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...ord, taking his commission from his bosom, laid it on the table before his Royal Highness with much emotion, and asked permission to retire from the s... ... before our eyes, and are interesting from their novelty. Thus the coat-of-mail of our ancestors, and the triple-furred pelisse of our modern beaux, m... ...onable resort.] For it may be observed in passing, that in- stead of those mail-coaches, by means of which every me- chanic at his sixpenny club may n... ..., by spending a few hours a week at a new and com- plicated edition of the Royal Game of the Goose. There wants but one step further, and the Creed an... ...he boy’s inactivity, at an age when all his ancestors had borne arms; even Royalty itself had deigned to inquire whether young Waverley was not now in... ... Walter Scott him too much honour in supposing him an emissary of ex- iled royalty, he explained his actual business. The man of books, with a much mo... ...eligion from the prelatic clergy, who so perversely laboured to set up the royal preroga- tive in things sacred. This last insinuation probably induce... ...odification of the Highland garb. It was, in fact, the hauberk or shirt of mail, only composed of cloth instead of rings of armour.] He observed great... ... of that sort of spirit which I have been obliged to when I happened, in a mail-coach, or diligence, to meet some military man who has kindly taken up...

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...r to the regicide? Hermes I sent, while yet his soul remain’d Sincere from royal blood, and faith profaned; To warn the wretch, that young Orestes, gr... ...rites devour. To distant Sparta, and the spacious waste Of Sandy Pyle, the royal youth shall haste. There, warm with filial love, the cause inquire Th... ...While his fond soul these fancied triumphs swell’d, The stranger guest the royal youth beheld; Grieved that a visitant so long should wait Unmark’d, u... ...ut generous youth! sincere and free declare, Are you, of manly growth, his royal heir? For sure Ulysses in your look appears, The same his features, i... ... Beneath our roof with virtue could reside; Unblamed abundance crowned the royal board, What time this dome revered her prudent lord; Who now (so Heav... ...oys The ministers of blood in dark surprise; And twenty youths, in radiant mail incased, Close amhush’d nigh the spacious hall he placed. Then bids pr... ... haughty strides, Where anchor’d in the bay the vessel rides, Replete with mail and military store, In all her tackle trim to quit the shore. The desp...

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...er some min- utes’ pause he said, ‘Have you heard from Peru?’ ‘Not by this mail. Have you?’ ‘Yes, I have. Mary is coming home.’ 11 Yo n g e ‘Mary!’ s... ...be so; but the sentiment is destroyed by its having been six months in the Royal Academy, number 16,136, and by seeing it down among the excursions in... ... be killed by a lion. After much consideration, his majesty en- closed his royal highness in a tower, warranted wild-beast proof, and forbade the chas... ..., he leaps the wall, Heeds not the depth, nor plumbs the fall. Unshielded, mailless, on he goes, Singly against a host of foes! —Harold the Dauntless....

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... two clans, and the next morning brought all the others to the feet of his royal ally. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Cor... ...rise, the farewell shouts from the canoe, as we dashed along under bellied royals, were heard unmoved by our islander; but it was not long thus. That ... ...ubjects for tattooing that the profession became quite needy. The 28 Omoo royal ally of Hardy, however, hit upon a benevolent expedi- ent to provide ... ...meanest native so- liciting their services. Numbers at once flocked to the royal abode, both artists and sitters. It was a famous time; and the buildi... ...om of the whole affair—go outside, sir.” I retired as from the presence of royalty; backing out with many bows. The evident prejudice of Wilson agains... ...trange shapes:—some bristling with spikes, others clad in shining coats of mail, and here and there, round forms all spangled with eyes. The island is... ...them to cease paddling. According to the natives, this was a kind of royal mail- canoe, carrying a message from the queen to her friends in a distant ...

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... half devil! run out the bowsprit, up mainsail, top and top-gallant sails, royals, and sky-scrapers, and away,—follow who can! That fellow, Mr. Manner... ...th our bold yeoman Andrew Dinmont, who has succeeded to the keeping of our royal flocks within the forest of Jedwood, where, thanks to our royal care ... ...ssional!—another forfeit,” exclaimed the tumultuary nobility. “Had not our royal predecessors,” continued the monarch, exalting his sovereign voice to... ...ct the examination of this criminal himself, Mr. G. Glossin will cause the mail to be carried to the inn at Kippletringan, or to Hazlewood House, as S... ...Edinburgh, he was sure his rough coat and thick—soled boots would honour a royal drawing-room. “Na, na, Colonel, we’re just plain up-the-country folk;... ... Scott is Godfrey Bertram Hewit, by which name he was entered on board the Royal Caroline excise yacht.” “Ay said Pleydell, that is a very likely stor...

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...y which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by giv- ing them employm... ...on soon broke out, Conde and the Coad- jutor quarrelled violently, and the royal promises made to both Princes and Parliament were eluded by the King,... ...is brother’s release, had made his peace with the Court, and commanded the royal army. War and havoc raged outside Paris; within the partisans of the ... ...orbore. Once or twice we were received in state at some chateau, where our mails had to be opened that we might sup in full toilet; but this was seldo... ...ne began to recommend the Carmelites, another the Visitation, another Port Royal, till I was almost distracted; and M. le Marquis began to say it was ... ...atch. Moreover, they say the child is devote, and entetee on Madam de Port Royal, who is more than suspected of being outree in her devo- tion; so the... ...ors; the windows clean, sunny, and bright; so we were content, and had our mails deposited there at once, though we could not attempt to move my broth...

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...h the back, mounting forest glades and coronals of precipice. Here, in the strong thorough-draught, Her Maj- esty received us in a simple gown of prin... ... our European horror of human bones and mummies. Of the first they made their cherished orna- ments; they preserved them in houses or in mortuary cave... ...o be crowded with the brown roofs of houses; those of the palace and king’s summer parlour (which are of corrugated iron) glittered near one end con- ... ... upon this first and distant view, the place had scarce the air of what it truly was, a village; rather of that which it was also, a petty metropolis,... ...d, depends by a strip of red cotton; and the hoop (which hangs askew) is dressed with streamers of the same material, red and white. This was our firs... ...was taken to heart, and for some while the government moved on the model of Nakaeia’s. Nanteitei dispensed with guards, and walked abroad alone with a... ...ad the breeze, which was well 233 Robert Louis Stevenson worth a dollar in itself; but the bulletin about my friend in England proved, some six month...

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...this chronicle among the rest—along the roads that lay before them. II The Mail IT WAS THE D OVER ROAD that lay, on a Friday night late in November... ...this history has business. The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooter’s Hill. He walked up hill in the mire by th... ...mbered up Shooter’s Hill. He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least rel... ...circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 5 that the horses ... ...ESSFULLY TO D OVER, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach door as his custom was. He did it with ... ...m bead to foot, the room had the odd interest for the establishment of the Royal George, that although but one kind of man was seen to go into it, all... ... Cities – Dickens 85 of hand, whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover, and had since improved. “I should have thought... ...claimed the hungry man, staring. “Is it a good sign, that he wishes to see Royalty and Nobility?” “Jacques,” said Defarge; “judiciously show a cat mil... ... ring of intrigue, corruption, and dissimulation, was all gone to gether. Royalty was gone; had been besieged in its Palace and “suspended,” when the...

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...h, partly, perhaps, with a secret reference to the rumored apostasy of the royal family, was pursued more eagerly in the latter half of the seventeent... ...ished military command- ers, &c., received such a dress as a gift from the royal trea- sury, in order to prepare them at all times for the royal pres-... ...lebrated living professor of medicine, who has been since distinguished by royal favor, and honored with a title, making it his boast, that he had nev... ...f Panem et Circenses. Yet he had enjoyed the benefits of an education in a Royal College, in a country which re- gards itself self-complacently as at ... ... was thus invited to indulge in this most captivating of luxu- ries—in the royal tiger-hunt of war—as being also at this time, and for a special purpo... ... Homer had tried it, the same remedy (in effect, regular payments of black-mail) might have been found available in his day. It is too late to suggest...

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...rs as the carriage crossed Westminster bridge. The party was landed at the Royal Gardens in due time. As the majestic Jos stepped out of the creaking ... ...s contract of damaged beef upon his hands: and for his coach-horses, every mail proprietor in the kingdom knew that he lost more horses than any man i... ... liked it just as well—wanted a pipe for the Commander- in-Chief. He’s his Royal Highness’s right-hand man.” “It is devilish fine wine,” said the Eyeb... ...ret. “And we’ll see if that’s as good as the Madeira, George, to which his Royal Highness is welcome, I’m sure. And as we are drink- ing it, I’ll talk... ...rs. Firkin entered the room. “Here’s Mrs. Bute Crawley just arrived by the mail from Hamp- shire, and wants some tea; will you come down and make brea... ... need for her to remain at the Gloster Coffee House where the Ports- mouth mail had set her down, and whence she ordered Mr. Bowls’s aide-de-camp the ... ... announced to her that Mrs. Bute Crawley had come up from Hampshire by the mail, was staying at the Gloster, sent her love to Miss Crawley, and asked ... ...ndsomest child ever seen. Ev- erybody said he was like a nobleman’s son. A royal princess had remarked him, and kissed him, and asked his name in Kew ... ...al in London he had written off to his father’s solicitors, signifying his royal pleasure that an inter- view should take place between them on the mo...

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...other; we would argue whether it was better to go to one who gave handsome royalties or to another who “pushed” a book for all it was worth. Some adve... ...nd of golf, of their children and the latest play , of the pictures at the Royal Academy , of the weather and their plans for the holidays. There was ... .... He sits him in a seat of honour. At last, like a courtier fawning on the royal stick that is laid about his shoulders, he prides himself on the sens... ...other in his pocket. Now and then they made a bit of money . Some- times a mail steamer would come in, and Cap- tain Nichols, having scraped acquainta... ... Coutras that Strickland was dying. Ata had waylaid the cart that took the mail into Papeete, and besought the man who drove it to go at once to the d... ...arls and three jars of guava-jelly made with her own plump hands. When the mail-boat, stopping for twenty-four hours on its way from Wellington to San... ...pture to his purpose. He remembered the days when you could get thir- teen Royal Natives for a shilling. To return to the electronic classics series,...

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... taken from the Turks, drooping in the dull air of its cage. Rich suits of mail worn by great warriors were hoarded there; crossbows and bolts; quiver... ...nd Marseilles, the snow being then exceeding deep, a thaw came on, and the mail waded rather than rolled for the next three hundred miles or so; break... ...t, strong and boldly, within a few nights; and of their having stopped the mail very near that place. They were known to have waylaid some travellers ... ...se beard, who, to my knowledge, has gone half through the catalogue of the Royal Academy. This is the venerable, or patriarchal model. He carries a lo... ...obliged to dress in black at these ceremonies, and to wear black veils), a royal box for the King of Naples and his party; and the table itself, which... ...here, to be buried themselves, are mem bers of a curious body, called the Royal Hospital, who are the official attendants at funerals. T wo of these ...

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...he ran up to his room to read the following epistle:— “Set off by the next mail; and if you can get here soon enough, your fortune is made. Mademoisel... ...e went on, “as a citizen of Paris must feel in the finishing of the Palais Royal.” “Well,” said Horace Bianchon eagerly, “I can tell you—” “Tell me no...

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...sko pretended that he wished to accommodate folk who had not sent in their mail, and so worked her gracefully in and out among the schoo- ners. In rea... ...assenting absently to the secretary’ s questions as he opened the Saturday mail. Cheyne was wondering how much it would cost to drop everything and pu... ...p everything and pull out. He carried huge insur- ances, could buy himself royal annuities, and between one of his places in Colorado and a little soc... ...st Gloucester, and spent half a day explaining to an amused actress with a royal reputation on two seaboards the inwardness of the mistake she contemp...

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... and cheerful. From his superior height, he was enabled to look down quite royally on the man whose repose he had disturbed. The following conversatio... ...wd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal salvo!’ said my father, and asked me earnestly whether I had forgotte... .... My father backed a horse to run in the races on Epsom Downs named Prince Royal, only for the reason that his name was Prince Royal, and the horse wo... ...said, a proof to me that in our country it was common prudence to stick to Royalty; and he bade me note that if he went in a carriage and two, he was ... ...is unlawful, sir,’ she said. ‘For whom, ma’am?’ asked my father. ‘None but Royal . . .’ she was explaining, but stopped, for he showed her an awful fr... ...ge Meredith CHAPTER L WE ARE ALL IN MY FATHER’S NET JOURNEYING DOWN by the mail-train in the face of a great sunken sunset broken with cloud, I chance...

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...reasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brou... ... brain. I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air the faces all awry, grinning from wood... ...r heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour... ...alled collection’—’Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry’—’The Royal Family are the pa trons of Jarley. ’ When she had exhibited these le... ...who was the delight of the Nobility and Gentry and the peculiar pet of the Royal Family, destitute of these familiar arts; or that she presumed so gre... ...ed with them. The delight of the Nobility and Gentry and the patronised of Royalty had, by some process of self abridgment known only to herself, got... ... pleting her task, and dressing herself neatly, before the beloved of the Royal Family came down to breakfast. ‘We haven’t had,’ said Mrs Jarley when... ...irst, and shortly afterwards so sleepy. The waking from a sound nap as the mail came dashing past like a highway comet, with gleaming lamps and rattli... ... had lived. Some of these knights had their own weapons, helmets, coats of mail, hanging upon the walls hard by, and dangling from rusty hooks. Broken...

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...t he and the other young gentleman came from London only last night by the mail, on business at the magistrates’ meeting, ten miles off, this morning,... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman T urveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my remov ... ...ished (I will even say illustrious) public men as Cap tain Swosser of the Royal Navy and Professor Dingo. The conclusion at which I have arrived is—i... ... ous person that ever was known and all of whose relations were a sort of royal family. He appeared to have passed his life in always getting up into...

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...with John Westlock for his box, and is going to help him to take it to the mail. Only mark my words, if that isn’t his intention!’ 22 Martin Chuzzlew... ...d him. Then they took up the box between them, and sallied out to meet the mail. That fleet conveyance passed, every night, the corner of a lane at so... ...possible to obtain in the dark, was about to answer, when the sound of the mail guard’s horn came cheerily upon their ears, putting an imme- diate end... ...eartiness of manner, and sprung up to his seat upon the roof. Off went the mail at a canter down the dark road; the lamps gleaming brightly, and the h... ...nd,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘you may well in- quire. The heart is not always a royal mint, with patent machinery to work its metal into current coin. Some... ...n good health, I believe,’ said Martin. ‘Queen Victoria won’t shake in her royal shoes at all, when she hears to-morrow named,’ observed the stranger,... ...al, smiling with a mild consciousness of his knowledge, ‘is nat’rally your royal residence. Being located in the immediate neighbourhood of your Parks... ...d of your Parks, your Drives, your Triumphant Arches, your Opera, and your Royal Almacks, it nat’rally suggests itself as the place for holding a luxu... ...th a lady on each arm (exactly like the chorus to the National Anthem when Royalty goes in state to the play), came gliding in—every new group fresher...

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... , and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females,’ which you had forgot, and put the question, Was the... ...t driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, re- minded the matron of anothe... ...nt ob- jects. Gog and Magog held their state within ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of g... ...new no softening. After tea, Berry brought out a little work-box, with the Royal Pavilion on the lid, and fell to working busily; while Mrs Pipchin, h... ...roud to recognise. There is nothing adulatory in Joseph Bagstock, Sir. His Royal Highness the Duke of Y ork observed on more than one occasion, “there... ...ters rankle there, as follow on no other wounds, no, though dealt with the mailed hand of Pride itself, on weaker pride, disarmed and thrown down. Suc... ...uppose it is impossible that he can have written in the ordinary course—by mail packet, or ship letter, you un- derstand—’ ‘ Ay, ay, my lad,’ said the...

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...of the mahogany tree, some sea-eggs, a false book made of the wreck of the Royal George, and some pieces of spar and petrifactions which Helen had acq... ...e is—his black steel 82 ABBEYCHURCH helmet, and tippet of chain- mail, his clustering white plume, his surcoat with England’s leopards and F...