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... to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I can touch it from point to point; for the thread, as I call it, is a row of colored beads on a string. None of the beads are missing--at least I think they?re not: that?s exactly what I shall amuse myself with finding out....

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...ndeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I c... ...ing—at least I think they’re not: that’s exactly what I shall amuse myself with finding out. I had been all summer working hard in town and then had g... ... I had been all summer working hard in town and then had gone down to Folkestone for a blow. Art was long, I felt, and my holiday short; my mother was... ... my palette, I sniffed up the clean salt air and cooled my eyes with the purple sea. The place was full of lodgings, and the lodgings were at that sea... ... and free gestures, made it flutter in the breeze as if it had been the flag of her country. It consisted mainly of a big red face, indescribably out ... ...l more affected when I saw the face, at the sight of my companion, open like a win- dow thrown wide. A smile fluttered out of it an brightly as a drap... ...her com- panions, gazed at her and grinned: I could see there were very few moments of the day at which young men, these or others, would not be so oc... ...on with her escort she herself bequeathed me a sense that some such RAPPROCHEMENT might still occur. Was this by reason of the general frequency of en... ...er, Mrs. Hammond Synge, the sister-in-law of one of the young men I had just seen. She had lots of friends, but none of them nice: she kept picking up...

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... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...

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...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...ich I believe was the voice of Professor Redwood, and there was a sizzling from the lantern and another sound that kept me there, still out of curiosi... ...s not under- stand it either. But really you know many of these scientific people understand the meaning of their own papers quite well: it is simply ... ... it, because as a general rule I do not think it is at all interesting for people to tell each other about their dreams. By a singular coincidence Red... ...e from the weekly storm of cleaning she would not forego. And having known people addicted to drink, she re- garded his solicitude for distinction in ... ...elieving it infinitely better…. It was only as the train rattled them past Folkestone that he could look out beyond his more immediate emotions, to se...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them. Things written either live or die; unless it be for a pla... ...parent enough. Professor Gibberne, as many people know, is my neighbour in Folkestone. Unless my memory plays me a trick, his por- trait at various ag... ...ge. Of course, the greater portion of his experimental work is not done in Folkestone, but in Gower Street, in the fine new laboratory next to the hos... ...eality in the world. I met him as I was going up the Sandgate Hill towards Folkestone—I think I was going to get my hair cut, and he came hurrying dow...

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... to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggr... ...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches things from Mr. Stephen Gra- ham in the Dark Forest of Russia. All this is quite o... ...olved that Italy shall not feel neglected by the refusal of the invitation from the Comando Supremo by anyone who from the perspective of Italy may se... ...ld is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts of people, this desire to exhibit the business, to get something in the way of... ...ieste away along the coast to my right. It looked scarcely as dis- tant as Folkestone from Dungeness. The Italian advanced line is indeed scarcely ten...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between p...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...to the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I wer... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I to do? If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? What am I ... ...tsey lived near Dover, but whether at Dover itself, at Hythe, Sandgate, or Folkestone, she could not say. One of our men, however, informing me on my ...

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... questions, give difficult change and, more than anything else, count words as numberless as the sands of the sea, the words of the telegrams thrust, from morning to night, through the gap left in the high lattice, across the encumbered shelf that her forearm ached with rubbing. This transparent screen fenced out or fenced in, according to the side of the narrow counter on...

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...is Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James In the Cage... ...s, answer stupid questions, give difficult change and, more than anything else, count words as numberless as the sands of the sea, the words of the te... ...fluids that she came to know perfectly by their smells without consenting to know them by their names. The barrier that divided the little post-and-te... ... in the grey, fitful needs to notice and to “care,” odd ca- prices of curiosity. She had a friend who had invented a new career for women—that of bein... ...were, in fantastic places, in happy homes, as usual as the coals or the daily papers. She took charge of them, at any rate, in all the rooms, at so mu... ...dealt with it good-humouredly, just because she knew so well what to think of it. It was at once one of her most cher- ished complaints and most secre... ...es which struck her as huge, and the matter of the number of beds required, which was not less portentous: this in reference to places of which the na...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A cri...

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...ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have th... ...that this novel has to tell. She had a compartment to herself in the train from Lon- don to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the se... ...ore them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was... ...id to herself… . Morningside Park was a suburb that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It consisted, like pre-Roman Gaul, of three parts. Th... ...about her seemed to be—how can one put it? —in wrappers, like a house when people leave it in the summer. The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept... ...ng subsidiary devel- opments, such as flirtation and “being interested” in people of the opposite sex. She approached this field with her usual liveli... ...ther handbag, in the afternoon- boat train that goes from Charing Cross to Folkestone for Boulogne. They tried to read illustrated papers in an uncon-...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...on of people with hand baggage and laden porters along the platform of the Folkestone pier, the scarcely per- ceptible swaying of the moored boat bene...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...ng sea, and at the great mono- rail bridge that straddled the Channel from Folkestone to Boulogne, until at last, first little wisps and then a veil o...

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...ee what you can do for me,” he said. “I’m sure I don’t,” said the doctor. “People come here and talk.” There was something reassuringly inaggressive a... ... with his hands in his trouser pockets, seemed intent only on disavowals. “People come here and talk. It does them good, and sometimes I am able to of... ...afford to have you ill.” “I am ill. But you can’t afford to have me absent from that Commission.” “Your technical knowledge—” “Technical knowledge be ... ... far. Everything short and running shorter—food, fuel, material. But these people go on. They go on as though nothing had changed…. Strikes, Russia, n... ...t feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They hide all their troubles from the road. Their backyards are tucked away out of sight, they show a br... ... well as far as it goes. But it does not cover my case. I am not suffering from inadaptation. I have adapted. I have thought things out. I think—much ... ... days before the automobile had made the Marsh accessible to the Hythe and Folkestone crowds, it was a little old forgotten silent wind-bitten village...

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...e mumble and the nasty chin—how can a man contrive to be always three days from shaving?— and a sort of furtive air of being en- gaged in sneaking in ... ...It seems he has some brilliant research on hand that he suspects me of all people—with a Bodley Booklet a-printing!—of stealing. He has taken remarkab... ...ch should be at choice ei- ther heavier or lighter than air. He took hints from the con- tractile bladders of fish and the pneumatic cavities of birds... ...een en- 8 Twelve Stories and a Dream tirely dependent on his small income from this source— making misdirected attempts to assure a quite indifferent... ... orders and two lady cyclists seem almost to complete the list of educated people. There were two reporters present, one representing a Folkestone pap... ...t of educated people. There were two reporters present, one representing a Folkestone paper and the other being a fourth-class inter- viewer and “symp... ...ne as much as could be expected of her. But she said a great deal to other people. And at last, without any undue haste or unseemliness, the day dawne... ...parent enough. Professor Gibberne, as many people know, is my neighbour in Folkestone. Unless my memory plays me a trick, his por- trait at various ag... ...ge. Of course, the greater portion of his experimental work is not done in Folkestone, but in Gower Street, in the fine new laboratory next to the hos...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...edings; it has been his busi ness to write to all sorts and conditions of people, in the names of persons of high reputation and unblemished honour, ... ...ng darkness, pale fitful streaks of light appear. I am still flying on for Folkestone. The streaks grow stronger—become continuous—become the ghost of... ...d with flapping crows flying over it whom we soon outfly, now the Sea, now Folkestone at a quarter after ten. ‘Tickets ready, gentlemen!’ Demented das... ...ance upon us, flying thus to Paris in eleven hours. The first gentleman in Folkestone is evidently used up, on this subject. Meanwhile, Demented chafe...

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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 ... ...on him.’ He ceased his reflections, to enter the steamer just starting for Folkestone, and was soon standing on deck, keeping guard over his luggage. ... ...r for Arthur’s comfort, 472 Heartsease and when he helped him on shore at Folkestone, recom- mended him to go to bed at once, and offered to fetch Mr... ...s, mused, then exclaimed, ‘That being the case, I had better go at once to Folkestone, and rescue my bag from the jaws of the Custom-house.’ CHAPTER 9...

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...“UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE. Please don’t come till thirtieth. Anna.” All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had ham- mered the words of the teleg... ...m like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind-swept platform ... ... wind-swept platform and the angry sea beyond, they leapt out at him as if from the crest of the waves, stung and blinded him with a fresh fury of der... ...obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts. It was as though all the people about him had taken his measure and known his plight; as though they... ...ething else: the music, or the cook—when there was a good one—or the other people; generally ONE of the other people.” “I see.” She was amusing, and t... ...atalism oddly untinged by bitterness. Darrow perceived that she classified people according to their greater or less “luck” in life, but she appeared ... ...gedy, an elderly French gentleman who, on the strength of a week’s stay at Folkestone, translated English fiction for the provincial press, a lady fro...

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...ely and some years older, came into the room. ‘No, it is not Reggie. It is from Lily. Poor Lily! Jasper— accident—Come.’ ‘Poor dear Lily! Is it young ... ...s old Jasper, we shall see in the paper to-day. I will send it down to you from the station. Supposing it is Sir Jasper, and she wants to go out to hi... ...t. 3rd. ‘Lieutenant-General Sir Jasper Merrifield, G.C.B., has been thrown from his horse, and received severe injuries.’ She despatched this paper to... ...aiting to hear more?’ ‘There is no use in losing time. I cannot cross from Folkestone till the day after to-morrow, at night. I must go to London to-m... ...of them; and lords and ladies aren’t a bit better to play with than, other people. In fact, Ivy is what Japs calls a muff and a stick.’ 14 Charlotte ... ...nd of anxieties that have ended happily, only a crowd of examples of other people’s misfor- tunes. The difference is in the greater elasticity and pow... ... marble works, which went on on the other side of the promontory, and some people said would one day con- sume Rockstone altogether. It was a very fin...

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...up, only paling while the sun glaring blazes in the sky; mine own, he that from afar drives the stars in Charles’s Wain. There they come, the good old... ...ing treacherously marshy ground in which it was easy to sink. The cry came from the further side, where a mountain stream had force enough to struggle... ... stepping-stones across the brook, which the boy knew, and he made his way from one to the other, calling out cheerily to the little figure that he be... ...bove,’ he added to himself. By this time it was too dark for the two young people to see more than dim shapes of one another, but the boy knew that th... ...s grim air and manner that hindered any conversation between the two young people. Only Hal from time to time gathered a flower for the young lady, sc... ... and wood were by no means clear of the remnants of the contending armies, people who were generally of the party opposite to that which they intended... ...iting the shrine of St. Mildred in the isle of Thanet, and St. Eanswith at Folkestone, till Lent had begun, and the first fresh tidings that they met ...

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...’ burst forth the merry voice of the young- est, ‘you must see our letters from Edinburgh.’ ‘You have heard, then? It was the very thing I came to ask... ...orge had often driven my father out,’ said Aubrey, again looking lazily up from bal- ancing his spoon. Ethel laughed; and even Richard smiled; then re... ...rs’ respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had b... ... the maiden’s affection or her father’s consent; but both had been implied from the first. The bride- groom was barely of age, the bride not seventeen... ...Trial it a wholesome one, because it is so visible and unjustifiable, that people strive against it. And the rest? Was Henry able to see his father or... ...0.’ ‘There are some Axworthys still,’ said Ethel, ‘but not very creditable people.’ ‘You may say that,’ said Dr. May emphatically. ‘There was a scapeg... ...house in town. Landlord had a writ served on S. A.; as he was embarking at Folkestone, he took out the draft and paid. He knew its import, if Bramshaw...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...e irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by bu... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...go since Sir Hiram Maxim made the first machine that could lift its weight from the ground, and I well remember how the clumsy quality of that success... ...ve some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for scien...

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...t Charing Cross to see Lilia off-- Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernab...

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...self. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise ... ...bott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to bre... ...a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.” “How I wish you were coming, Phi... ...journey—the Campanile of Airolo, which would burst on her when she emerged from the St. Gothard tunnel, presaging the future; the view of the Ticino a... ...was spasmodic and subdued. They wondered whether the travellers had got to Folkestone, whether it would be at all rough, and if so what would happen t... ...ly. “I and Caroline Abbott had the greatest difficulty in dis- suading her from the Riviera.” “No, Mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This trav... ...really keen, for the hotel’s none too com- fortable.” “I cannot understand people,” said Harriet. “What can they be doing all day? And there is no chu...

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...neral theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...e in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very conside... ...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...o the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy now, I am afraid many people will choose to understand that I refer to what is often spoken of as... ...tury person would have understood locality. Take for example Guildford, or Folkestone, and you will find that possibly even more than half the wealth ... ...ion of their profits from the custom of the inhab- itants. You find too in Folkestone, as in most seaside places, a great number of secondary schools,... ...xcursionist, and which—the only word is interdigitates—with the borough of Folkestone, the Urban District of Cheriton, and the borough of Hythe. Each ...

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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... ...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... ...d. “On the other hand, I don’t envy you a breathless journey from Baden to Folkestone.” “It ‘s the coming back that will be breathless,” exclaimed Gor...

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...Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can?t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room befo...

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...sles last and worst, and they don’t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers’ daughters, and has no home at all, and they m... ... her with them, for their sister has chil- dren, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish ... ...sense in the family. Joe and his mother did like to feel a plan quite free from Robert’s condemnation for enthusiasm or impracticability, and it was n... ... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...her for long drives, shown her everything, introduced her to quantities of people; but, oh dear! was it absolutely only three weeks since she had been... ...ey lived upon those acrostics in their trav- elling bags till they reached Folkestone, and had grown inti- mate over them. Sir James looked after the ...

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...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...rama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you want? Owing to your unfortunate habit—you no... ...out of date for you and for me; and if there are millions of less literate people who are still in the eighteenth century, have they not Moliere and M... ... industrial north, but the prosperity of the Isle of Wight, 20 GB Shaw of Folkestone and Ramsgate, of Nice and Monte Carlo. That is the only prosperi... ...ilway and hotel companies which sell you a Satur- day to Monday of life at Folkestone as a real gentleman for two guineas, first class fares both ways... ... to your rooms for your kit; then break the record from London to Dover or Folkestone; then across the chan- nel and away like mad to Marseilles, Gibr...

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...THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin, claiming to come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap Philip of St. Melans, are foun... ... settled in the county of Kent. Persons of strong genealogical pinion pass from William Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary ‘John... .... Persons of strong genealogical pinion pass from William Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary ‘John Jenkin, of the Citie of York,... ... for the present, that these Kentish Jenkins must have undoubtedly derived from Wales, and being a stock of some efficiency, they struck root and grew... ... the fact that not only was William Jenkin (as already mentioned) Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, but no less than twenty-three times in the succeeding c... ...is mother, his unmarried sister, and his sick brother John. Out of the six people of whom his nearest family consisted, three were in his own house, a... ...nder the great spreading chestnuts of the old fore court,’ where the young people danced and made merry to the music of the village band. Or perhaps, ... ...to have ‘bump- tious notions,’ and his head was ‘somewhat turned with fine people’; as to some extent it remained throughout his inno- cent and honour...

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...cken and gorse, and won- derful cloud pictures. The glass pavilion springs from a bridgelike arch in the wall of the house, through which one comes in... ...of him. Bentley Summerhays, one of those smallish, thinskinned youths, who from 17 to 70 retain unaltered the mental airs of the later and the physica... ...llo! Wheres your luggage? BENTLEY. I left it at the station. Ive walked up from Haslemere. [He goes to the hat stand and hangs up his hat]. JOHNNY [sh... ...her’s views about corporal punishment being wrong. It’s necessary for some people; and I’d have tried it on you until you first learnt to howl and the... ..., getting away from your own serious business to amuse yourself with other people’s. Mind: I dont say there isnt another side to it. It has its value ... ...f it had been children’s insides: we have to talk about them. But grown-up people! I was glad to get away that time. HYPATIA. There was a physiology a... ...ays last August. TARLETON. What did you do? THE MAN. I did a cheap trip to Folkestone. I spent sevenpence on dropping pennies into silly automatic ma-...