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...enry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pandora by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James Pandora by Henry James CHAPTER I I t has long been the custom o... ...ring the hour, to save his importance, he cultivated such ground as lay 5 Henry James in sight for a judgement of this delay to which the Ger- man st... ...rected to the re- ceding land, resembles that of a person who begins to 7 Henry James perceive himself the victim of a trick. Earth and ocean, in suc... ...led in his career by a young lady who would perhaps attempt to talk to the Kaiser as he had heard her the other night talk to the President. Would she... ... marry a Pomeranian count? And would they, after all, talk that way to the Kaiser? If he were to marry one of them he should have to give her several ...

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...haracter. But of the fascination of his manner there can be no doubt. Even Henry VIII.’s English ambassadors, when forced to own how little they could... ...n robber-holds, and that such as join not in it will fare the worse.” “Let Kaiser Fritz catch his bear ere he sells its hide! He has never tried to mo... ...e of Swabia either! Freiherr Eberhard is as much a king on his own rock as Kaiser Fritz ever was of the Romans, and more too, for I never could find o... ...ble, and it was seldom really felt save in the hereditary dominions of the Kaiser for the time being. Thus, while the cities advanced in the power of ... ...zogen, or, as we call them, Dukes, had indeed accepted employment from the Kaiser as his generals, and had received rewards from him; the Gerefen, or ... ...t; but even I am too stiff for the like. Ha! ha! Thy uncle may talk of the Kaiser and his League, but he would change his note if 31 Yo n g e we had ...

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... Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no eagle, but a double-headed lamb, resist... ...What Is Coming? esying at the outbreak of the war. I judged Germany by the Kaiser, and by the Kaiser-worship which I saw in Berlin. I thought that he ... ...the more studious and more thorough Germany that was to fight be- hind the Kaiser and thrust him aside, the Germany we Brit- ish fight now, the Ostwal... ...has only spent his substance in setting up new assertive alien allies. The Kaiser, if he is not too afraid of the precedent of Sarajevo, may make a gr... ...tion from the New York World of February 15th, 1916: “For two unusual acts Henry Bruère may be remembered by New Y ork longer than nine days. Early in... ...ssing who should buy The Times; I do not know what chances an agent of the Kaiser might not have had if he had been sufficiently discreet. This 77 H ...

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...oveliness of Germany; of the insuperable excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and Crown Prince, and so forth; abuse of the “treacherous” English ... ...he age when men needed a Personal Figure about which they could rally. The Kaiser is perhaps the last of that long series of crowned and cloaked and s... ...meeting between any typical Allied munition maker on the one hand, and the Kaiser and Hindenburg, those two dominant effi- gies of the German national... ...leman named Gattie, and his friends Mr. Adrian Ross, Mr. Roy Horniman, Mr. Henry Murray and others. His particular project is the construction of a Ra... ...r better than the Germans. I trusted to the melodramatic in- stinct of the Kaiser. I trusted to the quickened intelligence of the British military cas... ...t appear in this prospectus. The German Chancellor is equally elusive. The Kaiser has stampeded the peace-at-any-price people of Great Britain by proc...

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... liam refused, saying it were foul wrong to both King Louis of France, and Kaiser Otho of Germany, to take from them their vassal. They took leave of ... ...f my chamber.” “No, no, my Lord; here is our gear, which I bade Sybald and Henry see bestowed in our chamber. Well, these Franks are come to a pass, i... ...r, and Carloman was obliged to tell that the two Norman grooms, Sybald and Henry, had quarrelled with the Flemings of Arnulf’s train; there had been a... ... the death of three Flemings, a Frank, and of Sybald himself—And where was Henry? Alas! there was more ill news—the King had sen- tenced Henry to die,... ...ost choked with grief and indignation. Why had he not been there, to claim Henry as his own vassal, and if he could not save him, at least bid him far... ... him perceive the true state of things: he learnt the deaths of Sybald and Henry, the alliance between the King and Arnulf, and the re- straint and ha...

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...e chances do we live in History? Erostratus by a torch; Milo by a bullock; Henry Darnley, an unfledged booby and bustard, by his limbs; most Kings and... ...this ill-starred individual by a rent in his breeches,—for no Memoirist of Kaiser Otto’s Court omits him. Vain was the prayer of Themistocles for a ta... ...es into the genealogy of the Futteral Fam- ily, here traced back as far as Henry the Fowler: the whole of which we pass over, not without astonishment... ... Hun- garian Nation rise, like some tumultuous moon-stirred Atlantic, when Kaiser Joseph pocketed their Iron Crown; an implement, as was sagaciously o...

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...e Knights Hospitallers of sixty thousand pounds, the present of his father Henry; that he was a ren- egade, whose treachery had occasioned the loss of... ...your quick-conceiving discontent, I’ll read you matter deep and dangerous. Henry IV, Part I. THE MARQUIS OF MONTSERRAT and the Grand Master of the Kni... ...y in the German Empire on account of his near relationship to the Emperor, Henry the Stern, and held under his government the finest provinces which a... ...ia where she shall float as high as ever floated the cognizance of king or kaiser.” With that he started from his seat, and amidst the tumul- tuous ch... ...plen- did ignominy.” “Thou errest,” said the Hakim. “Philip of France, and Henry of Champagne, and others of Richard’s principal al- lies, have heard ... ... speed- ily—or send, if thou wilt not go.” The King was interrupted by Sir Henry Neville, who came, breathless, to say that the banner was gone, and t...

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...pia as minister-plenipotentiary, accompanied by a secre- tary of legation, Henry F . Poor; and as soon as she was ready for sea, the war-ship followed... ...as you say. But I have no will in the matter. I have instructions from the Kaiser, and I cannot go back again from what I have been sent to do.” “I th... ...sor had but just arrived. In like manner, the first American commissioner, Henry C. Ide, a man of character and intelligence, was re- called (I believ...

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... his face flamed scarlet, “Ach, du lieber Gott! Bretty zoon, dere wass der Kaiser, glose bei, und Fritz, Unzer Fritz. Bei Gott, den I go grazy, und ye... ...t, den I go grazy, und yell, ach, you bedt, der whole redgimend: ‘Hoch der Kaiser! Hoch der Vaterland!’ Und der dears come to der eyes, I doand know b... ...ose ting, Meest’r Ennixter. Alle-ways, I tink a lot oaf Shairmany, und der Kaiser, und nef’r I forgedt Gravelotte. Budt, say, I tell you dose ting. Vh... ... military glory, exciting himself with recollections of Gravelotte and the Kaiser, but con- tented now in the country of his adoption, defining the Fa... ...ing, even Homer—and addressed him- self to Mill, Malthus, Young, Poushkin, Henry George, Schopenhauer. He attacked the subject of Social Inequal- ity ... ...tural life. That ain’t much of a religion, but it’s the best I’ve got, and Henry Ward Beecher couldn’t do any more than that. And it’s all come about ... ...ed. Garnett had not yet risen when Hooven raised a great shout: “HOCH, DER KAISER! HOCH, DER V A TERLAND!” With the words, he dropped to one knee, and...

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...rope up to the last, 10 The World Set Free aped Caesar and called himself Kaiser or Tsar or Imperator or Kasir-i-Hind. Measured by the duration of hu... ... genius and recluse, that man of mystery, that disembowelled intelligence, Henry Cavendish, towards the end of the eighteenth century. So far as he wa...

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...asant and very civil woman. There were also Mr. Bunbury, eldest son of Sir Henry Bunbury, a man of much cultivation and strong talents; Mr. Fox Talbot... ...chiaroscuro manner of procedure, like that of an Archimagus Cagliostro, or Kaiser Joseph Incognito, which his anonymous known-unknown thunderings in t...

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...with swashbuckler novels and un- read-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert Hubbard. She perceived that even personalities were faili... ...ells, Shaw, Key, Edgar Lee Masters, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Ander- son, Henry Mencken, and all the other subversive phi- losophers and artists whom... ...atter what happens to the German people, win or lose, they’ll stick by the Kaiser till hell freezes over. I got that absolutely straight, from a fello... ...empire for the next forty years. At that, I don’t know as it’s so bad. The Kaiser and the Junkers keep a firm hand on a lot of these red agitators who...

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...ribed, but they have it; and where we are now, my power equals that of the Kaiser and the Czar. You will do me the favour to under- stand that I am no... ... to a foreigner!’ I thanked him again. He looked eminently handsome in his Henry III. costume, and was disposed to be as luxurious as his original. He...

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...et-woman. A spectacle indeed; over which saloons may cackle joyous; though Kaiser Joseph, questioned on it, gave this answer, most unexpected from a P... ...halt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,—pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, alas, also ... ...ras, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to their Kaiser: Bread! Bread! Great is the combined voice of men; the utterance of ... ... not His Majesty’s Opera Apartment, which has lain quite silent ever since Kaiser Joseph was here, be obtained for the purpose?—The Hall of the Opera ... ...lare: in few minutes, our brave Hotel-de-Ville which dates from the Fourth Henry, will, with all that it holds, be in flames! Chapter 1.7.V. Usher Mai... ...ght lie Counter-Revolution itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of us common ...

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...iers roared out: “Hail, Hail, the gang’s all here; We’re going to get the Kaiser, We’re going to get the Kaiser, We’re going to get the Kaiser, No... ...id the “Y” man again, “and lots of guts in the get and lots of kill in the Kaiser. Now all together … .” The moving pictures had begun. John Andrews l... ...Flarrety, and begod the King of England himself’ll come an’ set the goddam Kaiser up to a drink.” “The Kaiser’ll be strung up on a telephone pole by t... ...il, Hail, the gang’s all here; 23 John Dos Passos We’re going to get the Kaiser, We’re going to get the Kaiser, We’re going to get the Kaiser, No... ... from side to side, and said in a whining voice: “Shonny, d’you know where Henry’sh Bar is?” “No, I don’t, Major,” said Andrews, who felt himself en- ... ...d- ful not to be able to find it … . I’ve got to meet Lootenant Trevors in Henry’sh Bar.” The major steadied himself by putting a hand on Andrews’ sho... ...outed the major after him, “Dee-donc, 225 John Dos Passos Monshier, ou ay Henry’sh Bar?” The man walked on without answering. “Now isn’t that like a ... ... frog, not to understand his own lan- guage?” said the major. “But there’s Henry’s Bar, right across the street,” said Andrews suddenly. “Bon, bon,” s... ...s in his friend’s ear, “rather the worse for wear, asked me to lead him to Henry’s Bar and just fed me a cocktail in the memory of Democracy, late def...

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...gh our foes are this time fled, Being opposites of such repairing nature. —Henry VI. Part II. IN THE GORGE of a pass or mountain glen, ascending from ... ...Lucy lent patient and not indifferent attention. They moved and interested Henry, and that was enough to secure her ear. Her mother alone did not feel... ...idle tale; And o’er our death-accustom’ d arms Shall silly tears prevail? —Henry MacKenzie. ON THE EVENING of the day when the Lord Keeper and his dau... ...hich he kept his ground during all the changes of state, from the reign of Henry VIII. to that of Elizabeth, by the frank avowal, that he was born of ... ... field. I wonder he is not here. Here, Lockhard; send William Shaw for Mr. Henry. I suppose he is, as usual, tied to Lucy’ s apron-string; that foolis... ...ifies’t,” continued she, address- ing Lord Ravenswood, “to king, queen, or kaiser whar an auld wife like me buys her pickle sneeshin, or her drap bran...

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...infamous for his cruelties to the Swiss, and particularly to the venerable Henry of the Halden. He was slain at the battle of Morgarten, in 1315. 27 ... ... as you en- 29 Schiller ter by the road from Kerns, An upright man, named Henry of the Halden, A man of weight and influence in the Diet. FURST. Who ... ..., to take their seats Amid the nobles on the Herrenbank;* They’ll have the Kaiser for their lord, forsooth, That is to say, they’ll have no lord at al...

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...SCRIPT AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to help the weak in the... ..., for ever and ever, amen.” Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser held — The day that they razored the Grindstone, the day that the Ca... ...ers know; For, down a cruel ice-lane, That opened as he sped, We saw dead Henry Hudson Steer, North by West, his dead. So dealt God’s waters with us...

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...-woman. A spec- tacle indeed; over which saloons may cackle joyous; though Kaiser Joseph, questioned on it, gave this answer, most unexpected from a P... ...halt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,— pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, alas, also... ...ras, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to their Kaiser: Bread! Bread! Great is the combined voice of men; the utterance of ... ... not His Majesty’s Opera Apartment, which has lain quite silent ever since Kaiser Joseph was here, be obtained for the purpose?—The Hall of the Opera ... ...lare: in few minutes, our brave Hotel-de-Ville which dates from the Fourth Henry, will, with all that it holds, be in flames! Chapter 1.7.V. Usher Mai...

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...e he would have felt that seventy-seven miles was the proper distance. The Kaiser, knowing just as little about it as the Conqueror, would send that b... ...ligious wars of the last fifteen hundred years. When the late explorer Sir Henry Stanley told me of the emotional grip which Christianity had over the...

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...rsity, who made over to me his large collection of manuscript material; to Henry W. Rankin, of East Northfield, a friend unseen but proved, to whom I ... ...e studied with respect.[46] [45] I refer to Mr. Horatio W. Dresser and Mr. Henry Wood, especially the former. Mr. Dresser’s works are published by G. ... ... us, could in some degree neutralize such an ocean of morbidity.”[49] [49] Henry Wood: Ideal Suggestion through Mental Photography. Boston, 1899, p. 5... ...ge thinks that things operate by personal forces, and for the sake of [63] Henry Wood: Ideal suggestion through Mental Photography, pp. 51, 70 (abridg... ...her hour. In a later lecture I will also give the end of the experience of Henry Alline, a devoted evan- gelist who worked in Nova Scotia a hundred ye... ... ever understand the peace of heart of an American in hav- ing no king, no Kaiser, no spurious nonsense, between him and the common God of all. If sen...

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... smile which did not leave his eager face. “Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! Kaiser Alexander hoch!”*** said he, quoting words often repeated by the Ger... ...t like the Frenchie! Oh, ho ho! Do you want some more to eat?” *”Long live Henry the Fourth, that valiant king! That rowdy devil.” **Who had a triple ...