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...sted newsman, not only in America, but also in most of the civilized world. A hundred and forty countries tuned in via satellite and Internet – over... ...t was too much for her to take. The divorce was messy and public. It had cost him a small fortune for the privilege of seeing his son one weekend a ... ...d Brand approached a huge, plum colored curved marble reception counter that was at least forty feet long with a sole receptionist seated in the cent... ...d out why he was late!” Barton just sat at his desk as Brand spieled out at least a weeks worth of investigation. “You should join the Department, ... ...his world by three nations. If they succeed, - J.Cross/Stone 144 our life will not be worth living. Our operation is vital to the defense of free... ... father and Gallucci never felt I was fit for leadership. I would like to go and prove my worth, especially to you.” “This is something completely f... ...e where you can meet without suspicion.” “Where?” Garza asked apprehensively. “At the zoo. It would have to involve your family though.” “My fa... ...ked, still not liking the idea. “In an hour, yes.” “When?” “Tomorrow’s Saturday. The zoo will be crowded. It’s the perfect cover, you’re just t... ...y. The zoo will be crowded. It’s the perfect cover, you’re just taking your family to the zoo.” “I was thinking more of an isolated place. I hate g...

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...trees. There was a hot sticky childish oozing within him. Within dreams his fortitude was like marshmallows when pulled off of sticks after roasting ... ...t he didn't have a girlfriend evidenced when no letters and photographs were forthcoming. Then one day he was gone and soon thereafter Sang Huin lost ... ... his bottom lip. Why did human beings end in such closure? Why did they gain worth and awareness of their being only in personal interactions? Was he ... ...rms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of them. He yearned for the love and... ...although he couldn't define what one was supposed to get on with or what was worthy of getting on to. They all could perceive the horror of everybody ... ...it of everything and nothing. Still, he told himself that this potpourri was worthwhile even though really he had his misgivings about it. He told him... ...ce in having done this mundane job: having taken the refugee children to the zoo with seventy year old Jesus and the fifty year old Sanchez; having sa... ...e of mind. Always following the grocery expedition she would take him to the zoo and feed him the cracker carcasses only after he matched the animal c... ... replicas to the beasts they were approaching and could say the names of the zoo animals in English, German, and Spanish. He couldn't sputter out the...

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... the whole, however, the rules are designed to govern all publications sent forth with the imprint of this Press. Concerning the character and cont... ...ademy (Handelsakademie) of Leipzig, the Paris Lyceum (Lyc6e de Paris); [the forty Im- mortals]; Civic Federation, Cook County Democracy, Tam- many ... ... in such connections as the following : the five books of Moses, the first forty psalms, the gospels and epistles of the New Testament, [the synopt... ..., 379. The green grass is growing, The morning wind is in it, 'Tis a tune worth the knowing, Though it change every minute. -Emerson, "To Ellen, ... ... unravel the methods of the physical forces; . . . . but . . . . I think it worth giving you these details, because it is a vague thing, though a pe... ...tive particle), compounds with, 188. Abbreviations: in litepry references, zoo; of bibhcal books, I.ut of, 99; 0.f names of states, 96; of t~tles ... ...209. Divided word to be avoided: at end of next to last line of paragraph, zoo; at bottom of recto page, am. Division of words: rules for, 19&a13;... ...th, 191. Subdivisions: in literary references, use of lower-- for, 97 (cf. zoo, a18); letters used to ind~cate, to be set m italics 56 use of p""F...

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... 461 The Pyramidal Absolute Pg 469 Abstraction and Actuality Pg 473 Human-worth and Tool-worth Pg 473 Identicality vs. Diversity Pg 494 The Lo... ... by new discoveries, and no new theories or models have successfully been put forth to explain these new discoveries. One fad theory after another ... ...Doing what with its upper limbs while it moves around? Swinging them back and forth of course like the branches of a tree in a breeze. Doing what wi... ...they do. When a human feels thirsty, they think about what they feel… “Is it worth getting up now and going to the fridge? Or should I go later … ... ...d plants that we kill every year; why? Because the actual living world is not worth looking at, as much as this boring, unchanging abstraction calle... ... their own small town to succeed in the outer world: where they gain fame and fortune: while they are still regarded back home as ‘that upstart, who…... ...uch we can teach them. To stick spoiled lonely bored, snobbish Pandas into a zoo environment and study them, thinking you will learn something by me... ...ve in caged, barred exclusive compounds: much like animals in a barred fenced zoo. They are inmates of their own exclusive cages, victims of their o... ...actual living tree. Between a half-dead animal trapped in a prison called a ‘zoo’, and an animal that is free to live as it wants to live in nature...

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... stranger was surely amusingly human, a caricature as all were, and hardly worthy of serious fixation. Engagement with him would be jocular levity and... ...r, as a jammed clock, it jammed so that something in the subconscious more worthy than a record of time or mere sentient essences of the present coul... ...ong before he was born and that here he was, just a few hours from turning forty himself (he was going to consider himself 39 for as long as he could)... ...ng this acrimony so unencumbered by Thai-Laotian etiquette was, it was not worth dying for; and so he retreated for a few moments on his bunk until da... ...nd the flash flood at their feet. The drone of these distant voices was of forty, and each repeated it to the other forty times. Forty was eighty time... ...d with a slight headache Nawin awakened. He instantly realized that he was forty; and although he told himself that he did not feel any different, and... ... ้ and inconsequential of a given day of his leisure and meditation at the zoo, various parks, and at park benches (the patterns of clouds, the black ...

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...ent away to be fin- ished in Germany. “Dear Sophy, I wish you had the good fortune, too!” “Oh! my galleons are coming when George has prospered a litt... ...the same. She is a good, hardworking girl though, and ambitious, and quite worth further training.” “I am glad of being able to secure it to her at le... ...d Thekla’s spending their holidays at Mr. Waring’s coun- try house.” “Very worthy people, you said. I remember T om Waring, a very nice boy; and Jessi... ... returned Magdalen, un- willing to pledge herself. “But haven’ t you got a fortune?” undauntedly demanded Thekla. “Something like it, Thekla. You shal... ...Agatha, was an industrious, ambitious girl, with very good abilities quite worth cultivating, though 12 Modern Broods not extraordinary; that Vera ha... ...ranny.” “Have you seen her since?” “No; but Phyllis tells me she has burst forth into liberty, bicycles, and wild doings that would drive her parents ... ...and Marilda, declaring she liked nothing so well as seeing children at the Zoo, wished to go with the party. All, save Mrs. Merrifield and her boy, ha...

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...ing a wholesome excitement with a prom- ising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the enno- bling pursuit and the healthful recreation... ...deceased, was at all times ready to make oath, and did again and again set forth upon his solemn assevera- tion, that he had frequently heard his gran... ... plainly susceptible of this meaning and no other, that it would be hardly worth recording in its original state, were it not a proof of what may be (... ...ned by six witnesses, each with his name and address in full: ‘The Lord No Zoo.’ It may be said—it has been said, for human wickedness has no limits—t... ... air of sadness. The fallen leaves, with which the ground was strewn, gave forth a pleas- ant fragrance, and subduing all harsh sounds of distant feet... ...oh you naughty, thoughtful, prudent thing!’ It was perfectly charming, and worthy of the Pastoral age, to see how the two Miss Pecksniffs slapped each... ...ble is capable of expressing. ‘Ladies, good evening. Come, Pinch, it’s not worth thinking of. I was right and you were wrong. That’s small matter; you...

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...of the ocean. The legends of an- cient times were even revived. Then burst forth the unending argument between the believers and the unbelievers in th... ...apidity of the influx proved that the force of the water was considerable. Fortunately this compartment did not hold the boilers, or the fires would h... ...corn may be amiable enough to hurry me to- wards the coast of France. This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the seas of Europe (for my p... ... his mas- ter as fifteen to twenty. May I be excused for saying that I was forty years old? But Conseil had one fault: he was ceremonious to a degree,... ...ommander Farragut. CHAPTER IV NED LAND CAPTAIN FARRAGUT was a good seaman, worthy of the frigate he commanded. His vessel and he were one. He was the ... ...ad with the air of a man who would not be convinced. “Notice one thing, my worthy Canadian,” I resumed. “If such an animal is in existence, if it inha... ...u? Have you suffi- ciently observed the wonders it covers, its fishes, its zoo- phytes, its parterres of sponges, and its forests of coral? Did you ca... ...d shadowy forms of castles and temples, clothed with a world of blossoming zoo- phytes, and over which, instead of ivy, sea-weed and fu- cus threw a t...

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... force his attention. Then she went back to her place. Marjory had brought forth a golden apple, red on one cheek, rather garish. “Oh!” exclaimed Mill... ...t he was looking unheeding at the music. Then sud- denly the piccolo broke forth, wild, shrill, brilliant. He was playing Mozart. The child’s face wen... ...izing. “Nay—I’m blest if you can. It’s no use tryin’ to educate a man over forty—not by book-learning. That isn’t saying he’s a fool, neither.” “And w... ...oney on both sides. It’s money we live for, and money is what our lives is worth— nothing else. Money we live for, and money we are when we’re dead: t... ...f Europe- ans. Except, dear God, that they’ve exterminated all the peoples worth knowing. I can’t do with folk who teem by the billion, like the Chine... ...ons. To be sure the fire was only to be looked at: like wild beasts in the Zoo. For the house was warm from roof to floor. It was strange to see the b... ... give yourself away, anyhow? Just meet them and take them for what they’re worth—and then you can see. If they like to give you an engagement to play ...

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...g’s Heuristic method, whereby at the cost of three or four hundred pounds’ worth of apparatus, a total ne- glect of all other studies and the undivide... ...hn’t the thmart plathe I thought it wath, and what I get ithent thkarthely worth having,” he said, “tho that if it ith any convenienth to you for uth ... ...ersify Lieu- tenant-Colonel Hick’s park, and he was carrying his gun— very fortunately for him a double-barrelled gun—over his shoulder, when he first... ...g paper, opened it, changed colour, forgot about bull calves and committee forthwith, and took a hansom headlong for Bensington’s flat. V V V V V The ... ...ir. We’ve thtopped on hoping thingth would get better and they’ve only got worth, Thir. It ithn’t on’y the waptheth, Thir— 26 The Food of the Gods th... ...inst the rising moon, was the outline of the little hamlet of Hankey, com- forting, though it showed never a light, and he cracked his whip and spoke ... ...d perfectly still except for the rising and falling “whoozzzzzzZZZ, whoooo-zoo-oo” of the wasps’ nest. They led the horses into the yard, and one of C... ... hastily. “Whoo-z-z z-z-z-z-Z-Z-Z,” from the distant wasps’ nest, “whoo oo zoo-oo.” V V V V V THIS INCIDENT left the party alert but not unstrung. The...

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...g-room was thickened by blue grains of mist. Mr. Denham had come in as Mr. Fortescue, the eminent novelist, reached the middle of a very long sentence... ...He glanced round him, and saw that, save for Katharine, they were all over forty, the only consolation being that Mr. Fortescue was a considerable cel... ...here would be no one to talk to in Manchester,” she replied at random. Mr. Fortescue had been observing her for a moment or two, as novelists are incl... ...hese intermittent young men of her father’s. “Nobody ever does do anything worth doing nowadays,” she remarked. “You see”—she tapped the volume of her... ... worship of greatness in the nineteenth century seems to me to explain the worthlessness of that generation.” Katharine opened her lips and drew in he... ...r books, or seeing interesting people. You never do anything that’s really worth doing any more than I do.” “I always think you could make this room m... ...noon, therefore, Katharine, Cassandra, and William Rodney drove off to the Zoo. As their cab approached the entrance, Katharine bent for- ward and wav... ...the picture. To this he added a note from her, bidding him meet her at the Zoo. He had a flower which he had picked at Kew to teach her botany. Such w... ...emed to waken completely, and at once to be in control of herself. “At the Zoo?” she asked. “No, on the way home. When we had tea.” As if foreseeing t...

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...omen of Kent, as a true South-eastern dame will let you know, if it is her fortune to belong to that favoured portion of the county where the great ba... ...ided, sufficiently confirmed. The reason with which she was stated to have fortified her stern resolve was of the irritating order, right in the abstr... ... ing years. 7 George Meredith Mrs. Fleming fought her battle with a heart worthy of her countrywomen, and with as much success as the burden of a des... ...o be so like his imagined sensations of prosperity, that the deception was worth its cost. Yet the garden in its bloom revived a cruel blow. His wife ... ...servation of two manifestly London gentle- men, and she declined to be led forth by Robert Armstrong. The intruders were youths of good countenance, k... ...ntrary to mine, they’re contrary to my teaching. Well, then, what are they worth? He can’t see that. He’s a good one at work—I’ll say so much for him.... ...ntro me suona.” Don’t you remember, and made such fun of it at first? ‘Amo zoo;’ ‘no amo me?’ my sweet!” This was a specimen of the baby-lover talk, w...

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... its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and so forth. Y.M. You have arrived at man, now? O.M. Yes. Man the machine—man the... ...project and achievement? O.M. There isn’t any. In the world’s view he is a worthier man than he was before, but he didn’t achieve the change— the me... ...ame he will go to the field—not because his spirit will be entirely com fortable there, but because it will be more comfortable there than it would... ...it of the average infidel, I think. O.M. And many a missionary, sternly fortified by his sense of duty, would not have been troubled by the pagan m... ... is potent. T raining toward higher and higher, and ever higher ideals is worth any man’s thought and labor and diligence. Y.M. Consider the man who ... ...r he could smell his enemy in time to escape; then he inferred that it was worth while to keep his nose to the wind. That is the process which man cal... ...the crocodile and the monkey seemed as much at home as if they were in the Zoo. Also, he told an astonish ing tale about coca, a vegetable product o...

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...e- times mud-coloured, sometimes sparkling blue like the sea. It is always worth while to look down and see what is happening. But this lady looked ne... ...ent how little London had done to make her love it, although thirty of her forty years had been spent in a street. She knew how to read the people who... ...their passion; the flower women, a contented company, whose talk is always worth hearing, were sod- den hags; the red, yellow, and blue flowers, whose... ...s and a half annually, which, allowing for time spent in the cradle and so forth, shows a commendable industry.” “Yes, the old Master’s saying of him ... ...uspected him of bullying his wife. Naturally she fell to comparing her own fortunes with the fortunes of her friend, for Willoughby’s wife had been pe... ...termined to take the chance he gave her, although to talk to a man of such worth and authority made her heart beat. “It seems to me like this,” she be... ...Helen remarked that it seemed to her as wrong to keep sailors as to keep a Zoo, and that as for dying on a battle-field, surely it was time we ceased ... ...defend her belief that hu- man beings were as various as the beasts at the Zoo, which had stripes and manes, and horns and humps; and so, wrestling ov...

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...ost’s wishes in every way. I was not sleepy, as the long sleep yesterday had fortified me, but I could not help experiencing that chill which comes ov... ...to shave, unless in my watch case or the bottom of the shaving pot, which is fortunately of metal. When I went into the dining room, breakfast was p... ...ety blackness. The mere beauty seemed to cheer me. There was peace and com fort in every breath I drew. As I leaned from the win dow my eye was ca... ...ded for them. I may show it to Jonathan some day if there is in it anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise book. I shall try to do what ... ...ul friend.” My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost mak ing fun of this great hearted, tr... ... into his, and said in a hearty way… . “That’s my brave girl. It’s better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any o... ...ter 11 172 tion that is given today regarding the strange esca pade at the Zoo. DR. SEWARD’S DIARY 17 September.—I was engaged after dinner in my s...

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...ave difficulty. I am no scientific expert, and if I were to attempt to set forth in the highly scientific lan- guage of Mr. Cavor the aim to which his... ...nd he would be made an F.R.S., and his portrait given away as a scientific worthy with Nature, and things like that. And that was all he saw! He would... ...t the thing done. “Here is a substance,” I cried, “no home, no factory, no fortress, no ship can dare to be without—more universally applicable even t... ...“My dear sir,” I cried, “ don’t you see you’ve done thou- sands of pounds’ worth of damage?” “There, I throw myself on your discretion. I’m not a prac... ... in my mind that I was to have half at least in that aspect of the affair. Fortunately I held my bungalow, as I have already explained, on a three-yea... ...id, “might comfort himself in that way while they were bringing him to the Zoo. … It doesn’t follow that we are going to be shown all these things.” “... ...ions under which I was living. I set them down here just for what they are worth, and without any comment. The most prominent quality of it was a perv...

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...e sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanc- tion, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. Our railway station is the fi... ...dding curiosity of the others, their manner of staring at the poor as at a Zoo. She felt herself a great liberator. She put her hand to her mouth, her... ...le publicity yam- mered, “Say, what do you two think you’re doing? Telling fortunes or making love? Let me warn you that the doc is a frisky bacheldor... ...er in a row- boat ferry. They climbed the hill to the round stone tower of Fort Snelling. They saw the junction of the Mississippi and the Minnesota, ... ...ady for you to boss us!” They sat on the bank below the parapet of the old fort, hidden from observation. He circled her shoulder with his arm. Relaxe... ...he gambles in farm-lands. Good nut on him, that fellow. Why, they say he’s worth three or four hundred thousand dollars! Got a dandy great big yellow ... ...al velvet. What did she care if she got six dollars a week? Or two! It was worth while working for nothing, to be allowed to stay here. And think how ... ...sement. They were like the Sunday-afternoon mob starting at monkeys in the Zoo, poking fingers arid mak- ing faces and giggling at the resentment of t...

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...te to be silent, is difficult. And the difficulty is certainly not less if fortunate circum- stances rather than hard work and intrinsic merit have ra... ...active for himself, and at one time it was sup- posed that he was making a fortune. Then it was known that he had left his regular business, and it wa... ...of his coats and trousers, and his friends looked upon him as one of those fortunate beings to whose nature be- longs a facility of being well dressed... ...elieved in him,—and a fur- ther misfortune that some others had thought it worth their while to pretend to believe in him. Among the latter might prob... ..., meant Mrs Roby’s house in Berkeley Street.—’Last Sunday they were at the Zoo to- gether. Dick got them tickets. I thought you knew about it.’ ‘Do yo... ...ably be felt that the new Prime Minister’s wife was indiscreet, and hardly worthy of the con- fidence placed in her by her husband. But surely we all ... ...en about a good deal in society when the dinners given were supposed to be worth eating. He was a fat, silent, red-faced, elderly gentle- man, who sai...

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... he lived, filling a nominal post of bailiff to the estates, and launching forth verse of some satiric and senti- mental quality; for being inclined t... ...mp on her pillow, and harshly bade her go to sleep, striding from the room forthwith. He dismissed her with a purse the next day. Once, when he was se... ...e,’ says the ‘Pilgrim’s Scrip,’ is, that in that dark Ordeal we gather the worthiest around us.” And the baronet’s fair friend, Lady Blandish, and som... ...ground. Why not laughter of mortals also? Adrian had his laugh in his com- fortable corner. He possessed peculiar attributes of a hea- then God. He wa... ... I’d beat them on one leg. There’s only Watkins and Featherdene among them worth a farthing.” “W e beat!” cries Richard. “Then we’ll have some more wi... ... he would have given it a wording more persuasive with the farmer and more worthy of his own pride: more honest, in fact: for a sense of the dishonest... ...s Mrs. Berry. “Ain’t he like his own father? There can’t be no doubt about zoo, zoo pitty pet. Look at his fists. Ain’t he got passion? Ain’t he a spl...

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... several,’ said Ursula. ‘Really!’ Gudrun flushed dark—’But anything really worth while? Have you really?’ ‘A thousand a year, and an awfully nice man.... ... am compelled to offer fight, I lose the latter. It is a question which is worth more to me, my pleasant liberty of conduct, or my hat.’ ‘Yes,’ said H... ...ert,’ she asked, as if Ursula were not present, ‘do you really think it is worth while? Do you really think the children are better for being roused t... .... ‘I’m so glad,’ she said, pulling herself together. ‘Some time in about a fortnight. Yes? I will write to you here, at the school, shall I? Yes. And ... ...and slither in the water almost like one of the slithering sealions in the Zoo. Ursula watched in silence. Gerald was laughing happily, be- tween Herm... ... this coolness and subtlety of vegetation travelling into one’s blood. How fortunate he was, that there was this lovely, subtle, responsive vegetation... ...f black and purple stripes, and wearing a hat of purple straw, was setting forth with much more of the shyness and trepidation of a young girl than he...

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...rived at Ribeira Grande, and were surprised at the sight of a large ruined fort and cathedral. This little town, before its harbour was filled up, was... ...ar so rich as the smaller church, but boasts of a little organ, which sent forth singularly inharmonious cries. We presented the black priest with a f... ...be seen running for some miles along the coast, and at the height of about forty-five feet *I must take this opportunity of acknowledging the great ki... ...ir bright green foli- age, and the elegant curvature of their fronds, most worthy of admiration. In the evening it rained very heavily, and although t... ...uar having been banished for some years, and by the Gaucho not thinking it worth his while to hunt them. As I approached nearer and nearer they freque... ...low and recent elevation of this dry country. The whole phenomenon is well worthy the attention of naturalists. Have the succulent, salt-loving plants... ... highly developed, and on the evening when Mr. Owen’s paper was rea at the Zoo- logical Society, it was mentioned by a gentlema that *I noticed that s... ... it, an although in deep water, brought it each time to the surface In the Zoo- logical Gardens I have seen the otter treat a fis in the same manner, ... ...possesse considerable powers of movement, by means of a short neck. In one zoo- *I was surprised to find, on counting the eggs of a large white Doris ...

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... when convinced of that error, the Embassy cabled that it was renewing ef- forts to locate my son. Up to that moment, it would appear that the autho... ...he cook-wagon to- ward one of the two tents—which protestingly housed some forty huddling Americans by night—holding in my hand an historic morceau de... ...ed his present predicament with the advent of the mysterious stranger, and forthwith dashed forth, bent on demanding from one of the tin-derbies the h... ...nformally the tired cheeks of my confrère, ended by frankly connecting his worthy and enor- mous ears which were squeezed into oblivion by the oversiz... ...ncils, and some positively fatal looking papers. The person was dressed in worthy and semi-dismal clothes amply cut to afford a promenade for the big ... ...grow, whereof the perfume will delight all good men and true and make such worthy citizens forget their sor- rows. Fort Leavenworth, for instance, ema... ...ht, and the dark keen bright strength of the earth. IX IX IX IX IX Z Z Z Z ZOO-L OO-L OO-L OO-L OO-LOO OO OO OO OO THIS IS THE NAME of the second Dele...

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...e belongs to you now than you belong to yourself. Play possesses you, your fortune, your cap, your cane, your cloak. 4 The Magic Skin As you go out, ... ...ich the young man took a numbered tally in exchange for his hat, which was fortu- nately somewhat rubbed at the brim, showed clearly enough that his m... ...ce to luxury in the men who will lose their lives here in the quest of the fortune that is to put luxury within their reach. This contradiction in hum... ...counted down by the prefect of police to the watermen. As a corpse, he was worth fifteen francs; but now while he lived he was only a man of talent wi... ... of 100,000 francs, and sold for a hundred pence, lay a lock with a secret worth a king’s ransom. The human race was revealed in all the grandeur of i... ...ght have fash- ioned, lay there in heaps like rubbish. “Y ou must have the worth of millions here!” cried the young man as he entered the last of an i... ...cated the talisman, “is, as you doubtless know, one of the most curious of zoo- logical products.” “But to proceed—” said Raphael. 180 The Magic Skin...

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...n many women die, and forgotten them in a week. LAVINIA. Remember me for a fortnight, handsome Captain. I shall be watching you, perhaps. THE CAPTAIN.... ...Do you think I am only running away from the terrors of life into the com- fort of heaven? If there were no future, or if the future were one of torme... ... 23 GB Shaw FERROVIUS. These tears will water your soul and make it bring forth good fruit, my son. God has greatly blessed my efforts at conversion.... ...ow nothing about it. The people indeed! Do you suppose we would kill a man worth perhaps fifty talents to please the riffraff? I should like to catch ... ...wded to see the lions eat him just as they now crowd the lion-house in the Zoo at feeding-time, not because they really cared two-pence about Diana or...

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...e shy monosyllabic replies lengthening every time as the motherliness drew forth a response, until, when conducted to the cheerful little room which M... ...life which makes me think that in her 9 Yonge you may have something more worth than the portion, which— which I suppose I ought to regret and say yo... ... very thing to help and in- spire me to make a name, and work out an idea, worth far more than any pounds, shillings, and pence, or even houses or lan... ...nto the parish church, be married “without any fuss,” and then to take the fortnight’s holiday, which was all that the doctor allowed himself. But as ... ...g guns. Oh, yes, we know,” interrupted Allen; “Janet does not think anyone worth listening to that hasn’t got a whole alphabet tacked behind his name.... ...fe, ought to have no objection.” “How soon does Dr. Drew come home?” “In a fortnight, I believe. He wanted rest terribly, poor old fellow. Don’t grudg... ...ral branches, with starry-looking things at the ends. “The aquarium at the Zoo,” muttered Bobus; and Caroline herself, meeting Allen’s eye, could not ...

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...I am sorry. I am most awfully sorry.” “What about?” “Ansell” Then he burst forth. “Ansell isn’t a gentle- man. His father’s a draper. His uncles are f... ... been alive, the meat had no kick, and the cork of the college claret slid forth silently, as if ashamed of the contents. Agnes was particularly pleas... ... dell, paved with grass and planted with fir-trees. It could not have been worth a visit twenty years ago, for then it was only a scar of chalk, and i... ...isit twenty years ago, for then it was only a scar of chalk, and it is not worth a visit at the present day, for the trees have grown too thick and ch... ...d. About a hundred years ago an Elliot did something shady and founded the fortunes of our house.” “I never knew any one so relentless to his ances- t... ...opens, and there the el- der boy had done things to him—absurd things, not worth chronicling separately. An apple-pie bed is nothing; pinches, kicks, ... ...at he was ill: he knew nothing about himself at all. “Like a howdah in the Zoo,” he grumbled. “Mother Failing will buy elephants.” And he proceeded to...

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...al question expression of maternal interest, had as- sured her that Mary’s fortune would be ample. Mrs Finn made the proposition to Lady Mary in respe... ...it was decided also that Mrs Finn should remain at Matching for at least a fortnight. The Duke declared that he would be glad to see Mr Finn, but she... ...er present position was very great. ‘Mary,’ she said one morning, when the fortnight was nearly at an end, ‘your father ought to know all this. I shou... ...d of his own life. She had possessed land also in Cornwall, supposed to be worth fifteen hundred a year, and his own paternal estate at Polwenning was... ...he prize, ’ said Frank, ‘and how unworthy I am of it. But—as she thinks me worthy—’ ‘She! What she?’ ‘Lady Mary. ’ ‘She think you worthy!’ ‘Yes, your ... ...r one hundred and sixty pounds. Now, if you were on your oath, what is she worth?’ ‘She suits me, Major, and of course I shouldn’t sell her. ’ ‘I rath... ...pped into his cab, and in a loud voice ordered the man to drive him to the Zoo. But when he had gone a little way up Portland Place, he stopped the dr...

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...nch Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when at Forty Mile the preceding winter. Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raco... ...eh — yeh git outen them good duds o’ yourn; I want a right peart slice o’ thet forty acre ploughed ’fore dinner.’ An’ then he turns on her an’ sez, ‘A... ...he ben gittin’ cantanker ous down Dawson way?” “Held up Harry McFarland’s for forty thousand; exchanged it at the P. C. store for a check on Seattle;... ...ly between the toes. “I never saw a dog with a highfalutin’ name that ever was worth a rap,” he said, as he concluded his task and shoved her aside. “... ...ad on his sled a bunch of beautifully cured otter skins, sea otters, you know, worth their weight in gold. There was also at Pastilik an old Shylock o... ...he house of her mother. And a great thought came to me that night, — a thought worthy of him that was chief over all the people of Akatan. So, when th... ...ts had been presented on carved stone to the monkeys of the monkey cage at the Zoo; as if the Sermon on the Mount had been preached in a roaring bedla...

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...y in the direction of this em barrassed truth—which I give for what it is worth; but I feel it come home to me iv The Golden Bowl afresh on recognis... ...So it is that the admirably endowed pair, between them, as I retrace their fortune and my own method, point again for me the moral of the endless inte... ... own method, point again for me the moral of the endless interest, endless worth for “delight,” of the compositional contribution. Their chronicle str... ...nd my gageure—to play the small handful of values really for all they were worth—and to work my system, my particular propriety of appeal, particular ... ...stics of London streets; the ability of which to suffice to this furnishing forth of my V olumes ministered alike to surprise and convenience. Even at ... ...ds enjoy this marked advantage over many of our acts, that, though they go forth into the world and stray even in the desert, they don’t to the same e... ... Tower, but it was too far—my old man urged that; and I’d have gone to the Zoo if it had n’t been too wet—which he also begged me to observe. But you ... ...had gone so far, one day, sup ported by the Principino, as to propose the Zoo in Eaton Square, to carry with him there, on the spot, under this pleas...