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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Ind...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book ... ...itual murders and primeval sexuality, had long evaded the law, because the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some ... ...overed,’ replied Helen confidently, glad that she had specialised in tropical diseases. Her next test was a young blonde woman, the wife of one of t... ...ers to prevent these slave traders from carrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Nav... ...668 for ten pounds per annum. Their grand, neo-Gothic buildings erected along the harbour front, testified to the commercial success of the Company’... ...aternal girth. On the Nawab’s left stood Prince Ali, tall and slim, his golden skin and pale eyes testifying to his half French descent. Prince Ali w... ...d saw the same stars which twinkled in the firmament over England, but here they seemed brighter. Crickets chirped and bats swooped amongst the mang... ...sed by heavy fire from the garrison’s batteries and the mutineers did not appear to have intrepid captains to lead by example. Trumpets blowing the ...

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...s well as for Dartmouth, seems to call for some expression of student pro- test. That the Dartmouth athletic council shonld issue such an ulti- matum ... ...apel. THURSDAY, APRIL 18 8.00 p. m.—Cap and Bells presents "My Friend from India, ' ' Williamstown Opera House. TAXATION STILL UPHELD Bill for Taxatio... ...e, 1 Cap atid Bells in New York Cap and Bells will present "My Friend from India " in New York oity on the night of Tuesday, April 23, at the Carnegie... ...iamstown Cap and Bells will give the fifth presentation of "My Friend from India" at the Williamstown Opera house, Thursday evening, for the benefit o... ...ram. It is a system more substantial in re- sults than the Rutter cup con- tests which constituted the old schedule of spring work. With good prospect... ... made, for it is probable that an alumnus will offer cups for kicking con- tests. While such contests are not very satisfactory in the way of practice... ...ub, at Sjjringfield. May 27-8-9—New England In- tercollegiates, atLongwood Cricket club, Brookline. June 1—Cornell, at Ithaoo,N, Y. Juno 8—Amherst, at... ...rnament of the N. E. I. L.T, A. will be held on the courts of tha Longwood Cricket club, Boston, on the three days beginning next Monday. Each college... ... E. I. L. T. A. were played last Tues- day on th« courts of the Long- wood Cricket club, Boston, rain having prevented the play-off of the matches sch...

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...after another comes and goes, having nothing to do with hard physics which is testable and can be verified. The trouble with this is that it is des... ...ists. Bringing up new fads and theories which have no proof and are not even testable. Wild conjectures without any scientific proof is not Scienc... ...s itself is false logic. Fad theories that contradict each other and are not testable is not Science. Science fantasy and science fiction mixed to... ... at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt i... ... and slowly, agonizingly die out. Unless they are as hugely overpopulated as India or China: cultures only survive as long as their numbers increas... ...merican society, or the legacy of a stratified caste society that still grips India, or the legacy of elder worship in countless cultures that makes ... ...ines how sensitized human awareness can be. You cannot hear birds singing or crickets chirping while driving a car. You do not have to be aware of ... ...dern ball sports like volleyball, tennis, ping-pong, baseball, hockey, soccer, cricket, etc, are intrinsically anti- social for a basic reason: they a... ... progressively humane, smarter, and a better Sea Captain than most of the Sea Captains of his entire era. Yet his crew grew ever-more restless as t...

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...ount of a poverty and shyness that made them seem “stuck up” to successful captains of industry only too ready with the hand of friendship, the iron g... ... seemed to have subscribed to the Thirty- Nine Articles and passed all the tests and taken all the pledges that stand on the way to ordination, chiefl... ... was only in recent years that his faith had been put to any really severe tests. It had been sheltered and unchallenged. “This fearful wa’,” Lady Sun... ...s illness, his vow and his breakdown, and perhaps having his reaction time tested and all sorts of stripping and soundings done, was quite another. He... ...ng himself airs. What advantage has a bishop over the Praying Mantis, that cricket which apes the attitude of piety? Does he matter more—to God? “T o ... ...d stood for a moment marvelling at the compass of his vision. For here was India, here was Samarkand, in the light of the late after- noon; and China ... ...nter, his friend, of the blind intolerance of race and caste and custom in India. “Or here.” The Angel pointed to a group of people who had gathered u... ...old followers of the Rev. Charles Voysey, Swedenborgians, Moslem converts, Indian Theosophists, psychic phenomena and so forth, to meet him. Neverthel...

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...hich his light active form, great agility, and high spirit made him excel. Cricket, riding, running-races, all the school amusements were his delight;... ...f this period and of a good while later had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating were his delight; and though his school-work ... ... Newcastle scholarship, just before the Easter holidays, and it is a great testimony to a boy’s ability 26 Life of John Coleridge Patteson and indust... ...slurring nor neglecting his studies, did not enjoy anything so much as the cricket-field. However, there the weight of his character, backed by his po... ...g that I believe never occurred before, and which is generally believed to test a boy’s knowl- edge well. My Iambics were good, I expect, though not w... ...of esteem, sympathy, and kindness which endured through life, standing all tests of separation and difference. 34 Life of John Coleridge Patteson CHA... ...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ... sympathise as I ought with those who are suffering so dreadfully from the Indian Mutiny, or the commercial failure, or the great excitement and agita... ...all be glad to read about. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews....

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...tle garden in coming out to meet me, not half an hour ago. So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation, as true practical Christianity ever is!... ... of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our Lord on the Cross, with stars surrounding the head of the Cross, and one la... ... M Y DAY’S NO-BUSINESS BECKONING me to the East- end of London, I had turned my face to that point of the metropolitan compass on leaving Covent-garde... ...enjoying the huge piles of building belonging to the sugar refiners, the little masts and vanes in small back gardens in back streets, the neighbourin... ...d to me to be the most intolerably arrogant pauper ever relieved, and to show himself in absolute want and dire necessity of a course of Stone Yard. F... ...this occasion. Nor was it quite agreeable to see the preacher addressing his pet ‘points’ to his backers on the stage, as if appealing to those discip... ...t down—horrors at which I trembled in my bed, after supplicating that the Radicals might be speedily taken and hanged. Here, too, had we, the small bo... ...ium used to be given with each boy—too often to some greedy brute of a drunken skipper, who disappeared before the term of apprenticeship was out, if ... ...emium at all? That they are also much esteemed in the Royal Navy, which they prefer, ‘because everything is so neat and clean and or- derly’? Or, is t...

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...annels upon the plains of Burmah and Hindostan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and below the hurrying wat... ... fall behind the move- ment of the sky, and then suddenly, as it hung over India, its light had been veiled. All the plain of India from the mouth of ... ...rough the air like a flight of young swallows, swift and easy. I guess the captains tried not to think too clearly what the real thing would be like. ... ...mbling at the thing he meant to do. The air was full of a minute clamor of crickets and murmurings, of the infinitesimal shouting of little living thi... ...hite or crimson black, and the air was aquiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightingales singing unseen in the depths of the trees. There ... ...e of or behind the windowless houses— the only things they took note of to test him by—and of those he could see or tell nothing; and it was after the...

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... But where were our armed men? where our great artillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was ... ...we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluck and... ...r? The widow of a British officer killed nobly fighting for his country in India, was a person to be relied on for active and burning sympathy in a ma... ...nder-ring Stukely was famous for: as that England had saddled herself with India for the express purpose of better obeying the Com- mandments in Europ... ...main sceptical of a modern people’s enthusiasm for war while journals were testifying to it down the length of their columns, and letters from home pa... ... of likeness between them stops. I apply for a ship the moment I land.’ To test Nevil’s judgement of his uncle, Rosamund ven- tured on showing this le... ...r giving the people recreation on a Sunday, my lord?’ ‘T rap-bat and ball, cricket, dancing, military bands, pup- pet-shows, theatres, merry-go-rounds... ...e sex—that is all. Quite enough. Not a whit politically. Love is to be the test: and if a lady ceases to love her husband … if she sets her fancy else... ...wer. Mr. Romfrey was of those who said to his countrymen, ‘Go yachting; go cricketing; go boat-racing; go shooting; go horseracing, nine months of the...

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...n advance of him wearing crape rosettes, as did the horses. We were in the cricket-field, where Dipwell was playing its first match of the season, and... ... to troop away while the game was hot, and sur- round my father, flung the cricket-ball into the midst and hit two or three of the men hard. My father... ...parture. John stood like a soldier. We drove away from a cheering crowd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal ... ...ppenger. The fact is, I hear from little Roy that you are fond of tales of Indian adventure, and I gave him a book for you to read, if you like it. Mr... ...ay,’ said Heriot. ‘I took the liberty to write some notes. My father is an Indian officer, you know, and some of the terms in the book are difficult w... ...emen? Your father’s travelling, and can’t write, of course. My father’s in India, and I get a letter from him about once a year. We know one another, ... ... good race against the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, I say it is! What are you going to do to-day?’ ‘I am... ...with a report, and much in a similar attitude. ‘These young gentlemen will testify to you solemnly, Greg, that I took no unfair advantage,’ said the c... ...er’s half-yearly examination. These are facts, you know, Captain Welsh.’ I testified to them briefly. The captain said a curious thing: ‘I’ll make an ...

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...a ship where the captain had his wife with him. I’d heard fellows say that captains’ wives could work a lot of mischief on board ship if they happened... ...ase. He trotted out the sailor-brother in a pretty wide range of subjects: Indian and colonial affairs, matters of trade, talk of travels, of seaside ... ...erests than financial. I see you remember the crash ….” “I was away in the Indian Seas at the time,” I said. “But of course—” “Of course,” Marlow stru... ...l with the frantic obstinacy of an unimaginative man had been financing an Indian prince who was prosecuting a claim for immense sums of money against... ...requisitioned in such a connection. How unexpected! But we never know what tests our gifts may be put to. Sagacity dictated caution first of all. I be... ...ce. I didn’t study his case, but I had a glimpse of him the other day at a cricket match, with some women, having a good time. That seems a fairly rea... ...y to appear enterprising when one does not mean to put one’s belief to the test. Well, whatever it was that encouraged him, Captain An- thony stuck to... ...s wife were already on board. That in itself was already somewhat unusual. Captains and their wives do not, as a rule, join a mo- ment sooner than is ... ...econceived ideas as to captain’s wives which, while he did not believe the testimony of his eyes, made him open them very wide. He had stared till the...

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...nd grateful sense of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and magnanimity. Also, to declare how ... ... person, in my own Journal, to bear, for the behoof of my countrymen, such testimony to the gigantic changes in this country as I have hinted at to-ni... ...pon me by the nature of my avocation here and the state of my health. This testimony, so long as I live, and so long as my descendants have any legal ... ...han if they had been born to cluster round the blazing hearth like so many crickets. Out upon the angry wind! how from sighing, it began to bluster ro... ...uch circumstances. But, Lord, there’s no dullness at the Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, co... ...small round table on which were a lamp, divers sheets of paper, a piece of India rubber, and a case of instruments; all put ready, in case an architec... ...ed out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing. In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been... ...to last. Business! Look at the green led- gers with red backs, like strong cricket-balls beaten flat; the court- guides directories, day-books, almana... ...ome man, and quite the gentleman in every respect. Property, I am told, in India. House and everything belonging to him, beautiful. Costly furniture o...

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...h in the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” Holland’s Plutarch’s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which th... ...Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though they failed of their main object, laid open the haunts of the... ...ere now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs — commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right an... ...t does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loomings... ... instance? Who aint a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea captains may order me about — however they may thump and punch me about, I ... ..., if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. So Jonah’s Captain prepares to test the length of Jonah’s purse, ere he judge him openly. He charges him t... ... more and more certain grow their suspicions of him, and at last, fully to test the truth, by referring the whole matter to high Heaven, they fall to ... ... That’s more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will... ...s talk. ‘Thunder away at it!’ “‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like fi...

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...lish. I know from my own observations that this is quite the case with the Indians of North America, and it is unquestionably so with the gipsy.” In s... ...so perturbed and fleeting. This is no cabinet science, in which things are tested to a scruple; we theorise with a pistol to our head; we are confront... ...well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on ... ...those of previous generations and rivetting an- other link to the chain of testimony. It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent an... ...red to which the valley at Balaklava was as safe and peaceful as a village cricket-green on Sunday. It may fairly be questioned (if we look to the per... ...gs and doings stir English blood like the sound of a trum- pet; and if the Indian Empire, the trade of London, and all the outward and visible ensigns... ...ke or Nelson, who flies his colours in the ship, we see men brought to the test and giving proof of what we call heroic feeling. Prosperous humanitari... ... which it gives rise lend themselves to almost any sort of fable. And thus cricket, which is a mere matter of dexterity, palpably about nothing and fo... ...f you like, but not a game of play. You cannot tell yourself a story about cricket; and the activity it calls forth can be justified on no rational th...

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...n the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” —Holland’ s Plutarch’ s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which t... ...Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the... ...ere now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and ... ...t does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks any- thing the less of... ...instance? Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about—however they may thump and punch me about, I ha... ... quick re- gardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently at- tested that this fine old man was the chaplain. Y es, it was the famous Fat... ...if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. So Jonah’s Captain pre- pares to test the length of Jonah’s purse, ere he judge him openly. He charges him t... ... That’s more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will... ... talk. ‘Thun- der away at it!’ ‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like f...

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...ve, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor a... ... their doings during the holidays, where they had been, and what wonderful cricket they had played. A few new boys appeared, and with these presently ... ...answered them all quite willingly. One boy asked him whether he could play cricket. “No,” answered Philip. “I’ve got a club-foot.” The boy looked down... ...ration of God. The method of the League was to alternate a book of the Old Testament with a book of the New, and one night Philip came across these wo... ...er tea, to prepare boys for confirmation. Philip’s piety had not stood the test of time, and he had long since given up his nightly reading of the Bib... ... place at the end of the year. But the young man wrote that his father, an india-rubber merchant who lived in Slough, did not approve of the union, an... ...e lady in Kensington Square told him that her husband was coming home from India on leave, and was a man, though worthy in every way, of a com- monpla... ...triots, and the discerning collected Japanese prints. The old masters were tested by new standards. The esteem in which Raphael had been for centuries... ...He called the waiter and turned to Philip. “Just out from England? See any cricket?” Philip was a little confused at the unexpected question. “Cronsha...

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...she not spare it? and had not her brother Joseph just brought her two from India? When Rebecca saw the two magnificent Cashmere shawls 19 Thackeray w... ... old when he went away.” “Isn’t he very rich?” said Rebecca. “They say all Indian na- bobs are enormously rich.” “I believe he has a very large income... ...h Sedley was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of whic... ...shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. “Figs” was the fellow whom he despi... ... sir, break the bottle?” says Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him. The boy had been instructed to get over the playgro... ...s MacWhirter is any relative. Y our wife is perpetually sending her little testimonies of affection, your little girls work endless worsted baskets, c... ...ke anything?” Dobbin, with a great deal of hesitation and stuttering, pro- tested that he was not in the least hungry or thirsty; that he had no busin... ...oint; and he passed through life in perfect ease and good-humour. The hot- test suns of India never heated his temper; and the Walcheren ague never sh... ..., the bravos of his companions had followed him everywhere; from the boys’ cricket-match to the garrison-races, he had won a hundred of triumphs; and ...

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...h him. Let’s go down to the Harbour Arms and see some of those blessed old captains getting drunk.” “Short of sugar, O’ Man,” said Mr. Polly, slapping... ...nerves. Relations were becoming strained. He asked for a rise of salary to test his position, and gave notice to leave when it was refused. It took hi... ...- led, and his dark grey eyes were deeply set. His lightest inter- est was cricket, but he did not take that lightly. His chief holiday was to go to a... ...ricket, but he did not take that lightly. His chief holiday was to go to a cricket match, which he did as if he was going to church, and he watched cr... .... Polly admitted the fact, and she said she did too. “All my people are in India,” she explained. “It’s beastly rot—I mean it’s frightfully dull being... ...ngs alone,” said Mr. Rusper with an air of one who has given a lesson. The testimony of Mrs. Rusper continued relentlessly in the background. 125 H G... ...onless reddish eye, and wisps of straight hair strayed from under the blue cricket cap he wore pulled down obliquely over the latter. He spat between ... ...’ thing—duck him.” The bundle was convulsed by paroxysms of anger and pro- test. One boot got the hamper and sent it ten yards. “Go in the house for a...

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...oint; and he passed through life in perfect ease and good-humour. The hot- test suns of India never heated his temper; and the Walcheren ague never sh... ...passed through life in perfect ease and good-humour. The hot- test suns of India never heated his temper; and the Walcheren ague never shook it. He wa... ... at Mrs. O’Dowd’s apart- ments, in the midst of cheering from all the East India ships in the river, and the military on shore, the band playing “God ... ...acquisi- tion: Italy was the object of a third’s solicitude. Each was pro- testing against the rapacity of the other; and could the Corsican but have ... ...ld-laced cap?” on which Becky replied, “that he was an officer in the East Indian service.” But Rawdon Crawley rode out of the ranks of his company, a... ..., the bravos of his companions had followed him everywhere; from the boys’ cricket-match to the garrison-races, he had won a hundred of triumphs; and ... ...he Dowager Countess of Southdown was made amusing. Sir Pitt remembered the testimonies of respect and veneration which Rebecca had paid personally to ... ...es, and with whom Lady Peggy is immensely popular. But the Subalterns’ and Captains’ ladies (the Major is unmarried) cabal against her a good deal. Th...

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...ulp of the wine, that foamed along the channel to flavour. ‘We read of the tester of a ban- dit-bed; and it flattened unwary recumbents to pancakes. A... ... to appreciate as Anglicanly religious. On the step of the return to their Indian clime, they speak of the hatted sect, which is most, or most commerc... ...f the riddle of their power to vanquish. In some apparent allu- sion to an Indian story of a married couple who successfully made their way, he accoun... ...fathers were friends; they served in the same regiment for years. I was in India when Victor Radnor took the fatal!’ ‘Followed by a second, not less …... ...with pounds of barley sugar in her pockets;—and she already serv- ing as a test-vessel or mortar for awful combinations in druggery! Gilt widows are e... ...e the lighter, and left a wretched female soul below, with the devil’s own testimony to her attractions—thousands in the Funds, houses in the City. Sh... ...y we do, or we should not be where we are. But what is it we do (excepting cricket, of course) which others cannot do? Colney asks; and he ex- cludes ... ...he drowsiness of beer had stretched vari- ous hulks under trees. Ponderous cricket lumbered half-alive. Flabby fun knocked-up a yell. And it was rathe... ...g to quit the expedition; and Mr. Semhians has done a marvel or two in the cricket-field: Old England looks up where she can. What is painfully extrao...

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... my face upon e-vasions. I’ll tell you about that—’ ‘Stick to the bloomin’ Captains, Mulvaney,’ said Ortheris; ‘Comm’ssariat Sargints is low.’ Mulvane... ... tender, and very wise Ulysses, swelter- ing on the earthwork of a Central India line—judge if I have forgotten old days in the T rap! Orth’ris, as al... ...ent home in the Serapis, time-expired, not very long ago, has come back to India as a civilian! It was all Dinah Shadd’s fault. She could not stand th... ...ost touch of England. Mulvaney knew a contractor on one of the new Central India lines, and wrote to him for some sort of work. The 23 Rudyard Kiplin... ... cot, threatenin’ us wid murdher av we overshtepped ut, as we can truthful testify?” ‘“Mary, Mother av Mercy!” thinks I to mesilf; “it is this to have... ...lable.) Go—in—to—the— room—and—see—her. She wants to speak to you. (Aside, testily.) I shall have him on my hands next. JUNIOR CHAPLAIN. (In half-ligh... ...he sons of Belial and a she-ass, but they are very good witnesses, bearing testimony unshakingly whatever the pleaders may say. I would pur- chase wit... ...ing driven down to water, the students of the Government Col- lege playing cricket, the high grass and trees that fringed the river-bank, the great sa...

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...r. But the very same indolent habit of aerial speculation, which courts no test of real life and practice, is described by the ancients under the term... ...that slipshod boy, “for that in him lay couchant many a Marius.” A grander testimony to the awe which Cæsar inspired, or from one who knew better the ... ...In our days, the greatest occasional gatherings of the hu- man race are in India, especially at the great fair of the Hurdwar, in the northern part of... ...ustus was often vaunted by antiquity, (with whom success was not so much a test of merit as itself a merit of the highest quality,) and in no instance... ...ere he lay indolently stretched amongst favorite ladies, “And like a naked Indian slept himself away.” He had also tables composed of the same delicat... ...is public dignity. Wrestling, hunting, fowling, 100 The Cæsars playing at cricket (pila), he admired and patronized by per- sonal participation. He t... ...l the entire thunders of Rome, and the undivided energies of her su- preme captains, could be concentrated upon this single point. Both* emperors left... ...ictures. Whatever strange or rare animal could be drawn from the depths of India, from Siam and Pegu, or from the unvisited nooks of Ethiopia, were no...

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...llus, March to the Etruscan vases perhaps; anyhow he had done good work in India, and there was nothing to regret in his life except the fundamental d... ...t a question when Willoughby continued: “They’ve an awful time of it—those captains! Three thousand souls on board!” “Yes, indeed,” said Clarissa. She... ... set! What a set!’” This roused Ridley’s attention. “Matthew Arnold? A de- testable prig!” he snapped. “A prig—granted,” said Richard; “but, I think a... ...e English. One thinks of all we’ve done, and our navies, and the people in India 44 The Voyage Out and Africa, and how we’ve gone on century after ce... ...seems!—settling the basis of a future state with the present Secretary for India. We thought ourselves very wise. I’m not sure we weren’t. We were hap... ...stories of the splendours and hardships of life at sea, the humours of sea-captains, the wonders of night and dawn, and the marvels of the place delig... ...t young man was near. “I’m sure you read everything.” “I confine myself to cricket and crime,” said Hirst. “The worst of coming from the upper classes... ...on,” he continued. “D’you think you’ll be able to appreciate him? He’s the test, of course. It’s aw- fully difficult to tell about women,” he continue... ...s. Elliot tittered, “but wearing puce velvet, as she does even on the hot- test August day, it somehow doesn’t show.” “Pepper, you have me,” said Mr. ...

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...light, Even as a summer sky ‘s without a cloud: I ‘m fond of fire, and crickets, and all that, A lobster salad, and champagne, and chat. ‘T ... ...taining, With love, and war, a heavy gale at sea, A list of ships, and captains, and kings reigning, New characters; the episodes are three: ... ...y ‘the moral cannot find,’ I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies; Should captains the remark, or critics, make, They also lie too—under a mistak... ...ystal and marble, plate and porcelain, Had done their work of splendour; Indian mats And Persian carpets, which the heart bled to stain, Ove... ...e withdrew. Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price Which the West Indian market scarce would bring; Though Wilberforce, at last, has made... ..., threw Herself upon his breast, and there she grew. This was an awkward test, as Juan found, But he was steel’d by sorrow, wrath, and pride: ... ...mplexion; They all alike admired their new connection. Lolah was dusk as India and as warm; Katinka was a Georgian, white and red, With grea... ...ich form all mankind’s trump card, To be produced when brought up to the test. The statesman, hero, harlot, lawyer—ward Off each attack, whe... ...o him it was Elysium to be there; And he could even withstand that awkward test Which Rousseau points out to the dubious fair, ‘Observe your l...

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...s partly the effect of a childish love of imitation; was it from a need of testing their powers; or was it simply through lack of pity? Perhaps these ... ...e laughing as they swayed; not a cloud was in the sky; the birds sang, the crickets chirped,—all was melody. Do not ask me again why I love Touraine. ... ...d generous—” She raised her eyes to heaven, as if to invoke some invisible testimony to confirm her thought, and then let them rest upon me. Elec- tri... ...g of this dark secret I know nothing. I study it as I would the form of an Indian weapon, the symbolic construc- tion of which is known only to the Br... ...he tears to his eyes; well, he nevertheless admired him as the greatest of captains, and has often explained to me his strategy. May not the same tact... ... of the actual scene. Our souls knew each other to their depths under this test, which many a warm affection is unable to bear, finding life too heavy... ...f I left her she would kill herself. I have heard her praise the custom of Indian widows who burn themselves upon their husband’s grave. “In India tha...

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...his head was, no doubt, habitual with him, for his face was as brown as an Indian’s—a ruddy brown quite different from Presley’s dark olive. To Presle... ...y in En- glish. So he had come back again, this great fellow, tanned as an Indian, lean as an Indian, with an Indian’s long, black hair. But he had no... ...miles distant—a drought on the prairies of Dakota, a rain on the plains of India, a frost on the Russian steppes, a hot wind on the llanos of the Arge... ...ng it to run through his fingers, or nipping the grains between his nails, testing their hardness. The seed was all of the white varieties of wheat an... ...t poignant dis- comfort. He explained his difficulty at great length, pro- testing that his stomach was no better than a spongebag. Would Magnus and H... ...mself that that goat Osterman would have kissed Hilma T ree weeks ago. T o test his state of mind, he imag- ined himself as having decided to kiss her... ...the pallid surface of the venerable facade. Not the faintest chirring of a cricket broke the silence. The bees were asleep. In the grasses, in the tre... ...elf to stay in California just now. If you can introduce me to one of your captains” “With pleasure. When do you want to go? You may have to wait a fe...

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... up, the dead were being counted, while, shut in their head- quarters, the captains and the commanders drew the plans for the grapple of armies that w... ... in a rage around him, and exulted like a champion in the shoutings of the captains. They were not long at table, and by the time they were ready to d... ...d here and there the intermittent clicking of a key began, like a diligent cricket busking himself in ad- vance of its mates. From the corridors on th... ...and would then “feel” the market, letting go small lots here and there, to test its strength, then, the instant he felt the market strong enough, thro... ...without any hat.” “Well, I wouldn’t let that stand in my way, Laura,” pro- tested Mrs. Cressler. “It will be simply heavenly in the Park on such a nig... .... They were good in the Argentine Republic, and on the Russian steppes. In India, on the little farms of Burmah, of Mysore, and of Sind the grain, yea... ...p, it would appear, was promising enough, as was also that of Missouri. In Indiana, however, Jadwin could guess that the hopes of even a mod- erate yi... ...k which he never would intrust to the servants—turning down the lights and testing the window fastenings, his wife said: “And now you are out of it—fo... ... herself when the great conflict impended? She knew how the thunder of the captains and the shoutings appealed to him. She had seen him almost leap to...

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...of the biggest of all extinct birds, in a little canoe in the midst of the Indian Ocean. If old Dawson had known that! It was worth four years’ salary... ... concerning Davidson stand on an altogether dif- ferent footing, and I can testify personally to the accuracy of every detail I have given. 69 H.G . ... ...osy of speech, in shape not unlike a water-barrel, over conscientious with testimo- nials, and suspected of jobbing museum appointments. So the young ... ...of Plattner’s proceedings. He poured a little of the green pow- der into a test-tube, and tried the substance with water, hy- drochloric acid, nitric ... ...annels upon the plains of Burmah and Hindostan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and below the hurrying wat... ... fall behind the move- ment of the sky, and then suddenly, as it hung over India, its light had been veiled. All the plain of India from the mouth of ... ... to games. And thence to my figure and complexion. “You ought to be a good cricketer,” he said. I suppose I am slender, slender to what some people wo... ...bling at the thing he meant to do. The air was full of a minute clamour of crickets and murmurings, of the infinitesimal shoutings of little living th... ...ite or crimson black, and the air was a-quiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightin- gales singing unseen in the depths of the trees. Ther...

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... was regarded as immoral, it was certainly an annoyance, and the only pro- test against it, the only effort against that universal tendency in all hum... ...der of things. At one time there were people dying of actual starvation in India, while men were burning unsalable wheat in America. It sounds like th... ...into her face. “Have you come to offer them money?” And without waiting to test her powers of repartee I passed rudely beyond her and vanished, stridi... ...g was a fog in the afternoon, that scattered the crowd on race-courses and cricket-fields, and stopped the unload- ing of shipping and brought men out... ...ss to any man; they spoke of industrial organization, and one saw it under captains who sought no base advantages. The haze of old associations, of pe... ...e, were not to mean indiscriminate happiness for me. I had a sense of pro- test, as against extreme unfairness, as I saw him go. “It is too soon,” I s...

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...h are the flowers to be plucked by resolute and worthy hands: they are the tests of our sincerity. This time now rapidly approaching will try us all, ... ...l not be troubled to favour you with a taste of it, or, by Bacchus and his Indian nymphs, I should speedily behold you jumping like peas in a pan, lik... ...ood a reputation for forbearance in a conquered country as our officers in India. They are not ill-humoured, and they are not peevishly arrogant, exce... ...was true!’ Beppo stretched out his arm, and chopped his hand edgeways five testificatory times on the shoulder-ridge. ‘Ay, a hawk might fly from St. L... ...r in as bad case as himself, to moisten his black tongue and write a short testamentary document with his blood, and for a way of returning thanks to ... ...d travelling of a pen; on his awakening, the pen vexed him like a chirping cricket that tells us that cock-crow is long distant when we are moaning fo... ... harm having been done to them; he fancied there was a quarrel between two captains. His plan being always to avoid the military, he had slunk round a...

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...and Knave of Bergen shall you be called henceforth, and gladly the Black knight rose; three cheers were given in honor of the Emperor, and loud cries ... ...e all these kind sayings, but I could not; I was afraid that my masters’ partiality for me, and pride in me, biased their judgment. So I resolved to ... ...ached down and got my walking-shoes, then sat up in bed and listened, in order to exactly locate the noise. But I couldn’t do it; it was as unlocatabl... ...e price of spectacles to such a degree that a great and crushing burden was removed from the nation. The em- peror, to commemorate this generous act, ... ...e had never, never seen a storm that even approached this one. How familiar that sounded! For I have been at sea a good deal and have heard that remar... ... run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London before you sail.’” The next item which I find in my note-book is this one: “The fact that a band of... ...nt leisure, and that we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people thi... ...n the matter of numbers. It is rather a striking one, too. I have not distorted the truth in saying that the facts in the above item, about the army a... ...considerably; at the same instant I cast my eyes down the side on which I had slipped, and contrived to plant my right foot on a piece of rock as larg...

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...iage of the sort affected by bachelors, retired lieutenant-colonels, staff-captains, land-owners possessed of about a hundred souls, and, in short, al... ...ith daylight-clear argu- ments, yet they will rebound from his brain as an india- rubber ball rebounds from a flagstone. Nevertheless, wip- ing away t... ...t not to be dealt with, for he puts all sorts of rub- bish into his liquor—Indian wood and burnt cork and elderberry juice, the villain! Nevertheless,... ...e tea out of me.” Finally, his circum- spection, combined with a desire to test his guest, led him to remark that it might be well to complete the tra... ...strictest legal form; and if the authorities should want confirma- tion by testimony, I shall produce a letter signed by my own superintendent of the ... ...itch employ during the pupil’s youth, as well as constantly put him to the test. How well he understood the art of life! Of assistant tutors he kept b... ...onounced ro- tundity of figure) stepping backwards with all the elan of an india-rubber ball. From this the somewhat reassured Tientietnikov con- clud... ...s “Pray do not tease him any more”) and the cheerful candle-light, and the cricket chirp- ing in a corner, and the glass door, and the spring night wh...

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... -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- TH...

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... 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 THE INDIAN UPON GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE INDI... ... all men’s ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.’ ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden; around that the forest... ...fidget finger CROSSWAYS 11 Trouble his sleeping: give him dreams of me. THE INDIAN UPON GOD I PASSED along the water’s edge below the humid trees, My s... ... comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And ... ...came the red one, To her left hand came the blue. They set up a noise like crickets, A chattering wise and sweet, 60 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEAT... ...iate pain — Aye, though all passion’s in the glance — For every nerve, and tests a lover With cruelties of Choice and Chance; And when at last that mu... ...oasting her a score of times, Rose from the table and declared it right To test their fancy by their sight; But they mistook the brightness of the moo... ... to study In a learned school Till the wreck of body, Slow decay of blood, Testy delirium Or dull decrepitude, Or what worse evil come — The death of ... ...old, old man. Soldiers take pride in saluting their Captain, Where are the captains that govern mankind? What happens a tree that has nothing within i...

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...f his novel. No one has ever yet produced a written passage or any ancient testimony to prove the existence of the name before Rabelais. To place such... ...l Rablophila. The First Decade. The Commendation. Musa! canas nostrorum in testimonium Amorum, Et Gargantueas perpetuato faces, Utque homini tali res... ...he great quantities of other sorts of meat, be- cause the marrow (as Galen testifieth, 5. facult. nat. & 11. de usu partium) is a nourishment most per... ...oad. At mustard peel. At cricket. At the gome. At the pounding ... ...tagems of war, we shall save all the souls, and send them home as merry as crickets unto their own houses. My dearest son, the peace of Jesus Christ o... ... a knotted cord- work of gold embroidery, everywhere garnished with little Indian pearls. They always carried a fair panache, or plume of feathers, of... ...aning-stock of old Age. The Muzzle of Nobility. The Ape’s Paternoster. The Crickets and Hawk’s-bells of Devotion. The Pot of the Ember-weeks. The Mort... ...ar as unto Mount Caucasus, passed along the Scythians, the Massagetes, the Indians, and sailed 242 Gargantua & Pantagruel over the great river Phison... ... conquered the isles of Pearls; how he married the daughter of the King of India, called Presthan; how he fought against the devil and burnt up five c...

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... very nice too,” she added, smiling, as she put her hand on a little Greek Testament, in which Ethel had been reading it, within her English Bible. “N... ...g off with an elasticity that caused his mother to say the boy was made of india-rubber; and then putting his head in by the window to say, “By-the-by... ...el; “I did not know in the least what to say.” “It will be the best way of testing her sincerity, said Flora; and at least it will do the child good; ... ...‘Jane Sparks’, isn’t there? I would not make the little books from the New Testament too common.” “Take care, that leaf has five points,” said Norman.... ...cond boy in the school would support them, if he durst. The summer and the cricket season brought the battle of Ballhatchet’s house to issue. The cric... ...opularity, it was his duty to put a stop to the practice. He was an ardent cricketer himself, and though the game did not, in anticipation, seem to hi... ...wilight was sobering every tint, when, as 253 Yo n g e Norman crossed the cricket-field, he heard, in the distance, a loud shout. He looked up, and i... ...ever-stricken emigrant- ship. He had afterwards received an appointment in India, and there the correspondence had died away, and Dr. May had lost tra... ...—she knew he had nothing of his own, only a moderate pension from the East India Company. “What do you think of this?” he said, coming to the slope of...

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...ost its leg in gaining a possibly cleaner morality. And that is often con- tested; but there is no doubt of the loss of the leg. Well, footmen and cou... ...e showers of adula- tion drenched him might be likened to the composure of Indian Gods undergoing worship, but unlike them he re- posed upon no seat o... ... had set going again when the ladies were weeded of us, in Lady Patterne’s Indian room, and could converse unhampered upon their own ethereal themes. ... ...w for Willoughby. The father of Miss Dale was a battered army surgeon from India, tenant of one of Sir Willoughby’s cottages bordering Patterne Park. ... ...ured her she had promised it, and he appealed to her father, who could not testify to a promise he had not heard, but begged her to leave him to have ... ...here the idol dwells will put him, should he come nigh, to its own furnace-test, and get a clear brain out of a burnt heart. She was frequently at the... ...d you’re not positive about some people. Miss Middleton, if you look on at cricket, in comes a safe man for ten runs. He may get more, and he never ge... ...ust my feeling.” Miss Middleton understood that some illustration from the cricketing-field was intended to throw light on the boy’s feeling for Mr. W... ...avenue at full pedestrian racing pace. “A man looks a fool cutting after a cricket-ball; but, put- ting on steam in a storm of rain to catch a young v...

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...very- body else did), and by being good judges of hats, ties, dogs, pipes, cricket, gardens, flowers, and the like. They were ca- pable of discussing ... ...ol for Scan- dal we hardly notice that the heroine is a female cad, as de- testable and dishonorable in her repentance as she is vulgar and silly in h... ... nonsense in a month, if not sooner; but it is very seldom brought to that test. The typical British husband sees much less of his wife than he does o... ...that her way is in the least likely to be the right way, or that any other test is to be applied to it except the test of its effect on human welfare.... ...t the greater part of the British Empire, and is as practicable here as in India, there is a good deal to be said against it, and still more to be fel... ...ery, and its first martyr in the army. The navy boasts two such martyrs in Captains Kirby and Wade, who were shot for refusing to fight under Admiral ...

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...e lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their furs dry;-’’ the merchants and captains think that they have not earned their twelve dollars a month, (o... ...men in each, boldly putting out to sea, after it had become almost dark. The Indians go out in them after fish, and as the weather is regular in certa... ..., feeling the night breeze coming from off shore, and hearing the frogs and crickets. The mountains seemed almost to hang over us, and apparently f... ...ood about doing nothing, with their cloaks, little better in texture than an Indian’s blanket, but of rich colors, thrown over their shoulders with a... ...e southern part, at Cape Horn, and in the western parts, near the China and Indian oceans, it has few storms, and is never either extremely hot or co... ...ndwich Islanders, who are active, and very useful in boating. The three captains went ashore after dinner, and came off again at night. When in p... ...ve an herb which would cure it, but it was fortunately never brought to the test. Hares and rabbits, as I said before, were abundant, and, duri... ... officers; and it is to be remembered that the latter have often no one to testify on their side. These are weighty and true state- ments, and shou... ...ake many complaints, some of which are well founded. On the subject of testimony, seamen labor under a difficulty full as great as that of the ...

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... whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story prevented her from g... ... of course my family has also to be consid- ered,” Prince V asili went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at her. “Y ou know, Cat... ...ndrew, appar- ently speaking lightly of their father in order to puzzle or test his sister. “Y ou are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind o... ...at polite- ness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with... ...d the buffoon, who was coming toward her in a woman’s jacket. “Why, fleas, crickets, grasshoppers,” answered the buffoon. “O Lord, O Lord, it’s always... ...ou see the Emperor? Vive l’Empereur!... preur!—If they make me Governor of India, Gerard, I’ll make you Minister of Kashmir—that’ s settled. V ive l’E... ... & Peace on the bare floor. As if to celebrate a victory over everybody, a cricket chirped in a crack in the wall. A cock crowed far off and another r... ...in the complete stillness of the night. Everybody near him was sleeping. A cricket chirped from across the passage; someone was shouting and singing i... ... two commissaries general, or chiefs of police, and twenty commissaries or captains of wards have been appointed to the different wards of the city. Y...

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...d. Bulba, on the occasion of his sons’ arrival, ordered all the sotniks or captains of hundreds, and all the officers of the band who were of any cons... ...pments thoroughly,” he said; “put your teams and your tar-boxes* in order; test your weapons. Take not many clothes with you: a shirt and a couple of ... ...up the horses and oxen. On all sides resounded the tramp of horses’ hoofs, test-shots from the guns, the clank of swords, the lowing of oxen, the scre... ...distance that they covered themselves. All began to equip themselves: they tested their swords, poured powder from the sacks into their powder-flasks,... ...n face. Ivan Ivanovitch traversed the court- yard, in which were collected Indian doves, fed by Ivan Nikiforovitch’s own hand, melon-rinds, vegetables... ...ilent grass be- 193 Taras Bulba & Other Tales come more fragrant, and the crickets, unharmonious cava- liers of the night, strike up their rattling s... ...on indicated a Southern origin, but to what particular nation he belonged, India, Greece, or Persia, no one could say with certainty. Of tall, almost ...

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...e never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Waters; with small re- sult; yet with great glory for ‘six non-defea... ...edit of all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in t... ...ate. Which duty done, D’Orleans returns in from the gate; redacts his Pro- test, in the face of an applauding Parlement, an applauding France; and so—... ...erty,’—as a Statue of him, to be raised on the site of the Bastille, shall testify to all men. Finally, he is shewn at the Balcony, with a Tricolor co... ...tion, tripudiation, sound, fury and distraction, within doors and without,—testify what tempest-tost state of vacuity they are in? Till champagne and ... ...hs; who in return, may kiss, not without fervour, the fair sewing fingers. Captains of horse and foot go swashing with ‘enormous white cockades;’ nay ... ...ssembly, will be the best: he hastily nominates or sanctions generalesses, captains of tens and fifties;—and so, in loosest-flowing order, to the rhyt... ...! The other captive Bodyguard is still circling the corpse of Jerome, amid Indian war-whooping; bloody Tilebeard, with tucked sleeves, brandishing his... ... not here, in the Cimmerian World-wreckage, with- out a sign, as the house-cricket might still chirp in the pealing of a Trump of Doom. “Monsieur,” sa...

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...e never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Wa- ters; with small result; yet with great glory for ‘six non- defe... ...edit of all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in t... ...yship, he sets to denouncing Stock-brokerage (Denonciation de l’Agiotage); testifying, as his wont is, by loud bruit, that he is present and busy;—til... ... been relinquished. And so, with forensic eloquence, denunciation and pro- test, with couriers going and returning, the Parlement, in this state of co... ...ees: the House of Saint-Lazarus has that in it which comes not out by pro- testing. Behold, how, from every window, it vomits: mere torrents of furnit... ...ssembly, will be the best: he hastily nominates or sanctions generalesses, captains of tens and fifties;—and so, in loosest-flowing order, to the rhyt... ...y,’ owner of the slain war-horse; and has to be smuggled off by Versailles Captains. Or rusty firelocks belch after him, shivering asun- der his—hat. ... ...! The other captive Bodyguard is still circling the corpse of Jerome, amid Indian war-whooping; bloody Tilebeard, with tucked sleeves, brandishing his... ...s not here, in the Cimmerian World- wreckage, without a sign, as the house-cricket might still chirp in the pealing of a Trump of Doom. “Monsieur,” sa...

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...protest against such notions as that a clergyman may not marry, hunt, play cricket, or share the sports of honest laymen. The shaven 26 An Unsocial S... ...r, to give up money wot I never got?” Vague alarm crept upon Agatha as the testimony of her senses was contradicted. “All I know is,” she protested, “... ...se your ladyship.” “I don’t know where you could get it,” said Miss Wilson testily; “I ask you, had you any?” “Well, lady, I disremember. I will not i... ..., comprehensive as it was, did not flourish. When asked by the curious for testimony to his competence and respectability, he recklessly referred them... ...had never been in Persia, but had seen some East- ern billiard cues in the India museum. Were not the Hindoos wonderful people for filigree work, and ... ...n such scenes, she counted the proposals of marriage she received as a Red Indian counts the scalps he takes. “We have had a very pleasant time of it ... ...n civilization in Germany, for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- at... ...oman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like. Here are ship-captains, criminals, poets, men of science, peers, peasants, political econ...

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...NT BRACKENBURY RICH had greatly distinguished himself in one of the lesser Indian hill wars. He it was who took the chieftain prisoner with his own ha... ...aintance. Your looks accord with the reputation that has preceded you from India. And if you will forget for a while the irregularity of your presenta... ...how you played and how you bore your losses; lastly, I have put you to the test of a staggering announce- ment, and you received it like an invitation... ...nd from thence by a flight of winding stairs, a pro- digious noise of rats testified still more plainly to the di- lapidation of the house. Their cond... ...ure. And the next moment he was conversing with the two officers about the Indian army and the native troops, a sub- ject on which, as on all others, ... ... the flicker of the veiled lamp; and the continual roaring and oscillation testified to the unrelaxed velocity of the train. He sat upright in a panic... ...rsons carrying money in a belt; and as he had no acquaintance with any but cricket-belts, he had never been able rightly to conceive how this was mana... ...f war, which the low-born must endure with constancy. It is true that some captains drive over hard; there are spirits in every rank not easily moved ...

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...esmen, who wear hats with brims inclined to flatness, and who occasionally testify in gilt letters on a blue ground, in some conspicuous part of the c... ...different parts of the country, and she seldom sees them. She has a son in India, whom she always describes to you as a fine, handsome fellow—so like ... ...ble degree of nervous excitement. It was also hastily reported on the same testimony, that the cook who opened the door, wore a large white bow of unu... ...errily along. Some few months before he was prevailed upon to stand a con- tested election for the office of beadle, necessity at- tached him to the s... ... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...ave performed such evolutions as would have put the whole company to shame—Indian chiefs, knights, Swiss peasants, and all. Some people object to the ... ...nd bar- rels of oysters directed to Lords and Baronets, and Colo- nels and Captains, in every part of the habitable globe. Behind the natives were the... ...ess-gloves, boxing-gloves, carica- tures, albums, invitation-cards, foils, cricket-bats, card- board drawings, paste, gum, and fifty other miscella- n... ...ran after the ball, which went into a neighbouring field. They called this cricket. ‘Tottle, will you “go in?”’ inquired Mr. Gabriel Parsons, as he ap...