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...ved for reply a thrust, which he caught in his target. The officer was now defenceless, and the battle-axe of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Inv... ...w from the glance of his mother’s eye, that the purpose of his desper- ate defence was attained. Ah! I remember,’ she continued, ‘I remember well to h... ...arshalsea; and it was his solicitor and ordinary counsel who conducted the defence of some of these unfortunate gentlemen at their trial. It was gener... ...anecdote struck the gentleman, who, as we before observed, had managed the defence of some of those unfortunate persons, at the expense of Sir Everard... ... might take the life of a young man who perhaps respectably discharged the social duties, and render his family miserable; or he might lose his own;—n... ...it.] while we are not allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue.’ Bailie Macwheeble entered immediately afterwards, and b... ...ection of their foolish quarrel for the pleasure of enjoying once more the social intercourse of question and answer, from which he had been so long s... ... ought only to be consecrated to elegant or amusing study, and relieved by social or youthful frolic. Now, how changed! how saddened, yet how elevated...

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...the city ways for various public services. Light and so forth.” “W as it a social trouble—that—in the great roadway place? How are you governed? Have ... ...“Several?” “About fourteen.” “I don’t understand.” “Very probably not. Our social order will probably seem very complex to you. To tell you the truth,... ...st understand,” began Howard abruptly, avoid- ing Graham’s eyes, “that our social order is very complex. A half explanation, a bare unqualified statem... ...ed in the world’s affairs.” He stopped. “Yes?” said Graham. “We have grave social troubles.” “Yes?” “Things have come to such a pass that, in fact, is... ...ensuality of a class of rich men! He thought of Bellamy, the hero of whose Socialistic Uto- pia had so oddly anticipated this actual experience. But h... ...ere first the city, that throbbed and roared yonder in a belated frenzy of defence and secondly the aeroplanes hurling inexorably towards them over th... ...fro in a passionate confusion. Why? Abruptly he understood. The stub- born defence of the flying stages was over, the people were pouring into the und...

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...s might be made of great utility to his purpose of writ ing a poem on the social position of Hellas, and, as a collec tion, he published these lays ... ...ecurely rest, Affianced in my faith, a ready guest; Approach the dome, the social banquet share, And then the purpose of thy soul declare.” Thus affab... ...ht? Now first to me this visit dost thou deign, Or number’d in my father’s social train? All who deserved his choice he made his own, And, curious muc... ... panoply his limbs incased (For so of old my fathers court he graced, When social mirth unbent his serious soul, O’er the full banquet, and the sprigh... ...th encircling seas. Mentes, an ever honour’d name, of old High in Ulysses’ social list enroll’d.” Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Ans... ...touch thy generous mind! Unconscious of what air I breathe, I stand Naked, defenceless on a narrow land. Propitious to my wants a vest supply To guard... ...ouths descend the tides; The spacious basons arching rocks enclose, A sure defence from every storm that blows. Close to the bay great Neptune’s fane ... ... gate So near adjoins, that one may guard the strait. But other methods of defence remain; Myself with arms can furnish all the train; Stores from the...

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... his affair, there was another which might possibly come to happiness. The social atmo- sphere was heavily charged and wanted clearing. We met at the ... ...ion of her personal views and her wrongs, 167 Rudyard Kipling those small social differences that make the spice of Simla life, Hannasyde was neither... ... a woman with- out being found out. Hannasyde was taken off his guard. His defence never was a strong one, because he was always think- ing of himself...

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...list’s account, were wantonly cruel. He might perhaps have pur- chased his social peace by abandoning his investigations; but he apparently preferred ... ...ous misery. I have a memory of infinite tedium. He wandered into a maudlin defence of the Beast People and of M’ling. M’ling, he said, was the only th...

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...s brows on her as if to extend to her the storm he was inflicting on poor, defenceless Lord Ormersfield, ‘he is thought soft because of his easy way; ... ...lara. ‘You ought to take your vassals, like a feudal chief! I am sure the defence of one’s country ought to outweigh everything.’ ‘Exactly so. Our vo... ...hen I shall send his sons to school and college.’ ‘ And pray what are your social duties till that time comes?’ ‘That’s plain enough,’ said Clara: ‘to... .... Could it depend on her? She could speak naturally, and from her heart in defence of Louis when occasion served; but something within her for- bade t... ...er meant it to go beyond the study. I was obliged to write it down in self-defence, that I might know what he was talking of.’ ‘I believe he expects y...

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...s included in his cal- culations. Mr. Rosedale was still at a stage in his social ascent when it was of importance to produce such impressions. The pr... ...ey were not. But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his oubliettes witho... ...that he was the same little Jew who had been served up and rejected at the social board a dozen times within her memory; 16 House of Mirth and while ... ... at the fashionable restaurants, in com- pany with the personally vivid if socially obscure ladies who are available for such purposes. But the attemp... ...ice that petty cares should leave a trace on the beauty which was her only defence against them. But the odious things were there, and remained with h... ...d be notes and dinner-cards to write, lost addresses to hunt up, and other social drudgery to perform. It was understood that Miss Bart should fill th... ...ise, which lit up a number of possibilities; but she rose gallantly to the defence of her confusion, by saying, as its object approached: 59 Edith Wh... ...l accents. But even to her own conscience she must trump up a semblance of defence. “I only took a day off—I thought he meant to stay on all this week... ... spoken then—this was the way men talked of her—She felt suddenly weak and defenceless: there was a throb of self-pity in her throat. But all the whil...

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...eset him, my art cannot discover.” “Your knowledge, then, can afford us no defence,” said the anxious father, “against the threatened evil?” “Pardon m... ...s of invasion or civil war, they might. communi- cate by signal for mutual defence and protection. Ellangowan castle was by far the most extensive and... ...rophe related in the fast chapter, that, during a cold and stormy night, a social group had closed around the kitchen fire of the Gordon Arms at Kippl... .... Wise men say, that we resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence, only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us. Wh... ...n of the contents of his purse, supposing the said Arthur has not means of defence, or the skill and courage to use them, the assizes at Lancaster or ... ...shall say noth- ing, until I end a reverend divine who shall condemn self- defence in the article of life and property. If its propriety in that case ... ...f a liberal pro- fession, and good society, should choose such a scene for social indulgence. Besides the miserable entrance, the house itself seemed ... ...oddo.] I love the caena, the supper of the ancients, the pleasant meal and social glass that wash out of one’s mind the cobwebs that business or gloom...

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... and dim; the thick London fog had oozed into it even through its superior defences. It was full of dusky, massive, valuable things. The old lady sat ... ...had there been anybody she could have shown her to. But in the poor lady’s social void there was no one; she had after all her own correctness and she... ...priate field was neither the army nor the church, but simply the world—the social, successful, worldly world. If he had a sword in one hand and a Bibl... ...were his talent and his courage if he were so miserably afraid of trumpery social penalties? Rose’s heart sank when she reflected that a man supposed ... ...n to places one hates. Every one does that.” “Oh, what I go through!” this social martyr cried. Then she laid a persuasive hand on the girl’s arm. “Le... ...eaks to us, no one looks at us.” “Really?” stared the young man. “We’ve no social existence, we’re utterly despised.” “Oh, Miss Tramore!” Captain Jay ...

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...f the Dean with that fluttered attention to the ampler clergy ten years of social ascent and ascendency had not cured in her; and the Lady Mary watche... ...his confidence to the pitch of voluntary speech. In that endeavour I had a social advan- tage. Being a person of affability and no apparent employ- me... ... natu- rally classed as an artist in Bignor, and in the remarkable code of social precedence prevalent in Bignor an artist ranks considerably higher t... ...y business to,’ I said in a quiet voice. “‘I’m a ghost,’ he said, as if in defence. “‘That may be, but you haven’t any business to haunt here. This is... ... might crouch and take a closer view of this gaping breach in the domestic defences, the open window. For a while Mr. Ledbetter was as still as the ni...

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... law courts to unmask and decompose their true object The obstinacy of the defence betrayed the real animus of the attempt. It was an attempt which, i... ...vil which acts through opinion, it acts by a machinery, viz. the press and social centralization in great cities, which in these days is perfect. Righ... ...an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the Free Church lies in pleading a spiritual ... ...middle ages. It would be absurd, however, seriously to pur- sue these anti-social chimeras through their consequences. Stern remedies would summarily ... ...nchristian conspiracy. Meantime, next after this fact, it is the strongest defence which we can offer for the duke—that in a day or two after this cha... ...traint. For no journal has entered so powerfully or so eloquently into the defence of the general principle involved in the Seces- sion (although ques... ..., in no other way, been able to evade the double mischief of undertaking a defence for the indefensible, and at the same time of losing the land irret... ...hat it should be exhibited as the antagonist pole to the sin and misery of social man. Such is the covert philosophy which governs Milton’s prac- tice... ...ndispensable, amongst a thousand other great uses, to the very elements of social distinctions and social rights, But for the endless circum- stances ...

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... at lunch-time, or squeezed in a visit to a picture gallery, balancing his social work with an ardent culture of which he was secretly proud, as Mary ... ...ith scarcely any resistance from powers exhausted by their first effort at defence. He took his way languidly along the river embankment, away from ho... ...tway was one of the people for whom the great make-believe game of English social life has been invented; she spent most of her time in pretending to ... ...at she was a dignified, im- portant, much-occupied person, of considerable social standing and sufficient wealth. In view of the actual state of thing... ...y to take from her even this hour of solitary study, even this poor little defence against the world. And, as she smoothed down the sheet of blotting-... ...h, her fantastic method of life struck her as purely frivolous; now it was socialism, now it was silkworms, now it was music—which last she supposed w... ...don’t defend myself.” “No,” said Katharine, “I should hope not. There’s no defence that I can think of. If any conduct is wrong, that is.” She spoke w... ...on and force. The training of a life of thirty-five years had not left him defenceless; he was still master of his dignity; he rose, with a mind made ... ...m. Not that Mr. Basnett, giving his days to commerce and his spare time to social reform, would long carry about him any trace of his possibilities of...

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...protected in the heart of the city and the heart of the country; the whole social order favourable to their hy- gienic idleness had to be protected ag... .... Mr V erloc was not devoid of intelligence—and at the notion of a menaced social order he would perhaps have winked to himself if there had not been ... ...trouble his head about it, his mission in life being the protection of the social mechanism, not its perfectionment or even its criticism. It was so e... ...rofession. Y ou—a member of a starving proletariat—never! Y ou—a desperate socialist or anarchist—which is it?” “Anarchist,” stated Mr V erloc in a de... ...t, observed him in the glass over the mantelpiece. “I daresay you have the social revolutionary jargon by heart well enough,” he said contemptuously. ... ...she had often faced with blazing eyes the irascible licensed victualler in defence of her brother. Noth- ing now in Mrs V erloc’s appearance could lea... ...raid of you; slaves of it as much as the very police that stands up in the defence of that convention. Clearly you are, since you want to revolutionis... ...th of that man aroused through the length and breadth of a realm for whose defence, welfare, and glory men die every day as matter of duty, an outburs... ... Chief Inspector Heat was saying to Mr V erloc, the secret agent: “So your defence will be practically a full confession?” “It will. I am going to tel...

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...ole disease thou canst not cure. Ye shady beeches, and ye cooling streams, Defence from Phoebus’, not from Cupid’s beams, To you I mourn, nor to the d... ...h of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in their own defence: Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, 30 ... ...od and spirits, swell’d with wind: Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense: 2... ...ar, and more near, the closing lines invest; Sudden they seize the amazed, defenceless prize, And high in air Britannia’s standard flies. ... ... virgin light, Productive as the sun. SEMICHORUS. Oh source of every social tie, United wish, and mutual joy! What various joys on one atten... ...ncere. Withers, adieu! yet not with thee remove Thy martial spirit, or thy social love! Amidst corruption, luxury, and rage, Still leave some ancient ... ...ciple—of fear, ver. 237, &c. The influ- ence of self-love operating to the social and public good, ver. 266. Restoration of true religion and governme... ...they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of Man. ... ..., Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here, too, all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: ...

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... she, “to tor- ment the poor boy so.” “My dear,” said the cotton-tassel in defence of his conduct, “Jos is a great deal vainer than you ever were in y... ... the saying is, and had lost all pres- ence of mind and power of attack or defence. Figs, on the con- trary, was as calm as a quaker. His face being q... ...reputation as a fire-eating and jealous warrior was a further and complete defence to his little wife. There are gentlemen of very good blood and fash... ...ch regarded Napoleon), the country seemed in so perfect a state of orderly defence, and the help at hand in case of need so near and overwhelming, tha... ...es with her wit. But, as we have said, she. was growing tired of this idle social life: opera-boxes and restaurateur din- ners palled upon her: nosega... ...Closet, and one of the great 492 V anity Fair dignitaries and illustrious defences of the throne of England, and came up with all his stars, garters,... ... discussed on his way to the theatre, whither everybody went in the cheery social little Ger- man place. The lady in black, the boy’s mamma, laughed a... ...erybody to the house, and she made Jos be- lieve that it was his own great social talents and wit which gathered the society of the place round about ...

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...as, as at home, the exception. It is neither with any hope of gain, nor with any lively wish to please, that the ordinary Polynesian chooses and prese... ...r own status than a measure of our love to the recipients. So in a great measure and with the common run of the Polynesians; their gifts are formal; t... ...and he who went after vegetables for himself might remain to be a joint for his hereditary foes. Nor was the pointed oc- casion needful. A dozen diffe... ...ho acted as intelligence department; and for six weeks Mr. Stewart and three other whites slept in the cotton-house at night in a rampart of bales, an... ...e serious wars were prosecuted in a similar spirit; a gift of pigs and a feast made their inevitable end; the killing of a single man was a great vict... ...nd. The gendarmes knelt with their pieces ready, and Captain Hart advanced alone. As he drew near the door he heard the snap of a gun cocking from wit... ... child is handed over by the natu- ral parents, and grows up to inherit the estates of the adop- tive. Presents are doubtless exchanged, as at all jun... ...s of those engaged, and with the circumstances of the case. Thus it would be absurd to take too seriously our adoption at Atuona. On the part of Paaae... ...or, they regard leprosy with comparative indifference, elephantiasis with disproportion- ate fear. But, unlike indeed to the Tahitian, their alarm put...

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... scarce have pretended to found the best of his appeal for her on her high social position.) It is an example exactly of the deep difficulty braved—th... ...o, they’ll be firm,” the old man rejoined; “they’ll not be affected by the social and political changes I just referred to.” “You mean they won’t be a... ...rope. There was nothing flighty about Mrs. Touchett, but she recognised no social superiors, and, judging the great ones of the earth in a way that sp... ...cumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached ... ...mate shrewdness with the disposition superficially to fraternise, and his “social position,” on which he had never wasted a care, had the firm perfect... ... wit. It must be said that her wit was exercised to a large extent in self-defence, for her cousin amused himself with calling her “Columbia “ and acc... ...n the least concerned to defend Mr. Osmond; he’s not so weak as to need my defence. I should think it would seem strange even to yourself that I shoul... ... which it is not an exaggeration to say that it was allied to that of self-defence, had made it habitual. She wished as much as possible to know his t... ... Goodwood had attended to them more closely he might have thought that the defence of delicacy was in rather odd hands. We may believe, however, that ...

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...my mornings. My father told the man who in- structed me in the art of self-defence that our family had always patronized his profession. I wrestled te... ...rm to- night, I will.’ She hugged me almost too tight, but it was warm and social, and helped to the triumph of a feeling I had that nothing made me r... ... and fairly of my father’s character, I should have abandoned my system of defence to plead for him as before a judge. By that time I had gained the k... ...the original. Come, invent some scandal for us; let us make this place our social Exchange. I warrant a good bold piece of invention will fit them, to... ...msy aunt!’ the princess interposed again, ‘now you have taken to abusing a defenceless Englishman.’ ‘Nothing of the sort, child. I compliment him on h... ...ed even in Germany for scholarship, rather notorious for his political and social opinions too. The margravine, with infinite humour in her countenanc... ...rty. Will you defend yourself?’ ‘Well, no, frankly, I will not. The proper defence for a na- tion is its history.’ ‘For an individual?’ ‘For a man, hi... ...ntest the statement that you have a political instinct. Here it is chiefly social. You worship your so-called aristocracy per- force in order to prese... ...ergy and merchan- dized aristocracy are coils: they are the ivy about your social tree: you would resemble Laocoon in the throes, if one could imagine...

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...t jesting,” said the Minister. “Y ou were called two years since, and your defence in the case of Simeuse and Hauteserre had raised you high in your p... ... misfortune; sooner or later we are al- ways punished for contravening the social law.—But I will write to you on this subject from Florence. A father...

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...ng what power ought to be, “is a permanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval whic... ...ing writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all social truths when boldly proclaimed? This question will explain, in itself... ...s. Laubardemont and Laffemas were, like some men of to-day, devoted to the defence of power in which they believed. Soldiers or judges, they all obeye... ...ble churches, estimate the fearful wounds given by the religionists to the social body, learn what vengeance they inflicted, and you will ask yourself... ...edici and according to all those who believe in a well-ordered society, in social man, the subject cannot have liberty of will, ought not to teach the... ...cts to great liberties; but they did not admit their right to publish anti-social thoughts, nor did they admit the indefinite liberty of the subject. ... ...m. Be- fore this peril she stood alone, without power of action, with- out defence. She might have been likened to a phantom, as she stood there in he... ...de. “Cousin,” said the little king, “you must draw your sword only for the defence of the kingdom. Come and dine.” The Cardinal de Lorraine, surprised...