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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ...lure; Malta very well, but not worth the trouble and sea-sickness:in fact, Baden-Baden or Devonshire would be a better move than this; when Smyrna cam...

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...Excerpt: On Being Found Out? and ?The Notch on the Ax? by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories -- Old Time English, ed. Julian Hawthowrne....

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...Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian H... ...Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian H... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray From The Lock and Key Library Julian Hawthorne, Ed.* Classic Mystery and De... ... circulation.* Hundreds and hundreds of thousands—why not say a million of people at once?—well, say a million, read it. And among these count- less r... ... a chair to reach it. I am found out. And in the days of my triumphs, when people were yet afraid of me, and were taken in by my swag- ger, I always k... ...reary house, and you will have but a chilly fire- side. Do you suppose the people round it don’t see your homely face as under a glamour, and, as it w... ... of drawers, and a cupboard apparently full of clothes. Remembering him in Baden-Baden in great magnificence I wondered at his present denuded state. ...

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... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...t no tourist ever TELLS them. So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little l... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ...Harris preferred thirteen. Even after I had acquired full confidence, and no longer needed the agent’s help, I sometimes encountered difficul- ties. O... ...rn lot and in a strange land; I don’t know; I only know it was lovely to be treated so. Very well, I took an American young lady to one of the fine ba... ...ourt,” said my German friend. I said: “She is an honor to it, then. I know her. I don’t know her name, but I know HER. I have known her at Allerheilig...

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... burned in a mine, One was killed in a brawl, One died in a jail, One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife- All, all are sleeping, sleepin... ...evolution?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fathe... ...ing with the Indians, and who Afterwards took the Bankrupt Law And emerged from it richer than ever Myself grown tired of toil and poverty And beholdi... ...orting candidates for office? Or for writing up the canning factory To get people to invest? Or for suppressing the facts about the bank, When it was ... ...Anthology Doctor Meyers NO other man, unless it was Doc Hill, Did more for people in this town than l. And all the weak, the halt, the improvident And... ...u know why? My wife hated me, my son went to the dogs. And I turned to the people and poured out my love to them. Sweet it was to see the crowds about... ...ned the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. Now I am here to do honor To Spoon River, here beside the fami... ... I dined, Or lived, or whom I entertained, Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden. Jacob Godbey HOW did you feel, you libertarians, Who spent you...

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...uld not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotte...

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...of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasur... ...especially of my mother, will not do them justice in the eyes of the young people of the present day, who are accustomed to a far more indulgent gover... ...aws against going into shops or buying dainties without express permission from mamma or nurse; but one day when Clarence had by some chance been sent... ...sed with a month’s wages, and poor Clarence underwent a strange punishment from my mother, who was getting about again by that time, namely, a drop of... ...e than Griffith, and thought he posed for admiration, for she used to tell people that no one could guess what a child he was for slyness; so that he ... ...larence, who had high fever, and very much delirium each night, talking to people whom he thought he saw, so as to make nurse regret her severity on t...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ... Mallet imagined there was a private reason for it—a reason quite distinct from her pleasure in receiving her honored kins- man. The next day he flatt... ...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...ofession which consists exclusively, as she supposes, in making figures of people without their clothes on. Sculpture, to her mind, is an insidious fo... ...er he was alive or dead. A week afterwards came an answer—brief, and dated Baden-Baden. “I know I have been a great brute,” Roderick wrote, “not to ha... ... but Baxter told me it would never do, that the Alps were ‘d——d rot,’ that Baden-Baden was the place, and that if I knew what was good for me I would ... ...d. He had accompanied his missive with an urgent recom- mendation to leave Baden-Baden immediately, and an offer to meet Roderick at any point he woul...

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... deal of byplay, a great stand- ing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing ... ...holic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a pencil from his pocket and showed her the fly-leaf of his guide-book. She stood lo... ...od deal?” he asked at last. “Pas beaucoup?” The young lady raised her eyes from her palette, scanned him from head to foot, and alighted with admirabl... ...e which projects into the great open quadrangle. The place was filled with people, the fountains were spouting, a band was playing, clusters of chairs... ...t until two o’clock in the morning, watching the coming and going, and the people knocking about.” “You’re easily pleased. But you can do as you choos... ...ut of it I can. I want to see all the great things, and do what the clever people do.” “The clever people? Much obliged. You set me down as a blockhea... ... then returned westward, through Southern Germany. The autumn found him at Baden-Baden, where he spent several weeks. The place was charming, and he w... ...he same respectable habit. Could he not scrape together a few conclusions? Baden-Baden was the prettiest place he had seen yet, and orchestral music i... ... all been made by sharp railroad men and stock-brokers. During his stay at Baden-Baden he received a letter from Mrs. Tristram, scolding him for the s...

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...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ... Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador from the Most Christian King, and subsequently Minister to that monarch. I ... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...he stupidest, or the richest, or the best born, but “the best,”—in a word, people about whom there is no question— such as the great Lady Fitz-Willis,... ...is uncle’s courier, Mr. Kirsch, and having only peeped into a play-room at Baden-Baden when he hung on Dobbin’s arm, and where, of course, he was not ...

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...as spared; the obtaining the girdle of strength; the recovery of the spoil from the three-fold enemy; the gaining of the fruit of life; immediately fo... ...d when he died under the final blow of the loss of my little brother Percy from measles. The dear old place—house with five gables on the garden front... ...ecame such democrats that they actually married the two daughters of a man from Cumberland named Lewthwayte, whom Lord Erymanth had turned out of one ... ...d so severely; besides, there was no doubt of their hav- ing harangued the people, and stirred them up, and they were seen, as well as Prometesky, at ... .... His form and colouring must have come from the Cumberland statesman, but people said his voice and expression had much of his father in them; and no... ...ed Mr. Prosser, but without meeting much sympa- thy. Mr. Prosser said many people’s minds had changed with regard to English or Irish demagogues, and ... ...ty declined to receive her again, Philippa would convey her to a school at Baden-Baden. And Dora declared she was glad! There was none of the angry re...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again. ‘Good! W e must not disguise from you, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps, ‘that there is a want of power in ... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...t-time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the... ...man to be married to this man?”’ Cousin Feenix does that. He has come from Baden-Baden on purpose. ‘Confound it,’ Cousin Feenix says—good-na- tured cr... ... subjoined a western list, com- prising Cousin Feenix, not yet returned to Baden-Baden, greatly to the detriment of his personal estate; and a variety... ...n town, who waits upon Cousin Feenix (not yet able to make up his mind for Baden-Baden), who has just received it too. A good- natured creature like C...

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...him into animation, and ever and anon chasing her little dog to extract it from be- tween his teeth. Suddenly she became aware of the presence of a sp... ...said, not without hesitation—’You have not heard when to expect your party from Madeira?’ ‘You know we cannot hear again. They were to sail by the nex... ...e’—stammered Mr. Wingfield. ‘Well,’—she said, haughtily. ‘Here is a letter from my cousin, who has a curacy in the Lake country. Your brother is at Wr... ... as he is, so fastidious about women! And yet this letter spoke decidedly. People talk of love! and Arthur is so easy, he would let himself be drawn o... ...not think how she was kept in such unconsciousness.’ ‘She knows nothing of people’s ways,’ said Arthur. ‘She knew you were all abroad, and her own fam... ...undoing my own trunk.’ ‘No, no,’ said he, much diverted; ‘she never thinks people can help themselves. She was brought up to be worshipped. Those are ... ...his aunt that her tour in Germany would not be complete without a visit to Baden-Baden. Mrs. Delaval and Lady Martindale im- mediately began to be as ...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...is uncle’s courier, Mr. Kirsch, and having only peeped into a play-room at Baden-Baden when he hung on Dobbin’s arm, and where, of course, he was not ...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ...where all manner of spouts, jets d’eau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and Baden-Baden, come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. In the title-page...

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...ry Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held ...

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.... W alker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors’ business that had to be done in that pa... ...ave to bring yourself to believe it,’ said John, with- out taking his eyes from his book. ‘A clergyman—and such a clergyman too!’ ‘I don’t see that th... ...se he’s a clergyman. I hate all that kind of clap-trap. There are a lot of people here in Silverbridge who think the matter shouldn’t be followed up, ... ...ng of it,’ said Mary. ‘I daresay it is, my dear.’ ‘ And when one knows the people it does make it so dread- ful.’ ‘But do you know them? I never spoke... ...than she was with her son. While they were thus talking the father came in from his office, and then the sub- ject was dropped. He was a man between f... ...er husband guilty?’ ‘No, indeed. She think him guilty! Nothing on earth—or from heaven either, as I take it, would make her suppose it to be possible.... ...rtunate marriage. It is now something over twelve months since she died at Baden-Baden in her mother’s house. I never saw her since the day we first p... ...ourcy family which had settled 414 The Last Chronicle of Barset itself at Baden-Baden, from the day, and in some respects from before the day, on whi...

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...ard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering....

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...hward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italia... ...ugh these bright, still days of a Tuscan April, drawing much entertainment from the high picturesqueness of the things about him. Siena, a few years s... ...same time had an easy feeling about him which was a tribute to his freedom from pedantry. He was clever indeed, and an excellent companion; but the re... ...have called his own society was more of a stimulus than that of most other people. And yet he was not for this reason fond of soli- tude; he was, on t... ...e had been spending the winter in Dresden, but his letter bore the date of Baden-Baden. As it was not long, I may give it entire. “I wish very much th... ...w amusing. I shall probably be here the rest of the summer. There are some people I know and whom I want you to know. Be so good as to arrive. Then I ... ...omething of his talents. He was almost always spoken of as “accomplished;” people asked why he did n’t do something. This question was never satisfact... ...rdon Wright had betaken himself after dinner, ac- cording to the custom of Baden-Baden, to the grounds of the Conversation-house. It was eight o’clock... ...ovelock. Well, they ‘re awfully handsome. Ella Maclane is dying to come to Baden-Baden. I wish you ‘d write to her. Her father and mother have got som...

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... that his mind was yet untainted; and the little old man, who had wallowed from his youth up in the furious pleasures of a gambler’s life, cast a dull... ... full mea- 5 Balzac sure, but the great number of the actors prevents you from seeing the gambling-demon face to face. The evening is a harmony or ch... ...rchestra contributes his share. Y ou would see there plenty of respectable people who have come in search of diversion, for which they pay as they pay... ...s a great man- sion for his son to inherit prematurely, only to be ejected from it by law proceedings at his own brother’s instance. After all, is the... ...here since 1793. There is something great and terrible about suicide. Most people’s downfalls are not dangerous; they are like children who have not f... ..., lictors, togas with purple fringes; the fighting in the Forum, the angry people, passed in review before him like the cloudy faces of a dream. Then ... ...by his genius lies in the fertile pasture-lands of Germany, at T oplitz or Baden-Baden. If England is not obnoxious to you, its misty climate would re...

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...ad leaves, in which she was accustomed to perform these avocations -hidden from human sight at other times in a table drawer—and went methodically to ... ... a growing scent, Miss T ox said. There was a tiny blink of sun peeping in from the great street round the cor- ner, and the smoky sparrows hopped ove... ...or had re- turned home to his lodgings opposite, and had just bowed to her from his window. What other reason could Miss T ox have for connecting Mr D... ...laim to be considered a person of superior intellect—though I believe some people have been extraordinary enough to con- sider me so; one so little hu... ...and I really don’ t know, as Paul is going to be very grand, and these are people of condition, that she would have been quite presentable, and might ... ...oo seri- ous! Take me downstairs, like an angel, and let us see what these people intend to give us for dinner. Bless you, dear Dombey!’ Cleopatra ski... ...man to be married to this man?”’ Cousin Feenix does that. He has come from Baden-Baden on purpose. ‘Confound it,’ Cousin Feenix says—good-na- tured cr... ... subjoined a western list, com- prising Cousin Feenix, not yet returned to Baden-Baden, greatly to the detriment of his personal estate; and a variety... ...n town, who waits upon Cousin Feenix (not yet able to make up his mind for Baden-Baden), who has just received it too. A good- natured creature like C...