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...iest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, cheese, dried fish, soap, varnish, paraffin and other solids and fluids that she came to know perfectly by their smells without consenting to know them by their names....

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...s cast, the duskiest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, chee... ...at six. All Span- ish lace. Pearls. The full length.” That was the first; it had no signature. “Lady Agnes Orme, Hyde Park Place. Impossible to-night,... ...tions and revenges. She recognised quite as much those of her sex whom she would have liked to help, to warn, to rescue, to see more of; and that alte...

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...s beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass....

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... removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass. The day was warm; he was heated with walking, and he repeatedl... ...ed, I can take up the cards again. I dare say that a twelvemonth hence the operation will be reversed. The pendulum will swing back again. I shall be ... ...!” and M. Nioche slapped his purse tenderly before he stowed it away. “The operation doesn’t take place every day.” “Well, your young men are very sha... ...ration for Parisian economies. His own economic genius was so entirely for operations on a larger scale, and, to move at his ease, he needed so impera... ...truth is that they made a fuss about her milliner’s bill or refused her an opera-box.” Newman looked from Tristram to his wife with a certain mistrust... .... “Leather? I don’t like that. Wash-tubs are better. I prefer the smell of soap. I hope at least they made your fortune.” She rattled this off with th... ... seen men who had done even more, men who had made not only wash-tubs, but soap—strong- smelling yellow soap, in great bars; and they never made me th...

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................. 25 CHAPTER IV: ?THE PILLAR OF SALT? ............................................................................. 38 CHAPTER V: AT THE OPERA ............................................................................................ 45 CHAPTER VI: TALK .............................................................................................................

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...PTER V V V V V: A : A : A : A : AT T T T T THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OPERA ERA ERA ERA ERA ........................................................ ...e dregs of carol-singing. “While Shep-ep-ep-ep-herds watched—” He held his soapy brush suspended for a minute. They called this singing! His mind flit... ...APTER CHAPTER V V V V V A A A A AT T T T T THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OPERA ERA ERA ERA ERA A FRIEND had given Josephine Ford a box at the opera ... .... Few women can sit in the front of a big box, on a crowded and full-swing opera night, without thrilling and dilating. There is an intoxication in be... ...Not being fashionable, they were in the box when the over- ture began. The opera was V erdi—Aida. If it is impossible to be in an important box at the... ...pera was V erdi—Aida. If it is impossible to be in an important box at the opera without experiencing the strange intoxication of social pre-eminence,... ...n his mind. He wanted her—ha, didn’t he! But the husband sat there, like a soap- stone Chinese monkey, greyish-green. So, it would have to be another ...

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...” as the robbers’ door did to her colleague, Ali Baba (Hornbuckle), in the operatic piece in which she was so famous. Beer was Mr. Crump’s beverage, d... ...r. Eglantine, the celebrated perruquier and perfumer of Bond Street, whose soaps, ra- zors, and patent ventilating scalps are know throughout Eu- rope... ... as far as accepting eau- de-Cologne and hair-combs from the perfumer—some opera tickets, a treat to Greenwich, and a piece of real Genoa velvet for a... ...s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levison, have their respect... ...ted here. Among them, on the entresol (between the splendid saloons of the Soap Company on the first floor, with their statue of Britannia presenting ... ...the first floor, with their statue of Britannia presenting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western B... ...and a velvet waistcoat. He was a member of a club; had an admission to the opera, and knew every face behind the scenes; and was in the habit of using... ...onstant visitor at that gentleman’s emporium; dealing with him largely for soaps and articles of perfumery, which he had at an exceedingly low rate. I... ...uldn’t get along, and would see these lovely ladies before he stirred. The operation on Mr. Walker’s whiskers being concluded, he was arranging his to...

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...ike Shakespeare in Germany, but those of the pit and gallery, too. 39 A Tramp Abroad Another time, we went to Mannheim and attended a shivaree—otherw... ...s, it seemed to me that I could almost resuffer the torments which had gone before, in order to be so healed again. There is where the deep ingenuity ... ... of the operatic idea is betrayed. It deals so largely in pain that its scattered de- lights are prodigiously augmented by the contrasts. A pretty air... ... suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. I have since found out that there is nothing the Germans like so much... ...a. They like it, not in a mild and moderate way, but with their whole hearts. This is a legiti- mate result of habit and education. Our nation will li... ...the an angel with. By and by we perceived what those super-delicate colors, and their continuous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one see... ...uous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one sees in a soap-bubble that is drifting along, catching changes of tint from the objects it pass... ...jects it passes. A soap- bubble is the most beautiful thing, and the most exquisite, in nature; that lovely phantom fabric in the sky was sugges- tiv... ...ntom fabric in the sky was sugges- tive of a soap-bubble split open, and spread out in the sun. 257 A Tramp Abroad I wonder how much it would take to...

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...elict could ever have held goodly merchandise or served a high emprize, co-operated in some defence, held up the trappings of a throne, or borne away ... ... or fifteen salons between eight at night and three in the morning. At the opera he talked with journalists, for he stood high in their favor; a perpe... ...y be- fore he came to the house, and to wash his hands with good cleansing soap; not to swear, to speak her kind of French, to wear boots instead of s... ... glory of the thing, and to show her the finest that was to be seen—to the Opera, where they were playing “The Chinese Laborer.” Elisabeth thought “th... ...o ponderous a personality that no scalpel could cut deep enough to let the operator see into him. His severe studies, in which he had shown the patien... ...all were asleep in the place Royale, Monsieur des Lupeaulx was leaving the Opera for the rue Duphot. This particular Wednesday was one of Madame Rabou... ...gone too far, and ran to him, seized him just as he was, all lathered with soap-suds, and kissed him tenderly. “Dear Xavier, don’t be vexed,” she said... ... wife of Mohammed?” She began to laugh; and Rabourdin laughed too, for the soapsuds were clinging to Celestine’s lips, and her voice had the tones of ...

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...ith placards of a bull-fight, to take place the next evening (there was no opera that sea- son); but it was not a real Spanish tauromachy—only a theat... ...horses; squads of priests, habited after the fashion of Don Basilio in the opera, are demurely pacing to and fro; professional beggars run shrieking a... ...gh there is every gaiety and amusement in the town, a comfort- able little opera, a good old library filled full of good old books (none of your works... ...from honest Germany, where there is beer and aes- thetic conversation, and operas at a small cost. The shabbi- ness of this place actually beats Irela... ...he thing like the wig is dashed into your face and eyes, covered over with soap, and for five min- utes you are drowned in lather:you can’t see, the s... ... can’t see, the suds are frothing over your eye-balls; you can’t hear, the soap is whiz- zing into your ears; can’t gasp for breath, Miss MacWhirter’s... ...s down your throat with half a pailful of suds in an in- stant—you are all soap. Wicked children in former days have jeered you, exclaiming, “How are ... ... children in former days have jeered you, exclaiming, “How are you off for soap?”Y ou little knew what saponacity was till you entered a Turkish bath.... ...s much inferior to the method employed in the capital. At Cairo, after the soap, you are plunged into a sort of stone coffin, full of water which is a...

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...e a commodious and gay Theatre—or had, for it is burned down now—where the opera was always preceded by a vaudeville, in which (as usual) everybody, d... ...an to mingle up the present scene with the crater of V esuvius, the French Opera, the Coliseum at Rome, Dolly’s Chop house in London, and all the farr... .... The chemist had no boxes of ginger beer powders, no beautifying sea side soaps and washes, no attractive scents; nothing but his great goggle eyed ... ...on by means of action, they were no bet ter than the chorus at an Italian Opera in England—and would have been worse if such a thing were possible. M... ...ffective, and as a Detective Police were very loose and uncertain in their operations, they remain with some people a supersti tion to the present da... ...ook strangely on the truckle beds. The sight of whitewash and the smell of soap—two things we seem by this time to have parted from in infancy—make th... ...s me to wash on a freemason’s apron without the trimming: when I asked for soap, gives me a stony hearted something white, with no more lather in it t... ...indrical press, upon a leaf of thin paper, streaming from a plunge bath of soap and water? Wasn’t the paper impression daintily spread, by a light fin... ...the means of raising the carcass and keeping it suspended during the after operation of dressing— 220 Reprinted Pieces and with hooks on which carcas...

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...plied Madame Mollot. “Why, this morning I was so puzzled that I got out my opera-glass—” “Bravo!” cried the superintendent of ponts et chaussees, who ... ...r a commercial traveller.” X 62 The Deputy of Arcis THE REVELATIONS OF AN OPERA-GLASS ANTONIN GOULARD left the little group of young ladies, in which... ...ave sometimes seen in exhibitions of industrial products.’ So I fetched my opera- glass to examine it. But, good gracious! what do you think I saw? Ab... ...!—if he did I’d leave him. He dyes his hair and that’s bad enough.’” “Your opera-glass magnifies,” said Achille Pigoult to Ma- dame Mollot, who laughe... ...and either would suit me. I love Paris; and I want a house, a carriage, an opera-box, etc., in Paris.” “That’ s right,” said Vinet. “When people dream... ...e all intellectual activity spends itself on the mak- ing of pickled pork, soap-grease, stockings, and cotton night- caps. Dorlange, whom I shall not ...

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...- man from Grasse, with whom he began, on equal shares, the manufacture of soaps, essences, and eau-de-cologne. His connection with this man lasted on... ...xplained the nature of the skin and the cuticle, and showed that a certain soap, or a certain paste, often produced effects quite con- trary to those ... ... often produced effects quite con- trary to those expected of them, if the soap and the paste toned up a skin which needed relaxing, or relaxed a skin... ...y kind; while the Double Paste of Sultans and the Carminative Balm are two operative compounds, of a motive power which acts without risk upon the int... ...re of those who mingle busi- ness with pleasure, and make the foyer of the opera-house a branch of the Bourse,—in short, the T urcarets of the period.... ...ve it to him, du Tillet, with permission to stake it bravely on some large operation, either at the Bourse, or in one of the thousand enterprises of p... ...hom married women draw at sight for their amusements,—a country jaunt, the opera, the Montagnes- Beaujon, et caetera. Pillerault was made happy by the... ...end,” said Gaudissart, “you don’t know the provincials; there’s a surgical operation called by that name, and they are such stupids that they’ll think...

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...ed dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; not a mor... ...s by marrying a young woman of the French nation, who was by profession an opera-girl. The humble calling of her female parent Miss Sharp never allude... ...the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the opera, laboriously attired in tights and a cocked hat. 24 V anity Fair On ... ...op by evincing the deepest sympathy in the raspberry-jam preserving, which operation was then going on in the Housekeeper’s room; she persisted in cal... ...ng—as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings ... ...y sent him parcels, which, when opened, were found to contain the paternal soap and candles. There was no little fellow but had his jeer and joke at D... ...He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to ...

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...ed, then why allow of any lingering or doubt- ful force to what must often operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which carries with it any legal f... ...r section of the church; but in that year 1834, such a prestige did really operate; and this must be received as one of the reasons which partially ex... ...s the festal color, and more especially in Palestine, where the indigenous soaps, and other cleaning materials, gave them peculiar advantages for adop... ...s general example. But his false principles have a worse conta- gion. They operate not only through the general haze and halo which invests a shining ... ...nd that was rea- son enough why no new pleasure, had any been found, would operate as such for him. The weariness of spirit, and the pov- erty of plea... ...is own gifts confound;’ 10 but with this mighty differ- ence—that Time co-operated in the one case with extrava- gant folly in the individual, and in... ... there never had been a richer. And thus collapses the whole fable, like a soap-bubble punctured by a surgeon’s probe. II. Yet even this specimen of P... ...a pig (but in this instance a wild boar of the forest) whose tail has been soaped. (See Lord Clarendon, not his History but his Life.) What the Birmin...

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...crapers the wires of the Associated Press were closing down. The telegraph operators wearily raised their celluloid eye-shades after a night of talkin... ...wl was a sensational exhibit of tooth-brush holder, shaving- brush holder, soap-dish, sponge-dish, and medicine-cabi- net, so glittering and so ingeni... ...saying “Damn.” But he did say it, immediately afterward, when with wet and soap-slippery fingers he tried to remove the horrible little envelope and c... ... he was done, his round face smooth and streamy and his eyes stinging from soapy water, he reached for a towel. The family towels were wet, wet and cl... ...eep knocking the Traction Company and not realize the difficulties they’re operating under, like these cranks that want municipal ownership. The way t... ...phone they said only: “South 343. No, no, no! I said south—South 343. Say, operator, what the dickens is the trouble? Can’t you get me South 343? Why ... ...lly did hate men recognized as swindlers, was not too unreasonably honest. Operators and buyers prefer that brokers should not be in competi- tion wit... ...ignity clawing through the water to recover a slippery and active piece of soap. He was lulled to dreaming by the caressing warmth. The light fell on ... ...ings. “Come here! You’ve done enough fooling!” he reproved the treacherous soap, and defied the scratchy nail-brush with “Oh, you would, would you!” H...

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...and a jug of water and a slop-pail of tin, and, further, a piece of yellow soap in a tray, a tooth-brush, a rat-tailed shaving brush, one huckaback to... ...on 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 PARLOAD stood at the open window, opera-glass in hand, and sought and found and was uncertain about and lost ... ... space had come to take possession of his soul. He had commandeered an old opera-glass from his uncle who farmed at Leet over the moors, he had bought... ...at catered for those who were under this obsession, he had at last got his opera-glass upon the new visitor to our system from outer space. He gazed i... ...ction 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 THAT MADE PARLOAD put down the opera-glass and look at me. “It’s a bad time to change just now,” he said a... ...tic discord; pill vendors and preachers, theaters and charities, marvelous soaps and astonishing pickles, type- writing machines and sewing machines, ... ...own destined needs, and shift a portion of one’s punishment upon him. This opera- tion of spasmodic underselling was known as “dumping.” The American ...

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...pair publicly proved by dates. Both declared that the voice belonged to an opera-singer or a spirit. The ladies of Brookfield, declining the alternati... ...” Wilfrid lifted an eyelid. “He is one of the first-violins at the Italian Opera!” The gallant cornet’s critical appreciation of this impressive annou... ...knew that. He had great hopes of me. He said he would give me a box at the Opera, now and then. I was mad with joy; and so delighted to have made a fr... ...monosyllables in exchange. The ladies talked of Organs and Art, Emilia and Opera. He knew this and that great organ, and all the operas; but he amazed... ...ows that she cannot. She can love.” “Yet I think I have heard some Italian operatic spitfires, and of some!” said Lady Charlotte. “What opinion do you... ... the dust and cobwebs in the passage. Having rubbed his hands briskly with soap, he dipped his head likewise, in an oblivious fit, and then turning ro...

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... person whom he wronged. In the experience of my informant, almost no tapu had been put in use, except the two described: he had thus no opportunity t... ...rs and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and gone since this sli... ...n- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its purport is taken down progressively by one of the ex- perts, writing, I was told, ‘... ... any expla- nation, I would at times make out some shadowy but deci- sive outline of a plot; and I was continually reminded of certain quarrelsome con... ...he group, making a slight movement with the feet and rhythmical quiver of the body as they sang. There was a pause after the introductory, and then th... ...passing and point- ing. ‘No, king; that too dear,’ returns the trader. ‘I think I like him,’ says the king. This was a bowl of gold-fish. On another o...

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...e farmer nodded encouragingly. He thought it not im- probable that a short operation with these numbers would give the sum in Anthony’s possession, th... ...s. Wicklow, Anthony’s landlady, undertook to make Rhoda comfortable, which operation she began by praising dark young ladies over fair ones, at the sa... ...ier by naming the dress she was to wear, the jewels, and the colour of the opera cloak. Thus prompted, Dahlia went to her chamber, and passively attir... ...God of heaven!” “Mother, punch my ribs.” He stretched himself flat for the operation, and shut his mouth. 149 George Meredith “Hard, mother!—and quic... ...“Good morning to you, Mrs. Boulby. You’re a respectable woman.” “Not to be soaped,” she murmured to herself in a heat. The apparently medicinal articl... ...ults upon one of his guests, announced his re- solve to bring the law into operation. Algernon heard it as the knell to his visit. He was too happy, t... ...ir William, pertinaciously; “the figure I alluded to was not inadequate. A soap-bubble is not inadequate.” “Plainly, sir, in God’s name, hear me out,”...

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...ism of adolescence he came to realize that this was too comprehen- sive an operation; every one feels fear, and your true aristo- crat is not one who ... ...timate articles for the school world, but never put into more than partial operation. “I have read my father’s articles upon this subject,” wrote Benh... ... on the other hand, Sir Godfrey Marayne’s temporary monopoly of the caecal operation which became so fashionable in the last de- cade of Queen Victori... ...n love a plucky woman. Sir Godfrey Marayne smelt a good deal of antiseptic soap, but he talked in a way that amused her, and he trusted as well as ado... ...en he did not do so, but his mother had won him to a promise, and now that operation was often the sum of his simple hasty toilet. His desire to assoc... ...rhaps, had gone into the acquirement and perfect performance of the caecal operation; the man one met in the social world was what was left over. It h...

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...ssly. She had rushed to her sister’s house after a brief appearance at the Opera. Flowers were still in her hair, but others were scattered upon the c... ... in the Chamber of Deputies.” “Then permit her to join me in my box at the Opera,” said the countess, without even glancing at her sister, so much did... ... has happened to make your sister so anxious all of a sudden to go to your opera-box?” The poor helot endeavored to escape questioning on the score of... ...Princesse Galathionne, the Comtesse de Vandenesse might be seen, after the Opera, at the houses of Madame d’Espard, the Marquise de Listomere, Mademoi... ... are a political triangle,” said de Marsay, laughing, when they met at the Opera. “That geometric form, my dear fellow, belongs only to the Deity, who... ...presented by a jug of water with a towel laid upon it, and a bit of common soap. T wo ancient hats hung to their respective nails, near which also hun...

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...sted bread sauce, which, as she said, looked like a poultice and tasted like soap; she objected to the consumption of beer by her maid servants; and s... ...y one who took the tone of authority; and she was a passive spectator of the operation of her fate. “May I not see Mamman Catherine get into the carri... ... their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying them a visit in thei... ...Miss Stackpole delights in an ice. I didn’t think they wanted me either. The opera’s very bad; the women look like laundresses and sing like peacocks.... ...allusion now probable. It struck her second visitor that Miss Archer had, in operatic conditions, a radi 248 Portrait of a Lady ance, even a slight ... ... but why play them on him? The others came back; the bare, familiar, trivial opera began again. The box was large, and there was room for him to remai...