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...on. He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom’s vitals. The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his fi... ...m the “next time he caught him out.” To which Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather, and as soon as his back was turned the new ... ... near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to star board and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circum... ... wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart. Tom sulked in a corner and exalted his wo... ...s would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree box on top of it for a steeple. At... ...tend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom’s head, and trilled out her imit... ...to think, Becky, we are away down below them — and I don’t know how far away north, or south, or east, or whichever it is. We couldn’t hear them here....

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...o the house, you know,” she said, struck with an idea, “and see if they’ve started, or what has happened.” “I don’t know—I don’t know,” murmured Mrs. ... ...e bold, he would offer a mortal affront. She had not yet forgiven him that stare of suspicion when first their eyes had met; he should pay her for tha... ...rd upon the sub- ject, “The bridge was turned!” The Cresslers lived on the North Side. The incident seemed to be closed with the abruptness of a slamm... ...ap- pear on the balcony of the pavilion, and while she de- clared that the stars and the night-bird together sang “He loves thee,” the voices close at... ...two of Corthell, and his hands were large and broad, the hands of a man of affairs, who knew how to grip, and, above all, how to hang on. Those broad,... ...ttain, and how wide and huge and even formidable would be their embrace of affairs. One of those great manoeuvres of a fellow money-captain had that v... ...er wom- anhood, her sex side. And between them it was more a give-and-take affair, more equality, more companionship. Corthell spoke only of her heart... ... The carriage rolled on through the darkened downtown streets, towards the North Side, where the Dearborns lived. They could hear the horses plashing ... ...t once, the strange appearance of the neighbourhood as the carriage turned north from out Jackson Street into La Salle, forced itself upon her attenti...

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...ort of mastery which could accomplish something with the aid of propitious stars. Why I did not return to “The Res- cue” at once then, was not for the... ... wind, and a small brig that had lain all the afternoon a few miles to the northward and westward of Carimata had hardly altered its position half a m... ...ast, he sighed profoundly, nerved himself for a great effort, and making a start away from the rail managed to drag his slippers as far as the binnacl... ... trucks move forever, to a seaman’s eye, against the clouds or against the stars. To him she was always precious—like old love; always desir- able—lik... ... more at home over there—in the Bay.” He pointed into the night toward the northwest and stared as if he could see from where he stood that Bay of Ben... ...lf only. “You could not find a better fellow for company ashore. He had an affair with a Bali girl, who one evening threw a red blossom at him from wi... ...attle of Navarino—and that was when we went to help those Greeks. But this affair about a woman was long before that time.” “I should think so,” mutte... ... a safe dock. In a few moments the line of foam and ripple running swiftly north passed at once beyond sight and earshot, leaving no trace on the unco... ...orted and armed, with the intention of going to see what would happen. The affair really was very simple, “such as”— Lingard would say—”such as might ...

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...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had cro... ...rol was indignant at the prodding curiosity of the others, their manner of staring at the poor as at a Zoo. She felt herself a great liberator. She pu... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ... toward which it was forever mysteriously gliding; and she heard again the startled bells and thick puffing of high-stacked river steamers wrecked on ... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ...alacrity with which he took that freedom and escaped to the world of men’s affairs. She gazed about their bedroom, and its full dismalness crawled ove... ...discovered that conversation did not exist in Gopher Prairie. Even at this affair, which brought out the young smart set, the hunting squire set, the ... ...y per- 51 Sinclair Lewis sonalities to a larger world of abstractions and affairs? She made her best curtsy to Mrs. Dawson; she twit- tered, “I won’t...

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...haracter of the architecture. The house of which we speak, standing on the north side of the cathedral, was always in the shadow thrown by that vast e... ... in a sad mood among the nar- row, box-edged garden paths which outlined a star in the little garden. As he turned after making the first round, he sa... ...levolent intentions, the moral ef- fect upon him was slight. But since the affair of the candle- stick and the altered clock, Birotteau would doubt no... ...elves in the solitude of their own hearts.” Then, reverting to Birotteau’s affairs, he added that “such disagreements were a novelty to him. For twelv... ...nk. But the vicar, unable to divine them, not understand- ing even his own affairs, was doomed to fall, like a lamb, at the butcher’s first blow. Mada... ...putting him on the retired list. Greatly astonished by this information he started for Paris immediately, and went at once to the minister, who seemed...

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...e of sorrow is comparison! As the sun casteth shade, night showeth star, We, measuring what we were by what we are, Behold the de... ...d, he lifted his sight, and lo, the old woman was no longer before him! He stared, and rubbed his eyes, but she was clean gone. Then ran he to the kno... ...reets of the city and in the air above them, as of raging Genii, he like a started quarry doubling this way and that, and at the corners of streets an... ...the poet?— 65 George Meredith ‘’Earth and ocean search, East, West, and North, to the South, None will match the bright rubies and pearls of her... ...n, by the punishment inflicted on Khipil the builder. Before that time his affairs had languished, and the currents of business instead of flowing had... ... of that City. Now, when the King heard of the attempt on Shagpat, and the affair of the Pomegranate Grain, he gave orders for the ad- mission of the ...

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...ow, whose subtle cross-examination of witnesses and masterly, if sometimes startling, methods of arriving at the truth seemed more thrilling to us tha... ...which, Davie, hath been done), ‘give my boy this letter into his hand, and start him off to the house of Shaws, not far from Cramond. That is the plac... ...en, had plea- sure in his society. Lastly, to put all the elements of this affair before you, here is the testamentary letter itself, superscrived by ... ... I could. “What?” cries the carter, in so sharp a note that his very horse started; and then, “Well, mannie,” he added, “it’s nane of my affairs; but ... ...s very horse started; and then, “Well, mannie,” he added, “it’s nane of my affairs; but ye seem a decent-spoken lad; and if ye’ll take a word from me,... ...the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all that, and before the sun bega... ...oor, and set forth upon our walk. The wind, being in that cold quarter the north-west, blew nearly in our faces as we went. It was the month of June; ... ...unders were those unhappy criminals who were sent over- seas to slavery in North America, or the still more unhappy innocents who were kidnapped or tr... ...ng on an isle at the ex- treme end of the wild Highlands. This state of my affairs dashed me still further; and, in- deed my plight on that third morn...

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...he help of the minor injuries, that the machine ridden is an old-fashioned affair with a fork instead of the diamond frame, a cushioned tire, well wor... ...ees. “I wish,” said he, with a catch in his voice, “I wish you’d leave off staring at me.” Then with the air of one who has delivered an ultimatum, he... ...th-keeper never moved. Possibly he raised his eye- brows, and certainly he stared harder than he did before. “You’re pretty unsociable,” he said slowl... ...nough to speak to you? Been struck wooden all of a sudden?” Mr. Hoopdriver stared into the Immensity of the Future. He was rigid with emotion. It was ... ...lies! Fictitious flies! Whatever the trouble was, it was evidently not his affair. He felt he had made a fool of himself again. He would have mumbled ... ... the attributes of a Lost Heir, and afterwards mounted and rode on towards Northchapel, a place which a number of finger-posts conspired to boom, but ... ...hat morning on the Portsmouth road,” and lower, “I never shall forget.” At Northchapel Mr. Hoopdriver consulted his map and took counsel and weighed h... ...idhurst.” He came into Midhurst by the bridge at the watermill, and up the North Street, and a little shop flourishing cheer- fully, the cheerful sign... ...t a confidence. “I take it there are two people concerned in watching this affair.” “Who’s the other?” said Mr. Hoopdriver, calmly, but con- trolling ...

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...he spinning world. The days went by like shadows, The minutes wheeled like stars. She took the pity from my heart, And made it into smiles. She was a ... ...n exquisite draperies. Their spirits watched my ecstasy With wide looks of starry unconcern. Their spirits looked upon my torture; They drank it as it... ...eak what stirred within me, And the village thought me a fool. Y et at the start there was a clear vision, A high and urgent purpose in my soul Which ... ...ventures Wherein I was all but shot for a heartless devil, But only drabby affairs, warmed-over affairs Of other days and other men. And time went on ... ... the chimney of the court-house A gray-hound of smoke leapt and chased The northwest wind. I carried a ladder to the landing of the stairs And leaned ... ... River. A flag! A flag! John Wasson OH! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carolina Through which Rebecca followed me wailing, wailing, One chil... ...u young radicals and dreamers, 120 Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carol 101 Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me, 112 Only th...

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...place at once—a par ish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world—despised by all,... ...to be hungry, when Mrs. Mann, the good lady of the house, was unexpectedly startled by the apparition of Mr. Bumble, the beadle, striving to undo the ... ... have the alterna tive (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it. Wit... ...ufactory of the very Devil himself. It chanced one morning, while Oliver’s affairs were in this auspicious and confortable state, that Mr. Gamfield, c... ...hile she scratched his face with the other. In this favourable position of affairs, Noah rose from the ground, and pommelled him behind. This was rath... ...them selves with all speed to the undertaker’s shop. Here the position of affairs had not at all improved. Sowerberry had not yet returned, and Olive... ...mposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London, by the Great North Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that this history should... ...Highgate, made along the remaining por tion of the heath to the fields at North End, in one of which he laid himself down under a hedge, and slept. S... ...s drudge, and a carrier’s lad, he is now the merriest young grazier in all Northamptonshire. And now, the hand that traces these words, falters, as it...

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...nthropist to boot. I am only a poet, and, so the critics tell me, no great affair at that! But what can this business be, Mr. Moodie? It begins to int... ...answered, “although I expect that plea sure to morrow, as she has got the start of the rest of us, and is already a resident at Blithedale. But have ... ...ould mix me up irrevo 6 The Blithedale Romance cably with the Blithedale affair, was the wisest that could possibly be taken. It was nothing short o... ...— heat. But towards noon there had come snow, driven along the street by a northeasterly blast, and whitening the roofs and sidewalks with a business ... ..., at any rate, we can never call ourselves regenerated men till a February north easter shall be as grateful to us as the softest breeze of June!” So... ...woodland, where the tree trunks opposed a snow incrusted side towards the northeast; and within ken of deserted villas, with no footprints in their a... ...nknown person at the threshold, or that some of us city folk felt a little startled at the knock which came so unseasonably, through night and storm, ... ...e, and has as little hope of personal intercourse as of climbing among the stars of heaven. We men are too gross to comprehend it. Even a woman, of ma... ... poetical a light,” replied she in the same tone, “you had better turn the affair into a ballad. It is a grand subject, and worthy of supernatural mac...

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...isfied. She says the subject has never been broached since the flight from Northwold, and that Lady Conway’s kindness never varies; and she told me sh... ...n nature must needs paint a lover, and it was all to melt her heart. I was starting off to fetch you, when I found she was in great ter- ror. She had ... ... her, I’ll be off. I’ll send her a note; we will cross to Bickleypool, and start by the mail-train this very night.’ Louis made no objection, and Jame... ...abel! Isabel! why are you making mysteries? I do not wish to pry into your affairs. I would have trusted you any- where; but when it comes round to me... ... and rowed across to Bickleypool, enlightening the Captain on the state of affairs as far as he desired. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II C... ...reering along over green turnip-fields or across amber stubble. The Little Northwold trees, in dark, 14 Dynevor Terrace V olume II sober tints of bro... ... while he, remembering former passages, felt that his father might be less startling and more persuasive, but began to understand what James must have... ...e, but began to understand what James must have suffered in committing his affairs to another. The Earl found Mary in what had been her mother’s sit- ... ...ad, therefore, brought Mary straight home, instead of stopping with her at Northwold, at eleven o’clock, to dis- turb Mrs. Frost. ‘You would have foun...

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...The daugh- ter, Maria, was a good girl—dutiful, pious, dull, but so easily startled that to speak to her was quite a perilous enterprise. ‘I don’t thi... ...ng sense of inferiority. Before they parted, Alan made a proposal that was star- tling in the extreme. He would be at Colette’s that night about twelv... ...er his arm to Miss Mackenzie, and escort her home. The night was chill and starry; all the way eastward the trees of the different gardens rustled and... ...Saint Giles; thence they adjourned to the lodgings of one of the number in North Castle Street, where (for that matter) they might have had quite as g... ...hey debated their position. Each explained he had the world to lose if the affair went on, and he ap- peared as a witness. It was remarkable what brig... ...se, and whom he eagerly avoided, in the streets; the pleasant chant of the north-country accent; the dome of St. George’s reminding him of his last pe... ...passenger was stirring. Plainly it was, now or never, the high tide of his affairs; and he drew the door as close as he durst, slipped a pebble in the... ...d the publican, and the publican toasted the cabman, and both reviewed the affairs of the nation; so he still sat, when his master condescended to ret... ...her; and he plodded off toward Craigleith. A wind had sprung up out of the north-west; it was cruel keen, it dried him like a fire, and racked his fin...

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...et it be known that, in their privacy together, they were Pole, Polar, and North Pole. Pole, Polar, and North Pole were designations of the three shad... ...lla, the el- dest, and Adela, the youngest, alternated Pole and Polar; but North Pole was shared by Cornelia with none. She was the fairest of the thr... ... air. Now, when the ladies of Brookfield heard that their Pole, Polar, and North Pole, the splendid image of themselves, had been transformed by the T... ...ounting. It is still a good way from the head of the tallest of men to the stars; so they had their work before them; but, as they observed, they were... ...h her. T alking in this manner, and leisurely marching homeward, they were startled to hear Mr. Pericles, who had wrapped himself impenetrably in the ... ...e and there, Lady Gosstre’s walk, the way to shuffle men and women, how to start themes for them to converse upon, and so forth. Not Juno and her Cour... ...at he assured them that she would have no secrets from him. His conduct of affairs was so open that none could have supposed the gallant cor- net enta... ...t a love-scene was coming on as a pen- dant to that monstrously ridiculous affair of half-an-hour back? T o know that she had sufficient sensibility w... ...case. They call it their blood. Papa seems indifferent to this part of the affair. He does not even allude to it. Still, we do not progress. It is jus...

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... He was a man, however, naturally reticent, who never al- luded to his own affairs unless in pursuit of some object the way to which was clear before ... ...he old woman who looked after his linen,—ever really knew the state of his affairs. He was certainly a handsome man,—his beauty being of a sort which ... ...carriage without a lesson to his opposite neighbour that in all the mutual affairs of travelling, arrangement of feet, disposition of bags, and open- ... ...I have received her Majesty’s orders to go down to Windsor at once. I must start within half an hour.’ ‘You are going to be Prime Minister!’ she excla... ...hanged, I should like to be Mistress of the Robes.’ ‘You!’ said he, almost startled out of his usual quiet demeanour. ‘Why not? Is not my rank high en... ...draw out the elevens for a cricket match.’ The old stager turned round and stared at the younger politician. ‘The thing itself is so momentous that on... ... gave him the opinion as to the cause of the failure of a certain horse at Northampton, Mr Wharton gave him no encouragement whatever. ‘I never was at... ...some six or seven miles distant from London, lines diverge east, west, and north, north-east, and north-west, round the metropo- lis in every directio... ...from Liverpool was due there in six minutes, but that the express from the north would pass first. Lopez thanked the pundit and gave him sixpence,— wh...

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...is remark. He bowed to his friends, and entered into the conversation. The affair which formed its subject, and which was town talk, had oc- curred th... ...did not despair of his apprehension. The papers and clubs were full of the affair, and everywhere people were discussing the probabilities of a succes... ... responded the other, showing his watch. “I know it; I don’t blame you. We start for Dover and Calais in ten minutes.” A puzzled grin overspread Passe... ...t help talking. Excuse me for a little while, consul.” 27 Jules Verne Fix started off in search of Passepartout. Meanwhile Mr. Fogg, after leaving th... ...utes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a dri... ...and was mysterious 30 Around the World in 80 Days and impenetrable in his affairs and habits. Fix felt sure that Phileas Fogg would not land at Suez,... ...a- bic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steame... ...n which to reach Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in the north- west, and all sails aiding the engine. The steamer rolled but little... ...golia went ashore at half-past four p.m.; at exactly eight the train would start for Calcutta. Mr. Fogg, after bidding good-bye to his whist partners,...

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... to render the Nawaub of Lucknow some trifling service (in the notori- ous affair of Choprasjee Muckjee), and his Highness sent down a gold toothpick-... ...was the best in the universe. The most ridiculous part of the 5 Thackeray affair is, that the toothpick-case was his, after all—he had left it on the... ...n her beauty and in her voice. I was spell-bound when I looked at her, and stark staring mad when she looked at me! O lustrous black eyes!—O glossy ni... ...name of your Gahagan.” The old woman, as I delivered these touching words, stared, snapped, and ground her teeth, like an enraged monkey. Julia was no... ...ey’s brilliant campaigns; then taking dawk, I travelled across the country north-eastward, and had the honour of fighting by the side of Lord Lake at ... ...ade a single prisoner, who was instantly carried before old Jowler. *In my affair with Macgillicuddy, I was fool enough to go out with small swords:—m... ...erfered in the contest. But the French Revolution broke out, and a host of starving sans- culottes appeared among the various Indian States, seeking f... ...Then it was that the Englishmen turned upon him; the hardy children of the North swept down his feeble horsemen, bore them back to their guns, which w...

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...s aim is to reach the very fount of laughter and tears. The sight of human affairs deserves admiration and pity. They are worthy of respect, too. And ... ...ivers and seas, far removed from a commercial and yet romantic town of the northern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of visions and words was c... ...ch came aboard in a large package in Victoria Dock, London, just before we started for Rouen, France. And in the shadowy life of the F. C. T. C. lies ... ...lmayer’s Folly” went with me to the Victoria Dock, whence in a few days we started for Rouen. I won’t go so far as saying that the engaging of a man f... ...per- manently administering the estate and at tending to the compli- cated affairs—(the girls took it in turn week and week about)— driving, as I said... ...less soli- tude. It is incomprehensible how it was that she was allowed to start. I suppose it had to be! She made light of the cough which came on ne... ... good-natured about the young man’s mis- apprehension of the true state of affairs, but, of course, felt obliged to maintain his position firmly. Old ... ... made to suffer for this disobedience by being removed abruptly to the far north or sent away to Siberian parishes. The servant was anxious to get rid... ...e crew refusing duty after a month of weary battling with the gales of the North Atlantic. Books are an integral part of one’s life, and my Shakespear...

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... and come to the fire, while Rose gets the tea ready; I’m sure you must be starved;—and tell me what you’ve been about all day;—I like to know what my... ...t in it by its new inhabitant. I did not like to go quite to the front and stare in at the gate; but I paused beside the garden wall, and looked, and ... ...ld!’ she said, in a voice scarce louder than a whisper, but with a tone of startling vehemence, and, seizing the boy, she snatched him from me, as if ... ...o. So he talked common-place with my mother and Rose, and discussed parish affairs with the vicar, farming matters with me, and politics with us both.... ...t that you are a foreigner, and some an Englishwoman; some a native of the north country, and some of the south; some say—’ ‘Well, Mr. Fergus, I’ll te... ... one should doubt it—and I was born in the country, neither in the extreme north nor south of our happy isle; and in the country I have chiefly passed... ... greatly to my relief, she came. Without her I should have found the whole affair an intolerable bore; but the moment of her arrival brought new life ... ...t once delivered from all for- mality, and terror, and constraint. In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child -ever read... ...y, hearing of his danger, had come to see him from his distant home in the north. His wife had accompanied him, as much for the plea- sure of seeing h...

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