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...eck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory....

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...he Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napo- leon, and Louis-Phili... ...ns to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napo- leon, and Louis-Philippe. Ve... ...” Attracted by a certain kindliness concealed beneath these words, and the middle-class air which exhaled from them, Godefroid had, on the afternoon w... ...mation (for he belonged to those characters who spring at a bound into the middle of a situation, instead of advancing, as others do, step by step), h... ...an be described in a word: he was the small bourgeois of Paris, the worthy middle-class being with a kindly face, relieved by pure white hair, but mad... ...t with your spirit. It is, in short, the Gospel translated, adapted to all ages, the summit and crest of all human situations. It is ex- traordinary t... ...e minds texts into the hidden meaning of which they love to burrow. In the middle of the night, aided by the silence, by the darkness, by the terrible... ...f the greatest social forces, and that which made the Europe of the middle-ages, rests on principles which, since 1792, no longer exist in France, whe... ...of collective bodies. The corporations and the Hanse leagues of the middle-ages, /to which we shall some day return/, are still impossible. Consequent...

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...The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes) by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Worme... ... is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes) by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Worme... ...servants. De Balzac. 4 The Lesser Bourgeoisie THE LESSER BOURGEOISIE (The Middle Classes) PART I THE LESSER BOURGEOIS OF PARIS CHAPTER I DEPARTING PA... ...ife, will be found preserved, some- times the type of the dwellings of the middle ages, like that described in “Fame and Sorrow” (Scenes from Private ... ...ll be found preserved, some- times the type of the dwellings of the middle ages, like that described in “Fame and Sorrow” (Scenes from Private Life), ... ...Marie-Jeanne- Brigitte Thuillier, a spinster of full age, stands about the middle of the rue Saint-Dominique d’Enfer, to the right as you enter by the... ...lasses has covered the pupils of his eyes with a sort of film. Between the ages of eighteen and thirty, young Thuillier had much success among women, ... ...necessary to possess that old maid as the devil was supposed in the middle ages to possess men, and in a way to make any awakening impossible for her....

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...Excerpt: In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a pro...

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...orge Meredith FARINA By George Meredith THE WHITE ROSE CLUB IN THOSE LUSTY AGES when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, e... ...ted me even in the lifetime of my good man. Last night he came here in the middle of the storm with a young creature bright as an angel, and sorrowful...

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... now--I received a long, chatty letter from one of my old chums and fellow wanderers in Eastern waters. He was still out there, but settled down, and middle-aged; I imagined him--grown portly in figure and domestic in his habits; in short, overtaken by the fate common to all except to those who, being specially beloved by the gods, get knocked on the head early. The letter...

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...wanderers in Eastern waters. He was still out there, but settled down, and middle-aged; I imagined him—grown portly in fig- ure and domestic in his ha... ...eart was in the brig since the day he bought her in Manilla from a certain middle-aged Peruvian, in a sober suit of black broad- cloth, enigmatic and ... ... the traders. Not a very exalted position truly. I tell you, just a common middle- aged lieutenant of some twenty-five years’ service and sure to be r... ...ut a third, which I had a lot of trouble six months ago to stick up in the middle of a mudflat for a tide mark. Did you ever hear of anything more pro... ...d to commend itself to the first, grown-up family. “Y ou haven’t heard for ages,” I repeated, with secret annoy- ance. “May I ask what ‘for ages’ mean... ...ior of the bungalow was divided by two passages crossing each other in the middle. At that point Heemskirk, by turning his head slightly to the left a...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of thre...

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...te University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de ... ...bows on the table, and a pen in her hand, was tracing characters upon a sheet of fine Dutch paper; the other, kneeling upon a chair, which allowed her... ...eriod. His large boots contained a foot which Mademoiselle de Montalais might not have disowned if she had been transformed into a man. With one of hi... ...ith blue eyes and white shoulders, who, recognizing him, called him Raoul. He saw her, and divined at once so much love and so much joy in the express... ...g. After the councilor had died — whether by strangula- tion or naturally is of no consequence — the house had been sold, then abandoned, and lastly i... ...d the drops of cold and abundant perspiration which trickled from his temples. The moment of silence which followed this vehe- ment outbreak represent... ...Crepy. At a distance he perceived the Castle of Louis of Orleans, which, 131 Dumas having become part of the crown domain, was kept by an old concier... ... consequently carrying with him a tenfold dose of that potent fluid which the shocks of mind cause to spring from the nerves, and which procure for th... ... look, an explanation. 295 Dumas “Monsieur,” continued the cardinal, “was a Treville mus- keteer, in the service of the late king. Monsieur is well a...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, pl...

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...y. —BP . Corbet. AN ANCIENT LEAFLESS STUMP of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of s... ...nfinite comfort to her mother.’ ‘Poor Mary! Well, we children lived in the middle of a tragedy, and little suspected it! By the bye, what relation are... ...heveleigh was a proverb for hospitality, affording unfailing fetes for all ages, full of a graceful ease and freedom that inspired enjoyment. Mr. Fros... ...d sunk into the grave, and even her nephew was fast verging upon more than middle age. CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III L L... ...ething about the rights of man. He was sent to Little Northwold, about the middle of the day, to carry home some silver-handled knives of Mr. Calcott’... ...ed on it with delighted and surprised gratitude, plunging at once into the middle, and reading aloud a most eloquent passage upon electricity. No beau...

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...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who disli...

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...OF Y OF Y OF THE FOOD THE FOOD THE FOOD THE FOOD THE FOOD I I I I I IN THE MIDDLE YEARS of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this ... ...position would speedily become untenable. And also that she had lived many ages since Skinner went. She peered out of the darkling win- dow, through t... ...o me a quite heroic deed of mercy. She left her bundle and umbrella in the middle of the brick path and went to the well and drew no fewer than three ... ...ing reso- lutely up the steps, a copy of the pink paper clutched about the middle, like Jove’s thunderbolt, in his hand. “Skinner?” Bensington was say... ... driven before, and he was keep- ing the line of least resistance down the middle of the road by some no doubt quite obvious but certainly unusual lig... ...o the yard, and one of Cossar’s men, seeing the door open—the whole of the middle portion of the door had been gnawed out—walked into the house. Nobod... ...t jacket and his slashed shoes. Other resolute-mannered persons of various ages and sexes dropped in and told him things about Boomfood—it was Punch f... ...ht you?” “Ought we—what?” “Ought you to publish?” “We’re not in the Middle Ages,” said Redwood. “I know.” “As Cossar says, swapping wisdom—that’s the ... ...owing his son and Cossar’s sons and others of the Boom-children at various ages and amidst various surroundings. Even young Caddles’ va- cant visage h...

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...s of peace and enjoyment in the fullness of all things; grown old, and when, if ever, it might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man completely happy; I say, after all this, any one would have thought that the native propensity to rambling which I gave an account of in my first setting out in th...

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...if ever, it might be al- lowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man com- pletely ... ...y part of life as to this world. Now I thought, indeed, that I enjoyed the middle state of life which my father so earnestly recommended to me, and li... ...om vices, free from care, Age has no pain, and youth no snare.” But in the middle of all this felicity, one blow from unseen Providence unhinged me at... ...nce, getting a patent for the possession and I know not what; when, in the middle of all this, in comes my nephew, as I have said, with his project of... ...d plainly discern that it was a great ship on fire 13 Daniel Defoe in the middle of the sea. I was most sensibly touched with this disaster, though n... ...re, to drive them into the very cave itself. Could they have seen the sav- ages all together in one body, and at a distance from their canoes, they we... ...r some time. They kept their station for a while, till they found the sav- ages, like wild beasts, spread themselves all over the place, rummaging eve... ...fter a very short debate with themselves, they considered that if the sav- ages ranged the country thus before help came, they might perhaps find thei... ...nd I believe I should not have thought of it; for I looked upon these sav- ages as slaves, and people whom, had we not had any work for them to do, we...

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him...

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... Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlo... ...eath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of t... ...on of the latter, had been an operation of personal care. There were a few middle aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver wiry hair and... ...ttled into its definite shape, and her lower lip had a way of thrusting the middle of her top one upward, when they closed together after a word. Phase... ...n their hands. Their general likeness to each other, and their consecutive ages, would almost have suggested that they might be, what in fact they wer... ...e Phase the First — The Maiden 15 together the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed. Returning along the garden path Tess mused on what th... ...alcoholic vapours which floated here as no unsuitable medium for wrin kled middle age; and hardly was a reproachful flash from Tess’s dark eyes needed ... ...her sheafing. On the verge of the hour the heads of a group of children, of ages ranging from six to fourteen, rose above the stubbly convexity of the ... ... statement. Of that day, doomed to be her terminus in time through all the ages, she did not know the place in month, week, season, or year. Almost at...

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...ty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, --that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and ...

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...umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people... ...IDENT 5 Gabriel’s features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St John and the ugliness of Judas Iscario... ...e latter a steaming bran mash stood in a bucket. One of the women was past middle age. Her companion was apparently young and graceful; he could form ... ...wistful gaze into mid air, Henry did not refuse. He was a man of more than middle age, with eyebrows high up in his forehead, who laid it down that th... ...un its course and would respect no man. ‘And as he was coming along in the middle of the night, much afeared, and not able to find his way out of the t... ...elief. The shearers reclined against each other as at suppers in the early ages of the world, and so silent and absorbed were they that her breathing ... ...gust with the, to him, humdrum tediousness of a farmer’s life, gloomly im ages of her who lay in the churchyard, remorse, and a general averseness to...

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...nocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light...

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... the lawn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, b... ...put it in his power, as they descended together, to stop her a moment on the middle landing of the staircase—the broad, low, wide armed staircase of ... ...there; she lifted it high, and as she did so he found himself pausing in the middle of the place and bending his eyes much less upon the pictures than... ... many of his interests there his children had naturally not entered. The im ages of that time moreover had grown faint and remote, and the old world ... ...I guess their position is better in the upper and even to some extent in the middle.” “Gracious,” Isabel exclaimed; “how many classes have they? About... ...se, but three or four millions of people. What is it you call them—the lower middle class? They’re only the population of London, and that’s of no con... ...which we may assume to have belonged even to the most amiable persons in the ages before country house life was the fashion. Isabel found it difficult ... ...ight musingly have likened to the figure of some small princess of one of the ages of dress over muffled in a mantle of state and dragging a train that ... ...ture. Ah, she at least is genuine.” “Of course there’s the difference in our ages—more than twenty years.” “My dear Warburton,” said Ralph, “are you s...

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.... He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to learn the German language; so did Harris. Towa... ...th cost the portier more trouble than even the black one had done. But he patiently fixed and refixed it until it was exactly right and lay precisely ... ...e there are very few people who can understand them. I never knew but one man who could. I knew he could, however, because he told me so him- self. He... ...scene shifted; if there was nothing to be done but slide a forest out of the way and expose a temple beyond, one did not see that forest split itself ... ...d, were three crosses of stone—moldy and damaged things, bearing life-size stone figures. The two thieves were dressed in the fanciful court costumes ... ... use, and drove several miles into the country to visit the place called Weibertreu—Wife’s Fidelity I suppose it means. It was a feudal castle of the ... ...ence and rested. The place has no interest except that which is lent it by its leg- end, which is a very pretty one—to this effect: THE LEGEND IN THE ... ...ow to convey a poetical thought from one language to another. THE LORELEI I CANNOT DIVINE what it meaneth, This haunting nameless pain: A tale of the ... ...u- lar Ruin.” Mark Twain 74 LEGEND OF THE “SPECTACULAR RUIN” THE CAPTAIN OF THE RAFT, who was as full of history as he could stick, said that in the ...

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...d for the substantial qualities that command confidence and re- spect. The middle of the nineteenth century was a time when England might well be prou... ... now been nearly a year at Eton, and had pro- ceeded through the lower and middle removes of the fourth form, when, on November 23, he achieved the su... ...difficult to be sent up in the upper fourth form, and still more so in the middle remove.’ The subject of the Latin verses which obtained this distinc... ...over-successful sketch of a pediment), with the Eton and Royal arms in the middle, and “Gratulatur Etona Victoria et Alberto” It cost £150, and there ... ...d we would go right into the quadrangle of the Castle, so we went into the middle of the road and formed a line. Soon a rocket (the signal that the Qu... ...ssi Sposi” which I take up very seldom when tired, I have not read one for ages: I must except “Old Mor- tality,” read last Vacation at Feniton; but I... ...ngs had be- come habitual. I do not think they existed in his earlier voy- ages so long waited for.” His face brightened up at the thought. “Yes, if I... ...all sandal-wood traders and slave-masters if they call my Melanesians sav- ages. ‘You will hear accounts of the voyage from Fanny. I have a long journ... ...rtainly I would sooner have my present school to manage, forty-five of all ages from nine to perhaps twenty- seven or eight, from twelve or thirteen i...

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...t is true, some- times floods the country around it, but of which the rav- ages appear to be so easily repaired that its aggressions may perhaps be re... ..., it was finished only in the first half of the sixteenth century; but the ages and the weather have interfused so well the tone of the different part... ...ly placed in the great abbey-church of Saint Martin, which was for so many ages the holy place of Tours, it happily survived the dev- astation to whic... ...lower arcades have been closed, and it has a small plot of gar- den in the middle, with fruit-trees which I should imag- ine to be too much overshadow... ..., what he did with the other half), the abbey of Saint Martin, through the Middle Ages, waxed rich and powerful, till it was known at last as one of t... ...he did with the other half), the abbey of Saint Martin, through the Middle Ages, waxed rich and powerful, till it was known at last as one of the most... ...lpture, in which every detail is worthy of the hand of a goldsmith. In the middle of it, or rather a little to the left, rises the famous winding stai... ...n, at the farther end, to take the train back to Tours. Look back from the middle of this bridge; the whole picture composes, as the painters say. The... ...society that ever assembled there was collected at Chenon-ceaux during the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury. This was surely, in France at least, th...

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...only the young know. It is these youngsters to whom books give up the long ages of history, “the wonderful series going back to the times of old patri... ...rise of the cold and classical civilization, its fall, the rough impetuous Middle Ages, the vague warm picture of our- selves and home. When did we le... ... the cold and classical civilization, its fall, the rough impetuous Middle Ages, the vague warm picture of our- selves and home. When did we learn the... ...ures as a whole; and we know, when we put aside ped- antry, that the great middle object in life—the object that lies between religion on one hand, an...

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...ory over a false theory of government which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in ... ... to a new world. This, however, is what we think of least; launched in the middle of a rapid stream, we obstinately fix our eyes on the ruins which ma... ...hem attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it. In former ages slavery has been advocated by the venal and slavish-minded, whilst the... ...however, devoid of hu- man inhabitants. Some wandering tribes had been for ages scattered among the forest shades or the green pastures of the prairie... ...however, devoid of hu- man inhabitants. Some wandering tribes had been for ages scattered among the forest shades or the green pastures of the prairie... ...e aristocratic liberty of their mother-country, but of that freedom of the middle and lower orders of which the history of the world had as yet furnis... ... the shores of America. In England the stronghold of Puritanism was in the middle classes, and it was from the middle classes that the majority of the... ...e triumphed over the ruins of the oligarchical and feudal liberties of the Middle Ages. Never were the notions of right more completely con- founded t... ... equal want of the desire and the power of application to these objects. A middle standard is fixed in America for human knowl- edge. All approach as ...

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... houses which are strictly double houses—that is, where the hall is in the middle—the fireplaces usually are on opposite sides; so that while one memb... ...ir own, or instead of being grouped together in one fed- eral stock in the middle of the house—instead of this, I say, each flue is surreptitiously ho... ...wards the summit is considerably less, and it is truncated. From the exact middle of the mansion it soars from the cel- lar, right up through each suc... ... my house are en- tirely free from fireplaces. These all congregate in the middle—in the one grand central chimney, upon all four sides of which are h... ...g- 11 Melville nity of a hall. Now, as the front door is precisely in the middle of the front of the house, inwards it faces the chimney. In fact, th... ...illed through that warm mass of masonry. Better for wines is it than voy- ages to the Indias; my chimney itself a tropic. A chair by my chimney in a ... ...s through the tunnel, some Belzoni or other might have succeeded in future ages in penetrating through the masonry, and actually emerging into the din... ...d permanence of this abode. If un- disturbed by innovators, then in future ages, when all the house shall have crumbled from it, this chimney will sti...

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... open, a priest would have hailed him as a brother. Though of no more than middle height, he appeared tall; and, looking him in the face he seemed a g... ... of pious respect for our ancestors when we see their por- traits from the Middle Ages. Lean faces, too, with burning, sunken eyes, under bald heads y... ...us respect for our ancestors when we see their por- traits from the Middle Ages. Lean faces, too, with burning, sunken eyes, under bald heads yellow f... ...he used as a com- mentary on his own statements to express by concrete im- ages the abstract arguments he felt to be wanting, he flour- ished the Spir... ...dded these words, from which I have eliminated the corrupt Latinity of the Middle Ages:— “Where, think you, may a man find these fruitful truths if no... ...ese words, from which I have eliminated the corrupt Latinity of the Middle Ages:— “Where, think you, may a man find these fruitful truths if not in th... ...er the cloak of an immortal—the robe of glory due to genius, and which the ages hand on—I, a frail mortal! When I wandered through the fields of light...

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...can- not show those beautiful flowers of womanhood which graced the golden ages of the French Monarchy. The great lady’s fan is broken. A woman has no... ...to pieces perhaps by the barbarians who are at its heels. Hence, where the middle class insist on seeing prin- cesses, these are really only ladylike ... ...sive material, but made in a way that surprises more than one woman of the middle class; it is almost always a long pelisse, with bows to fasten it, a... ...quiring, towards the end of the evening you detect her gazing fixedly at a middle-aged man wearing a decoration, who bows and goes out. She has or- de... ...er? Why should the human heart change because you change your coat? In all ages the passions remain the same. I know cases of beautiful devo- tion, of... ... did right. When he was in a rage his brow was knit and the muscles of the middle of his forehead set in a delta, or, to be more ex- plicit, in Redgau... ...of T wo Brides The Muse of the Department The Imaginary Mistress The Middle Classes Cousin Betty The Country Parson In addition, M. Bianchon...

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...old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in... ... into a waiting- room. I gave my name, and looked about. Deal table in the middle, plain chairs all round the walls, on one end a large shining map, m... ...the sanctuary. Its light was dim, and a heavy writing-desk squatted in the middle. From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness... ... of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle. He had a uniform jacket with one button off, and seeing a white man... ...e declared. Can’t say I saw any road or any upkeep, un- less the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullet-hole in the forehead, upon which I absolut... ...commonplace in complexion, in feature, in manners, and in voice. He was of middle size and of ordinary build. His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhap... ...ar and could not remember, because we were traveling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories. “... ...ere being a meaning in it which you— you so remote from the night of first ages—could com- prehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anythin... ...ngle one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still be- longed to the beginnings of time—had no inherited...