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...ought. When Sir Terence left, Helen rushed to find Rosita. She knew that at this time of day the Spanish woman would be sitting by the kitchen range... ... news. THE CURSE OF KALI 7 ‘So you have accepted, queridisima,’ said Rosita in her inimitable Spanish accent, which she had never lost despite he... ... wife’s untimely demise and welcomed Rosita’s love and care for his motherless, little girl. The Spanish woman remembered clearly the day when seven... ...h THE CURSE OF KALI 47 century. It, too, is a handsome building, more European than Indian in architecture.’ John MacGregor pointed with his rid... ...ure Moghul palace. Helen was surprised at the incongruity of such a building amidst the European architecture of the Residency until Isabel explaine... ...scovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like all colonials, my father refused to dilute our French b... ...rs are hardly likely to love the French any more than the British, Gavin. We, too, are a Western colonial power in their country,’ explained the Co...

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...duce during exams, it seems perfectly clear. If handwriting truly showed the architecture of the soul, then Jefferson’s would conjure up Monticello or... ...et must approach perfect control, both in its legal regime and its technical architecture. Like any attractive but misleading argument, the Internet T... ...ans that we should pause before increasing the level of rights, changing the architecture of our communications networks, creating new crimes, and so ... ...derivative work out of “My Life.” The person who translated my articles into Spanish or Mandarin, or the people who re- post them on their Web sites, ... ...uit of happiness—enunciated in the context of indignation at relatively mild colonial policies of taxation and legislation. How could a man who though...

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...ing why its mouth could not be equally delicate. She silently called it the Spanish word of "criatura." Her extended family had been a mixture of Ge... ... her get him something. Partial or complete hunger strikes, she told him in Spanish would not hasten his trip back to Miami but only make his stay in... ...e said that the military cost of their civil wars were the result of Western colonial boundaries fusing incompatible tribes into nations, keeping Afri... ...proaching and could say the names of the zoo animals in English, German, and Spanish. He couldn't sputter out the Latin so she had to give up on push... ... starvation drives him over the holy earth" --Iliad Chapter Twenty-six A colonial sofa with an arched wooden back; the dark drapes absorbing the l... ...iel stepped off the school bus and went inside. She was seated on her white colonial chair as superciliously cold, hard, and beyond human frailties a... ...ere somewhat agreeable because of their adjacent bullfight arena and Spanish architecture. The unbearable dust colonias (poor suburbs) with the maquil...

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...rogress and enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and c... ...xception). Moreover, to compare the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment to colonialism is, indeed, a travesty. We, the Jews, are proud of... ...le-faced, dissemblers. Zionism is an extension of this pathological narcissism as a colonial movement Judaism is not missionary. It is elitist. But... ...y are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of vene... ... later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich." Roberto Calvo Macias, a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to ...

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...rogress and enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and c... ...xception). Moreover, to compare the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment to colonialism is, indeed, a travesty. We, the Jews, are proud of... ...le-faced, dissemblers. Zionism is an extension of this pathological narcissism as a colonial movement Judaism is not missionary. It is elitist. But... ...y are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of vene... ... later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich." Roberto Calvo Macias, a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to ...

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...er receiving his degree from Williams he at- tended the Columbia School of Architecture and after graduation became a partner in the firm of Squires &... ...undecided, Joeokel will enter., the Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. M... ...omething about the services in our chapel. We have a building which by its architecture and its associations naturally, and it would seem, should irre... ...hicago univer- sity at the Christmas convocation. He presented a thesis on Spanish literature and has recently ac- cepted a preceptorship in romiince ... ...ior of East College by the construc- tion at each of the four entrances of colonial marble porches similar to those added to South College last year. ... ...ternities. The Zeta Psi fraternity began last spring the construction of a colonial house at the south- east corner of Main and South streets. The stu... ...ty and is now occupied by thew. The house is a frame structure of sim- ple colonial architecture through- out. A two-story portico with columns adorns... ...een smitten with leprosy. "In the Sutler's Tonf, is a pathetic talo of the Spanish war. Mr Looinis' "Lufcadio Hearn" is an elaborate, vigorous and wel... ... Physics, 1 ; Political Science 1 ; Psychology, 1; Romance Langu- ages, 1; Spanish, 1; Zoology, 1. In the list of candidates in ab- sentia below, the ...

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...ccumulation in the present makeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and ... ...a so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a ... ...ectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely n... ...r mirrored pile of the accumulation which created it. In South America, the Spanish not only robbed, pillaged, murdered, killed, and raped the nati... ...is towards increasing duplication and identicality. Look at the evolution of architecture, look at the evolution of cars, look at how people are dr... ...ing demands for equality with the upper class. At the same time that Europe’s colonial empires were crumbling: in each European nation their masses ... ...ger as majestic and powerful as they had been. Basically, their addiction to colonial power turned all of them into imperial power junkies. Left w... ...or of War, was conveniently whitewashed, and made attractive. The battles of colonial empire-building were fought overseas. The Europeans did not ... ...plitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative The entire ancient architecture of temples and large decorated buildings: screaming out th...

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...ce in the roads and rail- ways and shipping it will be for the worse; that architecture, domestic equipment, and so on, will be fortunate if in 1924 t... ...ry scrap of territorial advantage she has gained; she may lose most of her Colonial Empire; she may be obliged to complete her modernisation by abando... ...d anyone with money from any- where may come in and buy. Great supplies of colonial ores were found to be cornered by semi-national German syndi- cate... ... in— for example—Spain. At the present time the thought and feeling of the Spanish speaking world is being educated against the Allies. The Spanish mi... ...one of the remaining three was certainly not British, but, I should guess, Spanish-American. And it isn’t only the undergraduates who have gone. All t... ...he new age, will be desir- ous of a restoration of the now vanished German colonial empire, vindictive, intriguing, and unscrupulous, a mere se- ries ... ...t the open- ing of the mine. English, French, Russian, Arabic, Hindustani, Spanish, Italian; these are the great world languages that most concern the...

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...rt villains of all nations and dyes; picked up in the lawless ports of the Spanish Main, and among the savages of the islands. Like galley-slaves, the... ...n the middle of all were two square, wooden columns, denominated in marine architecture “Bowsprit Bitts.” They were about a foot apart, and between th... ...bound passage. In this way, his country- men frequently enter on board the colonial whaling vessels. There was a man among us who had sailed with the ... ... from Chili; and possessing all the gaiety, fleetness, and docility of the Spanish breed, are admirably adapted to the tastes of the higher classes, w... ...orted to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statement of m... ...hipping a new crew. There was a round bounty of- fered; and a heavy bag of Spanish dollars, with the Julia’s ar- ticles ready for signing, were laid o... ...not far from the Calabooza Beretanee. It was esteemed the best specimen of architecture in Tahiti. Of late, they have built their places of worship wi... ...k cheek and black whiskers. According to his own ac- count, he had lost a colonial armed brig on the coast of New Zealand; and since then, had been l...

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...would feel interrupted by the overflowing notes on painting, sculpture and architecture which fill the corre- spondence, yet without them, it is scarc... ...ve all impressive in the ex- traordinary loveliness of the early decorated architecture, and the space and loftiness of the choir. The whole, pre-emin... ...ake fresh holidays on the Continent and enjoy those de- lights of scenery, architecture, art and music, which he loved with an appreciation and enthus... ...le visited, except by Cap- tain Cook, their first discoverer, and isolated Spanish explor- ing expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood trader... ..., just as a common horse halter hanging from Abraham’s bookshelf, betokens colonial life. Our rooms are quite large enough, bigger than my room at Fen... ...and books, is really fatiguing. Yester- day and to-day are just samples of colonial work. Thursday, 7.30, prayers in chapel; 10.30, Communion service ... ...of New Zealand, full in whose track it lay. The matter was referred to the Colonial Secretary, and in the meantime Bishop Selwyn adhered to his purpos... ...four ships. But the Bauro people were spared that grievous misfortune of a Spanish settlement; Mendana missed his way, blundered into the Marquesas fi... ...e other, and at last, the chief Malope himself fell into the hands of some Spanish soldiers, who murdered him. Mendana punished them with death; but h...

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...ney) less than a year after his marriage, on the very day that a beautiful Spanish dancer who had been delighting thronged audiences in the old Opera-... ...of Beaufort’s few fatuities), had dawdled a while in the library hung with Spanish leather and furnished with Buhl and malachite, where a few men were... ...d Skuytercliff, the great es- tate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and o... ...de preco- cious comments, and possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar. Under th... ...chances were that they were going in for Central American archaeology, for architecture or landscape-engineering; taking a keen and learned interest i... ...dapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word “Colonial.” No- body nowadays had “Colonial” houses except the millionaire g...

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...ercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened... ..., standing broad upon their granite base, like the heavy columns of Tuscan architecture. Why had our incompre- hensible guide led us to the bottom of ... ...e St. Vincent was dimly to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. A strong southerly gale was blowing. The sea was swollen... ... arrived. This night we 179 Jules Verne shall be but a few miles from the Spanish coast. It is cloudy. The wind blows freely. I have your word, M. Ar... ...t was cruis- ing in those waters, resolved to make for a French port. “The Spanish commanders of the convoy objected to this decision. They wanted to ... ...ound, from which one would still recognise the massive character of Tuscan architecture. Further on, some remains of a gi- gantic aqueduct; here the h... ...pporting the spring of the immense vault, an admirable specimen of natural architecture. Between the blocks of basalt wound long streams of lava, long...

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...l be much to pity, So says the proverb — and I quite agree; Of all the Spanish towns is none more pretty, Cadiz perhaps — but that you soon ... ...here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; For native Spanish she had no great care, At least her conversation was obscure;... ...r Oriental eye Accorded with her Moorish origin (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by; In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin); Whe... ...Cadiz— A pretty town, I recollect it well— ‘T is there the mart of the colonial trade is (Or was, before Peru learn’d to rebel), And such ... ...y Of those, forgetting the great place of rest, Who give themselves to architecture wholly; We know where things and men must end at best: ...

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...he huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still ... ... highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more important reason than the deliver... ...irrespon sibility of character. This vessel had recently arrived from the Spanish Main, and within three days’ time would sail for Bristol. Hester Pr... ...thy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew from the Spanish Main. And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wicked... ...ly be claimed by some mariners—a part of the crew of the ves sel from the Spanish Main—who had come ashore to see the humours of Election Day. They w... ...n the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates. So far as a demeanour of natural authority was concer...

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... me out of the kitchen the remains of the breakfast and a bottle or two of Spanish wine, I’ll tell you something which will save you from a ‘foul.’” “... ...dscape and also as a home for the steward, an elegant little building, the architecture of which was sufficiently shown in the descrip- tion of the ga... ...lustrade against its bluish back- ground restored the gay character of the architecture. The approaches to the building, formerly choked up and sandy,... ...ved thorough- bred nose, with a maidenly air in spite of a certain swaying Spanish manner of carrying herself, possessed all the points that a young g... ...isse! if your wife were only here we’d be young to- gether. Don’t tell me! Spanish wine is worth a dozen of boiled wine. Let’s have a revolution if it... ...establishment, not twenty cups of that beverage being served in the month. Colonial products were of so little account in the consumption of the place... ... or boiled wine, and ate brandied fruits and biscuits; for the dearness of colonial products had ban- ished coffee, sugar, and chocolate. Punch was a ...

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...ked back through Wilmette and Evanston, discov- ered new forms of suburban architecture, and remem- bered her desire to recreate villages. She decided... ...e traveling salesman had murmured, “Dentistry,” she desperately hazarded, “Architecture.” “That’s a real nice art. I’ve always said—when Haydock & Sim... ...g display-space,’ I said, `but when you get that in, you want to have some architecture, too,’ I said, and he laughed and said he guessed maybe I was ... ...er to impress the ordinary class of people than just a plain old-fashioned colonial house, such as you describe. And that would be the proper cen- ter... ...ht here in the Thanatopsis. And as for trying to make a whole town in this Colonial architecture you talk 142 Main Street about— I do love nice thing... ...iped, after Carol’s appeal: “I see. You think the New England villages and Colonial houses are so much more cunning than these Middlewestern towns. I’... ...allies in the Grand Scrap. Yes, sir, there’d be two million fully equipped Spanish soldiers fighting with us in France in one month now. Some surprise... ...t to chuck every stitch I own. Black hair and pale cheeks—they’d go with a Spanish dancer’s costume— rose behind my ear, scarlet mantilla over one sho...

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... the weather, gave an appear- ance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which bore so... ... in prices, sugar was still in Grandet’s eyes the most valuable of all the colonial products; to him it was always six francs a pound. The necessity o... ...y belonged to old Monsieur de la Bertelliere. Item, three gold quadruples, Spanish, of Philip V ., struck in 1729, given to her one by one by Madame G... ... given birth to love. These two Marys so different, so well represented by Spanish art, embody one of those shining symbols with which Chris- tianity ... ...nie went with him on his first voyage, like that image of the Virgin which Spanish mariners fastened to their masts, if he attrib- uted his first succ...

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...ct of the man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house in that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heigh... ...had the best of taste, the best of inexpensive rugs, a simple and laudable architecture, and the latest conveniences. Throughout, electricity took the... ...th more cordi- ality than he had intended. Babbitt’s green and white Dutch Colonial house was one 23 Sinclair Lewis of three in that block on Chatham... ...o-family house, all oak trim, parquet floors, lovely gas log, big porches, colonial, 34 Babbitt HEATED ALL-WEATHER GARAGE, a bargain at $11,250. Dict... ... mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and complacent ignorance of all architecture save the types of houses turned out by speculative builders; a... ...y of the Athletic Club was Gothic, the washroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem o... ...e Memory, Motion-picture-acting and Developing the Soul-power, Banking and Spanish, Chiropody and Photography, Elec- trical Engineering and Window-tri... ... but a crisp- ing frost had already stamped the maple trees with gold, the Spanish oaks were hung with patches of wine red, the sumach was brilliant i...

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...more sumptuous of these apart- ments, give interest and variety to Utopian architecture. There are sometimes little cooking corners in these flats—as ... ... rather admires that inconvenient and gawky muddle of ironwork and Flemish architecture, the London T ower Bridge. When before this, temerarious antic... ...ery London twilight mysteriously beau- tiful. We shall go along avenues of architecture that will be emancipated from the last memories of the squat t... ... into the natural trap of patriotic conceit. The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of liberal proposi... ... at present prospering politically, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the *The T rue-born Englishman. 200 A Mod...

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...ever fallen under a single sceptre. Amongst modern empires, doubtless, the Spanish of the sixteenth century, and the British of the present, can- not ... ...n him with the force of a thunderbolt, that the revolt had extended to the Spanish provinces, and was headed by Galba. He fainted upon hearing this; a... ... silently and steadily through seven centuries ascended under the colossal architecture of the children of Romulus, to watch the unweaving of the gold... ...ullest and amplest form upon their final discharge, viz. in the shape of a colonial estate—large enough to rear a family in com- fort, and seated in t...

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.... WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, ERROMANGOAN. EXTRACTS (Su... ... Oh, the world! Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Eur... ...t colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast. It was the whaleman who first broke... ...ast. It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might b... ...ld like to know? Shall I keep standing here? (Aside). ’Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here’s one. No, no, no; I must have a la...

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...AL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Spanish. PEKEE NUEE NUEE, Fegee. PEHEE NUEE NUEE, Erromangoan. Extracts (S... ...! Oh, the world! Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Eur... ...t colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast. It was the whaleman who first broke t... ...oast. It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might b... ... like to know? Shall I keep standing here? (aside.) 3 ’Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here’s one. No, no, no; I must have a la...

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... to be made one with Him after passing through 4 Love and Life Death. The Spanish poet Calderon made it the theme of two sacred dramas, in which the ... ...althy owners were fast desert- ing in favour of new specimens of classical architecture as 7 Yo n g e understood by Louis XIV., and the room in which... ...rival was as great an event as is now the coming in of a mail steamer to a colonial harbour. The “post” was a stout country- man, with a red coat, tal... ...character of Marshal Berwick, recently slain at Philipsburg, an account of Spanish outrages at sea, or mayhap the story of a marvel- ous beast, half-t... ...ick grizzled brows overhanging searching dark grey eyes, shaded by a great Spanish hat. “Sir! oh sir, is it you?” he cried, breathlessly; “now all wil...

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...eneral air of a young birch tree, or, as Hal had once said, ‘Early pointed architecture reminded him of his mother.’ The little one was getting restle... ...re there was some reason for it. The girl had, in fact, been named after a Spanish lady, whom her mother had known and admired in early girlhood, and ... ...ld, with irony in her tone. Indeed, she was not at all sure that half this colonial preju- dice was not assumed in order to tease her, just as in form...

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...that, at least, they were independent. For two years, in the solidly built colonial dwelling, with its low ceilings and ample fireplaces, where once t... ... the matter of that, it had been built for just that purpose. Its style of architecture was distantly ecclesias- tic, with a suggestion of Gothic to s... ...to my notion, is the most intimate. At the other end of the scale you have architecture, which is an expression of and an appeal to the common multitu... ...play at the same time?” “Yes, yes. Go on. How do you know anything about a Spanish dance?” “I learned it long ago. I know everything about any- thing ...

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...his mind. These were the days when the strain and extremity of a dangerous colonial war were fresh in people’s minds, when the quality of the public c... ...who was very know- ing—knowing was the only word for it—about pictures and architecture. And these and all the other Amandas agreed together to develo... ...more, but one was a contemporary, Sir Philip Easton, a man with a touch of Spanish blood and a suggestion of Spanish fire, who quite manifestly was ve...

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...the municipal com- mission “del ornamento” which superintends at Milan the architecture of street facades, and to which every house owner is compelled... ...is departing, following its kings who abandoned it. For one masterpiece of architecture saved from destruction by a Polish princess (the hotel Lambert... ...ans, the young and rich Charles de Gondreville, who afterwards died in the Spanish campaign. By that time Flavie had had a second son, whom she hencef... ...which enabled him to sell the chocolate itself very cheaply. This trade in colonial products, begun in the quartier Saint-Marcel, made a merchant of M... ...ed according to the rules of Grecian art, were beginning to appear in this architecture. A grocer, a lucky adulterator, now took the place of the form... ...cried Zelie, making her glass ring by the way in which she sucked down the Spanish liquid. “What fortunes we could get!” Zelie had now reached her hig...

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...orld in the name and under the immediate orders of the Crown;* this is the colonial system adopted by other countries of Europe. Sometimes grants of c... ... delight in public rejoicings. If they repudi- ate all ornament from their architecture, and set no store on any but the more practical and homely adv... ...espect to the Indians, it is neces- sary to consult, 1st, “The Laws of the Colonial and State Governments relating to the Indian Inhabitants.” (See th... ...re of the continent of America is very much lower than that of Europe. The Spanish Government formerly caused a certain num- ber of peasants from the ... ...dence. But this is an error: the population increased as rapidly under the colonial system as it does at the present day; that is to say, it doubled i... ...of white marble, several of which were built after the models of an- cient architecture. When I went the next day to inspect more closely the building...

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... Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; ... ...th martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange costumes and wonderful architecture, to delight the eyes of little Amelia, who had never before se... ...little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and English—all the world was at Paris during this famous winter: t... ...as been promised an appointment any time these six months. Mr. Martyr, the Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out. That unlucky a... ...s of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry... ... his means. When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated him- self and the Serv...

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...hat was called the Dutch House—a peculiar structure dating from the earliest colonial time, composed of bricks that had been painted yellow, crowned w... ... and innocent voice. He had some charming rooms in Paris, decorated with old Spanish altar lace, the envy of his female friends, who declared that his... ...e brightness of a garden where nature itself looked as archaic as the rugged architecture of the palace and which cleared and scented the rooms in reg... ...hat’s the positive side? What’s the virtuous? What have you got besides your Spanish lace and your Dresden teacups?” “I’ve a comfortable little fortun... ...e of local colour. It had local colour enough, and though he knew less about architecture than about Limoges enamels he could see that the proportions...

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...th his eye lay the modern house; an awkward man- sion, indeed, in point of architecture, but well situated, and with a warm, pleasant exposure.—How ha... ...y own window that I might hear something more than the mere murmur of this Spanish rendezvous, but, though I used every precaution, the noise alarmed ... ...ation of Mrs. Bertram’s mother, who, having a good stock in trade when the colonial war broke out, trebled the price of his commodity to all the world... ...s of a dark, solemn, and somewhat melancholy cast, according well with the architecture of the house. Everything appeared to be kept in the highest po... ...st grace and ornament, is mingled and confused with the viler parts of the architecture. Oh, my good Mr. Gilbert Glossin, in my time, sir, the use of ...

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...em were lying idle. They resemble huge, wooden houses, apparently of frail architecture, floating upon the water. Each has its double row of balconies... ... to by Turks and Arabs. I have sojourned in the hotels of old Spain and of Spanish America. I have lived in Connaught, and have taken up my quarters w... ...d colony, to- gether with the liberties and laws given to it under its old colonial charter. A union might be and no doubt was desirable; but it was t...

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... once you are engaged —” “Y es, that concerns me. I know what I am about; never- theless, I will freely consult with you.” “You do me great honor; but... ...ular, had undergone great changes; the ancient host of the mus- keteers, having become tolerably rich for an innkeeper, had closed his shop, and made ... ...s himself revenues with his money, which he does not even touch. Here are three hundred and seventy-five livres which fall to me from heaven. I will g... ...kfasted between the Je- suit and Aramis, having the Dominican in front of him, and smiling particularly at the Dominican, whose jolly, fat face please... ...thos; how you gainsay your ori- gin and the destiny of your noble nature. Men of your stamp are created to continue, to the very last moment, in full ...

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...t out with his sister to explore the neighbourhood for eatables and church architecture. They made an ineffectual attempt to rouse Mr. Kendal to go wi... ... off’ ‘I declare, when we overtook you in the street, she looked a perfect Spanish princess, in her black robes and great shady hat. You ought always ... ...ll their kindness, and his Crimean fame, to make them in- vite him and his colonial wife to the Family Office, to be present at the royal distribution... ... christened; and then followed a string of mighty names, long enough for a Spanish princess, beginning with Belraven!!! Lucy Dusautoy’s dreary conditi...

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...attered fragments of the Italian legion. This legion was to Italy what the colonial battalions are to France. Its perma- nent cantonments, established... ...man who, during the campaign, had wagered that he would eat the heart of a Spanish sentinel, and did eat it. Though Bianchi was the prince of the devi... ...ntefiore was the man with whom Bianchi made his bet about the heart of the Spanish sentinel. Montefiore and Diard were among the last to mount the bre... ... Tarragona it happened I cannot say, but Diard presently recognized by its architecture the portal of a convent, the gate of which was already battere... ...half-naked, was indeed an object of curios- ity,—the curiosity of a daring Spanish woman. It was a mag- 8 Juana nified bull-fight. Montefiore forgot ...

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...ngland persecutors was effectual in preventing further martyrdoms; but the colonial authorities, trusting in the remoteness of their situation, and pe... ...than ever, not even turning his head when Dominicus invited him to smoke a Spanish cigar and relate all the par- ticulars. The pedlar whistled to his ... ... every tavern and country store along the road, expending a whole bunch of Spanish wrappers among at least twenty horrified audiences. He found himsel... ... the ‘Fountain of Youth?’ “ asked Dr. Heidegger, “which Ponce De Leon, the Spanish adven- turer, went in search of two or three centuries ago?” “But d... ...the absence of which is hardly com- pensated by any beauties of our modern architecture. Such a scene, dimly vanishing from the eye by the ray of here... ... found few opportunities of gratifying in the undecorated dwellings of the colonial gentry. It was said that the early productions of her own pencil e... ... now all but extinguished, class, whose attachment to royalty , and to the colonial institutions and customs that were connected with it, had never yi... ... air, mine may not be 184 Twice Told Tales as magnificent as that sort of architecture, but perhaps as substantial, Mr. Brown, as the very respectabl... ...eel. The central object in the mir- rored picture was an edifice of humble architecture with nei- ther steeple nor bell to proclaim it—what neverthele...

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...t readily in the atmospheric air. **The region of the Niger. See Simmona’s Colonial Maga- zine . *The Myrmeleon-lion-ant. The term “monster” is equall... ...site her cham- ber window—what, then, could there be in its shadows—in its architecture—in its ivy-wreathed and solemn cornices— that the Marchesa di ... ... he had not retired to bed during the whole of the preceding night. In the architecture and embellishments of the chamber, the evident design had been... ...t my apartment—at my statues—my pictures—my origi- nality of conception in architecture and upholstery! absolutely drunk, eh, with my magnificence? Bu... ... as I had expected, in a costume alto- gether similar to my own; wearing a Spanish cloak of blue velvet, begirt about the waist with a crimson belt su...

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...es, the huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, st... ...m the highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more important reason than the del... ...kable irresponsibility of character. This vessel had recently arrived from the Spanish Main, and within three days’ time would sail for Bristol. Heste... ...nworthy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew from the Spanish Main. And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wi... ...justly be claimed by some mariners — a part of the crew of the vessel from the Spanish Main — who had come ashore to see the humours of Election Day. ... ...ed in the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates. So far as a demeanour of natural authority was co...

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...onautical interests go, or as an ecclesiasti- cal architect, so far as his architecture goes. The ideal environment should, without any doubt at all, ... ...ern languages, but sooner or later the American may wake up to the need of Spanish in his educational schemes. **In one way the foreign language may b... ...ped by marriage with the wealth of Jews and Ameri- cans, are exploiters of colonial resources and urban building enterprises; their territorial titles... ...e various Universities and organized professions, and from au- thoritative Colonial bodies to recommend men to be added to the voting peerage. Life pe... ...hat may very well be disre- garded here. We are concerned with the general architecture now, and not with the tactical necessities of the clerk of the... ...hteen or twenty every year, and a proportionate number for America and the Colonial States of the British Empire. Suppose, fur- ther, that from this g...

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... by this time reflected that it was not possible to run all the way to the Spanish main. There was, however, another person stirring in the village be... ...o who, after many fabulous exploits, had licked a master and bolted to the Spanish Main. III There was at this time in the city of Melbourne, in Austr... ...considered grand by the illiterate; but architects and readers of books on architecture condemned it as a nondescript mix- ture of styles in the worst... ...aid to her.” “What is ‘a down’? A grudge?” “Yes. Something of that sort.” “Colonial, is it not?” pursued Lydia, with the air of a phi- lologist. “Yes;... ...ted attempts to settle the country on impracticable plans suggested to the Colonial Office by a popular historian who had made a trip to Africa, and b... ... and said, in the course of a conversation with the two ladies there, “The Colonial Office has had an idea. The king, it ap- pears, is something of an...

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...e to judge the most modern sections of the army extant are organised for a colonial war in (say) 1899 or 1900. There is, of course, a considerable amo... ...yal Academy, or shall we make an enthusiastic tour of London sculpture and architecture and saturate his soul with the beauty he makes possible? The n... ...merican community is not an expanded 202 An Englishman Looks at the World colonial society that has become autonomous. It is a great and deepening po... ...y fecund, and then comes a rapid fall in the birth-rate. The proportion of colonial and early republican blood in the population is, therefore, probab... ...and ideals is concerned. There are, for example, those great elements, the Spanish Catholics, the French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish C...

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...g was known but that she was a Miss Otway, and that he had met her in some colonial quarters. The old lady, with whom the little girl had been left, w... ...with steep streets dividing the rows. These were of very mixed quality and architecture, but, as a general rule, improved the higher they rose, and we... ...ill-top, one of which, being constructed on supposed Chinese principles of architecture, was known to its friends as “the Pagoda,” to its foes as “the... ...te repair, and two rooms, showing a sublime indifference to consistency of architecture, had been lately built out with sash windows and a slated roof... ...-slave, half-governess to the children of the favoured sister, little semi-Spanish ty- rants. This had roused Captain Allen’s chivalry, and his friend... ...e; he had taken her back with him to America, and, married her to a man of Spanish blood, con- nected with him in business. The only one of her childr... ...is former friends made interest to obtain a vice-consulship for him at the Spanish town. Then, after a few years, both husband and wife died, leaving ...

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...tion. Market Stoneborough was a fine old town. The Minster, grand with the architecture of the time of Henry III., stood beside a broad river, and rou... ... tended bazaar, and Ethel would fain have taken refuge in puzzling out her Spanish, had she not remembered her re- cent promise to be gracious. The ma... ...edwich glanced at the mistress’s watch, in its pasteboard tower, in Gothic architecture, and insisted on proceeding to business. So they all sat down ... ...Mrs. Ward, began to talk at once. There was a great deal about Elizabethan architecture, crossed by much more, in which normal, industrial, and common... ... with the young ladies at Valparaiso. How we used to roast Owen about that Spanish Donna, and he was as bad at Sydney about the young lady whose fathe... ...s daughter! Brought up as she has been—to expose her to the roughness of a colonial life, such as I should hesitate about for your sisters.” “It is he...

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...ed, “is a sci- ence in itself, called archaeology. Archaeology comprehends architecture, sculpture, painting, goldsmiths’ work, ceram- ics, cabinetmak... ...tinguishable among the others for a certain dash that artists call flafla; Spanish wreaths in bold relief; Flemings and Germans with quaint figures, t... ...r So-and-so,” and you insult him as surely as you would insult a wholesale colonial produce merchant by addressing your letter to “Mr. So-and-so, Groc...