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...RNOLD ACT I The margin of the Hu&son at West Point. Fort Putnam and the Highlands in the distance. A fig is $uttering on the fort. The orchestra ... ... bugle! Blow to the rising Sun! Blow to the dayspring of Liberty, to the new nation rising calmly above the dangers that beset her dawn. Blow bugl... ...horuses. Father Hudson, we are coming, we are streaming, we are foaming From the sky and from the earth, Down the mountains, Through the fountain... ...ng, bubbling, swelling, Feed you with our rich upwelling. Chorus of Men. From Monadnock and Mount Washington - And where the haughty deer on Hudso... ...in thy demesnes. Leader of Men. Lo, where it comes! Lo, where the shadow falls! [Enter Benedict Arnold. He is in the Unifwm of an American General... ...ke a Lord of me, - Pacificator of the Colonies, - Restorer of an erring people's love To their forgiving Sovereign. At a clap! The key to all of ... ...ems as long as the preceding year, And I shall know. [He sits down and falls into a contemplation; then into [ 36 I swift, With idle chat of ow... ...ike a robber from his own land. Hills look your last upon Benedict ! Ye Highlands, filled with clouds, and ye little streams that jet along the cr... ...] And through its hell of shame as through a gate I see Elysian fields, peopled with com- rades. Mrs. Arnold. [Aside.] God have mercy upon us! ...

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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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...ONICLES OF THE CANONGATE ..................................................................................................................... 41 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW ................................................................................................................................... 109 MR. CROFTANGRY INTRODUCES ANOTHER TALE. .....................................

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... THE MATRON OF JEDBOROUGHAND HER HUSBAND ................................................................................................. 11 6. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 7. SONNET ...............................................

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..................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ............................................................... ...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ... his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Com- bine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ank... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...le motion. The former sighs from time to time as the oil plunger rises and falls half an inch. The latter, cased and guarded like the U- tube aft, exh... ...nals we must attend to the derelict, now whistling her death- song, as she falls beneath us in long sick zigzags. “Keep our beam on her and send out a... ...r. Then I knew that he was a Great One with virtue in him. “We came to the highlands of the Sheshaheli on the dawn of the second day—about the time of...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....

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...-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoul- ders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, ... ...e stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fidèle, on the point of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with the air of one neither courting... ...or the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, t... ...unalloyed gratulation, and is such to all ex- cept those who think that in new countries, where the wolves are killed off, the foxes increase. Pausing... ...the elbows and toes of the crowd, he concluded his opera- tions by bidding people stand still more aside, when, jumping on a stool, he hung over his d... ...eece and good-natured, honest black face rubbing against the upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it... ...e. Her eye would have been large for a woman, and was inky as the pools of falls among mountain-pines. An Indian blanket, orange-hued, and fringed wit... ...s hues, that of the cochineal pre- dominating, in style participating of a Highland plaid, Emir’s robe, and French blouse; from its plaited sort of fr... ...ey know he will not come. Suns and seasons fleet; the tiger-lily blows and falls; babes are born and leap in their mothers’ arms; but, the Indian-hate...