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...: India was so far. She had come to love this dear uncle, not only because of his kindness to his orphaned niece, but because she could see so much ... ...ages for the women and bullock carts for the luggage, all escorted by the Highland platoon and a brigade of Sikh troops and their British officer, w... ... but more Mongolian, like the hill people of Nepal. Perhaps she was the wife of one of the Ghurka brigade stationed at the fort. Of the sunyassi ther... ...to the poor was feigned, because the beautiful Creole devoted a great deal of time to a Catholic orphanage on the outskirts of the city. ‘Come and ... ... suffered a cracked collar bone, which Helen knew would heal naturally. They nicknamed the little orphan ‘Lazarus’, because of his remarkable rise f... ...d Helen, they had found the crushed bodies of his family. There were so many homeless people and orphaned children. Gavin had organised makeshift c... ...mes as soon as possible and Blanche was organising places in the Catholic Mission for the little orphans. THE CURSE OF KALI 251 Little Lazarus w... ... a naughty prank. Helen laughed at his expression and looked over Gavin’s shoulder at the little brigade of Gurkhas, their wide, flat, Mongol faces ... ...ent. The Maharajah, Prince Ali and his mother were captured outside the City gates by a Highland brigade positioned there to prevent the escape of ...

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...ey moved aside and the incoming Raksha knelt summarily at the feet of his superior. “Exalted matriarch,” he articulated amid halting breaths, “our brigades await your commandment.” She diverted her red eyes to Upaya, who gripped a railing and studied the surface intently again. “I do remember saying that I would spearhead this assault,” Upaya reasserted. “Even ...

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... III – Prologue: The Nectar of Immortality Act One – Soma Chandra’s Hubris [ 1 ] A Gathering of Gods [ 2 ] Mutual Grievances [ 3 ] Heaven’s Orphans [ 4 ] Besieged ­- Interstice - Act Two – To Hell and Back [ 5 ] Avenues of Deceit [ 6 ] Curious Occurrences [ 7 ] Rescued by Old Enemies [ 8 ] Predestined Warpaths ­- Interstice - Act Three – Tremen...

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...avoid going out, will invent a headache, a toothache or a stomachache. An orphan, she gets homesick for the home she never had. Prefers women to men... ...ve. Globe Theatre is on fire...bucket brigades, smoke around men with pails, smoke around boys with pails, ... ...heart and memory among men, consideration for the maimed, the widows, the orphans, the deceased. Some men war for glory. No...peace is the glory. T... ... care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace,...

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.................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE.................................................................................................. 21 THE ORPHAN MAID. ................................................................................................................. 100 IV. APPENDIX. ...................................................................................

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...................................................................... 21 THE ORPHAN MAID. ................................................................. ... with their cavalry, fought bravely, and to them, as well as to Cromwell’s brigade of Independents, the honour of the day belonged; but the old Earl o... ...very pretty fellows—I desire to see none better in the field. I once saw a brigade of Irish, at the taking of Frankfort upon the Oder, stand to it wit... ... pike until they beat off the 40 Sir Walter Scott blue and yellow Swedish brigades, esteemed as stout as any that fought under the immortal Gustavus.... ...xpression of her features. When we add to these charms, that Annot, in her orphan state, seemed the gayest and happiest of maidens, the reader must al... ...ng, Allan, I will accept from you as a memorial of your goodness to a poor orphan, but do not press me to take more; for I cannot, and will not, accep... ... was wont to call Lord Menteith and Allan, “can bring bad luck to the poor orphan.” She put the ring on her finger, and, turning to her harp, sung, to... ..., has thus translated into the En- glish tongue: 100 Sir Walter Scott THE ORPHAN MAID. November’s hail-cloud drifts away, November’s sunbeam wan Look... ...em, proceeded to the more abstruse calculations necessary for drawing up a brigade of two thousand men on the principle of extracting the square root....

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... NOTICES....................................................................................................................................... 5 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS......................................................................................................................................... 18 OXFORD ..................................................................

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....................................................................... 5 THE ORPHAN HEIRESS ............................................................... ... by a fate so unsearchably mysterious. THE ORP THE ORP THE ORP THE ORP THE ORPHAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS I. I. I. I. ... ...he had known me from infancy; when I was in my first year of life, she, an orphan and a great heiress, was in her tenth or eleventh.”—See closing page... ...Jacobinism. At Laxton it was that I first saw the entire aggregate labors, brigaded, as it were, and paraded as if for martial review, of that most in... ...he fact of both from so early an age having been united in the calamity of orphan- age,—go where they might, these young women drew all eyes upon them... ...sity expresses, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resume, therefore, my own thread of personal nar...

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... “these dearest friends received and cherished me. When I was a name- less orphan myself, and needed a protector, I found one in 5 Thackeray yonder k... ... our love and kindness. Did I ever do you a wrong, Henry? Y ou were but an orphan child when I first saw you— when he first saw you, who was so good, ... ...that sad quarrel had made of Esmond a prisoner under sentence, a widow and orphans of those whom in life he held dearest. In terms that might well mov... ...o the dowager’s house in Chelsey, where it has been said the widow and her orphans were, had seen my Lady Viscountess, and pleaded the cause of her un... ...uld not speak the word to a Christian woman, sir, a poor widowed mother of orphans, whose home was happy until the world came into it—the wicked godle... ...y, speak- ing of Mr. Webb, colonel of Esmond’s regiment (who com- manded a brigade in the action, and greatly distinguished him- self there), was lame... ...amenting that he could find never a suitable rhyme for Webb, otherwise the brigade should have had a place in the poet’s verses. “And for you, you are... ...ire each other, so splendid was the gal- lantry of each upon this day. The brigade commanded by Major-General Webb gave and received about as hard kno...

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...Mr Mr Mr. P . P . P . P . Polly an O olly an O olly an O olly an O olly an Orphan rphan rphan rphan rphan I I I I I THEN A GREAT CHANGE was brought ab... ...that uncontrolled fire within. What was he going to do? There was the fire brigade station next door but one. The Fishbourne High Street had never see... ...ry and ready, and the little shed beyond Rumbold’s in which the local Fire Brigade kept its manual, was alight before the Fishbourne fire hose could b... ...n the top story over Boomer’s shop opened, and Boomer, captain of the Fire Brigade, appeared, staring out with a blank expression. Still staring, he b... ...en rush of smoke from the back, like something suddenly blown up. The fire brigade, still much under strength, were now hard at work in the front of t... ...ttack upon his apparatus outraged his sense of chiv- alry. The rest of the brigade hovered in a disheartened state about the rescued fire escape, and ...

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...his re- sources. He signed to her to move to the Morse as a general brings brigades into action. Then he swept his hand musician-wise through his hair... ...and that brought down upon him secretaries of every Fisherman’ s Widow and Orphan Aid Society within the city limits. They begged shamelessly, each ma... ... much of it, he says, because they take up a collection for the widows and orphans. Disko’ s independent. Haven’t you noticed that?” “Well-yes. A litt... ...nisters have all the religion at their conven- tion. Those are some of our orphans standing up to sing. My wife taught ‘em. See you again later, Mr. C... ... ut- most that folk ashore could accomplish was to help the widows and the orphans, and after a few general re- marks he took this opportunity of than...

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...ther. He lived modestly, in accordance with his means. He had been left an orphan at nine years old: his father and mother were drowned when they were... ...one of his friends, a student who had just taken the place of tutor to two orphans and was sleeping with them in a lodge in the garden, saw a woman’s ... ...beds and next day recognised the figure in a portrait of the mother of the orphans which he had not previously no- ticed. Then Tyeglev told me that hi... ...althy. As she had no children of her own she had adopted a little girl, an orphan, of the working class, given her a liberal education and treated her... ...Tyeglev’s heart. “Ah, Your Excellency,” he concluded his epistle, “I am an orphan, I had no one to love me as a child—and all held aloof from me ... a... ...sn’t do me any harm.’” “Well, I see you are not one of the chicken-hearted brigade,” Anton Stepanitch interrupted in a half-contemptuous, half- condes...

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... that a mother could bestow T o Lady Margaret’s care I owe, Since first an orphan in the wild She sorrowed o’er her sister’s child; T o her brave chie... ...bough Is all Duncraggan’s shelter now Yet trust I well, his duty done, The orphan’s God will guard my son.— And you, in many a danger true At Duncan’s... ...nger true At Duncan’s hest your blades that drew, T o arms, and guard that orphan’s head! Let babes and women wail the dead.’ Then weapon- clang and m... ...e stream raced by; And had he fallen,—forever there, Farewell Duncraggan’s orphan heir! But still, as if in parting life, Firmer he grasped the Cross ... ...e that mother wails her son, For me that widow’s mate expires, For me that orphans weep their sires, That patriots mourn insulted laws, And curse the ... ...th syllables. It is little used in English. Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade and Longfellow’s Skeleton in Armor are familiar examples of it. 405...

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...l Seven MEMORANDUM CONCERNING THE TRANSPOR- TATION OF THE NEW YORK NA V AL BRIGADE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 26, 1864. WHOM IT MA Y CONCERN:... ...f Mr. Marshall O. Roberts, for transportation of what was called the Naval Brigade from New Y ork to Fortress Monroe. This force was a special or- ga... ...from the Father of mercies to the sick, wounded, and prisoners, and to the orphans and widows of those who have fallen in the service of their country... ...sions to invalid soldiers and sailors of the Republic and to the wid- ows, orphans, and dependent mothers of those who have fallen in battle or died o... ...y invalid pensioners 22,767 and of navy invalid pensioners 712. Of widows, orphans, and mothers 22,198 have been placed 236 The Writings of Abraham L... ...ER: There is a man in Company I, Eleventh Connecticut V olun- teers, First Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, at Chapin’s Farm, V a.; ... ... to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace am...

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...hese movements intended to get in the enemy’s rear. One more of McDowell’s brigades is ordered through here to Harper’s Ferry; the rest of his force r... ...saster about 2000 of Shields’s advance till they were met by an additional brigade of Shields’s, when Jackson himself turned and re- treated. Shields ... ...cept “the Loyal Bri- gade of the North” is received. I never heard of that brigade by name and do not know where it is; yet, presuming it is in New Y ... ... of Longstreet’s divisions and his entire ar- tillery and two of Pickett’s brigades and Wise’s legion have gone to Tennessee. He mentions no other. “C... ...disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the la- mentable civil strife in which w...

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... in his capacity as president of the club of Jacobins at Arcis. Michu, the orphan son of a peasant, showered with benefac- tions by the marquise, who ... ... thirteen years of age, Laurence, after the events already related, was an orphan living in a house opposite to the empty space where so recently had ... ...t into your hands the only remembrance we are able to leave to our beloved orphans. Keep these last remains of us and give them to 84 An Historical M... ...tain orders in passing through Troyes, and then returned to Paris. All the brigades of gendarmerie in the neighborhood received secret instructions an...

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...ooner be smoking a quiet pipe in my own quarters—but I see we ‘ave the Old Brigade on our ‘ands this afternoon. If I only ‘ad you regular, Muster Cork... ...them. So also unluckily did King, who never passed without witticisms. But brigades of Kings could not have ruffled Beetle that day. “Aha! Enjoying th... ...adn’t a father, but that didn’t matter. He behaved like a—like the Sanawar Orphan Asylum, and His Excellency gra- ciously spared him. Then he came rou...

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...ides, our cow has a calf, and that will set us a bit straighter.” The four orphans for whom the old woman’s affection rep- resented all human guardian... ...nt her charge to beg for her living upon the highways. “One day the little orphan asked for bread at the countess’ chateau, and they kept the child fo... ...a mirror. La Fosseuse was no longer any- thing but a waiting-maid, and the orphan girl, then sixteen years of age, was dismissed without pity. Her idl... ...with plenty of good stuff in him, ought to serve his country and command a brigade, and not come to his end trailing after a chamois. The life 120 Th... ...t of earth in which the poor girl is laid, I found myself the father of an orphan child. I put him out to nurse during the campaign of 1815. Ever sinc...

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...ho was incorrectly supposed to stand in the place of a mother to these two orphans. Dick had been under her care for six years, during which time she ... ...breath: ‘Phew! what a lawless lot these people are! The first thing a poor orphan meets is gang robbery, organised bur- glary! Think of the hideous bl... ...ed him, had rid- den over sunburned slippery grass in the rear of Bredow’s brigade on the day that the troopers flung themselves at Caurobert’s artill... ... the Nilghai would comfort himself with the thought, ‘I rode with Bredow’s brigade at Vionville,’ and take heart for any lesser battle the next day mi...

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... praise- worthy. She had a brother, a clerk in Derville’s law office. Left orphans and very poor, and devoted to each other, the brother and sister ha... ...n from that time forth of a garrison. The sojourn of the forty-fourth demi-brigade, imposed upon it during the civil war, was not of a nature to recon... ...d a much greater influence over them than their own family. They were both orphans, and were kept, although each had attained his majority, under the ... ...ac saucers. “I leave that to your conscience,” said the doctor. “She is an orphan; up to eighteen, she has no right to what she earns.” “T welve to ei...

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...Beaurepaire, lieutenant-colonel of artillery, Etienne Duchampy, general of brigade, and Claude Lecharpal, keeper of woods and forests, Declare, that o... ...nite your efforts with mine to find out the name of the man who made me an orphan at two years of age.” Valentine remained dumb and motionless. “Hold,... ... produced in the salons of M. Danglars by the unexpected appearance of the brigade of sol- diers, and by the disclosure which had followed, the mansio... ...resolving to make a last effort, “this young man, though a murderer, is an orphan, abandoned by everybody.” “So much the worse, or rather, so much the... ...ville; “the charities present themselves to you through me: the widows and orphans depute me to receive alms to the amount of five millions from you.”... ...o receive alms to the amount of five millions from you.” “And yet they say orphans are to be pitied,” said Danglars, wish- 390 The Count of Monte Cri... ...Yes.” “I have brought my receipt.” “My dear M. de Boville, your widows and orphans must oblige me by waiting twenty-four hours, since M. de Monte Cris...

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...ny one will ever know but I, the sufferer. For yourself, unfortunate girl, orphaned and degraded from the first of these evil anniversaries, pray dail... ...it was so gracious in that father who had not forgotten me to have made my orphan way so smooth and easy and to have inclined so many youthful natures... ... if quite so much, but nearly two years older than she was. They were both orphans and (what was very unexpected and curious to me) had never met befo... ... knitted brow and in the same uncivil manner. I assented with a smile. “An orphan. Ain’t she?” “Yes.” “But knows a quantity, I suppose? Can dance, and... ...call such a lovely young creature as that, who is a joy to all mankind, an orphan. She is the child of the universe.” Mr. Jarndyce, I found, was stand... ...is open face, “if you prefer to serve in Sir Leicester Dedlock’s household brigade—” “There it is, brother,” cries the trooper, checking him, with his... ...he bride, or whenever I come, I shall have the sense to keep the household brigade in ambuscade and not to manoeuvre it on your ground. I thank you he...

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... attitudes till a spent bone was flung to them, and then they went for it by brigades and divisions, with a rush, and there ensued a fight which fille... ...ron or the bishop confiscated all his property and turned his widow and his orphans out of doors. And here were these freemen assembled in the early ... ... than the rest. One very curious case came before the king. A young girl, an orphan, who had a considerable estate, married a fine young fellow who ha... ...e among the very first to find it out, too. He told how he had begun life an orphan lad without money and without friends able to help him; how he ha...