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...versity. 3 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. ON A JANUARY EVENING of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing ... ...r opened the door at the back of the club box the curtain had just gone up on the garden scene. There was no reason why the young man should not have ... ...aking audiences. This seemed as natural to Newland Archer as all the other conventions on which his life was moulded: such as the duty of using two si... ...n by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienna. The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emerald green c... ...through the Thorleys) with the Dallases of South Carolina, and that of the relationship of the elder branch of Philadelphia Thorleys to the Albany Chi... ... of kinship in their cool domineering way and their short-cuts through the conventions. Now she was eagerly curious to know what had decided the Beauf... ... because they always had been, the Beauforts, on whom there was a claim of relationship, and Mr. Sillerton Jackson and his sister Sophy (who went wher... ...cheap in his animation. His father, who had died young, had filled a small diplomatic post, and it had been intended that the son should follow the sa...

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...t—shadow and silence.” To my Mother. CHAPTER I THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE MAN ON A LOVELY SPRING MORNING in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts ... ...ORNING in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the... ...poleon wrote the bulletin addressed to the Grand Army, then the masters of Vienna, in which he said that like Medea, the Austrian 9 Balzac princes ha... ...s of men destined to do great things, since he had been brought into close relations with the energetic natures sought out by Napoleon; so he suspecte... ... us to endure our miseries? The hope of inheriting eternal bliss helps the relations of these unhappy creatures and all others round about them to exe... ...My body and soul and house are all theirs. Why should I worry about social conventions in these matters, or trouble myself over the damage unintention... ...mply comes to terms with force. An assembly either obeys an idea, like the Convention in the time of the Terror; a powerful personality, like the Corp... ... following, in one year and in two campaigns, he brings us within sight of Vienna; we had made a clean sweep of them. We had gobbled down three armies... ...an end, spoke of my hopes and met with a favorable reception; but with the diplomatic shrewdness which is almost a second nature with men of the world...

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...reat, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mere words; such wor... ...d alone have set whole nations in motion and upheaved the dry, hard ground on which rests our whole social fabric. There’s “virtue” for you if you lik... ...fence is that these memories put down with- out any regard for established conventions have not been thrown off without system and purpose. They have ... ...y to dine at a sporting club. A friend of my childhood (he had been in the Diplomatic Service, but had turned to growing wheat on paternal acres, and ... ...commanding sweet- ness; and I also remember the great gathering of all the relations from near and far, and the grey heads of the family friends payin... ...able sweetness of her nature, her excep- tional facility and ease in daily relations that en- deared her to everybody. Her death was a terrible grief ... ...t existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by the Congress of Vienna—I must say that from all that more distant past, known to me traditi... ... holiday is that be- fore the day on which the remark was made we had seen Vienna, the Upper Danube, Munich, the Falls of the Rhine, the Lake of Const... ...tation of that Bali Pony might have been part of some deep scheme, of some diplomatic plan, of some hopeful intrigue. With Almayer one could never tel...

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... blue silk, with long bands of white cash- mere falling at equal distances on the hangings, where they were caught back by ropes of pearl. A warm Belg... ...o decorative quality, as a painter might call it, of the rest of the room. On either side of a large window, two etageres dis- played a hundred precio... ...sed her to me. Sufficiently aware of their intentions, Felix watched their relations with Marie, and warned her to distrust them. They all suspected t... ...proportion to her triumph in society. She was thus surrounded by dangerous relations and intimate enemies. Every one knows that French literature at t... ... cried the pretty Moina de Saint-Heren, laughing. When she was not at some diplomatic rout, or at a ball given by rich foreigners, like Lady Dudley or... ...at wearying. In society, he is boldly awkward, and exhibits a contempt for conventions and a critical air about things respected which makes him unple... ... de Nucingen,—a girl with an illimitable “dot”; see- ing, moreover, in the diplomatic body an obscure writer whom he had formerly known translating ar... ... skin of a young shepherd, the original of which is in the royal palace of Vienna. On either side were candelabra of Renaissance de- sign. A clock, by... ...ul not to roll like a donkey on the high- road. In society, my good Raoul, conventions rule love. Ei- ther carry off Madame de Vandenesse, or show you...

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...ns seen in calmest weather and which the storms of ocean cast in fragments on the shore. The mental labor which the expression of ideas neces- sitates... ...ntil we meet, Felix. 5 Balzac CHAPTER I TWO CHILDHOODS TO WHAT GENIUS fed on tears shall we some day owe that most touching of all elegies,—the tale ... ... Monsieur Lepitre, who was fanatically attached to the Bour- bons, had had relations with my father at the time when all devoted royalists were endeav... ...aris with my mother to advise my brother, who was employed in the imperial diplomatic service. My mother was to take me back with her, out of the way ... ...njoyed the delightful benefits of naturalization in a family where I found relations after my own heart, I had also to pay some costs for it. Until th... ...ival the career of my brother, who had lately been sent to the Congress of Vienna, and was anxious at any risk to justify Henriette’s appeal and becom... ...er,” were the first words he said to me. I explained to him my position of diplomatic postman, 124 The Lily of the Valley hunted like a wild beast, a... ...land, for not only do anxieties isolate, but they brush aside as petty the conventions of the world. The wel- fare of the sick man obliged us to have ... ...n with your sex is not only allurement to ours, but is imposed upon you by conventions. With us, on the contrary, some unwrit- ten law of masculine se...

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... Bournemouth. BOOK I – PRINCE ERRANT CHAPTER I IN WHICH THE PRINCE DEPARTS ON AN ADVENTURE Y OU SHALL SEEK IN V AIN upon the map of Europe for the byg... ... the foothills of Grunewald sank with vary- ing profile into a vast plain. On these sides many small states bordered with the principality, Gerolstein... ...ng officers from foreign armies; and he now begins, in his interna- tional relations, to assume the swaggering port and the vague, threatful language ... ...ve already com- 51 Robert Louis Stevenson municated with my Ambassador at Vienna; and unless you propose to murder me, I shall be at liberty, whether... ...thin the hour behind the Pheasant House. Sir John departs this morning for Vienna.’ The Chancellor took his elaborate departure. ‘Here, sir, is your p... ...at length, turning towards the En- glishman, ‘you are to me, except by the conventions of society, a perfect stranger. Of your character and wishes I ... ... what you call glory? It is like beating a child.’ ‘The courage, madam, is diplomatic,’ he replied. ‘We take a grave step; we fix the eyes of Europe, ... ... you to tempt me to resistance,’ returned Otto. ‘But this cannot alter our relations; and I must, for the last time, lay my commands upon you in the c...

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...beauty is soon past and gone to a husband. As to the insig- nificant youth on whom the clerk of the court bestowed in baptism his Norman name of “Exup... ...a couple of circles as it were, slightly apart. If you have never observed on the human face the effect produced by these circumfer- ences placed one ... ...ied them voluntarily. The secretary was therefore still living in domestic relations with the poet when Modeste’s letter arrived,—in such relations, b... ...ts which nature, education, and the world dictate to her, to break through conventions. What privileges genius wins! A letter such as this, written by... ...s. If your letter is the outcome of long poetic reveries on the fate which conventions bring to women, if, constrained by the impulse of a lofty and i... ...s, to the end that you may create a friendship withdrawn from the ordinary relations of life, with a soul in communion with your own, disre- garding t... ... the last governor of Normandy, was born during the emigration in 1799, at Vienna. The old marechal, father of the present duke, returned with the kin... ...st. After the second 147 Balzac course, however, the valet came in with a diplomatic, that is to say, uneasy air. “Does Monsieur le baron know,” he s... ...n’t play away your happiness for an office under the Crown.” CHAPTER XXV A DIPLOMATIC LETTER THE POET’S REFLECTIONS during the night were thoroughly m...

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...with the regu- larity of clock-work, always passing along the same streets on his way to the ministry: so neat was he, so formal, so 4 Bureaucracy st... ...so 4 Bureaucracy starched that he might have been taken for an Englishman on the road to his embassy. From these general signs you will readily disce... ...y troubles of nuns full of underhand vexations, or col- lege tyrannies, or diplomatic manoeuvrings fit to terrify an ambassador, all put in motion to ... ...s if a man keeps himself well in sight before the world, cultivates social relations and extends them, he succeeds. After all, ministers and their fri... ...efined, and quite unassailable position. Du Bruel was not lacking in those diplomatic little tricks which go so far to conciliate general good-will. H... ... man of solid merit. Desroys was, however, simple and solely the son of a “Conventionel,” who did not vote the king’s death. Cold and prudent by tempe... ...n, coming from the ranks or born to a throne, began to rule the State. The Convention—that model of energy—was made up in a great measure of young hea... ...hat is called Berlin iron-work; but these delicate arabesques were made in Vienna, and seemed to have been fashioned by the fairies who, the stories t...

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... that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civiliza- tion continues on her course triumphant. And you, too, will do the like; you who with this... ...he garden is easily obtained through a wicket to which a bell is attached. On the oppo- site wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green ma... ...e had achieved at the Ecole de Droit. He began to ask his aunt about those relations; some of the old ties might still hold good. After much shaking o... ...ersons who could be use- ful to her nephew among the selfish genus of rich relations, the Vicomtesse de Beauseant was the least likely to refuse. To t... ...notions of honor and so forth? You might as well fly in the face of social conventions at once. Is it nothing to crawl like a serpent before your wife... ...ace of humanity, saved France from being torn in pieces at the Congress of Vienna; and they who should have given him laurels fling mud at him. Oh! I ... ...t them, you would shun me,” she said. “Your love for me is as yet only the conventional gallantry that men use to masquerade in; and, if you really lo... ...all the alternations of hope and despair of genu- ine passion, and all the diplomatic arts of a Parisienne had been employed on him. After compromisin... ...ucingen had sent bills for large amounts to Amsterdam, London, Naples, and Vienna, in order to prove if necessary that large sums had been paid away b...

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.... Every one will appreciate the motives of this sage reticence demanded by convention; for if a writer takes upon himself the office of annalist of hi... ... upon himself the office of annalist of his own time, he is bound to touch on many sore subjects. The house was called the Hotel d’Esgrignon; but let ... ...mere fancy name, neither more nor less connected with real people than the conventional Belval, Floricour, or Derville of the stage, or the Adalberts ... ... duke. “I hold my marquisate as His Majesty holds the realm of France, and on the same conditions,” he told the Constable de Luynes, a very paltry fel... ... I have gone through museums of old furniture in Paris, London, Munich, or Vienna, with the gray-headed custodian who shows you the splendors of time ... ...ind of renown which tells quite as much at Court as on the battlefield, in diplomatic circles as in Parliament, with a book, or in connection with an ... ... with whom she disputed her fragile sovereignty as queen of fashion. Great relations lent her countenance for a long while, but the Duchesse de Maufri...

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...rniture had been removed except the curtains to the windows, the ornaments on the fireplace, the chandelier, and the tea-table. An Aubusson carpet, ta... ...ree arm-chairs behind the tea-table, which was covered with a green cloth, on which she placed a bell. Old Colonel Giguet arrived on this battle-field... ... in business. The Comte de Gondreville, however, with whom old Pigoult had relations dating back to 1793, lent money for the necessary security, and t... ...returned unani- mously. His opposition to the candidate put forward by his relations proves to us that he possesses civic courage in the highest degre... ...esidents of the little place stand to each other. Life has there become so conventional that, ex- cept on Sundays and fete-days, a stranger meets no o... ...inisters, and ambassadors. He dined habitually with all the members of the diplomatic body . He fought duels, and had killed two or three men in his l... ...de Ronquerolles, who has recently returned from a 104 The Deputy of Arcis diplomatic mission which kept him out of France for several years. During t... ...in all social matters he has the 124 The Deputy of Arcis highest sense of conventional propriety, and as for jealousy, I think if I gave him the slig... ...ssian engraver about whom I sent you to Berlin?” “The one who forged those Vienna bank bills in that won- derful way?” “Yes. I just missed arresting h...

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...liant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the... ...the sort of vigor that is commonly known as “toughness.” But his exertions on this particular day had been of an unwonted sort, and he had performed g... ...uable little present. Newman, on leaving Venice, went through the Tyrol to Vienna, and then returned westward, through Southern Germany. The autumn fo... ...and sealed; a thing of parchment, ink, and ruled lines. “She is a woman of conventions and proprieties,” he said to himself as he looked at her; “her ... ...settled here for a long time, and you have made acquaintances and got your relations round you; or if you have got a good big house like this, and a w... ...ds your- self; we are very far from accusing you of misconduct. Since your relations with us began you have been, I frankly confess, less—less peculia... ...u have never taken a liberty but you have justified it,” said Newman, with diplomatic urbanity. Mrs. Bread dropped her wrinkled eyelids as if she were...

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...THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) ON FEAR AND ARIST ON FEAR AND ARIST ON FEAR AND ARIST ON FEAR AND ARIST ON ... ...nobility, we take refuge in our sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benh... ...introductions she judged would be useful to him later. Everybody found the relationship charming. Some of the more conscientious people, it is true, p... ... the expression of that conserva- tive instinct which fights for every old convention? The tra- ditional novel is a love story and takes ideas for gra... ...re as frank in their private lives and as unembarrassed in their financial relationships as his un- tainted self. And he had still to reckon with stup... ...t, my boy. You can come back for all this pow-wow afterwards.” He gave the diplomatic ser- vice as a second choice. “There you are,” he said, “first-r... ...zen rich and established families in all England could stand even the most conventional inquiry into the foundations of their pride, and only a univer... ... all these squalid hostili- ties. All those fools away there in London and Vienna and St. Petersburg and Rome take sides as though these beastly tribe...

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...- lating whether there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a ... ...so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistful- ness over her quality of suspended ... ...ix) was the social cornice of Gopher Prairie. It was the country club, the diplomatic set, the St. Cecilia, the Ritz oval room, the Club de Vingt. To ... ...hed that she had not assented. As there appeared no change in their drowsy relations, she forgot all about it, and life was planless. V Idling on the ... ...a year Vida loved Carol, longed to and did not pry into the details of her relations with Kennicotts enjoyed her spirit of play as expressed in childi... ...e regards itself as a part of the Great World, compares itself to Rome and Vienna, it will not acquire the scientific spirit, the international mind, ... ... year Kennicott had talked of at- tending the American Medical Association convention, “and then afterwards we could do the East up brown. I know New ... ...year.” Toward the end of July he proposed, “Say, the Beavers are holding a convention in Joralemon, street fair and everything. We might go down tomor...

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...a were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the headquarters of the commander-... ...uartered. Braunau was the headquarters of the commander-in-chief, Kutuzov. On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached Br... ...ut any preparation whatever. 5 Tolstoy A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutuzov the day before with proposals and demands for hi... ...gimental commander, seem- ing by their expression to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief so widely from a private. “O... ...get him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. From Vienna Kutuzov wrot... ...a group of hussars and knocked three of them over. Rostov, absorbed by his relations with Bogdanich, had paused on the bridge not knowing what to do. ... ...NDREW STAYED at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian ac- quaintance of his in the diplomatic service. “Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome vi... ...sion, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave prom- ise of rising in his diplomatic career. He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as ... ...of Russia has that right. If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the...

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... Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...and unlawful, through resignation or revolt, by the clever manipulation of conventions or by sol- emn hanging on to the skirts of the latest scientifi... ...ear exposition of vital facts. Words alone strung upon a 29 Joseph Conrad convention have fascinated us as worthless glass beads strung on a thread h... ...uation were not the main characteristic of the management of international relations. A glance back at the last hundred years shows the invariable, on... ...f her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to dawn on the horizon of the Vienna Congress through the subsiding dust of Napoleonic alarums and excurs... ...for addressing each other as “brother” in au- tograph communications, that relationship was at least as effective as any form of brotherhood likely to... ...ve been extremely gratifying to his natural tastes. As to Austria, it shed diplomatic tears over the transaction. They cannot be called crocodile tear... ... and the historic action for the last hundred years (since the Congress of Vienna) of the Powers concerned, that they were more like cynical insults t...

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...r 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadap...

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... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ... will review their missions, command and control structures, and work- ing relationship on the morning of 9/11. FAA Mission and Structure. As of Septe... ... the already-established Third World Relief Agency (TWRA) headquartered in Vienna, whose branch office locations included Zagreb and Budapest. (Bin La... ...Somalia, and Eritrea.Al Qaeda also established cooperative but less formal relationships with other extremist groups from these same countries; from t... ... official was the logical person to represent U.S. interests. Keeping U.S. diplomatic efforts against terrorism coherent was a recurring challenge. In... ...’s function expanded, the procedures and structure of the advisor’s staff, conventionally called the National Security Council staff, became more form... ...de or the paper at all. 61 4.3 DIPLOMACY After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than milit... ...planning an extraordinary array of terrorist schemes. These ideas included conventional car bombing, political assassination, aircraft bombing, hijack...

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...ace of the sea of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity went on as unceasingly as the flow of time. V arious groups of people formed and... ...the waves from one shore to an- other as before. They now seemed to rotate on one spot. The historical figures at the head of armies, who formerly ref... ...mpaigns, and battles, now reflected the restless movement by political and diplomatic combinations, laws, and treaties. The historians call this activ... ...struction and each time is saved in an unexpected manner. Owing to various diplomatic considerations the Rus- sian armies—just those which might have ... ...e of the group. During the ten-year preparatory period this man had formed relations with all the crowned heads of Europe. The discred- ited rulers of... ...before anyone else and thereby extended the frontiers of France) talked in Vienna and by these conversations made the nations happy or unhappy. Sudden... ... with one another—that a Legitimist historian will prove that the National Convention, the Directory, and Bonaparte were mere infringers of the true p... ...d a Bonapartist will prove: the 78 War and Peace – Epilogues one that the Convention and the other that the Empire was the real power, and that all t... ...did so. Today he ordered such and such 85 Tolstoy papers to be written to Vienna, to Berlin, and to Petersburg; tomorrow such and such decrees and or...

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...loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all offi- cial and conventional sermons. As it is, it only gives me an opportunity of telling ... ...usness could not be fully illustrated within the limits of decorum imposed on the press, it could only be dealt with by a parliamentary body subject t... ... THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE STAGE PLAYS (CENSORSHIP) TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMIT... ...r who declares that the censorship is the mainstay of the theatre, and his relations with the Lord Chamberlain and the Exam- iner of Plays a cherished... ...ition was in no way com- mitted, and by visibly defying the most cherished conventions of the average man with a bunch of car- nations in his buttonho... ... In par- ticular, I regard much current morality as to economic and sexual relations as disastrously wrong; and I re- 23 Shaw gard certain doctrines ... ...In consequence, the performance of the play was for some time forbidden in Vienna, and more recently it gave offence in Rome at a moment when popular ... ...only criticized as an institution, but resented as an insult. 35 Shaw THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN There is another reason, quite... ...naturally do so whenever he felt the slightest misgiving, or whenever, for diplomatic reasons, the licence would come more gracefully from an authorit...

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...ring an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re... ...o her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa. “First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your frie... ...t the Dowager Empress wants Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all accounts is a poor creature.” Prince V asili wishe... ...ct but as a sign of strength. Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is... ...me to his gathering; “besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if one consid- ers... ..., and without any preparation whatever. A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutuzov the day before with proposals and demands for hi... ...gimental com- mander, seeming by their expression to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief so widely from a private. “O... ... ANDREW stayed at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian acquaintance of his in the diplomatic service. “Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more wel- come ... ...ession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave promise of rising in his diplomatic career. He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as ...

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...used in old-fashioned printing houses; the pressman dabbed the ink by hand on the charac- ters, and the movable table on which the form of type was pl... ... completely forgotten, that something must be said as to the obsolete gear on which Jerome-Nicolas Sechard set an almost superstitious affection, for ... ...tative of the People being in a mighty hurry to publish the Decrees of the Convention, bestowed a mas- ter printer’s license on Sechard, and requisiti... ...rds, for he cut a very extraordinary figure there—Na- poleon used him as a diplomatic courier in the thick of a European crisis. Just as he had been p... ...ked of him for whole hours together. Before two days were out the sometime diplomatic courier had negotiated (through the headmaster) for Lucien’s app... ...amed by the clan. Like Span- ish grandees and the old Austrian nobility at Vienna, these folk, men and women alike, called each other by their Chris- ... ... Chauvry before her marriage) has great influence herself, and influential relations. The d’Espards are connections of ours; they are the older branch... ...lder branch of the Negrepelisses; and if she vouchsafes to acknowledge the relationship, I intend to cul- tivate her a good deal; she may perhaps proc...

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...y lad of about fifteen, and taller than any of us. His hair was cut square on his forehead like a village chorister’s; he looked reliable, but 4 Mada... ... as attentive as if at a sermon, not daring even to cross his legs or lean on his elbow; and when at two o’clock the bell rang, the master was obliged... ... his violin, gay with ribbons at its pegs. Then came the married pair, the relations, the friends, all following pell-mell; the children stayed behind... ...did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms, she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles’s... ..., flutters in every wind; there is always some desire that draws her, some conventionality that restrains. She was confined on a Sunday at about six o... ...like his company . He had knocked about the world, he talked about Berlin, Vienna, and Strasbourg, of his soldier times, of the mistresses he had had,... ...ike so many new arteries in the body of the state, establish within it new relations. Our great industrial centres have recovered 124 Madame Bovary a... ...sentimental celebrity did not fail to enhance his artistic reputation. The diplomatic mummer took care always to slip into his advertisements some poe...

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... that it did so. But she did not regard it as a part of her work to dilate on the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- ... ...shmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly with social... ...s very difficult for the people of any one nation to realize the political relations of another, and to 8 North America V ol. 1 chew the cud and dige... ...end to those which are weaker. Had England ven- tured on such counsel, the diplomatic paper would prob- ably have been returned to her. It is, I think... ... entitled to no observance which is incompatible with truth. Women, by the conventional laws of society, are allowed to exact much from men, but they ... ...0 Germans in the city, and that only two other German cities in the world, Vienna and Berlin have a larger German population than New York. The German... ...06, and in each twentieth year thereafter, the question, ‘Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?’ shall be decided... ...and seemed to have in his own hands the power of mismanag- ing all foreign relations as he pleased. But, in truth, the States of America, great as the...