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...Contents THE DOOR IN THE WALL ............................................................................................................ 4 THE STAR ...................................................................................................................................... 20 A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON ...............................................................

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........................................................................4 THE STAR ......................................................................... ...ad gone—whither have they gone?” He halted again, and remained for a time, staring into the fire. “Oh! the wretchedness of that return!” he murmured. ... ...ream?” II II II II II He looked up with a sudden smile. “Did you ever play North-West Passage with me? … No, of course you didn’t come my way!” “It wa... ...t every imagina- tive child plays all day. The idea was the discovery of a North- West Passage to school. The way to school was plain enough; the game... ...as plain enough; the game consisted in finding some way that wasn’t plain, start- ing off ten minutes early in some almost hopeless direction, and wor... ... crowded with men and living creatures, were standing out to ocean and the north. For already the warning of the master mathematician had been telegra... ...I had imagined still hung about me as I rubbed my eyes. It was some grubby affair that made me thank God for the sunlight. I sat up on the couch and r... ... way the world might go? “You know that is not quite the way I think about affairs, about my real affairs. I am a solicitor, you know, with a point of... ...ese things were in my mind, they were in the background. They seemed to be affairs beyond our con- cern. Chiefly, I was thinking of my lady. An aching...

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...Excerpt: A girl came out of lawyer Royall?s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. ...

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... A GIRL CAME OUT OF LAWYER Royall’s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June aft... ... down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer. The place lies high and in the open, and lacks the lavish sha... ...n had passed through the Hatchard gate, and she had the street to herself. North Dormer is at all times an empty place, and at three o’clock on a June... ... an architect, you see, and I’m hunting up old houses in these parts.” She stared. “Old houses? Everything’s old in North Dor- mer, isn’t it? The folk... ...rence with Mr. Royall, who, in pursuance of her plan, departed one day for Starkfield to visit the institution she recommended. He came back the next ... ...t time she had had some experience. When she asked him how soon she was to start he answered shortly, “Y ou ain’t going,” and shut himself up in the r... ...that “going with a city fel- low” was a different and less straightforward affair: almost every village could show a victim of the perilous venture. A... ...ess familiar districts of New England. But incomprehen- sible as the whole affair was to her, and hard as she found it to understand why he paused enc...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....

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... CHAPTER I T HE WEATHER DOOR of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn t... ...here they all live mostly , an’ mostly them Galway men are good in a boat. North, away yonder-you’ll hear him tune up in a minute is Tom Platt. Man-o’... ...! What did I tell you?” A melodious bellow stole across the water from the northern dory. Harvey heard something about somebody’ s hands and feet bein... ...ands, faced Uncle Salters at the 26 Captains Courageous table, and Harvey stared at the pitchfork and the tub. “Hi!” shouted Manuel, stooping to the ... ...peared. In half a minute Harvey heard deep snores in the cabin, and he was staring 28 Captains Courageous blankly at Dan and Penn. “I did a little be... ...lt up- right from the oily water and sighed a weird whistling sigh. Harvey started back with a shout, but Dan only laughed. “Grampus,” said he. “Beggi... ...the general smell and smother were past all description. Harvey considered affairs, wondered that he was not deathly sick, and crawled into his bunk a...

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...Excerpt: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer?d up the drooping army; and himself, Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Charged o...

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...: (SOMERSET:) DUKE OF EXETER : (EXETER:) EARL OF OXFORD : (OXFORD:) EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) EARL OF WESTMORELAND : (WESTMORELAND:)... ... how the king escaped our hands. YORK: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He slily stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of No... ... Richard; claim the English crown. [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest .] KING HENRY VI : M... ...foe Turn back and fly, like ships before the wind Or lambs pursued by hunger starved wolves. My sons, God knows what hath bechanced them: But this I k... ...d that the people of this blessed land May not be punish’d with my thwarting stars, Warwick, although my head still wear the crown, I here resign my g... ...By spying and avoiding fortune’s malice, For few men rightly temper with the stars: Yet in this one thing let me blame your grace, For choosing me whe... ...ll not want his part. KING HENRY VI : But, with the first of all your chief affairs, Let me entreat, for I command no more, That Margaret your queen ...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terrac...

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...DINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ANCIENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the North sits over- looking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three... ...ins the New Town with the Old – that windiest spot, or high altar, in this northern temple of the winds – and watch the trains smoking out from under ... ...clothe the eternal rock and yesterday’s imitation portico; and as the soft northern sun- shine throws out everything into a glorified distinctness – o... ...le, sacrifice of their lives, and bade eloquent farewell to sun, moon, and stars, and earthly friendships, or died silent to the roll of drums. Down b... ...I heard, a subject of reproach; de- cency of linen is a mark of prosperous affairs, and conscious moral rectitude one of the tokens of good living. It... ...rewd Scotch workmen may have paused on their way to a job, debating Church affairs and politics with their tools upon their arm. But the most part are... ...im of a projected visit to the coun- try, and afterwards, detained by some affairs, put it off and stayed the night in town. The good man had lain som... ...ies’ fingers; and a few miles round Fife Ness is the fatal Inchcape, now a star of guidance; and the lee shore to the east of the Inchcape, is that Fo... ...e clear, dark, moonless night, with a ring of frost in the air, and only a star or two set sparsedly in the vault of heaven; and you will find a sight...

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...e Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the wid...

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... other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes... ...ld united us, until at length, having touched at Greenock, a pointing arm and a rush to the starboard now announced that our ocean steamer was in sigh... ...ward towards Steerage No. 1, and the 4 Essays of Travel third aft towards the engines. The starboard forward gallery is the second cabin. Away abaft ... ...ly confined to the same quarter of the deck. Who could tell whether I housed on the port or starboard side of steerage No. 2 and 3? And it was only th... ...lked the deck and looked round upon my fellow- passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Eu- rope, I began for the first time to understan... ...ound myself unable to decide if he were Scots, English, or Irish. He had certainly employed north- country words and elisions; but the accent and the ... ... in either man or mas- ter, and so profound a terror for the unerring Nemesis of mercantile affairs, that he could think of no hope for our country ou... ....—‘There’s few can beat me at a lie,’ was his engaging commentary to me as he recounted the affair. ‘Have you been to sea?’ again asked the captain. ‘... ...and the end, as far as our passage is concerned, of what I will make bold to call this love-affair. There are many relations which go on to marriage a...

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...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting ...

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...lace of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon towe... ...path of glory along the tossing, white-crested waters. The wind was a keen north-east breeze, and might have been thought too severe by any but the ‘h... ...und when a step approached, till a hand was laid on her shoulder, when she started, and looked up into the face of another girl, on a smaller scale, w... ...eys and minstrelsy, and the sun shines as it never does in this cold bleak north; and above all there is Margaret, dear tender Margaret, almost a quee... ...ll I say their ower well wishers?’ The ladies of Scotland lived to receive startling intelligence, and Lady Drummond’s kind heart was moved by the two... ...e journey to her. Not only had she to hurry her preparations for the early start, but instead of travelling as the mistress of the party, she and her ... ...st time, as something unsuited to that orderly company. ‘That is thine own affair,’ said Sir Patrick. ‘Mine is that he should comport himself as becom... ...nry, whom they are about to visit at Windsor. I am on a mission thither on affairs of state, but I shall be willing to make my excuses to him for any ... ...place, but it was plain that he was not in disgrace; and in fact the whole affair had been treated as a mere par- donable blunder of the rangers. The ...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- pl...

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...ubject of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. Th... ...ss, that of the expression, the literal squeezing-out, of value is another affair—with which the happy luck of mere finding has little to do. The joys... ...lities were virtual certainties. Possessed of our friend’s nationality, to start with, there was a general probability in his narrower localism; which... ...ntly, “arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any... ...piece, is a form foredoomed to looseness and that looseness, never much my affair, had never been so little so as on this particular occasion. All of ... ...e and functional scene, treat- ing all the submitted matter, as by logical start, logical turn, and logical finish) is discriminated preparation, is t... ...Waymarsh!” what was to have been, what—he more than ever felt as his short stare of suspended welcome took things in— would have been, but for herself... ...k after it?” “So far as possible. She’s wonderfully able, but it’s not her affair, and her life’s a good deal overcharged. She has many, many things.”... ...fixing some particularly large iceberg in a cool 362 The Ambassadors blue northern sea. “It’s magnificent!” he then rather oddly exclaimed. But his f...

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..., which goes by the name of Little Britain. Christ Church School and St. Bartholomew?s Hospital bound it on the west; Smithfield and Long Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull-and-Mouth Street separates it from Butcher Lane, and the regions of Newgate. Over this little ter...

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...Bartholomew’s Hospital bound it on the west; Smithfield and Long Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eas... ... yard of his workshop. “Others,” as Mr. Skryme is accustomed to say, “may go star gazing, and look for conjunctions in the heavens, but here is a conj... ... and Lad Lane, and even unto Aldermanbury. His opinion is very much taken in affairs of state, having read the Sunday papers for the last half century... ...t the family of the butcher. It is true that the Lambs, having had the first start, had naturally an advantage of them in the fashionable career. They...

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... back. But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east; which carried us up, for all that we could do, toward the north: by which time our victuals failed us, though we had made good spare of them....

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...with a point east; which carried us up, for all that we could do, toward the north: by which time our victuals failedus, though we had made good spare... ...hat the next day about evening we saw within a kenning before us, toward the north, as it were thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land, kn... ...light broke up, and cast itself abroad, as it were, into a firmament of many stars, which also vanished soon after, and there was nothing left to be s... ...cause it. But then, that they should have knowledge of the languages, books, affairs, of those that lie such a distance from them, it was a thing we c... ...ethren of Saloman’s House, whose errand was only to give us knowledge of the affairs and state of those coun tries to which they were designed; and e...

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...ugh her heart leaped up over children,—radiant phenom- ena to her, akin to stars fallen among her daffodils in the orchard; and her own renunciation, ... ...tion: “Much madness is divinest sense T o a discerning eye. Much sense the starkest madness; ’T is the majority In this, as all prevails. 6 Assent an... ...hare of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning. Here a star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist,... ...eir faith the everlasting troth; Their expectation fair; The needle to the north degree Wades so, through polar air. 28 XXXIX I MEAN... ... still. The frosts were her condition; The Tyrian would not come Until the North evoked it. “Creator! shall I bloom?” XLIX BESIDES the autum... ...d, Lapland’s necessity. The hemlock’s nature thrives on cold; The gnash of northern winds Is sweetest nutriment to him, His best Norwegian wines. T o ... ...ioned miracle When Summertime is done, Seems Summer’s recollection And the affairs of June. As infinite tradition As Cinderella’s bays, Or little John...

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...th among other objectionable forms took that of a pride in my capacity for affairs. I am young still in years, but the things that have happened to me... ...ay part of Kent, and my bungalow stood on the edge of an old sea cliff and stared across the flats of Romney Marsh at the sea. In very wet weather the... ... Roman brick- work, and from it old Watling Street, still paved in places, starts like an arrow to the north. I used to stand on the hill and think of... ... it old Watling Street, still paved in places, starts like an arrow to the north. I used to stand on the hill and think of it all, the galleys and leg... ...een him only against the light. “One moment, sir,” said I as he turned. He stared. “One moment,” he said, “certainly. Or if you wish to speak to me fo... ... no rest like change of occupation,” I said, with profound conviction. The affair was over. On my verandah steps he turned. “I am already greatly inde... ...“zuzzoo” came back to me on the breeze. … Well, after all, that was not my affair. … He came the next day, and again the next day after that, and deli... ...reeping lichens, and wherever the shade remained the snow-drifts lingered. North, south, east, and west spread an identical monotony of unfa- miliar f... ...just then—when he put his feet together and leapt away from me towards the north. He seemed to drift through the air as a dead leaf would do, fell lig...

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... of a steamship full of return- ing coolies from Singapore to some port in northern China occurred to my recollection. Y ears before I had heard it be... ...s an exacting taskmaster. I never met anybody personally concerned in this affair, the interest of which for us was, of course, not the bad weather bu... ...s no wind, and the heat was close. The coolies lounged, talked, smoked, or stared over the rail; some, drawing water over the side, sluiced each other... ...gether over the ship, Captain,” said the senior partner; and the three men started to view the perfections of the Nan-Shan from stem to stern, and fro... ... would set them down with painstaking care upon many pages. The house in a northern suburb to which these pages were addressed had a bit of garden bef... ... from their shape, worn-out things, and of a faded meaning. The China seas north and south are narrow seas. They are seas full of every-day, eloquent ... ...r nature’;” when a change in the visitor’s counte- nance made her stop and stare. “Solomon… . Oh! … Mrs. Rout,” stuttered the young man, very red in t... ...for instance: a worthy business man, who at an un- fortunate crisis in his affairs went quietly to bed and died forth- with in a state of resignation.... ...” at the end. She couldn’t be really expected to understand all these ship affairs. She was glad, of course, to hear from him, but she had never asked...

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... disregard of the room. He drifted to the midmost of the three windows and stared out despondently at Harley Street. For a minute or so he remained as... ...e-blossom—and bluebells…. And all the while we can be getting on with your affair.” He was back at the window now. “I want the holiday my- self,” he s... ...at clearly. Science and plan have to replace custom and tradition in human affairs. Soon. Very soon. Granted. Granted. We used to say all that. Even b... .... Frozen in a sprightly attitude, its stiff bound and its fixed heavenward stare was highly suggestive of a forced and tactful disregard of current un... ...e uncongenial habits of some unloved intimate. And when the moment came to start and the little engine did not immediately re- spond to the electric s... ...was made to do.” S S S S Section 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 The affair of the car effectively unsealed Sir Richmond’s mind. Hitherto Dr. Ma... ...intellectual dressing. Ev- ery third manufacturer from the midlands or the north has some such undertow of ‘affairs.’ A physiological uneasiness, an i... ...e shadow cast by Silbury upon the river flats, strolled up the down to the northward to get a general view of the village, had tea and smoked round th... ...e roadway running to the Avon river, nor of the alleged race course to the north, nor had she ever heard that the stones were supposed to be of two di...

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... _60 When evening yields to night, Bright as that fibrous woof when stars indue Its transitory robe. Four shapeless shadows bright and beautifu... ...ight, so beautiful, As that which o’er the maiden’s charmed sleep Waving a starry wand, Hung like a mist of light. Such sounds as breathed around like... ...heir prismy wings. The magic car moved on; The night was fair, innumerable stars Studded heaven’s dark blue vault; ... ... islets darted _750 The light of moonrise; in the northern Heaven, Among the clouds near the horizon driven, The mountains la... ... In sudden panic those false murderers fled, Like insect tribes before the northern gale: But swifter still, our hosts encompassed ... ... turret, and in rage and grief and scorn I wept! 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. For to the North I saw the town on fire, And its red light made morning pallid now, Wh... ...e for long years impression on my mind. The following morning, urged by my affairs, I left bright Venice. After many years And many changes I returned... ...dge from you, that he will stir _670 In our affairs;—like Oliver. That he’ll be worthy of his hire.’ 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. The... ...To His Excellency Prince Alexander Mavrocordato Late Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Hospodar of Wallachia the Drama of Hellas is inscribed as an...

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............................................................. 175 LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT..................................................................... ..................................................................... 176 THE STAR SIRIUS .................................................................. .........................................................337 MEDITATION UNDER STARS......................................................................... ... of the poles. The wild Atlantic’s weltering gloom, Earth-clasping seas of North and South, The Baltic with its amber spume, The Caspian with its froz... ...nd yearning of the earth T o be a mother and give happy birth, Ere yet the northern sun such rapture brings, Lo, from her virgin breast the Snowdrop s... ...rth, And pitched me among my old comrades: before I could tell south from north, He caught my hand up, and kissed it! Don’t ever let any man speak A... ... crooked: but why count the list? If it’s right to suppose that our human affairs Are all order’d by heaven—there, bang goes my fist! III For if ange... ...e Gods at play: A Conservative youth! who the cream-bowl skimmed, Desiring affairs to be left as they are. So, thou takest Youth’s natural place in th...

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...d during the course of these 4 A Modern Utopia speculations as a state of affairs at once possible and more desirable than the world in which I live.... ...casion. I do not see why I should always pander to the vulgar appetite for stark stories. And in short, I made it this. I explain all this in order to... ...resent enterprise. We are going to lay down certain necessary 9 H G Wells starting propositions, and then we shall proceed to explore the sort of wor... ...flying for a billion years, beyond the range of unaided vision, blazes the star that is our Utopia’s sun. T o those who know where to look, with a goo... ... queer sort of thing—” “I see now. Yes. Yes, it’s certainly an odd-looking affair…. And big, you know! Handsome! I wonder—” That would interrupt our U... ...s an amazing story to hear upon a mountain crest in Utopia, this Hampstead affair, this story of a Frognal heart. “Frognal,” he says, is the place whe... ... and flowers and beasts, to climb mountains, to see the snowy night of the North and the blaze of the tropical midday, to follow great rivers, to tast... ...mwell Road. Such an index could be housed quite comfortably on one side of Northumberland Avenue, for example. It is only a reasonable tribute to the ... ...ows and desola- tions—and usually I take my pilgrimage in mountains or the north—I think very much of the Night of this World— the time when our sun w...

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...rising, so venturesome, so in- teresting; bits of strange coasts under the stars, shad- ows of hills in the sunshine, men’s passions in the dusk, goss... ...Often, also, when I had thought myself to a standstill over the tangled-up affairs of the Re- public, I would, figuratively speaking, pack my bag, rus... ...amous Cap- tain Fidanza, with a stake in the country, going about his many affairs followed by respectful glances in the modernized streets of Sulaco,... ... a few days. Thus accompanied, and with revolvers at their belts, they had started to chop their way with machetes through the thorny scrub on the nec... ...e crew of a coasting schoo- ner, lying becalmed three miles off the shore, stared at it with amazement till dark. A negro fisherman, living in a lonel... ...aged in the final survey of the road. For all the indifference of a man of affairs to na- 41 Joseph Conrad ture, whose hostility can always be overco... ...romo She had watched her carriage roll away with the three guests from the north. She smiled. Their three arms went up simultaneously to their three h... ...s Sound, and beyond, too, if anything worth taking hold of turns up at the North Pole. And then we shall have the leisure to take in hand the outlying... ... the O.S.N. Co.’s building by the harbour, there to await shipment for the North. Increasing in volume, and of immense value also; for, as Charles Gou...

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...ot had the Embassy as a dining-place, the worthy young gentleman must have starved. I doubt, I say, that Becky would have selected either of these you... ...ued. “How Lady Blinkey would open her eyes, and Lady Grizzel Macbeth would stare! Hush! silence! there is Pasta beginning to sing.” Becky always made ... ... 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 ... ...at had befallen him. He 21 Thackeray was in the hands of the bailiffs. He started back, falling against the man who had first touched him. “We’re thr... ...n being disposed of, Lord Steyne, who took such a parental interest in the affairs of this amiable poor fam- ily, thought that their expenses might be... ...had the curiosity, then, to ask Miss Briggs about the state of her private affairs—and she told his lordship candidly what her position was—how Miss C... ...ent on to describe hurriedly the personal conflict with Lord Steyne. To an affair of that nature, of course, he said, there was but one issue, and aft...

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...—literally enormous possibilities; but upon this dazzling vista, after one stare of amazement, he resolutely shut his eyes, even as a conscientious “s... ...was to be his no more! So at least it seemed to him then. He came back and stared at these stu- pendous chicks of his, time after time. “Let me see,” ... ...what I shall have to do,” said Redwood, rest- ing his chin on his fist and staring into the fire. Bensington stood for a space smoothing the down on t... ... about three o’clock in the afternoon. Their coming must have been a brisk affair, though nobody was out in the street to see it. The violent bellowin... ...seen to rise against the sky-line, against the warm clear immensity of the northern sky—for so far public interest followed him—and to descend again i... ...rat biting again at its throat, and fell side- ways, and carried the whole affair over; and that the doctor sprang, as it were, instinctively. As the ... ...know, has had to be made fresh, clothes and everything. Perambulator—light affair—broke one wheel, and the youngster had to be brought home on the mil... ...it became apparent that the whole area of that great bay in the hills just north of Sevenoaks had been scarred to gigantic ends. A hugely banked entre... ...have made over beyond there. They have made great banks about their house, north and south and east and west; they have made deep pits and hidden plac...