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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. T...

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...Chapter One W E WERE IN CLASS when the head-master came in, followed by a “new fellow,” not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant car- ryin... ...ory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as be- comes his age.” The “new fellow,” standing in the corner behind the door so that he could hardly... ...ding amid the green corn, soon lengthened out, and broke up into different groups that loitered to talk. The fiddler walked in front with his violin, ... ... the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arb... ...rawled or rested. The sun pierced with a ray the small blue bubbles of the waves that, breaking, fol- lowed each other; branchless old willows mirrore... ...along the slippery banks. They had often walked there to the murmur of the waves over the moss-covered pebbles. How bright the sun had been! What happ... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ... ...n be- gan to sing— “One night, do you remember, we were sailing,” etc. Her musical but weak voice died away along the waves, and the winds carried off... ...at is to say, the beginning of win- ter, that she seemed seized with great musical fervour. One evening when Charles was listening to her, she began t...

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...e criminal to delay any longer calling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many ... ...ment has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals made to the American Minister at Paris; and in spite of subse- quent action taken by th... ... ever since I received your cable, arrived this morning. My son arrived in New York on January 1st. He was in bad shape physically as a result of his ... ...l reminder of official hospitality. He is, at present, visiting friends in New 7 e e cummings York. If he were here, I am sure he would join with me ... ... to approach the Renault (in which B.’s baggage was already deposited) and waved me into the F .I.A.T ., bed, bed-roll and all; whereupon t-d leaped i... ...window I saw my friend drive away with t-d Number 2 and Nemo; then, having waved hasty farewell to all les Américains that I knew—three in number—and ... ... voice: “O Jack, give me a cigarette.” A handsome face, dark, Latin smile, musical fingers strong. I waded suddenly through a group of gendarmes (they... ...s personal and exclusive use. All this time he has been singing loudly and musically the following sumptu- ously imaginative ditty: “mEEt me tonIght... ...acé was the kinetic aspect of that institution; the arrivals, singly or in groups, of nouveaux of sundry nationalities whereby our otherwise more or l...

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...re in right with him, but the lieutenant’s a stinker … . Where you from?” “New York,” said the rookie, a little man of thirty with an ash-colored face... ... ye, when you get home, rookie … . But you’re in luck.” “Why?” “Bein’ from New York. The corporal, Tim Sidis, is from New York, an’ all the New York f... ...re a pair of eyes glinted in the white flick- ering light from the screen. Waves of laughter or of little exclamations passed over them. They were all... ...limpse of Chris standing with his arm about Andrews’s shoulders. They both waved. Fuselli grinned and expanded his chest. They were just rookies still... ...d went unsteadily to the rail, keeping, as he threaded his way through the groups that covered the transport’s after deck, a little of his cowboy’s bo... ...buttons on their khaki uniforms, among whom was a good sprinkling of lanky Americans. “T ommies,” said Fuselli to himself. After standing in line a wh... ...ad just made a coup de main and captured a whole trenchful.” “Of who?” “Of Americans—of us!” “The hell you say!” “That’s a goddam lie,” shouted a blac... ...shadow. When he tried to seize hold of his thoughts, to give them definite musical expression in his mind, he found himself suddenly empty, the way a ... ...Vain En- deavor? I guess you didn’t go round with the intellectual set … . Musical people often don’t … . Of course I don’t mean the Village. All anar...

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......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ...eading those fine apostrophes to sleep, to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as 18 Essays an ebbing sea. I feel the ete... ... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...corn, grind it in his hand-mill, and bake his bread himself.” Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not... ... party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God. And so in groups where debate is earnest, and especially on high questions, the compa... ...bulk left out, and the spirit or moral of it contracted 180 Essays into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil? But the artist must... ...rt of human character,—a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and th...

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...ry thing, and had speculated very suc- cessfully in stocks of the Edgarton New Bank, as it was for- merly called. By these and other means he had mana... ... eccentric manners—he is well known to almost every person who has visited New Bedford. I stayed at his school until I was sixteen, when I left him fo... ...s- ited these regions, had great weight, apparently, with the muti- neers, wavering, as they were, between half-engendered no- tions of profit and ple... ... the wind issues, and the windward bow of course receives the shock of the waves. In this situa- tion a good vessel will ride out a very heavy gale of... ...was not long after Captain Patten’s visit that Cap- tain Colquhoun, of the American brig Betsey, touched at the largest of the islands for the purpose... ...1, a Captain Haywood, in the Nereus, visited Tristan. He found there three Americans, who were residing upon the island to prepare sealskins and oil. ... ...ity of biche de mer than the oldest seamen among us had ever seen in those groups of the lower latitudes most celebrated for this article of commerce.... ...cid cast of beauty, and the thrilling and enthralling eloquence of her low musical language, made their way into my heart by paces so steadily and ste... ...could no longer bear the touch of her wan fingers, nor the low tone of her musical language, nor the lustre of her melancholy eyes. And she knew all t...

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... The better class of tourist was shocked at this, and sympathized with the new-comers. Miss Bartlett, in reply, opened her mouth as little as possible... ...ery interesting, and Lucy hurried over her breakfast, and started with her new friend in high spirits. Italy was coming at last. The Cock- ney Signora... ...r dog, and here and there a priest modestly edging to his Mass through the groups of tourists. But Mr. Emerson was only half interested. He watched th... ...Mr. Beebe was walking up to the Torre del Gallo with the Emersons and some American ladies. Would Miss Bartlett and Miss Honeychurch join the party? C... ...they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. You know the American girl in Punch who says: ‘Say, poppa, what did we see at Rome?’ And... ...radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed ... ... Lucy for several years, but only as a commonplace girl who happened to be musical. He could still remember his depression that after- noon at Rome, w... ...will tell you, that our earthly life provides.” It was now time for him to wave his hat at the approaching trio. He did not omit to do so. “She has le... ...ict me. No doubt I am neither artistic nor literary nor intellec- tual nor musical, but I cannot help the drawing-room furniture; your father bought i...

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...in it. The pictures were not attrac- tive, nor did they attract her—school groups, Watts’ “Sir Percival,” a dog running after a rabbit, a man running ... ..., so don’t be so chilly and cautious. I’ve just realized, looking at those groups, that you must have been at school together. Did you come much acros... ...s rather careful when he drove up to the fa- cade of his shop. “I like our new lettering,” he said thoughtfully. The words “Stewart Ansell” were repea... ...cker blue.” 36 The Longest Journey “Rather! He’s secretary to the college musical soci- ety.” “A. P. Carruthers?” “Yes.” Mr. Dawes seemed offended. H... ...to-date were said to be combined. The school doubled its numbers. It built new class-rooms, laboratories and a gymna- sium. It dropped the prefix “Gra... ... slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls; while Rickie, as each wave of vulgarity burst over him, sunk his head lower and lower, and wished... ...man road along by the straw sacks. His impulse was to retreat, but someone waved to him. It was Agnes. She waved continually, as much as to say, “Wait... ...e of criticism is quite a thing of the past. Have you seen the illustrated American edition?” “I don’t remember.” “Might I send you a copy? I think yo...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...g and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s genius which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell su... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...other and sister, the remaining children, were cared for by others. In his new home Edgar found all the luxury and advantages money could provide. He ... ...cted with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was faithful, punctual, industrious, thorough. N. P . Willis,... ...roper relation of parts, and to draw a correct outline, while the sec- ond groups, fills up and colors. Both of these Mr. Poe has displayed with singu... ...here they fell, but sunk slowly and steadily down, and commingled with the waves, while from the trunks of the trees other shadows were continually co... ...ip of, perhaps, four thousand tons. Although upreared upon the summit of a wave more than a hundred times her own altitude, her apparent size exceeded...

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...y confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and a few books. Here, however, after a long and very d... ..., even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — if we except, perhaps, the author of the “Curiosities of America... ...he sea. It came toward us with inconceivable swift- ness, throwing up huge waves of foam around its breast, and illuminating all that part of the sea ... ... of Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpi... ...y increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term ... ...tices among the Ferroe islands, “have no other cause than the collision of waves rising and falling, at flux and reflux, against a ridge of rocks and ... ...oam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of t... ...haps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognisable beau- ties, of musical science. I had learned, too, the very remark- able fact, that the s... ...elieved by occasional trees of gigantic height, growing singly or in small groups, both along the plateau and in the domain behind the wall, but in cl...

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...g deeply in all the influences of his age, he has from the first, at every new ep- och, stood forth to elucidate the new circumstances of the time; to... ...portions widely different in character: the products of the first, once so new and original, have long either directly or through the thou- sand thous... ...ds of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the publication of Götz, saw h... ...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ... German house, which unhappily came to pass, as after his death the choice wavered only between the king of Spain (afterwards), Charles V ., and the k... ...art. Seven years he serves for his beloved, without impatience and without wavering. His father-in-law, crafty like himself, and disposed, like him, t... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...e: and a man in a light jerkin was passing between the two above-mentioned groups, and, without troubling himself about them, directly up to the templ... ... on both the piano and the violin. The second, a true, good soul, likewise musical, enlivened the concerts which were often got up, no less than his e...

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...ur sorrow ,” scoff- ers said to him. Many even added that he was glad of a new comic part in which to play the buffoon, and that it was simply to make... ...d always hated his first mistress, Adelaida Ivanovna, took the side of his new mistress. He championed her cause, abus- ing Fyodor Pavlovitch in a man... ... eyes. The latter turned round, and noticing that Miusov was watching him, waved him a kiss. “Well, are you coming to the Superior?” Miusov asked Ivan... ...He used to dress up in a sheet as though it were a surplice, and sang, and waved some object over the dead cat as though it were a censer. All this he... ...d of Grushenka in a sort of rapture. She held out her hand with a charming musical, nervous little laugh, watched the “sweet young lady,” and obviousl... ... turned away, wringing his hands. Grushenka ran out of the house, laughing musically. Katerina Ivanovna went into a fit of hysterics. She sobbed, ... ... the witnesses for the defence and for the prosecution were separated into groups by the President, and whether it was arranged to call them in a cert... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO...

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...of the cow. The young woman was lying in the cowshed with a fine, healthy, new-born baby. The old maiden lady scolded the maids again for allowing the... ...e court, gentlemen,” said the usher, pointing to the door, with an amiable wave of his hand. All moved towards the door, pausing to let each other pas... ... the stomach, and, according to his doctor’s advice, he had begun trying a new treatment, and this had kept him at home longer than usual. Now, as he ... ...broken in and fed by others. There, with other men like himself, he had to wave a sword, shoot off guns, and teach others to do the same. He had no ot... ... Well, our guessing was no use. The Lord willed otherwise,” she went on in musical tones. “Is it possible? Have they sentenced you?” asked Theodosia, ... ...ar artists.” “Yes, that’s so,” said the watchman’s wife, and ran on in her musical strain, “they’re like flies after sugar.” “And here, too,” Maslova ... ...veral jailers. In the next room sat about twenty persons, men and women in groups and in pairs, talking in low voices. There was a writing table by th... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

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...you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead igno...

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...knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pio- neers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made a... ...aperone; and even the Times must sometimes 4 GB Shaw thank its stars that new plays are not produced every day, since after each such event its gravi... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...eantry, this effusive loyalty, this officious rising and uncover- ing at a wave from a flag or a blast from a brass band? Impe- rialism: Not a bit of ... ...’s like hearing an ironclad talk about being at the mercy of the winds and waves. OCTAVIUS. This is not fair, Jack. She is an orphan. And you ought to... ...it is impossible for us to under- take a joint arrangement. ANN. [in a low musical voice] Mamma— MRS WHITEFIELD. [hastily] Now, Ann, I do beg you not ... ...er for the day. Go as you please until morning. The Brigands disperse into groups lazily. Some go into the cave. Others sit down or lie down to sleep ... ... clarionet turning this tune into infinite sadness: (Here there is another musical staff.) The yellowish pallor moves: there is an old crone wandering...

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...ditorials and bits of news which he had not had time to read before quitting New Orleans the day before. Mr. Pontellier wore eye glasses. He was a man... ... there. Meanwhile he held on to his modest position in a mercantile house in New Orleans, where an equal familiarity with English, French and Spanish ... ...tion and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. She was an American woman, with a small infusion of French which seemed to have been... ... peg outside the door. The hat rested any way on her yellow brown hair, that waved a little, was heavy, and clung close to her head. Madame Ratignolle... ...e won’t look up.” Madame Lebrun flew to the window. She called “Victor!” She waved a handkerchief and called again. The young fellow below got into th... ...self in her selections. Edna was what she herself called very fond of music. Musical strains, well rendered, had a way of evoking pictures in her mind... ... thought much about the sun when it was shining. The people walked in little groups toward the beach. They talked and laughed; some of them sang. Ther... ...of the time I have lost splashing about like a baby!” She would not join the groups in their sports and bouts, but intoxicated with her newly conquere... ... verse ended with “si tu savais.” Robert’s voice was not pretentious. It was musical and true. The voice, the notes, the whole refrain haunted her mem...

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...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...ble flesh!” 16 EA Poe THE SPHINX DURING THE DREAD REIGN of the Cholera in New Y ork, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight... ... frolics—often enacted among us, at our mas- querades: but here it will be new altogether. Unfortunately, however, it requires a company of eight pers... ...once put into new commotion, and overshadowed by a world of umbrellas. The waver, the jostle, and the hum in- creased in a tenfold degree. For my own ... ...- tween a London populace and that of the most frequented 35 V olume Five American city. A second turn brought us into a square, bril- liantly lighte... ...ong summer hours, The golden light should lie, And thick young herbs and groups of flowers Stand in their beauty by. The oriole should build and t... ...s, Descend along the shore, With bands of noble gentlemen, And banners waved before; And gentle youth and maidens gay, And snowy plumes they wor... ...me, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, b... ...y dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top. Steals drowsily and musically Into the univeral valley. The rosemary nods upon the grave; The l...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...ne hand, there 7 John Dewey is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group —its future sole representatives— and the mat... ...bers who com- pose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rath... ...nd of education—that of direct tuition or schooling. In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mai... .... What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect. It seems ... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...ean- ingless transition unless it is consciously connected with the return wave of consequences which flow from it. When an activity is continued into... ...e action of the piano directed to accomplish the purpose of the piano as a musical instrument. It is the same with “pedagogical” method. The only diff... ...ano may produce, and the variations in technique required in the different musical results secured. Method in any case is but an effective way of empl...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ... is there in marriage that makes the thoughtful people so uncomfortable? A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE The answer to this question is an answer which every... ...- fashioned newspapers with effort, and were just taking with avidity to a new sort of paper, costing a halfpenny, which they believed to be extraordi... ...hich they called education; and of keeping pianos in their houses, not for musical purposes, but to torment their daugh- ters with a senseless stupidi... ...he street traffic to be or to know any better than the people who obey the wave of his hand. All concerted action involves subordi- nation and the app... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...e repeated here that no law, however stringent, can prevent polygamy among groups of people who choose to live loosely and be monogamous only in appea... ... out now. Mrs Collins knows. MRS GEORGE [a faint convulsion passing like a wave over her] I know more than either of you. One of you has not yet exhau...

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...he Nopolis Tea-Pot’—as nearly as I can recollect, this was the name of the new paper. The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant—not to say seve... ...alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every... ...ent to his lately-ac- quired charger —an attachment which seemed to attain new strength from every fresh example of the animal’s ferocious and demon-l... ...- dications of refined taste, many books, drawings, pots of flow- ers, and musical instruments. A cheerful fire blazed upon the hearth. At a piano, si... ...en I say that it bore resemblance to the fervid, chanting, monotonous, yet musical sermonic manner of Coleridge), I perceived symp- toms of even more ... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an... ...former situation, assumes the next move himself. Upon beating the game, he waves his head with an air of triumph, looks round compla- cently upon the ... ...le not now with such thoughts. To-morrow we will speak of this. Y our mind wavers, and its agitation will find relief in the exercise of simple memori...

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...ight be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philosophy than it had hith- erto ... ...dley, Stout, Bertrand Russell, Baldwin, Urban, Montague, and others, and a new interest in foreign works, German, French and Italian, which had either... ...nti-materialistic tendency of physics is the view of William James and the American new realists, according to which the “stuff” of the world is neith... ...ialistic tendency of physics is the view of William James and the American new realists, according to which the “stuff” of the world is neither mental... ...pot, my heart first stops, then palpitates, and my legs respond to the air-waves falling on my tympanum by quickening their movements. If I stumble as... ...all the “stuff” of the mind, and that everything else can be analysed into groups of sensations related in various ways, or characteristics of sensa- ... ...nsations related in various ways, or characteristics of sensa- tions or of groups of sensations. As regards belief, I shall give grounds for this view... ...say a second. Then, according to physics, what happens is that a spherical wave of light travels outward from the star through space, just as, when yo... ... learn to understand a concept as we learn to walk, dance, fence or play a musical instrument: it is a habit, i.e. an organized memory. General terms ...