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...at of 10 Sons of the Soil this Limagne in which I stand? Belonging to the estate, about which there is nothing too princely, nor yet too financial, w... ...f the place, Les Aigues, comes from these charm- ing streams of water; the estate was originally called in the old title-deeds “Les Aigues-Vives” to d... ..., ri- valries, financiers, follies, luxuries, their paste jewels and their real diamonds, their heeled slippers and their rouge,—all, for the sweetnes... ..., and called herself Madame des Aigues, as if to merge her identity in the estate, which she delighted to improve with a taste that was profoundly art... ... quakers or to the honorable guild of carpen- ters or taxidermists. If one really had, like the owners of es- tates, to live in the country, it would ... ...m which were daily forgotten the next morning. Above Les Aigues the Avonne really had the ap- pearance of an alpine torrent. Sometimes it hollowed a b... ...under water. I’m certain it jumped there; see! see! there, where the water bubbles! Ha! it sees a fish, it is after that! But my boy will grab it as i... ...rom the other side of the water Mouche pointed his fin- ger to certain air-bubbles coming up from the bottom of the Avonne and bursting on its surface...

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... happy phrase, ‘a gentlemanly residence.’ For it was, he declared, a small estate. There was a lodge to it, resembling two sentry-boxes forced into un... ... the place, as the General said, an ideal English home. The compass of the estate was half an acre, and perhaps a perch or two, just the size for the ... ...yet it was curiously varied with lamentations over the weakness of women. ‘Really she cannot possibly be an ex- ample of that,’ said the General, thin... ...yed in the reflective utterance—’It only shows, my dear, how different the reality is from our anticipation of it!’ Lady Camper had been charming; ful... ...they were dealing with a very extraordi- nary woman; ‘highly accomplished, really exceedingly hand- some,’ he said to himself, aloud. The reasons were... ...erson she was, according to General Ople’s version of the interview on his estate, when he stood before her in his gardening costume, she put him at h... ...tering domes, which, in the succeeding near view, proved to have been soap-bubbles, for a place of extreme flatness, begirt with crazy old-fashioned f...

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... the possible and improbable adven- tures of each new day. He escaped from reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of ... ...ow that there was no more escape, but he lay and detested the grind of the real-estate busi- ness, and disliked his family, and disliked himself for d... ...at there was no more escape, but he lay and detested the grind of the real-estate busi- ness, and disliked his family, and disliked himself for dis- l... ...ream sodas. Babbitt did not show his vague irritation as he tramped in. He really dis- liked being a family tyrant, and his nagging was as mean- ingle... ...ttitude, but neither as a Republi- can, a Presbyterian, an Elk, nor a real-estate broker did he have any doctrine about preacher-mayors laid down for ... ... of this!” Mrs. Babbitt was strangely unmoved by the tidings from the Real Estate and Building column of the Advocate- Times: Ashtabula Street, 496... ...legs against the radiance on the bottom of the tub, the shadows of the air-bubbles clinging to the hairs were reproduced as strange jungle mosses. He ...

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...ched him out like a carpet for dusting. Miss Vincent exclaimed that it was really strange, now, he should speak of Lord Ormont, for she had been speak... ...ked unbeaten more. Her look at him fed the school on thoughts of what love really is, when it is not fished out of books and poetry. For though she wa... ...th 16 Lord Ormont and His Aminta you this minute. That sign of courage in real danger ennobled her among girls. The name Browny was put aside for a r... ...is heart to keep away from a six months’ rest at Steignton,” his Wiltshire estate. No woman was in the field. Lady Charlotte could have 28 Lord Ormon... ... insomuch as to have 44 Lord Ormont and His Aminta given up living on his estate—the old home!—because he would not disgrace it or incur odium by tak... ...and book to verify distances and attempt a scale of heights, take names of estates, farms, parishes, commons, patches of woodland. Weyburn wrote his f... ...d on to me.’ ‘Matey, I’m for a dive.’ He went after the ball of silver and bubbles, and they came up together. There is no history of events below the...

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... of Colin Cambell of Glenure, Efq; Factor for His Majefty on the forfeited Estate of Ardfhiel. My husband was always interested in this period of his ... ...tell them, that if they offered to turn out the pos- sessors of Ardshiel’s estate, he would make black cocks of them, before they entered into possess... ...y thoughts up and down, and ever stunned again by a fresh stab of pain, to realise that I must be lying somewhere bound in the belly of that un- lucky... ...u, sir, is forfeited, like every honest man in 54 Kidnapped Scotland. His estate is in the hands of the man they call King George; and it is his offi... ...and I have sat in a heather bush within six feet of another, and learned a real bonny tune from his whistling. This was it,” said he, and whistled me ... ...ut which yet boiled white all over and bristled in the moon with rings and bubbles. Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like the tail of a li... ... worth in that country only a few pence; and, lastly, the knife, which was really a dagger, it was against the law for him to carry. In about half an ...

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..., the lovely Mrs. Warwick, twenty minutes behind the dinner- hour, and r-r-really fearing she was late.’ After alluding to the soft influence of her b... ...tation. Diarists of amusing passages are under an obligation to paint us a realistic revival of the time, or we miss the relish. The odour of the roas... ...the celestial refresh- ment of having a pure decency in the place of sham; real flesh; a soul born active, wind-beaten, but ascending. Honourable will... ...m Lady Dunstane’s guest for some months.’ ‘Then you will. Sir Lukin has an estate in Surrey. He talks of quitting the Service.’ ‘I can’t believe it!’ ... ...kept one secret from her friend. 38 Diana of the Crossways Copsley was an estate of nearly twelve hundred acres, ex- tending across the ridge of the ... ...knew that he had sold out in or- 41 George Meredith der to look after his estates of Copsley and Dunena, sec- ondly: and in the first place, to nurse... ...t, is after all the head of the British giant, and if not the liveliest in bubbles, it is past competition the largest broth-pot of brains anywhere si... ...Redworths.—’They have no sen- sitiveness, we have too much. We are made of bubbles that a wind will burst, and as the wind is always blowing, your pra... ... their extraordinary career in a world either blowing them aloft like soap-bubbles or quietly shelving them as supernumerar- ies. A gentleman—sweet vi...

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...he mountain’s southern brow, Where broad extended, far beneath, The varied realms of fair Menteith. With anxious eye he wandered o’er Mountain and mea... ...her will Ellen Douglas dwell A votaress in Maronnan’s cell; Rather through realms beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spo... ...w: High stood the henchman on the prow; So rapidly the barge-mall row, The bubbles, where they launched the boat, Were all unbroken and afloat, 49 Si... ...- cient Nimrod, who had been completely surprised out of all doubts of the reality of the tale. Another of his remarks gave me less pleasure. He detec... ... 73: “To know my deed, ‘t were best not know myself.” 103. Cambusmore. The estate of a family named Buchanan, whom Scott frequently visited in his you... ...t hon- orable economy by which he repaired and established the shat- tered estates of Angus and Morton (History of the House of Douglas, Edinburgh, 17... ...g. The MS. has “This ring of gold the monarch gave.” 471. Lordship. Landed estates. 473. Reck of. Care for; poetical. 474. Ellen, thy hand. The MS. ha...

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...can life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of the estate had occasion for settlers on a new settlement and in a remote county... ...y taken with the truth in the description of the principal dwell- ing; the real building had no “firstly” and “lastly.” It was of bricks, and not of s... ...nt on his lands, and giving his name to instead of receiv- ing it from his estates as in Europe, is common over the whole of New Y ork. The physician ... ...y. It may be well to say here, a little more explicitly, that there was no real intention to describe with particular accuracy any real characters in ... ...ed him of the remaining companion of his solitude; but still he had enough real regard for his child not to bring her into the comparative wilderness ... ...as particularly partial, the Major gave a complete conveyance of his whole estate, consisting of money in the funds, a town and country residence, sun... ...in. I’ve sat on the shelv- ing rock many a long hour, boy, and watched the bubbles as they shot by me, and thought how long it would be before that ve...

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...and bare in black and grey and rust-red and purple. You behold a burnished realm of mountain and plain beneath the royal sun of Italy. In the foregrou... ...o. Those affirmatives are fat worms for the catching of fish. They are the real pretty fruit of the Hesperides. Personally, you or I may be irritated ... ...ave thought. Y ou must have thought, or whence such a conception? But, you really mistake. It is not the gar- rison whom we desire to put on their gua... ...Meredith fifty to sixty per cent to the Government on the revenue of their estates was sufficient reason for a desire to change mas- ters, positively ... ...f one who has been a prophet, on the day when Giacomo was shot. The larger estates of the Piaveni family, then in Giacomo’s hands, were in a famous ch... ...marble quarry when you cut into it.’ The theme was afflicting, for all the estates of Giacomo were for the time forfeit, and the pleasant agitation pr... ...ossing, the foaming, the burst 285 George Meredith on stones, and silvery bubbles under and silvery canopy above, the chattering and huzzaing; all wo...

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...to take in the middle of the day; and as it seemed to him that Anthony was really about to be seduced into a particular statement of the extent of the... ...ease? Or how? In any case, they might make capital marriages; and the farm estate should go to whichever of the two young husbands he liked the best. ... ...rded excellent accounts to his brother of the behaviour of the heir to his estates. It was his way of rebuking the squire, and in return for it the sq... ...f the two imagined that Algernon was, or would become, his evil genius. In reality, Edward was the perilous companion. He was composed of better stuff... ...ment nourished by them. Edward aspired to become Attorney-General of these realms, not a judge, you observe; for a judge is to the imagination of yout... ...o all the citizens of the farmyard; and so eased her heart of its laughing bubbles. After which, she fell to a meditative walk of demurer joy, and had... ...le lively kindliness. It pleased him that she should bow to him over fresh bubbles; and they went formally through the cer- emony, and she smiled. He ... ...nds to reason for me to prefer a young man for her husband. He’ll farm the estate, and won’t sell it; so that it goes to our blood, if not to a Flemin... .... As he did so, the head of drowned memory rose slowly up through the wine-bubbles in his brain, and he flung out a far thought for relief: “How, if I...

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...to attain; the dream whereof was their prime nourishment. That the Tinleys really were their match, they acknowl- edged, upon the admission of the des... ...eir flesh. It gave them the idea that they saw their features hideous, but real, in a magnifying mirror. There was therefore a feud between the Tinley... ...uitor; but for some reason or other he had apparently fallen from his high estate. To tell the truth, Arabella conceived that he had simply obeyed her... ... arms. The ladies were too deeply impressed to pursue their play with him. Real emotions at once set aside the semi-credence they had given to their o... ...re to him. Giving a semicircular sweep of his arm: “Here you see my little estate, sir,” he said. “You’ve seen plenty bigger in Ger- many, and England... .... A big drum sounded on the confines of the Brookfield 53 George Meredith estate. Soon it was seen entering the precincts at one of the principal gat... ...othin’ cheats ut like champagne,” and she had to put the (to her) nauseous bubbles to her lips. Sir Purcell had not been told of her tribulations, and...

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...nce your hint that a lady’s influence might be found desirable. Come, I am really anxious to be of service to you.” But the old fellow, in his civil a... ...LE II. BLITHEDALE II. BLITHEDALE THERE CAN HARDLY REMAIN for me (who am really getting to be a frosty bachelor, with another white hair, every week... ... as they may be, will possess a value that lurks not in the most ponderous realities of any practicable scheme. They are not the rubbish of the mind. ... ...dore; “her brother is no such fool! Nobody, unless his brain be as full of bubbles as this wine, can seriously think of crediting that ridiculous rumo... ...ibution that would have overtaken an unfriended criminal. The wreck of his estate was divided among his credi tors: His name, in a very brief space, ...

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...ssip- ing curiously among vicious company, or pace the lonely woods of his estate, book in hand, full of bitter meditations. In the evening he returne... ...magina- tion of a Prince. Directly these men turned their thoughts towards realisation, their attitudes became—what shall I call it?—secretarial. Mach... ... its own accord towards irony because—because, although at first I did not realise it, I myself am just as free to be a prince. The appeal was unfair.... ...elling of my own story. In my life I have paralleled very closely the slow realisations that are going on in the world about me. I began life ignoring... ...ad a mind of vigorous appetite, but since I have grown men- tally to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national p... ...hat do you do?” said Esmeer abruptly. “Oh! no end of work. There’s all the estate and looking after things.” “But publicly?” “I asked three questions ... ...e was trying desper- ately and belatedly to blow a brain as one blows soap-bubbles on such a mezoroic saurian as I had conjured up, while the clumsy m...

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...t inland sea, the Bay of San Francisco, there can be few drearier scenes than the Vallejo Ferry. Bald shores and a low, bald islet inclose the sea; th... ...uch words as “tufa” and “scilica” with careless freedom. When I mentioned I was from Scotland, “My old coun- try,” he said; “my old country” – with a ... ...ld of grass and a milkmaid; after which it would have been hardly worth while to pause, and we might have added to our colony a flock of sheep and an ... ...so these dark giants out-top their fellow-vegetables. Alas! if they had left the redwoods, the pines, in turn, would have been dwarfed. But the redwoo... ... either hand by bold projections of the mountain. Only in front the place was open like the proscenium of a theatre, and we looked forth into a 29 ...

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...don’t you see?” Sylvia saw with the eyes of her mind the ruins, though her real eyes saw nothing but two lines, meant to be upright, joined together b... ...o provide that proper care is taken of young heirs and heiresses and their estates, if no one have been ap- pointed by their parents to do so; and it ... ... as she thought. Till that should come to pass, she could not feel herself really a countess. She did not find herself any taller or grander; Charlie ... ...s. She set it all down to what she was wont to call crossness. If Mary had really been a cross or selfish person, all she would have thought of would ... ...thless amaze- ment at the glittering domes of glass, looking like enormous bubbles in the sun. 66 Countess Kate What a morning that was, among the br...

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...secretes friendly girls, young men who sing, and one lady instructress who really likes Milton and Carlyle. So the four years which Carol spent at Blo... ... an optician in St. Paul. She had used most of the money from her father’s estate. She was not in love—that is, not often, nor ever long at a time. Sh... ...eoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet... ... phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet. And... ...t of these towns still put up with plank walks, but not for us, you bet!” “Really?” (Why was she thinking of Stewart Snyder?) “Gopher Prairie is going... ... acre. He was always consulting Julius Flickerbaugh, who handled more real estate than law, and more law than justice. He studied township maps, and r... ... the lawns—” Sam irritably blew the lather from his lips, with milky small bubbles, and snorted, “Be a good thing for most of us roughnecks if we did ...

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...ccupied, at the mo- ment our narrative begins, by the Thuillier family, —a really curious house which deserves the honor of an exact descrip- tion, if... ...and habits of Monsieur Thuillier, determined his sister to the purchase of real estate. She obtained this property for the small sum of forty-six thou... ...abits of Monsieur Thuillier, determined his sister to the purchase of real estate. She obtained this property for the small sum of forty-six thou- san... ...ssing the failure of the hopes she had set upon her idol, she had too much real maternity in her feeling for 12 The Lesser Bourgeoisie him to let her... ... farmer was sold in lots, and brought in thirty thousand francs. Lemprun’s estate had given as much more, so that Madame Thuillier’s fortune, includin... ... brother of the dead uncle, has eleven other children, who live on a small estate called Les Canquoelles. He finally obtained a place on a min- isteri... ...ld say to me, when I went to the shop: ‘Y es, yes, it doesn’t do badly, it bubbles, that book; we shall soon be at the end of this edition.’ I, who di...

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...t sight of her, and he thought, ‘Surely the aspect of this old woman would realise the story of Bhanavar the Beautiful; and it is a story marvellous t... ...s to her as were she speeding constantly downward in darkness to the lower realms of the Genii of the Caucasus, and every sense, and even that of fear... ... pride, an ostrich in fulness of chest, crying, ‘O Noorna bin Noorka! is’t really so? Truly it must be, for the readers of planets were also busy with... ...ns weeping and old men babbling, and youths that were idle youths striking bubbles from the surface of the water. The well is rounded with marble, and... ...d grew unquiet, and came upon a surging foam, pale, and with scintillating bubbles. The surges in- creased in volume, and boiled, hissing as with ange... ...having on each countenance the look of sovereigns and the serenity of high estate. Shibli Bagarag laughed at them, and he thought, ‘Wullahy! was I one...

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...al dignitaries has 6 The Muse of the Department increased so greatly that real statesmen are becoming rare indeed in the lower chamber. In point of f... ...the daughter of a mother who was dependent on the settlement of Piedefer’s estate. Dinah, having raised herself for the moment above her companions, n... ...thou- sand crowns a year, which was as much as she could hope for from the estate of La Hautoy when divided between the mother and daughter, would be ... ...men. I would not give you five per cent on a debt to be recovered from the estate of the late Duc d’Orleans—nor even,” he added in a low voice—”from m... ... peerage as a national insti- tution analogous to the English peerage. T o realize this grand idea we need years—and millions.—Noblesse oblige. The Du... ...ther, nationalized and sold in 1793, by the year 1827 the little man could realize the dream of his whole life. By paying four hundred thousand francs... ...e, gave her a look of elegance; a necklace of pearls lay on her bosom like bubbles on snow. “What is the matter, monsieur?” said the Countess, put- ti...

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... answered the ready-witted domestic. —’Let him be sent for, directly.’ The real shepherd accordingly was brought from the hill, and as there was time ... ...cer parted with Sir Everard, the affectionate old uncle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir. A difference in political opinions had earl... ...ed as Sir Richard W averley of W averley-Honour, suc- cessor to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest... ...is character; his brother’s conduct had wounded these deeply; the Waverley estate was fettered by no entail (for it had never entered into the head of... ...out atten- tion, hitherto exacted from the well governed childhood of this realm. It may, in the meantime, be subject of serious consideration, whethe... ... without much scrutiny, or nicety of discrimination. Throughout this ample realm Ed- ward was permitted to roam at large. His tutor had his own studie... ...d in a large natural basin filled to the brim with water, which, where the bubbles of the fall subsided, was so exquisitely clear, that, although it w...