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...his dream. He had fancied himself with his servant Aminadab, attempting an operation for the re moval of the birthmark; but the deeper went the knife... ...ity for the in tense thought and constant watchfulness which the proposed operation would require; while Georgiana, likewise, would enjoy the perfect... ...ed to have been burning for ages. There was a distilling apparatus in full operation. Around the room were retorts, tubes, cyl inders, crucibles, and... ...g for wealth and hon ors, or whatever he might be doing, to vanish like a soap bubble, and be never more seen of his fellows; and so accus tomed wer... ...oes the latter plead his fair reputation upon ‘Change, and insist that his operations, by their magnifi cence of scope, were removed into quite anoth... ...d of introduction, whatever it might be, 112 Mosses from an Old Manse had operated far more on the rich merchant’s fears than on his good will. Moreo...

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...ed, by a plentiful application of spring water, with a quantum sufficit of soap, The whole scene was depress- ing; for it argued, at the first glance,... ...rd; and though our hero was writhing with pain, would not pro- ceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three ... ...ch was by the bystanders unanimously ascribed to the spells with which the operation had been accompanied. Edward was given to understand, that not on... ...ertain, can only be furthered by measures in themselves true and just. T o operate upon your present feelings, my dear Mr. Waverley, to induce you to ... ... unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all haste, during which operation the min- strelsy of Davie changed its tune more than once:— There... ...nts and expressions. He cau- tiously avoided any reference to the military operations or civil politics of the time: and to Waverley’s direct inquirie...

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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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...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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... 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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...ed 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 sh... ...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 carriag... ...ir hotel, and at this establish- ment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying them a visit in their ... ...ss 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. I... ...ut 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 remain ... ...r the next twenty-four hours, but on the second day after the visit to the opera she encountered him in the gallery of the Capitol, where he stood bef...

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...such queer things to eat. Her cook does the washing and the food tastes of soap. I should hate that, you know.” “Y ou shouldn’t dine with her on wash-... ...cipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator. “I’ve got a few new things,” he said, suffused with pleasure, but... ...e entire house was swathed in penitential white and deluged with expiatory soapsuds. It was on this phase of the proceedings that Miss Bart en- tered ... ...y up to her room she was arrested on the landing by an encroaching tide of soapsuds. Gathering up her skirts, she drew aside with an impatient gesture... ... Selden’s rooms; and looking down to remonstrate with the dispenser of the soapy flood, she found herself met by a lifted stare which had once before ... ...aunt in town. Even the desolating dulness of New Y ork in October, and the soapy discomforts of Mrs. Peniston’s interior, seemed prefer- able to what ... ...baggage, just to suit his fancy. I had a long sickness last winter, and an operation that ate up all we’d put by; and it’s hard for me and the chil- d... ...rchase of the dress- ing-case till she should receive the bill for her new opera-cloak, and the resolve made her feel much richer than when she had en... ...hat was lacking in hers. His object in calling was to ask her to go to the opera in his box on the opening night, and seeing her hesitate he said per-...

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...ttle star revolving about her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and capric... ... he submitted with the best grace possible, staring at me during the whole operation as if he never had been, and never could again be, so astonished ... ...he piano and the violon cello, and he was a composer—had composed half an opera once, but got tired of it—and played what he composed with taste. Aft... ...or even here my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death. Concert, assem bly, opera, theatre, drive, nothing is new to my Lady under the worn out heavens... ...th, we smartened Peepy up a little with the assistance of a few pins, some soap and water, and a hair brush, and went out, bending our steps towards N... ...y sort of apron. Her fingers were white and wrinkled with washing, and the soap suds were yet smoking which she wiped off her arms. But for this, she ... ...says. “Ah! It’s a good room! Been whitewashed. Been cleaned down with soft soap and soda. Hi! It’s worth twice the rent, letting alone my company when... ...ttle girl in a rough apron and a large bonnet, with her hands covered with soap and water and a scrubbing brush in one of them, appears, and curtsys. ... ...ed, to the pump in the little yard and anon comes back shining with yellow soap, friction, drifting rain, and exceed ingly cold water. As he rubs him...

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... form. Mr V erloc deposited the cash-box on the night table, and began the operation of undressing by flinging his overcoat on to a distant chair. His... ...were at the door to take the Imperial Highnesses and the Chancellor to the opera. I went up at once. I found the Baron walking up and down his bedroom... ...mbassador down the great staircase, and see the party started safe for the opera. However, I acted upon the infor- mation that very night. Whether it ... ... and quiet. He was like a shadow, my dear.” Winnie, prolonging her dusting operations till the tale was told to the end, walked out of the parlour int... ...ing up to the arm-pits, she exhaled the anguish of the poor in a breath of soap-suds and rum, in the uproar of scrubbing, in the clatter of tin pails.... ...dacious, miserably authenticated by the hor- rible breath of cheap rum and soap-suds. She scrubbed hard, snuffling all the time, and talking volubly. ... ... of persons. His scorn was equally distributed over the whole field of his operations. But as a member of a revolutionary proletariat—which he undoubt...

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... flat part of his scythe, as a prepara- tion of the surface for his deeper operations. Dombey , exulting in the long-looked-for event, jingled and jin... ...s T ox, in the midst of her spreading gauzes, went down altogether like an opera-glass shutting-up; she curtseyed so low, in acknowledgment of Mr Domb... ... chair; then, rushing into the next room, returned with a double-barrelled opera-glass, through which he sur- veyed it intently for some minutes. ‘It’... ...ady, with her sleeves rolled up to her shoulders, and her arms frothy with soap- suds and smoking with hot water, replied to the summons with startlin... ... ten and five, slippers, pocket-books, sponges, dogs’ collars, and Windsor soap; and sometimes a pointer or an oil-painting. The pointer always came t... ... a great event for Paul, who sat down on the bottom stair, and watched the operation atten- tively: now and then glancing at the clock face, leaning a... ... chair, on a very small desolate island, lying about midway in an ocean of soap and water. The Captain’s windows had been cleaned, the walls had been ... ...cleaned, and everything the stove excepted, was wet, and shining with soft soap and sand: the smell of which dry-saltery impregnated the air. In the m... ...tle(for the island was not large enough for three), beamed on her from the soap and water like a new description of T riton. ‘You are amazed to see us...

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...ut a cloth round his neck, and seated him in a chair, rubbed his chin with soap, and played the part of the Barber over him, and I have never laughed ... ... gentlemen, who were at some time or other sure to pay, and thus also they operated on our consciences. From which it followed that one title of super... ...e I ‘ll drive ye to-night, and to- morrow, clean and tidy out o’ my wife’s soap and water, straight to Riversley. Done, eh? My name’s Eckerthy. No mat... ... the working of coal-mines, and hire an overseer and workmen to com- mence operations on the Sarkeld property. It would be obliga- tory to entertain h... ...gossip of this and that of the German Courts. His museum, hunting, and the Opera absorbed and divided his hours. I guessed his age to be mounting fort... ...she was of him, nevertheless, as a god-like charioteer—in pace, at least. ‘Opera to-night,’ she answered my inquiries for him, ad- monishing me by her... ...G THE TIDE AND AM CARRIED ON IT MYSELF MY FATHER STOOD in the lobby of the Opera, holding a sort of open court, it appeared to me, for a cluster of ge... ...s of the flesh and the brain. Meantime, T emple and I, at two hand-basins, soaped and towelled, and I was more discreet toward him than I have been to...

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...gner will be as dead as mutton. Wagner! I would give all his works for one opera by Donizetti.” 122 Of Human Bondage XXV THE ODDEST OF PHILIP’ S mast... ...romises made him were carried out; mean- while he went a great deal to the opera, and made acquaintance with a small number of charming people who adm... ...Isle Adam. They went to plays together and sometimes to the gallery of the Opera Comique. There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared ... ... in his hands and said: “ Y es, that’s what I thought. I see you’ve had an operation. When you were a child, I suppose?” He went on with his fluent ex... ...d to Philip. “ Y ou know , I think it might be worth your while to have an operation. Of course I couldn’t give you a normal foot, but I think I can d... ... dear , if I’d had the naming of you I should have called you Maria of the Soapsuds. You’re always torturing these wretched brats with soap.” “You go ... ...f children came in. They were clean and tidy , now. their faces shone with soap, and their hair was plastered down; they were going to Sunday school u... ...other room in which were two baths, discoloured, the woodwork stained with soap; and in them were dark rings at vari- ous intervals which indicated th...

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...line which we have imported into England, and which has been in successful operation among us for some years past. America, as a new and not over popu... ...l with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, plunge into the Five Points. But it i... ...it out with, six square inches of looking glass, two ditto ditto of yellow soap, a comb and brush for the head, and nothing for the teeth. Everybody u... ...ide benevolence. There are three free schools already erected, and in full operation in this city. A fourth is building, and will soon be opened. Amer... ...who well deserves a halter; though it has not been without its retributive operation, for this smartness has done more in a few years to impair the pu...

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... ited an interesting nick-nack, in the way of a remarkable cake of shaving soap which he had lately met with in Germany; and the gentleman of a litera... ...ent of despondency, and often afterwards, the recollection of Mr Pecksniff operated as a cordial to him; awaken- ing in his breast an indignation that... ...tion of everything like comfort, cleanliness, and decency, it is liable to operate not only as a pretty strong banner against amiability of temper, bu... ...e year to join her husband. If you don’t want to be driven mad with yellow soap in your eye, young man,’ said Mr Tapley to the second urchin, who was ... ... along the street, with Mark at his heels, his immoral sense was in active operation; prompting him to the utter- ance of some rather sanguinary remar... ...ime appeared to be steadily engaged in subjecting some given amount to the operation of every known rule in figures; adding to it, taking from it, mul... ... from which even rabbits and birds could not remove the smell of shav- ing-soap. Poll had something of the bird in his nature; not of the hawk or eagl... ...re for ‘em.’ The meek little barber stood gazing at him with the brush and soap-dish in his hand, stirring them round and round in a ludi- crous uncer... ... man. He wouldn’t have been washed, if he’d had his own way.’ ‘She put the soap in my mouth,’ said the unfortunate patient feebly. ‘Couldn’t you keep ...

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...re just of the same colour, but a striking test of the difference in their opera- tion was seen in the demeanour of Trip, the black-and-tan terrier, w... ...nd of her round nose rather shiny from a recent and hurried application of soap and water. “Here she is!” said the captain, lifting her up and setting... ...or, as he hurried along it, echoed to his favourite song from the Beggar’s Opera, “When the heart of a man is oppressed with care.” Not an heroic stra... ... un- soundness and general ignorance which was palpable in all his farming operations. He hated to see the fellow lift the pewter pint to his mouth in... ... space in front of the house, the games began. There were, of course, well-soaped poles to be climbed by the boys and youths, races to be run by the o... ...th some contempt at these informal greetings which required no official co-operation from the clerk, began to hum in his musical bass, “Oh what a joyf...

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...hold, where the fumes were already heavy, and Jenkin was on deck directing operations, when he found his orders were no longer answered from be- low: ... ...ketch- ing; his evenings, when they were free, at the theatre. Here at the opera he discovered besides a taste for a new art, the art of music; and it... ...aratus will be wanted should all go well, and that will be another nervous operation. Fifteen miles are safely in; but no one knows better than I do t... ...-water stream falls into the sea, and took in water. This is rather a long operation, so I went a walk up the valley with Mr. Liddell. The coast here ... ...Stevenson ‘June 24. ‘THE WHOLE DAY spent in dredging without success. This operation consists in allowing the ship to drift slowly across the line whe... ...e father with his sons. ‘JAN. 15TH, 1875. – Frewen contemplates suspending soap bubbles by silk threads for experimental purposes. I don’t think he wi...

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...is based upon the assumption that not only Energy: but Time and Space as well operate by the same Dynamic of Balanced Splitting or Splitness. This ... ...task requiring all focus of attention and awareness be concentrated upon this operation. Using a flint chip requires an equal degree of concentratio... ...e of Inner and Outer awareness. So... our Inner Universe-Awareness or self; operates reflectively independent of the Outer Universe: creating abst... ...re. The Inner-Observer shifted over mostly to one side of this Triality. It operates mostly in the conscious area of our Inner Awareness. We becam... .... The more obviously fake it is, the more ludicrous and grotesque the entire soap-opera posturing is; the more they love it. They are in love with... ...jobs like working for Niemen Marcus, or getting huge salaries as bit actors on soap THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect ... ...me identical labyrinth-pattern design. Huh? You mean if you glue a bar of soap to a dog, or glue a piece of wood to your nose: it means the same ... ...ow you their true face. This is precisely the level of human corruption most Soap Operas mimic. This is precisely what most literature and fiction... ...come even more unhappy than the majority of consumers. The boring idiocy of soap operas is based upon an endless tearing away of secrets, and lies,...

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... carv ings, were well enough, but that was the stopping place. There was no soap, no matches, no looking glass — except a metal one, about as powerf... ...t fulness when I got nearer and read this sign on his tabard: “Persimmon’s Soap — All the Prime Donna Use It.” That was a little idea of my own, and... ...thur’s Court Mark Twain 83 and then explain to the lords and ladies what soap was; and if the lords and ladies were afraid of it, get them to try ... ...at no experi ment, however desperate. that could convince the nobility that soap was harmless; if any final doubt remained, he must catch a hermit — ... ...n he got well they swore him to go and get a bulletin board and disseminate soap and civilization the rest of his days. As a consequence the work er... ... was no other way to inform myself perfectly of their everyday life and the operation of the laws upon it. If I went among them as a gentleman, ther... ...re which had been left by such people as a testimony. In other places people operated on a patient’s mind, with out saying a word to him, and cured h... ... of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in opera tion. I was shrewd enough to make all offices connected with the p... ... At dawn I sent an order to the factories and to all our great works to stop operations and remove all life to a safe dis tance, as everything was go...

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...inutes on the other side of the world, or being watched in our most secret operations by unsuspected eyes. It happened that I was the immediate wit- n... ...s though—how can I express it?—I not only saw but felt through an inverted opera-glass. “That stuff,” he said. He put his hand to his forehead. “I oug... ...y and the next. I knew more and more certainly that I should die under the operation; at times I think I was in- clined to pose to myself. The doctors... ...was feeling the gravest doubt as to his own wis- dom in the conduct of the operation. Mowbray’s thoughts, too, I could see. He was thinking that Haddo... ... side I felt a subdued feeling that could scarce be spoken of as pain. The operation had not killed me. And I perceived, sud- 123 H.G . Wells denly, ... ...e towards him, in front of the chill wind that was blowing uphill, much as soap-bubbles drive before a draught. And as he looked at the nearest of tho... ...t buds and stems round his looking-glass, a dia- gram to catch his eye, if soap should chance to spare it, above his washing basin. He missed several ...

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...hether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg- grater instead of soap. She was tall and bony, and almost al- ways wore a coarse apron, faste... ... accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as... ...n bowls in sinks, and my head was put under taps of water-butts, and I was soaped, and kneaded, and towelled, and thumped, and harrowed, and rasped, u... ... had never parted from him before, and what with my feelings and what with soap-suds, I could at first see no stars from the chaise-cart. But they twi... ...words, he released me – which I was glad of, for his hand smelt of scented soap – and went his way down-stairs. I wondered whether he could be a docto... ...uld not discuss my prospects without having me before him – as it were, to operate upon – and he would drag me up from my stool (usually by the collar... ... his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand. “I wish to have a private conference with you two,”... ... her and the Brandleys on the water; there were picnics, fete days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, through which I pursued ...

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...y, with her petty coquetries and devices for attract ing attention at the Opera and elsewhere, is a target for his contempt. “Woman is a stumbling bl... ... was just preparing to go to the theatre. His untidy room smelt of scented soap and eau de Cologne. “That’s awful, old chap,” said Mahin, when Mitia t... ...ng stand and dressing table was ready for use and properly laid out – his soap, his tooth and hair brushes, his nail scissors and files. He washed hi...

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...tevenson: V ol. 1 I go every night to the theatre, except when there is no opera. I cannot stand a play yet; but I am already very much improved, and ... ...le, and sat and brooded over a schnitt (half-glass) for nearly an hour. An opera is far more real than real life to me. It seems as if stage illu- sio... ... this hardest to swallow and most con- ventional illusion of them all – an opera – would never stale upon me. I wish that life was an opera. I should ... ...e overture to Norma, and I know it’s a good one, for I bitterly wanted the opera to go on; I had just got thoroughly interested – and then no curtain ... ... bird called the Piasseur, cheerfulest of sylvan creatures, an ideal comic opera in itself. ‘Come along, what fun, here’s Pan in the next glade at pic... ...eresiarch; and I know no better. Whaur the devil did ye get thon about the soap? Is it altogether your own? I never heard it elsewhere; and yet I susp...

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...een a godsend to me, a prize in the lottery to me, you were at the Italian Opera. You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and ... ...parsit, with a dignity se renely mournful, ‘was familiar with the Italian Opera at a very early age.’ 41 CHARLES D ICKENS ‘Egad, ma’am, so was I,’ s... ...itability. Then the ques tion arises, Is this one disparity sufficient to operate as a bar to such a marriage? In considering this question, it is no... ...t holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric. An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eye brows and the Roman... ...hy waters. CHAPTER IV—MEN AND BROTHERS ‘OH, MY FRIENDS, the down trodden operatives of Coketown! Oh, my friends and fellow countrymen, the slaves of... ... the street after his father in law had left him, swelling like an immense soap bubble, with out its beauty. Mr. Gradgrind went home, locked himself ...

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...is feet against the wall. After this he had to run off to lectures, to the operation-room, to the hospital, and re- turn to his home at the other end ... ... mar- 13 Flaubert ried man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the opera- tion theatre as of old. The warm smell of poultices mingled in his b... ...y little touch with the lancet. The steward sent to T ostes to pay for the operation reported in the evening that he had seen some superb cherries in ... ... fashions, the addresses of the best tailors, the days of the Bois and the Opera. In Eugene Sue she studied descriptions of furniture; she read Balzac... ...vary “Oh, German music; that which makes you dream.” “Have you been to the opera?” “Not yet; but I shall go next year, when I am living at Paris to fi... ...ould have the goodness to order Camus, the grocer, to let me have a little soap, it would really be more convenient for you, as I needn’t trouble you ...

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...ut she did not regard it as a part of her work to dilate on the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- duced the social a... ...e bath- ers are carried in omnibuses. Till one o’clock ladies bathe, which operation, however, does not at all militate against the bathing of men, bu... ...ask questions as to England’s policy. What will she do for cotton when her operatives are really pressed? Will she break the blockade? Will she insist... ... blockade, let her be driven to what shifts she might in providing for her operatives. “Ah! that’s what we fear,” a very stanch patriot said to me, if... ...y to England. It is her sympathy that the North- ern men desire, to her co-operation that they would will- ingly trust, on her honesty that they would... ...ome. For myself, I don’t much care for dirt, having a strong reli- ance on soap and water and scrubbing-brushes. No one regards poisons who carries an...

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...a washing-stand that looked as if it had stood for ages in a hail of dirty soapsuds, and a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts, each terminating ... ...uld have ac- cepted an illness, a legacy, a feast, starvation—anything but soap. To enable this girl to earn her few weekly shillings, it was necessar... ...t that usually meant in Society, and confided in her being a dancer at the Opera, where young men moving in Society are usually fascinated.’ She passe... ... perhaps, to have been left hanging a trifle too long before that friendly operation of cut- ting down, he outwardly maintained an equable composure. ... ... by the son of V enus; and for Mrs Plornish there was no such music at the Opera as the small internal flutterings and chirpings wherein he would disc... ... She was making the tea when Arthur came in, and now hastily finished that operation. ‘Papa,’ she said, all mystery and whisper, as she shut down the ... ...ut postpone- ment; being further bound over to accompany the ladies to the Opera in the evening. At dinner-time Mr Sparkler rose out of the sea, like ...

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