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...y ought not to be allowed to read books less pure than the purity of their souls; they are forbidden certain reading, just as they are carefully preve... ...th the vivid carnation of its coarsely developed flesh, the semblance of a soul. His cap of blue cloth, with a small peak, and sides fluted like a mel... ... felt you were somewhere along the road.” Just then a woman dressed in her Sunday clothes,—for the bells were pealing from the clock tower and calling... ...money was more necessary to him than it was to others, and knowing himself superior in mind to the whole bourgeoisie of Nemours, was now counting on h... ...as and dressed in those brilliant colors which make them so picturesque on Sundays and fete-days, stood by, with their eyes fixed on the frightened he... ...l, and his relatives contented themselves with paying him weekly visits on Sundays from one to four o’clock, to which, however, he tried to put a stop... ..., rubbed his skin like a hair shirt. Madame de Portenduere, and other good souls, had an agreement with his housekeeper to replace the old clothes wit... ... pro- claimed the provincial lawyer. These slight defects were, how- ever, superficial; he redeemed them by an exquisite kind- heartedness which a rig... ...d- heartedness which a rigid moralist might call the indulgence natural to superiority. He looked a little like a fox, and he was thought to be very w...

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...r things not so patent, but which never succumbed to the marvelous nor the supernatural; a sacred thirst for liberty and for learn- ing, first as a me... ...able; a will; an unfaltering energy and deter- mination to obtain what his soul pronounced desirable; a majestic self-hood; determined courage; a deep... ...the scars which slavery and semi-sla- very had inflicted upon his body and soul; and then, with his wounds yet unhealed, he fell among the Garrisonian... ...sion. It must have been an electric flashing of thought, and a knitting of soul, granted to but few in this life, and will be a life-long memory to th... ...ford speci- mens of observing, comparing, and careful classifying, of such superior character, that it is difficult to believe them the re- sults of a... ... of the same on page 148, remarking that the profile, “like Napoleon’s, is superbly European!” The nearness of its resemblance to Mr. Douglass’ mother... ...in the open field, from morning until night, every day in the month except Sunday, and liv- ing on a fraction more than a quarter of a pound of meat p... ...quainting myself with its multifarious lessons. We arrived in Baltimore on Sunday morning, and landed at Smith’s wharf, not far from Bowly’s wharf. We... ...Frederick Douglas repair the damage? It may be broken toward the slave, on Sunday, and toward the master on Monday. It cannot en- dure such shocks. It...

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...len upon them after yawning open, and would keep them down. A diver made known, even then, that he had come upon the body of a man, and had sought to ... ... and other obstructions from which frost and snow had lately thawed. It was a mistake (my friend was glad to tell me, on the way) to suppose that the ... ...he drowned were buried in their clothes. T o supply the great sudden demand for coffins, he had got all the neighbouring people handy at tools, to wor... ... liked to have had it otherwise, I must submit. I feel, from all I have heard of you, that you will see it done decently and in order. Little does it ... ...y attention in pronouncing our beau- tiful burial service over my poor unfortunate son’s remains. God grant that your prayers over him may reach the M... ...f her forefinger, pointed out the woman in question. The elder of this pair, ninety-three, seated before an illustrated newspaper (but not reading it)... ... an immense theatre, capable of holding nearly five thousand people. Charles Dickens 30 What Theatre? Her Majesty’s? Far better. Royal Italian Opera?... ...mplished but the half of my uncom- Charles Dickens 34 mercial journey; for, its object was to compare the play on Saturday evening with the preaching... ...compare the play on Saturday evening with the preaching in the same Theatre on Sunday evening. Therefore, at the same hour of half-past six on the sim...

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...terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from that elevation one lovely Sunday morning, through a mild glitter of au- tumn sunshine, it seemed the ... ... to you by your cabman (if you happen to drive) as the romantic abode of a superstitious king, and where a strong odor of pig- sties and other unclean... ...Loire, and who, twenty- five years after his death, yielded up their seven souls at the same moment, and enjoyed the curious privilege of retaining in... ...whom. a kind providence did not allow to make over the whole palace in the superior manner of his superior age. This had been a part of Gaston’s plan,... ... fine things it takes to make up such a monarchy; and how one of them is a superfluity of mouldering, empty, pal- aces. Chambord is touching,—that is ... ...hom the author of these lines was one, spent the greater part of a perfect Sunday morning in looking at it. It was as- tonishing, in the course of the... ...ationary quality, which makes them less of an offence than usual. It was a Sunday afternoon, and the light was yellow, save under the trees of the ave... ...chelieu closed about it on sea and land. This terrible functionary was the soul of the resistance; he held out from February to October, in the midst ... ...Bolognese school of painters be- 125 Henry James cause they “spoke to the soul.” He is a votary of the new classic, is fond of tall, squire, regular ...

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...feriors, holding his equals at great distance, and dig- nified towards his superiors. At the epoch of which we write, you would have noticed in him th... ...’s death, when he was just sixteen, he left the Lycee Napoleon to enter as supernumerary a government office, where an unknown pro- tector had provide... ...were more or less warranted, and one who was admitted on all sides to be a superior woman. Madame Rabourdin had justified the expectations formed of M... .... Like other men in whom sentiments and ideas are of equal strength, whose souls are noble and their brains well balanced, he was the defender of his ... ...the traveller has lately viewed is here in miniature, modest and pure; his soul, refreshed, bids him remain where a charm of melody and poesy surround... ...hese political confidences, how- ever, a keen alarm took possession of his soul. He was one of those simple-minded beings, who are shocked at listenin... ...” as wearisome as the plague of flies, and never wished to see another. On Sundays, after walking four times to and fro between the place Royale and S... ...ear II. of the Republic, and now sixty-nine years old, came to see them on Sundays only, because on that day no government business went on. This litt... ...ce]. “Gentlemen, I salute you with a collective how d’ye do, and I appoint Sunday next for the dinner at the Rocher de Cancale. But a serious question...

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...indow-curtains at the other. But, it was not this which steeped the feeble soul of T wemlow in confusion. This he was used to,and could take soundings... ... the world, and whom he had known two days—the bond of union between their souls, the nefarious conduct of the com- mittee respecting the cookery of a... ...tter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce! Am I to rush out into the... ...ure there were rum everythings. Pity there was not a word of truth in that superstition about bodies bleeding when touched by the hand of the right pe... ..., as if the remembrance gave a relish to the rum; ‘you were doing this one Sunday morning when I took you out, because I didn’t go the exact way you w... ...me, did he, pa?’ ‘Then he asked your name, my dear, and mine; and on other Sunday mornings, when we walked his way, we saw him again, and—and really t... ...s’ worth, English money , in seven months! Wegg takes it easy, but upon-my-soul to a old bird like my- self these are scarers. And even now that Commo... ...hich no di- rect ray of sun, moon, or star, ever penetrated, but which was superstitiously regarded as a sanctuary replete with comfort and retirement... ...their stead, schools, soup, flannel, coals, and all the week-day cares and Sunday coughs of a large population, young and old. As gallantly had Mr Mil...

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...suppose his subject to be the story of the adven- 7 H G Wells ture of his soul among Utopian inquiries, you will be pre- pared for some at least of t... ...rofuse vocabulary into which have been cast a dozen once separate tongues, superposed and then welded together through bilingual and trilingual compro... ...amed spirit of the young has turned for ever to wandering and the sea. The soul of man has never yet in any land been willingly adscript to the glebe.... ..., the actors all absurdly in Hampstead middle-class raiment, meetings of a Sunday after church (the men in silk hats, frock coats, and tightly-rolled ... ... Utopia I think they will fly with stronger pinions, it will not be in the superficialities of life merely that movement will be wide and free, they w... ... protest. “A position, I can assure you, demanding Tact of an alto- gether superhuman quality!” We desist for a space from the attempt to explain our ... ...s and madmen, its drunkards and men of vicious mind, its cruel and furtive souls, its stupid people, too stupid to be of use to the community, its lum... ...emember. Things that happened at Frognal—dear ro- mantic walks through the Sunday summer evenings, practi- cally you two alone, you in your adolescent...

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...king angry, and Hollis, who, being the youngest of us, assumed an indolent superiority, said without stirring, “Give him a dry sarong—give him mine; i... ...appy, and so was Susan, his wife. It was not an ethereal joy welcoming new souls to struggle, perchance to victory. In fourteen years both boys would ... ... Jean-Pierre Bacadou, the enraged republican farmer, had been to mass last Sunday—had proposed to entertain the visiting priests at the next festival ... ...igious duties” at Easter. That morning he felt like a man who had sold his soul. In the afternoon he fought ferociously with an old friend and neighbo... ...lways in the midst of other white men, under the eye and guidance of their superiors. And now, dull as they were to the subtle influences of surround-... ...orders are that you should not expose yourself to the sun!” He assumed his superiority jocularly, but his meaning was serious. The idea that he would,... ... absurd verses; to sit and look at you for hours—to talk to you about your soul? You ought to have known I wasn’t that sort. . . . I had something bet...

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...ge. The Preface From the time this universe came into being to this time the world face perils of different hues everywhere and every time. A few super powers have divided comity of nations of world into groups to serve their narrow ends. The developed countries have been trying to prevail over developing and under developed countries. Those powers enjoying countrie...

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...ur dreams and letting our fancy roam to- gether, that I verily believe our souls had become welded to- gether, like those two Hungarian girls, whose d... ...if embraced by girls of our age, demands either an ex- treme simplicity of soul, such as we, sweetheart, do not pos- sess, or else an ardor for self-s... ...as not made your nunnery all that it ought to be for my health of body and soul, you may be sure nothing short of a broken heart will bring me back ag... ...in to me that these two, so perfectly matched in birth, wealth, and mental superiority, live entirely apart, and have nothing in common but their name... ...earned from each other in our ran- dom arguments. She sees that it is only superficial facts of which I am ignorant. The poor thing has opened her hea... ...ook on his face, remind- ing one of a sickly child, which owes its life to superhuman care, as Sister Marthe did. As my father observed, his features ... ...re them so high, have fluttered down upon the flat stretches of real life! Sunday. Yesterday, at the Italian Opera, I could feel some one was looking ... ...e? He is my slave whom I ought to keep busy. I shall deluge him with work! Sunday Morning. Only towards morning did I sleep a little. It is midday now...

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...I was mad to have her, and cared nothing for the consequence; and the poor soul, knowing that which I was 13 Island Nights’ Entertainments still igno... ... and by the face of him I knew he was a priest. He was a good- natured old soul to look at, gone a little grizzled, and so dirty you could have writte... ...and crying on the natives to come and beat it in, and singing out it was a soul he wished to save, and that. He was in a rare taking, was the priest. ... ...e row about the sacrament, and the poisoning only talk. The next day was a Sunday, when there was no business to be looked for. Uma asked me in the mo... ... out,” Case answered, shaking his head. “Appears like one of their tomfool superstitions. That’s what I don’t cotton to,” he said. “It’s like the busi... ...l, you know, Vigours lit out and left all standing,” said he. “It was some superstition business – I never got the hang of it but it began to look bad... ...reat influence, it might prove greater than mine. The natives are prone to superstition; perhaps by stirring them up I might but ingrain and spread th... ... his knees and bathed in the tears of what seemed a genuine repentance. On Sunday I took the pulpit in the morning, and preached from First Kings, nin...

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...d and completed his existence in a perpetual assur- ance of unquestionable superiority. He loved to breathe the coarse incense they offered before the... ...ve. Too decisive, thought Willems, dis- contentedly. It had frightened the soul out of her body apparently. A dismal woman! A damn’d busi- ness altoge... ...ire to anything. In another five years those white people who attended the Sunday card-parties of the Governor would accept him—half-caste wife and al... ...saltness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants’ soul. The old sea; the sea of many years ago, whose servants were devoted s... ...e sea took him young, fashioned him body 16 An Outcast of the Islands and soul; gave him his fierce aspect, his loud voice, his fearless eyes, his st... ...om—his world, where he had been first—all those men to whom he had been so super- ciliously condescending. Won’t they talk with sur- prise, and affect... ...quickly and darting an angry glance at Willems. Those two specimens of the superior race glared at each other savagely for a minute, then turned away ... ...stray lives he found here and there under his busy hand. He remembered the Sunday-school teachings of his native village and the discourses of the bla...

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... done, he returned with an easier air to the table and his meal. “The poor soul’s had an accident or an op’ration or somethin’,” said Mrs. Hall. “What... ...urt too—maybe.” She turned round, as one who suddenly remembers. “Bless my soul alive!” she said, going off at a tangent; “ain’t you done them taters ... ... go to church, and indeed made no 18 The Invisible Man difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as Mrs. Hall t... ...ked what an experimental in- vestigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew such things as that, and would t... ...e main groups there were waverers and com- promisers. Sussex folk have few superstitions, and it was only after the events of early April that the tho... ...s, and it was only after the events of early April that the thought of the super- natural was first whispered in the village. Even then it was only cr... ...cullery thoroughly, and at last went down into the cellar. There was not a soul to be found in the house, search as they would. Daylight found the vic... ...ith them gog- gling eyes and bandaged head, and never going to church of a Sunday. And all they bottles—more’n it’s right for any one to have. He’s pu... ...hich Mrs. Bunting and other ladies were preparing tea, while, without, the Sunday-school children ran races and played games un- der the noisy guidanc...

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...s way obtained from her her company during some of her little holidays—her Sundays or summer evenings—he seduced her. Scatcherd accused him openly of ... ...rily; he had a character to make, which must come slowly; it satisfied his soul, that in addition to his immortal hopes, he had a possible future in t... ...y humble but umble, which I look upon to be the com- parative, or, indeed, superlative degree. Or perhaps there are four degrees; humble, umble, stumb... ...r tempt her to yield up the fortress of her heart, the guardianship of her soul, the possession of her mind; not that alone, nor that, even, as any po... ... the inner man, the inner woman, the na- ked creature animated by a living soul; that all other ad- 97 Anthony Trollope juncts were but man’s clothin... ... was a school of worshippers ready to adore him as their idea of a divine, superhuman, miracle- moving, inspired prophet—declared that his wondrous wo... ... attaches luck to an odd number, I’ll have the sixth to show that I am not superstitious. ’ While Mary was preparing the sixth jorum, there came a kno... ...’ ‘Oh, not in the least, ’ said Miss Dunstable, with rather a joyous air; ‘Sundays and week-days are all the same there. ’ ‘How very frightful!’ said ... ...was a deuced shame: for his part he always liked to see people go quiet on Sundays. The parsons had only one day out of seven, and he thought they wer...

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...ite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensable though it was, could be carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One. In that far-off time superstition clung easily round every person or thing that was at all unwonted, or even intermittent and occasional merely, like the visits of the peddlar or the knife-grinder. No one knew where wandering men had their homes ...

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...carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One. In that far off time superstition clung easily round every person or thing that was at all unwon... ... awe at the mysterious action of the loom, by a pleasant sense of scornful superiority, drawn from the mockery of its alternating noises, along with t... ...f as soon as you can say “Gee!” But there might be such a thing as a man’s soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of it... ...lloquies have occupied many a pair of pale faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been like young winged things, fluttering forsaken in the twiligh... ...to him that Sarah did not object to William’s occasional presence in their Sunday interviews. It was at this point in their history that Silas’s catal... ...r, and exhorted his friend to see that he had no accursed thing within his soul. Silas, feeling bound to accept rebuke and admoni tion as a brotherly... ...s a place of luxurious resort for rich and stout husbands, whose wives had superfluous stores of linen; it was the place where he was likely to find the... ...ose looking man, an excellent wheelwright in his week day capacity, but on Sundays leader of the choir. He winked, as he spoke, at two of the company,... ...: I thought you would,” said Mr. Macey; “and my advice is — have you got a Sunday suit?” “No,” said Marner. “I doubted it was so,” said Mr. Macey. “No...

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...lks of the higher intellect; he was not having his impudent boy’s fling at superiority over the supe- rior, as here and there a subtle-minded vain juv... ... to the Colonel of the First Regiment of the Impe- rial Guard, Paris. That superscription had been suggested by Colonel Halkett. Rosamund was in favou... ...ase in sheep. Skeletons can’t make a stand. On the top of it all they sing Sunday tunes!’ This behaviour of corn-law agitators and protectors of poach... ...ate; he is eating his dinners for the bar in London, and comes to me every Sunday. I shall marry him to a good girl, and I shall show your uncle what ... ...ugh the faithful mirror of fiction has been showing us latterly that a too superhu- man beauty has disturbed popular belief in the bare begin- nings o... ... lack of variety in him. That conqueror of circumstances will, the dullest soul may begin predicting, return on his cockhorse to favour and authority.... ...he heart in their youth have sharp foretastes of the issues imaged for the soul. St. Mark’s was in a minute struck black for him. He neither felt the ... ...er shoulders—to feel something of the life and death issues present to his soul, and submit to the discussion, in plain language of the mar- ket-place... ...lection. The Address, moreover, was ultra-Radical: museums to be opened on Sundays; omi- nous references to the Land question, etc.; no smooth pass- i...

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... the weather, or any other common matter — “You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs — and bodies?” I said I... ..., I could invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. Well, a man like ... ...a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of inse... ...eem to me that of all the childish, idiotic, chuckle headed, chicken livered super stitions that ev — oh, damn Merlin!” But Clarence had slumped to h... ...nd sincerely afraid of Merlin’s pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive some way to ta... ...You will not need to do the sun a real hurt — ah, forget not that, on your soul forget it not! Only make a little darkness — only the littlest littl... ...for I was afraid of the Church. I had started a teacher factory and a lot of Sunday schools the first thing; as a result, I now had an admirable syst... ...hat matter. But I confined public religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday schools, permitting nothing of it in my other educational buildin... ...amsel was but fifteen year of age —” Billows of thought came rolling over my soul, and the voice faded out of my hearing! Fifteen! Break — my heart! o...

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...an myself, and needed a protector, I found one in 5 Thackeray yonder kind soul, who has gone to his account repenting of the innocent wrong he has do... ...between them; and, though Lord Castlewood was the kindest and most pliable soul alive, his spirit was very high; and hence that meeting which has brou... ...read in the young gentleman’s eyes, which had now no fear of hers or their superannuated authority, that he knew or suspected the truth about his birt... ... years, and which left him after he said mass for the repose of the king’s soul. There was M. Marais, a surgeon in Auvergne, who had a palsy in both h... ...ere the banns about to be published, as no doubt they were, that very next Sunday at Walcote Church, Esmond swore that he would be present to shout No... ...uke was so yet; Mr. Webb had said a thousand things against him, which his superior had pardoned; and his Grace, whose spies were everywhere, had hear... ... with him: and Henry Esmond, on his return to Chelsey, found himself quite super- seded in her favor by her younger kinsman. The feat of drink- ing th... ... courted and married and buried the last one. Quitting the Guard-table one Sunday afternoon, when by chance Dick had a sober fit upon him, be and his ... ...d – Book Two CHAPTER XII I GET A COMPANY IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1706. ON W HIT-SUNDAY, the famous 23rd of May, 1706, my young lord first came under the fi...

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...red itself for such a labor, I shrank from it as too fatiguing—and also as super- fluous; since, if the proofs had satisfied the compatriots of Catali... ...d wheel- ers into the right direction, and forced them, by pure physi- cal superiority, into working. We furnished a joyous and comic spectacle to eve... ...osed so severely by Spittler, the German, who, again, is himself miserably superficial in his analysis of English history. Hence the feeble credulity ... ...ffirmative doctrines, interest- ing to man, such as the immortality of the soul, a futurity of retribution, &c., might be here commemorated. And now, ... ... " ...................................................... 141 9. All Souls’ " ...................................................... 98 1... ...and compelled a Pacha to lay down his arms on the road between Yannina and Souli. It was even proposed by the gallant partisan, Mark Bozzaris, that al... ...sailed to Patrass, and reached it on the fifteenth of April. This was Palm Sunday, and it dawned upon the Greeks with evil omens. First came a smart s...

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...ure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the people, gave soul and wing to litera- ture; only by coming to earth, the native earth, w... ...und, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol’s work his “free Cossack soul” trying to break through the shell of sordid to-day like some ancient ... ...ainian songs he loved so much. Ukrainian was to Gogol “the language of the soul,” and it was in Ukrainian songs rather than in old chronicles, of whic... ...d result—considering our knowledge of past ex- perience, our possession of superior weapons, our religion given to make us holy and superior beings. A... ...to resort to the sword. Namely, when the commissioners did not respect the superior officers and stood before them covered; when any one made light of... ... introduce them into society, and ordered them to be kept more strictly in supervision. This command was quite superfluous, for neither the rector nor... ...is that—evi- dently his wife has been beating him. I’d better go to him on Sunday morning; after Saturday night he will be a little cross-eyed and sle... ...akievitch with himself, regained his cour- age, and waited until the first Sunday, when, seeing from afar that Petrovitch’s wife had left the house, h... ...his house. She often saw him passing the house; and he was at church every Sunday, praying, but at the same time gazing cheerfully at everybody; so th...

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...ed, and which had probably no electoral value whatever. Many simple simple souls believed that it was be- cause certain severely virtuous plays by Ibs... ...s restraint; for mo- rality, with all the dead weight of human inertia and superstition to hang on the back of the pioneer, and all the malice of vulg... ...at the mercy of the magistrate’s personal caprice, preju- dice, ignorance, superstition, temper, stupidity, resent- ment, timidity, ambition, or priva... ...r- tunes of a good-hearted and virtuous girl. Its morality was that of the Sunday school. But the principal ac- tress, between two speeches which cont... ...s been found nec- essary, in order to enable good music to be performed on Sunday, to take away these powers in that par- ticular, and vest them solel... ...ality on the stage, and even their protection against the preju- dices and superstitions which necessarily enter largely into morality and public opin... ...t you tie him up in the Sheriff’s stable? 77 Shaw ELDER DANIELS. He has a soul to be saved, almost like the rest of us. I am bound to try to put some... ...one up, Strapper; and leave me here alone to wrestle with his poor blinded soul. STRAPPER. I’ll get a witness all right enough. I know the road he too... ...gel serving his time in a vale of tears. They talked Christianity to us on Sundays; but when they really meant business they told us never to take a b...

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... for three months to come. Do you understand all the force and frenzy in a soul which impatiently waits for the opening of a gambling hell? Be- tween ... ...ry within their reach. This contradiction in humanity is seen wherever the soul reacts powerfully upon itself. The gallant would clothe his mistress i... ...is reach. V ehe- 10 The Magic Skin ment must the storms be which compel a soul to seek for peace from the trigger of a pistol. How much young power s... ...ul look in the unmoving eyes of the spec- tre forbade the idea of anything supernatural; but for all that, in the brief space between his dreaming and... ... if to steady himself, took up a little dagger, and said: “Have you been a supernumerary clerk of the T reasury for three years without receiving any ... ...egorically to the old man, who only smiled meaningly by way of answer. His superior smile led the young scientific man to fancy that he himself had be... ...g in the Virgin and the King, taking the sacrament at Easter, dancing of a Sunday on the green sward, and understanding never a word of the rector’s s...

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...de will startle you into laughter as you walk the streets in bitterness of soul over the treason of one who was your friend in the past. In some respe... ...operas, played in 1815 and 1816, and divers unpublished scores. The worthy soul was now ending his days as the con- ductor of an orchestra in a boulev... ...id years of travel Pons was as happy as was possible to a man with a great soul, a sensitive nature, and a face so ugly that any “success with the fai... ... hide his feelings, and learned to take sanctuary in his inmost self. Many superficial persons inter- pret this conduct by the short word “selfishness... ...so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. An angel could not have found a word to say to Schmu... ...r of nut- crackers,” a nickname which makes any portrait of Schmucke quite superfluous, for he was to Pons as the famous statue of the Nurse of Niobe ... ...urprising that people dispute for the honor of seeing you. Very well, next Sunday? Within a week, as we say at the courts?” “On Sunday we are to dine ... ...ou are right; it vould pe too much for me.” An hour later La Cibot, in her Sunday clothes, departed in great state, to the no small astonishment of th... ...ould not listen to me,” put in a neighbor; “I advised him to walk out of a Sunday and keep Saint Monday; two days in the week is not too much for amus...

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...king me out a criminal. I might be rash, but I was innocent; the dupe of a superior and malign intelligence. I would probably be admonished to choose ... ...ls of ragged civiles. My new captor paused a moment; perhaps his patriotic soul was stirred. Then we traversed an alley with locked doors on both side... ... …. Paris, where one forgets, Paris, which is Pleasure, Paris, in whom our souls live, Paris, the beautiful, Paris at last. The Englishman woke up and... ...a gate, singularly narrow and forbidding, in the grey long wall. No living soul ap- peared to inhabit this desolation. The older rang at the gate. A g... ...e gotta show these lousy Frenchmen what Americans are. We gotta show we’re superior to ‘em. Those bastards doughno what a bath means. And you fellers ... ... so pleased with himself as after producing this bon mot. Only fear of his superior, the ogre-like Directeur, kept him from letting off entirely all c... ...ments of his power, which instruments are three in number: Fear, Women and Sunday. By Apollyon I mean a very definite fiend. A fiend who, 107 e e cum... ...t of Women, and embark upon the quieter if no less enlightening subject of Sunday. Sunday, it will be recalled, was Monsieur le Directeur’s third weap... ...ely (as frequently oc- curred owing to the fact that weather conditions on Sunday were invariably more indescribable than usual) a planton mounted to ...

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...in his opinion would have rendered further exposition of Metrov’s theories super- fluous. But later on, feeling convinced that they looked at the matt... ...ow, when suddenly all disguises were thrown off and the very kernel of her soul shone in her eyes. And in this simplicity and nakedness of her soul, s... ...thing sublime was being accomplished in 46 Anna Karenina – Part Seven her soul, but what? He could not make it out. It was beyond his understanding. ... ... the least hinder his turn- ing to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt... ... He could not get used to the idea. It seemed to him something extraneous, superfluous, to which he could not accus- tom himself. Chapter 16 At ten o’... ...y after tomorrow.” “Yes...oh, no, wait a minute! The day after to-morrow’s Sunday, I have to be at maman’s,” said Vronsky, embar- rassed, because as s...

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...ry, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? Man?s whole life and environment have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragment or fibre of his Soul, Body, and Possessions, but has been probed, dissected, distilled, desiccated, and scientifically decomposed: our spiritual Faculties, of which it appears there are not a few, have their Stewarts, Cousins, Royer Collards...

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...I — ORGANIC FILAMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 CHAPTER VIII — NATURAL SUPERNATURALISM . . . . . . . . . 163 CHAPTER IX — CIRCUMSPECTIVE . . . .... ...nment have been laid open and elucidated; scarcely a fragment or fibre of his Soul, Body, and Possessions, but has been probed, dis sected, distilled,... ...cience,— the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man’s Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall; wherein his whole other T... ...ll the Intellect of the place assembled of an evening); and there, with low, soul stirring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a w... ...d prescribed by ever active Influences, which doubtless to Intelligences of a superior order are neither invisible nor illegible. “For such superior In... ...tate of Nature, affecting by its singularity, and Old Roman contempt of the superfluous, we shall quit this part of our subject. 34 SARTOR RESARTUS C... ...ore than Cassocks and Surplices; and do not at all mean the mere haberdasher Sunday Clothes that men go to Church in. Far from it! Church Clothes are,...

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...der which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning ... ...e how her imagination adorned her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own, and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange fr... ...de and companion to his nieces. But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed ... ...ia, uneasily. “No, dear, no,” said Dorothea, stroking her sister’s cheek. “Souls have com plexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.” 8... ...your property.” Celia felt a little hurt. There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic toleration, hardly less trying to the blond fl... ...ings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man’s face.” 14 Book I — Miss Brooke “Has Mr. Casaubon a great s... ...9 “Half a crown, these times! Come now—for the Rector’s chicken broth on a Sunday. He has consumed all ours that I can spare. You are half paid with t... ...e same pew for generations, and the Featherstone pew next to them, if, the Sunday after her brother Peter’s death, everybody was to know that the prop... ...onsciousness of being on the premises, mingled with fleeting suggestions of Sunday and the bar at the Green Man; and he informed Mary Garth that he sho...