Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Dise...

Full Text Search Details
... of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this documen... ... anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as... ... Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring cl... ...olored steps. In one or two places these young ladies were conversing across the street with other young ladies seated in similar pos- tures and costu... ...men went and had some “supper” in a wonderful place ar- ranged like a theater, where, in a gilded gallery, upon which little boxes appeared to open, a... ... to a fund of associations in the light of which everything was all right. “We really seem to be going out to sea,” Percy Beau- mont observed. “Upon m... ... of hours before, into the ancient town, as it was called in that part of the world, of Newport. The ancient town was a curious affair—a collection of... ...cks beyond the lawn; in the course of long island rides, with a slow return in the glowing twilight; on the deep veranda late in the evening. Lord Lam... ...lves inside out. They gave him a dozen dinner parties and balls and were the means of his being invited to fifty more. At first he used to come into M...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements col- ore... ...g them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concrete br... ...crapers the wires of the Associated Press were closing down. The telegraph operators wearily raised their celluloid eye-shades after a night of talkin... ...r butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, h... ...eep knocking the Traction Company and not realize the difficulties they’re operating under, like these cranks that want municipal ownership. The way t... ...phone they said only: “South 343. No, no, no! I said south—South 343. Say, operator, what the dickens is the trouble? Can’t you get me South 343? Why ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...p, like the sleeping beauty in the wood, lived, sang, and bloomed like the houses we have long cherished, and in which, when we are forced to leave th... ... day, as if they had always inhabited the house; others filling the coach- houses, where the equipages, encased and numbered, appeared to have been in... ...ll,” said Chateau-Renaud, “I was not wrong just now then, when I said that houses had souls and faces like men, and that their exteriors carried the i... ...At least that of the minister.” “Why so!” “To ask for an engagement at the Opera. Really, I never saw such an infatuation for music; it is quite ridic... ...lse telegram shakes, such as banks, speculations of the day — in fact, all operations under the influence of greater or less mischances, the whole bri... ...hall have this ‘lion;’ we are among the privileged ones.” “Were you at the opera yesterday?” “No.” “He was there.” “Ah, indeed? And did the eccentric ...

Excerpt Details
...bor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the handsomest woman in the room, and that the opinion is perhaps shared by a few others, a few insignificant phrases are exchanged, as: ?Do you think of going away soon to La Crampade?? ?How well Madame de Portenduere sang!? ?Who is that little ...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marria... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... itself, and dull in the same way. So this second party is, in some French houses, a happy protest on the part of the old spirit of our light-hearted ... ...of the old spirit of our light-hearted people. Only, unfortunately, so few houses protest; and the reason is a simple one. If we no longer have many s... ...rning and getting up late. Hence, there is no second soiree now but at the houses of women rich enough to entertain, and since July 1830 such women ma... ...ldest son’s wife, a duch- ess in name only, has no carriage, no people, no opera-box, no time to herself. She has not her own rooms in the family mans... ...ord Dudley. “Nowadays princes have lady-like wives, obliged to share their opera-box with other ladies; royal favor could not raise them higher by a h... ...es of dress. “You will meet the fair Unknown again at the Italiens, at the Opera, at a ball. She will then appear under such a dif- ferent aspect that...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ism of adolescence he came to realize that this was too comprehen- sive an operation; every one feels fear, and your true aristo- crat is not one who ... ... within ear- shot—and then far away and bringing back memories of terraced houses and ripe walled gardens, was the scream of peacocks. And some invisi... ...timate articles for the school world, but never put into more than partial operation. “I have read my father’s articles upon this subject,” wrote Benh... ... on the other hand, Sir Godfrey Marayne’s temporary monopoly of the caecal operation which became so fashionable in the last de- cade of Queen Victori... ...o go about having dressmakers for mothers…. And coming into other people’s houses and influencing their sons…. 56 The Research Magnificent 8 8 8 8 8 ... ...he large delicacy of the detail before him, the crests, the tree-protected houses, the fields and farmsteads, the distant gleams of water. And then he...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Some Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ress in the Temple was the ingenious Mr Goldsmith, author of a “History of England,” the “Vicar of Wakefield,” and many diverting pieces. Y ou were br... ...of laundresses to pay your respects to his good lady, the injured Queen of England, at Brandenburg House; and you remember your mother told you how sh... ...ses to invite us, and we are resigned. The last time I saw a ballet at the opera — oh! it is many years ago — I fell asleep in the stalls, wagging my ... ...ing dreary capers, coming thumping down on her board out of time — that an opera-dancer? Pooh! My dear Walter, the great difference between my time an... ... In the reign of George IV ., I give you my honour, all the dancers at the opera were as beautiful as Houris. Even in William IV .’s time, when I thin... ...eep under the starlight, wreathed in the autumn mists. Twinkling among the houses a light keeps watch here and there, in what may be a sick chamber or...

Full Text Search Details
...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...n tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sunday Under Three Heads by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvani... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... The coffee shops too, at which clerks and young men employed in count ing houses can procure their breakfasts, are also open. This class comprises,... ...gation — and they are not a few — as may hap pen to have lingered at the Opera far into the morning of the Sabbath; an excellent contrivance for p... ...f it be quite as severe in its provisions, and to the full as partial in its operation, as those which have preceded it and experienced a similar fate... ...ping shops open — penalties for drunken ness — penalties for keeping open houses of entertainment — penalties for being present at any public meeti... ...? No. Menial servants, both male and female, are specially exempted from the operation of the bill. ‘Menial servants’ are among the poor people. The b... ...ven that, rather an uncertain passport. There is a penalty for keeping open, houses of entertain ment. Now, suppose the bill had passed, and that hal...

Full Text Search Details
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...lage inn, with a crumbling wall belonging to it, and a perfect town of out houses; and painted over the gateway, ‘Stabling for Sixty Horses;’ as indee... ...eets whose name is Legion, were scorching, blistering, and sweltering. The houses, high and vast, dirty to excess, rotten as old cheeses, and as thick... ...eses, and as thickly peopled. All up the hills that hem the city in, these houses swarm; and the mites inside were lolling out of the win dows, and d... ... been sparing of his colours. In one, a lady was having a toe amputated—an operation which a saintly personage had sailed into the room, upon a couch,... ...hem when they are clean. The custom is to lay the wet linen which is being operated upon, on a smooth stone, and hammer away at it, with a flat wooden... ...des an old one now rarely opened. The most important—the Carlo Felice: the opera house of Genoa—is a very splendid, commodi ous, and beautiful theatr...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e farmer nodded encouragingly. He thought it not im- probable that a short operation with these numbers would give the sum in Anthony’s possession, th... ...s. Wicklow, Anthony’s landlady, undertook to make Rhoda comfortable, which operation she began by praising dark young ladies over fair ones, at the sa... ...orner house, the bow-window, to a certainty.” Gardens were in front of the houses; or, to speak more correctly, strips of garden walks. A cab was draw... ...ier by naming the dress she was to wear, the jewels, and the colour of the opera cloak. Thus prompted, Dahlia went to her chamber, and passively attir... ...y prospects in the world?” It would be impossible to bring Dahlia to great houses; and he liked great houses and the charm of mixing among delicately-... ...ke ‘toe’ the West? We’ll ‘toe’ the West. I can afford to laugh at them big houses up there. “Where’s the foundation, if one of them’s sound? Why, in t...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... bristling curve of the wide Riva, the large colour-spots of the balconied houses and the repeated undulation of the little hunch- backed bridges, mar... ...one, which descended sidewise to the brick pavement of the street. The two houses together formed a single dwelling, the party-wall having been remove... ...e been very happy here as a child.” “You should go to Florence if you like houses in which things have happened—especially deaths. I live in an old pa... ...one who took the tone of authority; and she was a passive spectator of the operation of her fate. “May I not see mamman Catherine get into the carriag... ...ir hotel, and at this establish- ment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying them a visit in their ... ...ss Stackpole delights in an ice. I didn’t think they wanted me either. The opera’s very bad; the women look like laundresses and sing like peacocks. I...

Excerpt Details
...titude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fighting for reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly ...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylva... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... marvellous print (our copy is not at all improved by being colored, which operation we performed on it ourselves)—a marvellous print, indeed,—full of... ... Y orkshire pudding for eighteen persons; the youths who are examining her opera- tions (one a literary gentleman, in a remarkably neat nightcap and p... ...e makes us three darling little men on a green common, backed by old farm- houses, somewhere about May. A great mixture of blue and clouds in the air,... ...ncing at Almack’s; or flirting in the saloon at the theatre; at the night- houses, after the play; at Tom Cribb’s, examining the silver cup then in th... ...ked shanks will carry him. What a curious picture it is—the horrid rickety houses in some dingy suburb of London, the grinning cobbler, the smoth- ere... ... wife of an East India Director? She has 22 George Cruikshank been to the Opera over-night (indeed her husband, on her right, with his fat hand dangl...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Rescue by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...sky like an immense hemispheric, iron shutter pivoting down smoothly as if operated by some mighty engine. An inspiring and penetrat- ing freshness fl... ...ndicular side. The tide being out, to jump into the horrible mud under the houses would have been almost certain death. Nothing remained therefore—sin... ...the whiteness of the morning mist. There were huts, fences, palisades, big houses that, erected on lofty piles, were seen above the tops of clustered ... ... the oval lagoon; and in the pure freshness of the air the groups of brown houses reflected in the water or seen above the wav- ing green of the field... ... in a gorgeously got up play on the brilliantly lighted stage of an exotic opera whose accompaniment was not music but the varied strains of the all-p... ...t seemed to me that I was walk- ing on a splendid stage in a scene from an opera, in a gorgeous show fit to make an audience hold its breath. You can’...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...s. There was a church to see, or a picture-gallery—there was a ride, or an opera. The bands of the regiments were making music at all hours. The great... ...fawther has three Scotch garners with nine helpers. We have an acre of hot-houses, and pines as common as pays in the sayson. Our greeps weighs six po... ...ve; and at dinner; and until the hour came when they were all to go to the Opera. It was almost like Old England. The house was filled with familiar B... ...and how do we know what her thoughts were? The coup d’oeil of the Brussels opera-house did not strike Mrs. O’Dowd as being so fine as the theatre in F... ... he was gone. The cathe- dral towers and the full gables of the quaint old houses were just beginning to blush in the sunrise. There had been no rest ... ...rom his lodgings into the town, and to the gates of the hotels and lodging-houses round about the Parc, where the English were congregated, and there ...

Table of Contents Details
.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eep interest in the success of this undertaking, recommending it in coffee-houses, and introducing the sub- ject and Pope’s name to the leading Tories... ...is friends, and their tumultuous mirth. Gay was project- ing his “Beggars’ Opera,” and Pope preparing some of his witty “Miscellanies.” At the end of ... ... every town, where Thamis rolls his tyde, A narrow pass there is, with houses low; Where ever and anon the stream is eyed, And many a boat s... ...brooks, Old-fashion’d halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks: She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning-walks, and prayers three hours a-da... ... 172 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, a... ...gham’s 130 delight, Slides to a scrivener or a city knight. Let lands and houses have what lords they will, 180 130 ‘Proud Buckingham:’ ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

Full Text Search Details
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...favourite places dearly loved; and even people them with shadows. Streets, houses, rooms; figures so like their usual occupants, that they have startl... ...ched out on either side, streaked with light patches of snow; white wooden houses; people at their doors; telegraphs working; flags hoisted; wharfs ap... ... and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. The market is abundantly supplied; and pro visi... ...line which we have imported into England, and which has been in successful operation among us for some years past. America, as a new and not over popu... ...l with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, plunge into the Five Points. But it i... ...ide benevolence. There are three free schools already erected, and in full operation in this city. A fourth is building, and will soon be opened. Amer...

Full Text Search Details
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ch openings at Liverpool—posts of great trust and confidence in merchants’ houses, which nothing but seven and sixpence was wanting to him to secure—t... ...ttle trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character he receiv... ...uctantly admit that the time when this pretty little semicircular sweep of houses, tapering off at the end of the wooden pier into a point in the sea,... ...e a commodious and gay Theatre—or had, for it is burned down now—where the opera was always preceded by a vaudeville, in which (as usual) everybody, d... ...an to mingle up the present scene with the crater of V esuvius, the French Opera, the Coliseum at Rome, Dolly’s Chop house in London, and all the farr... ...on by means of action, they were no bet ter than the chorus at an Italian Opera in England—and would have been worse if such a thing were possible. M...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e in the Alardyce group, which seems to indi- cate that the cadets of such houses go more rapidly to the bad than the children of ordinary fathers and... ...were generally profuse, and had a way of meeting regularly in each other’s houses for meals and family celebrations which had acquired a semi-sacred c... ...he said. “I assure you it’s a common ‘combination,’ as you call it, in the houses of the clergy. The only thing that’s odd about me is that I enjoy th... ...d answer some one who wished to know whether she would buy a ticket for an opera from them, at a reduction. Indeed, the temper of the meeting was now ... ...time they did not speak, though Rodney hummed snatches of a tune out of an opera by Mozart. A feeling of contempt and liking combine very naturally in... ...substantial to show than a manuscript book containing the score of half an opera. In this protest of his, Katharine had always given him her support, ...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...t of our little Nesta’s godmother. I ‘ve told you. We took the girl to the Opera, when quite a little one—that high:— and I declare to you, it was mar... ...er lawyer; office business, increase of Insurance on one of her City ware- houses.’ ‘Speak her name, speak the woman’s name; we’re talking like a pair... ...well-attuned barrel-organ in a street has drawn us to recollections of the Opera or Italy, another harshly crashes, and the postman knocks at doors, a... ... Europe, world, but especially this London, is rather a thing for hospital operations than for poetic rhap- sody; in aspect, too, streaked scarlet and... ... dream of gain- ing way to an alliance with one of these great surrounding houses; and he had a passion for the acquisition of money as a means. And i... ... with the devil’s own testimony to her attractions—thousands in the Funds, houses in the City. She threw the young couple together. And my friend Vict...

Excerpt Details
...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Two by W... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...pretty village of Chelsey, where the nobility have many hand- some country-houses; and so came to my Lady Viscountess’s house, a cheerful new house in... ..., get- ting drunk with the famous wines there, pillaging and robbing quiet houses and convents, murdering and doing worse. And the only blood which Mr... ...ney, that the notorious Jack Shafto, who made such a figure at the coffee- houses and gaming-tables in London, and gave out that he had been a soldier... ..., as well as master his grief. Successful as had been this great General’s operations in the past year, they were far enhanced by the splendor of his ... ...n the bard describes as blandly as though he were recording a dance at the opera, or a harmless bout of bucolic cudgelling at a village fair, that blo... ...the murder of the campaign is done to military music, like a battle at the opera, and the virgins shriek in harmony, as our victorious grenadiers marc...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: A Little Tour in France by Henry James.

Full Text Search Details
...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State ... ...Balzac, of good books and good company, as well as good din- ners and good houses. George Sand has somewhere a charming passage about the mildness, th... ...- sions to the monumental; it was constructed a hundred years ago, and the houses, all alike, have on a moderate scale a pompous eighteenth-century lo... ...powerful, till it was known at last as one of the most luxurious religious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, like Francis... ...the ceilings are magnificent; they look like expensive “sets” at the grand opera. I should have mentioned that below, in the court, the front of the w... ...he globe and his own, great capitalist who had antici- pated the brilliant operations of the present time, he ex- piated his prosperity by poverty, im... ... before me, lavishly displaying them, made her look like the heroine of an opera-bouffe. Her talk was all in n’s, g’s, and d’s, and in mute e’s strong...