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...n his ear to more melodious harmonies, can seat him on clouds of shin- ing constellations and teach him to question them. The Heart can do still great... ... takes the place of wine and its pleasures,— reserved more exclusively for Southern climes. Certainly nothing proclaimed in her, or in him, a being wi... ...for heaven re-appeared, tender as child- hood. The deeds of his life, like constellations, adorned him with their brightness. His acts of faith shone ...

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...k that already they had pronounced her doom unless perhaps the change to a southern climate could re-establish her declining strength. For me it seems... ...ade head of the remount establishment quartered outside the kingdom in our southern provinces, whence almost all the horses for the Polish cavalry wer... ...sts, Kafirs, soldiers, sailors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes, and constellations of a universe whose amazing spectacle is a moral end in itse... ...ic and at the same time placid in expression, he is a fine specimen of the southerner of the calm type. For there is such a type in which the volatile... ...outherner of the calm type. For there is such a type in which the volatile southern passion is transmuted into solid force. He is fair, but no one cou... ...e pellucid, colourless atmosphere bathing the drab and gray masses of that southern land, the livid islets, the sea of pale, glassy blue under the pal...

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...en in the cry drawn from her by pain. Eugene de Rastignac was a thoroughly southern type; he had a fair complexion, blue eyes, black hair. In his figu... ...uccess should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by t... ...at the Bouffons, in my own house.” With the impetuosity of his adventurous southern temper, he did all he could to cultivate an acquaintance with this... ...before him. The time seemed long; he would have left the house but for the southern tenacity of purpose which works miracles when it is single-minded.... ...me had all the power of a fairy’s wand; those closed compart- ments in the southern brain flew open again; Rastignac’s care- fully drilled faculties r... ...hausee- d’Antin to enter this seventh heaven and shine among the brightest constellations of their sex. But his cautious disposi- tion stood him in go...

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... pursuit of thoughts while they enfold. They were large dark eyes, eyes of southern night. They sped no shot; they rolled forth an envelopment. A chil... ...d on the mat- ter, without garnish of scorn. Kent, Sussex, Surrey, all the southern heights about London, round away to the south- western of the Hamp... ...ndant supplies, well able to breathe within earthworks extending along the southern hills, was clearly shown to stand the loss of two big battles on t... ...LD LOVERS NEW FRIENDS THE COTTAGE inhabited by Weyburn’s mother was on the southern hills over London. He reached it late in the after- noon. His moth... ... Aminta of then and now, the difference was marked as between Northern and Southern women: the frozen- mouthed Northerner and the pearl and rose-nippe... ... opened the box. A dazzling tray of stones was revealed; underneath it the constellations in cases, very heavens for the worldly Eve; and he doubted t...

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...re in Brittany, where the women’s eyes are as black and lively as those of Southern women; but instead of pos- sessing the tall figures and swaying li... ...hard; her face has a harsh contour, though at times it reveals a soul with Southern passions; an angel flashes out and then expires. Her eyes are thir... ... angel. Calyste, although I warn you about him, you will be his dupe. That Southern nature, that impassioned artist is cold as a well-rope. Listen to ... ...ficently clear. Near the horizon the sea had taken, as it is wont to do in southern climes, a tint of molten silver; on the shore it rippled in tiny w... ...lacable Beatrix with a flashing eye. He was so superb that a Northern or a Southern woman would have fallen at his feet saying, “T ake me!” But Beatri... ... god, and also, again, by the fear which oppresses all women who have been constellations in the world and whom love has caused to fall from their zod...

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...hop the velvet darkness broke into glit- tering points that shaped out the constellations, and nearest to them, so near as to seem only a few million ... ...glish, Russian and Pole, ride together under this new star of mankind, the Southern Cross, to catch whatever last mischief-maker was left to poison th...

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...d, George.” A long board, sailed very close, enabled the brig to fetch the southern limit of discoloured water over the bank on which the yacht had st... ...Now it is in my mind that a prau com- 164 The Rescue ing from amongst the southern islands, if steered cunningly in the free set of the current, woul... ...nded, making for that narrow and winding passage between the coast and the southern shoals, which led to the mouth of the creek connecting the lagoon ... ...a limitless flat shadow which was motionless and elusive. Then against the southern stars she saw a human form that isolated and lone appeared to her ... ...nd lone appeared to her immense: the shape of a giant outlined amongst the constellations. As it ap- proached her it shrank to common proportions, got... ...t as long as I live you will never die.” They confronted each other at the southern edge of the sands as if afloat on the open sea. The central ridge ...

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...ning, yet her ladyship will look the other way, if you happen to be on the southern beach at eleven o’clock to-morrow morning. I suppose you were very... ... NE THE NEW W W W W W W W W WORLD ORLD ORLD ORLD ORLD Still onward, as to southern skies, We spread our sails, new stars arise, New lights upon the... ... prepare ‘good things past man’s understanding!’ It was well for Mary that southern constellations, snowy, white-winged albatross, leaping flying-fish... ...‘good things past man’s understanding!’ It was well for Mary that southern constellations, snowy, white-winged albatross, leaping flying-fish, and whi...

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...f it 99 H G Wells brought a coolness to his mind. He knew that over those southern hills one could be as lonely as in the wilderness and as free to t... ...or soon? Benham sought for some loose large measure of time. “Before those constellations above us have changed their shapes…. “Does it matter if we w...

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...d brooding, he crosses the square and is swallowed up by the shadow of the southern gateway. Mr. Guppy and Mr. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes... ...t feasts and festivals also, in firmaments she has often graced, and among constellations she outshone but yesterday, she is still the prevalent subje...

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...the proceedings were to take place in the large low dining-room, where the southern win- dows poured in a flood of light on the faces of the persons c... ... home, he would consider the need of labourers in the great harvest of the Southern Seas. 394 The Trial Leonard made no answer save ‘Thank you’ and t... ...be prized and distinguished, as the first and most honoured among inferior constellations. CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER...

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...revaricating city.? ?That has an unflattering sound for me,? said the young man. ?I pretend not to prevaricate.? ?Dear me, what?s the good of being a Southerner?? the lady asked. ?Olive told me to tell you she hoped you will stay to dinner. And if she said it, she does really hope it. She is willing to risk that.? ?Just as I am?? the visitor inquired, presenting himself wi...

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...ng man. ‘I pretend not to prevaricate.’ ‘Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?’ the lady asked. ‘Olive told me to tell you she hoped you wil... ...Ransom replied, with a smile, and the curious feminine soft ness with which Southern gentlemen enunciate that adverb. Mrs. Luna explained that she ha... ...t believe he had ever heard of her, Mrs. Luna, though he pretended, with his Southern chivalry, that he had. She must be off to her dinner now, she sa... ...culiar; the way he spoke told her that it was no wonder he had fought on the Southern side. She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and s... ...ore that her best hours had been spent in fancying that she was helping some Southern slave to escape. It would have been a nice question whether, in ... ...d Doctor Prance to detach herself from the circle and wander forth under the constellations, all of which he was sure she knew. He asked her permissio...

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...uspense, and the star rose not. Once again men set their eyes upon the old constellations they had counted lost to them forever. In England it was hot... ....’ “And though we presently saw a squadron of aeroplanes flying across the southern sky we did not heed it. There it was—a line of little dots in the ... ...d the clusters of phantom white mallow flowers and through the thickets of southern-wood and lav- ender, and knee-deep across a wide space of mignonet...

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...g Stages of London were collected together in an irregular crescent on the southern side of the river. They formed three groups of two each and retain... ...w him was one of the big windvanes of south-west London, and beyond it the southernmost flying stage crowded with little black dots. These things seem... ...n the bars he looked upon the wind-clear north- ern sky and saw the starry constellations all unchanged. Capella hung in the west, Vega was rising, an... ...gazing towards the glaring stage. Then his eyes went back to the northward constellations. 176 When the Sleeper Wakes For a long time he was silent. ... ... it? The man in yellow was pointing to two aeropiles driving upward in the southern sky. No doubt they were looking for the coming aeroplanes. That—pr...

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...rs of Heaven, now seen in their old haunts— White Sirius glittering o’er the southern crags, Orion with his belt, and those fair Seven, 245 Acquaintan... ...ids, so to represent 340 Their knowledge of the heavens, and image forth The constellations—gently was I charmed Into a waking dream, a reverie That, ...

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... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...d not seem to give him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those ta... ...seclusion of many long night-watches in the re- motest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditiona... ...s. He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his counten... ...p in a place indirectly communicating with it. Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made... ...nugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable. In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years’ voyage, as often happens...

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... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in these southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...d not seem to give him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tal... ...d seclusion of many long night watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditiona... ...s. He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his counten... ...p in a place indirectly communicating with it. Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made... ...nugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable. In one of those southern whalemen, on a long three or four years’ voyage, as often happens,...

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...ot’s way Lay through the midst of an immense concave, Radiant with million constellations, tinged With shades of infinite colour, And semicircled with... ...turbed might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still. The orb of day, In southern climes, o’er ocean’s waveless field _20 Sinks... ... trembled, as the smoke Of His revenge ascended up to Heaven, Blotting the constellations; and the cries Of millions, butchered in sweet confidence 1... ...s la voute du firmament; au lieu de repandre sans ordre les etoiles et les constellations qui remplissent l’espace, n’eut-il pas ete plus conforme aux...

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...it off one of us so well,” said the doctor. “Well! I’m off. I must see old Southern. You’ll be ready by three? Good-bye, hen and chicken.” “And I may ... ...st for him. T o-day is espe- cially trying; he does not think poor old Mr. Southern will get through the evening, and he is so sorry for the daughter.... ...g very grandly of Taurus Poniatouski, and Harry beg- ging to be told which constellations he should still see in the southern hemisphere. Dr. May was ... ...Harry beg- ging to be told which constellations he should still see in the southern hemisphere. Dr. May was the first to rectify the globe for the sou... ... slowly far in the east, and bringing to her mind the sailor-boy under the southern sky; if, indeed, he were not where sun and stars no more are the l... ...want to find work so far away?” “I cannot help feeling drawn towards those southern seas. I am glad you can give me good-speed. But what do you think ...

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...penetrating look, and the vi- vacity which characterises the population of Southern France. The second stranger merits a more detailed descrip- tion. ... ... that the commander and his companion were born in low latitudes. There is southern blood in them. But I cannot decide by their appearance whether the... ...h, a third in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at ... ...s that would shine in some hours’ time. The moon shone in the midst of the constellations of the zenith. The night slipped away without any mischance,... ... of the world. He did nothing of the kind, but continued on his way to the southern regions. Where was he going to? To the pole? It was madness! I beg... ... the northern only, and as much in Behring as in Davis Straits.” “Then the southern whale is still unknown to you. It is the Greenland whale you have ... ...e last gleams of twilight were melting into night. The cold was great, the constellations shone with wonderful intensity. In the zenith glittered that...