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.................................................... 94 CHAPTER VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD .................................................................... ...s? When he saw that every foot of the neighboring soil was desecrated by a camp, or torn into loathsome furrows of mud by cannon and army wagons—that ... ...ngfully—the loss of the battle of Bull’s Run. The whole place was then one camp. The fences had disappeared. The gardens were trodden into mud. The ro... ...th the days are evil for any Congress of debaters, when a great army is in camp on every side of them. The people had called for the army, and there i... ...pieces and dispersed; the cannon of the Confederates were taken, and their camp seized and destroyed. Their rout was complete; but in this instance ag... ...tates the towns run to the railways. It is the same thing with the hotels. Housekeeping is not popular with young married people in America, and there...

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... anish enterprise. For it is impossible that they should have placed their camp in the very city, and joined battle close by the Pnyx and the hill cal... ...ul to the eye of the city, cut down a tall oak which he saw growing in the camp, which he trimmed to the shape of a trophy, and fastened on it Acron’s... ...No one was allowed to live after his own fancy; but the city was a sort of camp, in which every man had his share of provisions and business set out, ... ...arbarians besieged the Clusinians, Fabius Ambustus was dispatched to their camp to negotiate peace for the besieged; and, on their re- turning a rude ... ... amounting to nearly five thousand, took them prisoners, and plundered the camp; when they num- bered the dead, they found on the T uscans’ side eleve... ...hese things, used to return, and reviewing his own farm, his servants, and housekeeping, increase his labor, and retrench all superfluous expenses. 5... ... a master to look over the servants, that are, indeed, the living tools of housekeeping; and in this, indeed, he was in the right, in thinking, that i...

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...tion from the police. Lavienne, a man made for his master, was his aide-de-camp. He redeemed or renewed pawn-tickets, and visited the districts most t... ...e Duchesse de Langeais, and Madame Firmiani—who on her marriage with M. de Camps had resigned the sceptre in favor of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, fr... ...ablish- ment which, by your account, costs sixteen thousand francs a year. Housekeeping, servants’ wages, and the gross expenses of the house itself m... ... who sees your stables, your house, your train of servants, and a style of housekeeping which strikes me as far more luxurious than that of the Jeanre... ...t for some years past. There are plenty of women who achieve this in their housekeeping, but you are not one of those. T ell me, you may have the most... ...itors, and the landlord had some excuse in the Marquis’ extreme economy in housekeeping. He conducted it as a ruined man might. His servants always pa...

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...hich a well-known mag- nate announced to him his nomination as marechal de camp, or brigadier-general, under a rule which allowed the officers of the ... ... and the official supporters of the Villele Ministry. At the close of this campaign, during which Monsieur de Fontaine had on several occasions brough... ...But, my dear, the expenses occasioned by these marriages, and the style of housekeeping you require of your mother, have made such inroads on our inco... ...’Aiglemont, the Comtesses Feraud, de Montcornet, and de Restaud, Madame de Camps, and Mademoiselle des T ouches, she did not yield to the addresses of...

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... cars were locked; and for at least another hour, or so it seemed, we had to camp upon the draughty, gaslit platform. I sat on my valise, too crushed ... ...ell you her prospects, her hopes, the amount of her fortune, the cost of her housekeeping by the week, and a variety of particular matters that are no... ...Stevenson ward, down by Blue Canon, Alta, Dutch Flat, and all the old mining camps, through a sea of mountain forests, drop- ping thousands of feet to... ...wife pass the winter alone in this empty theatre. The place was “The Pacific Camp Grounds, the Christian Seaside Resort.” 41 Robert Louis Stevenson T... ...corner of a rock. But your security from interruption is complete; you might camp for weeks, if there were only water, and not a soul suspect your pre... ... the very borders of their desert, and are irritably conscious of a hunter’s camp in an adjacent county. T o these last, of course, Fontainebleau will...

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...s? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower... .... Will had been lordly—stalwart, jolly, im- pressively competent in making camp, tender and under- standing through the hours when they had lain side ... ...ow. The buildings were as ill- assorted, as temporary-looking, as a mining-camp street in the motion-pictures. The railroad station was a one- room fr... ...ator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass. It was a frontier camp. It was not a place to live in, not possibly, not conceivably. The peo... .... It was next day before either of them remembered that in their honeymoon camp they had planned that he should carry her over the sill. In hallway an... ...rt, “Drop in and see Carrie real often. Young folks today don’t understand housekeeping like we do.” Mrs. Bogart showed herself perfectly willing to b... ....” She exploded. “My dear young man, it is not your duty to instruct me in housekeeping, and it doesn’t particu- larly concern me what the Haydocks co... ...ily advocating a rose-garden cottage. “You’ve had a lot of experience with housekeeping, aunty, and don’t you think,” Kennicott appealed, “that it wou...

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...us, as we ran like torrents—thus, as we swept with bridal rapture over the Campo Santo 1 of the cathedral graves— 1 Campo Santo.—It is probable that... ...robable that most of my readers will be acquainted with the history of the Campo Santo at Pisa— composed of earth brought from Jerusalem for a bed of ... ... which the noble piety of crusaders could ask or imagine. There is another Campo Santo at Naples, formed, however, (I presume,) on the example given b... ...scale in the Pagan era; and the two last were almost banished from ancient housekeeping. What a great relief this must have been to our good mother th... ... Sir Isaac had fought through that whole battle of a long day, so trying a campaign to many people— be had traversed that whole sandy Zaarah, without ... ...t among the hardships of war. From the day when you enter the gates of the camp, recon- cile yourself, tyro, to a new fashion of meal, to what in camp...

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...incoln: V ol Five ligible reason for. Y ours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TO A. CAMPBELL. SPRINGFIELD, June 28, 1858. A. CAMPBELL, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—In 185... ...ween the Democratic and Re- publican parties, on the leading issues of the campaign. This question has been put to me by a gentleman whom I do not kno... ...undred dollars. This, too, is exclusive of my ordinary expenses during the campaign, all of which, being added to my loss of time and business, bears ... ... success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elected, ran for the Legislature the same year (1832), and wa... ...ATE SECRETARY W AS INSTRUCTED TO ANSWER A NUMEROUS CLASS OF LETTERS IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1860. (Doctrine.) SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, _______, 1860 DEAR SIR... ...must be as durable as the government itself. It is a question of national housekeeping. It is to the government what replenishing the meal-tub is to...

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... or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands. The Soudan campaign was a picturesque one, and lent itself to vivid word-painting. Now... ...re off Hakodate.—Somali muleteer being flogged.—Star-shelled bursting over camp at Berbera.—Slave-dhow being chased round Tajurrah Bah.—Soldier lying ... ...long-neglected gear, ‘it has been a beautiful business.’ ‘The patch or the campaign?’ said Dick. ‘Don’t think much of either, myself.’ ‘You want the E... ...ay, you can’t be ill here.’ Throughout the night, when the troops were en- camped by the whale-boats, a black figure danced in the strong moonlight on... ... of Jaen And sell him in Algiers. —A Dutch Picture. Longfellow THE S OUDAN CAMPAIGN and Dick’s broken head had been some months ended and mended, and ... ...ut, since you aren’t in a condition to discuss the disadvantages of double housekeeping, do you know what you’re going to do?’ ‘I don’t. I wish I did.... ...ne. He had given her his time and his powers. He had spoken to her of Art, housekeeping, technique, teacups, the abuse of pickles as a stimulant,—that... ...ndred pounds cashed for me before you leave?’ ‘That’s a slender amount for housekeeping, isn’t it?’ ‘Oh, it’s only for—marriage expenses.’ Torpenhow b...

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...on had visited them, and vowed that she and her John should there commence housekeeping. All these explanations are tedious, but necessary; and furthe... ...friend and confidante, and bestowed her big person upon the little aide-de-camp at the end of a fortnight’s wooing. In the course of time their mutual... ...man like this? John Perkins, who had come down as one of Scully’s aides-de-camp, in a fit of generous enthusiasm, leaped on a whist-table, flung up a ...

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...-past ten, after discoursing for twenty minutes on the responsibilities of housekeeping. Y ou now drive a mail-phaeton and sit under a Church of Engla... ...th it. Let’s hope Beora will be cooler. BLAYNE. Whew! Are you ordered into camp, too? I thought the Gunners had a clean sheet. CURTISS. No, worse luck... ... doesn’t somebody come and marry me, instead of letting me go into cholera-camp? MACKESY. Ask the Committee. CURTISS. You ruffian! You’ll stand me ano... ...o expensive. If the Pinks had stood fast here, they would have been out in camp a. month ago. Yes, I should decidedly like to be Gandy. MACKESY. He’ll... ...nd again; a hairy-heeled draft who’ll give more trouble than the horses; a camp next cold weather for a cer- tainty; ourselves the first on the roster...

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... after escaping from Siberia. He told me of the catastrophe of the Russian campaign, and of Napoleon’s first abdication. That news was one of the thin... ... “T o be sure, monsieur, we are not distinguished for luxury here. It is a camp lodging, tempered by friendship, but—” And the soldier shot a deep gla... ...e emoluments derived by the Count from the places he held she spent on the housekeeping, so as to reinvest her dividends; and Delbecq lent himself to ... ...t. Can the Colonel rise from the dead, monsieur? Bonaparte sent an aide-de-camp to inquire for me on his death, and to this day I draw the pension of ... ...ud: “‘Between the undersigned: “ ‘M. Hyacinthe Chabert, Count, Marechal de Camp, and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, living in Paris, Rue du Pet...

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...ays sent me out of the room; but I am sure she gave him money—not father’s housekeeping money, but what she got for herself by writing. Once I heard f... ... except Mysie joined in the outcry. ‘War to the knife with traitors in the camp.’ Mysie managed to produce a pause, and again acted ora- tor. ‘You see... ...ee round the corner who was com- ing up the drive. And we began playing at camps, with um- brellas up as tents. Ivinghoe, and Alberta, and I. Ivy was ...

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... hills—one tunnel was three volumes long— defended as occasion required by camps of paper tents or brick blockhouses, and ending at last in a magnific... ...were two vigorous paragraphs upon the utter damnableness of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, a conta- gious damnableness I gathered, one wasn’t safe within a ... ...body was soon very glad indeed to come to that. She boasted how little her housekeeping cost her, and sought constantly for fresh economies that would... ... place to the excitements of the contest that followed the re- turn of Mr. Camphell-Bannerman to power in 1905. So far as the Kinghamstead Division wa... ...azing, independent notes. She bought some particularly costly furs for the campaign that roused enthusiasm whenever she appeared. She also made me a b... ...ni masts send- ing out invisible threads of direction to the armies in the camps, to great fleets about the world. The crowded, darkly shining river g...

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...reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers invariably de camp with the rest of the regulars when Jarndyce and Jarndyce comes on. The... ...such pains about a scheme for the benefit of natives—and yet—Peepy and the housekeeping!” Ada laughed and put her arm about my neck as I stood look i... ...labelled. “For you, miss, if you please,” said she. “For me?” said I. “The housekeeping keys, miss.” I showed my surprise, for she added with some lit... ...deceive myself?” “Yes,” said I. “That is my name.” “The large bunch is the housekeeping, and the little bunch is the cellars, miss. Any time you was p... ...elf, “Esther, Esther, Esther! Duty, my dear!” and gave my little basket of housekeeping keys such a shake that they sounded like little bells and rang... ...y, as if it were a whim instead of a thoughtful tenderness. But I gave the housekeeping keys the least shake 100 Bleak House – Vol. One in the world ... ... the gallery a month to gether if it was a regular pursuit or if I didn’t camp there, gipsy fashion. Come! I disgrace nobody and cumber nobody; that’... ...ting, puts on his hat and prepares to march with Mr. Bagnet to the enemy’s camp. “Don’t you mind a woman’s hasty word, George,” says Mrs. Bagnet, patt...

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..., who remained in Paris for a few days after his return to prepare for the campaign of 1809, was told of Bridau’s death he said: “There are men who ca... ...e, like a true provincial, who knows as little of art as she knows much of housekeeping, was terrified. When Lemire left her, she burst into tears. “ ... ...ide a horse he was dispatched to the front, and went eagerly. Dur- ing the campaign in France he was made a lieutenant, after an affair at the outpost... ...ineteen and decorated, who had, moreover, served the Emperor as an aide-de-camp in two battles, flattered the mother’s vanity immensely. Coarse, blust... ...ents of Philippe’s journey had developed in him the worst traits of an old campaigner: he had grown brutal, selfish, rude; he drank and smoked to exce... ...thanks to her son. To save his mother from the cruel cares of such reduced housekeeping, Joseph took her every day to dine at a table- d’hote in the r... ... Noah of the Gauls, Caesar speaks of the excellent wine of Champ-Fort (“de Campo Forti”) still one of the best vintages of Issoudun. Rigord writes of ... ... regularity. He slept late. Flore, who was up at daybreak attending to her housekeeping, woke him so that he should find his breakfast ready as soon a...

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... together. He was mean; he allowed only a weekly twenty-five shillings for housekeeping, and sometimes things grew unsatisfactory at the week-end. The... ...Wells CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV THE CAMP THE CAMP THE CAMP THE CAMP THE CAMPAIGN OP AIGN OP AIGN OP AIGN OP AIG... ...trousseau 0 16 1 By housekeeping exs. 1 1 4-1/2 By “...

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... wealth; the fairest among a thousand, a bundle of myrrh, and a cluster of camphire.” “We shall cheer her sorrows,” said Prince John, “and amend her b... ...t, accustomed, perhaps, as thou hast been, to the license of courts and of camps, and the luxuries of cities; and now I bethink me, Sir Sluggard, that... ...ard,” answered the hermit, “thou hast seen all that can concern thee of my housekeeping, and something 155 Sir Walter Scott more than he deserves who... ...ct an aged man’s brain. Nevertheless, it is of verity that they assemble a camp, and raise a bank against the walls of this castle.” “T o the battleme... ...bide by you in aught that becomes a knight, whether in the lists or in the camp; but this highway practice comes not within my vow.” “Come hither, Wal... ... is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state—So wags the world. Old Play. ALBERT MALVOISIN, President, or...

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...it; allow it to die tranquilly and honorably of old age, and if you make a campaign with it, take as much care of it as you would of an old servant. A... ...e court of his hotel, situated in the Rue du Vieux- Colombier, resembled a camp from by six o’clock in the morning in summer and eight o’clock in wint... ...hat no one becomes a Musketeer without the preliminary ordeal of sev- eral campaigns, certain brilliant actions, or a service of two years in some oth... ...ble to- ward his master. When the wind of adversity began to blow upon the housekeeping of the Rue des Fossoyeurs—that is to say, when the forty pisto... ...ing the strange custom of the times, con- sidered himself at Paris as on a campaign, neither more nor less than if he had been in Flanders—Spain yonde... ...ands, “Oh, my God,” cried she, “protect the queen, protect me!” 19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN D ’ARTAGNAN WENT STRAIGHT to M. de Treville’s. He had reflected th...

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...h the bishop of the past, so with the bishop of the future; the Rev. H. J. Campbell, in his story of his soul’s pilgrimage, has given us a pleasant pi... ... Midianites of denial were prowling for these cling- ing souls, within the camp they were assailed by a meticu- lous orthodoxy that was only too eager... ...d to Lady Sunderbund’s project. And in accordance with that idea he set up housekeeping in London upon a scale that implied a very complete cessation ... ...not know where we stand. For a time we must not so much house ourselves as camp. We must take some quite small and modest house in some less expensive... ... once. “I am sorry, T ed,” she said. “It slipped from me.”... He called it camping, but the house they had found in Pembury Road, Notting Hill, was mo... ...nd in Pembury Road, Notting Hill, was more darkened and less airy than any camp. Neither he nor his wife had ever had any experience of middle-class h... ... had ever had any experience of middle-class house-hunting or middle-class housekeeping before, and they spent three of the most deso- lating days of ...