien- tific detective. Ten miles on, he was conscious that he desired to smoke. He duck... ...e ever-memorable visit of the Earl of Sittingbourne. Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal indu... ...ving a great trip since we saw you in Zenith.” 213 Sinclair Lewis “Quite. British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully... ...y, looking at Babbitt lifelessly. “How did you find business conditions in British Colum- bia? Or I suppose maybe you didn’t look into ‘em. Scenery an... ...ething like it! It would be an adventure story, maybe about counterfeiting—detectives sneaking up on the old house at night. He tucked the book under ... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...d at this time (viz., in 1812), when no adequate police existed except the detective police of Bow Street, admirable for its own pe- culiar purposes, ... ...e is at this very time (1854), and has been for twenty years, passing over British society. Multitudes of per- sons are becoming ashamed of saying, ‘m... ...dle out; put it out directly; we shall all be burned in our beds.’ Had the British party in the room been awake, Mr. Williams would have roused a muti... ...he seventeenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they ... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r...

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...t of him- self. To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story . It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit o... ... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir... ...subtle cadences and obscure phrases; and again I found him absorbed in the detective nov- els of Gaboriau. I amused myself by thinking that in his cho...

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... Personality. It had never occurred to him at all vividly that these Great Writers had real abiding places. She gave him a few descriptive touches tha... ...hed, one might imagine with a warning in- tention. Lewisham, recalling his detective responsibility with an ef- fort, peered about him, but the room w... ...ught-read their daughters and hypnotise their aunts, and leave their type- writers alone.” “But what am I to do?” “That’s not it. There are things one... ...served by Smithers in the big Education Library reading in a volume of the British Encyclopaedia. Beside him were the current Whitaker’s Almanac, an o... ...e flank. “What are you after?” said Smithers in a noisy whisper and with a detective eye on the papers. He perceived Lewisham was scrutinising the adv... ...ame of mind; nothing could be further from the normal indigna- tion of the British landlady. She was very voluble, gesticula- tory and lucid, but unha...

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...ad once been very terrible; there was a devil, who was also ex officio the British King’s enemy, and much denunciation of the wicked lusts of the fles... ... among other things of the sort I offered my services to a firm of private detectives, a sinister breed of traders upon base jealousies now happily va... ...g.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British employers were, of course, taking their loss out of their workpeopl... ...gible confu- sions that were matter of fact to their fathers. Here were we British, forty-one millions of people, in a state of almost indescribably a... ...ence to be found in the “Twentieth Century Gar- ner” from the pens of such writers, for example, as Sidney Low. But a picture of them as a whole is wa...

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...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...as no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. T o be sure, he has not a vital inte... ...dmiring Mrs. Snagsby the regular acute professional eye which is thrown on British jurymen. “Now, ma’am, perhaps you’ll have the kindness to tell us ... ...om that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fash ion in every variety... ...ut Mr. Snagsby, of course, but this is the shortest way.” “Mr. Bucket is a detective officer, Snagsby,” says the law yer in explanation. “Is he indee... ...y appear to be disagreeable in this, for my name’s Inspector Bucket of the Detective, and I have a duty to perform. George, I know where my man is bec... ..., and all the legal neighbourhood agree to hold in awe; his remembrance of Detective Mr. Bucket with his forefinger and his confi dential manner, imp... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

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...equate advertisement may be obtained—had paid. The latter was one of those writers who can throw a convincing air of unreality over the most credible ... ...t occasion. Conceive it! Filmer! Our obscure unwashed Filmer, the Glory of British science! Duchesses crowd upon him, beautiful, bold peeresses say in... ...e could get to the floor whenever he wanted, which was sim- ply to put the British Encyclopaedia (tenth edition) on the top of his open shelves. He ju... ...y that lay through the trees. It was clear to me they didn’t take me for a British citizen, whatever else they thought of me, and for 84 Twelve Stori... ...le weight on his mind. He found Mr. Hart engaged with a well-known private detective, but as that gentleman accomplished nothing in this case, we need...

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...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...as no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. T o be sure, he has not a vital inte... ...dmiring Mrs. Snagsby the regular acute professional eye which is thrown on British jurymen. “Now, ma’am, perhaps you’ll have the kindness to tell us ... ...om that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fash ion in every variety... ...ut Mr. Snagsby, of course, but this is the shortest way.” “Mr. Bucket is a detective officer, Snagsby,” says the law yer in explanation. “Is he indee... ...y appear to be disagreeable in this, for my name’s Inspector Bucket of the Detective, and I have a duty to perform. George, I know where my man is bec... ..., and all the legal neighbourhood agree to hold in awe; his remembrance of Detective Mr. Bucket with his forefinger and his confi dential manner, imp... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

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...lls. From here issue the only known infallible bulls for the guid- ance of British souls and bodies. This little court is the Vatican of England. Here... ...to whom we look for guidance in our difficulties! But what are they to the writers of The Jupi- ter? They hold council together and with anxious thoug... ...reathe the upper air, walking here unscathed, though scorned— men, born of British mothers and nursed on English milk, who scruple not to say that Mou... ...n, and Buckett and Mrs Gamp will be the only words left to us to signify a detective police officer or a monthly nurse. The Almshouse opened with a sc...

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...g of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora- tion till certain writers took up the “rat” as a new subject. “What! after having seen Corali... ...king; “La Torpille can laugh and make others laugh. That gift of all great writers and great actors is proper to those who have investigated every soc... ...by some one besides Louchard and his men—Louchard, the sharpest commercial detective in Paris—to whom he had applied about a fortnight since. “Before ... ... narrated, and a book is now the weapon —less swift, but no more sure—that writers wield. In the course of this morning, amid the coming and going 16... ... ask him for two sous? He would listen to you solemnly, and tell you, with British precision that would make a slap in the face seem genial, that he p... ...a- Mort did not know that for some time past the famous con- stable of the detective force who had arrested him at the Maison Vauquer had a rival, who... ...iest than he is a Spaniard,” said Contenson. “I am sure of that,” said the detective. “Oh, if only we were right!” said Contenson. Lucien had been awa...

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...ontain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river ... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc... ... you would not have valued—a clue which would not have greatly helped even a detective, since he would lack the secret of how to apply it. I shall com... ...e nation to cel ebrate the battle of New Orleans—Jackson’s victory over the British, January 8, 1815. The war had ended, the two na tions were at pe... ...y friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possi...

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...mentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green glass-eyed cat... ...ursued Mr Podsnap, with dignity , ‘Many Evidences that Strike Y ou, of our British Constitution in the Streets Of The World’s Metropolis, London, Lond... ... Mr Podsnap explained, as if he were teaching in an infant school.’ We Say British, But You Say Britannique, You Know’ (forgivingly, as if that were n... ...g my ear quite close.’ ‘Will you send it, my dear?’ ‘Will I send it to the writers? Is that your wish? Yes, cer- tainly.’ 510 Our Mutual Friend ‘You’... ...trong ale. ‘ Ah—h!’ cried Mr Inspector. ‘That’ s the smack! There’ s not a Detective in the Force, Miss Abbey, that could find out better stuff than t...

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...she seems on investigation to have been quite a suitable wife for a modern British Bishop, has been invested by the popu- lar historical imagination w... ...storical imagination with all the extravagances of a Messalina or a Cenci. Writers of belles lettres who are rash 7 Shaw enough to admit that their w... ...factitious consequences and put-up jobs as divorces and executions and the detective operations that lead up to them are no essential part of life, th... ...d, accus- tomed to consider the French stage much more licentious than the British, are always surprised and puzzled when we learn, as we may do any d... ...se French prudery does not attach itself to the same points of behavior as British prudery, and has a dif- ferent code of the mentionable and the unme... ...ransparent subterfuges. My playlet, which I offer as a model to all future writers of farcical comedy, may now, I hope, be read without shock. I may j...

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...he credibility of the gospels as records of fact; for I am not acting as a detective, but turning our modern lights on to certain ideas and doctrines ... ...d ven- eration at least as high as we accord to John the Baptist. But this British bulldog contempt is founded on a complete mis- conception of his re... ... that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite clear from the New Testament writers (the chief authorities for believ- ing that Jesus ever existed) tha... ...b- ject of detecting discrepancies in the four narratives to show that the writers were as subject to error as the writers of yesterday’s newspaper. A... ...ed (including by anticipation practically all the white inhabitants of the British Isles and the North American continent, to mention no other places)... ...who knows the figures of the distribu- tion defends them. The most bigoted British Conservative hesitates to say that his king should be much poorer t...

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...world. The ideals have been elaborated, in the first instance, by solitary writers of books, and yet powerful sections of the wage-earning classes hav... ...ssociation. From 1849 onward the greater part of his time was spent in the British Museum, accumulating, with German patience, the materi- als for his... ...eir brain ceased to think, their eyes to see. The thoroughly “respectable” British jurymen answered by a verdict that sent them to the next assizes on... ...n der Sozial-Demokratie.’’] Bernstein’s work, as is common in Broad Church writers, consists largely in showing that the Founders did not hold their d... ... uproot them. The Times (Oct. 13, 1910), which almost single-handed in the British Press has kept creditably abreast of Continental Syndicalism, thus ... ... And among those who would be classed as idlers might be included artists, writers of books, men devoted to abstract intellectual pursuits—in short, a... ...s. By our prisons, we merely multiply them and ren- der them worse. By our detectives, our ‘price of blood,’ our executions, and our jails, we spread ...

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...esh. Tolstoy the realist steps without cavil into the front rank of modern writers; Tolstoy the idealist has been constantly derided and scorned by me... ...here the table d’ hote was a scene of sponta neous gaiety. The problem of British taciturnity passed his comprehension; but for us the enigma of Tols... ...he literary world throbbed with new life, and a brilliant company of young writers came to the surface, counting among them names of European celebrit... ...le and subject matter. When Andreev, the most modern of all modern Russian writers, came to pay his respects to Tolstoy some months before his death, ... ...ter of fact there was no plot whatever, but the po lice officials and the detectives set to work with the utmost zeal to discover all the threads of ...

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...from being mis taken for anybody else’s. Uncredited quotations from other writers often leave a reader in doubt as to their authorship, but McClintoc... ...een pleased to place her affections. Many have been the themes upon which writers and public speakers have dwelt with intense and increasing interest... ...l; he would not yield up the “combina tion.” The burglars killed him. The detectives hunted down the criminals; the chief one proved to be George Ben... ...Review , and the idea of such a literary breakfast by a stolid, ponderous British ogre of the quill was too much for a naturally weak virtue, and I w...

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...ires the con- crete. Imps have their freakish wickedness in them to kindle detective vision: malignly do they love to uncover ridicu- lousness in impo... ...ers, through an act of heroism of the unpretending cool sort which kindles British blood, on the part of the modest young officer, in the storming of ... ...ble was the description of his namesake’s deed of valour: with the rescued British sailor inebriate, and the haul- ing off to captivity of the three b... ... might be doubled for the asking: and all the books he requires: and these writers and scholars no sooner think of a book than they must have it. And ... .... One might lie down one’s self and keep sweet here.” Of all our venerable British of the two Isles professing a suckling attachment to an ancient por... ...a redoubtable grasp of, and Clara’s behaviour would be indefensible if her detective femi- nine vision might not sanction her acting on its direction.... ...ge of his plight does, hint at your eyes being open. His insane dread of a detective world makes him artificially blind. As soon as he fancies himself...

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...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...l attaché in Lon- don had promptly forwarded it to his counterparts in the British government, hand-delivering the request on August 21. On August 24,... ...9/11 hijackers, undated; South Hackensack, N.J., Police Department report, Detective Bureau Report, Oct. 17, 2001 (case no. 20018437).According to Ram...

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...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...lessington and L. E. L.” Rosamond herself was not without relish for these writers, but she did not readily commit herself by admiration, and was aliv... ...d the kitchen and Mr. Jonah Featherstone began to follow her with his cold detective eyes, young Cranch 279 George Eliot turning his head in the same... ...n’t want a man—they only want a vote.” “That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—cry- ing up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an...

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...es for the non-performance of various re- quests made to Sir Raffle by the writers. ‘He’s about the best hand at it that I know,’ said Sir Raffle, one... ...r till he knew what was expected of him if he chose to submit to be made a British squire. At present Galignani and the mountains had their charms for... ...es of poetry, and would criticise for her ad- vantage the works of the old writers. ‘Thank God,’ she said, ‘that you are not blind. It may yet be all ... ...here was some little argument on the occasion; but the stranger, who was a detective police- man, carried his point, and Mr Dan Stringer did return to...