...-counter- pane!—But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the stars.” We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extr... ...le; but nowise for her pearl bracelets and Malines laces: in his eyes, the star of a Lord is little less and little more than the broad button of Birm... ...anks too, if it be true, as Teufelsdrockh maintains, that “within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thicklie... ...into relation with the Nifl and Muspel (Darkness and Light) of the antique North, it may be enough to say, that its cor- rectness of deduction, and de... ...lls, but to-morrow thou findest it swept away; already on the wings of the North-wind, it is nearing the Tropic of Can- cer. How came it to evaporate,... ...ling under its mountains of men and lug- gage, wended through our Village: northwards, truly, in the dead of night; yet southwards visibly at eventide... ...s he, “I have more than once had the honor to converse; chiefly on general affairs, and the 92 Sartor Resartus aspect of the world, which he, though ...

...proposed it?” asked her brother. She turned her head and gave him a little stare. “Do you desire the credit of it?” 7 Henry James “If you like, I wil... ...onvent.” “The women are very pretty,” her brother declared, “and the whole affair is very amusing. I must make a sketch of it.” And he came back to th... ... of them, and I can’t see that they have done you any good.” The young man stared, with lifted eyebrows, smiling; he tapped his handsome nose with his... ...Silberstadt-Schreckenstein!” Felix burst out laughing, and Mr. Brand stood staring, while the others, who had passed into the house, ap- peared behind... ... Charlotte, with something of a housewife’s pride. “She can have the large northeast room. And the French bedstead,” Charlotte added, with a constant ... ...ly recommend their living there.” “There is nothing there so pretty as the northeast room,” Charlotte urged. “She will make it pretty. Leave her alone... ...ference for one to the other, as a companion of solitude, remained a minor affair. Charlotte Wentworth’s sweetly severe fea- tures were as agreeable a... ...egan to sit for her portrait on the following day— in the open air, on the north side of the piazza. “I wish you would tell me what you think of us—ho... ...d been repeated to him that this husband wished to put her away—a state of affairs to which even indirect reference was to be deprecated. It was true,...

...nly, long afterward, one says to one’s self, ‘That was it?’” She was oddly startled at the sepulchral sound with which her question fell on the banter... ... suddenness that still made her blink, the prodigious windfall of the Blue Star Mine had put them at a stroke in possession of life and the leisure to... ...d sunk into a low chair beside the fireplace. From her seat she looked up, startled, at her husband’s profile, which was darkly projected against the ... ...nt- ing moral obligation. If she had indeed been careless of her husband’s affairs, it was, her new state seemed to prove, be- cause her faith in him ... ... continued: “Y ou see, it’s only come out lately what a bad state Elwell’s affairs were in. His wife’s a proud woman, and she fought on as long as she... ...” she replied, with an indulgent scorn, “my marriage was a very incomplete affair.” “And yet you were fond of your husband?” “Y ou have hit upon the e... ...acanthus were braided with the runic knots and fish-tailed monsters of the North, and all the plastic terror and beauty born of man’s hand from the Ga... ...ipal rivers of Brazil, rises on the plateau of Mato Grosso, and flows in a northerly direction for a length of no less than one thousand one hundred a...

..., the details of a room he had played in as a child. And as, in the plumed starred crowd, she had stood out for him, slender, secluded and different, ... ...after receiving his degree at Harvard, had been rescued from a stormy love-affair, and finally, after some months of troubled drifting, had yielded to... ...ep on to Paris! Now he perceived the absurdity of the vow, and thanked his stars that he need not plunge, to no purpose, into the fury of waves outsid... ...hauteur: “I’m going to Paris: to study for the stage.” “The stage?” Darrow stared at her, dismayed. All his con- fused contradictory impressions assum... ...course of time a sudden “stroke” of the guardian’s had thrown his personal affairs into a state of confusion from which—after his widely lamented deat... ..., none of these ladies felt any obligation to intervene farther in Sophy’s affairs; and she was accordingly left to her own resources. A schoolmate fr... ...m the next morning, as he opened his hotel window on the early roar of the Northern Terminus. The girl was there, in the room next to him. That had be... ...ival at Givre produced the same effect as the wind’s hauling around to the north after days of languid weather. When Darrow joined the group about the...

... of my epoch and I publish this work”? The object of this particular study—startling in its truth so long as society makes philanthropy a principle in... ...t back, a little goat-girl, or shepherdess, or milkmaid climbs a willow to stare at you. Presently the avenue merges into an alley of acacias, which l... ...llows, the balsams, the wild thyme, the green waters of a pond, the golden star of the yellow water-lily,—the breath of all such vigorous propagations... ...a around Paris in advance of the days when a tem- pest shall blow from the north and overturn our plaster pal- aces and our pasteboard decorations. No... ...he old moons. In 1790 Mademoiselle Laguerre, alarmed at the turn of public affairs, came to settle at Les Aigues, bought and given to her by Bouret, w... ...refore unapproachable; the master of the house is out and about on his own affairs; a Parisian is there- fore compelled to be alone from eight to elev... ...of this cottage. In the first place, the door and the window looked to the north. The house, placed on a little rise in the stoniest angle of a vine- ... ..., so that the water ran off rapidly; and as the rain seldom comes from the northward in Burgundy, no dampness could rot the foundations, slight as the... ... the middle-class folks are worse than the lords? Mark my words, when that affair happens, my children, the Soudrys, the Gaubertins, the Rigous, will ...

...th of its prom- ises, and with such promptness that even the commander was startled. But he was one of those wary old watch-dogs who are hard to catch... ...s first words the officers who accompanied him turned spasmodically, as if startled out of sleep by a sudden noise. The sergeants and corporals follow... ...ence of a disturbance in the Assembly, has made another clean sweep of our affairs. Those pentarchs,—puppets, I call them,—those directors have just l... ...ew to this species of warfare, was greatly excited by this beginning of an affair which seemed to have an almost romantic interest, and they began to ... ...icked his musket: “We’ll play ‘em a tune on the clarinet, commander.” They started, two to right and two to left of the road; and it was not without s... ...scene of action at a quick step, and its mere pres- ence put an end to the affair. The Guard and some of the soldiers crossed the road and began to en... ...and broken windows of which seemed ready to fall at the first tempest. The north wind whistled through these ruins, to which the moon, with her indefi... ...cend in gentle slopes to the great valley, where they turn abruptly to the north. Towards the south, where the town itself really ends and the faubour... ...n their depths the transparencies of a lake of molten silver. Suddenly the north wind swept this phantasmagoric scene and scattered the mists which la...

..., now called Hecatombaeon, he arrived at Athens, where he found the public affairs full 12 V olume One of all confusion, and divided into parties and... ...hereas before they lived dispersed, and were not easy to assemble upon any affair for the common interest. Nay, differences and even wars often occurr... ...ctes. Oth- 31 Plutarch’s Lives ers say, that from the appearance of their star in the heavens, they were thus called, for in the Attic dialect this n... ...agogues and factions. And at last, despair- ing of any good success of his affairs in Athens, he sent away 32 V olume One his children privately to E... ...me prefixed, which may be collected and foreknown from the position of the stars at their first foun- dation. But these and the like relations may per... ...emisium is in Euboea, beyond the city of Histiaea, a sea-beach open to the north; most nearly oppo- site to it stands Olizon, in the country which for... ...s, to check his impa- tience, told him that at the Olympic games they that start up before the rest are lashed; “ And they,” replied Themistocles, “th... ...oung children, some of them, passing the Riphaean mountains, fell upon the Northern Ocean, and possessed themselves of the far- thest parts of Europe;... ...g from the Alps to both the seas, as the names themselves testify; for the North or Adriatic Sea is named from the T uscan city Adria, and that to the...

...en perfectly contented. Just outside his window was his signboard—a modest affair—that read: “Doctor McT eague. Dental Par- lors. Gas Given”; but that... ... room a few doors down the hall. It adjoined that of Old Grannis. Quite an affair had arisen from this circumstance. Miss Baker and Old Grannis were b... ...e lodgers’ rooms, had been the first to call the flat’s at- tention to the affair, spreading the news of it from room to room, from floor to floor. Of... ...ere unavailing. She only responded by movements of her head. “Can’t always start her going,” Marcus told his cousin. “What does she do, though, when y... ...e branch post-office immediately below. Maria Macapa finished her work and started to leave. As she passed near Marcus and his cousin she stopped, and... ...t night he lay awake for hours under the thick blankets of the bed-lounge, star- ing upward into the darkness, tormented with the idea of her, exasper... ...th a gang of tramps who attempted to ride the brake beams, and once in the northern part of Inyo County, while they were halted at a water tank, an im... ...en system of arroyos, and little can- yons tumbled down to meet it. To the north faint blue hills shouldered themselves above the horizon. “Well,” obs... ...e butt of his quirt—”is about eighteen or nineteen miles along here to the north of us. Those hills way over yonder to the northeast are the Telescope...

...untainous accu mulation of this one man’s wealth. The cold regions of the north, almost within the gloom and shadow of the Arctic Circle, sent him th... ...rm himself into an angel of be neficence, and assume a control over human affairs as wide and benignant as the smile of the Great Stone Face. Full of... ...eir heads, so steep, that the stones would often rumble down its sides and startle them at midnight. The daughter had just uttered some simple jest th... ...want you and father and grandma’m, and all of us, and the stranger too, to start right away, and go and take a drink out of the basin of the Flume!’ N... ...sigh. It forced its way, in spite of a little struggle to repress it. Then starting and blush ing, she looked quickly round the circle, as if they ha... ...from his hoard of pine tree shillings. By his long absence, moreover, his affairs had become so disordered that, for the rest of his life, instead of... ...on. In old times the settlers used to be astounded by the in roads of the northern Indians coming down upon them from this mountain rampart through s...

...gor- geously arrayed in evening dress, fresh from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to inquire whether Mme. de Bargeton was satisfied with all that he... ...un- dred francs per month. “A mere trifle,” added he, seeing that Nais was startled. “For five hundred francs a month you can have a carriage from a l... ...ut apparent reason from society, and ceased to take any active interest in affairs, political or do- mestic. His wife, thus left mistress of her actio... ...s and for a suit of clothes, more or less fine, put instead a ribbon, or a star, or a title; have not brilliant careers been tormented by reason of su... ...ady, and told herself that she could gain her end as the satellite of this star, so she had been outspoken in her admiration. The Marquise was not ins... ...au. Lucien’s astonishment betrayed such complete ignorance of the state of affairs in the republic of letters, that Lousteau thought it necessary to e... ...oung and witty and beautiful, with the very white fairness of women of the north. Her mother was the Prin- cess Scherbellof, and the Minister before d...

...xche- quer, it would have made head against its old enemy, Taxa- tion, and started rejuvenescent. But the Radicals were in power to legislate and crus... ... the imagination deals with it thus, has no substantial relation to mortal affairs. It is a tricksy thing, dis- tending and contracting as it dances i... ... was a fool, and gone and got married, and you thrown back’ard on one leg, starin’ at the other, stupified-like?” “I don’t mind supposing it,” said Ro... ... at the row of lamps, and listened to the noise remote, until the sight of stars was pleas- ant as the faces of friends. “People are kind here,” she r... ... and bonneted, to the bells of Wrexby, West of the hills, and of Fenhurst, Northeast. The squire came in to them, groaning over his boots, cross with ... ...leaky. There’s no bore like a secret! I’ve come to my conclu- sion in this affair by putting together a lot of little incidents and adding them up. Fi... ... are born—you dine.” Such appeared to him to be the positive regulation of affairs, and a most proper one, —of the matters of course following the bir... ...n it was a gallant sight, my boys, to see Hampshire steadying the defeated North-countryman on his astonished zigzag to his flattish-bottomed billyboy... ...South-westerly rainclouds had been met in mid-sky by a sharp puff from due North, and the moisture had descended like a woven shroud, covering all the...

...rring in another story had not excited a certain desire to see their first start. In fact they have been more or less my life-long companions. An almo... ...hat Lilias would be run away with by a lively imagina- tion, repressed and starved, but entirely untrained. Whatever influenced Lilias, had, through h... ...diately de- parted for a year’s visit among Mr. Hawkesworth’s relations in Northumberland, whence they were to return to Beechcroft, merely for a fare... ...enough to assist her. Lily however, thought fit to despise all house- hold affairs, and bestowed the chief of her attention on her own department—the ... ...f daily service, and after this, Mr. Mohun at- tended to his multitudinous affairs; Claude went to the par- 20 Scenes and Characters sonage,—Emily to... ...o had chosen her cotton, and was gazing from the door. Jane gave a violent start, took a hurried leave of Mrs. Appleton, and set out towards home; she... ...said Ada, whose conscience was clear. ‘Ah!’ said Mr. Devereux, ‘Beechcroft affairs would soon stand still, without those useful people, Mrs. Appleton,... ...me on a visit to Beechcroft, to take leave of her brother, returned to the north, taking with her the little Harry. He was nearly a year old, and it g...

...f pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. She was ex- posed to every stare, she passed on through a stretch of tor- ment. It was strange that sh... ...ed over their coarse aprons, standing gossiping at the end of their block, stared after the Brangwen sisters with that long, unwearying stare of abori... ...s the people about him. Gudrun lighted on him at once. There was something northern about him that 11 magnetised her. In his clear northern flesh and... ... and saw the bride and her father standing on the path above him. A queer, startled look went over his face. He hesitated for a moment. Then he gather... ...Between me and a woman, the so- cial question does not enter. It is my own affair.’ ‘A ten-pound note on it,’ said Birkin. ‘You don’t admit that a wom... ...oncerned. But for her own private self, she is a free agent, it is her own affair, what she does.’ ‘But won’t it be rather difficult to arrange the tw... ... not having any.’ ‘If you are walking westward,’ he said, ‘you forfeit the north- ern and eastward and southern direction. If you admit a unison, you ... ...Policemen to keep you in, too!’ said Gudrun. ‘My word, this is a beautiful affair.’ ‘We’ d better look after father and mother,’ said Ursula anx- ious... ...ughs, with level sprays of strong green here and there, whilst through the north- ern side the distance glimmered open as through a window. When they ...

... so feebly that its quivering gleam could be compared only to the nebulous stars which appear at moments through the dun gray clouds of an autumn nigh... ...e dared not fix her eyes upon them, fearing to see them move, or to hear a startling laugh from their gaping and twisted mouths. At this moment a temp... ...r and child!” An answer so peremptory closed the discussion, impru- dently started by a seigneur from Lower Normandy. The guests were silent, looking ... ...n love with her, and if Madame la comtesse, he said, would under- take the affair, she should not only more than repay him for what she thought he had... ..., compassionate to all true love, promised to do her best, and pursued the affair so warmly that at the birth of her second son she did obtain from he... ...ls which surround the vales of Normandy; a thick wood shielded it from the north; high walls and Norman hedges and deep ditches made the enclosure inv... ...French beauty, as fugitive as its own expres- sions, nor the beauty of the North, cold and melancholy as the North itself—it was the deep seraphic bea... ...nseigneur, who in those days was still in his twenties, will remember that affair; bold he was,—I can tell it now—he led the insulters!” “He never thi...

...er and drawing-room. They are like long, narrow, high-ceiled bird-cages hung against the building. My room was a corner room, and had two of these thi... ...d getting my spirit in tune with the place, and in the right mood to enjoy the supernatural, a raven suddenly uttered a horse croak over my head. It m... ...s to the hole and looks in again for half a minute; then he says, ‘Well, you’re a long hole, and a deep hole, and a mighty singular hole altogether—bu... ...ed, yet, but no matter, they could be eaten cold, after the battle; therefore everybody crowded forth to see. This was not a love duel, but a “satisfa... ...mused the spectators, and even broke down their studied and courtly gravity and surprised them into laughter. Of course the seconds struck up the swor... ..., after they were covered with streaming wounds, which they had shown in the begin- ning. The world in general looks upon the college duels as very fa... ...he death. An account of it, in the next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very dif... ...sary, and in this exposed situation we were attacked by all the fury of that grand enemy of aspirants to Monte Rosa—a severe and bitterly cold wind fr... ... could no longer continue on the eastern side. For a little distance we ascended by snow upon the arête—that is, the ridge—then turned over to the rig...

...ne Shore, dressed all in white, and with her brown hair hanging down, went starv- ing through the streets; or how George Barnwell killed the worthiest... ...f shep- herds in a field; some travellers, with eyes uplifted, following a star; a baby in a manger; a child in a spacious temple, talking with grave ... ...g, where can we not go, if we will; where have we not been, when we would; starting our fancy from our Christmas Tree! Away into the winter prospect. ... ...de asunder. But, one night, many years afterwards, our friend being in the North of England, and staying for the night in an inn, on the Yorkshire Moo... ...ber was as dull, and bare, and cold, as an upper prison room in some stern northern for- tress. But, having Christiana’s love, I wanted noth- ing upon... ...o abuse that trust by keeping 37 Charles Dickens this piece of our common affairs in the dark, and this other piece in the light, and again this othe... ... of all sorts of cheeses—Double Glo’sterman, Family Cheshireman, Dutchman, North Wiltshireman, and all that. But he never minded it. And I don’t mean ... ... save him the trouble of thinking for him- self, and to manage him and his affairs. “Why truly,” said he, “I have little time upon my hands; and if yo...

...s aim is to reach the very fount of laughter and tears. The sight of human affairs deserves admi- ration and pity. They are worthy of respect too. And... ...uld pass fatuous remarks. I haven’t been mixed up with great or scandalous affairs. This is but a bit of psychological document, and even so, I haven’... ...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... ... came aboard in a large pack- age in Victoria Dock, London, just before we started for Rouen, France. And in the shadowy life of the F.C.T.C. lies the... ...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 say- ing that the engaging of a man... ...main permanently administering the estate and attending to the complicated affairs—(the girls took it in turn week and week about)—driving, as I said,... ...less solitude. It is in- comprehensible 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... ...iscences 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 Shakespeare...

..., and the other to a retired manufacturer of vermicelli, Italian paste and starch, who allowed the others to address him as “Father Goriot.” The remai... ... from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a large family who pinched and starved themselves to spare twelve hundred francs a year for him. Misfortun... ...he indications of the course of events, calculating the probable turn that affairs will take, that they may be the first to profit by them. But for hi... ...inning of Eugene de Rastignac’s second twelvemonth, this figure sud- denly started out into bold relief against the background of human forms and face... ... of six and thirty, who was awaiting the final settlement of her husband’s affairs, and of another matter regarding a pension due to her as the wife o... ...rase he was “a curmudgeon.” Empty-headed people who babble about their own affairs because they have nothing else to occupy them, naturally conclude t... ...a- tience of delay or suspense. These traits are held to be defects in the North; they made the fortune of Murat, but they like- wise cut short his ca... ... side of the Loire meets, in a southern temperament, with the guile of the North, the character is complete, and such a man will gain (and keep) the c...

...ious half-eyes the petticoated creatures—all so much of a swarm unless you stare at them like lanterns. The boys cast glance because it relieved their... ...e, for climbing the peaks! Shalders, too, might interest him in mili- tary affairs and Murat; he did no harm, and could be amus- ing. It rather added ... ...rcussy style. Shalders went so far as to defend Murat for attending to the affairs of his kingdom, instead of galloping over hedges and ditches to swe... ...ncied contemplation of the love-letter was reversed in them at once by the startling news of Miss Vincent’s discov- ery and seizure of the sealed thin... ...s, when it is not fished out of books and poetry. For though she was pale, starved and pale, they could see she was never the one to be sighing; and a... ...e of information, the answer became important. Ici was twenty miles to the north- west of London. How long would it take Matey to reach Donvres? Or at... ... the good old fellow at games, consider- 17 George Meredith ate in school affairs, kind to the youngsters; he was heard to laugh. He liked best the c... ...n to stand the loss of two big battles on the Sussex weald or more East to North-east, if fortune willed it. He rose from his chair, paced some steps,... ... fearless rascal, therefore a parasite and a bully duellist; a thick-built north-countryman; a burly ape of the ultra-elegant; hunter, gamester, hard-...

...l island from the Sultan of a little group called the Seven Isles, not far north from Banka. It was, I suppose, a legitimate transaction, but I have n... ...watched with Freya on the verandah the brig approaching the point from the northward. I suppose Jasper made the girl out with his long glass. What doe... ...ouse, with the kind purpose of engaging him in conversation lest he should start roaming about and intrude unwittingly where he was not wanted just th... ...the anecdote. And this annoyed me, because the anecdote was really good. I stared at him. “Come, come!” I cried. “Don’t you know what Jasper Allen is ... ...or?” This was the first open allusion I had ever made to the true state of affairs between Jasper and his daughter. He took it very calmly. “Oh, Freya... ...- 10 Freya of the Seven Isles ter hold of the mundane connections of this affair. But Jasper was elevated in the true sense of the word ever since th... ...on than the unguarded ring of his laugh. But, bless my soul! if we were to start at every evil guffaw like a hare at every sound, we shouldn’t be fit ... ...ke brig, waved his hat in response. Shortly afterwards we parted, I to the northward and Jasper heading east with a light wind on the quarter, for Ban... ...ness. Why should she be roaming by night near the cove—unless on some love affair of her own—I asked myself. But there was nobody suitable within the ...