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...y of Allworthy; with a short sketch of the char acters of two brothers, a doctor and a captain, who were enter tained by that gentleman Neither Mr... ... breed him to a profession he disliked. In obedience to this obstinacy the doctor had in his youth been obliged to study physic, or rather to say he s... ...e only ones with which he was unacquainted; and unfortunately for him, the doctor was master of al The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fi... ...ave not the least love or respect for them? Whether any of these motives operated on the doctor, we will not determine; but so the fact was. He sent... ...ional strength before he openly declares himself and proceeds upon hostile operations: and such additional strength soon arrived to corroborate her su... ...t been nine months gone away.” Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to whic... ...e again revived, to their great satisfaction: but as to the cap tain, all experiments of bleeding, chafing, dropping, &c., proved ineffectual. Death,... ...ately into a dispute on the occasion of his death; but in reality all such experiments had been made before their arrival: for the captain was put int... ... matter to light. But Mr. Allworthy absolutely refused to consent to the experiment. He said, the boy had suffered enough already for concealing the...

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...e present act of republication had in any respect worn the character of an experiment, I should have shrunk from it in despondency. But the experiment... ...t held necessary to plead anything; war justifies itself. To fight for the experimental purpose of trying the proportions of mar- tial merit, but (to ... ...at all designing it, I once became the author of the following instructive experiment. I had given a copy of this little novel to a beautiful girl of ... ... remembered, jealous duties as well as privileges), was sure to become the operative feeling. I con- tended that in the English situation there was no... ...hip and jealousy, between two girls, here it might be anticipated in daily operation. But, left to themselves, the yearnings of the female heart tend ... ... Bailey, a clergyman of this city, who had published a Hebrew Grammar. The doctor was the most unworldly and guileless of men. Amongst his orthodox br... ... for his services by various splendid presents: but nothing would the good doctor accept, unless it assumed a shape that might be available for the se... ...assoon, she represented the mariner lecturing to advantage in English; the doctor overhead in the pulpit enforcing it in Hebrew. Angry I was, though f... ...th)—starting, in fact, from prejudices, and absolute errors of fact, which operate most uncharitably upon their construction of those insulated statem...

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...SAN’S LIFE ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE IN 1824, at the last opera ball of the season, several masks were struck by the beauty of a yout... ... was so handsome as to rank among those exceptional persons who come to an opera ball in search of an adventure, and who expect it as confidently as m... ...e the hero of one of those mysteries with three actors which constitute an opera ball, and are known only to those who play a part in them; for, to yo... ...iest and the political student, were not above all suspi- cion. However, a doctor who was stopped by death had the courage to begin an investigation w... ...t know what to think when she saw her pining under consuming debility. The doctor was called in when the girl’s condition seemed serious; but this doc... ...’s baptism and first Communion. “How long will it be till then?” asked the doctor. “A month,” replied the Superior. “She will be dead,” said the docto... ...on of the prison doctor’s countenance. Carlos begged them to make the same experiment on the other shoulder and the middle of his back. About fifteen ... ...ulas or symbols to express that power. Why, only yesterday, I witnessed an experiment which gave me a shud- der, and which accounts for the terrible s... ...agnetism,” Lebrun went on, “offered to 370 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life experiment on me in proof of a phenomenon that he de- scribed and I doubted...

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...ith placards of a bull-fight, to take place the next evening (there was no opera that sea- son); but it was not a real Spanish tauromachy—only a theat... ...horses; squads of priests, habited after the fashion of Don Basilio in the opera, are demurely pacing to and fro; professional beggars run shrieking a... ...gh there is every gaiety and amusement in the town, a comfort- able little opera, a good old library filled full of good old books (none of your works... ...ing for him. He is dead in a day, and buried in the walls of the prison. A doctor felt his pulse by deputy—a clergyman comes from the town to read the... ...bout with fat Pashas lolling on the cushions; stately-looking colonels and doctors taking their ride, followed by their orderlies or footmen; lines of... ...bridge man, and had learned both algebra and politeness under the Reverend Doctor Whizzle, of—College. One day when Mr. MacWhirter, B. A. , was walki... ...ing the route did my animals fall with me, causing me to repeat the desert experiment over again, but with more success. The space between a moderate ...

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...h that he repeated the process at several points of the sphere in which he operated; later, these first successful essays gave him the idea of proposi... ... wanted to keep her uncle, after the manner of the managers of the Italian Opera, who entreat their popular tenor to wrap up his throat, and give him ... ... the reticence of the crimi- nal. Her health was extremely feeble; but the doctor having advised her going out into the fresh air, she had on one occa... ...n’s defenders were mak- ing the most of. The prisoner was misled, said the doctor, by the talents of his lawyer, and was sure of acquittal; at times h... ...was the guilty party) the result of two unexpected struggles. Success, the doctor said, was re- ally as doubtful for one side as for the other. After ... ...i- nal, and a man is liable to punishment. For instance, every man must co-operate in escapes; every convict has his time assigned him to escape, and ... ...authority, has neither bowels of compas- sion nor fatherhood; it makes its experiments in anima vili. Never does it inquire into the horrible statisti...

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...two mistresses, A priest the other — at least so they say: I ask’d the doctors after his disease — He died of the slow fever call’d the tertia... ...d round him: No choice was left his feelings or his pride, Save death or Doctors’ Commons — so he died. Dying intestate, Juan was sole heir ... ...ture, and the various arts, And likes particularly to produce Some new experiment to show his parts; This is the age of oddities let loose, ... ...ainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a new one from an ox. Bread ... ...s, To newspapers, whose truth all know and feel, To plays in five, and operas in three acts; All these confirm my statement a good deal, B... ...ee, Sir—you Have got a travell’d air, which speaks you one To whom the opera is by no means new: You ‘ve heard of Raucocanti? — I ‘m the man; ... ...ont: Each villa on the Bosphorus looks a screen New painted, or a pretty opera scene. And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain st...

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... to passion. My father says when we do that we are calling in the devil as doctor. Well the Bantam was told to state what he had seen and the moment h... ...hose abominations whom you call precocious boys— your little pet monsters, doctor!—and who can wonder that the world is what it is? when it is full of... ...argument left to Dr. Clifford, and other unbelievers. So far certainly the experiment had succeeded. A comelier, bracer, better boy was nowhere to be ... ...fess I should like a barrel-organ better; that reminds one of town and the opera; and besides, it plays more than one tune. However, since you think m... ... For whither are we tending? What home is pure absolutely? What cannot our doctors and lawyers tell us?” Mr. Thompson acquiesced significantly. “ And ... ...l above sugar. It won’t do! Take my word for it, Feverel, it’s a dangerous experiment, that of bring- ing up flesh and blood in harness. No colt will ... ...in a personal antagonism to the young woman who had stepped in between his experiment and success. He did not think kindly of her. Lady Blandish’s en-... ...ind smell?” 162 Ordeal of Richard Feverel Richard nodded, and watched the operations while the farmer filled, and lighted, and began to puff, as if h... ...plucking of the Autumn primrose that Benson had seen: a somewhat different operation from the plucking of the Spring one: very innocent! Our staid eld...

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...t the very threshold, by warning off those who dis- sent from them, so far operate to limit your audience. To take my own case as an illustration: the... ...own: 3 but what has become of the second, viz., not the teaching, but the operative working of Chris- tianity? The ethical system is replaced by a st... ...ssenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact may not have operated to blunt the suspicions of the Protestant churches. I do not mean ... ... test the nature of this mysterious appari- tion, we will try two or three experiments upon him. What we fear, and with some reason, is, that, as he l... ...ve thrown me upon the vigilant attentions (relieved from mo- notony by the experimental kicks) of boys. So far, the change was very much for the bette... ...e Quincey between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual sugges... ...y to the gifted eyes of a Cassandra, or to the eyes that, like my own, had experimentally become ac- quainted with them as facts. Pitiably mean is he ... ...out exception, but also as many of the debtors as might be found at large; doctors of medicine more especially, but with no absolute immunity for the ... ...as Phaedrus, the Aesopian fabulist. A great mistake it was, on the part of Doctor S., that the second book in the Latin language which I was summoned ...

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...ssed her sleepily. In a moment he closed his eyes and was fast asleep. The doctor came for- 4 Of Human Bondage wards and stood by the bed-side. “Oh, ... ... and stood by the bed-side. “Oh, don’t take him away yet,” she moaned. The doctor, without answering, looked at her gravely. Knowing she would not be ... ... her hand over the left one. She gave a sob. “What’s the matter?” said the doctor . “Y ou’re tired.” She shook her head, unable to speak, and the tear... ...ut since he had there died of typhoid it was impos- sible to look upon the experiment as other than dangerous. The result of innumerable conversa- tio... ...gner will be as dead as mutton. Wagner! I would give all his works for one opera by Donizetti.” 122 Of Human Bondage XXV THE ODDEST OF PHILIP’ S mast... ...romises made him were carried out; mean- while he went a great deal to the opera, and made acquaintance with a small number of charming people who adm... ...Isle Adam. They went to plays together and sometimes to the gallery of the Opera Comique. There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared ... ...ange, and he was very anxious to 603 W. Somerset Maugham repeat the lucky experiment of the summer; but war had broken out with the T ransvaal and no...

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... region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical pro- ... ...and seeing him now exhibiting strong symp- toms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now o... ...rs’s best cutlery with a vengeance. Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is m... ...of Mrs. Hussey’s clam and cod announcement, I thought I would try a little experiment. Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered the word “cod” with gre... ...the matter with you, young man?” “Get the axe! For God’s sake, run for the doctor, some one, while I pry it open!” “Look here,” said the landlady, qui... ...rs’ housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers. And though this also holds true of merchant v... ...t out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregat... ...many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow’s-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the... ...re old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly jui...

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...ote” by an infu- sion of cockney flippancy and facetiousness, as Motteux’s opera- tors did, is not merely an impertinence like larding a sirloin of pr... ...ich, it seems probable, his brother Rodrigo was serving, and shared in the operations of the next three years, including the capture of the Goletta an... ...e their escape; but just as they were about to put it into execu- tion one Doctor Juan Blanco de Paz, an ecclesiastic and a compa- triot, informed the... ...quote the Holy Scriptures!—anyone would say they are St. Thomases or other doctors of the Church, observing as they do a decorum so ingenious that in ... ...l he was satisfied with its strength; and then, not caring to try any more experiments with it, he passed it and adopted it as a helmet of the most pe... ...f pilchards’ heads, than all the herbs described by Dioscorides, even with Doctor Laguna’s notes. Nevertheless, Sancho the Good, mount thy beast and c... ...to imagine any husband so foolish as to 286 Don Quixote try such a costly experiment as Anselmo’s. If it had been repre- sented as occurring between ... ...s defenders, who did all that they could and should have done, but because experiment proved how easily entrenchments could be made in the desert sand...

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...en as learned as three Schlegels in one, whereas I mean to remain a humble Doctor of the Faculty of Social Medicine, a veterinary sur- geon for incura... ...ltivate her talent as a singer. She made me music-mad; I took a box at the opera for her and for my daughter, and went there alternate evenings with C... ... my sweet little girl, a perfect darling—but you must have seen her at the opera; he got her an engagement there. Your husband is not so well behaved ... ... down again when she had seen that Robert le Diable was to be given at the Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the Fre... ... of the choice of things that taste assimilates, was entirely want- ing. A doctor of social science would have detected a lover in two or three specim... ...s, you may amuse yourself, child; then you will have enough to pay for the doctor and for your pleasure, libertine that you are.” Wenceslas Steinbock,... ... And the smug Puritans who amuse themselves in France with phil- anthropic experiments fancy that they are making the com- mon people moral! Between t...

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...navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferen... ...te the cost, that breeze and brine may make a man of him, according to the doctor’s prescription: sweet is home, but health is sweeter! Then was there... ...rself to be probed here and there, and revealed nothing of the pain of the operation. She said to Nevil, in Rosamund’s hearing: ‘Have you the sense of... ...onist retired from his licenced business of slaughterer—one of your gratis doctors— met him on the high-road, and told him he was the man. Up went Nev... ...madam.’ It is perhaps excuseable that this communication did not cause the doctor to shine with added lustre in Rosamund’s thoughts, or ennoble the yo... ... when there is no new cry to loosen floods. It was too late to think of an operation to divide them. They held the heart of the cause between them, we... ...by the sex, allegiance to one beloved respected woman, and also a basis of operations against the world. For she was evidently conquerable, and once m... ...p and down our ranks flapping their leathern straps to ter- rorize us from experiments in imagery, will best be satisfied, by the statement that she w...

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...e added something of their own for her comfort, as the 5 Sir Walter Scott doctor upon just cause and consideration did suspect, seeing their great im... ...potion, he might after have been hanged for a colour of their sin, and the doctor remained still well assured that this way taking no effect, she woul... ...e two or three years past there came to these parts one who called himself Doctor Doboobie, although it may be he never wrote even Magister Artium, sa... ...y not inferior in its influ- ence to any other pride whatever, here so far operated on Wayland Smith, that, notwithstanding the obvious danger of his ... ...speak with him, and, expressing his hope that he had been pleased with the operation of his medicine in behalf of Sir Hugh Robsart, added his desire t... ...ess and ad- dress that plainly showed him well practised in all the manual operations of pharmacy. By the time Wayland’s electuary was prepared the ho... ... of this potion.” “Be it so, good friend,” said the Earl. “And now for our experiment; but first call my secretary and chamberlain.” “Bear witness,” h... ...p his hands and eyes. The alchemist intimated his purpose to continue some experiment of high import during the greater part of the night, and the oth... ...oceeded from the solitary cell in which the alche- mist pursued his occult experiments. “He is of those,” she added, “who sit up and watch by night th...

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...here is one point, ere I have done, where I may go to meet criticism. I have said nothing of faulty hygiene, bath- ing during fevers, mistaken treatme... ... person whom he wronged. In the experience of my informant, almost no tapu had been put in use, except the two described: he had thus no opportunity t... ...rs and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and gone since this sli... ...n- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its purport is taken down progressively by one of the ex- perts, writing, I was told, ‘... ...stood out alone; you might say he was the only Gilbert Islander in Apemama. Violence, so common in Butaritari, seems unknown. So are theft and drunken... ...nquired if I had gin. 226 In The South Seas I told him I had. He remarked that gin was forbidden, lauded the prohibition a while, and then went on to... ...ied by his majesty with the devil—sends and removes bodily sickness. He is whistled for in the Paumotuan manner, and is said to appear; but the king h...

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... region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical profe... ..., and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business operations, and jump ing into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now... ...rs’s best cutlery with a vengeance. Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is ma... ...of Mrs. Hussey’s clam and cod announcement, I thought I would try a little experiment. Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered the word “cod” with gre... ... the matter with you, young man?” “Get the axe! For God’s sake,run for the doctor, some one, while I pry it open!” “Look here,” said the landlady, qui... ...s’ housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, coster mongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers. And though this also holds true of merchant v... ...nt out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregat... ... many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow’s nest, with a small compass he kept there for the... ...re old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly jui...

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...You were wishing just now,” said Villefort, addressing her, “that I were a doctor instead of a lawyer. Well, I at least resemble the disciples of Escu... ...tted Naples, Captain Leclere was attacked with a brain fever. As we had no doctor on board, and he was so anxious to arrive at Elba, that he would not... ...hence, should it depart, it is conveyed to some gloomy hospital, where the doctor has no thought for man or mind in the mutilated being the jailer del... ...ugh his brain were enclosed in crystal so clear as to display its minutest operations. “I have already told you,” answered the abbe, “that I loathe th... ...im a priest.” A shout of laughter followed this brutal jest. Meanwhile the operation of putting the body in the sack was going on. “This evening,” sai... ...imself of them. The Leghorn barber said nothing and went to work. When the operation was concluded, and Edmond felt that his chin was completely smoot... ...Abbe Adelmonte, of whom I spoke just now, made in this way some marvellous experiments.” “Really?” “Yes; I will mention one to you. He had a remarkabl...

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...oloured pencils, and some- times he would display a specimen or arrange an experiment for them to see. The room in the Institute in which he taught wa... ...nt with maps and diagrams and drawings of his own. But he never really did experiments, except that in the class in systematic botany he sometimes mad... ... botany he sometimes made us tease common flowers to pieces. He did not do experiments if he could possibly help it, because in the first place they u... ...on Society; but happily he stopped in time. He hardly completed any of the operations he began; something else became more urgent or simply he tired; ... ...rades serving agriculture. There was a blacksmith, a saddler, a chemist, a doctor, a bar- ber, a linen-draper (who brewed his own beer); a veterinary ... ... was helpless and that things must he done. “Mother!” I said, “we must get Doctor Beaseley,—and carry him indoors.” CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CH... ...ner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because of his co-operative societies, and because what Lancashire thinks to-day England thin... ...etent men they had always been, failing to imagine, failing to plan and co-operate, failing to grip. And the com- mon soldiers, too, they were just wh... ...lity for Isabel in every phrase and gesture. And there was a very pleasant doctor, an Oxford man, who seemed on excellent terms with every one. It was...

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...s to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book; that it had even operated changes in our way of thought; nay, that it promised to prove, as ... ...man proceed by mere Accident, but the hand is ever guided on by mysterious operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Arch... ...h other branches of wagon-science, and has actually put forth his hand and operated on Nature, is the more cunningly gifted of the two. Whence, then, ... ...ience, which the scientific head alone, were it screwed off, and (like the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosec... ...le worse confounded. Close by a rather eloquent Oration, “On receiving the Doctor’s-Hat,” lie wash- bills, marked bezahlt (settled). His Travels are i... ...oundplan, the truest I had, was be- ginning to be there, and by additional experiments might be corrected and indefinitely extended.” Thus from povert... ...ntasm, made up of Desire and Fear, of emanations from the Gallows and from Doctor Graham’s Celestial-Bed? Happiness of an approving Conscience! Did no... ...e is the most mo- mentous instructive Course of Practical Philosophy, with Experiments, going on; towards the right comprehension of which his Peripat... ...t the following: “Satisfy yourselves,” he says, “by universal, indubitable experiment, even as ye are now doing or will do, whether freedom, heaven-bo...

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.... For, lo, the great Guillotine, wondrous to behold, now stands there; the Doctor’s Idea has become Oak and Iron; the huge cyclopean axe ‘falls in its... ...ansculottes. In the Septem- ber days, this Minister was not heard of as co-operating with strict Roland; his business might lie elsewhere,—with Brunsw... ...t men are coming: Teachers, Hus- bandmen, Priests and Ex-Priests, Traders, Doctors; above all, Talkers, or the Attorney-species. Man-midwives, as Leva... ... present, with drawn bridle, on the height near Saint-Menehould, making an experiment on the ‘cannon- fever;’ having ridden thither against persuasion... ...Tavern de La Lune!— This is the Cannonade of Valmy; wherein the World-Poet experimented on the cannon-fever; wherein the French Sansculottes did not f... ... National Convention gives of itself; by this scientific program shall its operations and events go on. But from the best scien- tific program, in suc... ...ass. After months of scrutinising, balloting, argu- ing and jargoning, one Doctor Chambon gets the post of honour: who will not long keep it; but be, ... ... the Mountain quarter, ’ says Mercier, ‘had become as Box-open- ers at the Opera;’ opening and shutting of Galleries for privileged persons, for ‘d’Or... ...teur, No. 231).) Lavoisier begged a fortnight more of life, to finish some experiments: but “the Republic does not need such;” the axe must do its wor...