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...ieve we were im- pressed favourably with each other. He explained that his chief mate was an excellent man in every respect and that he could not thin... ... we discovered that the place was really a boarding house for some English engineers engaged at 37 Joseph Conrad the works of the St. Gothard Tunnel;... ...g Scotch accent. I have met many of his kind ashore and afloat. The second engineer of the steamer Mavis, for instance, ought to have been his twin br... ...ror, the Grand Duke Constantine (Pavlovitch), its Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief, married morganatically to a Polish lady to whom he was fiercely at- ... ...rning.” He looked hard at me: I was a new face, having just re- placed the chief mate he was accustomed to see; and I think that this novelty inspired... ...his body. The whole crew of the steamer, with the exception of firemen and engineers, rushed up the jetty, past the thoughtful Almayer, and vanished f... ...them into the bag conscientiously. Having noth- ing to do I joined our two engineers at the door of the engine- room. It was near breakfast-time. “He’... ...icu- lar business.” “He will spin him a damned endless yarn,” observed the chief engineer. He smiled rather sourly. He was dyspeptic, and suffered fro... ...namen boys gave him side glances as they went to and fro; and Ah Sing, our chief steward, the handsomest and most sympathetic of Chinamen, catching my...

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...ieve we were impressed favourably with each other. He ex- plained that his chief mate was an excellent man in every respect and that he could not thin... ...e discovered that the place was really a boarding-house for some En- glish engineers engaged at the works of the St. Gothard Tunnel; and I could liste... ...ent. I have met many of his kind since, both ashore and afloat. The second engineer of the steamer “Mavis”, for instance, ought to have been his twin ... ...ror, the Grand Duke Constantine (Pavlovitch), its Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief, married mor- ganatically to a Polish lady to whom he was fiercely at... ...morning.” He looked hard at me: I was a new face, having just replaced the chief mate he was accustomed to see; and I think that this novelty inspired... ...his body. The whole crew of the steamer, with the exception of firemen and engineers, rushed up the jetty past the thoughtful Almayer and vanished fro... ...them into the bag conscientiously. Hav- ing nothing to do I joined our two engineers at the door of the engine-room. It was near breakfast time. “He’s... ...“He will spin him a damned endless yarn,” ob- 81 Joseph Conrad served the chief engineer. He smiled rather sourly. He was dyspeptic and suf- fered fr... ...boys gave him side glances as they went to and fro; and Ah Sing, our young chief steward, the handsomest and most 82 Some Reminiscences sympathetic o...

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...he city streets: now, about the country by-roads—seeing many little things, and some great things, which, because they interest me, I think may intere... ...me Jewish passengers on board the Royal Charter, and the gratitude of the Jewish people is feelingly expressed in the following letter bearing date fr... ... School and the Old Bailey, have one voice, in which the tonsils and uvula gain a diseased ascendency. ‘Five pound indeed! I hain’t a going fur to pic... ...y Ouse this is, matron, ain’t it?’ said Refractory T wo, ‘where a pleeseman’s called in, if a gal says a word!’ ‘And wen you’re sent to prison for not... ...f any place is better than this,’ said my brisk guide, in the calmest manner, ‘it is a pity you left a good place when you had one.’ ‘Ho, no, I didn’t... ...ertain floating iron battery lately lying in that reach of the river, enriched my mind with his opin- ions on naval architecture, and informed me that... ... tempers with an old hulk, very green as to her cop- per, and generally dim and patched, I pull off my hat to her. Which salutation a callow and downy... ... are knocked away with The Uncommercial Traveller 305 handspikes; and the port-side bulwark, barren but a mo- ment ago, bursts into a crop of heads o...

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...ile to hold long consultations with his friend and ally, Syed Abdulla, the chief of the Arab trading post, a man of great wealth and of great influenc... ...ame, he said, to buy a couple of brass guns as a present to his friend the chief of Sambir Dyaks; and while Almayer, suspi- cious but polite, busied h... ...grew civil. Almayer began building his new house for the use of the future engineers, agents, or settlers of the new Company. He spent every available... ...autiously on the rotten boards of the Lingard jetty, tried to approach the chief of the Commission with some timid hints anent the protection required... ...sings heaped on the head of the man unworthy to associate with brave Malay chiefs. It ended generally by Almayer rising slowly, his long pipe in hand,... ...w of the far-off end of the verandah, and her gaze rested curiously on the chief of that imposing cortege. He stood, al- most facing her, a little on ...

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...iches as the multitude of his chil- dren, having married many daughters to chief men, and put many sons in places of command in the towns round about ... ...greatest knowledge and wisdom of his time; which then, it seems, consisted chiefly in grave maxims, such as the poet Hesiod got his great fame by, in ... ... of the god, which was in this manner,— Loose not the wine-skin foot, thou chief of men, Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, tak... ...f the Cretan ships to hinder their pursuit. Demon writes that T aurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a... ...ed, and never refused the petitions of the afflicted that fled to him. The chief and most solemn sacrifice which they celebrate to him is kept on the ... ...ness of the invention, with the aid and pres- ence of Artemon himself, the engineer, who, being lame, used to be carried about in a litter, where the ... ...ost opportune time, ready at hand for the Syracusans, and with it also the engineer himself. When, therefore, the Romans assaulted the walls in two pl... ...gods. Yet Marcellus escaped unhurt, and, deriding his own arti- ficers and engineers, “What,” said he, “must we give up fight- ing with this geometric... ...such subjects; but, repudiat- ing as sordid and ignoble the whole trade of engineering, and every sort of art that lends itself to mere use and profit...

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... any recruit drilling in England, or any captain on an ocean liner, or any engineer in charge of a going engine. We are all, indeed, busy with the thi... ...velop something more sure and swift than our present diplomacy. One of its chief concerns will be the right of way through the Bosphorus and the Darda... ...mebody in those marvellous maxims from the dark ages that seem to form the chief reading of our military experts, said that the army that entrenches i... ...load is on the usual pack animal, the poor man. The rest of the loss falls chiefly upon the creditor class, the people with fixed incomes and fixed sa... ...oming. To meet such enormous demands as this war is making there are three chief courses open to the mod- 33 H G Wells ern State. The first is to tak... ... for some reinvestment of interest representing supply, we have two of the chief factors that are supposed to be necessary to a phase of business ente... ...pression. I have met and talked to quite a number of young men in khaki—ex-engineers, ex-lawyers, ex-schoolmasters, ex-business men of all sorts—and t... ...ng machinery which is in progress in Britain to-day. Thousands of firms of engineers and manufacturers of all sorts, which were flour- ishing in 1914,... ... the railways, the coal and metal supply, the great metal industries, much engineering, and most agri- culture, will be more or less completely under ...

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...ed some- how in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to ham- mer the chief of the village with a stick. Oh, it didn’t sur- prise me in the least... ...d of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man,— I was told the chief’s son,—in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative ... ...the steamer Fresleven commanded left also in a bad panic, in charge of the engineer, I believe. Afterwards nobody seemed to trouble much about Freslev... ... ear. “I shook hands with this miracle, and I learned he was the Company’s chief accountant, and that all the book- keeping was done at this station. ... ...aking together, and in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard ‘giving it up’ tearfully for the twentieth time that ... ...’ There were rumors that a very important station was in jeopardy, and its chief, Mr. Kurtz, was ill. Hoped it was not true. Mr. Kurtz was … I felt we...

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............................................................. 127 THE PATRIOT ENGINEER ..................................................................... ...ACKLAND A wicked man is bad enough on earth; But O the baleful lustre of a chief Once pledged in tyranny! O star of dearth Darkly illumining a nation... ...ight sleep dropped not from the dreary skies, Nor could the prowess of our chiefs oppose That sea of raging men. But what were they? Or what is man o... ... gleams Brake from his dense black forehead, which display’ d The enduring chiefs as their distracted fleets T ossed, toiling with the waters, climbin... ...arted by the Gods, Visibly, and through supplication deep, - Rose in them, chiefly in the royal mind Of him whose interceding vow had saved. T ears fr... ...re dumb: T oo much oppressed with wonder, too much thrilled By their great chieftain’s silence, to disturb Such meditation with poor human speech. Mea... ... warrior horse, T o throw that faint thin fine upon the shore! THE PATRIOT ENGINEER ‘Sirs! may I shake your hands? My countrymen, I see! I’ve lived in...

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...little beard, hesitated, and answered in an undertone, “He is Howard, your chief guard- 29 H G Wells ian. You see, Sire,—it’s a little difficult to e... ...ist?” “Mesmerist! He is a capillotomist.” “Capillotomist!” “Yes—one of the chief. His yearly fee is sixdoz lions.” It sounded sheer nonsense. Graham s... ...ev- erything is ready. The people are drilled, the wind-vane po- lice, the engineers, and half the way-gearers are with us. We have the halls crowded—... ... into the blackness of a crossway. Thereupon came some trivial adventures; chief of these an ambiguous encounter with a gruff-voiced invisible creatur... ...alled.” Graham felt the inconvenience of the silence. “I have to thank you chiefly, I understand, for my safety,” he said presently. “We were afraid y... ...bsequious valet assisted him to dress under the direc- tion of a dignified chief attendant, a little man whose face 106 When the Sleeper Wakes procla... ...y and no pursuits. Moreover, mechanical appliances in agriculture made one engineer the equivalent of thirty labourers. So, inverting the condition of... ...cast their shadow over many hun- dreds of square yards. The chairs for the engineer and his passenger hung free to swing by a complex tackle, within t... ...werful rhythmic impulses—one, two, three, pause; one, two, three—which the engineer con- trolled very delicately. The machine began a quivering vibra-...

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...mpanion, I fancy, might even plume himself ), “and to beget your wisdom is chiefly why the world was made. You are so good as to propose an accelerati... ...ices—but by means of them the Utopian will travel about the earth from one chief point to another at a speed of two or three hundred miles or more an ... ...with the most stu- pidly intelligent discourse on vehicular tariffs in the chief capitals of Europe that it is possible to imagine. And now 38 A Mode... ...inery, there is nothing in em- bankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of i... .... He will make his girders and rails and parts as gra- cious as that first engineer, Nature, has made the stems of her plants and the joints and gestu... ...dents who know something of modern metallurgy, and something of electrical engineering, and we shall find people as keenly critical of a signal box or... ...th great bitterness all specialists whatever, and particularly doctors and engineers. “Voluntary noblemen!” he said, “voluntary Gods I fancy they thin... ...re poor and encumbered exactly in proportion as they have dis- charged the chief distinctive duty of a woman, and miser- able, just in proportion as t... ...l pleasures. You cannot focus all good things at the same time. That is my chief discovery in these meditations at Lucerne. Much of the rest of this U...

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...wise the prattle and talk of the younger children, with whose care she was chiefly intrusted, might have soothed and interested her; but she lived amo... ...le pleased and soft- ened that good-natured gentleman. Nor was it with the chiefs of the family alone that Miss Sharp found favour. She inter- 28 V a... ... and was entirely dumb and miserable. Cuff, on the contrary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought t... ...ool respect, it was to the rest of the family that she wisely directed the chief part of her attentions. With the young people, whose applause she tho... ...e. The Gen- eral liked it just as well—wanted a pipe for the Commander- in-Chief. He’s his Royal Highness’s right-hand man.” “It is devilish fine wine... ...in laughed, and said he would send his acquaintance (Major Wagstaff of the Engineers) a piece of cake when that event took place. At length Captain Os...

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...wise the prattle and talk of the younger children, with whose care she was chiefly intrusted, might have soothed and interested her; but she lived amo... ...le pleased and soft- ened that good-natured gentleman. Nor was it with the chiefs of the family alone that Miss Sharp found favour. She inter- 28 V a... ... and was entirely dumb and miserable. Cuff, on the contrary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought t... ...ool respect, it was to the rest of the family that she wisely directed the chief part of her attentions. With the young people, whose applause she tho... ...e. The Gen- eral liked it just as well—wanted a pipe for the Commander- in-Chief. He’s his Royal Highness’s right-hand man.” “It is devilish fine wine... ...in laughed, and said he would send his acquaintance (Major Wagstaff of the Engineers) a piece of cake when that event took place. At length Captain Os...

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...boats was spread over the restless mirror of the Infinite. The hand of the engineer tore down the veil of the ter- rible beauty in order that greedy a... ...rd end came the clink of the windlass, and soon afterwards the hail of the chief mate informing Lingard that the cable was hove short. “Hold on everyt... ...e occupation for a true man of the sea. He found favour in the eyes of his chief, the fear- less Omar el Badavi, the leader of Brunei rovers, whom he ... ... first serious check at the hands of white men, he stood faithfully by his chief, looked steadily at the bursting shells, was undismayed by the flames... ...the explosion of the stored powder-bar- rels, he was ready to look for his chief. He found him half dead and totally blinded, with nobody near him but... ...sea in leaky canoes; of those who died… . Many died. A few sur- vived. The chief, the woman, and another one who became great. There was no hint of in... ...—she is so poor … and so many, many children—little children. And Luiz the engineer. He never said a word against my husband. Also our cousin Maria. S...

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...hree days, and then put in for two days’ leave to go shooting near a Canal Engineer’s Rest House about thirty miles out. He got his leave, and that ni... ...to beat the pony. 18 Plain Tales from the Hills When we came to the Canal Engineer’s Rest House the Ma- jor called for The Boy’s servant; but there w... ... to stock a Viceroy’s Council and leave a little over for the Commander-in-Chief ’s Staff. He was a Civilian. Very many women took an interest in Saum... ...s.” 57 Rudyard Kipling Shakespeare alludes to the pleasure of watching an Engineer being shelled by his own Battery. Now this shows that poets should... ...red to some correspondence, two measures, a peremp- tory order to a native chief and two dozen other things. Mrs. Hauksbee gasped as she read, for the... ...epartment, efficiently officered, with a Jury of Ma- trons, a Judge of the Chief Court, a Senior Chaplain, and an Awful Warning, in the shape of a lov... ... exception to prove it. Moriarty’s case was that exception. He was a Civil Engineer, and the Government, very kindly, put him quite by himself in an o... ...ir in front of the fire, or walked up and down the room picking a handker- chief to pieces, you heard what poor Moriarty really thought of Mrs. Reiver... ...ieutenant-Governor helping, un- der the direct patronage of a Commander-in-Chief and a Vice- roy, one small and very dirty boy in a sailor’s suit and ...

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...esley. What’s the good word?” Presley looked up quickly, and saw Dyke, the engineer, leaning on his folded arms from the cab window of the freight eng... ...4 The Octopus quainted and the best of friends. The picturesqueness of the engineer’s life was always attractive to Presley, and more than once he had... ... in the Plaza—this very one—for five days, and to each of his ten- ants-in-chief, De La Cuesta gave a horse, a barrel of tallow, an ounce of silver, a... ...he very top of his class) he had returned and obtained the degree of civil engineer. Then suddenly he had taken a notion that a practical knowledge of... ...in every sense the “prominent man.” In whatever circle he moved he was the chief figure. In- stinctively other men looked to him as the leader. He him... ...if I would!” exclaimed Harran. “Well, S. Behrman is a screw,” admitted the engineer, “and he is ‘railroad’ to his boots; but business is business, and... ...pretty, so trim, so clean and feminine, but he reflected that her work was chiefly in the dairy, and even there of the light- est order. She was on th... ...rcula- tion of the most extraordinary stories wherein he, himself, was the chief actor. He was glib, voluble, dexterous, ubiq- uitous, a teller of fun... ...the others very plainly. They looked to him as their natural leader, their chief who was to bring them out from this abominable trouble which was clos...

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... enough to enforce peace and order.’ ‘The coward loons!’ muttered Patrick, chiefly out of the spirit of opposition. ‘You have been long in England, Si... ...r David’s followers. Accordingly Malcolm and his companions rode up to the chief gateway, a grand circular archway, with all the noble though grotesqu... ...obbers for the sake of his ransom? ‘You are strict to your time,’ said the chief robber. ‘I knew you would be. So, when Ned Marmion came to Beverley, ... ...vari- cious wife, the King kept his son as much at a distance as possible, chiefly on the Welsh marches, learning the art of war under Hotspur and Old... ...easing James became matter of question. The House of Albany , who held the chief power in Scotland, had bound Henry IV . over not to free their master... ... debauchery—ever a presence 97 Yo n g e to be either loved or dreaded. An engineer in advance of his time, he was persuaded that much of the discomfo...

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...assis- tance she invoked. That good lady informed her that this faculty of engineering wind was inherent in the family; that in her time she had been ... ...battle any more than their archetype in the game of 24 Balzac the Grecian chief Palamedes. But from this, it appears the captivity of its king is a m... ...For this pow- dery miracle, but for the intervention of the king, the said engineers would have been condemned as heretics and abet- tors of Satan, by... ... council of the Huguenots came the Prince of Conde, accompanied by all the chiefs and bigwigs, and there it was resolved to carry off the queen-mother... ... them. Then the gentleman soon untied, dressing himself, said aside to the chief of the escort, that on his account, for the love for him, he should b... ... at the image of St. Pierre-es- liens; Messire Antoine Jehan, alderman and chief of the Brotherhood of Changers, residing in the Place du Pont, at the... ...r having sacked the castles of their enemies, would turn to those of their chiefs. That the rebellion commenced had had no success in the first attack...

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..., he had lost little, if any, of the wild grandeur and simple dignity of a chief. Between him and the old seaman the intercourse had been friendly, bu... ...otee of learning: “he means that as a hit at your reading, Magnet; for the chief has sensible notions of things in his own way. How far, now, Arrowhea... ... an air of contempt, though he did not fail to follow the direction of the chief’s eye and arm, both of which were directed towards a vacant point in ... ..., which they had left in the adjacent stream, and await his return. “Why , chief, this might do on soundings, and in an offing where one knew the chan... ...thers always to re- member the Great Spirit; and Arrowhead is an ambitious chief. Is the Dew-of-June with him?” “His wife accompanies us, and a humble... ...tter a probability so remote as scarcely to enter into the estimate of the engineers who had planned the defences. There were bastions of earth and lo...

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...empted to take. E. R. 5 Turgenev The following is the list of T urgenev’s chief works: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS: Russian Life in the interior: o... ...is?” he asked in a squeaky voice. “A duet? Why not a trio? And where’s the chief tenor? “Do you mean Nejdanov, Mr. Paklin?” Ostrodumov asked solemnly.... ...hinking. Markelov had read little, mostly books relating to the thing that chiefly interested him, and was especially attached to Herzen. He retained ... ...y were immediately conducted into the hideous little wing occupied by the “engineering manager.” He was at that time in the main body of the building,... ...e sad, oppressive thoughts, no doubt due to your bilious temperament … and chiefly—” “And you sir, my new friend,” Markelov interrupted him angrily, “... ...im respectfully to his own dwelling. He seemed to be very pleased that the chief had got back safely. “How did you manage to get here at night, Vassil... ...ck, pushing him to- wards her as it were. “My dear, here is our best local engineer and manufacturer, Vassily… Fedosaitch Solomin.” Madame Sipiagina s... ...I want to show all my sins and transgressions to this gentleman, who is an engineer. 148 Virgin Soil Allow me to introduce you. Mr. Kollomietzev, a n... ...t he suddenly found that this home-bred Stevenson was not such a wonderful engineer after all, and that though he was not perhaps a complete poser, ye...

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... the great events of this era—they succeed to it as to an inheritance, and chiefly under the misleading of that prestige which is attached to the name... ...ds like early dawn upon the waters. The nurse knew and explained to us the chief differences in Ori- ental climates; and all these differences (as it... ... First, it seems that I owed military allegiant to him, as my commander-in-chief, whenever we “took the field;” sec- ondly, by the law of nations, I, ... ...ight not be such as to justify this caution, and yet quite enough for mis- chief. To my brother, however, stung and carried headlong into hostility by... ...r. T o the majority of reades, meantime, at this day, Lord M. is memorable chiefly for his craze about the degeneracy of us poor moderns, when compare... ... at times is carried over summits too steep for a road by all the rules of engineering, and yet too little fre- quented to offer any means of repaying... ...they have already exceeded the maximum of possibility, as laid down by all engineers during the progress of the Manchester and Liverpool line, may soo...