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...s occupied the most of Mrs. Hawthorne’s available time during the interval from 1864 to 1870; but in the latter year, having decided to publish the un... ...mmortality had engaged his fancy quite early in his career, as we discover from “Doctor Heidegger’s Experi ment,” in the “Twice Told Tales.” In 1840,... ...ure of living forever, he would not care about his offspring.” The “Mosses from an Old Manse” supply another link in this train of reflection; for “Th... ... snow and decay,—so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill side enjoying the warm day and one another.... ...bout such matters, perhaps thinking about them the more. These three young people were neighbors’ children, dwell ing in houses that stood by the sid... ...ide of the road—a fertile tract—had been cultivated; and these three young people were the children’s children’s children of persons of respect abili... ...n the meeting house green, and at railway stations; and heard the drum and fife, and seen the farewells; seen the familiar faces that we hardly knew, ... ...ng with excitement. “They are coming! they are coming! I hear the drum and fife.” “I really believe they are,” said Septimius, his cheek flush ing an... ...ul, half pleasurable, of the moment. “Hark! there was the shrill note of a fife. Yes, they are coming!” He tried to persuade Rose to hide herself in t...

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...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ...as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchst... ..., and replied that the secret had now of necessity become known to so many people that I was indifferent on the subject. Lord Meadowbank was thus in- ... ...y their petty squabbles and mutual irritability, the laughing-stock of the people of the world. I resolved, therefore, in this respect to guard my bre... ... character of a private enter- tainment. Near Sir W. Scott sat the Earl of Fife, Lord Meadowbank, Sir John Hope of Pinkie, Bart., Admiral Adam, Baron ... ...oatswain. If there must be a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a... ...t ornaments” Lord Meadowbank, after a suitable eulogium, gave “The Earl of Fife,” which was drunk with three times three. Earl Fife expressed his high... ...e long town of Kirkcaldy, enchant the skippers and colliers of the East of Fife, venture even into the classic arcades of St. Andrews, and travel as m...

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...se of the Old Bailey would be included in the package of books we received from London; among these my husband found and read with avidity:— The Trial... ...n country, meeting with various ad- ventures and misadventures by the way. From the trial of James Stewart my husband gleaned much valuable material f... ...for his novel, the most important being the character of Alan Breck. Aside from having described him as “smallish in stat- ure,” my husband seems to h... ...re, to my great pleasure and won- der, I beheld a regiment marching to the fifes, every foot in time; an old red-faced general on a grey horse at the ... ...s account, that minded for nothing either in heaven or earth; one that, as people said, would “crack on all sail into the day of judgment;” rough, fie... ...” said I; and then, thinking that a man with so fine a coat must like fine people, I added for the first time, “of Shaws.” It never occurred to him to... ... at the sailoring as I have found ye at the fighting. Why, my poor country people in their bit cobles* pass from island to island in all weathers, ay,... ...thing. “Look here, my lass,” said Alan, “there are boats in the Kingdom of Fife, for I saw two (no less) upon the beach, as I came in by your town’s e...

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...ST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONESTY Y Y Y Y NO MAN IS FREE from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to ... ...e.” —Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.] This does not concern me; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value, and ’tis the bette... ... refused it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arm... ...evented their aggrandisement in those parts. He returned answer, “that the people of Rome were wont to revenge themselves of their enemies by open way... ...ful that they should nei- ther be deceived in me nor deceive others by me. People of that kind of trading are very reserved, and pretend to be the mos... ...or his heart, tore it out, and threw it to the dogs. And even to the worst people it is the sweetest thing imaginable, hav- ing once gained their end ... ...ey not, at last, become tedious and insupportable? the ordinary offices of fife do not go that length. You teach your best friends to be cruel perforc...

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.......................................................................... 72 From the Mountain. ........................................................... ......................................................................... 256 FROM ‘THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER.’ ......................................... ......................................................................... 258 FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. ....................................................... ...ethe To the Kind Reader. No one talks more than a Poet; Fain he’d have the people know it. Praise or blame he ever loves; None in prose confess an err... ...nts* (* The name of a game, known in English as “Jack’s alight.”) We young people in the shade Sat one sultry day; Cupid came, and “Dies the Fox” With... ...aters steal, And leaving the abyss, Fall foaming through the wheel, Though people often tell Of millers’ wives so fair, Yet none can e’er excel Our de... ...g, and light joyous dance, They begin with their sweethearts the ball. The fife and the fiddle all merrily sound, Thy twine, and they glide, and with ... ...d sings with Brackenburg. THE drum gives the signal! Loud rings the shrill fife! My love leads his troops on Full arm’d for the strife, While his hand...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ...nicott, and, well, Stowbody are drummers; the rest of us sing and play the fife.” The fifes were combs with tissue paper; the drums were tabourets and... ...g in a circle, at the corner of Main Street and Second, as they tootled on fifes or with swelling cheeks blew into cor- nets, their eyes remained as o... ...tay.) Before they could question her again Carol escorted in with drum and fife the topic of Raymie Wutherspoon. Vida had news from her hus- band. He ...

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... was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the ... ...h.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Com... ...’s frock. She put this aside, rose, and began to take her husband’s dinner from the oven. “You stopped confabbing long enough tonight,” she said. “Yes... ... himself, measured and insistent. In the frosty evening the sound carried. People passing down the street hesitated, listening. The neighbours knew it... ...son was greeted with Good- night—Good-night, Aaron—Good-night, Mr. Sisson. People carrying parcels, children, women, thronged home on the dark paths. ... ...ut quiet contest, a subdued fight, going on all the afternoon and evening: people struggling to buy things, to get things. Money was spent like water,... ...itary band—I can’t think of it without a shudder. I can only bear drum-and-fife. Isn’t it crazy of me—but from the other, from what we call music prop...

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... a sort of panic terror, and I rushed into this Pref- ace, which is no more than an advertisement for readers. What am I to say for my book? Caleb and... ...leb and Joshua brought back from Palestine a formidable bunch of grapes; alas! my book produces naught so nourishing; and for the mat- ter of that, we... ...e mat- ter of that, we live in an age when people prefer a defini- tion to any quantity of fruit. 5 The Inland V oyage I wonder, would a negative be ... ...ng water. Next moment the Arethusa was after her. A steamer was com- ing down, men on the paddle-box shouted hoarse warn- ings, the stevedore and his ... .... The food, as usual in Belgium, was of a nondescript occasional char- acter; indeed I have never been able to detect anything in the nature of a meal... ...me to dinner at his own fireside. There is not enough exercise in such a life for any high measure of health; but a high measure of health is only nec... ...ons of the spot with fortitude. In all garrison towns, guard-calls, and reveilles, and such like, make a fine romantic interlude in civic business. Bu...

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...ination methinks I shall have rendered some service to Your Excellency, as from many parts I am urged to send him off, so as to dispel the loathing an... ...more favour than I can wish for.” Thus I gave him his leave and I beg mine from you, offering Your Excellency the “Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda,”... ...and and I your feet, being as I am, Your Excellency’s most humble servant. From Madrid, this last day of October of the year one thousand six hundred ... ...ld have to be added to the list of the many impertinent sugges- tions that people were in the habit of offering to princes. “Mine, master shaver,” sai... ...ould not give much for the Turk’s chance. But God will have regard for his people, and will provide some one, who, if not so valiant as the knights-er... ...anon law; but even if he had been of Salamanca, it was the opinion of most people that he would have been mad all the same. This graduate, after some ... ... Moors when they rush to battle; trumpets and clarions brayed, drums beat, fifes played, so unceasingly and so fast that he could not have had any sen... ...ves for a while with Sancho’s rich conversation, the melancholy sound of a fife and harsh discor- dant drum made itself heard. All seemed somewhat put... ... great drums which were likewise draped in black, and beside them came the fife player, black and sombre like the others. Following these came a perso...

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...a rebel, for to that The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him—from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune,... ...e; Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps, And fix’d his head upon our battlements. DUNCAN... ...un ‘gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break, So from that spring whence comfort seem’d to come Discomfort swells. Mark, kin... ...ence camest thou, worthy thane? ROSS: From Fife, great king; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our peop... ...rom Fife, great king; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold. Norway himself, With terrible numbers, Assisted by that most d... ...th honor’d me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so so... ... Will you to Scone? MACDUFF: No, cousin, I’ll to Fife. Macbeth Act II, scene iv 28 ROSS: Well, I w... ...parition : Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. [Descends.] MACBETH: Whate’er thou art, for thy ... ... him do. How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows: but strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of sur...

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...ee show We flutter idly to and fro. Man’s little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end. Contents ... ...NGE. 3 SYLVIE AND BRUNO CHAPTER 1 LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES! —and then all the people cheered again, and one man, who was more excited than the rest, fl... ...!”, but no one seemed to know what it was they really wanted. All this I saw from the open window of the W arden’s break fast saloon, looking across ... ...curious sight: a straggling pro cession of men, marching two and two, began from the other side of the market place, and advanced in an irregular zig... ...vernor for life, with the title of Emperor, if elected to that office by the people.’ What! Are you Em peror, darling?” “Not yet, dear,” the Vice War... ...ff into a song:— “He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. ... ...ision. “It’s very nice to be loved,” she said: “but it’s nicer to love other people! May I have the red one, Father?” The old man said nothing: but I ...

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...Swan Song by Anton Checkov Translated from the Russian, with an introduction by Marian Fell A Penn State Electron... ................... 11 4 Anton Checkov Swan Song by Anton Checkov Translated from the Russian, with an introduction by Marian Fell INTRODUCTION Anton Tc... ...on Tchekoff who is, perhaps, of modern writers, the dearest to the Russian people. Anton Tchekoff was born in the old Black Sea port of T aganrog on J... ...he liked best to spend in the kitchen of the master’s house among the work people and peasants who gathered there, taking part in their games, and set... ...showed flashes of the wit that was soon to blaze into genius. He graduated from the high school at T aganrog with every honour, entered the University... ...e would exclaim: “Stop! Y ou don’ t know what coun- try doctors do for the people!” Tchekoff fully realised later the influence which his profes- sion... ...ing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal ban- ner, and all quality, Pride, pomp and circumstance of ...

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...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...carefully with the original will have little doubt that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...brothers contrived to inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father dispo... ... Moors when they rush to battle; trumpets and clarions brayed, drums beat, fifes played, so unceasingly and so fast that he could not have had any sen... ...ves for a while with Sancho’s rich conversation, the melancholy sound of a fife and harsh discor- dant drum made itself heard. All seemed somewhat put... ... great drums which were likewise draped in black, and beside them came the fife player, black and sombre like the others. Following these came a perso...

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...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...ice, I threw the other four under the cars, and beheld, as in a dream, grown people and children groping on the track after my leavings. At last we we... ...e in the dining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or... ...s decided he should take me along with him around a portion of the shores of Fife; my first professional tour, my first journey in the complete charac... ...he complete character of man, without the help of petticoats. The Kingdom of Fife (that royal province) may be ob- served by the curious on the map, o...

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...grant continuance: 135 Nor do I now make mone to be abridg’d 136 From such a noble rate, but my cheefe care 137 Is to come fairely off ... ... you Anthonio 140 I owe the most in money, and in loue, 141 And from your loue I haue a warrantie 142 To vnburthen all my plots and pu... ... faire, and fairer then that word, 172 Of wondrous vertues, sometimes from her eyes 173 I did receiue faire speechlesse messages: 174 H... ... when you heare the drum 866 And the vile squealing of the wry- neckt Fife, 867 Clamber not you vp to the casements then, 868 Nor thrus... ...one of two contending in a prize 1489 That thinks he hath done well in peoples eies: 1490 Hearing applause and vniuersall shout, 1491 Gidd... ...art, 1763 I shall obey you in all faire commands. 1764 Por. My people doe already know my minde, 1765 And will acknowledge you and Ie... ...3 Loren. Faire Ladies you drop Manna in the way 2724 Of starued people. 2725 Por. It is almost morning, 2726 And yet I am sure ...

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...ll alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigine... ...d, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, 4 The Last of the Moh... ... the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself. His language has the r... ...that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects. The writer r... ...he American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people. He is much addicted to over- esti... ...fferent account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people. He is much addicted to over- estimating his own perfections, and to... ... same proud front and ordered array was observed, until the notes of their fifes growing fainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow... ... the last laggard of the camp was at his post; but the instant the British fifes had blown their shrill signal, they became mute. In the meantime the ...

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...ian all a summer’s day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: thither flocked at noon His tenants, wife and child, and thither h... ...ring borough with their Institute Of which he was the patron. I was there From college, visiting the son,—the son A Walter too,—with others of our se... ...lace. And me that morning Walter showed the house, Greek, set with busts: from vases in the hall Flowers of all heavens, and lovelier than their name... ...orient ivory sphere in sphere, The cursed Malayan crease, and battle-clubs From the isles of palm: and higher on the walls, Betwixt the monstrous hor... ... Would still be dear beyond the southern hills; That were there any of our people there In want or peril, there was one to hear And help them? look! f... ...ey clashed their arms; the drum Beat; merrily-blowing shrilled the martial fife; And in the blast and bray of the long horn And serpent-throated bugle... ...t would cede our claim, Or by denial flush her babbling wells With her own people’s life: three times he went: The first, he blew and blew, but none ...

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...ttending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yestermorni... ...waired my siller better-gates than that.” And he proposed I should buy winter-hosen from a wife in the Cowgate-back, that was a cousin of his own, and... ...find a friend, let be another stranger. Suppose him even to hit on the right close, people dwelt so thronged in these tall houses, he might very well ... ... house and person in the city, had grown to form a brotherhood of spies; and I knew from tales of Mr. Campbell’s how they communicated one with an- ot... ...nd if he is an honest man, his wife is honest indeed.” “Ay,” said I, “they are fine people, and the place is a bonny place.” “Where in the great world... ... have had the hospitality of your own country of Balwhidder.” “It was not one of my people gave it,” said she. “Ah, well.” said I, “but I am owing you... ...ain Palliser. It chanced she was cruising in the month of September, plying between Fife and Lothian, and sounding for sunk dangers. 98 Robert Louis ... ...reflected that my captivity upon the Bass, in view of a great part of the coasts of Fife and Lothian, was a thing I should be thought more likely to h... ... make a better hand of it with the cattle onyway.” (For this man, Anster, came from Fife, where the Gaelic is still spoken.) “Ay, ay!” says Andie, “Ta...

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...e to draw a set of Twelfth-Night characters for the amusement of our young people. She is a lady of great fancy and droll imagination, and having look... ...and re- ceiving the letter which announces to His Majesty a proposed visit from Prince Bulbo, heir of Padella, reigning King of Crim Tartary. Remark t... ...suffice it to say, V aloroso was alone. He rushed to the cupboard, seizing from the table one of the many egg-cups with which his princely board was s... ...were his own brother, King Savio, alive, he would certainly will the crown from his own son in order to bring about such a desirable union. Thus easil... ...places, the Paflagonian nobility did not care who was king; and as for the people, in those early times, they were equally indifferent. The Prince Gig... ...s possible. As long as he had his sport, this monarch cared little how his people paid for it: he engaged in some wars, and of course the Paflagonian ... ...merable host, and I should think twenty thousand drummers, trumpeters, and fifers. King Giglio’s advance guard, you may be sure, kept that monarch acq... ...antry? infantry pitch into cavalry? bugles blow; drums beat; horses neigh; fifes sing; soldiers roar, swear, hurray; officers shout out ‘Forward, my m...

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...ine by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Library), with Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edi... ...izabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms “ from Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I believe I have referred to my ed... ...deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging hoof and horn. 7 Sir ... ... summon here Mustering clan or squadron tramping. Yet the lark’s shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...rrow and winding streets of a suburb, inhabited by the lowest order of the people, and an approaching thunder-shower de- termined him to ask a short r... ... who made the king as good count of them as they had gone in the bounds of Fife’ (Pitscottie’s History, p. 153).” 623. Meggat’s mead. The Meggat, or M... ...t tense of wit (Matzner). See on i. 596 above. 371. Dunfermline. A town in Fifeshire, 17 miles northwest of Edinburgh. It was long the residence of th...