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...he passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: ?There is Monsieur returning from hunting.? And that was all....

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...y the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a s... ...which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet — both dreamers — which the Eng... ...ned in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended ... ... master and friend, by los- ing nothing at all.” How well that dear Monsieur d’Artagnan knew the hearts of men and grocers! They who have pronounced D... ... Quixote mad because he rode out to the conquest of an empire with nobody but Sancho, his squire, and they who have pronounced Sancho mad because he a... ...ular, had undergone great changes; the ancient host of the mus- keteers, having become tolerably rich for an innkeeper, had closed his shop, and made ...

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...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ..., and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no eagle, but a double-headed lamb, resisting the... ... a world peace will be staggered at any proposal to place any part of “our Empire” under a world administration on the footing of a United States terr... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ...e main war. Whatever surprises or changes this last phase of the East- ern Empire, that blood-clotted melodrama, may involve, they will but assist and... ...ry scrap of territorial advantage she has gained; she may lose most of her Colonial Empire; she may be obliged to complete her modernisation by abando... ...d anyone with money from any- where may come in and buy. Great supplies of colonial ores were found to be cornered by semi-national German syndi- cate... ...he new age, will be desir- ous of a restoration of the now vanished German colonial empire, vindictive, intriguing, and unscrupulous, a mere se- ries ...

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... the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it wa... ...utler. Mater’s “Société des Nations” (Didier) is an able presentation of a French point of view. Brailsford’s “A League of Nations” is already a class... ...rity, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the existing states and empires of the world. Most people’s ideas of the League fall between these ... ...crifice of freedom to as- 9 H.G. Wells sociation. As a very distinguished colonial representative said to me the other day: “Here we are talking of t... ...tates and see to what this leads us. We find our list includes the British Empire, with a population of four hundred millions, of which probably half ... ...f equal representation between such “powers” is enough to make the British Empire burst into a thousand (voting) frag- ments. A certain concession to ... ...sts hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ours. So do some of the diplomatic French- men. The German junkers are dodging and lying, they are fighting de... ...teenth-century upper class which still squats so firmly in our Foreign and Colonial Offices, and that is the question of forced labour. We cannot tole... ...to Germany. We surrendered Heligoland, we made great concessions to German colonial ambitions, we allowed ourselves to be jockeyed into a phase of dan...

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...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...on. They are affable. I had but recently had an encounter with an imported Colonial statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming sa... ...s. One does not talk to soldiers at the front in this war of Glory or the “Empire on which the sun never sets” or “the meteor flag of England” or of K... ...alf a century; England gave her Heligoland and stood out of the way of her colonial expansion, Italy was a happy hunting ground for her busi- ness ent... ... be undesirable; the production may exceed the industrial resources of any empire to pro- duce; but there is no inherent impossibility in such things.... ...hed by the quality of the ordinary British soldiers in our new armies. One Colonial colonel said something almost incredible to me—almost incredible a... ...ot be done. It rules India ignorantly and obstructively; it will wreck the empire rather than relinquish its ascendancy in Ireland. It is densely self...

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...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ...political charac- ter and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opin- ions, ... ... all classes are equally cultivated; the State becomes democratic, and the empire of democracy is slowly and peaceably introduced into the institution... ...atever crossed its path, and has shaken all that it has not destroyed. Its empire on society has not been gradually in- troduced or peaceably establis... ...orld in the name and under the immediate orders of the Crown;* this is the colonial system adopted by other countries of Europe. Sometimes grants of c... ...espect to the Indians, it is neces- sary to consult, 1st, “The Laws of the Colonial and State Governments relating to the Indian Inhabitants.” (See th... ...dence. But this is an error: the population increased as rapidly under the colonial system as it does at the present day; that is to say, it doubled i...

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... that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- common... ...o come in, Miss Sharp ad- vanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, “Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes a... ...iselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.” Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing u... ...ve been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue. But that talki... ... lapse of time, and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a ... ...y—a stirring place in those days, when war was raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had tens of thousan... ...as been promised an appointment any time these six months. Mr. Martyr, the Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out. That unlucky a... ...s of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry... ... his means. When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated him- self and the Serv...

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... to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had tak... ...overnor Endicott sat in it when he gave audience to an ambassador from the French governor of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massac... ...of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massachusetts and the French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make wa... ...ther here explained some of the circumstances that made the situation of a colonial governor so difficult and irk some. There was not the same feelin... ...“There began the mischief which now threatens to rend asun der the British empire. The sedi tious harangues of demagogues in Faneuil Hall have made r... ...sman Hutchinson. It was by their advice that the king had acted in all the colonial troubles. But the day of recompense was come. “See the old tory!” ...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ... that the front building on the street had been erected in the days of the Empire, to utilize a part of the courtyard of the vast old mansion, built a... ...ormerly painted and gilt, but which had since received, probably under the Empire, a coat of plain white paint. The three doors of the study, salon an... ...n bourgeoisie. Have you re- marked the card-tables and the consoles of the Empire, the tea-table supported by a lyre, and that species of sofa, of gna... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ...which enabled him to sell the chocolate itself very cheaply. This trade in colonial products, begun in the quartier Saint-Marcel, made a merchant of M...

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..., Condorcet, Mirabeau, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce ... ...rd’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not... ...ppose it — inter nos . (This should be entre nous, for Julia thought In French, but then the rhyme would go for naught.) I only say suppose thi... ... wilderness as this, Where transport and security entwine, Here is the empire of thy perfect bliss, And here thou art a god indeed divine.’ ... ...tes Change horses, making history change its tune, Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states, Leaving at last not much besides chronology, ... ...Cadiz— A pretty town, I recollect it well— ‘T is there the mart of the colonial trade is (Or was, before Peru learn’d to rebel), And such ... ... she laid Her hand on his, and bending on him eyes Which needed not an empire to persuade, Look’d into his for love, where none replies: H...

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...further side. “Don’t be afraid!” cried the peasant in his clumsy Valaisian French, and returned, returning along the plank that seemed quite sufficien... ...nd. Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his pub- lic-school French. “Pas de peur,” he said. “Pas de peur. Mais la tete, n’a pas l’habit... ... Wells to oust it. She saw her son a diplomat, a prancing pro-con- sul, an empire builder, a trusted friend of the august, the bold leader of new move... ...of Parliament and abroad. There’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 ... ... insisted upon regarding Socialism as a proposal to reinaugurate the first French Revolution, as an inversion of society so that it would be bottom up... ...his mind. These were the days when the strain and extremity of a dangerous colonial war were fresh in people’s minds, when the quality of the public c... ... passion for great unities. It was still possible for Benham to regard the empire as a splen- did opportunity, and London as the conceivable heart of ...

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...ish is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French and Scholar’s Latin, welded into one speech more ample and more powe... ...lous astonishment. Except for the habits of the very rich during the Roman Empire, there was never the slightest precedent for this mod- ern detachmen... ...xample. It is only a reasonable tribute to the distinctive lucidity of the French mind to suppose the central index housed in a vast series of buildin... ...of his hands. On earth, where there is nationality, this would have been a Frenchman—the inferior sort of Frenchman—the sort whose only happiness is i... ...shman must needs stipulate that Westminster shall still be a seat of world Empire, one of several seats, if you will—where the ruling council of the w... ...sive year. Jesus Christ had been born into a liberal and progressive Roman Empire that spread from the Arctic Ocean to the Bight of Benin, and was to ... ... into the natural trap of patriotic conceit. The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of liberal proposi...

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...exander Pope, and he wrote moral stories in rhymed couplets. Then came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. ... ...was a very small room, over- crowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which w... ...y . “Oh yes. In point of fact I’ve not spoken to a soul for three days. My French isn’t exactly bril- liant.” I wondered as I preceded him downstairs ... ...fatuated with a French dancer, whom he had first seen in the ballet at the Empire, and had accompanied her to Paris. I could not find out how this had... ...untry in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he was a happy ... ...th a glowing, sen- sual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly —...

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...r now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge o... ...ffron detective stories, she sat upright. Here—she meditated—is the newest empire of the world; the Northern Middlewest; a land of dairy herds and exq... ... silos likes red towers, of clumsy speech and a hope that is boundless. An empire which feeds a quarter 27 Sinclair Lewis of the world—yet its work i... ...to give you a chance to get settled. I am Vida Sherwin, and I try to teach French and English and a few other things in the high school.” “I’ve been h... ...’ was the most interesting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warre... ...er to impress the ordinary class of people than just a plain old-fashioned colonial house, such as you describe. And that would be the proper cen- ter... ...ht here in the Thanatopsis. And as for trying to make a whole town in this Colonial architecture you talk 142 Main Street about— I do love nice thing... ...iped, after Carol’s appeal: “I see. You think the New England villages and Colonial houses are so much more cunning than these Middlewestern towns. I’... ...ven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid with the mirror and the loyal ears?” “Oh, wha...

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...iant company my dear Becky is mov- ing. She became a constant guest at the French Embassy, where no party was considered to be complete without the pr... ... de- clared, according to the wont of their nation (for who ever yet met a Frenchman, come out of England, that has not left half a dozen families mis... ...ul, sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds. They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. They talked about each oth- ers’ houses, ... ...as been promised an appointment any time these six months. Mr. Martyr, the Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out. That unlucky a... ...s of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry... ... his means. When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated him- 63 Thackeray sel... ...e up in his box and bowed and simpered, as if he would represent the whole empire. Tapeworm was nephew and heir of old Marshal Tiptoff, who has been i... ...t catastrophe, failed in his health, and prophesied the speedy ruin of the Empire. Lady Jane and Mrs. Dobbin became great friends—there was a perpetua...

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...H. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, ERROMANG... ...and boldness in the fishermen.” —Thomas Jefferson’ s Whale Memorial to the French Minister in 1778. “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”... ...obe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. Merchant ships ... ...nd calms of all four oceans, her old hull’s complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her venerabl... ... Oh, the world! Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Eur... ...paltry and base. This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honours that this ... ...hen, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased ...

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...distant when the whole of that vast range of lakes will become the seat of empire, and fraught with all the interests of human society. A passing glim... ...t it is now urgent to know whether we meet as friends or foes. They may be French.” “One hail will soon satisfy us on that head,” returned Cap. “Stand... ...hese parts, and perhaps one of my names may have reached your ears. By the Frenchers and the redskins on the other side of the Big Lakes, I am called ... ... has fi’t only on the side of right,” returned the Pathfinder; “and as the Frenchers are always wrong, and his sacred Majesty and these colonies are a... ...avis! Our Scotch lassies are fair and pleasant; but it must be owned these colonials are of surpassing comeliness.” “Y ou will do well to recollect yo... ...en, though they were taking their meal a little apart) — “has not added an empire to his Majesty’s dominions in getting possession of this island, whi... ...h Master Cap, than whom a more loyal subject does not exist in the British empire.” “I have thought the warning so serious,” Mabel rejoined, “that I a...

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...- ing that “Genius is patience.” Placed in a position where he could study French adminis- tration and observe its mechanism, Rabourdin worked in the ... ...overnment offices but idlers, incapables, or fools. Thus the mediocrity of French administration has slowly come about. Bureaucracy, made up entirely ... ...kely to forget. Thus, when it was necessary to cross the ditch between the Empire and the Restoration, at a time when every one was looking about for ... ...at a time when every one was looking about for planks, and the curs of the Empire were howling their devotion right and left, des Lupeaulx borrowed la... ...e continued in the Rabourdin household. The rue Duphot, built up under the Empire, is remark- able for several houses with handsome exteriors, the apa... ...ash his hands with good cleansing soap; not to swear, to speak her kind of French, to wear boots instead of shoes, cotton shirts instead of sacking, a... ...des Lombards, the Maison Matifat, which made its fortune by that identical colonial product.” Baudoyer [entering]. “Monsieur Chazelle, I see, is not h...

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...are English springs for those called “swan-necks,” and other old-fashioned French contrivances. But these hard and distrustful manufacturers would onl... ...She was dressed in a black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown bonnet, an old French cashmere shawl, raw-silk stockings, and low shoes; and in her hand s... ...discolored curtains. Later, when he entered the salon, he noticed some old Empire furniture, now shabby; but only as much as all proprietors exact to ... ...omoted; his incapacity was too apparent. Ruined in 1815 by the fall of the Empire, the brilliant Aspasia of the Directory had no other resources than ... ...examine the audience. His step-father still wore, after the fashion of the Empire, his watch in the fob of his trousers, from which there depended ove... ...efer- ences, Pierrotin, it isn’t right.” “Coucous and the Charter make all Frenchmen equals,” said Georges. “Oh! be easy,” said Pere Leger; “we are su... ...in profusion, buying absolutely nothing but butcher’s-meat, wines, and the colonial supplies required by their life of luxury. The poultry-maid baked ...

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...embered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country w... ... this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too commonplace,... ..., it was ascertained that a tribe of Indians, called “Les Horicans” by the French, existed in the neighborhood of this beautiful sheet of water. As ev... ...Say, is my kingdom lost?” —Shakespeare IT WA S A FEA TURE peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wildernes... ...pecies of ruins that are intimately associ- ated with the recollections of colonial history, and which are in appropriate keeping with the gloomy char... ...ed than described in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history by the merited title of “The Massacre of William Henry.” I... ...urpers of his ancient territory, as the imaginary tutelar saint* of a vast empire. The Huron chief, therefore, stepped eagerly out a little from the t...

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...ow that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has altered absolutely the approach to such a question. ... ...t splashes of lead by means of a brass can- non in the garden. I find this empire of the floor much more vivid and de- tailed in my memory now than ma... ...lying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic massacre. It was the French Revolution of that cold tyranny, the vindictive overthrow of the pam... ...istic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducking for it—and a huge French May-day poster displaying a splendid proletarian in red and black on... ... shows a nice disposition not to take on the job! How the Devil is a great Empire to be run with men like him?” “All his little jokes and things,” sai... ... Cambridge and Oxford time after time since I came down, and so far as the Empire goes, I want to get clear of those two places… . Always I renew my o... ...nse of effective contact; we boasted, it is true, an under secretary and a colonial governor among our old boys, but they were never real to us; such ...