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...y change, except in that mysterious, extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subtle change in the nature of the inspirati... ...hat was interesting was that he would boast of it openly. He used to say: “People think I make a lot of money in this schooner of mine. But that is no... ...lor, disgusted with the sordid meanness of that impenitent thief, deserted from the schooner. The whole episode takes about three pages of his autobio... ... the mere story. A rascal steals a large parcel of a valuable commodity—so people say. It’s either true or untrue; and in any case it has no value in ... ... shadowy Sierra and its misty Campo for mute wit- nesses of events flowing from the passions of men short-sighted in good and evil. Such are in very t... ...mportance. The fortunes of war served him marvellously, and the victory of Rio Seco (after a day of desperate fighting) put a seal to his success. At ... ...n her simple, white frock, almost like a lost child crying in the degraded grandeur of the noble hall, while he stood by her, again perfectly motionle... ...stle-legs to the turbines working the stamps on the lower plateau—the mesa grande of the San Tome mountain. Only the memory of the water- fall, with i... ...g nostrils, the im- becile and domineering stare of the glorious victor of Rio Seco had in them something ominous and in- credible; the exaggeration o...

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...ying. “It rots the wood, Bessie my girl,” the captain would remark mildly, from his side of the fence, each time he saw her exer- cising that privileg... ...ain Hagberd’s upright, hale person, clad in No. 1 sail- 4 To-morrow cloth from head to foot, would be emer-ging knee-deep out of rank grass and the t... ...i- dence, visiting all the inns and alehouses for miles around, stop- ping people on the road with his questions, looking into the very ditches almost... ... a boy of fourteen or so—”a clever-look- ing, high-spirited boy.” And when people only smiled at this he would rub his forehead in a confused sort of ... ...e could be laid over with concrete … after to-morrow. “We may just as well do away with the fence. Y ou could have your drying-line out, quite clear o... ...Her argumentation would puzzle him and cast him down for a time. “They all do it,” he pointed out. There was a whole column devoted to appeals after m... ...….” He hummed a snatch very low, leaning against the wall. Oh, ho, ho Rio! And fare thee well, My bonnie young girl, We’re bou... ... And fare thee well, My bonnie young girl, We’re bound to Rio Grande “Capstan song,” he explained. Her teeth chat-tered. “Y ou are co... ... And fare thee well, My bonnie young girl, We’re bound to Rio Grande “Capstan song,” he explained. Her teeth chat-tered. “Y ou are cold,”...

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...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...have little doubt that it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...ted, or any of those who followed him, Rios, Pellicer, or Navarrete, could do was to eke out the few allusions Cervantes makes to him- self in his var... ...t possibly be found. Navarrete has done all that industry and acumen could do, and it is no fault of his if he has not given us what we want. What Hal... ...r Excellency’s glamorous name, to whom, with the obei- sance I owe to such grandeur, I pray to receive it agreeably under his protection, so that in t... ... serve thee.’ This Duke Ricardo, as you, sirs, probably know already, is a grandee of Spain who has his seat in the best part of this Andalusia. I too...

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...RYSTE YSTE YSTE YSTE YSTE One single flash of glad surprise Just glanced from Isabel’s dark eyes, Then vanished in the blush of shame That as its ... ...t likely to dissent. Next they had to make their conquest available. Apart from Louis’s magnificent prognostications, at the lowest compu- tation, the... ...e back.’ ‘I don’t stir till I have heard the state of the case.’ ‘Yes, you do; for all the sportsmen will be coming home, and my aunt would not for al... ...d found something at which you could not grumble.’ ‘How does she look? How do they treat her?’ ‘Apparently they have not yet fed her on bread and wate... ... point abruptly. ‘In short, Isabel, my dear, what can you have done to set people saying that you have been corresponding with the young men at Ebbscr... ...y dear, you may mean, very rightly -I am sure you do, but you must not set people talking! It is not acting rightly by me, Isabel; but I would not car... ...ing in his devotion of a lifetime to redeem his mother’s fortunes, but the grandeur was not easily visible in the detail. He came down on Dynevor Ter-... ...hurt you,’ said James, smiling. ‘Ah! Jemmy, you didn’t know me as a county grandee,’ she said, with a bright sad look, ‘when your poor grandpapa used ... ...e V olume II of business he had engaged a new assistant, who had come from Rio as servant to a traveller. She had sometimes heard Robson speak in prai...

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...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...carefully with the original will have little doubt that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...ted, or any of those who followed him, Rios, Pellicer, or Navarrete, could do was to eke out the few allusions Cervantes makes to him- self in his var... ...t possibly be found. Navarrete has done all that industry and acumen could do, and it is no fault of his if he has not given us what we want. What Hal... ...whom, with the obei- 45 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. sance I owe to such grandeur, I pray to receive it agreeably under his protection, so that in t... ... serve thee.’ This Duke Ricardo, as you, sirs, probably know already, is a grandee of Spain who has his seat in the best part of this Andalusia. I too...

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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... ...nd En- glish at that; we’ll be having ‘em in March if things go on as they do go. 8 The War in the Air I never see such Times. See his tie last night... ...pped!” Few of them anticipated a tithe of what the Brennan mono-rail would do for their railway securities and the face of the world. In a few, years ... ...Abraham Lin- coln, two powerful and entirely modern ships, were already at Rio Grande, on the Pacific side of the canal. His manoeu- vre was, however,... ...ham Lin- coln, two powerful and entirely modern ships, were already at Rio Grande, on the Pacific side of the canal. His manoeu- vre was, however, del... ...y short of food once more when they fell in with a petrol-driven ship from Rio to Cardiff, shorthanded by reason of the Purple Death and glad to take ...

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...an stay till a quarter-past three.” “Then come and take off your things. I do not know when I have been so glad!” “Do the girls know?” asked Miss Pres... ... books stood near the fire. “They know something; Kate Bell heard a report from her cousins, and they have been watching anxiously for news from you.”... ...l, their expectations will have a fall, poor dears!” “And it does not come from their side of the family,” said Mrs. Best. “Of course not! And it was ... ... And these last holidays! What should the newly-come little one from India do, but catch a fever in the Red Sea, and I had to keep guard over the brot... ...d I don’t believe it was infectious after all! Still, I am tired of ‘other people’s stairs.’” “It is nearly five years since you have been with them, ... ...at, I could not—I did not know whether their lives would not lie among our people here.” “Dear Sophy, don’t concern yourself. I am quite certain you w... ...,” said Agatha, “there will be an embargo on all ac- quaintance except the grandees at Clipstone.” “I shall never drop old friends,” cried V era. “I a... ...because Will doesn’t like my friends, and Magdalen is altogether gone upon grandees.” “Fancy!” was all that Phyllis managed to say. “She doesn’t want ... ...lided home; and Gillian accepted the arrangements, which would take her to Rio, “as much a matter of course,” said her aunt, “as if she had been a wif...

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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... ... for saying an unkind word to her, were any persons hard-hearted enough to do so—why, so much the worse for them. Even Miss Pinkerton, that aus- tere ... ...ley was exceedingly alarmed at this act of insubordination. “How could you do so, Rebecca?” at last she said, after a pause. “Why, do you think Miss P... ...ustomers: and Rawdon abused the dinners and wine with an audacity which no grandee in the land could surpass. Long custom, a manly appearance, faultle... ...ne carriage and fine horses and sat at the head of a table loaded with the grandest plate. She had a cheque-book, a prize foot- man to follow her when... ...azil,” said one gossip to another, with a grin—”Brazil is St. John’s Wood. Rio de Janeiro is a cottage surrounded by four walls, and George Gaunt is a...

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...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ...ost-boys will strike you, Mr. Beltham, as it does me. Nevertheless, I must do it; I have no resource. Owing to a rascal of the genus, incontinent in l... ...aid, ‘My wife deranged! I might presume it too truly an inherited disease. Do you trifle with me, sir? Her reason unseated! and can you pretend to the... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...s merely appetite that induced me to choose him; I never could imag- ine a grandeur in his office, notwithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruli... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ... when I had forgotten that of all the others. CHAPTER IV I HAVE A TASTE OF GRANDEUR THOUGH I HAD NOT previously seen a postillion in my life, I gazed ... ...‘So you’ve got a valentine,’ the captain addressed me. ‘I went on shore at Rio last year on this very day of the month, just as lively as you youngste...

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... that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died ... ...story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that “abominable adventure” did really happen... ...cer- tain strictures upon “the gentleman with the gun on his back” which I do not intend to make accessible to the public. Yet the gun episode did rea... ...n the growth of political hatred. And, as is usual in war, the mass of the people, who had the least to gain by the issue, suffered most in their ob- ... ...ice at his back. It was indeed strange that Gaspar Ruiz should desert. His people were in too humble a station to feel much the disad- vantages of any... ...nimals, Gaspar Ruiz went away with them, having been invited pressingly to do so by the eloquent officer. Shortly afterwards a detachment of Royali... ... A Set of Six “AFTER THIS—as he called it—act of justice, Ruiz crossed the Rio Blanco, followed by the greater part of his band, and entrenched himsel... ...16 A Set of Six generosity this unreasonable being—a fellow-soldier of the Grande Armée, a companion in the wonders and terrors of the great military ...

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...at one does cease to be a girl.? ?Only try it on, Rachel dear, she will be pleased to see you in it.? ?Oh yes, I will bedizen myself to oblige her. I do assure you I am not ungrateful. It is beautiful in itself, and shows how well nature can be imitated; but it is meant for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.?...

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...pleased to see you in it.” “Oh yes, I will bedizen myself to oblige her. I do assure you I am not ungrateful. It is beautiful in itself, and shows how... ...uite young girls now,” said Grace, half perplexed, half annoyed. “Exactly, from this moment we are established as the 4 The Clever Woman of the Famil... ...other white muslin.” “I have done with white muslin,” said Rachel, rousing from her reverie. “It is an affectation of girlish simplicity not be- comin... ...estioning and perplexed. “I was thinking,” said Grace, “that I believe the people at the Cliff Cottages are going away, and that Miss Williams might b... ...iving in state here,” said Rachel; “I never could enter into the cult some people, mamma especially, pay to their drawing-room.” The Major used to be ... ...Mackarel Lane, when she was stayed by the words, “My little girl!” and the grandest and most bearded gentleman she had ever seen, demanded, “Can you t... ...ned by the outline whether granite, gneiss, limestone, or slate formed the grander height beyond, thus leading to schemes of more distant rides to ver... ...nnocent me, as if I could help people’s folly, or as if he was not gone to Rio Janeiro,” exclaimed Bessie, with a sort of meek simplicity and unconsci... ...e same plea- sure in any one’s attentions, and I believe he is gone out to Rio in hopes of earning means to justify his addresses.” Colonel Keith sat ...

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...enchantment to one of those evenings which are rest after seeing Rome. You do not know, perhaps, that most of our professors live on Germany, on Engla... ...and, like the insect, become an integral part of it, borrowing their merit from that of what they feed on. Now, Italy hith- erto has not yet been work... ...ict every form that can serve as a garb to mind. Most human quarrels arise from the fact that both wise men and dunces exist who are so constituted as... ... of the ill-concealed evi- dence of the most cruel misery there is—that of people in decent society? I have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so ... ...other Eve received from the hand of God, the form of an Empress, an air of grandeur, and an august line of profile, with her rural modesty, made every... ...urg, adored the Emperor Na- poleon and everything that had to do with the /Grande Armee/. Andre and Johann spoke with respect of Commis- sary Hulot, t... ...oted, too, that she was gifted with great good sense—the good sense of the people, which made her education sound. In 26 Cousin Betty society she spo... ...t unlike Lisbeth’s—too well not to quake as she thought of this Othello of Rio de Janeiro. As the carriage drove up, Steinbock released Valerie, for h... ... “So thought I,” said Montes, “since I sold all my land and possessions at Rio to come back to Madame Marneffe.” “A man does not make such a voyage fo...

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...y 18, 1843. DEAR SPEED:—Yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a “bore,” but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the b... ...either Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matte... ...ey and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard from lately enough for 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two me to s... ...ood to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. On the other hand, I never could very clearly see ... ...nt of Mexico. Third. Whether that spot is or is not within a settlement of people, which settlement has existed ever since long 21 The Writings of Ab... ... or is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the no... ...is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north ... ...ound that the true western boundary of Texas is the Nueces, instead of the Rio Grande; and that, therefore, in marching our army to the east bank of t... ... that the true western boundary of Texas is the Nueces, instead of the Rio Grande; and that, therefore, in marching our army to the east bank of the l...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ...sing themselves and passing on, And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much? We dwell a while in every ... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ...himself is, and how certain the future is. I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion, Otherwise there is just ... ...States must be their religion, Otherwise there is just no real and permanent grandeur; (Nor character nor life worthy the name without religion, Nor l... ...aples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama. 5 I see the tracks of the railroads of the eart... ...the coasts of Florida, Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, Leaves ...

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... Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my... ...o him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Capta... ...THE BEAGLE CHAPTER I ST. JAGO — CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS Porto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-... ...glish landscape, the novel as- pect of an utterly sterile land possesses a grandeur which more vegetation might spoil. A single green leaf can scarcel... ...rything appeared to prosper well, excepting, in- deed, that which ought to do so most — its inhabit- ants. The black children, completely naked, and l... ...ar water. It happened to be a grand feast-day, and the village was full of people. On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls... ...st falls in such quantities as to dirty every- thing on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the... ...nimals is invariably found in a certain part of the Arctic Sea. CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evapor... ... coast of Brazil. M. Gay* has stated that he found in the neighbourhood of Rio, shells of the marine genera solen and mytilus, and fresh wa- ter ampul...

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... long ago as October 7. Against Cummings both private and official advices from Paris state that there is no charge what- ever. He has been subjected ... ... has made among the French soldiers, that even while suffer- ing in health from his unjust confinement, he excuses the ingratitude of the country he h... ...ever laid upon any man. But I have another reason for asking this favor. I do not speak for my son alone; or for him and his friend alone. My son has ... ... been needlessly kept in Hell as many weeks as my boy’s mother has—I would do something to make American citizenship as sacred in the eyes of French- ... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ...e, vraiment; elle n’est fas comme moi, un pet-it homme laide, ma femme est grande et belle, elle sait bien lire et é-crire, vraiment; et notre fils … ... ...ning for- ward with jaw protruding and a oneness of bristly eyebrows, “Ces grande messieurs qui ne foutent ‘pas mal si l’on CREVE de faim, savez-vous ... ...nish); for The Fighting Sheeney had made his home for a number of years in Rio, and his opinion thereof may be loosely translated by the expressive ph...

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... narrative to the public. I had several reasons, however, for declining to do so, some of which were of a nature altogether private, and concern no pe... ...of the time in which I was absent, I feared I should not be able to write, from mere memory, a statement so minute and con- nected as to have the appe... ...ertheless, 5 V olume Three one of the principal causes which prevented me from comply- ing with the suggestions of my advisers. Among those gentlemen... ...e to share my dreary solitude, and render me comfort by his caresses. Most people love their dogs—but for Tiger I had an affection far more ardent tha... ...nity of speaking with him privately. CHAPTER 7 JUL Y 10. Spoke a brig from Rio, bound to Norfolk. Weather hazy, with a light baffling wind from the ea... ... or any thing of that kind; but windmills, ships, large birds, bal- loons, people on horseback, carriages driving furiously, and similar moving object... ... off the wreck by the Fame, of Hull, Captain Featherstone, bound home from Rio Janeiro. When picked up, they were in latitude 28 degrees N., longitude... ...ldest and least frequented portions of fair England. The gloomy and dreary grandeur of the building, the almost savage aspect of the domain, the many ... ...Monsieur Croissart, and den again, 218 Poe in Five V olumes my daughter’s grande daughter, Mademoiselle Croissart, she marry von Monsieur Froissart; ...

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...requently urged by friends to write my mem- oirs I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-tw... ...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...repub- lic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the south and east t... ...b- lic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the south and east to th... ...er- cised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Mexico had never recognized the inde- pendence of Texas, and ma... ...cised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Mexico had never recognized the inde- pendence of Texas, and mainta...