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... where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might have been served by t... ...the lappel of his coat. His remarks, you would observe, were entirely what people used to call cliche, for- mulae not organic to the occasion, but ste... ...u selected, extracted a little book with a carbon leaf and a tinfoil sheet from a fixture, made you out a little bill in that weak flourishing hand pe... ...the interview would have terminated. But real literature, as distinguished from anecdote, does not concern itself with superficial appearances alone. ... ...d a persuasion the cult had been maligned. Anyhow she was a Lady. And rich people, too! Her machine couldn’t have cost much under twenty pounds. His m... ... view, get hot, juicy, red,—like a grilled chop. Here I am, sir. Come from Guildford in some- thing under the hour. Why, sir?” Mr. Hoopdriver shook hi... ...igest his cold meat, and alto- 32 The Wheels of Chance gether his ride to Guildford was exceedingly intermittent. At times he would walk, at times lo... ...his saddle. Each time he descended with less trepidation. He did not reach Guildford until nearly four o’clock, and then he was so much exhausted that... ...ing, very pleasant to see, and in the afternoon the shops are busy and the people going to and fro make the pavements look bright and pros- perous. It...

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...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...on; in a mighty writing and stowing away of these papers he found a relief from the unpleasant urgency to confess and ex- plain himself prematurely. S... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...nd assure him- self of his own comfort in the midst of his reading. Y oung people and unseasoned people, Benham argued, are apt to imagine that if fea... ...down into Surrey with a knap- sack, wander along the North Downs until the Guildford gap was reached, strike across the Weald country to the South Dow...

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...(KING HENRY VIII:) CARDINAL WOLSEY: CARDINAL CAMPEIUS: CAPUCIUS: Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER: Archbishop of Canterbury. DUKE OF NO... ...INCOLN:) LORD ABERGAVENNY : (ABERGAVENNY:) LORD SANDS : (SANDS:) SIR HENRY GUILDFORD : (GUILDFORD:) SIR THOMAS LOVELL : (LOVELL:) SIR ANTHONY DENN... ...nd Cardinal of York. BUCKINGHAM: The devil speed him! no man’s pie is freed From his ambitious finger. What had he To do in these fierce vanities? I ... ...ch can with his very bulk Take up the rays o’ the beneficial sun And keep it from the earth. NORFOLK: Surely, sir, There’s ... ...shall be late else; which I would not be, For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford This night to be comptrollers. SANDS: ... ...s other Ladies and Gentlemen as guests, at one door; at another door, enter GUILDFORD .] GUILDFORD: Ladies, a general welcome from his grace Salutes... ...all as merry As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome, Can make good people. O, my lord, you’re tardy: [Enter Chamberlain, SANDS, and LOVELL .... ...im; halberds on each side: accompanied with LOVELL, VAUX, SANDS, and common people .] Second Gentleman : Let’s stand close, and behold him. Henry VI... ...III, Act II, scene i 26 BUCKINGHAM: All good people, You that thus far have come to pity me, Hear what I say, and then...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... ...e trains which usually passed through Woking round by Vir- ginia W ater or Guildford. They were busy making the neces- sary arrangements to alter the ...

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...I do not: but, as I can learn, He hearkens after prophecies and dreams; And from the cross row plucks the letter G. And says a wizard told him that b... ...Woodville, her brother there, That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower, From whence this present day he is deliver’d? We are not safe, Clarence; ... ... the heart that had the heart to do it! Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence! More direful hap betide that hated wretch, That makes us wret... ...hem; And ask’d the mayor what meant this wilful silence: His answer was, the people were not wont To be spoke to but by the recorder. Then he was urge... ... arms. [Enter another Messenger .] Second Messenger : My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms; King Richard III, Act IV , scene iv 95 And ever...

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...er; and he married and lived happily ever afterward. So did the Whale. But from that day on, the grating in his throat, which he could neither cough u... ...Camel humphed himself, humph and all, and went away to join the Three. And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we call it ‘hump’ now... ...p Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do. Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo, If we haven’... ...ost wise tones, ‘Let us melt into the landscape—just us two by our lones.’ People have come—in a carriage—calling. But Mummy is there …. Yes, I can go... ...ll have to wait a long time, said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. ‘Some people do not know what is good for them.’ The Elephant’s Child sat there f... ...on-Rock- Snake, ‘you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with.’ ‘Thank you,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘I’ll re- member that... ...E runs a road by Merrow Down— A grassy track to-day it is An hour out of Guildford town, Above the river Wey it is. Here, when they heard the hors...

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...N, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the pictur- esque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine... ... part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs... ...ances, prompted him to keep the conver- sation going. “I’ve never suffered from sleeplessness myself,” he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but i... ...he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but in those cases I have known, people have usually found something—” “I dare make no experiments.” He spok... ...men were silent. “Exercise?” suggested Isbister diffidently, with a glance from his interlocutor’s face of wretchedness to the touring cos- tume he wo... ...and I jumped on to process. Those posters on the Cliffs at Dover are by my people.” “Good posters,” admitted the solicitor, “though I was sorry to see... ...wever, they were driving over a sharp chalk hill that he recognised as the Guildford Hog’s Back, because of the familiar outline of the gorge at its e...

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... being also warden of the almshouses, if the bishop in each case approved. From that day to this the charity had gone on and pros- pered —at least, th... ...red with rows of houses; the value of the property had gradually increased from year to year and century to cen- tury, and was now presumed by those w... ...ral a steward. For many, many years—records hardly tell how many, probably from the time when Hiram’s wishes had been first fully carried out—the proc... ...the author of the pamphlet signed ‘Sacerdos’ on the subject of the Earl of Guildford and St Cross, in which it is so clearly argued that the manners o... ...feel a doubt (since expelled by his son-in-law’s logic) as to whether Lord Guildford was clearly entitled to receive so enormous an income as he does ... ...toll, then brought an action against the gate- keeper, and proved that all people coming up a certain by-lane, and going down a certain other by-lane,... ...y personally, that arose from there not being room in the hospital for two people so much alike as the doctor and himself, rather than from any dissim... ...e continued—’ We must be doing something, you know; we mustn’t allow these people to cut the ground from under us while we sit looking on. ’ The archd... ...? Everyone knows what its object is: it has taken up the case against Lord Guildford and against the Dean of Rochester, and that against half a dozen ...

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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... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ... and welcomed by Earl Godwin, proceeded into Surrey, as far as the town of Guildford. Here, he and his men halted in the evening to rest, having still...

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...ure of Our Lord, Jesu Christ. And ever as much as he might he withdrew him from the company and fellowship of Queen Guenever, for to es- chew the slan... ...ir Brasias, and there will I repose me until I hear some manner of tidings from you; but, fair brother, I pray you get me the love of my lady, Queen G... ...re Sir Patrise fell down suddenly dead among them. Then every knight leapt from the board ashamed, and araged for wrath, nigh out of their wits. For t... ...ay the king lodged in a town called Astolat, that is now in English called Guildford, and there the king lay in the castle. So when the king was depar... ...and de- parted. And then he rode so much until he came to Astolat, that is Guildford; and there it happed him in the eventide he came to an old baron’... ...ip and of prow- ess; and those hermits held great household, and refreshed people that were in distress. Now turn we unto King Arthur, and leave we Si...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...edings; it has been his busi ness to write to all sorts and conditions of people, in the names of persons of high reputation and unblemished honour, ... ...y the best of the case, for that chap was tried at the Quarter Sessions at Guildford. You know what Quarter Sessions are, sir. Well, if you’ll believe...

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...e is no doubt that earth and stones were frequently brought by cru- saders from the Holy Land with a view to the hallowing of their own tombs. The aut... ...of all inevitable faults, this style of composition does tend to fix young people’s interest and attention on the scenes it treats of, and to vivify t... ... characters it describes; and if this sketch at all tends to prepare young people’s minds to look with sympathy and appreciation on any of the great c... ...Leonillo bounded forward to meet a stout hardy forester, who was advancing from the opposite end of the glade. This was a man of the largest and most ... ...ar these tidings?” inquired the boy, chang- ing his mood to a graver one. “From the monk to whom you confessed a fortnight back. Did you let him know ... ... of keen reproach and disappointment in his voice. “That shall we learn at Guildford,” replied the stranger. “There are means of teaching a man to spe... ...s to the noble temper that actuated him in his championship of the English people, they became mere lawless rebels—fiercely profiting by his elevation... ...g it. “Wherefore not? Did not I see the chaplain teaching thee to write at Guildford?” “Ay—but that was when I was a babe! Writing! Why, my 86 The Pr...

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...s gaunt black eyes and searching brow, intent on mine; or passing suddenly from mine to Steerforth s; or compre- hending both of us at once. In this l... ...pre- hending both of us at once. In this lynx-like scrutiny she was so far from faltering when she saw I observed it, that at such a time she only fix... ...ome of our old exercises on the lawn behind the house, I saw her face pass from window to window, like a wandering light, until it fixed itself in one... ...ied about? she replied, with provoking coldness. Oh! It was only whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution is that the phr... ... It s as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater... ...re like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater danger than people not so circum- stanced, supposing any serious cause of vari- ance to... ...ng, and to this hour I know as little where we went. Per- haps it was near Guildford. Perhaps some Ara- bian-night magician, opened up the place for t...

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...s, of your great goodness, for ye have rescued me of my life, and saved me from my death. What is your name? said Sir Tristram. He said: My name is Si... ...is tower, there came out Sir Breuse Saunce Pité, and suddenly he struck me from my horse. And then or I might recover my horse this Sir Breuse slew th... ...nd without any more words he hurled unto Sir Tristram, and smote him clean from his saddle to the earth, and hurt him on the left side, that Sir Trist... ...oath, they withdrew them to the Castle of Tintagil with great slaughter of people; and the Sessoins followed on fast, that ten of them were put within... ...hus they fought till it was night, and for great slaughter and for wounded people everych party drew to their rest. And when King Mark was come within... ...ark and his brother, that was called the good Prince Boudwin, that all the people of the country loved passing well. So it befell on a time that the m... ...ay the king lodged in a town called Astolat, that is now in English called Guildford, and there the king lay in the castle. So when the king was depar... ...and de- parted. And then he rode so much until he came to Astolat, that is Guildford; and there it happed him in the eventide he came to an old baron’...

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...neral theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...e in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very conside... ...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...o the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy now, I am afraid many people will choose to understand that I refer to what is often spoken of as... ...eighteenth-century person would have understood locality. Take for example Guildford, or Folkestone, and you will find that possibly even more than ha... ... abundant de- localized industrial population, and, by way of contrast, at Guildford or Farnham for example, you will find enormously rich delocalized...

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...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ...rcumstance.” And again we are told, from another quarter, that the Earl of Guildford, after express in- vestigation of this matter, “was sure that,” a... ...Earls of Downe, “there was none of the name of Pope.” How it was that Lord Guildford came to have any connection with the affair, is not stated by the... ...f Downe than of Pope to make out the connection, we must observe that Lord Guildford’s testimony, if ever given at all, is simply negative; he had fou...

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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... ... the rivers. He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to b... ...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... ...ss, and read and write like themselves, so that they could hardly be known from the Romans. Only the wild ones beyond the wall, and in the mountains, ... ... blood, that the Duke of Northumberland asked her in marriage for his son, Guildford Dudley. When they were married, the duke and Cranmer began to per...

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...e streams? Rickie rebuked his own groveling soul, and turned his eyes away from the night, which had led him to such absurd conclusions. The fire was ... ...with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; then he had walked with people he liked, and had walked just long 6 The Longest Journey enough; an... ...ust long 6 The Longest Journey enough; and now his room was full of other people whom he liked, and when they left he would go and have supper with A... ...e. The door opened. A tall young woman stood framed in the light that fell from the passage. “Ladies!” whispered every-one in great agitation. “Yes?” ... ...et me introduce Miss Pem- broke—don’t all go!” For his friends were flying from his visitor like mists before the sun. “Oh, Agnes, I am so sorry; I’ve... ...s, which Agnes, who had never been to Venice, took to be Venice, but which people who had been to Stockholm knew to be Stockholm. Rickie’s mother, loo... ...nce came “sob, sob, sob,” from a little boy, who was regretting a villa in Guildford and his mother’s half acre of garden. The proceeding terminated w...

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...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ... can gang to bed and not tellee, for weedur’s sak’, to keep the lattle boy from a’ sike scoondrels while there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, or a g... ...If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all sorts of people in all sorts of latitudes and climates, which this unlucky paragraph... ...re attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a q... ... marriage, fluctuated between sixty and eighty pounds per annum. There are people enough in the world, Heaven knows! and even in London (where Mr Nick... ... the course of a wandering speculation), after fulfilling an engagement at Guildford with the greatest ap- plause. ‘You are going that way?’ asked the... ...the Crummleses, under pretence of this engagement, and I should go down to Guildford the day before, and join her on the coach there, which I did, and... ...efore, and join her on the coach there, which I did, and we came down from Guildford yesterday together. Now, for fear you should be writing to Mr Nog...

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...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ... can gang to bed and not tellee, for weedur’s sak’, to keep the lattle boy from a’ sike scoondrels while there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, or a g... ...If I were to attempt to sum up the thousands of letters, from all sorts of people in all sorts of latitudes and climates, which this unlucky paragraph... ...re attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a q... ... marriage, fluctuated between sixty and eighty pounds per annum. There are people enough in the world, Heaven knows! and even in London (where Mr Nick... ... the course of a wandering speculation), after fulfilling an engagement at Guildford with the greatest ap- plause. ‘You are going that way?’ asked the... ...the Crummleses, under pretence of this engagement, and I should go down to Guildford the day before, and join her on the coach there, which I did, and... ...efore, and join her on the coach there, which I did, and we came down from Guildford yesterday together. Now, for fear you should be writing to Mr Nog...

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...cken and gorse, and won- derful cloud pictures. The glass pavilion springs from a bridgelike arch in the wall of the house, through which one comes in... ...of him. Bentley Summerhays, one of those smallish, thinskinned youths, who from 17 to 70 retain unaltered the mental airs of the later and the physica... ...llo! Wheres your luggage? BENTLEY. I left it at the station. Ive walked up from Haslemere. [He goes to the hat stand and hangs up his hat]. JOHNNY [sh... ...her’s views about corporal punishment being wrong. It’s necessary for some people; and I’d have tried it on you until you first learnt to howl and the... ..., getting away from your own serious business to amuse yourself with other people’s. Mind: I dont say there isnt another side to it. It has its value ... ...lam what? BENTLEY. Flamboyant. Lets go and meet him. Hes tele- phoned from Guildford to say hes on the road. The dear old son is always telephoning or... ...f it had been children’s insides: we have to talk about them. But grown-up people! I was glad to get away that time. HYPATIA. There was a physiology a...