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...t: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker,...

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...t tidy, fidg- ety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Grea... ...te, with the interesting in- scription ‘Mrs. Tibbs,’ had never caught fire from con- stant friction, so perseveringly was it polished. There were meat... ...the wandering Jew of Joe Millerism. Mr. Tibbs enjoyed a small independence from the pen- sion-list—about 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, an... ...out 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, and five interesting scions from the same stock, drew a like sum from the revenue of a grateful country... ...wn. But, as this said independence was not quite sufficient to furnish two people with all the luxuries of this life, it had occurred to the busy litt... ...s Rampart; and one day, when we were exercising on the ground on which the London University now stands, he says, says he, Tibbs (calling me from the ... ...ens parlour. Mrs. Maplesone and Mr. Calton played cribbage, and the ‘young people’ amused themselves with music and conversation. The Miss Maplesones ... ... as if he were on the stool of an electrifying machine in full operation. ‘People must know that, some time or other—within a year, I imagine, ’ said ... .... Alfred Tomkins, addressing the company in general, ‘I shall ride down to Richmond to-day, and come back by the steamer. There are some splendid effe...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ... 155 Saint-Simon tween the two powers. The Spanish ambassador returned to London. The Emperor next endeavoured to strengthen his party in Spain. The ... ...pulled down his hat, and could not keep his countenance. He sent orders to London, to drive out Poussin, acting as French am- bassador, immediately; a... ...and arms, which pass to their posterity. The name varies. Thus the Duke of Richmond, bastard of Charles II., had the name of “Lennox;” the Dukes of Cl...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ...backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small— decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with des- p... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...orn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain- ful. After watching the traffi... ...couple will stand there talking for half an hour on a fine afternoon; most people, walking for pleasure, contem- plate for three minutes; when, having... ...inst the road-makers of the present day in general, and the road-makers of Richmond Park in particular, where Mr. Pepper had the habit of cycling ever... ...lived for the sake of the air in a comfortable house 28 The Voyage Out in Richmond. She was of course brought up with exces- sive care, which as a ch... ...ather. Friends might have told her things, but she had few of her own age,—Richmond being an awkward place to reach,—and, as it happened, the only gir...

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...tle sympa- thy, she gave him ridicule. The many hours that she could spare from the ordering of her small house she devoted to what she called the hom... ...e atom, choosing her words very deliberately, ‘I shall write to my lawyer- peoples and tell them that you are a very bad woman. Amomma is mine, mine, ... ...worse than you can ever beat me. If you beat me I shall write to my lawyer-peoples and tell them that you do not give me enough to eat. I am not afrai... ...ch. It could only be used on the muddiest foreshore of the beach, far away from the bathing-machines and pierheads, below the grassy slopes of Fort Ke... ...rned, the revolver in her hand, just in time to see Amomma scampering away from the pebbles Dick threw after him. Nothing is sacred to a billy- goat. ... ...ake friends with the captain of a decayed cargo-steamer, who landed him in London with fewer pounds in his pocket than he cared to think about. A thin... ... Nor is it cheering to begin the experiment alone in all the loneliness of London. Dick paid seven shil- lings a week for his lodging, which left him ... ...te of affairs as regards myself?’ ‘You had my wire? You’ve caught on here. People like your work immensely. I don’t know why, but they do. They say yo... ...table, where I shall hire one horse, and take him very carefully as far as Richmond Hill. Then I shall walk him back again, in case he should accident...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ... wrote home to his parents an account of the transaction. Sugarcane House, Richmond, March, 18— Dear Mama,—I hope you are quite well. I should be much... ...unnatural. It was but this present morning, as he rode on the omnibus from Richmond; while it changed horses, this present chronicler, being on the ro...

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...nly 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that t... ..., the first step of military prepara- tion. The religious sentiment of the people is indeed for peace at any price; no pastor can bear arms; and even ... ...ief, “we have just been puzzling ourselves to guess where that custom came from. But, Misi, is it not so that when David killed Goliath, he cut off hi... ...able. They are easy, merry, and pleasure-loving; the gayest, though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dre... ...the long hours. But the special delight of the Samoan is the malanga. When people form a party and go from village to village, junketing and gossiping... ...e shaken. Pot boil and caldron bubble! Within the memory of man, the white people of Apia lay in the worst squalor of degradation. They are now unspea... ...cartridges, brought into the country in salt-beef kegs by the British ship Richmond. This not only sharpened the animosity between whites; following s... ...is acts and despatches as the agi- tations of a fever. The British steamer Richmond returned to Apia, January 15th. On the last voyage she had brought... ...egged him to accept himself the duty of “controlling” the discharge of the Richmond’s cargo. Hand was unable to move without his consul; and at night ...

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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, ... ...d of John’s niece, to come and be their king. He came, and was received in London, while John and his bands of soldiers were roaming about the east- e... ...sh gentleman named Edmund Tudor, and had a son called Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. Edward IV. had always feared that this youth might rise against h... ...lled Lord Stanley to a secret room, and begged him to send to his stepson, Richmond, to invite him to come to England and set them all free. Stanley s...

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.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ .......................... ...................................... 231 Extract from Adam’s Diary ............................................................ ...bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a... ...llars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck’s grip had been upon the... ...uld you wanting to talk in that dreadful way? How would you like to have people talk so about you, and you not cold yet?” “Not likely to be, for o... ...t: George, the favorite body servant of the lamented Wash ington, died in Richmond, Va., last T uesday, at the ripe age of 95 years. His intellect wa... ... preserve his aus terity, I would drive him off the door step.) (From the London Saturday Review .) REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS The Innocents Abroad. A Boo... ...VIEWS OF NEW BOOKS The Innocents Abroad. A Book of Travels. By Mark Twain. London: Hotten, publisher. 1870. LORD M ACAULAY DIED TOO SOON. We never ...

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...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...rama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you want? Owing to your unfortunate habit—you no... ...out of date for you and for me; and if there are millions of less literate people who are still in the eighteenth century, have they not Moliere and M... ... act. TANNER. What’s the good of that? I’ve been refusing all the way from Richmond; but Ann keeps on saying that of course she’s only an orphan; and ... ... Superman Act II On the carriage drive in the park of a country house near Richmond a motor car has broken down. It stands in front of a clump of tree... ...his watch] I suppose you know that we have come from Hyde Park Cor- ner to Richmond in twenty-one minutes. 70 GB Shaw THE CHAUFFEUR. I’d have done it...

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...e broad awake. Tchekov, more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. They would, he thought, be sold up and sent ... ... hunting, shooting, fishing, flirting, eating, and drinking. The same nice people, the same utter futility. The nice people could read; some of them c... ...r any chance of sharing or influencing their activi- ties. But they shrank from that contact. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia... ...t. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their o... ...cs). It is true that the two establishments got mixed at the edges. Exiles from the library, the music room, and the picture gallery would be found la... ... incredible ignorance of modern thought and political science but upstarts from the counting-house, who had spent their lives furnishing their pockets... ...who died in their beds in 1914, any dread of having to hide underground in London from the shells of an enemy 8 Heartbreak House seemed more remote a... ...h Egypt never dreamed. They were all as preventable as the great Plague of London, and came solely because they had not been prevented. They were not ... ...at the National Gallery and persuade me to come with him for a drive round Richmond Park in a taxi. MRS HUSHABYE. My pettikins, you have been going it...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ...s honour is to marry rich Miss Dripping, the twenty- thousand-pounder from London; and to purchase a regi- ment;—and to get old Brock drummed out of C... ...arryvan,” then, which in the year 1706 used to perform the journey between London and that place in ten days, left Birmingham about an hour after Mrs.... ...ini, or a night at the “Eagle Tav- ern,” City Road, or a ride in a ‘bus to Richmond and tea and brandy-and-water at “Rose Cottage Hotel”—the reader, h...

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...nd agricultural in its pleasures. There are towns in it, of course; depots from whence are brought seeds and groceries, ribbons and fire-shovels; in w... ...oming—in accordance with the dic- tates of some neighbouring land magnate; from whence emanate the country postmen, and where is located the supply of... ...is in these days an East Barsetshire, and there is a West Barsetshire; and people conversant with Barsetshire do- ings declare that they can already d... ...ice again he made violent efforts to do so. Elections in East Barsetshire, from various causes, came quick upon each other in those days, and before h... ...se in Portman Square, she had worried him because he objected to have more people carried every winter at Greshamsbury Park than the house would hold;... ...ed such results. As it was, her poor weak darlings were carried about from London to Brighton, from Brighton to some German baths, from the German bat... ...llowed them, nor had they suffered as their sisters had suffered; and some people at Greshamsbury attributed this to the fact that a change had been m... ...ember of Parliament with a young wife and two or three children to live in London and keep up their country family mansion; but then the De Courcys we... ...es, for auld lang syne, Patience; when you took me away under your wing to Richmond. ’ Patience also had loved her when she was in trouble, and that l...