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...nd Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street....

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...ays he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley , Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to affo... ...week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called “Mr.” to distinguish him from the bigger boys, w... ...the little shop in the West Street. He was called “Mr.” to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of st... ...es of “literature” to be precise, learn- ing extracts (preferably pompous) from the plays of William Shakespeare—and then to school and duty. The time... ...ng on the tea-caddy, and went forth to his evening “preparation duty.” The West Street was empty and shining golden with the sunset. Its beauty seized... ...ending not to know gave her something to say. Mr. Lewisham nodded. “Of all people! Then”—frankly—”you have just found me out.” “I am afraid I have,” s... ...“It is nothing—it’s the proper thing for me to do, you know.” “But so many people won’t do it. Schoolmasters are not usually so—chivalrous.” He was ch... ... was: Mizpah. It was in Old English lettering and evidently very carefully executed. Where had she seen it before? It quite dominated all the rest of ...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your r...

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................ 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .............................................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart disapproved. ............................................................................................

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................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY , whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led h... ........................................ 96 A TOUR THROUGH W ALES—in a LETTER from a YOUNG LADY— ........................................................... ...wn Elms sheltered us from the East—. A Bed of full-grown Nettles from the West—. Before us ran the murmuring brook and behind us ran the turn-pike r... ...nly inconvenience attending it was the Scarcity of Plays which for want of People to fill the Characters, we could perform. We did not mind trifles h... ...ly removed from each other, is vastly moving. I live in Perthshire, You in Sussex. We might meet in London, were my Father disposed to carry me there... ...ut one genteel family since we came. Mr and Mrs Marlowe are very agreable people; the ill health of their little boy occasioned their arrival here; y... ...e of every Music book, being the sen- timents I imagine of the composer. I executed my Plan with great Punctuality. I can not say success, for alas! ... ...f of their narrow souls and prejudiced Judgements who accuse her. She was executed in the Great Hall at Fortheringay Castle (sacred Place!) on Wednes... ...m. On T uesday we shall pay Morning Visits—On Wednesday we are to dine at Westbrook. On Thursday we have Company at home. On Friday we are to be at ...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...s pleasantly, with its white cottages, and orchard and other trees, on the western slope of a green hill looking far and wide over green meadows and l... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ... you about these; but perhaps you may like to hear of my expedition to the West. “I wrote to Polvellan (Mr. Buller’s) to announce the day on which I i... ...a ship was hired, or purchased, in the Thames; due furnishings began to be executed in it; arms and stores were gradually got on board; Torrijos with ... ...pportunity for taking orders having come; and as Rector of Herstmonceux in Sussex, a place patrimonially and otherwise endeared to him, was about ente... ... aims at containing great things; a multum in parvo after its sort; and is executed here and there with undeniable success. The style is free and flow...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...ve not forgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for ... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...ndon,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London, twelve miles to the north-west, was making itself felt more and more. But this was only the beginning... ...And we went on a reading party that Easter to a place called Pulborough in Sussex, where there is a fishing inn and a river that goes under a bridge. ... ...e gratifying spectacle of three trucks 120 The New Machiavelli laden with executed orders. Then we went up a creaking outside staircase to his little... ...d very good. She bought some pictures very well indeed; there was a little Sussex landscape, full of wind and sunshine, by Nicholson, for my study, th...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...treets which are really inhabited cluster round that half of it which runs westward from the Capitol. The eastern end, running from the front of the C... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ... by the national government. We should not willingly trust to Yorkshire or Sussex to give us their contributions to the national income, especially if... ...us their contributions to the national income, especially if Yorkshire and Sussex had small Houses of Commons of their own in which that question of g... ...iberty, and property safe under their laws, and have also so writ- ten and executed their laws as to secure their people from legal oppression,—I main...

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...d the authority I had for the story of the romance:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a manor, anciently belonging (as a ... ...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ...years; who has seen the sun set where it rises, and has travelled till the west has become the east.” “Thou hast brought back one traveller’s gift wit... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ... a sudden effort to arise, his adversary drew back his arm, and would have executed his threat, but that the blow was ar- rested by the grasp of Micha... ...d the Earl. “Nay, my lord, you must give me leave to conclude my picture. —Sussex governs England—the Queen’s health fails— the succession is to be se... ...ght ripen into a warmer pas- sion. There was a contract of future marriage executed betwixt us, upon her father’s intercession; but to comply with her... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin...

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...luable details. As a matter of fact in 1875 or ‘6, when very young, in the West Indies or rather in the Gulf of Mexico, for my contacts with land were... ...hat was interesting was that he would boast of it openly. He used to say: “People think I make a lot of money in this schooner of mine. But that is no... ...lor, disgusted with the sordid meanness of that impenitent thief, deserted from the schooner. The whole episode takes about three pages of his autobio... ... the mere story. A rascal steals a large parcel of a valuable commodity—so people say. It’s either true or untrue; and in any case it has no value in ... ... shadowy Sierra and its misty Campo for mute wit- nesses of events flowing from the passions of men short-sighted in good and evil. Such are in very t... ...Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a great continent. Sky, land, and sea disappear together out ... ...ed, imprisoned, killed in the battles of senseless civil wars, barbarously executed in ferocious proscriptions, as though the government of the countr... ... who considered themselves most unfor- tunate at not having been summarily executed. It was a diminishing company of nearly naked skeletons, loaded wi... ...e a niece—married a parson—most worthy man, incumbent of a small parish in Sussex; no end of children. I was never married myself. A 406 Nostromo sai...

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.............. 154 I. ON CHARLES EARL OF DORSET, IN THE CHURCH OF WITHYAM, IN SUSSEX. ............................. 154 II. ON SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL.81 ..... ........................................... 155 IV . ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ............................................ 156 V . INTENDED FOR MR ROWE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...l Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One this I was forced to, before I had executed half my design, for the machinery was entirely wanting to complete... ...which he was tried and ex- pelled.—P . 181 ‘Cropp’d our ears:’ said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins, the captain of an...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...s they were very powerful, and very much believed in, and as they made and executed the laws, and paid no taxes, I don’t wonder that they liked their ... ...nd settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled in the West, and called their kingdom Wessex; the Northfolk, or Norfolk people, es... ...d been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to ... ...d of these Londoners and other forces, and fol lowed the King to Lewes in Sussex, where he lay encamped with his army. Before giving the King’s force... ...ut to be high treason, and he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be executed. They took the poor old lord outside the town of Winches ter, and...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...less and sordid, without poverty. Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery tow... ...shaven naval man, flushing sensitively. ‘Sounds as if you were going to be executed instead of mar- ried. The immortality of the soul!’ repeated the b... ...ning of the catkins. A heavy, copper-coloured beam of light came in at the west window, gilding the outlines of the children’s heads with red gold, an... ...on and ugly. But there were several negro statues, wood- 70 carvings from West Africa, strange and disturbing, the carved negroes looked almost like ... ...bed of snow, were two small figures: Gudrun dropped on her knees, like one executed, and Loerke sitting propped up near her. That was all. Gerald stum...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...me: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pass a few days at Chiswick; after whi... ...bin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment... ...ere; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst jumping, thumping and laughter; the signal which announced ... ...promised he’d let me have Jibb’s field and the Six-acre Meadow—and much he executed his promises! And it’s to this man’s son—this scoundrel, gambler, ... ...ever and in- flammatory symptoms set in, and Mrs. Bute was forced to leave Sussex for Hampshire. As soon as ever Bute was re- stored, she promised to ...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...pound, at the very same time when the rich parish of Saint George’s, Hanover-square, is rated at about sevenpence in the pound, Paddington at about fo... ... suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth about it, must look to ... ...The British Boaxe, was announced to be given at the close of the evening. In an evil hour, I determined to wait for this Boaxe, as became a Briton. It... ... from which he takes a scrap of paper. On this scrap of paper is written, by Squire Pouncerby, of The Grove, ‘Please to direct the Bearer, a poor but ... ... sat contemplating one another across bare counters, while the wasps, who seemed to have taken military possession of the town, and to have placed it ...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...me: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pass a few days at Chiswick; after whi... ...bin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment... ...ere; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst jumping, thumping and laughter; the signal which announced ... ...promised he’d let me have Jibb’s field and the Six-acre Meadow—and much he executed his promises! And it’s to this man’s son—this scoundrel, gambler, ... ...ever and in- flammatory symptoms set in, and Mrs. Bute was forced to leave Sussex for Hampshire. As soon as ever Bute was re- stored, she promised to ...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise... ...e England. The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marching at their ease, without e... ...alled Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the western-most of these narrow places, when the Thessalians and Phocians, who... ...ursuers. The order for their death had been given; but, before it could be executed, M. de Lescure had raised his head to exclaim, ‘It is too horrible...

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... London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict with the gale by some sly strip of slipperiness, abound... ...at distinctive article of his attire. At the same time, for these friendly people about him to share the fun of the annoyance, he looked hastily brigh... ...ockney crow-word of the day, or a word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea o... ... the roar of cries and stilled it, by capping the cries in turn, until the people cheered him; and the effect of the scene upon Victor Radnor disposed... ...an: ‘ Anything doing in the City?’ For Mr. Fenellan’s proper station faced Westward. The reply was deferred until they had reached the pave- ment, whe... ...qual, demands perpetually upon stomach and head. CHAPTER V THE LONDON WALK WESTWARD IN THAT NATIONALLY interesting Poem, or Dramatic Satire, once famo... ...culent calling had carried him down to near upon the borders of Surrey and Sussex, some miles beyond the new big house of a Mister whose name he had f... ...ces. The homage we pay him flatters us. A delightful overture, masterfully executed; ended too soon; except that the programme forbids the ordinary in... ...nor’s lawyer. Could it be, that there was no Will written? Could a Will be executed now? The moral was more forcibly suggested. Dudley beheld this Mr....

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...ng to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to... ...d Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its name from a tradition, common to many other farmhouses within a circuit of the m... ...ective reading of her Bible, and to thoughts upon flowers eternal. Country people are not inclined to tolerate the dis- play of a passion for anything... ...ng to build up her children to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creati... ... the other guests, listening, gloved and bonneted, to the bells of Wrexby, West of the hills, and of Fenhurst, Northeast. The squire came in to them, ... ...ow for news of my darlin’. Yes, William; and my poor husband’s cottage, in Sussex— seventeen pound per annum. That, if you’ll be goodness it- self, an... ...h the new-fallen snow, though the stars sparkled coldly . A fleet of South-westerly rainclouds had been met in mid-sky by a sharp puff from due North,... ...a’s action enviously. Master Gammon bade him go to a certain churchyard in Sussex, and inspect a particular tombstone, upon which the ages of his ance... ...t, had led her to speak falsely for a good purpose. Was it not righteously executed? Away from the tragic figure in the room, she might have thought s...

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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ... war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great nationa... ...f that wild and rustic character, which belonged to the wood- lands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had ... ...d, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commisera... ...ded the outer and inner bank of the trench. There was an entrance from the west through the outer stockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a... ... both of which were adorned with some attempts at tapestry, or embroidery, executed with bril- liant or rather gaudy colouring. Over the lower range o... ...y withdrew, from the consciousness that no act of violence could be safely executed in that place and presence. Cedric, whose feelings were all of a r... ...h, was filling the Norman sails, and impelling them to the fatal shores of Sussex?—Who would have thought that Harold, within a few brief days, would ...

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...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ...e that a great deal of walking would ultimately bring me to St. Paul’ s or Westminster Abbey; to anything else I was indifferent. Toward sunset my fra... ...earth in perfect trust. We spoke of our old Sunday walks to St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey as of a day that had its charm. Our pew among a fashionab... ...upervision and my enforced attendance, just as revolutionary criminals are executed. I felt like the survi- vor of friends, who had seen their blood f... ... whip, who begged me to call on him with reference to the candidature of a Sussex borough: ‘that is,’ said he, 387 George Meredith turning to Graf Ke... ...om, and at once the exordium and peroration of his eloquence. Spare me the Sussex accent on your return.’ My father read out the sentences of this let...

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...ull of the utmost ea- gerness, as every two or three minutes she looked up from the book which she held in her hand to examine the clock over the stat... ...ance to “T eignmouth,” and at the same moment vari- ous travellers emerged from the different vehicles. 4 Henrietta’s Wish Her eye eagerly sought out... ...y can take root without some local inter- est, and as to acquaintance, the people are always changing.” “And there is nothing to do,” added Fred; “not... ...amma. Busy Bee says so, and she knows, living in London and seeing so many people as she does.” “I never saw anyone so like a queen,” said Fred. “No, ... ...eam in the garden, Fred, “said Henrietta, “and looking into that beautiful Sussex coom, that there is a drawing of in mamma’s room.” “What size is it?... ...ften told her, were more beautiful than anything she was likely to find in Sussex. Other scenes there were, connected with her grandmother, which she ... ...gford was not overfatigued when she ar- rived at Uncle Geoffrey’s house at Westminster. The cordial- ity of their greeting may be imagined, as a visit... ...bright morning.” “We will go directly,” said Queen Bee; “we will go by the west turning, so that Henrietta may see the Pleasance.” “My dear! the west ... ...ng themselves the next morning to Westminster. They arrived at Allonfield, executed various commissions with which Mrs. Langford had been delighted to...

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...,” he wrote; by which avowal it may be seen that youth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a ha... ...r Austin Absworthy Bearne Feverel, Baronet, of Raynham Abbey, in a certain Western county folding Thames: a man of wealth and honour, and a some- what... ...e heart, and his friend all his confidence. When he selected Denzil Somers from among his college chums, it was not on account of any similarity of di... ...iven two or three blazing dinners in the great hall he would have deceived people generally, as he did his relatives and intimates. He was too sick fo... ...ose troublesome appendages of success. He caused himself to be required by people who could serve him; feared by such as could injure. Not that he wen... ... liant sun. Banks of moveless cloud hung about the horizon, mounded to the west, where slept the wind. Promise of a great day for Raynham, as it prove... ...n encouraging smile through plen- tiful cap-puckers, there hung a passably executed half-figure of a naval officer in uniform, grasping a telescope un... ...e two friends shook hands for the first time since the great deed had been executed. Deep was the Old Dog’s delight to hear the praises of his Beauty ... ...ked with eagerness. Brayder handed my lord a letter. It was dated from the Sussex coast, signed “Richard,” and was worded thus: “My beautiful Devil!— ...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...t be expected I’m sure—quite wonderful if otherwise— Doctor Parker Peps’ s West-End practice—‘ ‘Thank you,’ said the Doctor, ‘quite so. It would appea... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...aking in the City for an hour or more; and the human tide is still rolling westward. ‘The streets have thinned,’ as Mr Gills says, ‘very much.’ It thr... ...o himself from persons of distinction, adds ‘P . Toots, Esquire, Brighton, Sussex,’ and to preserve them in his desk with great care. These ceremonies... ...Bank, where quartettes of the most tormenting and excruciating nature were executed every Wednesday evening by a private party . Mr Carker was a gentl... ...y without a word from her. Mrs Skewton made their plans for every day, and executed them. Some- times Edith sat in the carriage when they went to make...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...t be expected I’m sure—quite wonderful if otherwise— Doctor Parker Peps’ s West-End practice—‘ ‘Thank you,’ said the Doctor, ‘quite so. It would appea... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...aking in the City for an hour or more; and the human tide is still rolling westward. ‘The streets have thinned,’ as Mr Gills says, ‘very much.’ It thr... ...o himself from persons of distinction, adds ‘P . Toots, Esquire, Brighton, Sussex,’ and to preserve them in his desk with great care. These ceremonies... ...Bank, where quartettes of the most tormenting and excruciating nature were executed every Wednesday evening by a private party . Mr Carker was a gentl... ...n, ‘I’ve the pleasure of his ac- quaintance. I waited upon him down on the Sussex coast there, with my young friend W al’r, when—in short, when there ...

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........................................................... 290 CHAPTER XXXII WESTMINSTER HALL ............................................................. ...d Least stains of gore-guiltiness lie; To the hearts of the just her blood from the dust Not in vain for mercy will cry. Poor scape-goat of nations an... ...shed oak, the walls hung with leather, gilded in some places and depending from cornices, whose ornaments proved to an initiated eye, that this had on... ... Queen Mary; at another had sailed under some of the great mariners of the western main. There he had acquired substance enough to make the offer of h... ...one Master Snigg, or Sniggius, for the children of the numerous colony who peopled the castle. Girls, as well as boys, were taught there, and thus Cis... ...ere among the unnamed dead who loaded the trees in the rear of the army of Sussex, or whether he had escaped beyond seas. Richard T albot still remain... ...dgefield part of her regular rounds, and took little commissions which she executed for the household of Sheffield, who were, as the Cavendish sisters... ... go and spoil it all with folly about Papists, and Spaniards, and grown-up people’s non- sense that nobody cares about!” Cis had a rare power over bot... ...wool, a piece of unbleached linen, and a skein of white thread. Queen Mary executed therewith an exquisite piece of em- broidery, which having escaped...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ...ndia; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and ... ... at least in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm, the 50 The Wealth o... ... for reducing that of the public debts; a purpose which has sometimes been executed. France is, perhaps, in the present times, not so rich a country a... ...ssible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the l... ...lace through the whole kingdom. But in the particular counties of Kent and Sussex, the restric- tions are still more troublesome. Every owner of wool ...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...he night in midwinter, often, looking for the mountains down in her native West country, covered with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a ta... ...un. The half-moon fell rayless and paler than the fan of fleeces pushed up Westward, high overhead, them- selves dispersing on the blue in downy feath... ...e rode out of his Canterbury quarters across the country to the borders of Sussex, where his uncle Lord Levellier lived, on the ridge of ironstone, ne... ...were at an end between them. No explanation was added; a single sen- tence executed the work, and in the third person. He did not once reflect on the ...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...plume and apron of variegated feathers, decorated the lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The poor slave... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...waters 18 Thackeray of the Cam, and under the walls of Balliol and Sidney Sussex. The Duke of Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a ... ...e Carbineers of Foy, and the Grenadiers of the Guard under Drouet d’Erlon, executed a carambolade on the right, with the precision which became those ... ...SIDERABLE SENSATION has been excited in the upper and lower circles in the West End, by a startling piece of good fortune which has befallen James Plu... ...ld but get that fellow’s 156 Thackeray horse, thought I, I am safe; and I executed at once the plan which I hoped was to effect my rescue. I had, as ...

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...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ...e. Upon this is built a tower, on whose top the heads of such as have been executed for high treason are placed on iron spikes: we counted above thirt... ...l palace of Greenwich; above, that of Rich- mond; and between both, on the west of London, rise the noble buildings of Westminster, most remarkable fo... ... with six gates, which, as they were rebuilt, acquired new names. Two look westward: 1. Ludgate, the oldest, so called from King Lud, whose name is ye... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...Lord Mohun of Dunster, wife of Edward, Duke of Y ork. Frances, Countess of Sussex, of the ancient family of Sidney. Thomas Bromley, Chancellor to Quee... ...nwealth during the reign of Henry VII., who, being of a noble extract, was executed the first year of Henry VIII., but not thereby so extinct but that...

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...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...itons, some up into the North, some into the mountains that rise along the West of the is- land, and some into its west point. The Britons used to cal... ...told you of had all fallen into the hands of one king. Egbert, King of the West Saxons, who reigned at Winches- ter, is counted as the first king of a... ...ikeness of his second little boy, named William. He landed at Pevensey, in Sussex, and set up his camp while Harold was away in the North, fighting wi... ...Thomas More’s good daughter Margaret, came and kissed him on his way to be executed; and afterwards, when his head was placed on a spike on London Bri... ...s pockets full of peas from the fields. He was taken to London, tried, and executed. He did not deserve much pity, but James ought not to have let the...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...r the sacrifices made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was o... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...the elm. The London road stretched away towards the rising sun, and to the west were swelling hills and peaks, behind which many a time Harry Esmond s... ...would only sigh and shake her head. Before those fatal decrees in life are executed, there are always secret pre- visions and warning omens. When ever... ... Lord— my Lord Murderer—(I will never name him)—was let loose, a woman was executed at Tyburn for stealing in a shop. But a man may rob another of his... ...h at Winchester—do you love cock-fighting, Harry?—between the gentlemen of Sussex and the gentlemen of Hampshire, at ten pound the battle, and fifty p...