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... with immense satisfaction. Dob- bin helped him to it; for the lady of the house, before whom the tureen was placed, was so ignorant of the contents, ... ...d yet how far off the time seemed since she had bidden it farewell. What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her... ...rs. George Osborne for a while, and dived down to the lower regions of the house to a sort of kitchen-parlour (occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Clapp, and in ... ...s affairs. They talked about them over their pints of beer at their public-house clubs to other clerks of a night. Y e gods, what do not attorneys and... ... draft was upon our friends Hulker and Bullock of Lombard Street, to whose house, still thinking he was doing business, George bent his way, and from ... ...gy Malony. Peggy was one of five sisters, and eleven children of the noble house of Glenmalony; but her husband, though her own cousin, was of the mot... ...time Napoleon took to come back from Elba, and to let loose his eagle from Gulf San Juan to Notre Dame. The histo- rians on our side tell us that the ... ... have sinned. But there was no hope now. He stood on the other side of the gulf impassable, haunting his parent with sad eyes. He remembered them once... ... served to render the timid and pious lady more fear- ful and unhappy. The gulf which separated them was fatal and impassable. She could not stretch h...

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...the highly varnished lithographic plan hanging up in the agent’s counting house in the city of London: that this room of state, in short, could be an... ...r of the little party having as much likeness to his natural mirth, as hot house peas at five guineas the quart, resemble in flavour the growth of the... ...favourite places dearly loved; and even people them with shadows. Streets, houses, rooms; figures so like their usual occupants, that they have startl... ... and thirdly, an honest young Yorkshireman, con nected with some American house; domiciled in that same city, and carrying thither his beautiful youn... ...r officer; and has been propped and jammed up with empty casks in a little house upon deck, and commanded to roll out pie crust, which he protests (be... ...t approached the verge, yet seeming, too, to pause before it shot into the gulf below; to gaze from the river’s level up at the torrent as it came str... ...ready had their growth among them; and it is much to be regretted that the gulf between them and the advocates of emancipation should have been widene...

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...nd-still, at some three hundred yards from the little town, with its white houses clambering up a rock, defended by the superior mountain whereon the ... ...ome steep rocky steps, through a little low gate, where, in a little guard-house and barrack, a few dirty little sentinels were keeping a dirty little... ...sentinels were keeping a dirty little guard; and by low-roofed whitewashed houses, with balco- nies, and women in them,—the very same women, with the ... ...obes:indeed, the whole scene was just like that of a little the- atre; the houses curiously small, with arcades and balconies, out of which looked wom... ...ty. There was no smoke, as in honest London, only dust—dust over the gaunt houses and the dismal yellow strips of gardens. Many churches were there, a... ...ing over the fort ever since sunrise; woods and mountains came down to the gulf’s edge, and as you looked at them with the telescope, there peeped out... ...commended:and from the windows of which we had a fine cheerful view of the gulf and its busy craft, and the loungers and merchants along the shore. Th... ...in the afternoon—the Inbat blowing fresh, and setting all the craft in the gulf dancing over its blue waters. We were presently under way again, the c...

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... the past. Such a study of Lincoln’s life will enable us to avoid the twin gulfs of immorality and inefficiency—the gulfs which always lie one on each... ...Abraham Lincoln: V ol One soured in mind by daily toil and care; the whole house- hold squalid, cheerless, and utterly void of elevating in- spiration... ... he transferred them to paper, which was a scarce commodity in the Lincoln household; taking care to cut his expressions close, so that they might not... ...our- ney of fifteen days “Abe” had to drive the ox wagon which carried the household goods. Another log cabin was built, and then, fencing a field, Ab... ... vicissitudes of his life from the modest home in Springfield to the White House at Washington, adding untold private heart-burnings to his public car... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One to Congress. In a clever speech in the House of Represen- tatives he denounced President Polk for having unjustly ... ...and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. On foreign nations the influence of the proclamation and of these new... ... land-offices in those States and Territories, as all know, form the great gulf by which all, or nearly all, the money in them is swallowed up. When t... ...this work they have been taught in the true school. They have been in that gulf from which they would teach others the means of escape. They have pass...

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... as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. 24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid hersel... ...whose name was The Gospel According to Luke 1:14 1:27 4 Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And the angel came in un... ...ve unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 34 Then ... ... the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; 40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and sa luted Elisabeth. 41 And it came to pass, that, ... ...er. 56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. 57 Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and ... ...art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither...

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...up which the ivy grew stoutly, topping the roof in tri- umphant lumps. The house could hardly be termed pictur- esque. Its aspect had struck many eyes... ... seem questionable. She cherished the old-fashioned delight in tulips; the house was reached on a gravel-path be- tween rows of tulips, rich with one ... ..., until that delusively prosperous appearance which her labour lent to the house, was worn through by the en- forced confession of there being poverty... ...as worn through by the en- forced confession of there being poverty in the household. The ragged elbow was then projected in the face of Wrexby in a m... ...asure of a waltz, in harmoni- ous circles, dropping like crystals into the gulfs of Time, and appearing to write nothing in his book. Not a single hin... ...gh they stood close together, he had the thought of their being separate—a gulf between. The colourlessness of her features helped to it, and the odd ... ... mind. He dressed carefully, and soon heard a great City bell, with horrid gulfs between the strokes, tell him that the hour was eleven to- 270 Rhoda... ...ad to hold his money-bags tight, to keep them from plunging into monstrous gulfs. “I don’t remember that I’ve taken a drink of any sort,” he said, “si... ...alf lifted her head; the slight tone of a change to tenderness swelled the gulfs of pity, and she wept aloud. Dahlia untwisted her feet, and staggered...

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...m, so did he. Chapter 7 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this genera... ..., Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great... ..., and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and o... ...she asses, 16 Genesis and camels. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. 18 And Pharaoh call... ... brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eigh- teen, and pursued them unto Dan. 15 And he d... ...art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf xed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither ...

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...ey Dedication To Mademoiselle Anna Hanska: Dear Child,—You, the joy of the household, you, whose pink or white pelerine flutters in summer among the g... ...ns. At that early hour he could examine without being observed the various houses surrounding the open space, which was oblong in form. The mills alon... ...se profession obliged him to keep a cabriolet, and to use it. A few of the house-fronts were covered by grape vines, others by roses climbing to the s... ... was also the quietest end of the square, the young workman recognized the house of which he was in search, which showed a front of white stone groove... ...ally cut in open-work. Everything was new. In this re- paired and restored house, the fresh-colored look of which contrasted with the time-worn exteri... ...d a huge blustering mouth,—if we may use a term which alone describes that gulf. He did not eat his food, he engulfed it. A sabre cut had slit his nos...

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...hileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable mem... ...es or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. He lived alone in his house in Saville Row, whither none penetrated. A single domestic sufficed t... ...tead of eighty- six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past. Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his... ..., James Forster, departing in his turn. Passepartout remained alone in the house in Saville Row. Chapter II IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE... ... far he had failed to find it, though he had already served in ten English houses. But he could not take root in any of these; with cha- grin, he foun... ...ed Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs. When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, wit... ...utlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old histori- ans always spoke of with horror, and upon whic... ...ng for a little the banks of the small river Tapty, which empties into the Gulf of Cambray, near Surat. Passepartout was now plunged into absorbing re... ...alcutta?” “Oh, a trifle of sea-sickness—I’ve been staying in my berth. The Gulf of Bengal does not agree with me as well as the Indian Ocean. And how ...

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...d varied and became more elaborate and efficient. He sheltered his heat in houses and made his way easier by paths and roads. He complicated his socia... ...e it as a thing that concerned him enough to merit study. It came into the house with the cat on any dry day and crackled insinuat- ingly whenever he ... ...ted the steam-engine and took over traction, it ousted every other form of house- hold heating, abolished distance with the perfected wireless telepho... ...h. He found it a gully of planks and scaffoldings between the hoardings of house-wreckers. The spirit of the times had seized upon that narrow, steep,... ... any distraction of sight. It may be that watcher drifting in the pellucid gulf be- neath the stars watched all through the night; it may be that he d... ...f this delightful shelf there is a deep and densely wooded trench, a great gulf of blue some mile or so in width out of which arise great precipices v... ...ound of its roaring haste comes up to those serenities. Be- yond that blue gulf, in which whole forests of giant deodars seem no more than small patch... ...that there was a need to be saved. They could not, they would not, see the gulf beneath their feet. It was pure good luck for mankind at large that an... ...w and ice and stone, pour down in thunder, hang like a wet thread into the gulfs below, and cease…. 166 The World Set Free S S S S Section 7 ection 7...

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...is bare feet in a pair of straw slippers, he wandered silently amongst the houses in daylight, almost as dumb as an animal and apparently much more ho... ...hade, breath- ing in the perfume of flowers in the small garden before his house. He fancied that nothing would be 8 An Outcast of the Islands change... ...g & Co. They were a numerous and an unclean crowd, living in ruined bamboo houses, surrounded by neglected com- pounds, on the outskirts of Macassar. ... ...f walls overtopped by the luxuriant veg- etation of the front gardens. The houses right and left were hidden behind the black masses of flower- ing sh... ...emed to please Hudig, and Hudig gave him the bungalow, that flower-bowered house to which he was wending his way in the cool moon- light. And he had t... ...a wandering life. He visited Bombay and Calcutta, looked in at the Persian Gulf, beheld in due course the high and barren coasts of the Gulf of Suez, ...

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...perpetual maidenhood, And unto me no second friend. 8 In Memoriam VII. DARK house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors... ...The chalice of the grapes of God; Than if with thee the roaring wells Should gulf him fathom deep in brine; And hands so often clasp’d in mine, Should... ...t may be said, That breathe a thousand tender vows, Are but as servants in a house Where lies the master newly dead; Who speak their feeling as it is,... ...20 30 In Memoriam XXIX. WITH such compelling cause to grieve As daily vexes household peace, And chains regret to his decease, How dare we keep our C... ...ont, 10 Make one wreath more for Use and Wont, That guard the portals of the house; Old sisters of a day gone by, Gray nurses, loving nothing new; Why... ...hich telling what it is to die Had surely added praise to praise. From every house the neighbours met, The streets were fill’d with joyful sound, 10 A ... ...ature rarely yields To that vague fear implied in death; Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath, 15 The howlings from forgotten fields; Yet oft when sundown... ... mix with hollow masks of night; Cloud towers by ghostly masons wrought, 5 A gulf that ever shuts and gapes, A hand that points, and palled shapes In ...

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...e, and make his money jingle if he thinks the servants of the second-class houses which he wants to enter (always eminently suspicious) are likely to ... ... correspondents in the smaller towns made much of him; in Paris, the great houses feted and caressed him. Welcomed, flattered, and fed wherever he wen... ...s, in point of fact, launched his thousand or twelve hundred francs into a gulf. “Subscribers are fools who never can be brought to under- stand that ... ...date at which he usually opened the spring campaign. T wo large commercial houses, alarmed at the decline of business, implored the ambitious Gaudissa... ...sagreeable things,—that would be silly.” The coach stopped before a pretty house, newly built in the Rue d’Artois, where Gaudissart and Jenny climbed ... ... fools enough to believe such lies,—why, they think you want to burn their houses down! It is vain for me to tell them that I speak for futurity, for ... ...nd money because he can give security. Well, Monsieur, is not that a great gulf to bridge over in our social system? But that is only one aspect of ou...

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...ed the villages; slim palms put their nodding heads together above the low houses; dried palm-leaf roofs shone afar, like roofs of gold, behind the da... ...his stage well—the purple semicircle of hills, the slim trees leaning over houses, the yellow sands, the streaming green of ravines. All that had the ... ...er of a small semi-in- dependent state on the sea-coast at the head of the Gulf of Boni. He spoke of her with pride. She had been a woman resolute in ... ...er his people admired him. We saw him once walking in daylight amongst the houses of the settlement. At the doors of huts groups of women turned to lo... ...right and left by quick piercing glances. Children ran forward between the houses, peeped fearfully round corners; young boys kept up with him, glidin... ... smoke of wood fires spread in a thin mist above the high-pitched roofs of houses that had glistening walls of woven reeds, and all round them rough w...

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...ing two steps, look down upon the rags and tatters of that ignoble nest of houses huddling between the quai de la Tournelle and the Hotel-Dieu,—a foul... ...o the sap of the trees; it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one da... ...o give himself a voca- tion. The manners and customs of bourgeois boarding-houses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he wa... ...hen Godefroid stopped before the arched portal of Madame de la Chanterie’s house, the priest turned towards him and ex- amined him by the light of the... ...words I heard you say to that workman show me that, if you live here, this house must be salutary for the soul.” “Then you were a witness of my defeat... ...about her solic- ited affection. Godefroid in that one moment measured the gulf that separated this woman from common sentiments. He saw her inaccessi... ...ill too worldly not to be keenly piqued, and to long to plunge through the gulf and up to the sum- mit on which she stood, and stand beside her. Givin...

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...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a... ...or the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely, the... ...mmortality. Yet again I say—May God grant it! DE BALZAC. THE ALKAHEST (THE HOUSE OF CLAES) CHAPTER I THERE IS A HOUSE at Douai in the rue de Paris, wh... ... chal manners and customs of that excellent land. Before de- scribing this house it may be well, in the interest of other writers, to explain the nece... ...eak to him, he would suddenly escape, leave her abruptly, or drop into the gulf of meditation from which no word of hers could drag him. Before long t... ...gging you to speak to your husband. Who but you can hold him back from the gulf into which he is plunging? The rents from the mortgaged estates are no... ...ne, mamma!” “Oh! here’s a beauty!” “Tell me the name of that one!” “What a gulf for human reason to sound!” cried Balthazar, raising his hands and cla... ...ng to rest her weight upon it lest it should break and drown her soul in a gulf of awful nothingness. No events stirred the calm of this existence; th... ...d me above all. T wo millions and six years of toil you have cast into the gulf,—and what have you found?” At these words Claes grasped his whitened h...

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...me at the beginning of an es- sentially Parisian work, thought out in your house during these latter days. Is it not natural that I should offer you t... ...” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on those nights be the palace of fatigue and dulness. T o these,... ... iron grip in the heart of Paris. Beauty and youth might cover him in deep gulfs, as in many a young man who longs to play a part in Paris without hav... ...ss and manners were above reproach; he trod the classic floor of the opera house as one accustomed there. Who can have failed to observe that there, a... ... who is his glory at this day?” “Blondet talking of Demetrius in the opera house seems to me rather too strong of the Debats,” said Bixiou in his neig... ... which she looked forward to the function. As there is certainly as wide a gulf between the habits she had given up and the habits she was acquiring a... ...her nails in it as a cat sets its claws to save itself from falling into a gulf of which it cannot see the bottom. The Spaniard spoke a few words, in ... ...now the extent of her debts, they did not dare to sound the depths of that gulf. An interval of six years formed rather too long a gap in the ebb and ... ... You hoped to make me powerful and famous, and you have thrown me into the gulf of suicide, that is all. I have long heard the broad pinions of that v...

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...uite imagine it. Outside the doors of the few cottages and 5 H. G . Wells houses that make up the present village big birch besoms are stuck, to wipe... ...over there,” he said, and pointed suddenly dan- gerously near my eye. “The house with white chimneys you see just over the trees. And my circumstances... ...ld catch on again for a bit. At the earliest opportunity I went to see his house It was large and carelessly furnished; there were no servants other t... ... gave my play an hour’s consecutive work at any time after my visit to his house. My imagination had other things to do. There seemed no limit to the ... ...rk was the start. Already we are flying as swiftly as a bullet up into the gulf of space.” “I—” I said, and then it didn’t seem to matter what hap- pe... ...carbonic acid, or frozen air, and everywhere landslip seams and cracks and gulfs. Nothing happens. Men have watched this planet systemati- cally with ... ...e remained rigid, hanging over this margin and staring into the enor- mous gulf below, until at last the edges of the slot scraped me off and hurled m... ... very faint and little lights going to and fro. For a time that stupendous gulf of mystery held us so that we forgot even our sphere. In time, as we g... ...aded and vanished alto- gether. There was a warm air blowing up out of the gulf. 88 The First Men in the Moon For a moment I and Cavor stood as near ...

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...is body halberded by the soldiers, he peeped at the cardinals entering the houses of their sweethearts. Then he saw the wax-candles lighted in the hou... ...that one evening he quietly tripped up the steps and into one of the first houses in Constance where often he had seen officers, seneschals, valets, a... ...e to certain chamber where, surrounded by her handmaidens, the lady of the house was divesting herself of her attire. He stood quite dumbfounded like ... ...the water. He noticed the animals carved over the door and returned to the house of the archbishop with his head full of diabolical longings and his e... ...t’s queen; and when he asked the passers-by to whom belonged the aforesaid house, they laughed in his face, saying— “Whence comes this precious fellow... ...moment here below? Unhappy wretch! I see thee precipitated for ever in the gulfs of hell unless thou payest to God in this world that which thou owest...

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...heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose of... ...k to the black-hole?” said Rebecca, laughing. “No: but—” “I hate the whole house,” continued Miss Sharp in a fury. “I hope I may never set eyes on it ... ... year before the arrange- ment by which Rebecca had been admitted into her house, and when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically,... ...h great justice, “I never have seen the individual who has dared in my own house to question my authority. I have nourished a viper in my bosom.” “A v... ...says prosperity to the 174 V anity Fair poor devil battling in that black gulf. Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends ... ...d yet how far off the time seemed since she had bidden it farewell. What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her... ...time Napoleon took to come back from Elba, and to let loose his eagle from Gulf San Juan to Notre Dame. The histo- rians on our side tell us that the ... ... have sinned. But there was no hope now. He stood on the other side of the gulf impassable, haunting his parent with sad eyes. He remembered them once... ... served to render the timid and pious lady more fear- ful and unhappy. The gulf which separated them was fatal and impassable. She could not stretch h...