...nksgivings unto the Lord in the presence of his church, for whom I have undertaken this labour. I desire to thank and praise my God exceedingly, tha... ...rotestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches,... ... that millennial reign of righteousness, for which we all hope and pray, and diligently labour. These three points of doctrine concerning the Gentil... ...ion it, would prove that he was worthy to be employed by God in this ministry and whose labours for the consolation temporal and spiritual of sufferi... ... rather, the word of prophecy gives signal of the event of providence, according to the Scottish proverb, ‘Before wierd there's word.’ And the word ... ... a most wonderful degree: whereof we have such a striking proof and illustration in the Scottish peasantry, whose prayers are beyond comparison the ... ...cation by the works of the law, to rest their argument upon the mosaic law in which the party with whom they reasoned, did repose their trust, I thi... ...art literally, another allegorically, another analogically, and so composing of various party coloured shreds one thing, one whole, of which at last ... ...beginning of the fifth century, a very great multitude of Catholic doctors followed the party of the Millenarians: Whom (he is speaking of Apollinar...

.... As adults we are the objects – often the victims – of the decisions of corrupt politicians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho ... ...fuse an invitation by his boss, gets so nervous that he falls asleep and misses the party). Are these actions and intentions in their classical sens... ...ish to be favoured, or preferred over others. Disparities of money create markets, labour, property, planning, wealth and capital. Mental inequalit... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount... ...s preordained to accommodate sentient beings - namely, us humans. Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently begun paying lip s... ...money and perks that come with it. They are no longer a disinterested and objective party. They have a stake in apocalypse. That makes them automat... ...ria and plants for instance). Why do all extraterrestrial species resemble the Nazi party is beyond me. The Six Arguments against SETI The variou...

... NBER working paper titled "Identifying inflation's grease and sand effects in the labour market", employers - unable to predict tomorrow's wages -... ...ate an artificial universe in which synthetic contracts replace real ones and third party and moral hazards replace business risks. Moral hazard is... ...s of credit instruments, loans, corporate debt, and bonds - quality-graded by third party rating agencies. Insurance companies have thus become bac... ... $300 million, it will offer up to $1.5 billion per airline for passenger and third party war and terror risks. Some insurance companies - and corp... ...part of economic growth cannot be explained by increased utilisation of capital and labour. This part of growth, commonly labelled "multi-factor pr... ...onstructive competition - among scientists, innovators, managers, actors, lawyers, politicians, and the members of just about every other professio... ...egiances, head hunting, remote collaboration, contract and agency work, and similar labour market trends. Intellectual property is likely to become ... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma... ...etail the newly acquired wealth and lavish lifestyles of formerly impoverished HZDS politicians. Some of them now reside in refurbished castles. Oth...

...e threaten our well-being: unsettling ideologists, the mentally handicapped, many politicians. Why should we single out our physical well-being as... ...broadening of the definition of psychopathy directly challenged the earlier work of Scottish psychiatrist, Sir David Henderson. In 1939, Henderson p... ...le threaten our well-being: unsettling ideologists, the mentally handicapped, many politicians. Why should we single out our physical well-being as... ...rocess of transformation of a determinate product, affected by a determinate human labour, using determinate means (of production)" The economic p... ...ific mode of production) transforms raw materials to finished products using human labour and other means of production, all organized within defin... ...s, IASs within the same social formation offer competing ideologies: the political Party, the Church, the Family, the Army, the Media, the Civilian... ... of power over other human beings. The business concern, the church, the political party, the family, the media, the culture industries - are all l...

...on. The Vatican says they may not accept communion. ―Similarly, politicians who advocate abortion, which is a grievous sin, should be denie... ...ineer. To do this I must graduate from college. What if I want to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorro... ...ow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire? I‘m at a party and recognize that I have had too much to drink but I want to go hom... ...te gratification of a donut, the temptation of the TV, or the appeal of a party. It is so easy to follow the path of least resistance rather than the... ...k they will be willing to give up their desires to have children? Or that politicians or business people will volunteer to reduce their populations.... ... version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians call for ―moral values‘. But the political course they pick us... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ... 36. 1996-2006 International Labour Organization (ILO) 492 37. Hansson, A. ―Limits of Tax Policy‖,...

...rt, skirt suits that have the office boys permanently in a state of slave labour. Pity she hasn’t the brains to go with the body beautiful. I still ... ...m determined my stay will be short and sweet; there will definitely be no partying or night clubbing. I hate the city; this place with all its probl... ...hands dirty or breaking a nail. On the other hand, Steven’s one hell of a party animal; now he’s going to be difficult to train. Maybe Ali could fin... ...oking sisters; mind you, Ali never gets this treatment. Steven used to go partying with her, mainly because Ali could introduce him to other beautie... ...s and aggravation a mother goes through. I have two kiddies fighting like politicians in the house. They’re so bored; I can only pray they’ll kill e... ... I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I was saying, it was one hell of a step, belie... ... if I can’t find anyone here who is, I’ll just buy someone in and save on labour costs. The conversation was boring, but the hot shower soothed the b...

...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or... ...y cultures still women are used as slaves and draft animal to do all the hard labour to haul wood and water, care after the animals, feed the animal... ...tion of prisons in America has resulted in corporations being able to use the labour of unpaid criminals in various ways. But in or out of prison: c... ...ve there ever been one million people massed to protest against any political party? Any political convention ever? This shocking news should have ... ... treat their employees, how they do not rip off their suppliers, or use slave labour like their competitors…. And still magically somehow mange to ... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

...ence, leaning our faces on our hands and look ing at the fire, one of our party said, with the solemn air of a man who had made a discovery, ‘What a ... ... a kind of ‘dread delight’ on the far famed fast American steamer; and one party of men were ‘taking in the milk,’ or, in other words, American Notes ... ...ndingly gay everybody was: the forced spirits of each member of the little party having as much likeness to his natural mirth, as hot house peas at fi... ... tremendous, that its bursting into full violence was almost a relief. The labouring of the ship in the troubled sea on this American Notes – Dickens... ...ved; but not so was the process; for many weeks of apparently unprofitable labour were passed before it was effected. ‘When it was said above that a s... ...nd wonder to see how rapidly, correctly, and eagerly, she goes on with her labours. Her teacher gives her a new object, for instance, a pen cil, firs... ...ny of the next one begins; which is an unspeak able comfort to all strong politicians and true lovers of their country: that is to say, to ninety nin... ...gh character and great abilities, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe, have been already described, and I see... ... interest. I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath in spires, or even our English downs awaken. It was lonely ...

...g these ancient authorities, I must not forget the more modern sketch of a Scottish soldier of the old fashion, by a masterhand, in the character of L... ...ctory he had obtained, and Kilpont and his comrade Ardvoirlich were of the party. After returning to their quarters, Ardvoirlich, who seemed still to ... ...duct and prin- ciples contradict. That he was obliged to join the opposite party, was merely a matter of safety, while Kilpont had so many powerful fr... ...xtreme dislike to the Presbyterian model. In the West Highlands the ruling party numbered many enemies; but the power of these disaffected clans was s... ...ssess- ing many and powerful friends even north of the Forth and T ay,—the Scottish Convention of Estates saw no danger suf- ficient to induce them to... ... Charles and his subjects of Scotland had been carefully observed; but the Scottish rulers were well aware that this peace had been ex- torted from th... ... good graffe, or ditch, whilk may be easily accomplished by compelling the labour of the boors in the vicinity; it being the custom of the valor- ous ... ...essible by a ravine, partly natural and partly scarped with great care and labour, so as to be only passed by 110 Sir Walter Scott a drawbridge. Stil... ... a gentleman who stood near him. “I will save the honourable gentleman the labour of inves- tigation,” continued the Captain. “I am Dugald Dalgetty, o...

...e at night, and left it in the morning, he was espied during the dawn by a party of the enemy, who fired at and pursued him. The fugitive being fortun... ...eekly Letter. [Long the oracle of the country gentle- men of the high Tory party. The ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by cler... ...His resolution of marriage had been adopted in a fit of indig- nation; the labour of courtship did not quite suit the digni- fied indolence of his hab... ...ule might have been ruinous to a boy of slow understanding, who, feel- ing labour in the acquisition of knowledge, would have alto- gether neglected i... ...with the stern, rigid, and sometimes turbulent disposition of the Huguenot party. The Spanish had contributed to his stock of chivalrous and ro- manti... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...to contain a whole ream of closely-written manu- script. They had been the labour of the worthy man’s whole life; and never were labour and zeal more ... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave...

...ad at last to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board. Nothing is so interesting as weeding, clearing, and path-making;... ... change, rub down, and take a chair in the verandah, is to taste a quiet conscience. And the strange thing that I mark is this: If I go out and make s... ...er, then my mind; I raised my eyes and looked ahead; and, by George, I was no longer pioneering, I had struck an old track overgrown, and was restorin... ...neakingly off to farmering and pioneering. Four gangs at work on our place; a lively scene; axes crashing and smoke blowing; all the knives are out. B... ...red up suddenly after dinner, and my wife and I saddled up and off to Apia, whence we did not return till yesterday morning. Christmas Day I wish you ... ...ted; I found he and I had many common interests, and were en- gaged in puzzling over many of the same difficulties. After dinner it was quite pretty t... ...father. VI. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent... ...th the morning; I have no guess what I should do. ’Tis easy to say that the public duty should brush aside these little considerations of personal dig... ...55 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXVIII APRIL, 1893. 1. Slip 3. Davie would be attracted into a similar dialect, as he is later—e. g. , with Doig, chapter...

...raigned the parliamentary Opposition for having inflated her to serve base party purposes. The Opposition challenged the allegations of Government, po... ...native sagacity, as it is averred by some, or whether it shows an instinct labouring to supply the defi- ciencies of stupidity, according to others, I... ...method of enraging him was to distin- guish one or other of them as Irish, Scottish, or Cambrian. He considered it a dismemberment of the country. And... ...nd very happy in fighting them all round. This was during the decay of his party, before the Liberals were defined. A Liberal deprived him of the seat... ...ns of the sublimer House, and laughed at the trans- parent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoots of the commonalty: ‘Dragging... ...rey hair fell across his forehead, and it was apparently one of his life’s labours to get it to lie amid the mass, for his hand rarely ceased to be in... ...ou discipline the trades- man, who’s afraid of losing your custom, and the labourer, who might be deprived of his bread. But the people? It’s put down... ...siness that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunting-men, yet something more by... ...herwise it comes to this wild preaching. These men are theory-tailors, not politicians. They are the 328 Beauchamp’s Career men who make the “strait-...

...of light and easy dentistry. He has no belief, no disbelief; names the pro-party and the con; recites the case, and discreetly, over-discreetly; and p... ...en. To such an end let us bend our aim to work, knowing that every form of labour, even this flimsiest, as you esteem it, should minister to growth. I... ...ting answer knelled. Nevertheless the poor, the starving, the overtaxed in labour, they have a right to the cry of Now! now! They have; and if a cry c... ...ain wonderful old quarto book in her father’s library, by an eccentric old Scottish nobleman, wherein the wearing of garments and sleeping in houses i... ...sion to chastise the presumptuous individual, unless it be the leader of a party, therefore a power; for they respect a power. Redworth knew their qua... ...8 Diana of the Crossways where such darts were showering. The first dinner-party was aristocratic, easy to encounter. Lord and Lady Crane, Lady Pennon... ...a shot. They had to eat in silence, occasionally grinning, because a woman labouring under a stigma would rattle-rattle, as if the laughter of the com... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...nto them. Mr. Dacier was plain, and the state of young Mr. Rhodes; and the Scottish gentleman was at least a vehement admirer. But she pen- etrated th...

...candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a histori... ...hich he laid on thee, he always was wont to say, he spared the hang- man a labour.” “One would have thought he left him little to do then,” said the c... ...ath bid us good-night?” “He died the death of a fat buck,” said one of the party, “being shot with a crossbow bolt, by old Thatcham, the Duke’s stout ... ...yed to his own apartment, there to sleep himself sober at his leisure. The party then broke up, and the guests took their leave; much more to the cont... ... Lambourne, entered the apartment. His toilet had apparently cost him some labour, for his clothes, which differed from those he wore on his journey, ... ...ne, “wherefore you have shown yourself so desirous to accompany me on this party?” “I told you my motive,” said T ressilian, “when I took share in you... ...o be leagued with one who knows not even so much of Scripture, as that the labourer is worthy of his hire. I must, as usual, take all the trouble and ... ...et let him take care of me. I fly him now, as heretofore; but if, like the Scottish wild cattle, I am vexed by frequent pursuit, I may turn on him in ... ...entinel, made up to Leicester, and spoke with him. Varney was one of those politicians whom not the slight- est appearances escape without inquiry . H...

...wever, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be f...

...noa across the blue and purple waters that drowned Shelley—since I began a laboured and futile imitation of “The Prince.” I sat up late last night wit... ...tial to my issue. He is dead and gone, all his immediate correla- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one h... ...vorce. I climbed high and fast from small beginnings. I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze t... ...g pent and crappled and sometimes crippled ideas. And we went on a reading party that Easter to a place called Pulborough in Sussex, where there is a ... ... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because... ...trikes and rumours of strikes, and learnt from the columns of some obscure labour paper I bought one day, of the horrors of the lead poisoning that wa... ...y my statement that Protection would make food dearer for the agricultural labourer. I began to speak of Mr. Alfred Lyttelton as an influence at once ... ... from the North Country or the Potteries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a... ...itechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a priest or so, here a clump of ol...

...d a wax-light; the cardinal took a key from his bureau and opening the door of a secret stair descended into the court of the Palais Royal. 13 Dumas ... ...tion ever does the same thing twice.” “No, but they mean to make a Fronde, as they call it,” said Guitant. “And what is a Fronde?” inquired Mazarin. “... ... of the escort. “Just so,” muttered Comminges, looking after Mazarin. “True, I forgot; provided he can get money out of the people, that is all he wan... ...Down with Mazarin,” and pleased with Gondy’s suppres- sion of this fact, he said with his sweetest voice and his 385 Dumas most gracious expression: ... ...surrendered to the parlia- mentary troops, whilst Oxford and Newark still held out for him in the hopes of coming to some arrangement. At one of the e... ...romwell has arrived this night at Newcastle.” “Ah!” exclaimed the king, “to fight?” “No, sire, but to buy your majesty.” “What did you say?” “I said, ... ...all out your regiment,” said he; “I can foresee that we shall have need of it directly.” Winter turned his horse and the two friends rode on. It had t... ...ed.” He pressed Aramis’s hand and went in search of Porthos. “Friend,” he said, “you have worked so hard with me toward building up our fortune, that,...

...................................................................... 27 THE LABOUR UNREST................................................................. ...- tion. There is, for example, that flow to and fro across the Atlantic of labourers from the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ... We have come to see more and more clearly how little we can hope for from politicians, societies and organised movements in these es- sential things.... ...r—the sacred principle of Free Trade has always impressed me as a piece of party claptrap; but I have never been able to understand how an attempt to ... ..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ...nity twirl through the neck of the hour-glass. THE L THE L THE L THE L THE LABOUR UNREST ABOUR UNREST ABOUR UNREST ABOUR UNREST ABOUR UNREST ( ( ( ( (...

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...rer wit, I pray you to refer it back to this night, and point to that as a Scottish passage for evermore. I thank you again and again, with the energy... ...hearty. I drooped to see twenty Christophers in one. I began to think that Scottish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beaut... ...re, from Shakespeare downward. There is one other point connected with the labours (if I may call them so) that you hold in such generous esteem, to w... ... receive of right some substantial profit and return in England from their labours; and when we, in England, shall receive some sub stantial profit a... ... been said by the Presi dent, that I ought not to pass lightly over those labours of love, which, if they had no other merit, have been the happy mea... ...r here, even here, upon neutral ground, where we have no more knowledge of party difficulties, or public ani mosities between side and side, or betwe... ...terary and Social 37 The good work, however, in spite of all political and party differences, has been well begun; we are all interested in it; it is ... ...o plain prose some words of Hamlet—not with reference to any government or party (for party being, for the most part, an irrational sort of thing, has... ...—I am no stranger—and I say it with the deepest gratitude—to the warmth of Scottish hearts; but the warmth of your present welcome almost de prives m...

... my two dull papers are, in the matter of dulness, worthy additions to the labours of M’Crie. Yet I believe they are worth reprinting in the interest ... ...nt – to the great cost of this society that we enjoy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we... ...y death – by the deaths of animals, and the deaths of men wearied out with labour, and the deaths of those criminals called tyrants and revolutionarie... ...; and he felt it his duty to supplement this last – the trait is laughably Scottish – by a dialogue of his own composition, where his own private shad... ...irulent skirmish; and Burns found him- self identified with the opposition party, – a clique of roar- ing lawyers and half-heretical divines, with wit... ...period opens in the story of the poet’s random affections. He met at a tea party one Mrs. Agnes M’Lehose, a married woman of about his own age, who, w... ...es, comical and prosaic, written, you would say, in taverns while a supper party waited for its laureate’s word; but on the appearance of Burns, this ... ...man would thank you: he would thank you to open the door. With what regret Scottish James I. be- thought him (in the next room perhaps to Charles) of ... ...5 Henry V . had two distinguished prisoners, French Charles of Orleans and Scottish James I., who whiled away the hours of their captivity with rhymin...

...mes Dalrymple, one of the most eminent lawyers that ever lived, though the labours of his powerful mind were unhappily exercised on a subject so lim- ... ...of his powerful mind were unhappily exercised on a subject so lim- ited as Scottish jurisprudence, on which he has composed an admirable work. He marr... ...d, and returned not again. If the last Lord Rutherford was the unfortunate party, he must have been the third who bore that title, and who died in 168... ...that time to become ac- 7 Sir Walter Scott quainted with the history of a Scottish family above the lower rank; and strange things sometimes took pla... ... particularly shone in painting horses, that being a favourite sign in the Scottish villages; and, in tracing his progress, it is beautiful to observe... ...g what was probable than affirming anything posi- tively, they asked which party was likely to have the advan- tage in stating and enforcing the claim... ...self that his own interest and safety, as well as those of his friends and party, depended on using the present advantage to the uttermost against you... ...but appear odious and invidious. While he was in the act of composi- tion, labouring to find words which might indicate Edgar Ravenswood to be the cau... ... here she erected her aerial palaces. But it was only in se- cret that she laboured at this delusive though delightful archi- 39 Sir Walter Scott tec...

...me through; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour, or to my former master. Yet he taught me a great deal.’ He thus dis... ...is dismal malady he never afterwards was per- fectly relieved; and all his labours, and all his enjoyments, were but temporary interruptions of its ba... ...n seizing at once what was valuable in any book, without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end. He had, from the irritability ... ...ith contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and ... ...Tom being thus suddenly dragged into ludicrous notice in pres- ence of the Scottish Doctors, to whom he was ambitious of appearing to advantage, was g... ...they come to it; and certainly, a man who con- quers nineteen parts of the Scottish accent, may conquer the twentieth. But, Sir, when a man has got th... ...d affluence of conversation; but I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party.’ Goldsmith. ‘But, Sir, when people live together who have something ... ...mith at General Paoli’s. I spoke of Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only... ...ht, as to maintain, that a member of parlia- ment should go along with his party right or wrong. Now, Sir, this is so remote from native virtue, from ...

... Lady Mary Palliser. He had come back to England somewhat before the ducal party, and the pleasures and occupations of London life had not abated his ... ...ering the House of Commons, if he did enter it, as one of the Conservative party. This had been a terrible blow to the Duke; and he be- lieved that it... ...merits of political liberalism, and the duty of adhering to the old family party, while his mind was en- tirely preoccupied with his daughter? It had... ...al condition of the country is the one subject to which I have devoted the labour of my life. ’ 55 Anthony Trollope ‘I know that very well; and of co... ...ted. Lord Silverbridge was to be met at Silverbridge by various well-known politicians from the neighbourhood, and Major Tifto was greatly elated by t... ...ter to her that she would spare nothing in de- fending herself,—nothing in labour and nothing in time. She would make him know that she was in earnest... ... Liberals, when some dozen unexpected votes had been acquired, the leading politicians of that party should have found themselves compelled to look ab... ...hat were all telling ourselves that we were thoroughly manumitted from our labours by the al- tered opinions of the country, sundry of our old friends... ...ith Lady Mabel, and discussed with great elo- quence the general beauty of Scottish scenery. An hour went on in this way. Could it be that she knew th...

...resent the absent godfather. After that, he must go; he had written to his Scottish cousins to offer a visit, and he had a promise that he should soon... ... “Dr. May!” cried the indignant voice of Hector Ernescliffe, as his honest Scottish face flushed like a turkey cock, “I as- sure you that Alan rides l... ...t my power, Thou bonnie gem. —Burns. “IS THIS ALL the walking party?” exclaimed Mr. Ernescliffe, as Miss Winter, Flora, and Norman gather... ...urch—but it is a bad place to live in here.” No one could deny it, and the party left the cottage gravely. Alan and Norman joined them, having heard a... ...place at church among the boys. Again, in returning, he slipped out of the party, and was at home the first, and when this re- curred in the afternoon... ...ing mamma here now and then for a treat, because it put her in mind of her Scottish hills. Well, your’s are the golden hills of heaven, now, my Maggie... ...a’s music, and joining in the conversation so freely as to prove it was no labour to him. In truth, he was evidently quite recovered, entirely himself... ...you can’t give much, you have the pleasure of giving the best of all, your labour of love.” Then thinking on, and speaking to Flora, “The longer I liv... ... sure of that. They can, of course, but it must be at the cost of personal labour and sacrifice. I have often thought of the words, ‘Silver and gold h...

...her. She looked at you, and forth it came: and it stuck to you, as nothing laboured or literary could have adhered. Her saying of Laetitia Dale: “Here... ... there is no doubt of the loss of the leg. Well, footmen and courtiers and Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and ... ...een cherished in thankfulness for a country drama. There would have been a party against her, cold people, critical of her pretensions to rise from an... ...d sphere to be mistress of Patterne Hall, but there would also have been a party against Sir Willoughby, composed of the two or three revolutionists, ... .... She dismissed the children to their homes. Plucking prim- roses was hard labour now—a dusty business. She could have wished that her planet had not ... ...ave him?” “As much as Mont Blanc knows that he is going to be climbed by a party below. He sees a speck or two in the valley.” “He has not spoken of i... ...tter: he will only require to be spoken to. One would fancy the old fellow laboured now and then under a magnetic attrac- tion to beggary. My love,” h... ...upward, like a smoke-wreath. “Are you for Irish scenery?” “Irish, English, Scottish.” “All’s one so long as it’s beautiful: yes, you speak for me. Cos... ...e Irish or half Irishmen are my taste. If they’re not 335 George Meredith politicians, mind; I mean Irish gentlemen. I will never have another dinner...