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...the pictures at the Royal Academy , of the weather and their plans for the holidays. There was never a pause, and the noise grew louder. Mrs. Strickla... ...ember my brother -in-law , don’t you? Y ou met at dinner , just before the holidays.” We shook hands. I felt so shy that I could think of nothing to s... ...er XXIV SHORTL Y BEFORE Christmas Dirk Stroeve came to ask me to spend the holiday with him. He had a characteristic sentimentality about the day and ... ...ning, hav- ing come to a pause in my work, I thought I would give myself a holiday , and I went to the Louvre. I wandered about looking at the picture... ...life of a seaport town would have made a charming book, and in the various characters that came their way the student might easily have found matter f... ...lth awaited him. Before he entered upon his new duties he wished to take a holiday , and, hav- ing no private means, he went as surgeon on a tramp ste...

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.... And he knows wine.—There are good women in the world, Mr. Carling, whose characters …’ ‘Of course,’of course there are; and I could name you some. W... ...f he shot a good one; prankishly exposing a flexible nature, that took its holiday thus in a grinding world, among maskers, to the horrification of th... ...arkle conjured up from deeps, and the life in the sparkle, as of a soul at holiday. Eyes had been given this man to spy the pleasures and reveal the j... ...e in view. Dear French people! I share your love for France.’ ‘Home of our holidays!—the “drives”; and they may be the happiest. And fifty minutes lat... ...parade, and sheer deference to his betters, as to the significa- tion of a holiday on arrested legs. Dudley Sowerby’s atten- tion to him, in elucidati... ...ntutored rill of the mountains, if ever was one. Useless to be dwelling on holiday pictures: Lakelands had hold of him! Colney or somebody says, that ...

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...ing forward to lay his hand upon the Lock-keeper’s shoulder. ‘These are my holidays.’ ‘Are they, by George!’ muttered Riderhood, with his eyes on the ... ...sion-wasted face. ‘Y our working days must be stiff ‘uns, if these is your holidays.’ ‘And I have never left him,’ pursued Bradley, waving the interru... ...it tell agin’ the damages I mean to get. But it’s well known to water-side characters like myself, that him as has been brought out o drowning, can ne... ...et he hasn’t been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters.’ ‘I never meant, my dear Wegg—’ Mr Boffin was begin- ning, when... ...e noise as possible from be- side majestic Ma, one morning early, having a holiday before him. Pa and the lovely woman had a rather particular ap- poi... ...d?’ ‘Yes, I am overworked just at present, sir.’ ‘Had no play in your last holiday time?’ ‘No, sir.’ ‘ All work and no play, Mr Headstone, will not ma... ...it which had been long impending. The next day but one was Saturday, and a holiday . Bradley rose early , and set out on foot for Plashwater Weir Mill...

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...a want of adaptation between him and it, recalling some mechanics in their holiday clothes. He had acquired mechanically a great store of teacher’s kn... ...ing thought that any smaller creation should come between! It was a public holiday, and Fledgeby did not recover his spirits or his usual temperature ... ...sual temperature of nose until the afternoon. Walking into the City in the holiday afternoon, he walked against a living stream setting out of it; and... ...ing at him. ‘Generous Christian master,’ urged the Jewish man, ‘it be- ing holiday, I looked for no one.’ ‘Holiday he blowed!’ said Fledgeby, entering... ...Holiday he blowed!’ said Fledgeby, entering. ‘What have you got to do with holidays? Shut the door.’ With his former action the old man obeyed. In the... ..., and the sail-lofts, as in a kind of ship’s hold stored full of waterside characters, some no better than him- self, some very much better, and none ... ...ce. ‘Sophronia, my dear, what portraits are you showing T wemlow?’ ‘Public characters, Alfred.’ ‘Show him the last of me.’ ‘Yes, Alfred.’ She puts the...

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... what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays—”When I was a girl at school,” said she, laughing—a promise that h... ...re- treated to a remote outhouse in the playground, where he passed a half-holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe. Who amongst us is there that does... ...turdays. He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had be... ...eneral tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail- coat after the holidays. Dobbin was much too modest a young fellow to suppose that this ha... ...o?—so did this bowl of rack punch influence the fates of all the principal characters in this “Novel without a Hero,” which we are now relating. It in... ...cks, and what not, and prefer to appear at a smaller salary, in their real characters as loyal Frenchmen. I set the two stories one against the other,... ...s very mild. Others—But we will not anticipate those. And, as we bring our characters forward, I will ask leave, as a man and a brother, not only to i... ...I’m not sure but that he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good... ...ed young heiress from St. Kitt’s. She had little Laura Martin home for the holidays; and my belief is, she made a confidante of her, and promised that...

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...alk to Mrs. Lacy, and tell her about Sylvia, and deliver opinions upon the characters in her his- tories and stories; but it often happened that the l... ...er view was good or 36 Countess Kate useful. But Kate esteemed it a great holiday, when, as sometimes happened, Aunt Barbara went out to spend the ev... ...d to be Aunt Jane’s companion. Those were the times when her tongue took a holiday, and it must be confessed, rather to the astonishment and confu- si... ...nd round the table, making snatches at one another, gradually assuming the characters of hunter and Red Indian. Only when the hunter had snatched up A... ...should be very sorry to give Mrs. Lacy so much trouble. If this is to be a holiday to everyone, I am sure you would prefer the quiet day.” No one coul... ...hter of the Wardour family for having rehearsed to poor Mrs. Brown all the characters of the gods of the Northmen Odin, Thor, and all when she had jus... ...lly. Another was that when the De la Poers begged that she might spend the holidays with them, and from father and mother down- wards were full of kin... ...ught of Mrs. Lacy , and had no very bright anticipations of her day; yet a holiday was something, and to be out of Aunt Barbara’s way a great deal mor...

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... by a weekly tax of food; and, with the ex- ception of one month in every year, surrendered wholly to the direction of the priests. Since the escapade... ...neatness, airiness, and spirited and mirthful occupation that should shame them into cheerier methods. The sisters themselves lament their failure. Th... ...d by random piles of stone; told me how great and fine it was, and surrounded on all sides by populous houses, whence, at the beating of the drums, th... ...hout. And perhaps everywhere, among the greedy and rapacious, a gift is regarded as a sprat to catch a whale. It is the habit to give gifts and to rec... ... the only class I did not question; but I suspect the prelate to have regarded them askance, for he was eminently human. During my stay at Tai-o-hae, ... ...th his fall the prosperity of the Marquesas ended. Anaho is truly extinct, Taahauku but a shadow of itself; nor has any new planta- tion arisen in the... ...e entirely fled. An interesting par- allel will probably occur to many of my readers. What is the nature of the obligation assumed at such a festival?... ...a practice I have ever since, when it was possible, adhered to. Mr. Donat placed us, with that intent, under the convoy of one Taniera Mahinui, who co... ...ho dealt and profited; he was the planter and the merchant; and his subjects toiled for his behoof in servitude. When they wrought long and well their...

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...this city, by day in spirit, and by night in body also; and never on ancient holidays have its con duits run wine more merrily than we will pour fort... ...interval of several years, a letter in her hand. It was written in trembling characters, and almost illegible. Little could be made out save that she ... ...operty. I had sat alone in my room on many, many anniversaries of this great holiday, and had never regarded it but as one of universal assemblage and... ...ciations with the objects that surround me, and dwelling upon the scenes and characters they suggest. Master Humphrey’s Clock — Dickens 50 I have be... ... infant Tony was rather intoxicated. I was musing the other evening upon the characters and incidents with which I had been so long engaged; wondering... ...y be surrounded by fictitious circum stances, and represented by fictitious characters. What if we make this an article of agreement among our selve... ... or per haps it may be Christmas time; but be it what it may, there is rare holiday among us; we are full of glee. In the chimney comer, opposite mys...

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...t he whistled as he filled his glass, and seemed to think they were making holiday indeed. 49 Charles Dickens ‘W al’r!’ he said, arranging his hair (... ...first time yesterday , for fear he should lose any learning. But it’s half-holiday, Polly: if you could only stop till he comes home—you and Miss Nipp... ...at they used to be, and bore Mr Brogley’s warrant on their fronts in large characters. The broker seemed to have got hold of the very churches; for th... ...HAPTER 14. PAU L GROWS MORE AND MORE O LD-FASHIONED, AND GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WHEN THE MIDSUMMER vacation approached, no indecent manifestations... ...had a dreadful Uncle, who not only volunteered examinations of him, in the holidays, on abstruse points, but twisted innocent events and things, and w... ... on the bank. Briggs, therefore, was not at all sanguine on the subject of holidays; and these two sharers of little Paul’s bedroom were so fair a sam... ...med to say, ‘Who enter here, leave light behind!’ There were no talismanic characters engraven on the portal, but the house was now so neglected in ap...

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...s a lovely Samoan word, ulu=grove; fanua=land; grove-land—‘the tops of the high trees. ’Savao, ‘sacred to the wood,’ and Faavao, ‘wood-ways,’ are the ... ...have not been idle. But since THE MAS- TER nothing has come to raise any coins. I believe the springs are dry at home, and now I am worked out, and ca... ...DNESDAY . After I finished on Sunday I passed a miserable day; went out weeding, but could not find peace. I do not like to steal my dinner, unless I ... ...cretion is what stops me; but if I keep on feeling as I feel just now it will have to be written. Three Star Nettison, Kit Nettison, Field the Sailor,... ... which is a strange conglomerate of literary expressions and English and American slang, and Beach de Mar, or native English,— the very trades and hop... ...amoan journalism—that’s a cursed duty. The first part of Sophia, bar the first twenty or thirty pages, writes itself; the second is more difficult, in... ...ures. But what was his errand with me? Perhaps to warn me that unless I behave he now hopes to be able to pack me off in the Curacoa when she comes. I... ... by Birrell; another time if I have a letter in the Times, you might send me the text as well; also please send me a cricket bat and a cake, and when ... ... advocate. The Lord-Justice General. Scene, about Hermiston in the Lammermuirs and in Edinburgh. Temp. 1812. So you see you are to have an- 141 V a...

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... what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays—”When I was a girl at school,” said she, laughing—a promise that h... ...re- treated to a remote outhouse in the playground, where he passed a half-holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe. Who amongst us is there that does... ...turdays. He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had be... ...eneral tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail- coat after the holidays. Dobbin was much too modest a young fellow to suppose that this ha... ...o?—so did this bowl of rack punch influence the fates of all the principal characters in this “Novel without a Hero,” which we are now relating. It in... ...cks, and what not, and prefer to appear at a smaller salary, in their real characters as loyal Frenchmen. I set the two stories one against the other,... ...s very mild. Others—But we will not anticipate those. And, as we bring our characters forward, I will ask leave, as a man and a brother, not only to i... ...I’m not sure but that he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good... ...ed young heiress from St. Kitt’s. She had little Laura Martin home for the holidays; and my belief is, she made a confidante of her, and promised that...

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... gratification to him to be invited down, whether he could come or no; for holidays were expensive, and jour- neys by rail had to be thought over befo... ...ost convincing manner. “ Ah! that stuff wouldn’t do for me in London, half-holiday or no half-holiday,” said Anthony. “Why not?” the farmer asked. “I ... .... Edward looked round to him. “By the fact of your not having fished for a holiday this week. How did you leave her yesterday, Algy? Quite well, I hop... ...” “No, I’m a trifle changed, may be,” Robert agreed. “I’m going to claim a holiday of you. I’ve told Rhoda that if Dahlia’s to be found, I’ll find her... ...orily stopped all speech regarding Dahlia. His de- sire was, while he made holiday, to shut the past behind a brazen gate; which being communicated sy... ...own. When we appear most incongruous, we are often exposing the key to our characters; and how much his vanity, wounded by Rhoda, had to do with his p...

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...tiquated folks and fashions. Here flourish in great preservation many of the holiday games and customs of yore. The inhabitants most religiously eat p... ...elebrated Mr. Paap; and the Irish Giant. The children, too, lavish all their holiday money in toys and gilt gingerbread, and fill the house with the L... ...y, set up for “Little Britain” Washington Irving 11 a dandy and a critic, characters hitherto unknown in these parts; and he confounded the worthy ...

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...having further observed that of the re- maining seven guests four discrete characters enter with wan- dering eyes and wholly declined to commit themse... ...em—that don’t you think they overdo it? And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? And am I never to have change of air, becaus... ...el- low, confound him!’ More carriages at the gate, and lo the rest of the characters. Whom Lady Tippins, standing on a cushion, surveying through the... ...y. With that habit of getting under the lee of any shelter which waterside characters acquire, the waterside character at present in question led the ... ... this story was true, it was only in part true. That the two men, very shy characters, would have been jointly and pretty equally ‘in it;’ but that th... ...al Friend adaptation between him and it, recalling some mechanics in their holiday clothes. He had acquired mechanically a great store of teacher’s kn... ...ing thought that any smaller creation should come between! It was a public holiday, and Fledgeby did not recover his spirits or his usual temperature ... ...sual temperature of nose until the afternoon. Walking into the City in the holiday afternoon, he walked against a living stream setting out of it; and... ...ing at him. ‘Generous Christian master,’ urged the Jewish man, ‘it be- ing holiday, I looked for no one.’ ‘Holiday he blowed!’ said Fledgeby, entering...

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...vileged free- dom, comely presence, and good-humour. Patronized by him the characters of the company were placed in ready contrast; 12 Kenilworth and... ...ed T ressiliany: you may see that he has thrown a fore-foot shoe.” “Master Holiday!” exclaimed the dame, without returning any direct answer—”Master H... ...” exclaimed the dame, without returning any direct answer—”Master Herasmus Holiday, come and speak to mon, and please you.” “Favete linguis,” answered... ... the very sweetest bit of my morning studies.” “Nay, but, good now, Master Holiday, come ye out, do ye. Here’s a mon would to Wayland Smith, and I car... ...ered the hut ac- cordingly, and sat down with the learned Magister Erasmus Holiday, partook of his furmity, and listened to his learned account of him... ...s Christian appellative. He was inclined to think that he bore the name of Holiday quasi lucus a non lucendo, because he gave such few holidays to his... ..., the signs of the seven planets, curiously intermingled with talismanical characters and scraps of Greek and Hebrew. In the midst were some Latin ver... ...hem by the great folk, and all the names of those who played the principal characters; but ever concluding with “they would be nothing to the princely... ... watchet- coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews. Her feet and arms were bar...

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... and Hamlet’s very low. By degrees I got some unconscious knowledge of the characters of Shakespeare. There never was so fascinating a father as mine ... ... the master and his daughter, to whom I gave a kiss at her request, a half-holiday was granted to the boys in my name. How they cheered! The young lad... ... father’s princely reputation in the school. At times, especially when the holidays arrived and I was left alone with Julia, I had fits of mournfulnes... ... why I was there and he absent? They had given over speculating on another holiday and treat from my father; yet he had pro- duced such an impression ... ...hat Heriot would have to shoot 51 George Meredith or scourge him when the holidays came. Mr. Rippenger con- cluded his observations by remarking that... ...umour. He believed also that his people meant to have me for the Christmas holidays. The sum he sent me was five pounds, carefully enclosed. I felt my... ...paw; he was evidently a well-meaning man, a fanatic deluded concerning our characters: the barque Priscilla was bound for a German port, and should ar... ... a relapsing heart. Without apprehending either their exact purport or the characters of the speakers, I was transformed by them from a state of cravi...

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...ng us,—he is more worthy of Norfolk Island than three fourths of the worst characters who are sent there. Under any rational system, he would have bee... ...o have wronged—say M. Jullien for example—and to have his avenging name in characters of fire incessantly before my eyes. Or to have in jured Madame... ...titution, and we have a Working Men’s Institu tion—may it hold many gipsy holidays in summer fields, with the kettle boiling, the band of music playi... ... am a good workman. Not a Teetotaller; but never drunk. When the Christmas holidays were over, I went up to London by the Parliamentary T rain, and hi... ...kpocket—in another, a meek tremulous old pauper man who has been out for a holiday ‘and has took but a little drop, but it has overcome him after so m... ...ung women, and beetle browed young men; but not many— perhaps that kind of characters kept away. Generally, the faces (those of the children excepted)... ...ves to be very inefficient indeed. Though, that some of them had excellent characters from previous situations is not to be 170 Reprinted Pieces deni... ...atives were in India, and who were appealed for under the generic name of ‘Holiday stoppers,’ appro priate marks of remembrance that should enliven... ...extraordinary sounds when he sometimes tried to play it of an evening. His holidays never began (on account of the bills) until long after ours; but, ...

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...er. (I redeemed that promise afterwards, in 53 David Copperfield Vol. I characters larger than those in which apart- ments are usually announced in... ... troubles (which were great troubles to me), by impersonating my favourite characters in them as I did and by putting Mr. and Miss Murdstone into all ... ...are going for your own good. Good-bye, my child. You will come home in the holidays, and be a better boy. Clara! Miss Murdstone repeated. Certainl... ...med surprised at my not knowing that it 96 David Copperfield Vol. I was holiday-time. That all the boys were at their several homes. That Mr. Creak... ...as down by the sea-side with Mrs. and Miss Creakle; and that I was sent in holiday- time as a punishment for my misdoing, all of which he explained to... ...ays being caned I think he was caned every day that half- year, except one holiday Monday when he was only ruler d on both hands and was always go- in... ...ght it wise, no doubt, to enjoy themselves today. It was, properly, a half-holiday; being Satur- day. But as the noise in the playground would have di...

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...l in it. Fyne, you must know, was an enthusiastic pedestrian. He spent his holidays tramping all over our native land. His tastes were simple. He put ... ...s tastes were simple. He put infinite conviction and perseverance into his holidays. At the proper season you would meet in the fields, Fyne, a seriou... ...Indian and colonial affairs, matters of trade, talk of travels, of seaside holidays and so on. Once I remember “My wife’s sailor-brother Captain Antho... ...ummer in the country, where they were accustomed to take a cottage for the holidays … At this point we were interrupted by Mr. Powell who de- clared t... ... must understand that I cultivated the Fynes only in the country, in their holiday time. This was the third year. Of their existence in town I knew no... ...l serve for its understanding but the evi- dence of rational linking up of characters and facts. And be- ginning with Flora de Barral, in the light of...

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...ts at Neuchatel, I think, sir. The letter has got the Swiss postmark.” NEW CHARACTERS ON THE SCENE T he words, “The Swiss Postmark,” following so soo... ... time of year, or a state of things, on an Alpine Pass, that you gentlemen holiday- travellers know much about.” “Y ou are my Guide,” said V endale, g... ...s innumerable oddities had for years made him one of the recognised public characters of the pleas- ant Swiss town. His long brown frock-coat and his ... ...the day of our rifle-club; there is little business to do; I grant a half- holiday. No work here to-day, after three o’clock. Let us first put away th... ...intrey,” he said. “Do me the honour to come in. It is one of our town half-holidays— our Tir—but my people will be back directly. It is droll that you...