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...ed the favour of a few minutes’ conversation in private with Ma- dame. The Scottish title fared better on the lips of La Jeunesse 16 A Modern Telemac... ...r whatever she would command.’ ‘If you can grant it—oh! Madame,’ cried the Scottish Count- ess, beginning to drop her formality in her eagerness, ‘we ... ...tched weak creatures!’ he said to himself, as he thought the traditions of Scottish heroic women in whose heroism he had gloated. And yet he was wrong... ...the clear reaches of river, the beautiful turns, the little vil- lages and towns gleaming white among the trees, seemed to pass unseen before her eyes... ...ss on the south side on the Pyrenees, and was probably by this time in the county of Rousillon, intending to besiege Rosas. Once with them all would b... ...the lagoons, in the carriage to the seaport of Cette, one of the old Greek towns of the Gulf of Lyon, and with a fine harbour full of ships. Maitre He...

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...Ralph, shaking his head. “There was Sir Henry —at your age he had made the Scottish thieves look about them, I promise you. And to go no further back ... ... by the Count de Bearn, I have seen little else—three stricken fields— two towns stormed—castles more than I can remember.” “Alas!” said Eustace, “I h... ...t when at length the King had freed himself from their trammels, the whole county of Somerset rose to expel the intruders from Lynwood Keep, and rein-... ...that the Knight had again taken his wonted place amongst the gentry of the county. Entertain- ments were exchanged with his neighbours, hunting and ha... ...oke long of the Lord de Clarenham, because his favour would be well in the county; but at last he has fixed on your brother, because he may do somewha... ...h fields and fair vineyards spreading far away to the west and north, with towns and villages here and there rising among them; while far away to the ...

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...at’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands on one of these prairie towns and make it beautiful. Be an inspiration. I suppose I’d better become... ...he garden suburbs on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to con... ...Say honestly— Of course I may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ... mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about ... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...rn’s visit. The dame was in hot haste to get home. Rumours were rife as to Scottish invasions, and her tower was not too far south not to need to be o... ...hey slept, and their attendants found lairs in the kitchens or stables. In towns there was generally harbour for the noble portion; indeed in some, Wa... ...their hounds, And some sware they would not marry her For cities nor for towns. Glances again went towards the scarred visage, but Grisell was heedl... ...with it. We will show the young recre- ant how promises are kept in Durham County.” He dragged rather than led his daughter to the door, and lifted he... ...ld moors and mosses. Then methought I would come hither, or to some of the towns about, and see how it fares with the old T ower and the folk; and if ... ...each of the Duke’s domains, glittering back and front in the tabard of his county’s armorial bearings, and with its banner borne beside him. Then a di...

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...I think of chiefly; over the oilcloth of which, assumed to be land, spread towns and villages and forts of wooden bricks; there are steep square hills... ...nough for every engineering project I could undertake. I could build whole towns with streets and houses and churches and citadels; I could bridge eve... ... London School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London County Council. It gives a measure of the newness of our modern ideas of th... ... belonged to that great cult which pretends that the place of this or that county in the struggle for the championship is a matter of supreme impor- t... ... to boys. He obliged us to affect a passionate interest in the progress of county matches, to work up unnatural en- thusiasms. What a fuss there would... ... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because... ..., behind this nearer landscape, and the southward waters with remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden haze, ...

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...ather expect that, Nuttie. Landscape-gardening is gone by.’ ‘Even with the county people?’ said Nuttie. ‘By at least half a century,’ said Mr. Dutton,... ... of their own mouths,’ cried the girl defiantly . ‘That’s all I know about county people, and so I hope it will be.’ ‘Come in, my dear, you are talkin... ...he beggar girl become a princess, at any rate, the little school-teacher a county lady! And she had never seen her mother so wildly, overpoweringly ha... ...els of Annabella, so chris- tened, but always called Annaple after the old Scottish queens, her ancestors. She had been May Egremont’s chief friend ev... ...in correspondence with agencies and depots in London and all the principal towns in the kingdom. Gerard Godfrey was there,—casting looks askance at th... ...en much warp- ing of the imagination to make the young man believe the old Scottish peeress to have consented to her daughter’s mar- rying into an umb... ...undertaken, I suppose.’ ‘Not very likely,’ said Mary quietly. It is a mere Scottish anti-church influence,’ said Gerard, turning round at the swing-do...

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...candidate would be able to secure some thirty or forty votes. A few of the townspeople, humiliated at seeing their town always 11 Balzac treated as a... ... Pigoult, “the general sentiment of the elec- tors is for one of their own townsmen. Whom can you op- pose to Simon Giguet,—a man who has just spent t... ...ect is sad; the land is flat. Pass- ing through the villages, and even the towns, you will see nothing but miserable buildings of wood or half-baked c... ... on the high-road to Paris, opposite to a farm called “La Belle Etoile,” a county road branches off from the main road, and leads to Arcis, crossing t... ...oyes and Arcis, so that the short- est route from Paris to Arcis is by the county road which turns off, as we have said, near the Belle Etoile. The Au... ...o many histories, the present tale begins, there was seen to arrive by the county road a stranger, driving a handsome tilbury drawn by a valuable hors... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ...

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...ilent or discourse humorously. The residence of Sir Lukin Dunstane, in the county of Surrey, inherited by him during his recent term of Indian service... ...auty, I love sim- plicity. All that will be destroyed by the refuse of the towns flooding the land—barring accidents, as Lukin says. There seems nothi... ...ave already exchanged opinions on the subject. Simplicity must go, and the townsman meet his equal in the countryman. As for beauty, I would sacrifice... ...her ladyship that he was half a Sussex man, though not exactly born in the county; his parents had removed to Sussex after the great event; and the Do... ...ing from deliberation, the old man said: ‘Ah’m a Hampshireman.’ ‘A capital county!’ ‘Heigh!’ The old man heaved his chest. ‘Once!’ ‘Why, what has happ... ...ain wonderful old quarto book in her father’s library, by an eccentric old Scottish nobleman, wherein the wearing of garments and sleeping in houses i... ...dlock on the other side of our perilous forties; sketches of the bays, the towns, the people-priests, dames, cavaliers, ur- chins, infants, shifting g... ...nto them. Mr. Dacier was plain, and the state of young Mr. Rhodes; and the Scottish gentleman was at least a vehement admirer. But she pen- etrated th...

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...m would have succeeded, we cannot tell. The nature of the peasantry of the county he had to deal with is, to be quick-witted, argumentative, and ready... ...iety. The Church had for a long-period been at a peculiarly low ebb in the county, and there is not a neighbourhood which has not traditions of incred... ...s, so far as can be judged, exactly those most requisite for work in large towns. He could deal with individuals bet- ter than with masses, and his me... ...u ever talk to me about any of your English wa- tering-places and sea-port towns! No one knows anything about what an harbour can be for perfect beaut... ...th of July. This island was occupied by Mr. Inglis and Mr. Greddie, of the Scottish Presbyterian Mission, who had done much towards improving the nati... ... sixty miles long, one mass of forest with no path, is not like an English county. It may take months to get an accurate knowl- edge of one of them; w... ... course the coral formation out of the sea.’ Erromango was occupied by the Scottish Mission, and Mr. Gordon was then living there in peace and apparen... ...Patteson to demand pecuniary assistance round all the platforms of English towns. The Eton, and the Aus- tralian and New Zealand Associations, supplem... ...fore his eyes. The Erromaugo Mission, like that of Anaiteum, came from the Scottish Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, as has been seen, had been visited on e...

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...or a great many years, ever since the end of the wars of the Roses. So the towns did not want fortifications to keep out the enemy, and their houses s... ...eir nearest town, though on the other side of the Avon, and in a different county. 14 Under the Storm It was there that the Elmwood people did their ... ...ristol, when he had been talking to the butter-merchant’s man. He said the townsfolk would know the reason why, if the soldiers were for holding out l... ... that a news letter had been re- ceived stating that the King was with the Scottish army at Newcastle, and that it was expected that on receiving thei...

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...ickens We performed Auld Lang Syne the whole day; seeing noth- ing, out of towns and villages, but the track of stoats, hares, and foxes, and sometime... ...The latter had nothing in them but stock advertisements, a meeting about a county rate, and a highway robbery. As I am a greedy reader, I could not ma... ...n Creed in a terrific voice. I paid my bill next day, and retired from the county with all possible precipitation. That was not a commonplace story wh... ...s so temptingly at hand) the Athol brose. Once was I coming south from the Scottish Highlands in hot haste, hoping to change quickly at the station at... ...r want of a tea- pot. So to the old palace Inns and old monastery Inns, in towns and cities of the same bright country; with their mas- sive quadrangu...

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... to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest in the shire where it lay. But 12 Waverley this was a cons... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...R FATHER MISS BRADWARDINE was but seventeen; yet, at the last races of the county town of —, upon her health being proposed among a round of beauties,... ...d himself to be pos- sessed of a bull of matchless merit, brought from the county of Devon (the Damnonia, of the Romans, if we can trust Robert of Cir... ...our not me. I do not go out to park-dikes, and to steadings, and to market-towns, to have herds and cottars and burghers pull off their bonnets to me ... ...ard’s views were very different. He could not but ob- serve, that in those towns in which they proclaimed James the Third, ‘no man cried, God bless hi... ...n patroling dureing the night on the different roads which led towards the towns where the army happened to quarter. ‘While this small army was out in...

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...d schemes were formed, as desperate as they were adventurous. Thus a young Scottishman of rank is said to have stooped so low as to plot the surprisal... ...s on the Law of Scotland Resolved and Answered,’ are works of authority in Scottish jurisprudence. As is generally the case, the doubts are held more ... ...ill of late years, every advocate who catered at the 15 Sir W alter Scott Scottish bar made a Latin address to the Court, faculty, and audience, in s... ...n, to hear, and shrug thy shoulders. Of Dumfries, the capital town of this county, I have but little to say, and will not abuse your patience by remin... ... me that some folks had gone to Brokenburn from her house, or neighbouring towns, that did not come so safe back again. ‘Wandering Willie,’ she said, ... ...ken the lad, a son of Dumtoustie of that ilk, member of Parliament for the county of —, and a nephew of the laird’s younger brother, worthy Lord Bladd... ...w hours longer. Besides, he would have time to speak to the sheriff of the county—perhaps to the King’s Advocate—and set about the matter in a regular...

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...otest: viz., that, no matter though the sheriff and under-sheriff in every county should be running after you with his posse, touch a hair of your hea... ... animation of frank social intercourse—have disarmed the guard. Beyond the Scottish border, the regulation was so far relaxed as to allow of four outs... ...g, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establishment by the diffusive radiatio... ...ence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns. But at last all is finished. Sound your horn, guard! Manchester, goo... ...ee stages termi- nate in Preston (called, by way of distinction from other towns of that name, Proud Preston); at which place it is that the separate ... .... 47 Thomas De Quincey rolled northwards from the southern quarter of the county that for a fortnight at least it occupied the severe exertions of tw... ...d sank into profound silence. Except the exhaustion in the vast adja- cent county of York from a contested election, no such si- lence succeeding to n... ...ut Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 sommers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D’ORLÉANS: Maid of...

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...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...ertainly proved more than a match for all the clergymen of the neighboring towns, some of whom (as the most intellectual persons of that neighborhood)... ...she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who was known advantageousl... ...ewspapers, &c., it followed, naturally enough, that the distant provincial towns, though not without their own separate literature and their own liter... ...oaning respiration which is made by men who use an axe, or by those who in towns ply the “three-man beetle” of Falstaff, as paviers; echoes they certa...

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...RATIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T albot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that count... ... the community in which he lives. Mr. Gore lived in St. Michael’s, T albot county, when I left Maryland; if he is still alive he probably yet resides ... ...g a slave, or 82 My Bondage and My Freedom any colored person, in T albot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the co... ..., I have felt that he, better than I, illustrated the virtues of the great Scottish chief. Sure I am, that had any slave-catcher entered his domicile,... ... My Bondage and My Freedom. I visited and lectured in nearly all the large towns and cities in the United Kingdom, and en- joyed many favorable opport... ... peculiarities of American institutions. It is carried on in all the large towns and cities in one-half of this confederacy; and millions are pocketed...

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...ll towards his fag. As a protege of the great Lord Steyne, the nephew of a County member, and son of a Colonel and C.B., whose name appeared in some o... ... table; was visited by the clergy and the most re- spectable people of the county —was the lady of Gauntly, in 29 Thackeray fact; and the two last ho... ...chaise whirled rapidly from mile-stone to mile-stone, through neat country towns where landlords came out to welcome him with smiles and bows; by pret... ...e had read it in one of her favourite novel-books—Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. “Suppose you were to run on and tell her,” the Major said.... ...itation of the landlords to alight and refresh himself in the neat country towns. Having partaken of a copious breakfast, with fish, and rice, and har... ...ten of evenings—to those snug, unassuming, dear old op- eras in the German towns, where the noblesse sits and cries, and knits stockings on the one si... ...s their neighbour, Hoggarty of Castle Hoggarty) he is the first man of his county. Her Ladyship still dances jigs, and insisted on standing up with th...

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...nterrupt our Utopian speculations. We should both discover that the little towns below had changed—but how, we should not have marked them well enough... ...ore essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- loso... ...ithout some further provision we con- cede the possibility that the poorer townsman (if there are to be rich and poor in the world) will be forced to ... ...ll, paths through the flowery garden spaces amidst which the houses in the towns will stand. And everywhere about the world, on road and path, by sea ... ...Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank. A foolish humour prompts me to unfold all these, hand them to ... ...hose others, as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, ...

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... day forth. I would be tempted to suppose that a gentleman must everywhere be first, even aboard a rover: but my birth is every whit as good as any Sc... ...y, the scenes that must follow on our success tempted me as little as the chances of defeat. T wice we found women on board; and though I have seen to... ... but the night was hollow about me like an empty church; not even a ripple stirred upon the shore; it seemed you might have heard a pin drop in the co... ...- elled on a boulder this inscription, with a copy of which I may fitly bring my narrative to a close: 203 Robert Louis Stevenson J. D., Heir to a Sc...

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...very death; when you spoke of a hundred and twenty thousand men across the Scottish border who would take their own redress at any time, if it were no... ... said the widow mildly. ‘Then why don’t you shut him up? we pay enough for county institutions, damn ‘em. But thou’d rather drag him 362 Barnaby Rudg... ... night more drunk and get up every morning more sober, than any man in the county. In knowl edge of horseflesh he was almost equal to a farrier, in s... ...aid Simon, sternly; ‘but he W AS at Westminster. Perhaps, sir, he kicked a county member, perhaps, sir, he tapped a lord—you may stare, sir, I repeat ... ...ces had, by this time, begun to be pretty generally circulated through the towns and villages round London, and the tidings were every where received... ...eeps or rests. In the brief interval of darkness and repose which feverish towns enjoy, all busy sounds were hushed; and those who awoke from dreams l...