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...a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken captain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, ... ...t day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more hagg... ...a big red countenance cov- ered with freckles and surrounded with red hair staring at me over the bulwarks. I also had a disconnected impression of a ... ...run after me, shouting things as he ran. This time running blindly, I went northeastward in a direc- tion at right angles to my previous expedition. O... .... After about an hour I heard Montgomery shouting my name, far away to the north. That set me thinking of my plan of action. As I interpreted it then,... ...merged bleeding and with torn clothes upon the lip of a long creek opening northward. I went straight into the water without a minute’s hesitation, wa... ...r some days after this, and was in a mind to write an account of the whole affair to wake up English physiology. Then I came upon the creature squat- ... ...of Dr. Moreau there. Montgomery knows about it, for he interferes in their affairs. He has trained one or two of them to our service. He’s ashamed of ... ... come to him carrying a light hatchet. M’ling had seen nothing of the puma affair; had been felling wood, and heard him calling. They went on shouting...

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... because he was the tallest man in the regiment. When the dance was fairly started the sentries were released, and Private Mulvaney went to curry favo... ...s side, calling out, ‘Can you climb on board if we throw you a rope?’ That startled me, because I fancied we were going to be run down the next minute... ... for which your soul longed; Learoyd—back again in the smoky, stone-ribbed North, amid the clang of the Bradford looms; Mulvaney—grizzled, tender, and... ...was trespassin’ ovver a compound wall after one of them mongooses ‘at he’d started, an’ we was busy grubbin’ round a prickle-bush, an’ when we looks u... ...beggin’ for.’ But me an’ Orth’ris, he bein’ Cockney an’ I bein’ pretty far north, did nut see it i’ t’ saame way. We’d getten t’ brass, an’ we meaned ... ...ind of it, and all Hell woke up along the decks. ‘The rule in these little affairs is to get your saloon passen- gers off first, then to fill the boat... ...Captain said he was going to stay with the ship. You see the rule in these affairs, I believe, is that the Captain has to bow gracefully from the brid... ...he waved the innocent ‘pop’ to the four quar- ters of Heaven. ‘Bloody war! North, East, South, an’ West! Jock, ye quakin’ hayrick, come an’ dhrink.’ B... ...to the Hills with the bride. None the less, Slane’s grievance was that the affair would be only a hired-carriage wedding, and he felt that the ‘eeklar...

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...e for Rebecca—(indeed, if the truth must be told with respect to the Crisp affair, the tart- woman hinted to somebody, who took an affidavit of the fa... ...d the latter. “I’ll tell him.” “Darling! not for worlds,” said Miss Sharp, starting back as timid as a fawn. She had previously made a respectful virg... ...old theirs.” “As soon as he gets his company,” said Joseph, “I believe the affair is settled. George Osborne is a capital fellow.” “And your sister th... ...old theirs.” “As soon as he gets his company,” said Joseph, “I believe the affair is settled. George Osborne is a capital fellow.” “And your sister th... ...and be done by, in all probability. Down came the wicket again; and Dobbin started up. I can’t tell what his motive was. Torture in a public school is... ...less. Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped for... ...t Madame Saqui was about to mount skyward on a slack-rope ascending to the stars; the hermit that always sat in the illuminated hermitage; the dark wa... ... staunch old True Blue Tory, and his fa- ther a small coal-merchant in the north of England), this aide- de-camp of the Marquis never showed any sort ...

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...her, and of his father, and the whole stream of lives flowing down there far in the north, with the sound of laugh- ter and tears, to cast me out in t... ...ays; but to go to him hot-foot from Appin’s agent, was little likely to mend my own affairs, and might prove the mere ruin of friend Alan’s. The whole... ...u why; it just seems it was the thing he wanted. She had wonderful bright eyes like stars, and I daresay the eyes had a part in it; but what I remembe... ...r lips were a trifle open as she turned. And, whatever was the cause, I stood there staring like a fool. On her side, as she had not known there was a... ...he Highland line, and the sound of that tongue comes friendly; but for your private affairs, if you had spoken Greek, I might have had more guess at t... ...ore could not bear it else,” said she. “I stop be- yond the village of Dean, on the north side of the water, with Mrs. Drummond-Ogilvy of Allardyce, w... ...I knew not where Alan was, but he had some sure place (or thought he had) about the north side, where he was to lie until a ship was found for him; an... ...or him, quot’ he! And who’s to pay for it? The man’s daft!” “That is my part of the affair, Mr. Stewart,” said I. “Here is a bag of good money, and if... ...e, the ingenious foulness of that calumny he had proposed to nail upon my character startled me afresh. The case of the man upon the gibbet by Leith W...

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...eception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other treatme... ...d Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping 12 Thomas Carlyle the stars? Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism. Worship is transc... ... look what perennial fibre of truth was in that. To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will o... ... sprang, we may say, out of many roots: every admira- tion, adoration of a star or natural object, was a root or fibre of a root; but Hero-worship is ... ...gleaming beauty in summertime; tow- ering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid... ...st, had Iceland not been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund... ...c, with the commentaries, Icelan- dic or not, which go on zealously in the North to this day, it is possible to gain some direct insight even yet; and... .... In Luther’s own country Protestantism soon dwindled into a rather barren affair: not a religion or faith, but rather now a theological jangling of a... ...he Government of men. Witenagemote, old Parliament, was a great thing. The affairs of the nation were there deliberated and decided; what we were to d...

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...ut it in his pocket. ‘Lizzie!’ The girl turned her face towards him with a start, and rowed in silence. Her face was very pale. He was a hook-nosed ma... ...ner?’ ‘No,’ said the other. In so surly a tone that the man, after a blank stare, acknowledged it with the retort: ‘—Arn’ t been eating nothing as has... ...tate. Mr and Mrs V eneering, for example, arranging a dinner, ha- bitually started with T wemlow, and then put leaves in him, or added guests to him. ... ...rom all parts of the world, this hardy old cruiser has last touched at the North Pole, when, as the ice- plates are being removed, the following words... ...e oldest friend.) ‘I assure you, my dear V eneering, that it is the oddest affair! Like the advertising people, I don’ t ask you to trust me, with- ou... ...n, I don’t know how much Dust, but something immense. At this stage of the affair the 16 Our Mutual Friend poor girl respectfully intimated that she ... ...if it were his peg-top, made for home. His home was in the Holloway region north of London, and then divided from it by fields and trees. Be- tween Ba... ...on, he always spoke of it as ‘Our House,’ and, though his knowledge of its affairs was mostly speculative and all wrong, claimed to be in its confiden... ...iden-Lane way—out Holloway direction—and you’ve only got to go East-and-by-North when you’ve fin- ished here, and you’re there. T wopence halfpenny an...

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...I was holding such discourse on the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would ... ...n Jack with a streamer, the folds of which waved over her head, and the end of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our ... ...r. Baker was the acting coroner of that neighbourhood. ‘A common place for suicide,’ said I, looking down at the locks. Charles Dickens 20 ‘Sue?’ ret... ...aid Number Two. ‘Truly thankful, I should.’ Oakum Head then rose, and announced as an entirely new idea, the mention of which profound novelty might b... ...than I have space to suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth abo... ... the Scala at Milan, or the San Carlo at Naples, or the Grand Opera at Paris, than any notion a stranger would be likely to form of the Britan- nia Th... ... at a window, while an idle trifle of a vaude- ville was played for me at the opposite house. How such a large house came to have only three people li... ...other person to meet him or obstruct him, Lyons Inn was dreaming, drunk, maudlin, moody, betting, brooding over bill-discounting or renewing—asleep or... ...spelt when written), and Lilliput, and Laputa, and the Nile, and Abyssinia, and the Ganges, and the North Pole, and many hundreds of places—I was neve...

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...nt of history or psychology, but for the intelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting in most other auto... ...le Heloise’. Julie and Saint-Preux became names to conjure with; their ill-starred amours were everywhere sighed and wept over by the tender-hearted f... ...es, father, but then, you know, we shall cry,” and immedi- ately the tears started from his eyes. “Ah!” exclaimed he, with agitation, “Give me back my... ...young architects; this, however, was not 28 The Confessions the case; the affair ended here. Mr. Lambercier never re- proached us on this account, no... ...ength, that likewise had its catastrophe; indeed the termination of a love affair is good for nothing, unless it partakes of the ro- mantic, and can f... ...is lordship; but the meddling devil, who had some private interest in this affair, and questioned whether she would urge it to his satis- faction, too... ... no end to our projected travels, and we im- mediately directed our course northward, rather for the plea- sure of crossing the Alps, than from a supp... ...ad concluded on was a valley between two toler- ably high hills, which ran north and south; at the bottom, among the trees and pebbles, ran a rivulet,... ...to di 303 Rousseau conidenza’, in an undress more than wanton, unknown to northern countries, and which I will not amuse myself in describing, althou...

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...................................................... 228 TO JANE: ‘THE KEEN STARS WERE TWINKLING’. ....................................................... ...iastes. The pale, the cold, and the moony smile Which the meteor beam of a starless night Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle, Ere the dawning of morn... ...eathe their spells towards the departing day, Encompassing the earth, air, stars, and sea; Light, sound, and motion own the potent sway, Responding to... ...nnine, It bursts on the roof like the thunder’s roar, Or like the sea on a northern shore, Heard in its raging ebb and flow ... ...s leaflets now 59 Shelley Frozen upon December’s bough. On the beach of a northern sea _45 Which tempests shake... ...r. Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 1862. As the sunrise to the night, As the north wind to the clouds, As the earthquake’s fiery flight, Ruining mountai... ...gth, through the kind and unwearied exertions of Mr. Dawkins, our Charge d’Affaires at Florence, we gained permission to re- ceive the ashes after the...

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...that the present moment is pressed down or crowded out, and our individual affairs and interests are but half as real here as elsewhere. Viewed throug... ...er fool he!” said Miriam so bitterly that Hilda’s quiet eyes were somewhat startled. “Donatello, my dear friend,” said Kenyon, in Italian, “pray grati... ...hat last, Miriam!” said the sculp- tor; and, looking into her face, he was startled to behold it pale and tear-stained. “How suddenly this mood has co... ...ng as their pictorial purposes demand. “Miriam,” whispered Hilda, a little startled, “it is your model!” CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER I... ...rchlight, thence into the sunshine. It was the further singularity of this affair, that the connec- tion, thus briefly and casually formed, did not te... ...sty of Holy Fathers, who seem to have aimed at making life as agreeable an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French s... ...on, in this softer climate, is less abrupt than the inhabitant of the cold North is accustomed to observe. Beginning earlier, —even in February,—Sprin... ...heart, I have found great use in clouds. Such silvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figure...

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.................................................. 14 TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS .............................................................. ............................................................. 23 O DULL COLD NORTHERN SKY ................................................................. .............................................................. 26 THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY ................................................................. ......................................... 82 LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START ........................................................................ ...ed long without My last of loves to see. Alas! the moon-white window-panes Stared blindly back on me. To-day I hold her very hand, Her very waist embr... ...e would fit a hat! Full many a marsh-fire lured me on, I reached at many a star, I reached and grasped them and behold – The stump of a cigar! All thr... ...Came lone by lone together – Say, birds and Sun and Spring, is Love A mere affair of weather? THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME The summer sun shone round... ...e then this quarto in thy fin And, O thou stoker huge and stern, The whole affair, outside and in, Burn! But save the true poetic kin, The works of Mr...

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...t; but choose as I pleased, the roads always ended by turning away from it, and sneaking back towards the valley, or northward along the margin of the... ...a string of obscene and blasphemous oaths. I hailed the son, and asked him my direction. He pointed loosely west and north-west, muttered an inaudible... ...y pockets and trot. People were trooping out to the labours of the field by twos and threes, and all turned round to stare upon the stranger. I had se... ...be. Look, it is too fine.’ Thus does a wise peasantry console itself under adverse physical circumstances, and, by a startling democratic pro- cess, t... ...me dragging veils of straight rain-shower, others massed and luminous as though promising snow – careered out of the north and followed me along my wa... ...gain sporadically on hillsides or at the borders of a wood. There was no direct road to Cheylard, and it was no easy affair to make a passage in this ... ...him what he proposed that I should do. ‘Where are you going beyond Cheylard?’ he asked by way of answer. ‘That is no affair of yours,’ I returned, for... ...stine, growing angry, pawed and stamped upon the road – I was recalled for a brief while to consciousness, and saw a star or two overhead, and the lac... ...nting spirit can suppose. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the ne...

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...dmond,” continued the owner, “don’t let me detain you. You have managed my affairs so well that I ought to allow you all the time you require for your... ... has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow. Unquestionably, Edmond’s star is in the ascendant, and he will marry the splendid girl — he will be ... ...a sinister smile passed over Danglars’ lips — “unless I take a hand in the affair,” he added. “Hallo!” continued Caderousse, half-rising, and with his... ...ople.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it my affair? I am not in love with Mademoi- selle Mercedes; but for you — in the... ...et come!” The bride blushed, while Fernand, restless and uneasy, seemed to start at every fresh sound, and from time to time wiped away the Alexandre... ...agine I am going to put you off in that shabby manner. To-morrow morning I start for Paris; four days to go, and the same to return, with one day to d... ...ncomprehensible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener... ...andre Dumas 181 with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his ... ...nsect suited to their palate — to the deserted road, which led away to the north and south, when he was aroused by the shrill voice of his wife, and g...

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...m his brother- in-law, Beatty Balestier, a tract of land about three miles north of Brattleboro’, Vt., and on this erected a house at a cost of nearly... ...doing here, then? This is about the lowest ward in the city. Go six blocks north to corner of Geary and Markey, then walk around till you strike corne... ...d by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introducer, who had served as a trooper in the Northern H... ...to time. “Tales of the Law,” which in this country is an amazingly elastic affair, followed from the lips of a judge. Forgive me for recording one tal... ...an Francisco, when the “finest collection of humanity on God’s earth, sir, started this town, and the water came up to the foot of Market Street.” Ver... ... people,” the certainty with which they can be trusted to manage their own affairs in their own way, and the speed with which they are making for all ... ...ut false pride, that they would as soon concern themselves with the public affairs of the city or state as rake muck with a steam-shovel. It may be th... ...he quarters, and the result is soul-shattering. And she is but one of many stars. Item, a maiden who believes in education and possesses it, with a fe... ...he result at the head of the guest of the evening. Never since the morning stars sung together for joy, I learned, had an amazed creation witnessed su...

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...lis- tened to his sister as to an oracle; he consulted her in his trifling affairs, kept none of his secrets from her, and thus made her taste the fru... ...ss account; nevertheless, the poor old man actually died of the grief this affair had caused him. He regarded it as an attack upon his aged honor. Mad... ...igitte, whose honesty and capacity astonished her, to wind up old Galard’s affairs, and to settle the prop- erty in such a way that her daughter shoul... ...roducts, begun in the quartier Saint-Marcel, made a merchant of Minard. He started a factory, and through these early connections he was able to reach... ...r Bourgeoisie he produces, in reply to all arguments, the “colossus of the North.” England is, to his thinking, as to that of the old “Constitutionnel... ...ht angles to the street, had a southern exposure, and was protected on the north by the immense wall of the adjoining house, against which the smaller... ...o-morrow you will respect me,” he added, see- ing tears in the eyes of his starched better half. These noble words were said on the sill of the door, ... ... has twelve thousand a year in his own right.” “Oh!” said Theodose, with a start, “Mademoiselle Brigitte was saying the other day that she wanted at l...

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...lours, and fluttering by their side the beautiful American banner with its stars and stripes, — the long three thousand miles and more, and, longer st... ... If we could have gone off in the midst of that last burst, we should have started triumphantly: but to lie here, two hours and more in the damp fog, ... ... against the dark sky, but for their blotting out some score of glistening stars; the helms man at the wheel, with the illuminated card before him, s... ...o prim, and bright, and highly varnished; that I almost believed the whole affair could be taken up piece meal like a child’s toy, and crammed into a... ...ans at home) who were settled in America, and were travelling on their own affairs. Of all grades and kinds of men that jostle one in the public conve... ...e river: one belongs to the railroad, and the other, which is a very crazy affair, is the private property of some old lady in the neighbourhood, who ... ...ge; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes – Dickens... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ... height of summer again. At seven we started for New York on board a great North River steamboat, which was so crowded with passengers that the upper ...

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...s Revolution-tumult the figure of thee emerges; mute, ghost-like, as ‘with stars dim-twinkling through. ’ And then, when the light is gone quite out, ... ...posing, should need be: that of merely doing nothing to him; which ends in starvation! Nor esteem it small what those Bill-stickers had to do in Paris... ...mall suite, enter Majesty: the honourable Member stops short; the Assembly starts to its feet; the Twelve Hundred Kings ‘almost all,’ and the Gallerie... ... enue of eight rows, on the South side, to that correspond- ing one on the North, some thousand feet, more or less. All this to be scooped out, and wh... ...: fervid children of the South, ‘who glory in their Mirabeau;’ considerate North-blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic sudden... ...g up the Altar-steps, to do his miracle, the material Heaven grew black; a north-wind, moaning cold moisture, began to sing; and there descended a ver... ...lat ball; the black ashes, so far as may be, get green again. This is the ‘Affair of Nanci;’ by some called the ‘Massacre of Nanci;’—properly speaking... ... 23 Avril, 1791.) Simulation and dissimulation mingle extensively in human affairs. We observe, however, that Count Fersen is often using his Ticket o... ...lands have been in Paris; arranging with Assembly Committees the Municipal affairs of Lyons, affairs all sunk in debt;—communing, the while, as was mo...

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......................................................................197 THE STAR.......................................................................... ...amusing possibility of the mind. I found that, taking almost anything as a starting-point and letting my thoughts play about it, there would presently... ...y I was reading a good book—when a something went by the window. I heard a startled exclama- tion behind me, and saw Euphemia with her hands clasped t... ...OBSERVATORY AT AVU, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain. T o the north rises the old crater, black at night against the unfathomable blue of... ...patch of stars he saw was in Sagittarius and south- eastward; the door was north—or was it north by west? He tried to think. If he could get the door ... ...paused. “I suppose it’s the same place. A kind of swamp about ninety miles north of Antananarivo. Do you happen to know? You have to go to it along th... ...water. I heard a kind of yelp behind me, and there they were in this canoe affair—it wasn’t properly a boat—and, perhaps, twenty yards from land. I re... ...decided to swim across the lagoon and leave him alone for a bit, until the affair blew over. I shinned up the tallest palm- tree, and sat there thinki... ...science.” And this Hapley-Pawkins business, though perhaps a more personal affair, stirred passions as profound, if 78 The Country of the Blind not p...

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...tual class) who never by any chance gave a correct version of the simplest affair. This universal inefficiency of what he called “the shore gang” he a... ...nute or two. Then picking up the thread of his story he told us how he had started hot foot for Tower Hill. He had not been that way since the day of ... ...the Shipping Office where I had been once or twice before, I was extremely startled. A gas bracket hung from the middle of the ceiling over a dark, sh... ...- fice, please.” He piped up in a contemptuous squeaky voice which made me start: “Not here. Try the passage on the other side. Street side. This is t... ...s he ready to join at once?” “I had a sort of vision of my lodgings—in the North of Lon- don, too, beyond Dalston, away to the devil—and all my gear ... ...the sailor-brother in a pretty wide range of subjects: Indian and colonial affairs, matters of trade, talk of travels, of seaside holidays and so on. ... ... sensitive (an effect of irritation) to the tonalities, I may say, of this affair, I felt that it was only an imperfect, reserved, thankfulness, with ... ...eptre, for the receipt of deposits; first in this town, then in that town, north and south—everywhere where he could find suitable premises at a moder... ...ay be presumed she slept. At any rate she sur- vived the voyage across the North Sea and told Mrs. Fyne all about it, concealing nothing and receiving...

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