Preface: I asked a computer to write a novel that it thought was similar to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I made this for NaNoGenMo 2015. It is NOT my official entry, as it doesn't quite meet the requirements of 50,000 words. The way I did this was by training doc2vec on a corpus of the top 50 most popular novels on Project Gutenberg, where I'd chopped up the novels as best I could into individual sentences. What the program I wrote did was attempt to classify how similar every sentence in the corpus is to every other sentence. For this book I said: "Go through each sentence in Pride and Prejudice. Find the most similar sentence you know of that isn't from Pride and Prejudice itself. Print out that sentence." The result is a book sort of shaped like Austen's classic, yet not really that similar at all. It's surprisingly readable for something entirely unsupervised. Please try to enjoy.
Also available in .epub and .mobi format. Here is the really awful source code (sorry).
(For extra credit, here is what the computer decided was the novel LEAST similar to Pride and Prejudice.)
by Darius Kazemi, Nov 4, 2015
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding. Although there is little recorded of the youth of Machiavelli, the Florence of those days is so well known that the early environment of this representative citizen may be easily imagined.
"Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more.
"I answered that I had not.
"Yes, the widow told me all about it."
No answer.
"Do you know him?"
"I have no questions to ask him." This was satisfactory.
"When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery."
"What is it?" said his comrade.
"Paddles were dropped, and oars came loudly into play."
"Is he quiet?"
"Boy, that's a lie."
"What ain't a dream?"
"Is it them?"
"Can I be of assistance?"
Isn't Mr. Worthing in his library?
But as it is ..."
"I see no marks."
"You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow."
"My dearest Cousin,
"Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so."
"Every person has a right to take care of themselves."
"It is not a common experience among employers in this age." Mr. and
"But not more so than I to find you."
"But your client--"
I think it would be an admirable opportunity.
"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"
"Hucky, do you das't to go if I lead?"
"You are changed."
"I must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of little darling William.
"I will make no allowance." So then she looked a little better satisfied, and says:
"Did you observe the colour?"
"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
"Do you love rats?"
Adieu, my dear Margaret.
"You know my method."
"You have a clue?"
How are you, my dear Ernest? Where have you been since last Thursday?
"No, I know you haven't." You have a town house, I hope?
"I should not stay here."
Gwendolen, upon my word! It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush. George's, was much addicted to opium. She was a thing of trophies. There she blows! The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton. He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it. It was cool in there. [Cecily goes towards Jack; he kisses her brow in a melancholy manner.]
"I did it, Mr. Holmes."
"Pshaw! They did not know how to look."
"We should meet him soon."
"I will do it." [Produces diary of her own.]
"Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring."
"But not more so than I to find you." Never speak to one of them. To dear little Cecily! [Offers to kiss her.]
" Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery."
"My dear Victor, do not speak thus.
"When is it going to be?"
"But no."
"You said it should not be again."
"Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to recommence your narrative."
"Tom, how could you be so noble!"
"I thank your Majesty."
"'Oh, very well."
"But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of despair."
"But I'll take it out of her."
The King stared at him in amazement.
"True," said the Ghost."
"Do you know the young lady?" I asked.
"My Mary? Impossible!"
"Witness: I should prefer not to answer.
"Let us
"I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes."
"I trust that I am not intruding." I am well acquainted with the accused.
Well, she was just a-biling.
"Was you in my Room?"
"I always give too much to ladies." I am!
'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
"What was it?"
"Will you do me that favour?"
"My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." Mr. Worthing, I offer you my sincere condolence. I am the architect, not the builder. The news of this greatly angered Castruccio, and taking leave of Enrico, he pressed on in great haste to Pistoia.
Lady Bloxham? Frederick created Castruccio the lord of Pisa, and the Pisans, in dread of the Guelph party, and particularly of the Florentines, were constrained to accept him as their lord. Her name was Rowena Hamilton. Sir Mackenzie Wallace's The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with envy. How perfectly delightful!
"You wish to be anonymous?" In a few days after her arrival, Mr. Ruggles called in the Rev.
He became the victim of its weakness.
"What do you mean?", asked the middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled sweetly. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
"I think that I could be of assistance to you." Alice was silent. But that could not be.
"George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran." He agreed with the Florentines to receive from them a yearly tribute of two hundred thousand florins, and he send his son Carlo to Florence with four thousand horsemen. The children were considered safe enough under the wings of a few young ladies of eighteen and a few young gentlemen of twenty-three or thereabouts. Mr. and
'Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great relief. She was a woman of noble form, and of graceful proportions, having very few equals, and fewer superiors, in personal appearance, among the colored or white women of our neighborhood. He was most fifty, and he looked it. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family.
"Their reasons for their conduct."
Excellent friend! His luggage? He said he knowed most everything.
He was regarded as one who rejected the favor of his master. Mr. Samsa to his employers,
"I can't," said I." Do you understand this feeling?
"Very much so."
"'I shall certainly be there.'
"You know my methods."
"Is such as we might expect."
"There was a moment's delay, but the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not appear to be the worse for the fall." I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive.
'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. She is excessively pretty, and she is only just eighteen.
"Allow me to ask your pardon." In a moment he said: You had much better dine with your Aunt Augusta. Mr. Worthing! The interruption roused him. She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his service.
whole
Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most respect for. foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other
'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing. Everyone loved Elizabeth.
Miss Fairfax! They
They stopped pulling. This change was particularly agreeable to me. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would slowly resolve themselves today.
"She died a woman," said the Ghost, "and had, as I think, children."
"I wish I had him here." Nothing couldn't be better.
"And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the coronet," cried Mr. Holder."
"Which of us does he mean?" gasped Huckleberry.
She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better.
"Well?", asked
"Rise! and walk with me!"
"But he had still another reason for his want of faith."
"Halloa! What's that he shouts? Hark!" I am astonished, quite astonished.
"Indeed! That is very interesting."
"I never saw a more inexorable face in my life."
"I do," replied the Ghost. Alice was silent.
Mr. Samsa. states--a common meaning of "correspondence" and It is not at all a bad name.
"I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted."
"I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man."
I never see such a woman.
"Do you receive much company?" he asked.
"His name is Francis Prosper." It is certainly very curious, for he asked me to be his wife yesterday afternoon at 5.30.
"I did not say a probable one." Why did I not die? Where is that baby? By and by somebody says:
"What were you about saying, sir?"
"I'm his mother." I would certainly advise you to do so.
"You have a clue?"
"Very good."
"Why, you are like a magician," said she."
" I never see a family in such a sweat."
"No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a better-lined waistcoat." Had you never a brother of any kind?
"I do not know what to think."
"I know what it is."
states--a common meaning of "correspondence" and
"But I take it that it is more likely to be some crony of the landlady's."
"You are not averse to this trip, Watson?"
"Life-buoy, sir."
"Did they fight?"
"P'raps we better." She is a widow, and much older than Manoir; but she is very much admired, and a favourite with everybody. They were in another scene and place; a room, not very large or handsome, but full of comfort. They think their own better than that of others. They think their own better than that of others. Castruccio also brought into his plans friends from Lucca who would not endure the authority of the Opizi. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818.
"Both Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence."
That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. This appeared a good opportunity to the duke, as, being invited by them, and not going of his own will, he would awaken no suspicions. Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton. She listened intently, but there was no answer. His manner was not effusive. In the country.
His gratitude was measureless. The Grave in the Woods He was all attention in an instant.
Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.
"Yes, Miss Mary Jane she wanted you to do that." [Presenting her cheek to be kissed.]
"Tom was disgusted; and felt a sense of injury, too."
were always during the
"By degrees he made friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children." The first step had been taken.
"I had lived with him nine months, during which time he had given me a number of severe whippings, all to no good purpose."
He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
In St. I had seen him before.
"She was a nonentity." They The appearance of Justine was calm. [Rushing over to Miss Prism.]
'It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied. Mr. Samsa.
"Yes, but I should like to see him." My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out!
"Yes I do, indeed I do." Did I hear you mention a Miss Prism?
"'I perceive that all is as it should be."
"crudelta" than the more obvious "cruelties."
"'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on."
"I would send you a wire."
At last he said:
"There you are," said he." Mr. Samsa"."
"Well?", asked
"What is it?" said his comrade.
"Logic is rare."
"I will not gainsay it, Spirit."
"You would have done better to have trusted your wife."
"Well," he said, "I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
"Tom pretended not to see her."
"If I tell her she will not believe me." I will communicate with you daily.
"That is not always so easy."
"Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always."
"It would be a pity to miss it."
"'I am sure if I had known--' I am very fond of children. Yet are there those who will still do it; notwithstanding the fact that the oil obtained from such subjects is of a very inferior quality, and by no means of the nature of attar-of-rose. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
"A VISION
"It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in prison!"
"I came to find a friend." Come and give me a bit of attention"."
'"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.
"He never meant any harm, and he was the best-hearted boy that ever was"--and she began to cry.
The Troubles of Royalty.
The seegars was prime.
I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus. Miss Prism.
('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a whisper.) I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.'
"Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably."
"A very little more is all permitted to me."
" Everybody was sorry she died, because she had laid out a lot more of these pictures to do, and a body could see by what she had done what they had lost."
"But she could not love him."
"But she will refuse."
"But he might be a bachelor."
"Do you love rats?" This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!
"Awake, Watson?" he asked.
"It is well.
Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906).
"If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." I am not punctual myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be married, is quite out of the question.
Assaulted by voracious enemies,
"In the nature of the case, it must be in the highest degree pernicious."
"Yes, only one." Mr. Gore lived in St.
"Breckinridge is his name."
"Not as I remember."
"You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago." I entreat you not to reason with me any more. If I or she should chance to be
"It is entirely a question of barometric pressure." They are the essential ingredients, not the occasional results, of the system.
"I am prepared to leave it with you as my security.'
"You Bet it is" I may tell you candidly that the place is not in Shropshire.
"I saw her in conversation with her maid."
"She used to be at the Allegro."
Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable.
"There are, however, some painful exceptions to this rule."
His manner was not effusive.
She is excessively pretty, and she is only just eighteen. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] She Asked His Pardon.
Sir Mackenzie Wallace's
"What sail's she carrying?"
"Nobody'll answer." I consider it morbid. I found it a hard bargain.
She took them to a bedchamber and said: Mr. Worthing, I offer you my sincere condolence.
"He is a man-stealer."
"You can depend on it."
"Don't be angry, uncle."
"Now what you going to do?"
"I must."
But no formal salutation was exchanged.
"Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her. She approaches; she is nigh.
Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance.
"But this is not all."
"Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four."
'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice.
"Every minute," continued M." My friend smiled. I arrived at Geneva.
"Yes, at the mines."
"None at all." The girls wouldn't say nothing because they wanted to go to England; and the king and the duke would ruther Mary Jane was off working for the auction than around in reach of Doctor Robinson.
"Steady, sir."
"But you would not advise me to refuse?"
"We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party."
You have a town house, I hope? Mr. Samsa. I am not sure, however, that the news inspires me with feelings of unmixed delight. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the passage and a tap at the door. May I ask if you are engaged to be married to this young lady?
"Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed."
"I have not the power." I must beg you to retire. My father tried to awaken in me the feelings of affection. Sir Mackenzie Wallace's
"My opinion is in no way altered."
"Mr. Scrooge."
Such a dear baby! He stopped and looked round.
"She was flattered by the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the loudly expressed admiration of her mother."
"I will do nothing of the kind."
"I fear not." Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. Mother, I forgive you.
"My mind was soon made up."
"You have been looking a little pale lately."
As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery. Mr. Samsa"." Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell: Miss Rose Leclercq.
"I am all off colour."
"How long did she speak to this Alice?"
"What I expected to see." It is very romantic to be in love.
would be
"What shall I do?"
"You should be ashamed of yourself!" He was looking tolerably mellow.
The master is a person of an excellent disposition and is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness and the mildness of his discipline. His heart had burst!
"What business had he to be married to the Princess!"
But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. Lady Bracknell.
And to their slaves and mammon cling,
"Pshaw! They did not know how to look." But to return to Mr. Freeland, and to my experience while in his employment. Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very little during the winter, when its masters could scarcely procure food to support it.
Buttons on their Tails I mentioned that you and Miss Prism were in the garden.
"I am saved! I am saved!"
"Elizabeth Lavenza.
"I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute." I never think of it myself.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"They are all seaports."
"There is only one point on which I must insist."
I must beg you to retire.
"My dear Friend,
"But not more so than I to find you." I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.
Miss Watson's Lecture
This letter said: His eyes met Joe's.
"This is what he says:
"It is her carriage."
"MY DEAR MR." There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies.
"Three of 'em! Lordy, Tom, we're goners! Can you pray?" Miss Prism: Mrs. George Canninge.
Vittles
"'Sink the ship?' cried Steelkilt."
"I sha'n't tell you."
"Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes."
"I have seen the police."
" You better stay here all night."
"When would they miss us, Tom?" Mr. Samsa.
"I think, Miss Hunter, that we had better go in without you."
"May I see your father if I call to-morrow?"
"How are you?" returned the other.
"Then I can wait in the next room."
"and Ger." Garden at the Manor House. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] The lost children had not been found. Poor Justine was very ill; but other trials were reserved for her. The cleaner shut the door and opened the window wide.
"She died a woman," said the Ghost, "and had, as I think, children." I am not sure, however, that the news inspires me with feelings of unmixed delight. It was a genuine relief to the whole congregation when the ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced.
"'MY DEAR MR."
"I shall be true to Hosmer." I will not hear of such excesses.
"But I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be obstinate."
"Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each other until he had gone." [Produces diary of her own.] But I do not approve of mercenary marriages.
"She will not be able to."
"'Oh, very well."
"I could go no farther." [Crossing to her, and kneeling.]
She soliloquized:
"I believe it's better'n to be a pirate."
"I shall be true to Hosmer."
"I'll tie her to the bed." I certainly intend to have.
"'Is 4 pounds a week.'
"I shall be delighted."
She is my aunt.
"How now!" said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever."
"Elizabeth Lavenza. Presently, as they tripped along, Tom said to Becky: My master's family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. Miss Charlotte
"Our confidence in each other was unshaken."
Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places. The seegars was prime.
Lady Bracknell.
Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush.
George's, was much addicted to opium. On Exhibition She followed, and they disappeared.
"Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide." Justine shook her head mournfully. They were allowed to leave the stand without being cross-questioned.
'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.
An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.'
"Luff, and bring her to the wind!"
When the boys reached the Welshman's house, they stopped to rest.
"I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination." There was no choice.
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. Yet Gregor's sister was playing so beautifully. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
'I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room.
She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.
This event is to be found in
"I shall be busy this afternoon, and shall probably return to London by the evening train."
"She is four-and-twenty."
"She responded beautifully."
"I could hardly believe my ears."
"Tom, how could you be so noble!"
'I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see.'
"Alas!" said she. (Before she had this fit)
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!' I am sure you certainly would.
"'Certainly not."
"What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it points to suicide?"
"Her father is very rich?"
"About this girl, Miss Holder."
"Not coming," said Mrs. Cratchit.
"But with no very good result," I remarked."
"I cannot say that I have."
"Yes; we got one and they got one."
Her mother is perfectly unbearable.
"Do they hop?"
"In the nature of the case, it must be in the highest degree pernicious."
"Our want of reverence for him must have perplexed him greatly." With [Standing rather proudly.]
Aunt Polly blushed crimson with humiliation, and frowned and shook her head at Tom.
"Experience," said Holmes, laughing." Miss Prism.
"My opinion is in no way altered."
I must arise and examine. I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting. He and his companion entered the cottage, in which they remained for a few minutes, and then departed. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
"And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment."
Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the greatest danger.
"I have my revolver," said I.
"What a delightful boy!" said Scrooge."
"What business had he to be married to the Princess!"
"And so they shall." The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd's slaves, as are seen in the slaves of the political parties. Ah! that reminds me, you mentioned christenings I think, Dr. Chasuble?
"Well, it ain't your fault if you haven't, Silas; you'd a done it if you could, I reckon."
"I say it is."
"But you would not advise me to refuse?"
"'Is 4 pounds a week.'
"Yes, dey will, I reck'n, Mars Tom, but what kine er time is Jim havin'? Blest if I kin see de pint."
"I was thinking of shipping." I feel better already.
'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she ran.
"Yes, I may as well," said the surgeon, coolly."
"Well, she will."
Miss Charlotte
" I never see anything so disgusting. cur, "Such to do." To what young lady?
"What, all of them?"
"They are all seaports."
"I was never more certain of any thing.
"I never said nothing of the kind."
(Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) I love you very tenderly.
"I cannot imagine."
"I am happy," said M."
"Was he in favour of such a union?"
"Not in a good cause."
"How is this?
Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
"'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply." I am surprised at you.
"I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise."
"Are you satisfied?" Never met such a Gorgon . Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax. Immediately the Pistoians heard of this defeat they drove out the friends of the Guelphs, and surrendered to Castruccio. At length the long-expected knock was heard.
"Elizabeth Lavenza. Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
"It is to that remark that she refers in this note: cunning
"I have never been able to answer the question with any satisfaction to myself." She could not understand it.
"I think that I could be of assistance to you." May I ask if it is in this house that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides? But that was enough. They think their own better than that of others.
"I immediately commenced copying them, and in a short time was able to make the four letters named." Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children. The seegars was prime.
'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her.
Gregor, though, did think about the future. Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth.
"Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner." I was . It is a great truth.
"Oh, no, not now."
"We must have a cab."
"Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter.
"It must be bought." I will not hear of such excesses. Miss Charlotte
"Tom was in ecstasies." I know it is a way she has.
"I hope they do."
"You have a clue?" Where is that place in the country, by the way? I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive.
"I got to ask to go a-fishing; I got to ask to go in a-swimming--dern'd if I hain't got to ask to do everything." Yes, quite as I expected.
"And what of Irene Adler?" I asked.
"What did he do to you?"
"Oh!
"I am to be neutral?"
"That is possible." It is rather a bore.
"Do you go home to dinner?"
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"It must be bought." You are nothing of the kind, sir.
"You have no chance at all."
"What a delightful boy!" said Scrooge." Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
"Warnings to the people that something is up." Bianca Maria Visconti, a natural daughter of Filippo It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. Mrs. Thatcher shook her head feebly and turned paler than ever. We might have a good influence over him, Miss Prism.
"I cannot imagine."
There is a good postal service, I suppose?
"I am much obliged to you." I must arise and examine. What is it you fear?"
"I mean to go home."
"You are mistaken," said he. Mr. Samsa"."
"It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation.' I never change, except in my affections.
"I shall communicate with you." Mr. Samsa to his employers, His smile broadened. Miss Charlotte
"No, she was in her night-dress." He is an Oxonian.
"That is the way good little boys and girls should do." Miss Charlotte
"No, she warn't."
"I wanted to tell you about the picnic."
"We slaves loved Mr. Cookman."
"It is very kind of you."
"She is of a quiet nature." Methuselah seems a school-boy.
"Oh! Lady Bracknell.
"I have nothing to do to-day."
"Why, what else is gone, Sally?"
"My dear Victor, do not speak thus.
"When he was at our house, we were sure to be called in to prayers."
"How did he come?"
"Yes, he did." Uncle Silas he says: [Shaking his head.] I replied in the affirmative. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt.
'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--you've seen them, of course?'
"How's it a new kind?"
"That is excellent."
"I am afraid that you will find it difficult." His sentence was pronounced, and I could only grieve and be patient. The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark, with variations. He was therefore forced to relinquish his plan. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty--Tom Practices Music--The Challenge--A Private Entrance Mr. and Mrs. Auld were both at home, and met me at the door with their little son Thomas, to take care of whom I had been given. Madame Moritz, her mother, was a widow with four children, of whom Justine was the third. She had a very good report to give. But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
"To attend to this establishment was their sole work." I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
"But you would not advise me to refuse?" Lady Bracknell.
"Couldn't they see better if they was to wait till daytime?"
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"I tell thee no; it cannot be." cause,
The drama's done. Owing to the illness of Uguccione, the Pisans and Lucchese delayed coming to battle with the enemy.
"He did not succeed. Scrooge hastened to the window of his office, and looked in. Their Pockets Bulged Their courage was up now and well in hand. edition, which was published with the sanction of the papal
"You seem to expect company."
No answer.
"You did!"
"You are changed."
"I paused." better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in
"It is of importance."
"I'll tell you."
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"I am afraid so."
"Let it go."
"I didn't nuther." I am always smart!
"How you going to get them?" He was startled. I am pleased to hear it. I must beg you to retire.
"Oh, it is childish."
"Primo capitano in Italia."--
"What do you think, Miss Holder?"
"Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you."
"It makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on whom I can thoroughly rely."
"I'm satisfied with it."
"We neither of us care for it."
"Do you understand?" The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
"That's the way she always talks."
"He looked inside the envelope."
"I have no doubt that I am myself to blame."
"Your nephew!"
"Nothing of the sort.' There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble. What do you demand of your captain?
This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great success for you. Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
"If you should find yourself in doubt or in danger--"
"My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much."
"None of it at all?" I merely desire information. I am sure you certainly would.
"Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer."
"No, his friend."
"You have it!" he gasped."
"He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing."
"I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something more solid."
VIII, in order to retain the Duchy of Brittany for the
To be sure I cannot say much for his breeding.
"We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party."
"I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the intrusion of other matters."
"'Heaven forbid!
"His wealth is of no use to him."
"You have been of material assistance to me."
"She would rush to secure it."
"What do you think of such a commission as that?'
"But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go."
"To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other." Desiring therefore to present myself to your Magnificence with
"I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting."
"I should not be surprised if that were he."
"I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, while he can hardly be less than forty-five."
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused." Miss Fairfax!
"No, his friend."
"You have an answer to everything."
"Perhaps I have."
" Too much like jewelry."
"You may walk to the cab, and I shall be with you presently."
"No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing." Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
It was soon evident to me that he was now preparing for an all-night sitting. He sat down to the dinner that had been hoarding for him by the fire; and when she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after a long silence), he appeared embarrassed how to answer. Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were writing; She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
The interruption roused him. She said:
[Rising and drawing herself up.]
"Do you feel equal to it?" She listened intently, but there was no answer. He was threatening the doctor, with his fist in his face, by this time.
'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!' You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life.
"I made no effort to comply, having now made up my mind to let him do his worst."
"No, I do not think so."
"If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain them?"
"I think that I could be of assistance to you." She is always refusing people.
'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--you've seen them, of course?'
"It is a subject to which I have devoted some little attention." Do you share my madness?
"Oh! Lordy, Lordy!"
"And sit in the dark?"
"Threatens to send them the photograph."
"They are always in earnest.
"You just read it for yourself, sir." That would be hypocrisy. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"I know that Miss Stoner has been here."
"HIST! Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?" Miss Charlotte The Needle.
Mr. and our
"And the Rucastles go out to-night?" cause,
"Stay where you are."
"You are changed." That would be delightful.
"Good-bye."
'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.
The widow's gratitude for her preservation was outspoken.
We were soon joined by Elizabeth.
Their Pockets Bulged
Their Pockets Bulged The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
"He presently encountered her and delivered a stinging remark as he passed." His heart was full of pity for her. At any rate--though indeed such a test at such a time might be deceptive--spoutings might be discovered from our low boat that seemed playing up almost from the rim of the horizon. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] Soon it went down, and while, with oars suspended, we were awaiting its reappearance, lo! in the same spot where it sank, once more it slowly rose. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton.
Mr. and His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
"I saw her in conversation with her maid."
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused." No answer.
She resisted, for a while, and then said:
"A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you."
"I'll tie her to the bed." How different the loud little King-Post." would be
"My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything."
"She walked into the breakfast-room." She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, one on each side, to the movements of her hands.
"If you please, let me explain."
"I think that it is very probable."
"You can depend on it." Mr. Gore was proud, ambitious, and persevering."
"I guessed as much."
"And sit in the dark?" Miss Prism.
" I never see anything so disgusting.
"We must have a cab."
"Nothing particular," said Scrooge. Let's try another.
"None at all."
(We know it to be true): Gwendolen, upon my word!
"Will you do me that favour?"
"Oh," he says.
"'Will you promise not to touch us, if we do?' demanded their ringleader.
"Mr. Scrooge?"
"Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go."
"It is a very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a good deal."
"Never a word?"
"and Ger."
"The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." I am not myself in favour of premature experiences.
"I ain't everybody, and I can't stand it."
"Mary and I stay at home."
"But you are joking."
"No is that so?"
"I often take advantage of the freedom which it gives." cur, "Such
"Simon is a myth."
There is a saltcellar of state, so called, and there may be a castor of state. Mrs. Harper gave a sobbing goodnight and turned to go.
"Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the name is different."
"I think that it is very probable."
"He knows it already."
"I promise," said Holmes.
"They have, they have."
"No, not now--to-morrow."
"Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!"
"I acknowledge the benefit of both. Lady Bracknell.
"That would be unnecessary."
"My practice is never very absorbing."
"It's a bonny thing," said he." A row! a row! a row!
"But you have hopes?"
"I don't believe it."
"I suppose that we are absolutely safe from eavesdroppers?'
"There are, however, some painful exceptions to this rule."
"And this promises to be interesting."
"Whose pew?"
"I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us in a friendly supper."
Do you share my madness?
She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. He told us to give attention.
"Threatens to send them the photograph." Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. It was not enough for us to subsist upon. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
Miss Charlotte
The faces of the audience began to betray annoyance. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
Miss Prism: Mrs. George Canninge. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. Every time Tom made an examination, Becky would watch his face for an encouraging sign, and he would say cheerily: On Exhibition Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. I repassed, in my memory, my whole life--my quiet happiness while residing with my family in Geneva, the death of my mother, and my departure for Ingolstadt.
"They were not entirely happy. I see I was weakening; so I just give up trying, and up and says: But I felt that I had no right to share their intercourse. The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned.
I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland. She appeared of a different stock.
Ernest, we may never be married.
"We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party." I am engaged to be married to Cecily, Aunt Augusta.
"I know that she will do it."
"There is a friend of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him."
"Goodmorning, Mrs. Thatcher." John Worthing, J.P.
" Is a cow a man? er is a cow a cat?"
"No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom."
"This girl is Want."
In a moment he said:
"Which surely he restored to their owner?"
"About a month then." Mr. Worthing, I offer you my sincere condolence.
"I know his voice."
"Pray do so." How long you have been about it! I am afraid you have had very little experience in how to propose. My father tried to awaken in me the feelings of affection.
Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live.
"Your conversation is most entertaining," said he."
"But how will you look?"
"No, I think that I'll take it."
"Afeard! 'Tain't likely."
Would you, you could not compress him.
"Why do you point away?"
recognized."--Pall Mall Gazette, 15th May 1906. Horrid Geography! Lewis Carroll Let the day therefore be fixed; and on it I will consecrate myself, in life or death, to the happiness of my cousin." better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in
"Geneva, May 18th, 17--"
"WILLIAM HAMILTON,
"At noon."
"Your narrative promises to be a most interesting one."
"He asked me if I meant to persist in my resistance."
"'You cannot say what it was?'
His course was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty.
"To be sure," said Peleg."
"'You cannot say what it was?'
"No, I am descending."
"She told him of the coronet."
"Simon marriage case."
"I don't wish to see it."
"Thank'ee," said Scrooge."
I think it is perfectly absurd. To Mrs. Saville, England It was apparent that my conversation had interested the father in my behalf, and
He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.
Who was your father? He was evidently a man of some wealth. His face flushed and darkened. Victories after all are never so complete that the victor must not show some regard, especially to justice. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. I dare say there may be ONE.' To be short, among whalemen, the harpooneers are the holders, so called.
"'I shall have this matter probed to the bottom.'
"No, sir, nobody." Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children. I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: There is no time to be lost. To say nothing of the fact that she is my cousin.
"But to whom?"
"What will he say when he returns?" By and by the men stopped cavorting around and yelling.
They are the essential ingredients, not the occasional results, of the system.
His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the drumsticks.
"He was vastly gratified the next moment, to see the "Spaniard" take to his heels and get himself out of sight."
Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
He Went for Judge Thatcher. Nothing has been said at all about marriage.
Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906).
"Your affectionate and afflicted father,
"Nothing could have been better."
"Mr. Scrooge?"
"His manner became less guarded and his words more distinct as he proceeded:
"Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter."
"She used to be at the Allegro."
"Nobody never told her." His plan was to whip for the smallest offences, to prevent the commission of large ones.
"Clair was doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are all as far from a solution as ever."
"Oh! a great watcher, and very dietetically severe, is Dr. Bunger."
"It is his."
"Thank you, Miss Turner."
It is in my dressing-room at home.
"I was a boy," he said impatiently.
"Simon (the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Whittington."
"Ah!" To what young lady?
"She is four-and-twenty." It is plums of rubies, in pictures of citron. Indeed, I have just been informed by the pew-opener that for the last hour and a half Miss Prism has been waiting for me in the vestry. She is my aunt. *I remember the first albatross I ever saw.
"She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid and searched."
"I always give too much to ladies."
"I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her."
"'Do not trouble yourself, my kind host; I have food; it is warmth and rest only that I need.'
"Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes."
I thought of the occurrences of the day.
"The paper came, and I read it from week to week with such feelings as it would be quite idle for me to attempt to describe." Mr. Worthing? He was all attention in an instant. MARLEY was dead: to begin with.
Mr. Samsa"." at once." Cf. Tom said he could furnish it, and he did. I took the paper from him and read as follows:
"If you want to know, go and find out."
They depress me so much.
"I don't want to stay home from school." Mr. Jones said: That is quite a different matter.
"Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature of this gang."
"Swimming's no good." Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mr. Samsa. There was a warrant issued for her arrest, but it was never served.
"To escape punishment was to escape accusation; and few slaves had the fortune to do either, under the overseership of Mr. Gore." She calculated his capacity as she would a jug's, and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls. His faith was weakening. Fortresses, therefore, are useful or not according to circumstances; if they do you good in one way they injure you in another.
"It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure." There was no choice. This change was particularly agreeable to me. A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and her feelings were alike averse to it. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
Mr. Garrick. Mr. Ruggles was then very deeply engaged in the memorable Darg case, as well as attending to a number of other fugitive slaves, devising ways and means for their successful escape; and, though watched and hemmed in on almost every side, he seemed to be more than a match for his enemies.
Buttons on their Tails The temptation was too strong.
A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point.
"Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size...."
Castruccio, therefore, called Pagolo Guinigi to him, and addressed him as follows:
"The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an abominable crime." Mr. Samsa as if he had been suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from Mr. Samsa for his decision. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. His tale and the feelings he now expressed proved him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow? There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths. On Exhibition Mr. Gore was proud, ambitious, and persevering."
Mr. Samsa to his employers, I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of my friend, indignation was rekindled within me.
Alas! Mr. Samsa to his employers,
What could it be?
Mr. Samsa to his employers,
"The inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to the room in which Mr. St." Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. Theseus could not have shown his ability had he not found the Athenians dispersed.
"The eager mariners but ask him who he is, and where from; whereas, they not only receive an answer to those questions, but likewise another answer to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him. Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side of the door, and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas.
" Every animal is grateful for kindness and petting, and they wouldn't think of hurting a person that pets them." The ridge our cavern was in was full of them.
"And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they had feared to find." Mr. and Victories after all are never so complete that the victor must not show some regard, especially to justice. I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to ensure Gwendolen's happiness.
Becky responded to his call, and they made a smoke-mark for future guidance, and started upon their quest. They had afterwards for their captains Bartolomeo da Bergamo, Roberto da San Severino, the count of Pitigliano,(&) and the like, under whom they had to dread loss and not gain, as happened afterwards at Vaila,($) where in one battle they lost that which in eight hundred years they had acquired with so much trouble.
This latter city continued in the family of Guinigi until the time of the great-grandson of Pagolo. Buttons on their Tails It was midnight. The clerk promised that he would; and Scrooge walked out with a growl. The visitors were given the highest seat of honor, and as soon as Mr. Walters' speech was finished, he introduced them to the school.
"It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman."
'Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: 'advance twice, set to partners--'
"I am very happy," said little Bob, "I am very happy!"
Mr. and There was not an urchin in school but was perishing to have a glimpse of it, but the chance never came.
She could not understand it. Her name was Rowena Hamilton. Mr. Samsa. In a few days after her arrival, Mr. Ruggles called in the Rev.
"He is a man-stealer."
"That is well."
unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. She herself wept as Elizabeth spoke, but she did not answer.
"Can I be of assistance?"
"Are you satisfied?"
"Near as I am to you."
"I have seen them--some summer days in the morning."
"I have no questions to ask him."
"I am to be neutral?"
"We believed him to be a good man."
"Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you."
I would consider it wrong.
"Here are your lodgings." I never change, except in my affections. It is not at all a bad name.
"Everybody calls him Hoss." I suspect him of being untruthful.
"Tom resolved that he would never trust a man like that again. What he achieved cannot be attributed either to fortune or genius.
"To an end?"
'ARE you to get in at all?' said the Footman.
"Was it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at all of what it meant."
"I shall be delighted."
"You'll be her."
"How does he get it, then?" Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
"It's the truest word that ever was spoke," said Mrs. Dilber." I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. He thought back of his family with emotion and love. Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
"It was the bisulphate of baryta."
"I acknowledge the benefit of both.
his death is attributed to trickery.
I also am unfortunate; I and my family have been condemned, although innocent; judge, therefore, if I do not feel for your misfortunes.'
"I have hopes."
"You have made your statement very clearly." I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. Petersburg.
Isn't Mr. Worthing in his library?
"He was very much attached to me, was Dick."
"I braved him to do his worst."
"He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he was a lad."
"And how did you verify them?"
"Haunt me no longer!" Cecily,--how could you have ever doubted that I had a brother?
"She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish to speak to you."
I have murdered my darling child!'
"I cannot imagine."
He is very savage--a sort of Feegee fish.
"Well, it is conjectured to be so."
"Well, he has, by jingoes! Did he before?" And how, Victor, can I relate our misfortune?
"His aspect was most horrible, and such as indicated resentment and fury." What must have been his feelings? I dislike arguments of any kind. Lewis Carroll
"It was a singular document."
"I do as I do."
"No'm--well, not very much." Mote him availle, but to returne againe
"I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a few minutes' silence."
"It must be bought."
"I am to be neutral?" I have the honour of being a nephew of his. There were those younger, those older, and those of the same age.
"My stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to be married in the course of the spring."
"He was a lawyer."
"He will find it as sure a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him."
"How often?" I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
"James and his father had many disagreements about me." Game, or any other dish? This, none of us were prepared to acknowledge.
"His signet-ring."
"Yes." necessary for him to send his quartermasters to chalk up the
"I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted." Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? Your guardian has a very emotional nature.
"What kind of stock?" He shrugged his shoulders."
"Of her I could see nothing." This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. She approaches; she is nigh. I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely.
"Oh, nothing much."
"She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" Your affectionate brother, Not at all; and therein consisted his chief peculiarity.
"I assure you that I am in your hands."
"Not at all."
"He is a man-stealer."
"He is."
"What Idol has displaced you?" he rejoined.
"He overdid it."
"You'd be a disgrace." That is a very different thing.
"Logic is rare." Mr. and His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better.
"I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing." Lewis Carroll In a few days after her arrival, Mr. Ruggles called in the Rev.
"He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing."
"I was young." Miss Charlotte
"No, indeed, indeed I won't."
Lady Bloxham?
"I never thought of that." Miss Charlotte She herself wept as Elizabeth spoke, but she did not answer.
Vain Pleading I suspect him of being untruthful. the shortest time all that I have learnt in so many years, and I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
Mr. Jones said:
"Jacob," he said, imploringly."
Justine shook her head mournfully.
Gregor was still there and had not the slightest intention of abandoning his family.
Mr. and
The latter seemed totally insensible to all such sentiments.
"My opinion is in no way altered."
'You ought to have finished,' said the King.
"'You can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such opening for you." Do you share my madness?
"Do you go out much in society?"
"My private note-paper."
"It is probable."
"His wealth is of no use to him."
"Cairo? no."
"The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude."
"Let it go." South in his
"It is probable."
"I do not know what to think."
"I cannot think."
"You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly be."
"The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been prepared." She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins. (KILLER).--Of this whale little is precisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed naturalist. Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were writing; The appearance of Justine was calm.
But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. She could not understand it. I didn't think it polite to listen, sir. Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
"How long did she speak to this Alice?" cause, She began to soften; she felt sorry. Mr. Hopkins was even worse than Mr. Weeden. It was Injun Joe's! There was silence for some time.
"Agreed, and good as wheat!"
"It was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide." Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
"But in any case it does not seem to be a nice household for a young lady."
"But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see you?" And especially would this seem to be a matter of course, in the case of vessels owned in one seaport, and whose captains, officers, and not a few of the men are personally known to each other; and consequently, have all sorts of dear domestic things to talk about.
His plans were facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris.
If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.
Till Monday.
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. condemn
The two marbles lay within a foot of each other.
Mr. Covey enjoyed the most unbounded reputation for being a first-rate overseer and negro-breaker. The seegars was prime.
"You, of course, saw that everyone in the street was an accomplice." Mr. Samsa as if he had been suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from Mr. Samsa for his decision. My determination to run away was again revived.
"You can see him very well."
"'Heaven forbid!
"Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger."
"Elizabeth Lavenza.
"I really have made no inquiries on the subject."
"He was sick, he said, and he looked it." Mr. Worthing, there is some error.
"I wish to gee-miny she'd stick to one or t'other--I can't keep the run of 'em." He said that would do.
"Very well."
"That will do very nicely."
"'No; but I was educated by a French family and understand that language only.
"May be; may be." Do you smoke? Um-m.
"Children, don't you say a word."
That is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself.
"Did you observe the colour?" I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt.
"You seem to expect company."
"He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing." (We know it to be true):
I think Jack, for instance, a charming name.
"'In my own bureau.'
"Well?", asked
"His manner became less guarded and his words more distinct as he proceeded:
"Your family is perfectly well," said Mr. Kirwin with gentleness; "and someone, a friend, is come to visit you."
Sir Mackenzie Wallace's
"My own." That is not very pleasant.
"Warnings to the people that something is up."
"My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk."
"What ho, Tashtego! let me hear thy hammer."
"Nice girl! Very. The interruption roused him.
"You were not yourself at fault at all, then?"
"I am sorry to have interrupted you." I cannot keep count of them, though I have tried conscientiously.
"What kind of stock?"
"Cairo? no." I am well acquainted with the accused.
"Don't you be afraid of that--it ain't anything at all."
"Now's our chance--come!" [Enter Jack with a hand-bag of black leather in his hand.]
"Was he in favour of such a union?"
"I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the latter was your son."
"You are very, very sick!"
"'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent."
"And this promises to be interesting."
"I paused."
"It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London."
"Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, tell me what I want to know! Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, tell me what I want to know!"
'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her head!'
"I don't want to sell him."
"And what is that upon your cheek?" She shook her head.
"I do not encourage visitors."
"What do you think of such a commission as that?'
"I cannot allow that there is any humiliation."
"Surely I have not seen him yet."
"Could he throw no light?" His manner was not effusive. Tom entered, struggling with the weight of his sacks, and Aunt Polly did not finish her sentence.
Oh! he has been talking about Bunbury, has he?
"Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most intimate personal affairs in this public manner."
"I do not encourage visitors."
"It was just what I wanted, and I got it at a time when I the least expected it." There is certainly no chance of your marrying Miss Cardew.
"Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide."
"Pray take a seat," said Holmes."
"Mankind was my business." [Pointing to Lady Bracknell.]
"You seem to expect company."
"I will leave your house in the morning and make my own way in the world.' She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman.
My generous friend reassured the suppliant, and on being informed of the name of her lover, instantly abandoned his pursuit.
"I don't know," said Scrooge.
"You may go to any expense which you think necessary."
"I have had nothing else to do."
"'No; but I was educated by a French family and understand that language only.
"I know that he has done no harm and that you will be sorry for having acted so harshly." Mr. Samsa.
"No; only heard of him; but don't believe in him at all," said the other good-humoredly." what is called savagery.
"I am sure."
"But he rallies."
"No, he was averse to it also."
"I must compliment you." Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity. She listened intently, but there was no answer. But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet. On very important business, Miss Fairfax states.
"I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he."
Miss Cardew is the grand-daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Cardew of 149 Belgrave Square, S.W.; Gervase Park, Dorking, Surrey; and the Sporran, Fifeshire, N.B.
Mr. Worthing, I offer you my sincere condolence.
"Such was the history of my beloved cottagers.
"You are not averse to this trip, Watson?"
"Leastways, I did."
"I would not have missed it for worlds."
"I am to be neutral?"
"I assured him that I was not offended." Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects.
I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906). His smile broadened.
"We seldom called him "master;" we generally called him "Captain Auld," and were hardly disposed to title him at all."
"Mr. Starbuck--a lance without a pole; a top-maul, and the smallest of the sail-maker's needles."
"Mr. Scrooge?"
"You have done wisely," said my friend."
"Mr. Scrooge?"
"It was a chestnut." I am well acquainted with the accused.
of a felicity of a dream.
I remained silent. When that came, I was determined to be off. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. This establishment was under the care of two slaves--old Barney and young Barney--father and son." In them circumstances it warn't no trouble to him to throw in an amount of style that was suitable. Involved in this affair,
She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. Miss Charlotte [Offers her cheek.]
"Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do tell him that I know him to be innocent."
"For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary mystery!"
"What will you say?"
I had quite forgotten that point. Queen Mab.
She added hot baths, sitz baths, shower baths, and plunges. His manner was not effusive.
His face flushed and darkened.
Lady Bloxham?
"Elizabeth Lavenza.
"But she had a large heart!" Do go and change them.
"I lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze." Preparations were made for the event, congratulatory visits were received, and all wore a smiling appearance.
"Elizabeth Lavenza. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. Both of them spoke up and says:
"We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her."
'I had NOT!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily.
"Somebody told--that's enough."
'You ought to have finished,' said the King.
[Crossing to her, and kneeling.] They were three of the happiest days I ever enjoyed. I have the honour of being a nephew of his.
"I am much obliged to you." to do."
In the first case he ought to be sparing, in the second he ought not to neglect any opportunity for liberality. To be sure I cannot say much for his breeding. I know of such cases; and it is worthy of remark that such slaves invariably suffer greater hardships, and have more to contend with, than others. And concluded the banquet--]
She listened intently, but there was no answer.
'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; 'and the moral of that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."' This establishment was under the care of two slaves--old Barney and young Barney--father and son."
'The idea of having the sentence first!'
"But he wrote it again, nevertheless; he could not help it."
"But I'll offer to go, if anybody else will." He said he was anxious to speak to you privately for a moment. There never was such a goose. Miss Charlotte She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. I believed in her innocence; I knew it.
"I am!"
Pennington, who, in the presence of Mr. Ruggles, Mrs. Michaels, and two or three others, performed the marriage ceremony, and gave us a certificate, of which the following is an exact copy:-- Mr. and Miss Charlotte
"[See next page.]
Isn't Mr. Worthing in his library? Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906).
"In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker." After tea, they had some music.
"But she will refuse." Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?
"My dear Victor, do not speak thus.
"I will not look."
"I must compliment you."
"I have had nothing else to do."
"I am armed."
"Oh, no, sir." Mr. Moncrieff and I are engaged to be married, Lady Bracknell. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. Mr. and
"'If you please, Miss Stoper.' Had my eyes deceived me?
"You have been of material assistance to me." house,
"I am prepared to leave it with you as my security.' The Spirit paused a moment, as observing his condition, and giving him time to recover.
"In the present instance I am forced to admit that the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique."
"Do you mean that she has left England?"
"Your Majesty must pay."
"'Like a lanyard for your bag; but it's an odd one, seems to me.'
"This is my friend, Dr. Watson."
"Find who?" I must arise and examine. I have already told you to go. Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.
"To me it has been exceptionally so."
"And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a fait accompli?"
"I trust that I am not intruding." I shall see you both no doubt at Evensong?
"No, he was averse to it also."
"So she had," cried Scrooge."
"I hope that I have made myself clear?"
"Let it go."
"Pudding for supper, you know;--merry's the word." better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in
"I mean to go home."
"We shall want you to come to-night by the last train.'
"Good heavens!" cried my patient."
"I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe."
"No, no," said Scrooge, "I am in earnest." I may tell you candidly that the place is not in Shropshire. I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to ensure Gwendolen's happiness.
"Be it so," said he."
"In the nature of the case, it must be in the highest degree pernicious."
"Can I be of assistance?"
"I must compliment you." Therefore, my son, if you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself." better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in It had been thus with the Pequod.
"But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart."
"You fill me with interest," said Holmes."
"You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours."
"You must leave that to me."
It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake.
"My opinion is in no way altered."
"Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which serves me so well." I mean it naturally is Ernest.
"I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am in town."
"I must compliment you."
"Yes, but only for you and me."
"My dearest Cousin, Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? Yet my heart overflowed with kindness and the love of virtue.
"Your presence might be invaluable."
They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks.
If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain.
"You'll be her."
"I will get her to show me." John does not know how much I really suffer. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury.
"It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families...."
"Pray continue," said Holmes."
"I only looked in as I passed," said he."
"This girl is Want." I am going to send you down with Mary Farquhar. met in the
"And she will do it." Their fixed jav'lins in his side he wears, Yet when she died!
"Well, are you rich?" Mr. and
Mr. Samsa.
"And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be."
"Speak comfort to me, Jacob!"
"Do you love rats?" Let her be sent for.
"Oh! Mary
"Start her!"
Countess of Forli that Machiavelli was sent as envy on 1499. Mr. Worthing, I offer you my sincere condolence.
"I knew that it was my sister's voice."
"Miss Roylott, you have not."
"Life-buoy, sir."
"Very well."
"Let us now see the letter."
"Your life may depend upon your compliance."
"Is it them?"
"Hot again."
"It is probable."
"You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back."
"May I see your father if I call to-morrow?" She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Do you understand this feeling?
"I am sorry to have interrupted you."
"Say--I'll give you the core of my apple."
"'I should be happy to make myself useful.' I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wall-paper. By and by Tom says: [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] His manner was not effusive. Married, Mr. Worthing?
"He was very ill, he was interested in nothing." Gregor was still there and had not the slightest intention of abandoning his family. And how are we this morning? Miss Charlotte Miss Watson
"I am mistaken then." Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
"You have no chance at all."
"I dare you to knock it off--and anybody that'll take a dare will suck eggs."
"I wish to warn thee." Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture.
"I'll never speak to you again."
"I have no questions to ask him." I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. Perhaps this might be a favourable opportunity for my mentioning who I am.
"That's what it is."
"That they are what they are, do not blame me!"
They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Peace, peace!
Shropshire?
"Public disgrace I might have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet borne a stain." I never had a brother in my life, and I certainly have not the smallest intention of ever having one in the future.
my cousin; take care of your self; and, I entreat you, write!
"My own."
"But to whom?"
"I dono--peep through the crack."
"And has your business been attended to in your absence?"
His manner was not effusive. Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed
The appearance of Justine was calm. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton. Gregor, though, did think about the future. I called on him to stay.
Mr. Samsa to his employers, Buttons on their Tails To describe the wealth of Colonel Lloyd would be almost equal to describing the riches of Job." As the time drew near for our departure, our anxiety became more and more intense. She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!
"His aspect was most horrible, and such as indicated resentment and fury."
Miss Fairfax!
His smile broadened. Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper. Sforza had the Bracceschi always against him, so they watched each other. This is indeed a pleasure.
"What do you mean by coming here at this time of day?"
Well, what shall we do? They are, in the first place, a constant offence to their mistress.
"I shall most certainly do so." cause,
'"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.
"But she will refuse."
'Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.
"I have it here and I will read it to you: I took my passage in the same ship, but he escaped, I know not how. I dislike arguments of any kind.
"Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which serves me so well."
"But, mum; he comes this way."
"You think that he is dead?" Gwendolen, will you marry me?
"Breckinridge is his name."
"Do you know him?"
"But you have read the evidence."
"I have no data yet."
"I fail to see that anyone is to blame." She approaches; she is nigh.
"I do not encourage visitors."
"Your repentance," I said, "is now superfluous."
"I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them)."
"What do you call this?" said Joe."
This again either does not happen, or, if it does, it will not be for your security, because that deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend on yourself and your valour. That is absurd.
"Will you mount?"
"Most always--most always."
"You have a clue?" I'm in love with Cecily, and that is everything.
"She told me to ask you."
She shook her head. to do."
"No more."
I am engaged to be married to Gwendolen Lady Bracknell! *Quoin is not a Euclidean term.
'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing.
"We have a housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily get her out of the way."
"Do you love rats?"
"What, all of them?"
"But the histrionic muse is the darling."
"In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad."
"That is excellent."
"Huck, have you ever told anybody about--that?"
"By all means."
"Oh no, Joe, you'll feel better by and by," said Tom." I love scrapes.
"His wealth is of no use to him."
"How can you tell that?" I could not be mistaken.
"I assured him that I was not offended."
"Bad," he answered.
"A considerable crime is in contemplation."
Assembling a great army of the supporters of the Guelph cause, the Florentines entered the Pistoian territories.
No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. It had its effect. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.]
My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to the court.
"Elizabeth Lavenza. better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in I dislike arguments of any kind.
He assisted her to dismount, and dismissing her guide, conducted her into the cottage.
"It is Wednesday."
"It was the bisulphate of baryta."
Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply from within.
"But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. Firstly, he did not see his way to make him master of any state that was not a state of the Church; and if he was willing to rob the Church he knew that the Duke of Milan and the Venetians would not consent, because Faenza and Rimini were already under the protection of the Venetians. They had a nurse for it, and it was reared and loved as if it were their own child.
Becky responded to his call, and they made a smoke-mark for future guidance, and started upon their quest.
"The very decided manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the truths he was uttering." Algernon. Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906). They were prouder and happier in their new acquirement than they would have been in the scalping and skinning of the Six Nations. Miss Charlotte [Crossing to her, and kneeling.]
"Evidently spirits were abroad."
"It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them." would be And it has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain or unstable as fame or power not founded on its own strength. He would a been worth a good deal over at the village. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. But I must not disturb Egeria and her pupil any longer.
"Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school." This imagination was dreadful in itself, but soothing inasmuch as it supposed the safety of my friends.
"I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not."
"They were evidently all deserted."
"But enough of this."
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"Your life may depend upon your compliance."
"If he is violent, we shall take you away to your aunt's at Harrow."
"I think that this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an appointment with me for six o'clock?" If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends." With He always managed to have one or more of his slaves to whip every Monday morning. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. But the king was ca'm. In a few days after her arrival, Mr. Ruggles called in the Rev.
The latter seemed totally insensible to all such sentiments. I am engaged to Mr. Worthing, mamma. it began to decline as soon as this obligation was no longer My dear Algy, I don't know whether you will be able to understand my real motives. But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet.
"I did come--didn't you see me?"
"I am much obliged to you."
"I hope that you have done what I asked you, Jones?"
"No, never budged." I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself. George's, was much addicted to opium. This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark.
Isn't Mr. Worthing in his library?
"Becky supposed she would be glad of that, and she tried to believe she was glad of it, but she found she was not certain." The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment!
Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. With
"Are you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Nothing could be heartier.
"Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide." George's, was much addicted to opium. would be
I thought of the occurrences of the day. She wept. Is that clever? I remember recommending one to young Lady Lancing, and after three months her own husband did not know her. Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.
She took them to a bedchamber and said: Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, even though she could have checked for herself and could have known it even without checking. By-and-by Becky suggested that they move on again. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. However, it was hardly morning, and I might reasonably hope to arrive by night. I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. But no formal salutation was exchanged. George's, was much addicted to opium. It was very monotonous.
The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
Such were the lessons of my father. Miss Charlotte From then on she never failed to open the door slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. He gave promises to both, saying to Bastiano that he would come in person, and to Jacopo that he would send his pupil, Pagolo Guinigi.
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion. I suffered more anxiety than most of my fellow-slaves.
But I require tea! The latter seemed totally insensible to all such sentiments. Yes, quite as I expected.
He was regarded as one who rejected the favor of his master. The family was at home.
"She was a nonentity."
"Becky supposed she would be glad of that, and she tried to believe she was glad of it, but she found she was not certain." [Catching sight of him.] However, that could easily be altered.
"When he was at our house, we were sure to be called in to prayers." She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper--Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver. Says I to myself, and this is another one that I'm letting him rob her of her money!
"My dear Victor, do not speak thus.
"Let us I think that will be the best plan.' George's, was much addicted to opium.
"I hope they do."
"So it was I noticed it."
"What can you not understand?"
"I should not stay here."
"Merchant service be damned."
"I can do nothing for myself." Why am I to give an account of myself?
"I mean to go home."
Miss Charlotte billets for his soldiers to conquer the country. Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and herself. Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.
She welcomed me with the greatest affection.
Gregor listened very closely to all this, and approved fully.
Lady Bracknell. They think their own better than that of others.
"It must be in her own house." It would be childish.
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused." In about a week after the arrival of Elizabeth's letter we returned to Geneva.
"Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." I will not hear you.
"I cannot imagine."
"I shall be all anxiety." Her lips, too, were bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying.
"Something must have happened." To say nothing of the fact that she is my ward.
"I have nothing to do to-day."
"Quite so! You have not observed."
"'I shall have this matter probed to the bottom.'
"Twice she has been waylaid."
"Really dear you are better!"
"I really don't know what to say."
"I hain't ever done you no harm." Hailing the brother, sister throng,
"My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much."
"I know it, Sally, and I do try all I can."
"Go and buy it."
"Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
"I fear not." I feel very happy. or else that the truth of the matter and the weightiness of the I met you.
"It is solved."
"My dear Victor, do not speak thus.
"To ruin me."
Between yourself and me.' (*) Catherine Sforza, a daughter of Galeazzo Sforza and I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. I really think that should satisfy you, Lady Bracknell.
"My dear fellow, I know you well." Philologically considered, it is absurd.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
"I assure you that I am in your hands."
"But enough of this." I have something very particular to say to Mr. Worthing.
"You then--"
"Let him alone, I tell you."
We must not be premature in our judgments.
"We must have a cab."
Oh, that is nonsense!
"Terrible! She is even more affected than I."
"And that ain't all."
"I cannot imagine."
"I am to be neutral?"
"I will do nothing of the kind."
"What did you do it for?"
"Look to the bucket!"
"But of what society?"
"Why didn't you roust me out?" Isn't Mr. Worthing in his library?
"No, his friend."
"I don't believe it."
"Why he "
"Your reasoning is certainly plausible." The choice of servants is of no little importance to a prince, and they are good or not according to the discrimination of the prince.
Thank you, Lady Bracknell, I prefer standing.
"They don't have no less than seventeen." Philologically considered, it is absurd. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. Do go and change them.
"Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties."
"Was it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at all of what it meant."
"Let it go." Mr. Hopkins was even worse than Mr. Weeden. But no formal salutation was exchanged. She had at first yielded to our entreaties, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety. Mr. Samsa. Mr. Samsa.
"Bad," he answered.
"I congratulate you warmly."
"The girl I'm going to marry won't fight."
"Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters."
"When is it going to be?"
"Now what's your answer?" employed to designate the Huguenot heresy.
"That would be unnecessary."
"He is a man-stealer."
"Thank ye, man."
"You are all wrong."
"I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night."
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. Two days passed in this manner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding. He was always the saddest of the group, and even to my unpractised senses, he appeared to have suffered more deeply than his friends.
25 CORNHILL 1845 A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, refinement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.
He married, first, Mary, daughter of
"'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'"
"Mr. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man." It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush. She was a large, able-bodied woman, about twenty years old.
Between seven and eight thousand a year. They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks. One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university. (Before she had this fit) Presently Becky began to suspect.
"Nothing to complain of."
"Twice she has been waylaid." The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
"I know she would!"
"Surely this is not your husband's writing, madam."
"It is to that remark that she refers in this note: It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you.
"Indeed! That is very interesting."
"They are all seaports."
"I say it is."
"It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in prison!"
"What do you mean by coming here at this time of day?" They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks. appointment: "I have been with the signori," wrote
'Fury said to a
"I bet it is."
"Are you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?'
'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.
"'Dearest do not be frightened."
But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
"Oh, it is so dreadfully still in there!'
"It is a subject to which I have devoted some little attention." Mr. Worthing?
"I was hid." They discussed between themselves what should be done, and seeing that he was priest and that she had no children, they finally determined to bring it up.
"Colonel Lloyd had three sons--Edward, Murray, and Daniel,--and three sons-in-law, Mr. Winder, Mr. Nicholson, and Mr. Lowndes." Besides, of course, there is the question of your name. I suppose you know how to christen all right?
"If I tell her she will not believe me."
"It would have been something if you'd cared enough to think of it, even if you didn't do it."
"What do you think of such a commission as that?' She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: I really don't see why you should keep a diary at all.
"Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how it is that I have received a letter from him to-day."
"So much for the servants."
"I hope they are."
"'Dearest do not be frightened."
"But she will refuse."
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. If it was possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his sister. They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks. The family was at home. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. When he had chastised some of the Roman leaders, and admonished others, voluntary obedience was rendered to Enrico.
"I immediately commenced copying them, and in a short time was able to make the four letters named." connected by marriage. The three weeks he spent on his back this time seemed an entire age. Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself. Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most respect for. The appearance of Justine was calm.
"It appears that she was formerly a danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom for some years."
To proceed. To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. I wish you would have tea-cake instead.
"Do not lose an instant."
"I have had nothing else to do."
"Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you."
"If you want to know, go and find out." I thank you and accept your generous offer.
"You understand?"
"My dear Friend, I happen to be serious about Bunburying.
"'Dearest do not be frightened."
"I'll take care of you."
"He asked me if I meant to persist in my resistance."
"No, not always." I beg your pardon? I am in love with Gwendolen.
"But you will find that all I say is really to the point."
"I see the house." My brother. Lady Bracknell. I am so sorry, dear Cecily, if it is any disappointment to you, but I am afraid I have the prior claim.
"I believe it's better'n to be a pirate."
"I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried." law: I will
"Yes, it would be as well."
"I should not stay here."
"You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours."
"But I am so sure that he is innocent."
"Is that so much that he deserves this praise?"
"You know my method."
"But what will you do?" My generous friend reassured the suppliant, and on being informed of the name of her lover, instantly abandoned his pursuit.
Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. Miss Charlotte Sid flew downstairs and said:
"I congratulate you warmly." Couldn't you cough?
"Whom have I the honour to address?"
"Will you come and see me?" I am never deceived in such matters.
"I am much obliged to you."
"Speak comfort to me, Jacob!"
"You did not see anyone else in the room?"
"Can I be of assistance?"
"You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" Lumber-room as usual.
"His boots, too, might be told from their traces." the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished. You seem to think that every aunt should be exactly like your aunt! She wept. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
[Presenting her cheek to be kissed.] The point was well taken. We passed a fortnight in these perambulations:
Accordingly, a few months after your departure for Ingolstadt, Justine was called home by her repentant mother.
But I forget that I am moralizing in the most interesting part of my tale, and your looks remind me to proceed. Miss Fairfax!
"Tom pretended not to see her."
"Nobody never told her."
"Of course." Merriman: Mr. Frank Dyall.
"I was hid."
"I do not know what I could do without her."
Aunt Polly's happiness was complete, and Mrs. Thatcher's nearly so.
"I am." Justine shook her head mournfully. I believed in her innocence; I knew it. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. She could not understand it.
"No servant would stay with us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house." (Before she had this fit)
"You have been of material assistance to me."
I dare not ask you to do what I think right, for I may still be misled by passion.
"They were all engaged for the evening."
Will not a righteous God visit for these things? She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
"I cannot imagine." The cleaner came in while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished her work for that morning. I praise this system because it has been made use of formerly.
"K., and why does he pursue this unhappy family?"
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid." [Crossing to her, and kneeling.]
"I don't understand it."
"I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it." I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely.
"Wait there till you hear from me." She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman.
'YOU'D better not talk!' said Five.
"I was afraid that you were engaged."
"Will you come and see me?"
"She responded beautifully." All the time, Grete was becoming livelier.
of a felicity of a dream. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.
[Standing rather proudly.] Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. She began to soften; she felt sorry. His heart had burst! It was of considerable importance to him.
may be acceptable, seeing that it is not possible for me to make a
I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely.
"That they are what they are, do not blame me!" I think that woman gets out in the daytime!
"But what harm can there be in that?"
Yet I am certainly unjust. be jury,"
to do."
" Ropes are the correct thing we must preserve the unities, as we say on the boards."
[Born January
MARLEY was dead: to begin with. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better. I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.
'When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), 'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform.
My master was Colonel Lloyd's clerk and superintendent. It was a Saturday night in December. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] Tom Decides on his Course--Old Scenes Re-enacted [Presenting her cheek to be kissed.]
of a felicity of a dream.
"Mary gave him a brand-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations." Everyone loved Elizabeth. Not at all; and therein consisted his chief peculiarity.
"It'll begin to be daylight in a couple of hours."
Alice was silent. When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.
"They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. The day of my departure at length arrived.
[Offers her cheek.] Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience. It was not extensive.
"Becky roused up from her lethargy of distress and showed good interest in the proceedings." Vain Pleading
"My boy, don't be afraid of me."
"If you want to know, go and find out."
"Well, I tell you what I think."
"It is very kind of you."
"I see no need of this.'
"But he rallies." I wonder how it was done and who did it, and what they did it for. Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.
"It is a pity, because in other respects you would really have done very nicely."
"If not, why should you come to consult me?"
"I do not encourage visitors."
"Her banker or her lawyer."
"I am prepared to leave it with you as my security.' Live, and be happy, and make others so."
Oh, that is nonsense.
"I fear not." John does not know how much I really suffer.
"I didn't think of that."
"Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one."
"They are not very exacting, after all."
"I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
'You ought to have finished,' said the King.
"Oh, fresh and glossy."
[Crossing to her, and kneeling.]
"Hy'roglyphics--pictures and things, you know, that don't seem to mean anything."
"Auntie, what have I done?" All these particulars are faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be painted.
"Let us
The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited. The money was soon in the bags and the boys took it up to the cross rock. The unfashionable side.
'The idea of having the sentence first!'
At length the long-expected knock was heard.
The middle ribs were the most arched. house, The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming.
"I saw her in conversation with her maid."
When he heard what had happened and saw the child he was not less surprised or compassionate than his sister.
As he saw all this; as he heard the hammers in the broken boats; far other hammers seemed driving a nail into his heart. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] He seemed to do most of the talking and commanding, and not Bildad.
"Your presence might be invaluable." She could not understand it.
"I had an idea that he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my astonishment, a very large bath-sponge.
Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906). Without a moment's hesitation he ran to her and said: district, and the two others to show the number of days in
If the result be an occasional asperity I can only hope that the reader, in his eagerness to reach the author's meaning, may overlook the roughness of the road that leads him to it. It was a monotonous yet ever-changing scene. Sir Mackenzie Wallace's
"Her dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little purple plush at the neck and sleeves." She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most respect for. Mr. Samsa.
Lady Bracknell: Miss Rose Leclercq. I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
"You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow."
She is my aunt.
"I dine at seven."
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing."
"Oh! I know that he is right."
"She is four-and-twenty."
"It was evening when I arrived, and I retired to a hiding-place among the fields that surround it to meditate in what manner I should apply to you. bons mots of Alexander VI, and refers to the ease with
She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
'Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. met in the Cease; you know not what it is you say."
"Come this way." It ran in this way:
"What is it?" cried Fred.
"She walked into the breakfast-room."
"The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost."
" George Jackson, is there anybody with you?"
"None at all."
"She is four-and-twenty."
"We never thought that she would have been so carried away."
'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself. But not so.
"How'll she ever know?" Gwendolen Fairfax: Miss Irene Vanbrugh.
"I like this," said Tom. Gwendolen and Cecily [Speaking together.]
"And she will do it."
"Wait--wait a moment." Sir Mackenzie Wallace's [They pass into the house.
Miss Charlotte
"My mode of life in my hovel was uniform. The visitors were given the highest seat of honor, and as soon as Mr. Walters' speech was finished, he introduced them to the school.
"No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still."
"I knew that it was my sister's voice."
Your uncle would have to dine upstairs. I deeply regret the necessity that impels me to suppress any thing of importance connected with my experience in slavery. Some of the Sperm Whale drawings in J. I didn't notice anything at first, but next I did.
"Still drifting along and talking, they scarcely noticed that they were now in a part of the cave whose walls were not frescoed." When the young men were gone, the old Welshman said:
"Do not trouble about my feelings."
"Lady St."
"I thank you, but all that you mention is nothing to me; on the whole earth there is no comfort which I am capable of receiving."
"I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction.
"She was somewhere to the northward of the Line." Very savage. Lady Bloxham? Jack.
It was a village.
Lewis Carroll When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. His manner was not effusive.
They had seen little or nothing of the world. They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks.
In St. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] This pleasantry was received with a general laugh. His manner was not effusive.
Her venerable bows looked bearded.
"Ready," was the half-hissed reply. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was careworn and depressed, though he was young.
"Both Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence." The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at the cottage of her lover."
Sir Mackenzie Wallace's
debate on the reduction of armaments seemed to show a most This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Miss Charlotte Miss Fairfax!
'I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room. The thought that came up, came out--if not in the word, in the sound;--and as frequently in the one as in the other. My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to the court. The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman.
He married, first, Mary, daughter of Goodbye, Lady Bracknell. My father is Lord Bracknell. In the fulness of time the interesting occasion arrived. Lewis Carroll
'Can you play croquet?'
"A VISION
"I shall be delighted."
"Our contract is an old one."
'Can you play croquet?' III of Why did you confess?
"Your affectionate and afflicted father,
"Do you though?"
"No, not now--to-morrow."
"Ah, of course."
"Not generally."
"That is excellent."
"Oh, really! I had no idea."
"But we have taken care of that."
"Nothing, Sir; but I have no doubt I shall soon learn."
"And your father?" asked Holmes."
"We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party." Five counties!
must have a
"I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that she could not ascend." You have been christened already.
I was going to catch some of them, but Jim wouldn't let me.
were always during the
[Pointing to Lady Bracknell.]
"Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring."
" There ain't no harm in it." I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.
"I came to find a friend." I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. Why did you confess?
"'Tisn't any of your business, maybe."
"Yes, all."
" And then what did you all do?"
"'Here are the very letters."
"Yes, my buck!"
"You seem to expect company."
"I do not think that it is probable that I shall use the carriage to-night."
"I regarded it as a sort of admission of my right to the whole."
"He has given us plenty of merriment, I am sure," said Fred, "and it would be ungrateful not to drink his health."
Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious! What is your income?
"You seem to expect company." Lady Bloxham?
"I trust that I am not intruding."
"I am armed." When the young men were gone, the old Welshman said: Lady Bracknell: Miss Rose Leclercq.
Their Pockets Bulged Miss Cardew was a little too much interested in your poor brother Ernest? [Miss Prism discovered seated at the table.
Lady Bracknell.
"Jacob," he said, imploringly."
Sir Mackenzie Wallace's You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names. When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Their colours and their forms, were then to him Their names were Peter, Isaac, Rich, and Jake.
"I really have made no inquiries on the subject."
"His signet-ring." Algernon.
"He really did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way."
Sir Mackenzie Wallace's
The Grave in the Woods
"She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a row." Miss Charlotte She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. She could not understand it.
"I saw her in conversation with her maid." The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in amazement for their breakfasts; The place was grandly lighted, and everybody that was of any consequence in the village was there. The family was at home.
"Our confidence in each other was unshaken." This, however, is not considered a very great privation. debate on the reduction of armaments seemed to show a most So she went in search of her hedgehog. The family was at home. Mr. Samsa appeared in his uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. Mr. Samsa to his employers,
In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house. Mr. Samsa.
"She walked into the breakfast-room."
"I never thought of that."
"Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go." We were soon joined by Elizabeth. Frankenstein, who was dozing, awoke and asked the cause of the tumult.
[Presenting her cheek to be kissed.] She did not appear to understand him, but smiled. Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. She said:
"And has your business been attended to in your absence?"
"Have you her photograph?"
"I thought that I would just ask you whether you had heard it.'
The door was quickly unlocked, and he entered.
cause,
"But then it occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that the clothes might betray me." They had seen little or nothing of the world.
Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most respect for. Queen Mab.
'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He had never dreamed that any walk--that anything--could give him so much happiness. She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins. What is it you fear?"
'Fury said to a
"Of what?"
"It is of importance." Do you share my madness?
"A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you."
"Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Your uncle would have to dine upstairs.
"I am in hopes that she does."
"How does he get it, then?" Lady Bloxham?
"If I tell her she will not believe me."
"But she could not love him." [Speaking very rapidly.]
"So much for the servants."
"That's your account."
"I cannot allow that there is any humiliation." Indeed I am told that one of the Mr. Markby's is occasionally to be seen at dinner parties.
"Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in the matter?" The boy felt a little foolish, and he said: When he had finished, Mr. Jones said: He said:
"He moved away and joined a group of boys and girls and began to talk." Tom's astonishment was bound-less! He scratched his head with a perplexed air, and said:
"'Doan' you hear me? Shet de do'!' Cecily is about to retort.
"It is due at Winchester at 11:30."
"I think that I could be of assistance to you." He looked kind of hurt, and says: I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
"I need not point out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case considerably in any future proceedings which may arise.
"I am happy," said M."
"Tom, you let him alone."
"I should like to see him very much."
"You are very, very sick!"
"Was you in my Room?"
"I do," replied the Ghost.
" There ain't no harm in a hound, nohow.
"Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, returned to France?"
"I have had nothing else to do."
"Your welfare!" said the Ghost.
"My stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to be married in the course of the spring."
"Pray continue," said Holmes."
"Oh, he gives no trouble."
"Perhaps I have." I really don't see anything romantic in proposing.
"I see the direction in which all this points."
"You have the photograph?" (We know it to be true):
"It is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I should do." Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax.
"You then--"
"Nothing of the sort.'
"We neither of us care for it." Lady Bracknell. Presently she began again.
'Fury said to a
'Does the boots and shoes!' she repeated in a wondering tone. She had a very good report to give. Your uncle would have to dine upstairs.
Lady Bracknell.
cause,
Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.
"I thought that it must be when I saw the door open.'
He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it.
of troops and went into Italy. (Before she had this fit)
I must see him at once on a most important christening--I mean on most important business.
"His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were there."
"Yes, I reckon so, 'm." But no formal salutation was exchanged.
"I think that I could be of assistance to you."
"I have known something of him before." I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
"'Surely it would be better to take no notice.'
"I presume that I may take it as correct--this article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride."
"I should not be surprised if that were he." No answer. She was a thing of trophies.
"He doesn't look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell."
"Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one." Cecily, I have not mentioned anything about a headache. He married Domnia, a daughter of Bernabo I suppose one of the many good elderly women who are associated with Uncle Jack in some of his philanthropic work in London.
"'I am sure that I do not know.'
"It is a very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a good deal." She is such a nice woman, and so attentive to her husband. Do you know it is nearly seven?
"It is a good seven miles from Eyford Station.' I call it grotesque.
"Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four."
"I was hid."
"It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London." I am very fond of children.
His smile broadened.
"I know that her word is inviolate."
"K.'; and then 'Put the papers on the sundial.'"
"A greater distance to travel."
"But the histrionic muse is the darling." She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman.
Mr. Samsa to his employers, Thereby have villainies been detected. He looked surprised.
The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the inside pocket of his greatcoat.
"Are you satisfied?" My letter was calm and affectionate. The Master's Dilemma
Mr. Samsa to his employers,
"What was it?"
"But, mum; he comes this way." I was chosen from among them all, and was the first, last, and only choice. The boys were avenged.
"There are a few of us who frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in the Museum itself during the day, you understand." At their age? It was his own room. George's, was much addicted to opium. Nothing could be heartier. He was looking tolerably mellow.
"I did not know what to do."
"I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." She followed, and they disappeared.
She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. It seemed to him an age since he was there before.
"When did she vanish, then?" Miss Charlotte
"He was very ill, he was interested in nothing."
Lady Bracknell.
"I was at my wit's end where to get the money, but a sudden idea came to me." it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree. It was only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could be sacked on the spot.
Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation.
His Mark. Peter's in Rome.
"She used to be at the Allegro." My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. Becky said:
"Come this way."
"I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him."
"Are you satisfied?"
"Wait--wait a moment." Then she left.
"If you please," said Scrooge."
"Hot again."
"But his lameness?"
"This is the envelope," he continued."
"And how in the world did you find them?"
"I did not know what to do." I have something very particular to say to Mr. Worthing.
"But we can't all be." Of course it is only nervousness.
"I paused."
"Your Majesty must pay."
"Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes."
" You might want it."
"I cannot say that I have." Finished what, may I ask?
"They can do anything they like."
"Hermits always do."
"A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer." Algy's elder brother! Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906).
Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper. Were you with him at the end?
"I intended to reason. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity.
"Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he."
"She told him of the coronet." Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?
"What business had he to be married to the Princess!"
She soliloquized:
"'Dearest do not be frightened."
"I never said nothing of the kind." She is my aunt.
"I cannot say that I have."
"I don't know anything." It is a great truth.
'What sort of a dance is it?'
"'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. I have something very particular to say to Mr. Worthing. I must beg you to retire.
"It was all-important."
"What is it like?"
"That was an impossible thing."
"Your life may depend upon your compliance." I suppose so.
"Under these circumstances the young man was instantly arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Assizes."
"What'll you take for him?"
"I think that I recognise the symptoms."
"What did he do to you?"
"He did nothing of himself."
"He asked me what I wanted." Aunt Polly Arrives. Alice was silent.
"You must have heard of it.'
"It's not my business," Scrooge returned."
"What did he do to you?"
"You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906). condemn
This event is to be found in
"She is herself the very soul of delicacy." This was a damper, and conversation died again. All these things found their way into Gregor's room. It was not extensive. Who Stole the Tarts?
And in fact it has been seen that the greatness of the Church and of Spain in Italy has been caused by France, and her ruin may be attributed to them. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest intention of abandoning his family. He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
There was a chair set close beside the child, and there were signs of some one having been there, lately. Vain Pleading There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.
She could not understand it.
"Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of interest."
It was only later, when she had become a little more used to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be construed as friendly. I thought of the occurrences of the day. Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better.
Drawn in by the playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had his head in the living room. Such were my thoughts when the door of my apartment was opened and Mr. Kirwin entered. But presently an idea occurred to him-- She pitied him deeply. She resisted, for a while, and then said: Tom was a trifle disconcerted." After several turns, he sat down again.
"'No, I have not."
"'You'll do."
"My dear Victor, do not speak thus. I must beg you to retire. Her name was Rowena Hamilton. She was beautiful. cause, He is the very soul of truth and honour. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
His manner was not effusive. She began to soften; she felt sorry. He is found in almost all latitudes.
"He said that he had never heard of any such body." Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Such a statement may prove useful here. It removes more than half my misfortune, and I feel as if I could die in peace now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin."
"It may well have been cause and effect."
"I am sorry to have interrupted you."
"A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer."
"Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy." Mr. Samsa appeared in his uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self. He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it. The seegars was prime. At last he said:
"Whom have I the honour to address?"
"It is of importance."
"Why do you answer me so roughly?"
"Perhaps I have." It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society."
She began to soften; she felt sorry.
"I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it."
"But how could you guess what the motive was?" Even if you were really criminal, for that can only drive you to desperation, and not instigate you to virtue. He was an undergraduate.
His smile broadened.
"Do you mean that she has left England?"
With
"My! have I been asleep?" Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the kitchen.
"Is it them?" My notion was that you had been
"My mode of life in my hovel was uniform.
"Where 'bouts do you live? In this neighborhood?'
"You interest me extremely," said Holmes."
"Who Nailed Him?"
What must have been his feelings? Lady Bracknell.
Such was his line of action as to present affairs.
"You know that."
"It is said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of." What must have been his feelings?
"Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the business?"
Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.
"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
"It is of importance." I am very fond of children.
"Their names were Henrietta and Mary."
"Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which serves me so well." She began to soften; she felt sorry.
You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected."
Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two.
"But he could not help me in any way." His face flushed and darkened. She says:
"You have travelled; you have spent several years of your life at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, although they opposed themselves to your inclinations."
"You have been cruelly used," said Holmes.
"I am to be neutral?"
"You've been treated bad, and you made up your mind to cut." Mr. Jones left the wagon near the door and followed.
The appearance of Justine was calm.
[Crossing to her, and kneeling.] The appearance of Justine was calm. It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush.
"Just a moment previous to the scuffle with Henry, Mr. Hamilton suggested the propriety of making a search for the protections which he had understood Frederick had written for himself and the rest." She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
The next morning, at daybreak, I summoned sufficient courage and unlocked the door of my laboratory. So she went in search of her hedgehog.
She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream. All the stores was along one street. All the village flocked to the courthouse the next morning, for this was to be the great day.
They are, in the first place, a constant offence to their mistress.
"She was a nonentity."
"Alice is her name."
"She halted a moment on the steps and then moved toward the door." appointment: "I have been with the signori," wrote
"Will you do me that favour?" I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations. The seegars was prime. And then she says:
"It was in the early '60's at the diggings." Nantucket.
"I must compliment you." What do you demand of your captain? The buzz of study ceased. Felix and Agatha spent more time in amusement and conversation, and were assisted in their labours by servants.
"Nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agonizing than the strange chances that have lately occurred.
"It may be that my misery in slavery will only increase my happiness when I get free." I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. Live, and be happy, and make others so."
I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: But not feeling brash.
I had seen him before. Sir Mackenzie Wallace's Nothing could be heartier.
"I confess that I was disappointed."
"That also I could fathom." His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
"No, not always."
"Your Majesty must pay." May I humbly ask if it be really so, sir?
"Your presence might be invaluable."
Her voice was musical but unlike that of either of my friends. I believed in her innocence; I knew it.
"I think that I could be of assistance to you." But I will not be tempted to set myself in opposition to thee. Be men, or be more than men.
"Friendship" was one; "Memories of Other Days"; "Religion in History"; "Dream Land"; "The Advantages of Culture"; "Forms of Political Government Compared and Contrasted"; "Melancholy"; "Filial Love"; "Heart Longings," etc., etc.
"It's me."
"Let me explain."
Even now it delights me to record your words and to dwell on the praise of which you are so eminently deserving. Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I am well acquainted with the accused. I feel it is better to do so.
Soon after my arrival my father spoke of my immediate marriage with Elizabeth.
"You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am miserable, and they shall share my wretchedness. I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting.
"He should!" Miss Prism, my unfortunate brother.
"His conduct was certainly not very gracious."
"The evidence against him was so strong that the case has been referred to the Assizes."
"I can do nothing for myself."
"There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!"
"Perhaps it was thoughtless of me to say so."
"I fail to see that anyone is to blame."
"And wherefore was it glorious?
"If this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods."
condemn
"One of his hands."
"S."
"Clair is now thirty-seven years of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know him." He entreated me to write often. My master was Colonel Lloyd's clerk and superintendent. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
"To escape punishment was to escape accusation; and few slaves had the fortune to do either, under the overseership of Mr. Gore."
"Well, I tell you what I think." Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery.
"The son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol."
"It was a chestnut." Giovanni, therefore, did not fail in any attentions due to his nephew, and he caused him to be honourably received by the Fermians, and he lodged him in his own house, where, having passed some days, and having arranged what was necessary for his wicked designs, Oliverotto gave a solemn banquet to which he invited Giovanni Fogliani and the chiefs of Fermo.
"He has written to me to say that he would be here at six."
"I was certainly surprised to find you there."
"I think that I could be of assistance to you." [General consternation.
"I have known something of him before."
"In the enforcement of his rules, he was at times rigid, and at times lax." I now had three weeks during which to prepare for my journey. I had forgotten.
"I assured him that I was not offended." I acceded with pleasure to this proposition:
"This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the matter." The appearance of Justine was calm.
"'No, I have not." That was my first kick. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. But no more of this. She is my aunt.
"It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman."
"She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter again."
"He raised her and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions. I feel very happy. On my return, I found the following letter from my father:--
"I cannot allow that there is any humiliation." His death must have been extremely sudden. I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive. Sick Arab but harmless when not out of his head.
"Your presence might be invaluable." I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege. My dear friend, what has happened?"
"I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night."
"Thank God for that."
"It arrived upon Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's fire."
But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all his sister. However, she did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could. Lady Bracknell. With With
"The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's Ruins of Empires.
There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. It was very monotonous. Surprise, horror, and misery were strongly expressed. In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his story.
"There she blows," was sung out from the mast-head.
'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she ran. It was of considerable importance to him.
Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906). On Exhibition Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. Still he could not bear to give up the fun at Widow Douglas'. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room.
Alexander never did what he said,
Frederick created Castruccio the lord of Pisa, and the Pisans, in dread of the Guelph party, and particularly of the Florentines, were constrained to accept him as their lord. Such are those to whom some state is given either for money or by the favour of him who bestows it; as happened to many in Greece, in the cities of Ionia and of the Hellespont, where princes were made by Darius, in order that they might hold the cities both for his security and his glory; as also were those emperors who, by the corruption of the soldiers, from being citizens came to empire. But no formal salutation was exchanged. She indeed gained the resignation she desired. He began after this fashion: Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was at home. I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity.
"Are they still in operation?" She was a thing of trophies.
"Felix trembled violently as he said this. I told him I had no wages; I had done no work that week. And to the importunity of their persisted questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate. bons mots of Alexander VI, and refers to the ease with connected by marriage.
It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush. She soliloquized:
"Lady St." Justine, whom I loved and esteemed as my sister, how could she put on those smiles of innocence only to betray? Her mild eyes seemed incapable of any severity or guile, and yet she has committed a murder."
"To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other." I thought so.
"New Design was under the overseership of a Mr. Townsend." He seemed to think himself equal to deceiving the Almighty.
I could deny anything if I liked. His manner was not effusive. I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny. Preparations were made for the event, congratulatory visits were received, and all wore a smiling appearance. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. And in fact it has been seen that the greatness of the Church and of Spain in Italy has been caused by France, and her ruin may be attributed to them. But I must deprive myself of this pleasure, and the curious of the gratification which such a statement would afford. In a few days after her arrival, Mr. Ruggles called in the Rev. So she done it. But no formal salutation was exchanged. Jack.
With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.
"I do not know what I could do without her." Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
"I do as I do." I am engaged to be married to Gwendolen Lady Bracknell! I couldn't understand it no way at all.
"His signet-ring."
The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
Very savage. I must beg you to retire.
"Can I be of assistance?"
"I am much obliged to you."
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Where have you been since last Thursday?
"I mean to go home."
"Hudson came."
"You mustn't be so bad."
"Only hear that, Peter," said Mrs. Cratchit.
"Good heavens!" cried my patient."
"Never to return."
"Of course they can."
"What do you think of such a commission as that?' Well, it will not be very long before you are of age and free from the restraints of tutelage.
"You are all wrong." Lady Bloxham?
"Are you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
"It is probable."
"You don't want to see." He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.
"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
I never go without my dinner. She appeared of a different stock.
"I am all attention, madam."
"What's the matter with you, young man?"
"Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you."
" Quite a fortune for you."
"I'm glad of it."
"Ah, of course." Do you share my madness? I had sufficient leisure for these and many other reflections during my journey to Ingolstadt, which was long and fatiguing. Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
"She was a nonentity."
"'He has every requirement."
Gregor was still there and had not the slightest intention of abandoning his family. She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face. Although her disposition was gay and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt. They He thought back of his family with emotion and love. I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn.
"They were not entirely happy.
They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
"He always brought his mother to church, and was the pride of all the matrons." Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. George's, was much addicted to opium. were always during the Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. She took them to a bedchamber and said:
Our cabs were dismissed, and, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us.
I am not myself in favour of premature experiences.
"My own."
"I have nothing to do to-day."
"Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for my friend and colleague."
His gratitude was measureless.
She soliloquized:
Mr. and
"It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes.
"I think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our web to weave, while theirs is already woven." states--a common meaning of "correspondence" and
"You are."
"You are changed."
"I could not dream of sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. I did write for a while in spite of them; but it DOES exhaust me a good deal--having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition.
"But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed."
"I should be immensely obliged to you." I think your frankness does you great credit, Ernest.
"Nice girl! Very.
I can see her out of every one of my windows!
"There is a distinct element of danger." You have been christened already.
"It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain it with his own hands."
"I am sorry to have interrupted you."
But not so.
"They were not entirely happy. The door to it was at the south end, and was padlocked. employed to designate the Huguenot heresy. assassinations of the Orsini and Vitelli at Sinigalia, and
"You have been of material assistance to me."
When that came, I was determined to be off.
"Good God! What a week she must have spent!"
"A patient!" said she."
"We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her."
"I am much obliged to you." The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her. M.
[Crossing to her, and kneeling.]
It was not an agreeable idea.
"That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are sentimental considerations in the background which would induce the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but recover the gem."
"The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been prepared."
After the hymn had been sung, the Rev." Is not this a free country?" Gwendolen, I must get christened at once--I mean we must get married at once.
"Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." I couldn't make it out.
"Oh, won't it be fun! You going to have all the girls and boys?"
"They are not very exacting, after all."
'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle.
" It warn't anything but a Sunday-school picnic, and only a primer-class at that."
"Well, what of it? They'll all lie."
"'Not at all."
"You have already imperilled the whole success of our expedition."
"Yes--so they would." It is most indecorous.
"They said he could vote when he was at home." She said: Where is that baby?
I thought so.
"But I am so sure that he is innocent."
"I never saw a more inexorable face in my life." She is my aunt.
"Well, I'll learn her how to meddle." It's absurd.
condemn Aunt Augusta, a moment. Mr. Worthing, there is some error.
"I cannot allow that there is any humiliation."
"What whole thing?" Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. All the rest of the house was filled with non-participating scholars.
"They are all typewritten."
"I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall."
"Pray tell us what has happened to you."
"Because you hain't got but one on." I shan't be away more than half an hour.
"Tom, how could you be so noble!"
"We wouldn't have been there but for him." I want to tell you the rules.
"What do we want of a shirt, Tom?"
My mother was named Harriet Bailey.
"Thunder and lightning! so near!
"I am afraid I have not."
"And what do you think they found in the pockets?" bons mots of Alexander VI, and refers to the ease with She listened intently, but there was no answer. The family was at home. I expect to see you looking even more ill than when you quitted Geneva.
"I bet you don't." There was scarcely an interruption from any one to break the charm of its flow. So I was satisfied, and said we would waltz in on it.
"Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?"
"I was a ready listener."
"Starchy clothes very."
"You have been of material assistance to me." I should humbly call it a poser, sir. But not feeling brash. She took them to a bedchamber and said: Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
"I should not be surprised if that were he." She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not. She began to soften; she felt sorry. The appearance of Justine was calm. In the room on his right there followed a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. The lost children had not been found. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest intention of abandoning his family.
"--APOLOGY FOR RAIMOND SEBOND.
'--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same tone, exactly as if nothing had happened. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. He loathed the idea that his daughter should be united to a Christian, but he feared the resentment of Felix if he should appear lukewarm, for he knew that he was still in the power of his deliverer if he should choose to betray him to the Italian state which they inhabited.
"His conduct was certainly not very gracious."
"Indeed," said Holmes." Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing. Oh, glorious! Glorious!
"Don't you feel sorry for him, sometimes?" I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist.
"Well, I tell you what I think."
'The idea of having the sentence first!'
Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice. His gratitude was measureless. I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.
"We neither of us care for it."
"I'm satisfied with it."
"It's not a very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than just give me a living."
"But you shall have it all just as it occurred."
Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.
'YOU'D better not talk!' said Five. It is so puzzling.
"And poor Clerval--" cur, "Such
"Yes, it must be so."
"Why, my boy, you are all out of breath."
"I assure you that I am in your hands." Such a dear baby! Your affectionate brother,
In some of the larger
"Well, some of the best authorities has done it."
"I never thought of that."
"It may be so in this case, also."
"A feller don't have only one chance for such a pile--and that one's lost." Not another word.
"'I am sure that I do not know.'
"'No, I have not."
I was too scared.
"It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was."
"Are you strong enough?"
"Certainly." I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.
"There is only one point on which I must insist." to do." She resisted, for a while, and then said:
"What is it?"
(We know it to be true): She did not appear to understand him, but smiled. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.
"I am not hysterical, nor given to fainting."
I can't imitate him, and so I ain't a-going to try to; but he really done it pretty good.
"Well, that may be so, and it mayn't." I shall do nothing rashly:
"We are quite ruined?"
"To ruin me."
"He is a man-stealer."
"We should meet him soon." The appearance of Justine was calm.
"She was a nonentity."
"But there was none in the forecastle.
"She will not be able to."
better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in
"'I shall certainly be there.'
"What, all of them?"
She soliloquized: It was not extensive.
Thirty- five is a very attractive age. But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet.
'I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say."
"Starchy clothes very."
"But I thought you lived in Sheffield?"
"Huck, we can do that without the least little bit of trouble in the world."
"'It is to keep people out who have no business there."
"I do not encourage visitors."
"Yes, he is."
"Nobody wants you to."
"He wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle."
"I know that he has done no harm and that you will be sorry for having acted so harshly." She could not understand it.
"Hot again." I think it is most ill-natured of her.
"She is four-and-twenty."
"And in practice again, I observe."
"Not at all."
"A VISION
"Yes, sir." Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.
"Becky, I--I don't care for anybody but you."
"Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon."
I think that is quite as it should be.
"It surprised me." I cannot deny it.
"Specially if they mumble."
"You should be ashamed of yourself!"
The appearance of Justine was calm.
The Carpenter.
Three rows of benches on each side and six rows in front of him were occupied by the dignitaries of the town and by the parents of the pupils. The seegars was prime. The faces of the audience began to betray annoyance. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. What would become of you?
"Do you understand?" My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring.
"I am happy," said M."
"I thought so."
"I am sure."
"I could go no farther."
"There is but one thing to do."
"'That would suit me very well,' said I." I think it is most ill-natured of her. On Board Their First Prize He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. She began to soften; she felt sorry.
"I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you."
"It was a chestnut." A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, refinement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford. And on the morrow Justine died. They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat.
"I do as I do."
"I am much obliged to you."
[Crossing to her, and kneeling.] cause,
Nor does this--its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power. He said: Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new.
I must arise and examine. Lady Bracknell.
But she has confessed." Methuselah seems a school-boy. But nothing come of it; the faces didn't tell me nothing.
"Really dear you are better!"
"I have no questions to ask him."
"It is of importance." We must not be premature in our judgments.
"No, I must go."
"If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your Majesty." During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures.
"In mining."
"She will not be able to."
"Is that all, my dear Henry?
"I saw her in conversation with her maid."
"Do not trouble about my feelings." I must arise and examine.
"You have no chance at all."
"Let me explain." I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not called Ernest.
"There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here." Young women are green.
"Let me explain."
"We neither of us care for it." She began to soften; she felt sorry. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience. The sport grew in interest momently. In hope of heavenly union. Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor. Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea. Thereby have villainies been detected. Algernon, of course, can choose for himself. Their Pockets Bulged Mr. Samsa"." I believed in her innocence; I knew it. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] Fortune was not so friendly to Pagolo Guinigi as she had been to Castruccio, for he had not the abilities. cause,
I told him yes; whereat I thought he looked pleased, perhaps a little complimented.
"Tom was in ecstasies."
Then he added:
"How could I know you was looking at anything?"
"Nearly eleven."
"And you shut him up sharp."
"Yes, miss."
"His signet-ring."
"'That is very awkward." Mr. Samsa"." Mr. Samsa. But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the Post-Office is equal to it.
"Oh, Justine!" said she.
"It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. She looks anxiously round as if desirous to escape.]
There she I merely desire information.
Her face was made of heavenly smiles, and her voice of tranquil music.
"Oh! I know that he is right." I claim him for one of our clan.
"It is a subject to which I have devoted some little attention."
"I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as this Miss Turner." She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906).
They studiously avoided each other.
They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks. The family was at home.
"She hurled one in return, and the angry breach was complete." The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
of a felicity of a dream.
"Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her. His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. billets for his soldiers to conquer the country.
"Huck Finn the Red-Handed, and Joe Harper the Terror of the Seas." Tom had furnished these titles, from his favorite literature.
"His manner became less guarded and his words more distinct as he proceeded:
"We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence." She had a very good report to give. There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.
Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three. This latter city continued in the family of Guinigi until the time of the great-grandson of Pagolo. She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery.
'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said with some severity; 'it's very rude.'
"Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide." But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.
"But I am inclined to think neither." would be most appropriate. It is, I regret to say, one of the Rector's most constant duties in this parish. Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing. A short railway journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest residence of the great financier. Admirably!
"I have seen them--some summer days in the morning." Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. We had arrived in England at the beginning of October, and it was now February. When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand, and lie there and cover themselves up with it, and by and by break for the water again and go through the original performance once more. Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus--with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor.
It was therefore necessary to have a valuation of the property, that it might be equally divided between Mrs. Lucretia and Master Andrew. During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures. (Before she had this fit)
Everything was all right now.
"I was thinking of shipping." The appearance of Justine was calm.
[Crossing to her, and kneeling.] Their Pockets Bulged The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
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She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evidently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage. I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical description of the various species, or--in this place at least--to much of any description. Such bands are known as schools. etc., a translation of which is appended to the present
Children from seven to ten years old, of both sexes, almost naked, might be seen at all seasons of the year.
"The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current." Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. Mr. Samsa to his employers, Cecily, I have not mentioned anything about a headache. Call all hands."
Her name was Rowena Hamilton.
"He was such a comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at him.
There she [Offers her cheek.]
"You said it should not be again."
"They're in the trunk." I could not answer. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor It would be childish. However, that could easily be altered.
[Pointing to Lady Bracknell.]
In the Woods
The door was thick, solid oak slabs. The colleges are ancient and picturesque; the streets are almost magnificent; and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees. His heart was full of pity for her. On the flanks it is cased with wood, and at top completely covered by a large, sloping, battened hatchway.
"Through this crevice a small room was visible, whitewashed and clean but very bare of furniture." The boys were avenged. Alice was silent. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. They were full of hope and fruition. Thus I returned home, and entering the house, presented myself to the family.
'I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses. Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded.
She is a widow, and much older than Manoir; but she is very much admired, and a favourite with everybody.
"She walked into the breakfast-room." It was a close place.
"Tom patiently returned it to its place."
Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing." The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures.
"Tribu" were possibly gentile He recommended his house and its fortunes to his captains, and advised his nephews that it was not the fortune of their house, but the virtues of their fathers that should be kept in mind.
"I took advantage now of my attainments." I have lost both my parents.
"She was a nonentity." She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own strength."
"Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes."
"Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes.
"Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes."
"Why not? Lady Bracknell.
"Does who know us?" She said:
"What do you think of such a commission as that?' [Speaking very rapidly.] I see I was up a stump. Mr. Ernest Worthing and I are engaged to be married.
"It was very kind of you."
Mr. Samsa. Miss Prism.
"And who is her maid?"
No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
"In the dress is a pocket." He married
"Your Majesty will, of course, stay in London for the present?" Half the time now I am awfully lazy, and lie down ever so much.
"Shipped men," answered I, "when does she sail?"
"What do you make of that, Watson?"
"No, I do not think so."
"I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain."
"Mrs. Rucastle is not mad."
"I will make no allowance."
"Elizabeth Lavenza.
This was fine. His manner was not effusive. This restored her and she said:
"Very much so." They are accounted a lucky omen.
"No, I don't dare."
"But not more so than I to find you." Everybody loved to have him around, too; he was sunshine most always I mean he made it seem like good weather.
at once." Cf.
"It was I."
"Yes, that is the Crown."
Once more. Miss Charlotte They are, in the language of the slave's poet, Whittier,--
After this victory he returned to Lucca, and was welcomed by the whole people.
"I never said nothing of the kind."
"Breckinridge is his name." I suspect him of being untruthful. Victor, he is murdered!
"'Quite so."
'From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.' Ernest, we may never be married.
"This is very interesting." It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
"She walked into the breakfast-room." Miss Fairfax!
"That's the way she always talks."
"It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain it with his own hands."
"I would not have missed it for worlds."
The boys were avenged. In some of the larger They had seen little or nothing of the world.
[Presenting her cheek to be kissed.]
While she was looking at the place where it had been, it suddenly appeared again. When the boys reached the Welshman's house, they stopped to rest.
"No--except that it was Leadenhall Street."
"It was a moment of the highest excitement I ever experienced." His course was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty.
There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
"We were sent off to the jail at Easton." She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream. They were stains of some sort or other. Their Pockets Bulged
cause,
"Tom went on groaning." I instantly wrote to Geneva; nearly two months have elapsed since the departure of my letter. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make. Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - probably permanently. At length Becky said: His voice became fainter as he spoke, and at length, exhausted by his effort, he sank into silence.
"She fainted, and was restored with extreme difficulty. How she betrayed herself that time!
Working the Camp meeting. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face.
His former self turned down the lamps as he gave utterance to the wish; and Scrooge and the Ghost again stood side by side in the open air.
She dropped the sentence where it was. In spite of what I hear of her, I must see her at once.
"Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should suspect him." I believed in her innocence; I knew it. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
"They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor."
As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the curve of the avenue.
"'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen yards of it?' After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines. I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves.
"Elizabeth Lavenza. In the Emperor and in the princes of Milan thou canst place no reliance, for they are far distant, slow, and their help is very long in coming.
I called on him to stay. I have promised that someone should watch for him and give him instant notice if any new object should appear in sight.
"In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?"
"Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in Leadenhall Street--and--" his own very recent experience (February 1513), when he had Scrooge trembled more and more. Vehemently pausing, he cried:-- Tom got out his chiefest jewel, a brass knob from the top of an andiron, and passed it around her so that she could see it, and said: That was the only answer he received. Nothing could be heartier. Fortune was not so friendly to Pagolo Guinigi as she had been to Castruccio, for he had not the abilities.
"Tom's fright weakened every muscle in his body." The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.
"She was a nonentity."
"Elizabeth Lavenza. The pang is over, his sufferings are at an end for ever.
"I could see a change in my uncle, however."
"It stunned me." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to this extraordinary narrative. Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. She left him, and they parted. In the carriage, Gwendolen!
Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
"You are fatigued with your haste." EXTRACTS (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).
"Then there is no more to be done in the matter."
"Allow me to ask your pardon." I acceded with pleasure to this proposition:
"I assured him that I was not offended."
Their fixed jav'lins in his side he wears, It was not extensive. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. We could a had a whole dinner. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited.
But the silence was a little awkward. But she found nothing there to comfort her. So she hollered. Yet Gregor's sister was playing so beautifully. He was not reading now, but walking up and down despairingly.
"She walked into the breakfast-room."
"I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her."
"'You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men."
"I say that I have solved it."
"I was certainly surprised to find you there."
"He drank more than ever, and he was less inclined for any sort of society." She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
"'Oh, no.'
"Tom, didn't you just tell me he was all right? Hasn't he got away?" (Before she had this fit)
"But he might be a bachelor." [Jack glares at him and does not take his hand.] He never said nothing.
"I thought he lived in London?"
"No'm--well, not very much."
"What is the matter?" he cried." His idea of relaxation is working with his fretsaw.
We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain.
"This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," he said."
"His manner became less guarded and his words more distinct as he proceeded: *A little item may as well be related here. The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced. In a few days after her arrival, Mr. Ruggles called in the Rev.
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"He saw her and they had an exhausting good time playing "hispy" and "gully-keeper" with a crowd of their schoolmates."
foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other
There was no other process that ever they had heard of. Their Pockets Bulged better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in
"She walked into the breakfast-room."
"About this girl, Miss Holder."
She herself wept as Elizabeth spoke, but she did not answer.
She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. But she found nothing there to comfort her. Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth. She was beautiful. I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure--I was now alone.
"I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to step up to the room."
He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. Mr. Hopkins was even worse than Mr. Weeden. I watched their faces to see if anything had been happening, but I couldn't tell. a whole But it was only the sound they made as they parted the brit which at all reminded one of mowers.
Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. [Pointing to Lady Bracknell.] She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins.
"I obeyed, and was glad to obey."
In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti. foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other (Before she had this fit) Lady Bracknell.
"Nothing of the sort.' (Before she had this fit)
"It is perhaps less suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others which represent at least a strong balance of probability."
We were all ranked together at the valuation.
"I seldom had much to say at the meetings, because what I wanted to say was said so much better by others." His manner was not effusive. It was only later, when she had become a little more used to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be construed as friendly.
"He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master."
[Makes a note in her book.] She looks anxiously round as if desirous to escape.]
"Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger."
[Crossing to her, and kneeling.] (Before she had this fit) This restored her and she said: Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. I love her. Mote him availle, but to returne againe
"But you have no notion as to what it could have been?"
Theseus could not have shown his ability had he not found the Athenians dispersed.
His manner was not effusive. I could deny anything if I liked. For this reason, many things had become superfluous which, although they could not be sold, the family did not wish to discard. This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party.
Castruccio had left as his deputy in Lucca, Pagolo Guinigi, who was held in high estimation, because of the people's love for the memory of his father. So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. She did not appear to understand him, but smiled. I felt ever so thankful.
The first sight that was presented to your eyes was the body of your friend, murdered in so unaccountable a manner and placed, as it were, by some fiend across your path."
But is a man not equally attractive when married? His manner was not effusive.
His chief boast was his ability to manage slaves. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it. I settled myself down in the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully.
They
"Ready," was the half-hissed reply. Mr. Jones said: He walked on first, carrying a part of the fishing tackle, and his companions followed him at some distance.
On the Raft
Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Several witnesses were called who had known her for many years, and they spoke well of her; but fear and hatred of the crime of which they supposed her guilty rendered them timorous and unwilling to come forward.
[Offers her cheek.]
"But you were on a friendly footing?" It becomes a pleasure. He was silent and looked straight ahead as if waiting for something.
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused." This meant that his mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important couch.
My own Ernest! I expected every moment that my brains would be dashed out against the trees. Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness. [Makes a note in her book.]
foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other The perplexity and dissatisfaction of the house expressed itself in murmurs and provoked a reproof from the bench.
There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher. For he wished to challenge the Spirit on the moment of its appearance, and did not wish to be taken by surprise, and made nervous.
I had left Master Thomas's house, and went to live with Mr. Covey, on the 1st of January, 1833.
"We will be shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the photograph." His manner was not effusive. Miss Charlotte
"I saw her in conversation with her maid." Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children. Sometimes she struggled with her tears, but when she was desired to plead, she collected her powers and spoke in an audible although variable voice. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. Messer Antonio intended to make a priest of him, and in time would have inducted him into his canonry and other benefices, and all his instruction was given with this object; but Antonio discovered that the character of Castruccio was quite unfitted for the priesthood. Miss Prism has just been complaining of a slight headache. I knew they were exceedingly poor, and I had been accustomed to regard their poverty as the necessary consequence of their being non-slaveholders.
"I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to see a sister of mine apply for." She began to soften; she felt sorry. This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion--remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved--for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted.
But not so. His manner was not effusive. She finally became even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself.
"What has she been saying to you?"
"I guessed as much."
"She will not be up, so that we shall have a clear field."
'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'
"I could hardly believe my ears."
Sugar is not fashionable any more. Shropshire?
"We have a housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily get her out of the way." *Quoin is not a Euclidean term. (It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.) His smile broadened.
"I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would understand afterwards if I wanted your help."
"Of her I could see nothing." Mote him availle, but to returne againe
"I acknowledge the benefit of both. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing. Scrooge was the Ogre of the family.
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"The letter arrived on March 10, 1883." [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] Yes, it will be exactly three months on Thursday. district, and the two others to show the number of days in It was to the
"That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need."
"What have you to say now?" It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion.
"'Quite sure, dad.'
"I am very sorry, sir," said Bob."
But since the murderer has been discovered--" Could I behold this and live?
"Alice is her name."
"And your mother is alive?"
"My own seal."
"Nobody never told her." We were not regularly allowanced.
Judge Thatcher surprised
"My dear Holmes!"
"We should meet him soon." With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.
"I shall be delighted."
"I do not know what to think." At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
"I trust that I am not intruding."
"Auntie, what have I done?"
Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be."
"No'm--well, not very much." Lady Bracknell.
"JAMES W."
"I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." to I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask information from a single human being; but I did not despair.
"We were engaged after the first walk that we took."
"I do not know what to think." Miss Charlotte Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen had first seen him.
"With his face to the stump?"
"No more."
"My dear Victor,
"I believe I have the honour of addressing Miss Mary Holder." Impossible!
"JAMES W." Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes.
"And your mother is alive?"
"Surely it would not be difficult to find out." I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
"There was but one way for it."
I am so sorry, dear Cecily, if it is any disappointment to you, but I am afraid I have the prior claim.
"Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here again before evening."
"I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity."
"When is it going to be?" his death is attributed to trickery.
I must enter his proposal in my diary. Then Mary Jane she fetched the letter her father left behind, and the king he read it out loud and cried over it.
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused."
"I trust that I am not intruding."
"Come back with the man, and I'll give you a shilling."
"You understand?" She began to soften; she felt sorry.
"I have known him to tie her up early in the morning, and whip her before breakfast; leave her, go to his store, return at dinner, and whip her again, cutting her in the places already made raw with his cruel lash." [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] A glass of sherry, Lane.
"No, thank goodness, she did not."
"What's the matter with you--what is the matter with you, child?"
"I mean just what I said", answered
She herself wept as Elizabeth spoke, but she did not answer.
"And did you observe any change in her then?"
"At last she said:
"You have a clue?"
"It must be bought." Hailing the brother, sister throng,
"They are all seaports."
"You know that." Oh, that is nonsense.
"Tom was in ecstasies."
"Wretch!" I said. For my own part I was not sorry.
"Oh, it is childish." Lady Bracknell.
"But what is it you wish?"
"Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun."
"Then what has happened to him?" She is to be tried today, and I hope, I sincerely hope, that she will be acquitted."
nothing I am sorry to say they have not been on good terms for a long time.
"It is unthinkable." Holmes shook his head gravely."
I want to astonish him. I never saw a man in so wretched a condition. No answer.
He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears.
"She fainted, and was restored with extreme difficulty. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florence as an Italian power under the guidance of Lorenzo de' Medici, Il Magnifico. She resurrected nothing but the cat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about his room.
But not so. My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.
Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
"I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night."
"Oh, yes."
"Be calm!
"Everybody calls him Hoss." I think that is quite as it should be. He thought back of his family with emotion and love.
"Twice he was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are deeply marked and the heels hardly visible." Histories are full of examples. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. She calculated his capacity as she would a jug's, and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls. She began to soften; she felt sorry. No answer.
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. For the sake of a few jewels, to have murdered the son of her benefactor and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to love as if it had been her own! But humane Starbuck was too late. But this did by no means prevent all communications. Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most respect for. They had no heart in their sports, and gradually gave them up. I had several fights, but was never whipped.
But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way--it is such a relief!
"Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her presence could be of no help to them in their investigations." Mrs. Samsa with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom but not without looking back at the body. Isn't Mr. Worthing in his library? Everyone loved Elizabeth.
"'Twill soon be out." Cecily is about to retort.
"But, surely, it was obvious."
"He wished us to leave him alone."
"It is all right." And she is all the time trying to climb through. Oh, they count as Tories. This was in the middle of the week, at the end of which we were to be off.
"I thought it as well to have Jones with us also." Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer.
I rely on her innocence as certainly as I do upon my own.
"It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs."
To describe the wealth of Colonel Lloyd would be almost equal to describing the riches of Job."
"Lemme think a minute."
"I'll take care of you."
"He knows that would be a disgrace to a pirate, and Tom's too proud for that sort of thing."
"I cannot imagine."
"Do you understand?"
I suspect him of being untruthful. I hope so.
"Do they hop?"
"In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle."
Buttons on their Tails
"Was it to be in church?"
Hunting for the Boat. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.
"Afeard! 'Tain't likely."
"His aunt was concerned." You will marry me, won't you?
"He overdid it."
"I do not know what I could do without her."
"Near as I am to you."
"He never meant any harm, and he was the best-hearted boy that ever was"--and she began to cry.
"Are you sure that everything is fastened?'
condemn
"I do not know what to think."
"Perhaps I have."
"All is vanity." ALL."
"This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also."
"You were travelling in the States?"
"Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?"
"That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need."
"I should like to see him very much." But what proof have I of their authenticity?
"'He has every requirement."
"And what do you intend to do?"
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"Have the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and 'please.'"
"And there is your father at the door!" He said he was anxious to speak to you privately for a moment.
"But now he did not know the necessary symptoms."
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused."
"But you can know nothing of this?"
"Yes, that is the Crown." I was ignorant of his temper and disposition; he was equally so of mine.
'That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the Gryphon.
"How'm I going to guess," says I, "when I never heard tell of it before?"
"To any kindly given."
"What do you think of such a commission as that?' I told you I was particularly fond of muffins.
"Not in the least."
"I really have made no inquiries on the subject." Gregor's father seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the respect he owed to his tenants. He had ordered her not to go out evenings, and warned her that she must never let him catch her in company with a young man, who was paying attention to her belonging to Colonel Lloyd. * Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. VACATION was approaching." But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all his sister. 1843, comments on this passage as It was not extensive. When the cave door was unlocked, a sorrowful sight presented itself in the dim twilight of the place. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs." I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt.
"Not I." I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.
"Was you in my Room?"
"Yes, he did."
"You have him here?" I have only been married once.
"He has written to me to say that he would be here at six."
"What business had he to be married to the Princess!"
"Really dear you are better!"
Her mother is perfectly unbearable.
"Miss Mary Jane, you can't a-bear to see people in trouble, and I can't most always."
"She will not sell."
Enter Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen.]
"Who are you?"
"You look dissatisfied."
"What, a'ready? How much have you done?"
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.
cause,
"I have had nothing else to do." I haven't the smallest intention of doing anything of the kind.
"I am."
My child! my child!
They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.
"Why give it as a reason for not coming now?"
*Quoin is not a Euclidean term.
"These are daring men, and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us some harm unless we are careful."
"If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away."
"Oh!
You are not married to her already, and I don't think you ever will be.
"They would impudently ask us if we would not like to have them for our masters."
Mr. Samsa.
" I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way."
"Starchy clothes very."
"Yes, sir! I know you do know, because you done it yourself!"
cause, I wonder how it was done and who did it, and what they did it for. We were soon joined by Elizabeth. we were and from the one beneath. (Before she had this fit)
His heart was full of pity for her. She is a widow, and much older than Manoir; but she is very much admired, and a favourite with everybody. Fate of the Ragged Man
Nevertheless, liberality exercised in a way that does not bring you the reputation for it, injures you; for if one exercises it honestly and as it should be exercised, it may not become known, and you will not avoid the reproach of its opposite. George's, was much addicted to opium.
How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.
"Let me explain." So he hadn't seen anything. He had never dreamed that any walk--that anything--could give him so much happiness.
His gratitude was measureless.
"He hasn't left it to me."
"Did he not advertise?"
"I would not take it."
"James never did it." Had you never a brother of any kind?
"I knew that it was my sister's voice."
"Tom was disgusted; and felt a sense of injury, too."
"In the first place, we may start with a strong presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for leaving America."
Roberto of
"But to whom?"
"'No, I have not."
"He did nothing of himself."
"I assured him that I was not offended."
"We believed him to be a good man."
"It may be so in this case, also."
"Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so." Prince' it would have been clearly impossible to mention It remains to discuss the character of Maximinus.
Hannah with the Mumps
'That's the judge,' she said to herself, 'because of his great wig.'
"He wished us to leave him alone." [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] were always during the
"MY DEAR MR."
"You old scoundrel, I didn't, and you know I didn't." Sir?--oh! ah!--I guess so;--yes--dear!
" If anybody can persuade him, she can." What can I say that will enable you to understand the depth of my sorrow?
"You'll come and live with me."
"Just tell us the truth," he said." Aunt Sally in Trouble. Jack.
"Never to return."
"I congratulate you warmly." Your affectionate brother, Basket chairs, and a table covered with books, are set under a large yew-tree. Yet when she died!
"It was to be at St."
"Jacob," he said, imploringly."
"You have it!" he gasped."
"I never have."
"Not a word."
"His house was the house of prayer."
"I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise."
"I did not know."
"It was." There is no time to be lost. I was told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon.
"Your wife has been waiting this two days for you."
"You look dissatisfied."
"I think that I had better go, Holmes."
"I am very angry indeed, and I have been shamefully used." You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.
But Thursday night promised better.
"It was very kind of you." They dine with us.
"Having no mother, she had no one to advise her at such a crisis." Trouble is brewing.
"She ordered a lot at once." billets for his soldiers to conquer the country.
try the the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished.
"Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London."
"It is not necessary to set down the rest of the oration." I am not punctual myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be married, is quite out of the question.
Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
"They have no consciousness of us." When he had finished, Mr. Jones said: Very soon after I went to Mr. Ruggles, he wished to know of me where I wanted to go; as he deemed it unsafe for me to remain in New York.
"Your presence might be invaluable." The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her. foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other It seemed to him an age since he was there before. He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it. One young man finally blurted out his fear that they were still in the cave! Mrs. Thatcher swooned away. I believed in her innocence; I knew it. Merriman: Mr. Frank Dyall. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.
"You must leave that to me." There was a pause.
"Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?"
"I think that I could be of assistance to you."
"Your task is confined to that." Do you understand this feeling?
"'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. Nor was her residence at her mother's house of a nature to restore her gaiety. I never had a brother in my life, and I certainly have not the smallest intention of ever having one in the future. It was to the The day of my departure at length arrived. The appearance of Justine was calm.
She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. Mr. Samsa as if he had been suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from Mr. Samsa for his decision. It was Packard.
"MY DEAR MR." I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and become linked to the chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded."
"Be calm!
"I assure you that your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has come my way for some months."
"It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London." Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!" Mr. Moncrieff and I are engaged to be married, Lady Bracknell.
"You'd be a disgrace." He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium.
"My dear Holmes!"
"He did nothing of himself." There is no doubt that Marley was dead.
"His conduct was certainly not very gracious."
"I have no questions to ask him." This address caused a considerable change in the physiognomy of my own auditor.
"We believed him to be a good man."
He married Domnia, a daughter of Bernabo
"I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction. Troubled with Witches. Grete! Grete!" she then cried."
"It is his."
"I had no time to think of it."
Edgcumbe Staley in his work on the subject (Methuen, 1906). During my absence I should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their enemy and unprotected from his attacks, exasperated as he might be by my departure. It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush.
Grete! Grete!" she then cried."
"He will be silent! Oh, he will be silent!'
"But I'll offer to go, if anybody else will."
"She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time that her father married again." The children groped their way back to the spring.
The perplexity and dissatisfaction of the house expressed itself in murmurs and provoked a reproof from the bench. Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed
"It was from her that I had your address." I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery. She said she warn't ashamed of me.
When he had finished, Mr. Jones said:
"I had no time to think of it."
"This account rather alarmed us, and we continued to search for him until night fell, when Elizabeth conjectured that he might have returned to the house.
"It is introspective, and I want to introspect."
"That hazard shall not be thine."
"'Heaven forbid!
"My heart is lightened already since I have confided my trouble to you."
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past."
"Somebody told--that's enough."
"Do you go home to dinner?" be jury,"
"I want to go home."
"There will probably be some small unpleasantness."
Tom turned a short curve, by-and-by, and exclaimed:
"'Never mind." Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
'If I eat one of these cakes,' she thought, 'it's sure to make SOME change in my size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.'
"I mean to go home." Algy, I wish to goodness you would go.
"You'll have to go out."
"Yes, it would be as well."
"That is back through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square."
What do you demand of your captain? of days that have been spent in each month in every
Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
"You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Your town address at the Albany I have.
'I beg pardon, your Majesty,' he began, 'for bringing these in: but I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was sent for.'
"What do you deduce from it?" He is an Oxonian.
"You'll have to go for the doctor straight away. They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks.
"'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked.
"Soon after this the young man returned, bearing on his shoulders a load of wood. Yet Gregor's sister was playing so beautifully.
Adieu, my dear Margaret.
"No, I had a dozen."
"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't."
"What is it?" said his comrade.
"I'd like to see you try it." Gregor drew his head back from the door and lifted it towards his father. Aunt Polly said:
"I know what it is."
2.
"MY DEAR MR."
"I am prepared to leave it with you as my security.' I told you I was particularly fond of muffins.
"Here they come again."
"I have hopes."
"Yes it is."
Lady Bracknell.
"I have hopes."
Both, if necessary, I presume. unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud
"Near as I am to you."
"I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it."
"They will be."
"Simon marriage case."
I will now refer you to Langsdorff's Voyages for a little circumstance in point, peculiarly interesting to the writer hereof. The announcement will appear in the Morning Post on Saturday at the latest.
"I'll be
"'We have judged it best that you should come late."
"She has her freedom."
"I do as I do." Jack.
"Kindly tell us now all about your connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." Jack.
"Is it possible?" gasped the banker. Gwendolen, will you marry me?
"I thought as much," said he."
"My dear fellow, I congratulate you."
"I!" cried the Spirit.
"Yes, it must be so." And then he added:
"Start her--start her, my silver-spoons! Start her, marling-spikes!" Child, you know how anxious your guardian is that you should improve yourself in every way.
"Pray continue," said Holmes."
"Yes, it must be so." And so on.
"To be sure," said Peleg."
"Tom, I am so hungry!"
"But he is a dirty scoundrel."
"Yes, they do."
"There is but one thing to do."
"Now, the thing to study out is, how to get the things to Jim."
"What do you mean?" I never change, except in my affections.
"No'm--well, not very much."
"He has nerve and he has knowledge."
"But could not fasten?"
"Not a farthing less."
"I am to be neutral?"
"'Heaven forbid!
But the talk soon began to drag, and then died.
Lady Bracknell. And how are we this morning? follows: "That great patron and Coryphaeus of this tribe,
"Oh, yes."
"He said, if I behaved myself properly, he would take care of me."
I believe that this follows from severities(*) being badly or properly used.
"She'll have ice-cream! She has it most every day--dead loads of it."
"How did he come?"
"If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain them?"
"You should be ashamed of yourself!" (*) Catherine Sforza, a daughter of Galeazzo Sforza and Do look happy!
"I hope they do."
I says to myself, this is a girl that I'm letting that old reptile rob her of her money! I must arise and examine.
"Thank you."
"There--that is it." I had known what it was to be kindly treated; they had known nothing of the kind.
"Well?", asked
He was Georges d'Amboise,
"Don't you holler."
"We'll take it to my den."
"How'd you get around it?" So the duke took his hands off and says:
"They were both Canallers.
"It was an hour's good drive."
Miss Charlotte
She was beautiful.
"That would be unnecessary." I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it.
"Well, she will."
Algy's elder brother! I ordered them specially.
"I just made up my mind to run away and explain afterwards."
"I will go when I have said my say."
"Quick! Jump for the woods!"
"Wait--wait a moment."
"My dear Victor, She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton.
"Yet we have not a moment to lose."
"We slaves loved Mr. Cookman."
"I have a professional commission for you, but absolute secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than from one who lives in the bosom of his family.'
I am a celibate, madam.
"My goodness, and she so well only last week! Is she took bad?" I love you very tenderly.
Then we talked about the money.
I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial. Lumber-room as usual. A bright idea came into Alice's head.
"I will go when I have said my say." Lady Bloxham? Moses and the "Bulrushers" I am a celibate, madam.
"Miss Mary Jane, you can't a-bear to see people in trouble, and I can't most always." Their hopes commenced to rise. So she went in search of her hedgehog.
"She would be sorry some day--maybe when it was too late."
Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, even though she could have checked for herself and could have known it even without checking.
He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day, and his sorrows multiplied. He was so. works; for I have wished either that no honour should be given it,
Florence in 1394.
He was regarded as one who rejected the favor of his master. The people had moved out of them. He gave promises to both, saying to Bastiano that he would come in person, and to Jacopo that he would send his pupil, Pagolo Guinigi. Lessee and Manager: Mr. George Alexander But it was something that had to be risked. Vain Pleading The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.
"Courting on the Sly"
"There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street." He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
"You would have done better to have trusted your wife." He found Huck still in the bed that had been provided for him, and delirious with fever. Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception. I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various arguments which he had employed. His manner was not effusive.
"Bill wanted to know what he could do."
The Man with the Twisted Lip It was decreed by the States-General in A.D.
"Your Majesty will, of course, stay in London for the present?"
But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet. (Before she had this fit)
She appeared of a different stock.
The appearance of Justine was calm. She was nevertheless left a slave--a slave for life--a slave in the hands of strangers; and in their hands she saw her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, divided, like so many sheep, without being gratified with the small privilege of a single word, as to their or her own destiny.
'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things as I used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!' So she refused to let her mother dissuade her.
" Did you come for your interest?"
"Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria."
"I do not encourage visitors." A long pause. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
He was no sooner in Milan than the Pope had soldiers from him for the attempt on the Romagna, which yielded to him on the reputation of the king. She could not understand it. of a felicity of a dream.
"Starchy clothes very."
'HE might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to have the experiment tried. She said:
In a word, you would have two backs, so to speak; but, at the same time, also, two fronts (side fronts): for what is it that makes the front of a man--what, indeed, but his eyes? That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it is well known that he is an excellent man and revered by his people, he can only be attacked with difficulty. How she betrayed herself that time!
of a felicity of a dream.
"She little knew what. She could not understand it.
Gregor was still there and had not the slightest intention of abandoning his family. It was no wonder that no one was stirring. He gladly complied.
"He never meant any harm, and he was the best-hearted boy that ever was"--and she began to cry. Vain Pleading His death must have been extremely sudden. But neither could get an advantage. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
"But she could not love him." They think their own better than that of others. * Mr. Samsa to his employers,
"The former was heard to threaten the latter with informing his master of his whereabouts." Countess of Forli that Machiavelli was sent as envy on 1499.
"I knew that it was my sister's voice." I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. Lessee and Manager: Mr. George Alexander
No: the appointment is in London. Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability. Concerning these two methods of rising to be a prince by ability or fortune, I wish to adduce two examples within our own recollection, and these are Francesco Sforza(*) and Cesare Borgia.
"I think that I could be of assistance to you."
"Clerval, I assure you he has outstript us all.
"'They will be here in a moment."
"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting." The idea is grotesque and irreligious! Algernon, I forbid you to be baptized.
"E."
Algernon. Mr. Samsa. But not so.
"She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a row."
"We are quite ruined?"
"The streets will be crowded, so I trust that you may be in safety." Another negative. They were ready to hear, and ready to act when a feasible plan should be proposed.
"What business had he to be married to the Princess!"
"Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we should marry before father came back."
Tom felt more comfortable. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
He came. The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the greatest danger. Felix seemed peculiarly happy and with smiles of delight welcomed his Arabian. Their explanations appear to be quite satisfactory, especially Mr. Worthing's. His luggage?
"Ready," was the half-hissed reply. She was beautiful. Mrs. Dilber was next. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect. But being thoroughly good-natured, and not much caring what they laughed at, so that they laughed at any rate, he encouraged them in their merriment, and passed the bottle joyously.
Mote him availle, but to returne againe She had no companions but silence and loneliness. There was no getting rid of it. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves.
"You have been of material assistance to me."
'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things twinkled after that--only the March Hare said--'
"Still, if I had married Lord St." I see I was weakening; so I just give up trying, and up and says:
'I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room. Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live.
"When do you say?"
"I hope they are."
"They are all seaports."
"That is the baboon."
"Well, does a cow?"
"Blamed if I would, Jim."
Well, I don't like your clothes.
"What'll it be?"
"There's nothing in it."
"I shall be all anxiety."
"Will you come and see me?" I dare say there may be ONE.'
"I like this," said Tom.
"Well, we can wait the two hours anyway and see, can't we?" Do you share my madness? Their Pockets Bulged
"Well?", asked
"She most of all," said Ernest, "requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched. It was good indeed to meet with such friends, at such a time.
Nothing should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that was not a loss but a great advantage. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
He was an undergraduate.
"He never meant any harm, and he was the best-hearted boy that ever was"--and she began to cry.
"Elizabeth Lavenza. You have never heard of papa, I suppose?
Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?
"Is it ketching? Why, how you talk."
"I do," replied the Ghost.
"Tom, how could you be so noble!"
"'Not at all." Discrimination in Stealing.
"And wherefore was it glorious?
"Saviour's, near King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St."
"Why, this is wonderful! Whoever would a thought it was in that mare to do it? I wish we'd a timed her." Well, she was just a-biling. Algy, could you wait for me till I was thirty-five?
[Presenting her cheek to be kissed.]
"I think that I may arrive at my facts most directly by questioning you."
I did my best, however, though I was out of practice. No answer.
"That will be next Monday."
Merriman: Mr. Frank Dyall.
"And when will you call?"
"Well, I know that."
"Come along, Huck, we've been in here a long time."
"I have had diabetes for years."
"Mr. Scrooge?"
" George Jackson, is there anybody with you?"
"I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing." It would be childish.
"If the latter, it was less likely."
"Your life may depend upon your compliance."
"No you won't."
"They said you would, and I thought you would." Let her be sent for.
"It was always used in such connections as to make it an interesting word to me." Mr. Samsa"." It was empty.
"I know you was meaning for the best, aunty, and so was I with Peter." as far as any improvement in his ailment goes.
"'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with such attractions and accomplishments?' must have a I must arise and examine.
"Now, sir, why are you late again, as usual?"
"But you would not advise me to refuse?"
'--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. Another denial. Merriman. [Satirically.]
"MY DEAR MR."
"Yet we have not a moment to lose."
"I will, by jings."
"Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer."
"Will you not speak to me?" Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.
"Only if you get married I'll be more lonesomer than ever."
"On your arm?"
"Mr. Scrooge?" I was all over welts. Merriman: Mr. Frank Dyall.
"Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care."
"It was always used in such connections as to make it an interesting word to me."
Nevertheless he had taken private measures of his own touching all that matter.
"Your task is confined to that."
I called on him to stay.
I am sure you certainly would. Two days passed in this manner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding.
"You know what." She resisted, for a while, and then said:
"I told him as well as I could, for I scarce had strength to speak."
"He asked me what I wanted."
"She told me to ask you."
Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. This appearance excited our unqualified wonder.
"We were both in the photograph."
"I went and saw him." His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. He knew where he was. His heart was full of pity for her.
"She would be sorry some day--maybe when it was too late."
"He wished us to leave him alone."
"He asked me if I meant to persist in my resistance."
"We have tried and failed."
"Well?", asked
"His conduct was certainly not very gracious."
"On receiving this the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from the country." Machiavelli was the accredited
George's, was much addicted to opium. Nothing could be heartier.
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I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night."
"He did nothing of himself." I call that business.
"'Tut, tut!' he cried."
I always said I had a brother!
"I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday."
"'I perceive that all is as it should be." It was very monotonous. Ah, nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability of character.
"He has one positive virtue."
"'I am sure that I do not know.' Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new. I praise this system because it has been made use of formerly.
"There you must stay, or you lose your billet.'
"Well, I know that." More shameful debts and extravagance?
"Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook." His disappointment at the failure of his plan, and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible for him to move. Yes, I remember now that the General was called Ernest, I knew I had some particular reason for disliking the name.
"Do you love rats?"
"But it is very essential to me that the money should be paid at once.'
"They told you I would."
"'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just at this moment."
"Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we should marry before father came back."
"I assured him that I was not offended." He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation.
"My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." I love her.
"Mr. Scrooge?"
"He slept on the premises." I will take very good care you never do.
"His signet-ring."
"No, I'll never love anybody but you, Tom, and I'll never marry anybody but you--and you ain't to ever marry anybody but me, either."
"I thought so."
"But the mystery?"
"I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I do not inconvenience you."
"I shall be all anxiety."
"A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties."
" I didn't mean no harm." I have been waiting for you there for an hour and three-quarters. [Speaking very rapidly.]
A youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance.--Ay, ay," continued he, observing my face expressive of suffering, "M." Jack. It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual. I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator. No one had heart for anything. His heart had burst! But it had undergone a surprising transformation.
"What kind of stock?"
"Him? He never done nothing to me."
She was surprised to hear Tom dissent.
"But he had still another reason for his want of faith." Idle merriment and triviality would be out of place in his conversation. It never wriggles. better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in Amy Lawrence
"Becky supposed she would be glad of that, and she tried to believe she was glad of it, but she found she was not certain." better gift than to offer you the opportunity of understanding in She hugged him tight It was useless, however. Mr. and
This restored her and she said:
"Dearest niece," said my father, "dry your tears.
"'I quite follow you,' said I."
"I should not be surprised if that were he."
"P'raps we better."
"HARRIS COLL. Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
"I did not know." Miss Prism.
"You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I had no great pleasure in our lives." I replied in the affirmative. I couldn't get up the chimbly; it was too narrow. I am very fond of you, Cecily; I have liked you ever since I met you! It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately.
"No, she warn't."
"And what did you see?" He had frisked into the sitting-room, and was now standing there: perfectly winded.
"'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed."
"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently." When he had finished, Mr. Jones said:
"And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?"
"Ye--yes--but some other time."
"I wonder he don't wake."
"Indeed," said Holmes."
"It must be bought."
"Undoubtedly."
"When did you see him last?"
"Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go."
"What do you read?"
"Very naturally." It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
I could not answer.
"I am very sorry, sir," said Bob."
"But she will refuse."
"I don't say that."
"Could you see the rags by the light of the cigars?"
"I was so terrified that I do not know what I did."
Prince' it would have been clearly impossible to mention It would be most unfriendly.
"And how have you succeeded?"
"Very well."
"I took advantage now of my attainments."
"I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl."
"Did you observe the colour?"
"I thought that it must be when I saw the door open.'
"You then--" I was told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon.
"I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the latter was your son."
"You Bet it is"
"Do you remember what I wrote on the slate?"
'I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room. Mr. and
"Do not trouble about my feelings."
"If I can be of use." She had hardly turned her back before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched himself.
She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better.
"She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain ball."
"Good heavens!" cried my patient."
"Oh, I don't know."
It is noteworthy that these two phrases, "contro
"Allow me to ask your pardon."
"Yes I can."
"But have you never been prosecuted for begging?"
"Allow me to ask your pardon."
"I have had nothing else to do."
"His signet-ring."
" He looked astonished, and says:
"He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple."
"Pilate and Herod friends!
"I'm glad of it."
Sir Mackenzie Wallace's
The appearance of Justine was calm.
"That is better," said John Clay serenely."
"It's so lonesome."
"This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what then?"
"You must act, man, or you are lost."
"It is unthinkable." You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.
"We never thought that she would have been so carried away." The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.
"On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill."
"Ready," was the half-hissed reply. Mrs. Thatcher shook her head feebly and turned paler than ever.
"Well, Mrs. St."
"Well, so we did."
Oh, I don't care about Jack.
"It is introspective, and I want to introspect."
"Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally." But what is one to do?
"You see that we have been as good as our word."
"No--'tain't so, is it?"
"You infer that she may have gone out to tell her sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." [Sitting down on the sofa.]
" We got to be here three days."
"Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school."
"'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand."
"I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not."
"How was it?"
"I was meaning for the best, Tom."
"Will you do me that favour?"
"I see no need of this.' I am unmarried!
"I did not know what to do." Gregor was still there and had not the slightest intention of abandoning his family.
"Then she let it remain." I believed in her innocence; I knew it. But they seemed hungrier than before.
Krempe had now commenced an eulogy on himself, which happily turned the conversation from a subject that was so annoying to me.
"As good as gold," said Bob, "and better."
"No, no."
I claim him for one of our clan.
"No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses." He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
"Well, I never!" said he."
"He wished us to leave him alone."
"P'raps we better."
"I will leave your house in the morning and make my own way in the world.' What on earth do you mean? Merely that I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, mamma.
"You have the photograph?"
"Then you may be so with me."
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused."
He passed the whole length of
"I mean to go home." I am pleased to hear it. John does not know how much I really suffer. Indeed I have never undeceived him on any question.
I think it is most ill-natured of her.
"I have never denied him a wish."
Mr. Kean. Lady Bloxham? Nothing could be heartier. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. Their hopes commenced to rise. [Crossing to her, and kneeling.]
"Here is a new game," said Scrooge."
I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive.
"You'll be her."
"Mr. Scrooge?"
"He was a hard-working man."
"Good gracious! anybody hurt?"
"If I can be of any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be indeed happy." Aunt Polly blushed crimson with humiliation, and frowned and shook her head at Tom. The Spirit paused a moment, as observing his condition, and giving him time to recover.
Miss Charlotte Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and without letting the women from him. Nothing could be heartier.
She is excessively pretty, and she is only just eighteen. His father had arrived home. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small fat-encircled eyes. would be
"Let me see it."
She was still standing back there in the corner, sobbing, with her face to the wall. She herself wept as Elizabeth spoke, but she did not answer. rounded periods, nor with any extrinsic allurements or adornments I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
I had seen him before.
His manner was not effusive. It was not an agreeable idea.
Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, even though she could have checked for herself and could have known it even without checking. Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed
I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life. Without a moment's hesitation he ran to her and said: It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush.
"Tom pretended not to see her." Demby made no response, but stood his ground. Surprise, horror, and misery were strongly expressed. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.
"How did he come?" Tom did what he could to comfort her, but with little effect. No more.
"Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Mrs. Toller serenely. He does!
"I'll never speak to you again."
I may tell you candidly that the place is not in Shropshire.
Where have you been since last Thursday? Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax.
"'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he."
"I suppose you know what you have got?"
"It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was." Miss Prism: Mrs. George Canninge.
"Miss Mary Jane, is there any place out of town a little ways where you could go and stay three or four days?"
"My goodness, I wish I was out of this!"
"You see it?" Mr. and She said:
"But could not fasten?"
"Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. You are not quite old enough to do that.
"What could it be? I thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar."
"'Not so many as you might think,' he answered." Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so that Grete would have to go and answer it. A Tearful Subject.
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"I am to be neutral?"
I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial. His heart was full of pity for her.
'If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear,' said Alice, seriously, 'I'll have nothing more to do with you.
"'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!'
lamentable ignorance of the conditions under which the When he had finished, Mr. Jones said:
"Agreed, and good as wheat!"
But she was innocent. The family was at home.
"for J."
"I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not."
"You have been looking a little pale lately."
They went in.
"He has not been home for two days."
"They were both Canallers.
Miss Charlotte
"Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" She soliloquized:
"But she could not love him."
"At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy.
" I know him perfectly easy."
"I'll foller him; I will, by jingoes!"
"I bet he would."
"It is well.
"Indeed," said Holmes."
"Oh, take medicine, take medicine!"
"My friend, you'll help me in this thing--for my sake--that's why you're here--I mightn't be able alone."
"Do you love rats?" * Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare was said to live. There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. Which all the family re-echoed. Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation.
She struck it to the floor. He said: His smile broadened. He turned, and his eyes met Huckleberry's. His gratitude was measureless. His manner was not effusive. There was no sound--the stillness was perfect. Their Pockets Bulged Justine was called on for her defence.
"It's a pleasure to talk to him." They talked low and earnest. Sir Mackenzie Wallace's Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor. Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience.
She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!
"I have not come to stay," said I." The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in amazement for their breakfasts; Her face was leant to one side, following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy expression. I am unmarried! Of course.
"She walked into the breakfast-room." She said: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt's cow-stable."
"Was your sister dressed?"
"But she will refuse."
"Have you her photograph?"
"Mrs. Rucastle is not mad."
"And many men have been wrongfully hanged." Tom did what he could to comfort her, but with little effect. He was looking tolerably mellow. We were soon joined by Elizabeth. She soliloquized: [Crossing to her, and kneeling.] Owing to the illness of Uguccione, the Pisans and Lucchese delayed coming to battle with the enemy.
"What have you to say now?"
"House-thieves as well as "
'Fury said to a
"Clerval, I assure you he has outstript us all. Mr. Worthing, I offer you my sincere condolence.
"'Why that?' I asks.
"And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare.
"He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing." So seemed it with the Pequod.
"Cold again." Lady Bracknell.
"Pray do so."
"No, not now--to-morrow."
"It surprised me."
"I am a widower and have an only son, Arthur."
"I cannot imagine." I loved them with a love stronger than any thing I have experienced since.
"Let me leave it alone, then," said Scrooge."
"Was it to be in church?"
"And how in the world did you find them?"
"But not more so than I to find you."
"Nobody'll answer."
"P'raps we better."
"Forgive me if I am wrong."
Mr. and His heart had burst! He was an undergraduate. Lady Bracknell.
"I shall be delighted." be jury," And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. Won't you come in? Justine was called on for her defence. They were fond of the sweet orphan.
Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
" He's dressed, and everything's ready."
"He is asleep," said he."
"Very, indeed."
[Embraces her.] Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
"Never mind him."
"'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we fattened it expressly for you.' What has it to do with me?
"Becky supposed she would be glad of that, and she tried to believe she was glad of it, but she found she was not certain."
"But Mary said, persuasively:
"Nothing particular," said Scrooge.
"Start her--start her, my silver-spoons! Start her, marling-spikes!" He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. house,
"Don't you dare to meddle with my affairs."
to
"We were both in the photograph."
"Say--I'm going in a-swimming, I am." They were both in the room with Mrs. Hicks.
Lady Bracknell. She was a thing of trophies. But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet. Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Which all the family re-echoed. How she betrayed herself that time! After this victory he returned to Lucca, and was welcomed by the whole people. The seegars was prime.
Game, or any other dish? Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
"Let the charwoman alone to be the first!" cried she who had entered first." Meanwhile Gregor's sister had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was suddenly interrupted. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. There she He was not even startled out of this state when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers and landed loudly on the floor.
This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world:
"So she had," cried Scrooge."
"I do not encourage visitors."
"Oh! Waldman a visit. of a felicity of a dream. But she found nothing there to comfort her.
"I want to go home." I am grieved to hear such sentiments from you, Mr. Worthing.
"That is just my point." I suppose you know how to christen all right? I hastened to return home, and Elizabeth eagerly demanded the result. When the night came which had been agreed upon with Uguccione, who had occupied the plain between the mountains and Pisa with many men, the signal was given, and without being observed Uguccione approached the gate of San Piero and set fire to the portcullis.
"And bide the end!" [Who has been listening attentively.]
"What is the matter?" he cried."
"Start her--start her, my silver-spoons! Start her, marling-spikes!"
'But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice.
"Becky roused up from her lethargy of distress and showed good interest in the proceedings."
"Scrooge's niece's sisters, and all the other ladies, expressed the same opinion.
They had moreover brought most of their own furnishings and equipment with them. Miss Charlotte Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal.
"My dear fellow, I congratulate you."
"You'd be a disgrace." Mrs. Phelps she jumps for him, and says:
"for J."
"No'm--well, not very much." But others are by no means so scrupulous.
"You mustn't forget your manners."
"No, not now--to-morrow."
"Merchant service be damned."
"Are you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?'
"I would do it again."
"It must be done at once."
"Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?"
"Oh, he was the noblest man that ever was."
"They were evidently all deserted."
She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. Huck waited for no particulars. Felix seemed peculiarly happy and with smiles of delight welcomed his Arabian. Mary
But she found nothing there to comfort her. bons mots of Alexander VI, and refers to the ease with
"'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he."
"I thought as much," said he."
"But he rallies." What must have been his feelings?
"I thought he lived in London?"
"But let us understand each other."
"Your welfare!" said the Ghost. Gwendolen Fairfax: Miss Irene Vanbrugh.
"Maybe you don't believe it, but he's got lots of it."
"He is a man-stealer." But he has already recovered his spirits, and is reported to be on the point of marrying a lively pretty Frenchwoman, Madame Tavernier. He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it.
"I shall most certainly do so."
"Strawberries and such truck," I says."
"If you flinch, I'll kill you." You have never heard of papa, I suppose?
"I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she." Nothing could be heartier.
"Now you whisper it to me--just the same." The family themselves ate in the kitchen.
As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. The place was grandly lighted, and everybody that was of any consequence in the village was there.
"My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you." I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.
They communicated across Gregor's room.
"She was ill." Their explanations appear to be quite satisfactory, especially Mr. Worthing's. But no formal salutation was exchanged.
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid." After a long and thoughtful silence, Injun Joe said:
"I hope they are."
"It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. Alice felt dreadfully puzzled.
"And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered."
[Pointing to Lady Bracknell.]
"This girl is Want."
"And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that morning."
"You have a clue?" I don't know, Mr. Moncrieff. On the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was remarkably animated. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.
"That's very well."
"I dono--peep through the crack."
Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.
But she was innocent. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
"Things seemed to be going on very well."
"Shall be glad if you will come with me."
"I will get her to show me."
I think that will be the best plan.' [Shaking her head.] The Queen smiled and passed on. I remained silent. There was only one thing wanting to make Mr. Walters' ecstasy complete, and that was a chance to deliver a Bible-prize and exhibit a prodigy.
"I only looked in as I passed," said he." As well as I can remember, they were in the following words, to wit:--
"You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all," said Scrooge."
"My own seal."
Troubled with Witches.
"Really dear you are better!"
"I have given you all the facts." I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive.
"Will you not speak to me?"
"It may well have been cause and effect." He gave me a team of unbroken oxen.
"I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would understand afterwards if I wanted your help." Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.
"I know you was meaning for the best, aunty, and so was I with Peter."
"What office?" She had a very good report to give.
'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice: 'allow me to introduce it.' Do you know it is nearly seven?
"I never heard of it before."
"No is that so?"
"Do you feel equal to it?"
"Nobody'll answer."
"That hazard shall not be thine." Lady Bracknell!
"'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked.
'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice. (We know it to be true): You have never behaved to me like a brother in all your life.
"You have him here?"
Gwendolen, the carriage!
"Miss Roylott, you have not." Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah.
"But how will you look?" be jury,"
"I have given you the chance."
"No, no."
Mr. Ernest Worthing is engaged to me.
"Now what you going to do?"
"I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable.
She resisted, for a while, and then said:
"It is of importance."
"And many men have been wrongfully hanged."
"It was the bisulphate of baryta." Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them.
"I never heard of it before." She is to be tried today, and I hope, I sincerely hope, that she will be acquitted."
"And how in the world did you find them?" Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469.
"But I am so sure that he is innocent."
Chasuble.
"Yes, Miss Mary Jane she wanted you to do that."
connected by marriage. May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge?" Jack.
"Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions. Detestable girl!
"You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.
"I am not hysterical, nor given to fainting."
"I have not the power."
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid."
"I shall be delighted."
"Mine occupies me constantly."
"My own seal."
"They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side."
"They were both Canallers. foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other
"'I shall certainly be there.' I wish you would have tea-cake instead.
"I trust that I am not intruding."
"He is a man-stealer." Horrid Geography!
"You have a clue?"
"Pardon: who and what are they?'
"Dearest niece," said my father, "dry your tears.
"Did you become engaged then?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.
"I am armed."
Lady Bloxham? My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again."
"I will make no allowance."
"Mary and I stay at home."
"I came to find a friend."
Cecily,--how could you have ever doubted that I had a brother?
"I have given you the chance."
"Then I shall certainly come."
"I am to be neutral?"
Allow me to sell you a couple?'
"But, you know, I have been trained as an actress myself."
"Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?"
"I really have made no inquiries on the subject."
"It's so nice."
"I hain't ever done you no harm."
"Whom have I the honour to address?"
"I am no official agent."
"I know that her word is inviolate."
"Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions.
"I have nothing to do to-day."
"You took me in completely."
"I see the house." Lumber-room as usual.
Lady Bracknell. Her name was Rowena Hamilton. Do you share my madness? I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
"You know my method."
"You have carte blanche."
"Farintosh," said he."
"I am immensely indebted to you."
"That is well."
"You horrify me."
"You have been of material assistance to me."
"'You will be the ruin of us." I rely on her innocence as certainly as I do upon my own.
"'Heaven forbid! Algy, you young scoundrel, you will have to treat me with more respect in the future.
"That is well."
"I know how to fix it."
What could that mean? It could not be delirium.
"I want to go home."
"'I lay I make you mine!' Lady Bracknell: Miss Rose Leclercq.
"I have no questions to ask him."
"You have no chance at all."
"I am armed."
"Elizabeth Lavenza.
So she went away as I opened the door and walked into the setting-room.
"Can the chief clerk come in to see you now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door again.
"So would I," said Joe."
"She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say." [Examines diary through her lorgnettte carefully.]
"I have had nothing else to do." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not destined to fall into the hands of justice.
Nothing could be heartier.
"I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you."
It was not an agreeable idea. The flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's father into a panic as well. Lady Bloxham? Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. But what proof have I of their authenticity?
He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it. His faith was weakening.
"HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered to me as governess." No, they allowed he wouldn't. Mrs. Samsa to her contractor and Grete to her principal.
"I expect that within an hour matters will come to a head."
"I wish we could get him out of there." My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy! * I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Soon Starbuck returned with a letter in his hand.
"And me?" said Sally Rogers.
"Well?", asked Lady Bloxham? She sat down. He does!
"I have hopes." (We know it to be true):
"I trust that I am not intruding."
"I congratulate you warmly."
This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.
"You look dissatisfied." I could not consent to the death of any human being, but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men. Mr. Worthing! John Worthing, J.P.: Mr. George Alexander.
"I'm sorry to say it," I says, "but Hanner's the very one."
"He was told by one of the hands."
"I shall communicate with you."
"You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman." Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability. There is the lady who can tell you who you really are. connected by marriage.
"'What do you think? what does it look like?'
"Run for Your Life"
"We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on a very friendly footing."
"How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see."
"Sir!"
My father tried to awaken in me the feelings of affection. It was his sister who had been in so much of a rush.
"Are you satisfied?"
"Oh! Lordy, Lordy!"
"Pray proceed."
"In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker."
"My goodness, and she so well only last week! Is she took bad?" Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe."
I had known what it was to be kindly treated; they had known nothing of the kind.
"You never think of anything but your own selfishness."
"Why serious?"
"You wish to be anonymous?" We have.
"I am happy," said M."
"Yes, so it is."
"That's what it is." That is absurd! I took the paper from him and read as follows: Lady Bracknell.
"Mr. Starbuck--a lance without a pole; a top-maul, and the smallest of the sail-maker's needles."
"We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party." It would have been flat heresy to do so.
"He said that he had never heard of any such body."
"I see many objections to any such theory." He told us to give attention. It was Packard. He was not the Model Boy of the village. Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and herself.
Their Pockets Bulged In either case, he was severely whipped by the chief gardener. Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side of the door, and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas.
The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question was evidently meant for her. my cousin; take care of your self; and, I entreat you, write! Miss Prism, my unfortunate brother. I have already told you to go. I merely desire information.
"I am very angry indeed, and I have been shamefully used."
"I did not know what to do."
"Do not trouble about my feelings."
"Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter." I thank you and accept your generous offer.
"Yes, he is."
"That is why I have made you promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are going to Eyford to-night."
"But your client--"
"Can I be of assistance?" George's, was much addicted to opium.
'From little Cecily with her fondest love.'
"Well, then, what are they for?"
"Yes, but only for you and me." His eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight--his Elizabeth, his more than daughter, whom he doted on with all that affection which a man feels, who in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain.
He felt as if he had been transported to fairy-land and enjoyed a happiness seldom tasted by man. His manner was not effusive. They George's, was much addicted to opium.
"I saw her in conversation with her maid." It had its effect.
"Pray continue," said Holmes."
"You have been of material assistance to me."
"Yes, you do, Tom--you know you do."
"But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" Liberty, however, had been a useless gift to me, had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.
"It was all-important."
"I cannot imagine."
"We shall not offer that plea." [Then to the clerk:] "Call Thomas Sawyer!"
We must not be premature in our judgments.
"I am to be neutral?"
"The writing is undoubtedly my uncle's." I think, dear Doctor, I will have a stroll with you.
"I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak."
"I was certainly surprised to find you there." I never had a brother in my life, and I certainly have not the smallest intention of ever having one in the future.
"I don't believe it."
"Forgive me if I am wrong."
"You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" Why did I not then expire!
"None at all."
"I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before."
"Would it apply to any kind of dinner on this day?" asked Scrooge.
It had its effect.
"I know what it is."
"I have given you the chance."
"This, I thought, was the moment of decision, which was to rob me of or bestow happiness on me forever.
"Anybody might know that." I think that is quite as it should be.
"I confess that I was disappointed."
"At half-wages, in fact." Trouble is Brewing
"But the mystery?"
"Pardon: who and what are they?'
"You know my methods."
"This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said."
"I will do nothing of the kind." Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery.
"Oh, it is childish."
"Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." It has been a great inconvenience being without it all these years.
"Ah, but I was recommended to you."
"I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." It was thus that I was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.
cur, "Such
"Well, I was afeard."
"I came to find a friend." of a felicity of a dream.
I wish you would have tea-cake instead.
"Perhaps I have."
"Can I be of assistance?" Yes, but I have not been christened for years.
"You'll never persuade me to believe that."
"But have you told me all?" You will smile at my allusion, but I will disclose a secret.
"I am afraid so."
"Let me explain."
"No good news?" I could not be mistaken. I thanked my friend from my heart, but I did not speak. I was told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon.
"How about poison?" But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity. His gratitude was measureless. Stop! There was first a game at blind-man's buff. Lessee and Manager: Mr. George Alexander
"The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin.
"If you please," said Scrooge."
"Not at all." I judged he wouldn't come back that night.
"And your address had been given me."
"I guessed as much."
"I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining." He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain.
"His aunt was concerned."
"He had a Rat!"
But I felt that I had no right to share their intercourse. His manner was not effusive.
"When did you see him last?"
"What's the name of the gal?"
"I confess that I was disappointed." I beg your pardon?
"It was."
"It is most refreshingly unusual." You had almost thought I had been his wife.
"I am sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business to a more successful conclusion."
"He has not been home for two days."
"That was it." And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots.
"Mine occupies me constantly."
But it was something that had to be risked. Machiavelli was the accredited In the Woods
"Clair was doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are all as far from a solution as ever." It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
"She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse." The Boy's Salvation The Queen smiled and passed on. Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. No one would believe it at first; and even now Elizabeth will not be convinced, notwithstanding all the evidence. She began to soften; she felt sorry. There she blows! there--there--THAR she
"You are what?"
"Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes." (We know it to be true): I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. I am in love with Gwendolen.
"I never said nothing of the kind."
"My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, "what are we to do?" [Rises, looks at her watch.]
"Oh, it is childish."
"Do you know him?"
"I will do nothing of the kind."
"It is all right."
"I do as I do." It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. Well, this is the last time I shall ever do it. Miss Fairfax! Vain Pleading Yet I am certainly unjust.
"What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked."
"I see no need of this.'
"Mister, is that town Cairo?"
"Why, you are like a magician," said she."
"No'm--well, not very much."
"Nothing simpler."
"Yes, it would be as well."
"Do you love rats?"
"Are you sure that everything is fastened?' Gwendolen, will you marry me?
"What do you mean?"
" I know him perfectly easy."
"I am afraid so."
"My dearest Cousin,
"I want to go home." You mustn't think that I am wicked.
"Why do you answer me so roughly?" I know not that it has been defined before. I arrived at Geneva.
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused." Hand that to Miss Fairfax.
"for J."
"He had a Rat!"
"Yes, but only for you and me."
"But you have hopes?"
"And pray what did you hope to arrive at through this?"
"She told him of the coronet." She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all his sister. He spent the whole night there. *
"The chances are that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his princess."
"Do you go out much in society?" Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper.
"Pray continue," said Holmes."
"It is a nice household," he murmured."
"You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that."
"I dine at seven." A letter from Fortunati to the countess announces the
Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.
"I am to be neutral?" I am quite ready for more.
"Will you not speak to me?" She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton.
An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.' [Presenting her cheek to be kissed.] Indeed, who would credit that Justine Moritz, who was so amiable, and fond of all the family, could suddenly become so capable of so frightful, so appalling a crime?" * The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
'What are you thinking of?'
Prince' it would have been clearly impossible to mention
"I have no questions to ask him." But you have a husband and lovely children; you may be happy.
"Do they hop?" Do you share my madness?
"None at all." really this
"But she could not love him."
"What Idol has displaced you?" he rejoined. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable.
"But he could not help me in any way."
"I have my revolver," said I.
"It is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I should do."
"I am prepared to leave it with you as my security.'
"But you would not advise me to refuse?"
"I know that."
"I say, tell Quohog there--what's that you call him? tell Quohog to step along."
"You were travelling in the States?"
"They were not entirely happy.
"Allow me to ask your pardon."
"Do you know him?" My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.
"I will go when I have said my say."
"Is he quiet?"
"I have traced her."
Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most respect for. Troubled with Witches.
"But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!"
"Piece of lickrish and a fish-hook."
"No; but I don't know everybody yet."
"I will do nothing of the kind."
"If she were ill-used, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance."
"It was an hour's good drive." I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to ensure Gwendolen's happiness. Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.
Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do even more for him. [Offers to kiss her.]
"Miss Mary Jane, I'll tell you what we'll do, and you won't have to stay at Mr. Lothrop's so long, nuther."
"I am armed."
"Even now I lose time."
"I will do it." dear Sir,
"Three hundred dollars is a power of money."
"Well, go 'long--who's hendering you." Aunt Polly's happiness was complete, and Mrs. Thatcher's nearly so. His father had arrived home.
Such a dear baby!
"You must have a cab." Mr. Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me.
[Presenting her cheek to be kissed.] billets for his soldiers to conquer the country.
"Welcome, my dearest Victor," said he. I think that is quite as it should be.
Mr. Samsa to his employers,
"How often?"
"Well, that's the foolishest thing you could do."
"Look, look, down here!" exclaimed the Ghost.
"It is unthinkable."
"I had no idea that he was in front of me."
"It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was." Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brother?
"For theirs."
"You Bet it is"
"It was all-important."
"Are you satisfied?"
"I always liked you, Joe, and stood up for you, too."
"Because I loved you so, and you laid there moaning and I was so sorry." Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies.
"There; you see it says 'for a consideration.' That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it."
"I sha'n't! Why don't you fall yourself? You're getting the worst of it."
"Was she in good spirits?"
"By all means."
"Now do try to come, and I shall meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester." [Rather shy and confidingly.]
"Haunt me no longer!"
"But there I was firm."
"It was I."
"I have come to dinner."
"He might."
How long you have been about it! I am afraid you have had very little experience in how to propose. You look as if you had toothache, and I have got such a surprise for you.
"Whom have I the honour to address?"
"Hermits always do."
"You understand?"
"That will do," said Holmes." This, none of us were prepared to acknowledge.
"I am immensely indebted to you." This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.
I told him I had no wages; I had done no work that week.
"You have been of material assistance to me."
"Well, then, what did you want to kill him for?" judge, I'll
"I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to see a sister of mine apply for." [Pointing to Lady Bracknell.]
"I am to be neutral?"
"But I'll take it out of her."
"And asked me if I Liked Her" I could not be mistaken.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
"You did!"
"But how will you look?"
"'Heartily sorry,' he said, 'for your good wife."
"I thank your Majesty."
"Can I be of assistance?"
"We were both in the photograph."
"I am still in the dark."
'YOU'D better not talk!' said Five. I adore her.
"How did you deduce the select?"
"They are all seaports." Jack. Mr. Samsa to his employers,
"DEAR MR."
"I must compliment you." Mr. Samsa. Lady Bracknell.
"'What would be the hours?' I asked.
"He should!"
"Ding, dong!" Miss Charlotte She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper--Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver. She listened intently, but there was no answer. The point was well taken. Everyone loved Elizabeth. Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and without letting the women from him. The seegars was prime. She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty.
Troubled with Witches. He died while on a visit to see his daughter at Hillsborough. Troubled with Witches. Then he thought of his flower. George's, was much addicted to opium. Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience. Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and herself.
Justine was called on for her defence. Lady Bloxham?
of a felicity of a dream.
"Yes; Mr. Lothrop's." George's, was much addicted to opium. Mr. and
"He was not even a good imitator." The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement. For some reason, the Jungfrau seemed quite eager to pay her respects. It had its effect.
Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
"They appear to have avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the neighbourhood."
"Elizabeth Lavenza.
"I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was amused."
As the circumstances of his marriage illustrate his character, I cannot refrain from relating them.
But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate. His manner was not effusive. The overseer's name was Plummer.
"MY DEAR MR."
"I congratulate you warmly."
I love you very tenderly.
"It is introspective, and I want to introspect."
"I did not care to spend more money in a hopeless attempt at recovering them."
"ALL about it, eh--sure you do?--all?" Jack.
So she went in search of her hedgehog. Let her be sent for. It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. They
During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures. After some further questioning, counsel for the prosecution said: They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, although there was no longer much warm affection given in return.
I told you I was particularly fond of muffins. They
I saw a change in her also. [Makes a note in her book.] She finally became even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself.
"In this dialogue, the whole argument in behalf of slavery was brought forward by the master, all of which was disposed of by the slave." He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it. were always during the
I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn.