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...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, wit...

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...nnsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas Chapter ... ...as Chapter 1 A Grateful People ON THE 20TH OF AUGUST, 1672, the city of the Hague, al- ways so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe eve... ..., war- den of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Assembly of the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of age, wh... ... by John de Witt upon the United Provinces. As it rarely happens that public opinion, in its whimsical flights, does not identify a principle with a m... ...a few minutes afterwards the gallop of a horse was heard resounding in the vaulted arch- way. “My child,” continued the Prince, “the feast of the tuli... ... town, which did not wish to be outdone, voted a like sum, which was placed in the hands of that notable body to solemnise the auspicious event. And i... ... Monsieur de Robespierre displayed at the festival of “The Supreme Being.” There was, however, a little difference between the two; very different fro...

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...Excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by death, o...

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...e encoun- tered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace— a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field i... ... and colorless; decay, painted to seem young. In looking at this excavated people, foreigners, who are not prone to reflection, experience at first a ... ...shameless of the daughters of Venus, in which the periodical money of this people, as ferocious in their plea- sures as they are calm at work, is squa... ...d betake himself to chant a requiem from a stall in the church of which on Sundays he is the fairest ornament, where his is the most imposing voice, w... ...ise, and, for his old age, a little gold honestly earned. HIS Monday is on Sunday, his rest a drive in a hired carriage—a country excursion dur- ing w... ...ut she cleaves the world, illuminates it through the hundred mouths of her tribunes, ploughs the seas of science, rides with full sail, cries from the... ...rned the body of the fairest among themselves. “What are you doing here on Sunday?” said the Marquis de Ronquerolles to Henri, as he passed. “There’s ...

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...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

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...ere are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those th... ...f one’s being too fond of pleasure.” “Daddy’s very fond of pleasure—of other people’s.” The old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contribut... ...n here so long without our knowing it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of tho... ...urious, inane, and incurred some disfavour by expressing this view on bright Sunday afternoons, when the American absentees were engaged in calling on... ...ntics”; her French had never become quite perfect. She was always at home on Sunday afternoons and surrounded by sympathetic compatriots, usually the ... ...r Paris, till they get the Empire back again.” Among Mrs. Luce’s visitors on Sunday afternoons was a young man with whom Isabel had had a good deal of... ...eferences and admirations. One of the latter was the little Correggio of the Tribune—the Virgin kneeling down before the sacred infant, who lies in a ... ...nvolved a good many intellectual obligations. She was about to turn into the Tribune when a gentleman came out of it; whereupon she gave a little excl... ...id Henrietta. “I came up on purpose to have a look at it.” She went into the Tribune and he slowly accompanied her. “I suppose I’ve seen it, but I did...

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... it is! It has the implements, and has the hands: the time is not long. On Sunday the twenty-sixth of August, our Primary Assemblies shall meet, begin... ...ugust, our Primary Assemblies shall meet, begin electing of Elec- tors; on Sunday the second of September (may the day prove lucky!) the Electors shal... ...ny: that Marat is not only there, but has a seat of honour assigned him, a tribune particuliere. How changed for Marat; lifted from his dark cellar in... ...hanged for Marat; lifted from his dark cellar into this luminous ‘peculiar tribune!’ All dogs have their day; even rabid dogs. Sorrowful, incurable P... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ...es often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and redact: Placards, of due monitory terror; Amis- du-Pe... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ... trousers;’ breathing death and the gallows. And lo, finally! at Verdun on Sunday the 2d of Septem- ber 1792, Brunswick is here. With his King and six...

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...n- ally ‘scandalous, ’ and as many as three speakers have been seen in the Tribune at once,—let us continue to fancy it wearing the slow months. Tough... ...ss Populace raised by them to the pitch even of ‘Lanterne, ’ he mounts the Tribune next day; grim-resolute; murmuring aside to his friends that speak ... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...street-groups; not now a sea-boy on the high and giddy mast: a mellifluous tribune of the common people, with long curling locks, on bourne-stone of t... ...rs, he is even got under way; the Lunevillers all turning out, in the idle Sunday, to see such departure: home-going of mutinous Mestre-de-Camp with i... ...is an escape to no purpose. For the Carabineers, to whom after the hardest Sunday’s ride on record, he has come circling back, ‘stand deliberating by ... ...hed by sound of trumpet, ‘invite to repose;’ with small effect. And so, on Sunday the 17th, there shall be a thing seen, worthy of remembering. Scroll...

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...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...s. I take one example in a thousand: the State prohibits travelling on the Sunday; the tything-men, who are town-officers, are spe- cially charged to ... ...te in the conduct of State affairs places implicit confidence in the first tribune who arouses its atten- tion. The Anglo-Americans have enjoyed this ... ...trimony. People who spend every day in the week in mak- ing money, and the Sunday in going to church, have noth- ing to invite the muse of Comedy. A s... ...der’s attention: “Whereas,” says the legisla- tor, “the observation of the Sunday is an affair of public in- terest; inasmuch as it produces a necessa...

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...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,... ...g the winter; the other three evenings being set apart for comedy, and the Sunday being free. An Apartment as it was called, was an assemblage of all ... ...ter ten, in one of the saloons at the end of the grand gallery towards the tribune of the chapel. In the first place there was some music; then tables... ...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 ... ... Monsieur—or to call her by her name, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, died on Sunday the 5th of April, at her palace in the Luxem- bourg, sixty-three yea... ...low them to be opened. The marriage-fetes spread over several days. On the Sunday there was an assembly in the apartments of the new Duchesse de Bourg... ...The grand apartment at Versailles, that is to say, from the gallery to the tribune, was hung with crimson vel- vet, trimmed and fringed with gold. One... ...e manner in which it was lighted. It was full of people; the arches of the tribune were crowded with the Court ladies, in undress, but ready for conqu...

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... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...tune. The poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late.” “Bah! all those people want your money.” “But what people, my treasure? Is it your uncle Pi... ...illerault, who loves us like the apple of his eye, and dines with us every Sunday? Is it good old Ragon, our predecessor, who has forty upright years ... ...ds the end of the first month this girl, who was forced to keep house of a Sunday, opened a conver- sation with Cesar. Ursula with the grease washed o... ...teau earliest prime, choice dinners at V enua’s followed by the the- atre, Sunday jaunts to the country in hackney-coaches. With- out being handsome, ... ...wife. Love is a famous vehicle,—happy word used by Monsieur Villele in the tribune yesterday.” “Love!” exclaimed Popinot. “Oh, monsieur! can it be—” ... ... is always flattering—” “Monsieur,” said Cesar, elated by this specimen of tribune eloquence, “I trust I am as worthy of the honor you do me as I was ...

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...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ... house—been empty ever since; a log house, with a plank roof—just one big room, and no more; no ceiling—nothing between the rafters and the floor. Wel... ...f it had not been so dark and solemn and awful there in that lonely, vast room, I do believe I should have said something then which could not be put ... ...e mother-tongue— and then he limbered up the muscles of his mouth and turned himself loose—and with such a relish! Some of his words Mark Twain 98 we... ...tfully and conscientiously fig-leaved by this fastidious generation. You enter, and proceed to that most-visited little gallery that exists in the wor... ...it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong. In truth, it is too strong for any place but a public Art Gallery. Titian has two Venuses ... ...lost hers. Somebody else may cipher out the whys and the wherefores and the consistencies of it—I haven’t got time. Titian’s Venus defiles and disgrac...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...elmet, breast plate, short sword, and heavy spear, and the officers called tribunes, chose out a sufficient number, who were formed into bodies called... ...t for them, and prevailed not only to have them spared, but even chosen as tribunes to lead the legions in the war that was expected. [Footnote: These... ...ts happened during an experiment made by the Romans of having six military tribunes instead of two consuls.] Thus he persuaded the whole nation to tak... ...rned Leo. Accordingly, he was purchased for twelve gold pieces, and on the Sunday (as Bishop Gregory of Tours, who tells the story, explains that the ... ...nocked, and in the morning twilight met the Priest going to his ear- liest Sunday morning service. 99 Yo n g e Leo told his young master’s name, and ... ...he Queen, he might take care of his crown himself. On T uesday before Whit Sunday the party set out, escorted by Count Ulric, and several other knight...

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...ing the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold possession of the estate of Gondreville. [See “ An... ...arles Keller,—a par- liamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election. When Simon Giguet sounded the old notary Gre... ...the Comte de Gondreville, then senator, and formerly representative of the people, who had despoiled the Cinq-Cygne family of their property. [See “An... ...and to each other. Life has there become so conventional that, ex- cept on Sundays and fete-days, a stranger meets no one ei- ther on the boulevards o... ...noyances I have borne to be rid of him. I never go to church now except on Sundays; I often keep my dear children at home to the in- jury of their hea... ...ways put on that honeyed manner to hide their game.” T wo days later, on a Sunday , at the hour of vespers, in one of my rambles about old Paris—for w... ...ll deprive me of all influence in the lobbies, it may serve me well in the tribune, where I shall be able to speak with strength and freedom. Being bo... ... it is now the fashion to sacrifice so much. But if at arm’s length in the tribune I have but little influence, I shall make my mark at a 145 Balzac ... ...ave dared to con- test, he ordered a reprieve. The same day he mounted the tribune, and after speaking in general terms of the “bloody boobies” who by...

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...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...hen. On the contrary, after that I never left his side. It was only on the Sunday that he began to converse with me on any subject beyond the immediat... ... for I found at the very outset that he had a dislike to them. But, on the Sunday, he had a fainting fit; and when he came to himself, he told me that... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...n the great and dangerous storm that threatened him by the sedition of the tribune Metellus, who, attempting to publish a decree for the calling in of... ...er, went to bed, and slept profoundly till morning, when one of his fellow-tribunes roused him to go to the encounter. The knowledge we have of the gr...

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...the scantiness of her pecuniary means. No matter what foolish declarations people make about money, they one and all, if they live in Paris, must grov... ... is becoming mature. Like Madame de Stael, who exclaimed in a room full of people, addressing, as we may say, a greater man than herself, “Do you know... ...vention of a new system for the Civil Service of government. Know- ing the people with whom he had to do, he maintained the machine as it then worked,... ...” as wearisome as the plague of flies, and never wished to see another. On Sundays, after walking four times to and fro between the place Royale and S... ...ear II. of the Republic, and now sixty-nine years old, came to see them on Sundays only, because on that day no government business went on. This litt... ...ce]. “Gentlemen, I salute you with a collective how d’ye do, and I appoint Sunday next for the dinner at the Rocher de Cancale. But a serious question... ...er, where he wrote a note to his Excellency, who was at that moment in the tribune engaged in a hot discussion. Rabourdin waited, not in the conferenc...

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... emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; an... ...ay afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentra... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...ice, I threw the other four under the cars, and beheld, as in a dream, grown people and children groping on the track after my leavings. At last we we... ...who seemed to have made his chief impression by taking her out pleasuring on Sundays. I could tell you her prospects, her hopes, the amount of her for... ... but the other day that I heard a vulgar fellow in the Sand-lot, the popular tribune of San Francisco, roaring for arms and butchery. “At the call of ...

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... more irreproachable, for he punctually attended the services at church on Sundays and holy days. T o enable you to understand how exceptional is such... ...ikeness to them. 11 Balzac All this hidden labor, all this dust thrown in people’s eyes, this display of folly and latent prudence, had an object, or... ...f an aristocrat. She habitually wore simple checked cotton dresses; but on Sundays and in the evening her mother allowed her silk. The cut of her froc... ...” “Then, does he not go to mass?” asked Madame de Chavoncourt. “He goes on Sundays to Saint-Pierre, but to the early ser- vice at eight in the morning... ...he physicians having recommended him the air of Lucerne. These two English people had arrived with no other servant than a little girl of fourteen, a ... ...rved this touching care. At about eight o’clock the old man left the young people without any sign of uneasiness, and went to his room. When Francesca... ...sking in her gaze, hearing her voice— if, after all, I failed to scale the tribune and conquer the glory that should surround the name that is to succ... ...ance will be rewarded. Ere long I shall, from the high place of the French Tribune, come before my country, be- fore Europe. My name will be flung to ...

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...constitution which the least toil wearied. She was truly a daughter of the people of Paris, where children, seldom handsome, and of no vigor, the prod... ...ceably too small and ending in a point like the nose of a mouse, made some people fear she would become, sooner or later, imbecile. Her eyes, which we... ... her mother, who came to see her on Thursdays only (she herself spend- ing Sundays at Auteuil in summer), had no one left to love except her husband, ... ...alanx of seven persons; the Collevilles were not less numerous; so that on Sundays it often appeared that thirty persons were assembled in the Thuilli... ...e Thuillier salon was in its greatest glory. The Minards came nearly every Sunday, and began their evening by spend- ing an hour there, if they had ot... ...a new dynasty, a royalty of its own, and behold how it treats it! When the people allowed Napoleon to rise to power, it created with him a splendid an... ...er di- rected by the Perier ministry against the incendiary journals, the ‘Tribune’ and others, Cerizet, who is a worthy fellow after all, though he i... ...talent, fame, virtue, absurdity, and even truth; whoever has occupied that tribune erected by his own hands, fulfilled the functions of that magistrac...

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...hat was interesting was that he would boast of it openly. He used to say: “People think I make a lot of money in this schooner of mine. But that is no... ... the mere story. A rascal steals a large parcel of a valuable commodity—so people say. It’s either true or untrue; and in any case it has no value in ... ... on the nature of current events or affecting directly the fortunes of the people of whom I speak. As to their own histories I have tried to set them ... ...ack frock-coat and stiff white tie, as when directing a debate from a high tribune. Though they all raised their eyes, Antonia did not make the usual ... ...nsive temper, and began to defy poor Don Juste Lopez in his Presiden- tial tribune with an effrontery to which the poor man 198 Nostromo could only r... ...ngst the loose stones. A couple of years before Nostromo had spent a whole Sunday, all alone, exploring the island. He ex- plained this to Decoud afte... ...ed with his usual quietness of tone and manner. “I spent a whole miserable Sunday in exploring this crumb of land.” “A misanthropic sort of occupation... ... in love with. Poor Teresa could never understand that. On that particular Sunday, señor, she scolded so that I went out of the house swearing that I ...

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...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...dit. In the mean time, to pass her hours away, Brave Inez now set up a Sunday school For naughty children, who would rather play (Like tru... ...enates see their nightly votes participated Between the tyrant’s and the tribunes’ crew; And having voted, dined, drunk, gamed, and whored, Th...

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...th their chatter, which I could hardly follow, for it was about things and people of which I knew nothing, so that I could not un- derstand their laug... ...de by any decision except my father’s, which I daily expected. I overheard people saying how much M. de Bellaise was improved by his marriage, and how... ...n, hung and draped with blue velvet, divided by lines of gold, was full of people ranged in a circle, listen- ing eagerly to the recital of poem by th... ...rown if she would make the child tidy and bring her to Nid de Merle on the Sunday. Something was muttered about Mademoiselle having said the child was... ...e indeed dead; but she let herself be pacified by the hope of seeing it on Sunday, and indeed she was half dead with fatigue from the roughness of the... ...who would, she feared, render me too devout. The next afternoon, which was Sunday, we went, all ex- cept my brother and sister, who had what my mother... ... never chose to do on a Sunday. The choir part of the nave was filled with tribunes for the royal family and their suites; and as the most exalted in ...

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...ions—mere shadows in the water—of places to which the imaginations of most people are attracted in a greater or less degree, on which mine had dwelt f... ...elling by this carriage, inside and out, should be starting for Italy on a Sunday morning, of all good days in the week, than I am to assign a reason ... ...tled near the dismal Morgue and over the Pont Neuf— to reproach us for our Sunday travelling. The wine shops (every second house) were driving a roari... ...nd touch it. For it is something to touch a carriage that has held so many people. It is a legacy to leave one’s children. The rooms are on the first ... ..., in white; with canvassed stalls; and fluttering merchandise. The country people are grouped about, with their clean baskets before them. Here, the l... ... like a sneeze. To hear everybody calling everybody else Batcheetcha, on a Sunday, or festa day, when there are crowds in the streets, is not a little... ...on the little stool behind the President, is the Capo Lazzarone, a kind of tribune of the people, appointed on their behalf to see that all is fairly ...

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...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...d my constitutional advisers, the heads of all the departments, to meet on Sunday, the 20th day of April, 1861, at the office of the Navy Department, ... ... Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. A. L. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, June 13,... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ...ave just read yours of the 19th, addressed to myself through the New Y ork Tribune. If there be in it any state- ments or assumptions of fact which I ... ...nt of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict neces... .... COLONEL LUDLOW, Fort Monroe: Richardson and Brown, correspondents of the Tribune cap- tured at Vicksburg, are detained at Richmond. Please ascer- ta...

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...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ...fter all, in their complexions, as the texture, to the spiritual sense, of Sundays and week-days. 9 Henry James His father was a chip of the primal P... ...terns, for dancing. He especially desired the town library to be opened on Sundays, though, as he never entered it on week-days, it was easy to turn t... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...ofession which consists exclusively, as she supposes, in making figures of people without their clothes on. Sculpture, to her mind, is an insidious fo... ...ething divine of unspotted, exuber- ant, confident youth. The next day was Sunday, and Rowland proposed that they should take a long walk and that Rod... ...esently found Madame Grandoni occupying a liberal area on the steps of the tribune, behind the great altar, where, spreading a shawl on the polished r...

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... of the ill-concealed evi- dence of the most cruel misery there is—that of people in decent society? I have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so ... ...oted, too, that she was gifted with great good sense—the good sense of the people, which made her education sound. In 26 Cousin Betty society she spo... ...ybody’s mercy; and needing to please everybody, she would laugh with young people, who liked her for a sort of wheedling flattery which always wins th... ...you to give up working,” said the Baroness. “If you earn forty sous a day, Sundays excepted, that makes six hundred francs a year. Well, then, how muc... ...o conclude the bargain, “you have my consent. We will sign the contract on Sunday next, and the wedding shall be on the following Saturday, my wife’s ... ...will probably smile as he calls up the images of all that company in their Sunday-best faces as well as their finest frippery. If any social event can... ... capacity, and he was apt to say, “In me you see the coming athlete of the tribune!” His enormous vulgar hands were encased in yellow gloves even in t...

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...one for the poor, or in walks like those an Englishwoman allows herself on Sunday, saying, apparently, “Not so fast, or we shall seem to be amusing ou... ...ains of righteousness. The history of all good homes is that of prosperous peoples; it can be written in two lines, and has in it nothing for literatu... ...ything. Kind- ness has its mishaps; often it is attributed to temperament; people are seldom willing to recognize it as the secret effort of a noble s... ...I understand now why Saint-Just wanted to guillo- tine this whole class of people.” “You’ll be back here to-morrow.” Blondet was right. Passions are a... ...ceptre of power. Soon that speech so beautiful in love would echo from the tribune. Marie now lived only in this life of a world outside her own. Her ... ... each other often,” she said. “You must come and dine and play to me every Sunday, or we shall quarrel. Remember, I shall expect you next Sunday.” “Re... ...he may play she is requested to come to the masked opera at the Opera next Sunday night, accompanied by Mon- sieur Nathan.” T o this ball he determine...

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...object. Perhaps this forgetfulness is only prudence in these days when the people are heirs of all the sycophants of royalty. We make criminals poetic... ...omen and children, and rival the whimsical imagination of the Chinese,—the people who best understand, to my thinking at least, the art of decoration.... ...they chopped off the heads of the wealthy in 1793! Good heavens! why can’t people understand that the marvels of art are impossible in a land where th... ...y of Les Aigues, a frightful state of demoralization. They went to mass on Sundays, but only at the outside of the church, where it was their custom t... ... self. Nephew and sole heir of the curate of Blangy, the then all-powerful tribune might have enforced his rights and recovered the property left by t... ...our balls given by Gaubertin, Gendrin, Leclercq, and Soudry, junior. Every Sunday the latter, his wife, Monsieur, Madame, and Mademoiselle Elise Gaube...

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...s gratified without delay. I found him in the course of the morning in the Tribune of the Uffizi— that little treasure-chamber of world-famous things.... ...s happy in a certain good faith of which we have lost the trick? There are people, I know, who deny that his spot- less Madonnas are anything more tha... ...haelesque touch, which they declare is a profane touch. Be that as it may, people’s religious and aesthetic needs went arm in arm, and there was, as I... ... A great work needs silence, privacy, mystery even. And then, do you know, people are so cruel, so frivolous, so unable to imagine a man’s wishing to ... ...’s ‘Lorenzaccio’: ‘I do no harm to anyone. I pass my days in my studio, On Sunday I go to the Annunziata or to Santa Mario; the monks think I have a v...

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...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...wn, and every little boat was splashing noisily in the water; and knots of people stood upon the wharf, gazing with a kind of ‘dread delight’ on the f... ...ing down to the Cus tom house on the morning after our arrival, which was Sunday. I am afraid to say, by the way, how many offers of pews and seats i... ...race — Slavery. To return to Boston. When I got into the streets upon this Sunday morning, the air was so clear, the houses were so bright and gay: th... ...ned provisions, any citizen who could be proved to have kissed his wife on Sunday, was punishable, I believe, with the stocks. Too much of the old Pur... ...pes were entertained of his recovery.’ ‘DUEL. ‘The clerk of the steamboat Tribune informs us that an other duel was fought on Tuesday last, by Mr. ...

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...ving ‘story’ enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need—to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my meas... ... attendants and enter- 15 Henry James tainers who come down by train when people in the coun- try give a party; they represented the contract for car... ...ere are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do,—the situation is in itself delightful. Those tha... ...ious, inane, and incurred some disfavour by expressing this view on bright Sunday afternoons, when the American absentees were engaged in calling on e... ...s;” her French had never be- come quite perfect. She was always at home on Sunday afternoons and surrounded by sympathetic compatriots, usually the sa... ...Paris, till they get the Empire back again.” Among Mrs. Luce’s visitors on Sunday afternoons was a young man with whom Isabel had had a good deal of c... ...erences and admirations. One of the latter was the little Correggio of the Tribune—the Virgin kneeling down before the sacred infant, who lies in a li... ...olved a good many intellectual obligations. She was about to turn into the Tribune when a gentleman came out of it; where- upon she gave a little excl... ... Henrietta. “I came up on purpose to have a look at it.” She went into the Tribune and he slowly accompanied her. “I suppose I’ve seen it, but I didn’...

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... any skill with his fingers passed the hours of his captivity in the making of little toys and Articles of Paris; and the prison was daily visited at ... ...s loved all his life to be fresh shaven, can a more irritating indignity be devised? Monday and Thursday were the days. Take the Thursday, and conceiv... ...s almost as bad, was the great day for visitors. Those who came to our market were of all qualities, men and women, the lean and the stout, the plain ... ... of his village!’ I continued. ‘The circumstance is quaint enough. It seems to bind up into one the whole bundle of those human 11 Stevenson instinct... ... surprised myself. ‘Are you nearly done?’ I asked. ‘Because if you are, I am about to say a word or two myself.’ ‘Oh, fair play!’ said he. ‘Turn about... ...I took the freedom of play- ing her a chune or two. She didn’t mind a bit; so this morn- ing I began to play to myself, and she flounced in, and flew ... ...ork Place, by a little after two. The University was represented in force: eleven persons, including ourselves, Byfield the aeronaut, and the tall lad...

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...ver his dear Country; left the deeds Of Wallace, like a family of Ghosts, To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a l... ...5 Nor, sedulous as I have been to trace How Nature by extrinsic passion first Peopled the mind with forms sublime or fair, And made me love them, may I... ...t design, the opinions, thoughts, SUMMER V ACATION 57 Of those plain living people now observed With clearer knowledge; with another eye I saw the qu... ...resher course; With thoughts unfelt till now I saw her read Her Bible on hot Sunday afternoons, And loved the book, when she had dropped asleep And ma... ...eat 110 Louvet walked single through the avenue, And took his station in the Tribune, saying, “I, Robespierre, accuse thee!” Well is known The inglori...

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...if you do not mend your ways.’ ‘But I thought,’ said Annora gravely, ‘that people were mar- ried once for all, and it could not be undone.’ ‘So said A... ... some mysterious manner, had become felt rather than known among the young people, yet with- out altering the habitual terms that existed between them... ...the poor Baron de Ribaumont had ever been well enough to go to church on a Sunday, he would perhaps have thought himself still in the realms of what h... ...from mass at Leurre to the Combe Walwyn service. Therefore when he spent a Sunday at Rouen, and attended a Calvinist service in the building that the ... ... home in the cathedral into which he strayed in the afternoon. And, on the Sunday he was at Leurre, he went, as a part of his old home-habits, to mass... ...eaded their way through bits of forest still left for the royal chase. The people thronged out of their houses, and shouted not only ‘Vive le Roy,’ bu... ...n conjunction with the sacristan, he bestowed her in the great seigneurial tribune (or squire’s pew) in the village church, a tall carved box, where s...

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...l over his dear county, left the deeds Of Wallace like a family of ghosts To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a l... ...r, sedulous as I have been to trace 575 How Nature by extrinsic passion first Peopled my mind with beauteous forms or grand, Book First Introduction: ... ...reeds. I read, without design, the opinions, thoughts, Of those plain living people, in a sense Of love and knowledge: with another eye 205 I saw the ... ...resher course. With thoughts unfelt till now I saw her read Her bible on the Sunday afternoons, And loved the book when she had dropped asleep 220 And... ... by Arthur’s Seat, 235 To Fairfield’s highest summit. On the right Leaving St Sunday’s Pike, to Grisedale Tarn They shot, and over that cloud loving hi... ...his seat Louvet walked singly through the avenue And took his station in the Tribune, saying, ‘I, Robespierre, accuse thee!’ ’Tis well known 100 Book...

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...; for, to young wives who come merely to say, “I have seen it,” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on... ...easure; the fashion of rats so completely went out, that in these days few people knew anything of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora-... ...esterday, this letter of release is dated to-day. You see how powerful the people are who take an interest in Lucien.” At the sight of this document E... ... educated, everybody here would tell Lucien that you had gone away to-day, Sunday, with a priest; he might follow in your tracks. In the course of a w... ...from spleen, hardly a word. Delphine de Nucingen gave a grand dinner every Sunday. She had chosen that day for her receptions, after observing that no... ... an open one. The emancipation of the shopkeeping and middle classes makes Sunday almost as tire- some in Paris as it is deadly in London. So the Baro... ...ath. He promulgated this theory, in the face of the world, from the French tribune; he boldly upheld conspirators, showing that it was human to be tru...

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...t, not to live in this house, for that might not be pleasant for the young people, but that you should 6 The Count of Monte Cristo live with them; so... ...he home depart- ment, or of the observatory?” “Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to under- stand things of which I would prefer to... ...to tell you. Ah, really this is magnificent! But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?” “Do not alarm yourself, my dear Maximilian —... ...lly do after you have had the dose which I am accustomed to give you every Sunday?” “Yes.” “Did Barrois make your lemonade?” “Yes.” “Was it you who as... .... At length an honorable peer, Morcerf’s acknowledged enemy , ascended the tribune with that solemnity which announced that the expected moment had ar... ...heard the noisy play of his son, who had returned from school to spend the Sunday and Monday with his mother. While doing so, he observed M. Noirtier ...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ...should be accounted only from the publication of such notice in writing on Sunday in the church, immediately after divine service. “After all,” says D... ...ubsistence but the bounties of the candidates at the annual elections. The tribunes, when they had a mind to ani- mate the people against the rich and... ...o the coin, introduced and carried through the assembly of the people by a tribune, and was probably a very popular law. In Rome, as in all other anci...

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...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...man of them discerns and dares! It is now that King Mirabeau starts to the Tribune, and lifts up his lion-voice. Ver- ily a word in season; for, in su... ...atables is levied; getting clamorous for food. The twelfth July morning is Sunday; the streets are all placarded with an enormous-sized De par le Roi,... ...t Tuileries Garden itself, where the fugitives are vanishing? Not show the Sunday promenaders too, how steel glitters, besprent with blood; that it be... ... Launay, as we hinted, withdrew ‘into his interior’ soon after midnight of Sunday. He remains there ever since, ham- pered, as all military gentlemen ... ...il Notes’ circulate freely; ‘in incredible numbers to the foot of the very tribune. ’ (See Dumont (pp. 159-67); Arthur Young, &c.)—Such work is it, re... ...sionally ‘scandalous,’ and as many as three speakers have been seen in the Tribune at once,—let us con- tinue to fancy it wearing the slow months. Tou...

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...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... ...this age which knows no miracles, the once-famous saying of poor Gambetta, tribune of the people (who was simple and believed in the “immanent justice... ..., and sudden death on the other. For all the space we steamed through that Sunday evening must now be one great minefield, sown thickly with the seeds...

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...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ... 146 The French Revolution: V ol. One now that King Mirabeau starts to the Tribune, and lifts up his lion-voice. Verily a word in season; for, in such... ...ables is levied; getting clam- orous for food. The twelfth July morning is Sunday; the streets are all 154 The French Revolution: V ol. One placarded... ...Tuileries Garden itself, where the fugitives are vanish- ing? Not show the Sunday promenaders too, how steel glitters, besprent with blood; that it be... ... Launay, as we hinted, withdrew ‘into his interior’ soon after midnight of Sunday. He remains there ever since, hampered, as all military gentlemen no... ... Notes’ cir- culate freely; ‘in incredible numbers to the foot of the very tribune. ’ (See Dumont (pp. 159-67); Arthur Young, &c.)— Such work is it, r...

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...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...an help it. Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, ... ...stless travellers through the pilgrimage of life. CHAPTER 3 Home IT WA S A SUNDAY evening in London, gloomy, close, and stale. Maddening church bells ... ... water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they... ...air bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons and repose. ...

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...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...h, and, in company with seven others, Rab the Ranter must figure some fine Sunday on the stool of repen- tance, would there not be a sort of glory, an... ...l March 13, 1786; yet all was settled be- tween Burns and Mary Campbell by Sunday, May 14, when they met for the last time, and said farewell with rus... ...s blue coat and waistcoat striped with buff and blue, like a farmer in his Sunday best; the heavy ploughman’s figure firmly planted on its burly legs;... ...pany grows thinner and thinner till there is none at all. It is either the tribune on the plain, a sermon on the mount, or a very private ecstasy stil...

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...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...an help it. Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, ... ...stless travellers through the pilgrimage of life. CHAPTER 3 Home IT WA S A SUNDAY evening in London, gloomy, close, and stale. Maddening church bells ... ... water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they... ...air bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons and repose. ...

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...rchestra contributes his share. Y ou would see there plenty of respectable people who have come in search of diversion, for which they pay as they pay... ...here since 1793. There is something great and terrible about suicide. Most people’s downfalls are not dangerous; they are like children who have not f... ..., lictors, togas with purple fringes; the fighting in the Forum, the angry people, passed in review before him like the cloudy faces of a dream. Then ... .... Moreover, I would give all the speeches made for forty years past at the Tribune for a trout, for one of Perrault’s tales or Charlet’s sketches.” “Q... ...g in the Virgin and the King, taking the sacrament at Easter, dancing of a Sunday on the green sward, and understanding never a word of the rector’s s...

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...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ...s a word could I understand of his answer. What is still worse, I find the people here-about – that is to say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol... ...ate son, R. L. STEVENSON. Letter: TO MRS. THOMAS STEVENSON PULTENEY, WICK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1868 MY DEAR MOTHER, – Another storm: wind higher, rain t... ...ght; and I go to avoid them to M – if he’s disengaged, to the R.’s if not. SUNDAY (LATER). – Storm without: wind and rain: a confused mass of wind-dri... ...it at their doors in shirt-sleeves, smoking as they do in Seven Dials of a Sunday. Last night we went to bed about ten, for the first time householder... ...ND HYERES, OCTOBER 1882-AUGUST 1884 Letter: TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘NEW YORK TRIBUNE’ TERMINUS HOTEL, MARSEILLES, OCTOBER 16, 1882 SIR, – It has come to... ...insecticide being em- ployed. I have had to write a letter to the New York Tribune and the Athenaeum. Payn was accused of stealing my stories! I think...