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...lance over the events of our own time; its philosophy shines, in more than one bitter reflection, through your elegant pages; you have appreciated, mo... ...o you, is joined the pride I feel in thus making known your friendship for one who here subscribes himself Your sincere admirer, De Balzac Paris, Nove... ...ri- ous vocations of life. It would be interesting to know what determines one man to be a stationer rather than a baker; since, in our day, sons are ... ...ourgeoisie under the name of artists,—under that of tyro, or rapin, in the studios. Into these dens they enter rapins, but they may come forth prix de... ...d him. The sweets were brought, Chaudet, himself, the child, and the whole studio all had their teeth in them; and Joseph was petted quite as much as ... ...ther exacted from him, the child often slipped into Regnauld the painter’s studio, where he was encouraged to daub canvas. When the widow complained t... ...y; and as the name of Bridau did not appear on any police list, nor an any record at the Palais de Justice, Philippe would be reinstated in the army e... ...the city council of Issoudun (whose discussion of the matter is said to be recorded), demanded that it should go by Vatan, on the ground that if the h... ...rial of the conspira- tors, which lasted for twenty days. It is useless to record facts that may be found in contem- poraneous histories. Whether it w...

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...efulness. You are intelligent, you are well-informed, and your charity, if one may call it char- ity, would be discriminating. You are rich and unoccu... ...s when I was in Europe before, but I did not spend a winter in Rome. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people tal... ...f loafing: a passive life in Rome, thanks to the number and the quality of one’s impressions, takes on a very respectable likeness to activity. It is ... ...apron and a pair of old gloves, engaged in frugal horticulture. Roderick’s studio was behind, in the base- ment; a large, empty room, with the paper p... ...e young girl of whom he had had a moment’s quickened glimpse in Roderick’s studio, and whom he had learned to be Miss Garland, his companion’s kinswom... ...efi- ance of irony. Roderick went to work and spent a month shut up in his studio; he had an idea, and he was not to rest till he had embodied it. He ... ...s negligence of all such small picturesque accesso- ries as might serve to label his figure to a vulgar appre- 70 Roderick Hudson hension. If it repr... ...e it. Of the criticisms passed upon it this history undertakes to offer no record; over many of them the two young men had a daily laugh for a month, ... ...an mask a profound consciousness of all this; and as he found there also a record of other curious things—of pride, of temper, of bigotry, of an immen...

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...nd felt the five small toes; and then slowly passed her hand over the left one. She gave a sob. “What’s the matter?” said the doctor . “Y ou’re tired.... ...he kissed him again. Then he went to her sister and bade her good-bye too. One of the strange ladies asked if she might kiss him, and he gravely gave ... ... funeral, Henrietta,” said her sister. “I knew it would up- set you.” Then one of the strangers spoke. “Poor little boy , it’s dreadful to think of hi... ...settled down to a brilliant career at the University . The school magazine recorded the distinctions he achieved year after year , and when he got his... ...th a degree of doctor of philology from the University of Heidelberg and a record of three years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper... ...he year it was quiet: boys used to wander round sometimes arm in arm, or a studious fellow with abstracted gaze walked slowly , repeating to himself s... ...on whose death some time before he had inherited three hundred a year. His record at Charterhouse was so brilliant that when he went to Cambridge the ... ...od deal of the rough joking to which a newcomer was exposed at some of the studios; but Mrs. Otter had reassured him. “Oh, there’s nothing like that h... ...about half our students are ladies, and they set a tone to the place.” The studio was large and bare, with gray walls, on which were pinned the studie...

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... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ...rry-brown of a seaman’s complexion in the tropics. On the quarter-deck was one whom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broad-brimmed Panama hat, and... ...sailor, I must here mention that two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of- war’s-man, whose acquaintance I had made in ... ...y is to be more or less embellished by a process so slow, 27 Melville the studios alluded to are constantly filled. Indeed, with a vanity elsewhere u... ...ch thoughtless beings as themselves. And even those who suffered the most, studiously refrained from any expression of pain. The truth is, that among ... ...Ghost and myself, he assured us generally that, if there were any among us studiously inclined, he would take great pleasure in teaching such the whol... ...h we afterward used for cups. On the second day nothing happened worthy of record. On the third, we were amused by the following scene. A man, whom we... ...its. But, asserting his privilege as physician to the first reading of the labels, Doctor Long Ghost was at last permitted to take possession of the b... ...hips touching in her harbours. It is a significant fact, and one worthy of record, that while the influence of the English missionaries at T ahiti has...

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... boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the glare. In one of the skyscrapers the wires of the Associated Press were closing down.... ...s and hollow tile, glittering shops where five thousand men worked beneath one roof, pouring out the honest wares that would be sold up the Euphrates ... ...c; and altogether unromantic appeared this sleeping-porch, which looked on one sizable elm, two respectable grass-plots, a cement driveway, and a corr... ...s. Oh, Georgie, you didn’t go and use the guest-towel, did you?” It is not recorded that he was able to answer. For the first time in weeks he was suf... ...indicates he is all right, means to do business, looked into his financial record which is fine— that sentence seems to be a little balled up, Miss Mc... ...icates that he means to do business. I have also looked into his financial record, which is fine. He is perfectly willing to pro rate the special asse... ... the new state capitol, at Galop de Vache, and large ears of corn with the label, “Nature’s Gold, from Shelby County, the Garden Spot of God’s Own Cou... ... one. He wanted—Oh, he wanted to be one of these Bohemians you read about. Studio parties. Wild lovely girls who were independent. Not necessarily bad... ...ng queen!” growled Babbitt.) She chanted to Miss Sonntag, “Isn’t my little studio sweet?” (“Studio, rats! It’s a plain old-maid-and-chow-dog flat! Oh,...

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...ocu- ment it. Its logic forced him to introspection and to the making of a record. An idea that can play so large a part in a life must necessar- ily ... ...ted justly in any formula, it is not to be rendered by an epigram. As well one might show a man’s skeleton for his portrait. Yet, essentially, Benham’... ...me, a jewel, a splendour—it is a thing easier to under- stand than to say. One might hesitate to call this idea “innate,” and yet it comes soon into a... ...ted to the discovery of Nobility. When it dawned upon him, as it did, that one cannot be noble, so to speak, in vacuo, he set himself to discover a No... ...rned over the newspapers in the upper drawer of the bureau. The drawer was labelled “Fear—the First Limitation,” and the material in it was evidently ... ...emonstrate, it does no injury. And following on this came memoranda on the recorded behaviour of martyrs, on the self-torture of Hindoo ascetics, of t... ...argumentation that had played so large a part in the making of Benham. One recorded the phase of maximum opposition, and one was the outcome of the co... ...nt forms of idleness and self-indulgence; it does at least bear its proper label. It is reprehensible. It brings your careless honour to the challenge... ...a little pause. “It’s all the same. Who is she?” “She’s a woman I met at a studio somewhere, and I went with her to one of those Dolmetsch concerts.” ...

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...R I SISTERS SISTERS SISTERS SISTERS SISTERS URSULA AND GUDRUN BRANGWEN sat one morning in the win- dow-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, workin... ...r sister for some moments. ‘Well,’ she said, ironically, ‘it usually means one thing! But don’t you think anyhow, you’ d be—’ she darkened slightly— ‘... ...sed, slightly irritated. She wanted to be quite definite. ‘You don’t think one needs the experience of having been married?’ she asked. ‘Do you think ... ... spent several years, working at an art-school, as a student, and living a studio life. ‘I was hoping now for a man to come along,’ Gudrun said, sudde... ...sly. It’s the fact you want to emphasise, not the subjective impression to record. What’s the fact?—red little spiky stig- mas of the female flower, d... ...ale catkin, yel- low pollen flying from one to the other. Make a pictorial record of the fact, as a child does when drawing a face—two eyes, one nose,... ...ing tabloids of com- 82 pressed liberty. That pleased her. Sir Joshua was labelled and placed forever in her mind. ‘What does that mean, Rupert?’ san... ...s. Oh do let us, for they are most beautiful. ‘Father says we might have a studio. Gerald says we could easily have a beautiful one over the stables, ... ...atter. Then you could stay here all day and work, and we could live in the studio, like two real artists, like the man in the picture in the hall, wit...

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... 4 Charlotte M. Young ‘Don’t expect me to-night. I will send Fanny to ask one of the Wellands to come in to you, and telegraph if I bring any one hom... ... but you are much too useful here to drop everything, especially now every one is away. I would will- ingly sacrifice myself, but—’ ‘Yes, I know, Ada ... ...now the boys are sure of a welcome at the dear old home, or Hal might have one or two of them at his Curacy.’ The gong sounded for the melancholy dinn... ...ed in tears, which she let no one see, not even Aunt Ada, and proceeded to record in her letter to India that those dreadful boys were quite ruining F... ...at Alethea would ever be Lady Liddesdale. She would have shown Gillian the record, but received the ungracious answer, ‘I hate swells.’ ‘Let her alone... ...cal youth of the place; but there was no one to sympathise with him in his studious tastes, and there was much in his appear- ance and manners to caus... ...know Mrs. Grinstead will like to see us, and I do so want Mysie to see the studio.’ ‘My dear’ (it was not a favourable my dear), ‘I had rather you did... ...nough as well as enthusiastic love to make her quail at the thought of her record of self-will. There was, however, no disappointment in the sight of ... ...ived as to his nature and character. 245 Beechcroft At Rockstone Refined, studious, and sensitive, thoroughly religious- minded, and of a high tone o...

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...tephen Stills and Neil Young (“Buffalo Springfield,” October 1966), and The Doors (“The Doors,” January 1967). Military connections everywhere! One of the earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison, the enigmatic lead singer of The Doors. Jim will quickly become one of the most iconic, controversial, critically acclaimed, and influential figures...

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking som...

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... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ...ac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybo... ...oulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth—he looked like a mer- chan... ... faces of Parisians, sated as they are with every possible sight. A saying recorded of Hyacinthe, an actor celebrated for his repartees, will explain ... ...all change; and as far as others were concerned, he was satisfied with the labels they bore, and never plunged a too-curious hand into the sack. This ... ...or ever by the fabulist’s masterpiece, the revelation of his soul, and the record of his dreams; those three words were set once and for ever by the p... ...’s destiny over his whole outward and visible form, if a man’s body is the record of his fate, why should not the hand in a manner epitomize the body?... ...on their arrival from other countries; and still there was room for a vast studio, where Moret, most skilful of restorers of pic- tures, a craftsman w... ... about it is daintily neat, from the stopper covered with white kid to the label and the thread. His peremptory manner, the eruption on his blotched c...

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...ain, Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakspeare’s strain. I. HISTORY T here is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same an... ... is the only and sovereign agent. Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its ge- nius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is ex... ...e by circumstances predominant, and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time. A man is the 6 Essays whole encyclopaedia of facts. The cre... ...ays whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded alre... ...older,—these creatures have kept their counsel beside him, and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other. What conn... ...ixty chemical elements and the historical eras? Nay, what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man? What light does it shed on those... ... memory when one was gone; when the youth becomes a watcher of windows and studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage; when no... ...theirs long beforehand, and from eternity. The learned and the 144 Essays studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction... ...in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sit- ters or models in the studio of a painter, or as assistants who bring building materials to an ar...

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...s, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace, couldn?t you suggest that one does cease to be a girl.? ?Only try it on, Rachel dear, she will be pleased to see you in it.? ?Oh yes, I will bedizen myself to oblige her. I do assure you I am not ungrateful. It is beautiful in itself, and shows how we...

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... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ...e consulted for my next birthday present, Grace, couldn’t you suggest that one does cease to be a girl.” “Only try it on, Rachel dear, she will be ple... ...lever Woman of the Family maiden sisters of Avonmouth, husband and wife to one an- other, as maiden pairs always are.” “Then thus let me crown, our br... ....” “Oh, I dare say Julia will send us a box.” “Then you will have to put a label on your back, ‘Second- hand!’ or her velvet will be a scandal. I can’... ...ack savagees.’ That’s the most remarkable instance of female emigration on record, isn’t it?” observed Alick. “What; her dying an old maid?” said Colo... ...x, she returned in a short space with a parcel tied up with, red tape, and labelled “Barnaby’s Bargain.” “I have been thinking,” she exclaimed, as she... ... pencil in her hand. “Show the gentleman, my dear,” and out came a book of studios of cubes, globes, posts, etc., while Mr. Mauleverer talked artistic... ...n speaking or stirring, and Mrs. Curtis would not thank her biographer for recording the wild alarms that careered through her brain, as to the object... ...her. Mists danced before her eyes, and the very sensation that had been so studiously avoided was produced by her faint- ing helplessly away in her ch...

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...e, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already be...

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...miled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek mar... ...ed between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extrava- gance, and the other condemned as a lapse. ... ... which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three ... ...has no back- ward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy, and to secure in this, his cu... ...r their personal application. Poor Mr. Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bach- elorhood had stored up for him a compound interest of enjoy-... ... calf Will hardly cover more diversity Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors. I N CONSE... ...d not like to get into their way of looking at the world entirely from the studio point of view.” “That I can understand,” said Dorothea, cordially. “... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their signifi- ...

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...miled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek mar... ...ed between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. So... ... which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three ... ...l, has no backward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy, and to secure in this, his cu... ...r their personal application. Poor Mr. Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound interest of enjoymen... ...copies, and the common calf Will hardly cover more diversity Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors. I n consequence of w... ...d not like to get into their way of looking at the world entirely from the studio point of view.” “That I can understand,” said Dorothea, cordially. “... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significan...

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... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ... is a terrible pesti- lence of hunger, or spotted, typhus; literally every one is stricken. The doctor’s assistant says one goes into a cottage and wh... ...tricken. The doctor’s assistant says one goes into a cottage and what does one see? Every one is sick, every one delirious, some laughing, others fran... ...You ought to number each letter and make a special note of it in a special record. You ought to do the same with your own let- ters. But I will do all... ...ings; evidently any one who liked had a hand in managing the books. In the record of the subscriptions in kind there was no note of their money value.... ...a piece of ham on my plate and I ate it submissively. “Repetitia est mater studiorum,” said Sobol, hastening to drink off another wineglassful. “Would... ... a benefit performance. From the actress’ s she had to go to some artist’s studio or to some exhibition or to see some celebrity — ei- ther to pay a v... ...ape, in the style of Polyenov, about which every one who had been into his studio went into raptures; and this, of course, she mused, he had created u... ...as Nikolay does, its literature would long ago have contained whole epics, records of sayings and doings such as, unfortunately, it cannot boast of no...

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...r at hand, the earnest of many a day- dream has been gained, and more than one ideal has been tried, and merits and demerits have become apparent. And... ...t uncle’s death made him heir to the estate, but his life was a very frail one till his thirteenth year, when he seemed to have outgrown the shock to ... ... there, not realizing how far life is from having its final crisis over at one-and-twenty . New Sisters came in, old ones went to found fresh branches... ...ht me and all the children to adore it, and showed us, just like a weather record, where every one shot up after the measles, and where Clement got ab... ...s ago, and she wished for no more. She should see the best pictures at the studios before leaving town, and she neither could nor would leave her uncl... ... said his aunt. “He can’t exist without London, and doing the honours of a studio.” “Left you!” “Most politely he informed me that this place does not... ...Clement had a strange thrill of puzzled recollection. The bottles bore the labels of raspberry vinegar and lemonade, but he had seen too much not to s... ...etter—?” “Mother Butterfly’s? Oh yes. She keeps bottles of grog with those labels, and it is such a lark for her to be even with the gangers that our ... ...ng in the care of some Sisters of Charity. So it proved. At Innspruck, the record of the burial of Giovanni Benista, a native of Piedmont, was at leng...

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... wanted to be amused.” “Allen! I wonder if it can be the same child as the one Robert was interested about. You don’t remember, my dear. It was the ye... ...out. You don’t remember, my dear. It was the year you were at Vienna, when one of Robert’s brother-officers died on the voyage out to China, and he se... ...l in all to each other. Ten years ago, on his election to a lectureship at one of the London hospi- tals, the son had set up his name on the brass pla... ...elf did so, with a view to accounts; but he should advise all professional records to be destroyed. It may be feared that the two executors did not re... ...ike to have their fun, and I would not coop them up.” “Oh, but there’s the studio to run riot in, Ellen,” said Carey. “Didn’t you see? The upper story... ...f her own miscella- neous treasury, insisted on exhibiting “Mother Carey’s studio.” Caroline tried to declare that this meant nothing deserv- ing of s... ... art which had given her husband so much pleasure, and, but for Allen, the studio would never have been ar- ranged. But no sooner was her time engross... ...r gossip on the way home! O mother, there’s another item for the Belforest record. Mr. Barnes has sent off all his servants again, even the confidenti... ...s fully kept au courant with this wonderful siege, which had hitherto been recorded in inter- lined copy-books, or little paper books pasted together,...

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...starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and placing all social and political activit... ...” Nowadays there is a real disposition to accept the quali- fied nature of one’s private certainties. One may have arrived at very definite views, one... ...ed at very definite views, one may have come to beliefs quite binding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T ... ...ind is of the modern cast, who has sur- veyed the vistas of the geological record and grasped the secu- lar unfolding of the scheme of life, who has f... ...d none of these vociferated “cries,” 22 Mankind in the Making these party labels, these programme items, are ever pro- pounded to us in that way. I c... ...the slenderer, slower intercommunication, and, above all, the insufficient records of human communities; but the time has come now—or, at the worst, i... ..., spends days watching his school matches, and thumbs and muddles over the records of county cricket to an amazing extent. But these things are indeed... ... or write—or the mu- sic master, the debating society, the museum, the art studio, the dramatic society, or any concern of the sort that the Col- 200...

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... the calamitous events which have so lately occurred within its limits. No one who knows me will doubt that the duty thus self-imposed will be execute... ...enty- four cabbages. The buildings themselves are so precisely alike, that one can in no manner be distinguished from the other. Owing to the vast ant... ...dwellings are as much alike inside as out, and the furni- ture is all upon one plan. The floors are of square tiles, the chairs and tables of black-lo... ... a few cases. Let me see. There was ‘The Dead Alive,’ a capital thing!—the record of a gentleman’s sensations when entombed before the breath was out ... ...ound drives him mad, and, accordingly, pulling out his tablets, he gives a record 52 Poe in Five V olumes of his sensations. Sensations are the great... ... every member of which (at least as far back into antiquity as any certain records extend) was more or less remarkable for talent of some description—... ... he poured from one of his hand bottles. I observed that these bottles had labels about their necks, and that these labels were 87 V olume Four inscr... ...rom a rose-wood coffin inlaid with ivory. Thou wast curiously scented, and labelled as per invoice. Belial sent thee, —my Inspector of Cemeteries. The... ...f course, that the box and contents would never get farther north than the studio of my misan- thropic friend, in Chambers Street, New Y ork. For the ...

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...m anxious and glad to have an opportunity of saying a word in reference to one incident in which I am happy to know you were interested, and still mor... ... thoughts of death, or soften the grief of older hearts; if I have written one word which can afford pleasure or con solation to old or young in time... ... I am in a difficulty again. The distinction you have conferred upon me is one which I never hoped for, and of which I never dared to dream. That it i... ...of him now as a friend who has gone from amongst us. There is his deserted studio—the empty easel lying idly by—the unfinished picture with its face t... ...as nothing to offer but a liberal allowance of damp mortar and new lime. I record these little incidents of home travel mainly with the object of incr... ... your feelings. But I have no such chance. Just as a nation is happy whose records are barren, so is a society fortunate that has no history—and its p... ...ich was utterly and wholly untheatrical, used to comfort his conscience by recording a vow that he would abstain from the theatres for a certain time.... ... wonderful interest in their affairs— mostly very complicated—and sticking labels upon all sorts of articles. I look around—there he is, in a station ... ...down the town drains. Suppose another should perceive in his books, in his studious evenings, what was amiss with his master’s until then inscrutably ...

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... and pasture land was sobering at the approach of darkness. The lady, like one to whom silence and quiet were luxu- ries, lingered on the landing for ... ...Well,” she said gaily, “has moral force been applied? Are you going to the Recording Angel?” “Hush, Agatha,” said Miss Carpenter. “You ought to be ash... ...arpenter. “Well, never mind, dear,” said Agatha soothingly. “Put it in the Recording Angel.” “I won’t write a word in the Recording Angel unless you d... ...Agatha. “ A whole page, if you wish.” “I b-believe you LIKE writing in the Recording Angel,” said Miss Carpenter spitefully. “Yes, Jane. It is the bes... ... threw irreverently on a desk, and tossed its pages over until she came to one only partly covered with manu- script confessions. “For a wonder,” she ... ...that I slapped Miss Chambers in the lavatory this morning, and knocked out one of her teeth. This was very wicked; but it was coming out by itself; an... ...y.” Miss Wilson looked round. The sixth form consisted of 25 GB Shaw four studious young ladies, whose goal in life for the present was an examinatio... ...ss, which Agatha dexterously evaded. “I have promised to be very good, and studious, and quiet, and decorous in future. Do you remember my castanet so... ...s an advantage in money, as if there were more hours in a day spent in the studio or library than in the field; or as if he needed more food to enable...

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...ter the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and of one or two other equally laudable enterprises. If I were to plead anything ... ...PTER 1 Sun and Shadow THIRTY YEARS AGO, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in so... ...om a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire. The universal stare made the eyes ache. To... ... the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervad... ...o Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might 263 Little Dorrit ... ... spiracy. Mr Pancks looked over his note-book, which was now getting full, studiously; and picked out little extracts, which he wrote on separate slip... ... Dorrits of Dorsetshire.’ He then went on to detail. How, having that name recorded in his note- book, he was first attracted by the name alone. How, ... ...from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on ... ...oing so. May I? Y ou can excuse the disorder and discomfort of a painter’s studio?’ The inquiries were addressed to Miss Fanny, who graciously replied...