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...e book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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... to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect? A few lumps of clay, left by Moliere at the fe... ...few millionaires now allow themselves the luxury of a house to themselves, guarded by a courtyard on a street and protected from public curiosity by a... ...uil savant. Its noble free-stone blocks, dam- aged by time, have a certain air of Louis-the-Fourteenth gran- deur; the courses of the facade define th... ...is of this kind in Jerome’s life,” replied the old maid, with a protecting air. Mademoiselle Thuillier had too often heard her brother remark: “Such a... ...ds which said noth- ing but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac ti... ...e house in company with Minard and Julien the advocate, so that the battle-field before the fire-place was abandoned to la Peyrade and Dutocq. “The up... ...ter a service of thirty-six years. In 1832 he had led his battalion of the National Guard to the attack on Saint-Merri, but his neighbors had previous... ...hich all things bend the knee. Apollo was forced to ‘get a living,’ as the shepherd of Admetus.” “The sheepfold of Admetus,” said Madame de Godollo, “... ...t a royal fold; I don’t think Apollo would have resigned himself to be the shepherd of a—bourgeois.” The hesitation that preceded that last word seeme...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...KE GRAY AND DULL. The clouds hung heavily , and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child ... ...movements of goldfish in a bowl. The windows were never opened ex- cept to air the room for a few minutes in the morning, and it had a stuffy smell wh... ...ne saw a semicircu- lar strip of lawn and then as far as the horizon green fields. Sheep were grazing in them. The sky was forlorn and gray. Philip fe... ...wig beat now and then against the windowpane; sheep grazed stolidly in the field beyond the garden. It seemed as though there were knots inside his br... ...harp kick on Philip’s shin, which Philip did not expect and thus could not guard against. The pain was so great that it made him gasp, but greater tha... ... day , and a sheet of paper on one side of which was a picture of the Good Shepherd and a lamb, and on the other , decoratively framed in red lines, a... ...odern ideas of education, which they read of sometimes in The Times or The Guardian, and hoped fervently that King’s School would remain true to its o... ...her condescending attitude towards patrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most si... ...emed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity. The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnac...

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... liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England?s Elizabeth....

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...hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted... ... are by? 9 Sir Walter Scott “‘Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair; Some country swain might me have won, And ... ...re! Like the poor plant that, from its stem Divided, feels the chilling air. “Nor, cruel Earl! can I enjoy The humble charms of solitude; Your ... ... who finds himself within five miles of Oxford; for I am not come from the field of Mars to discredit myself amongst the followers of Minerva.” As he ... ...e yard some thirty shillings, lined with murrey taffeta, and laid down and guarded with two broad laces of gold and silver. And her hat, sir, was trul... ... should be,” she added, looking on them more favourably; “and when you the shepherds of the people, unite to protect them, it shall be well with the f... ... whole country around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her ... ...ction and passion come gradually to mix with gallantry. Nobles, as well as shepherd swains, will, in such a trying moment, say more than they intended... ...r Owen Hopton is at my devotion; he commands the T ower of London, and the national treasure deposited there. My father and grand-father needed never ...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of...

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...N ANCIENT LEAFLESS STUMP of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Ag... ...ide her a stout, black-eyed, round-faced lad, his ruddy cheeks and loutish air showing more rusticity than agreed with his keen, saucy expression, and... ...y to the score of scholarship and youth. Taste, modesty, and timidity were guards to Charlotte. A broad stare was terror to her, and she had many a fi... ...entre of the block adorned with a pediment and colonnade; but there was an air as if something ailed the place: the gardens were weedy, the glass door... ...tered merrily in the window, and the light smiled on a languishing Dresden shepherdess and her lover on the mantelpiece, and danced on the ceiling, re... ...ly as much amazed as herself. It was a tall slight young man, in a suit of shepherd’s plaid, with a fair face and graceful agile form, recalling the w... ... shillings, costs three-and-sixpence—a sum he could no more pay than I the National Debt, and with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, bran... ... admirable country gentleman.’ ‘A mere farmer, idling away his time in his fields.’ ‘No; doing infinite good by example and influence, and coming forw... ...t?’ 116 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 ‘It is a time when a display of loyalty and national spirit may turn the scale. I am resolved to let no trifle prevent ...

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...st in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America....

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...dered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. TICKNOR & FIELDS, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfe... ...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ...ontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial of national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our Br... ...olemn lights described, with lofty trees meet- ing overhead in arches. The guard’s horn, again—a humble instrument in itself—was yet glorified as the ... ...which, though pure fictions from first to last, counterfeit so vividly the air of grave realities, that, if deliberately offered for such, they would ... ...he kindly made a call at the Deanery, in passing through that place to the field of battle. It is always a pleasure to see the engineer of mischief “h... ...difference to her whether the month were July or January; good, undeniable air is to be had in either month. Once only she was baffled, and most indig... ...le person was this truculent old lord on the woolsack to enact the part of shepherd—Corydon, sup- pose, or Alphesibæus—to this goodly set of lambs! Ho... ...ches of a tree, and he was supposed to have perished by wild beasts. But a shepherd, who found him in this perishing state, pitied his helplessness, a...

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...h; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eternity, a brave man?s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too lenient. But, in fine, here was some portion of his work which the world had already got hold of, and which he could not burn. This too, since it was not to be abolished and annihilated, bu...

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...h and Eter- nity, a brave man’s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too lenient. But, in fine, here was some po... ...enting all the documents of it, and as it were spreading it over the whole field of his delineation; as if religious hetero- doxy had been the grand f... ...doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic di... ...ce of 37 Thomas Carlyle stars. Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness,... ...ating soul, equips beyond all others to shine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragi... ...he old sleepy amusements; and the latest news that reaches us daily has an air of tiresome, doting antiquity. The world has nothing for it but to excl... ... fields, for Sterling. His Father, Lieu- tenant-General Barton of the Life-guards, an Irish land- lord, I think in Fermanagh County, and a man of conn... ...his is Nature’s voice, and the sum of all the commandments, to each man! A shepherd of the people, some small Agamemnon after his sort, doing what lit... ...world’s market-place, nor none of the crosiers there, it seems, can be the shepherd’s-crook for this man. A most cheerful, hoping man; and full of swi...

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...ke the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fire revolver....

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....’ Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick fol- lowed with a small pin-fire revolver. The children had disco... ...s did not lie in the scheme of their daily life as decreed for them by the guardian who was incorrectly supposed to stand in the place of a mother to ... ...nd, Amomma trotting patiently behind them. ‘Mf!’ said Maisie, sniffing the air. ‘I wonder what makes the sea so smelly? I don’t like it!’ ‘You never l... ...y, don’t they?’ ‘I’ve got a hundred and twenty pounds a year of my own. My guardians tell me I’m to have it when I come of age. That will be enough to... ...ious Englishwomen with whom he had talked not too wisely in the veranda of Shepherd’s Hotel, hurrying war correspondents, skip- pers of the contract t... ...t column? He was a regular Christmas-tree of contraptions when he took the field in full fig, with his water-bottle, lan- yard, revolver, writing-case... .... John’s Wood, the big studio, then I pepper-potted,— I mean I went to the National,—and now I’m work- ing under Kami.’ ‘But Kami is in Paris surely?’... ...ings I paint. D’you like it?’ Maisie looked at the wild whirling rush of a field- battery going into action under fire. Two artillery- men stood behin... ... officers of fellaheen regiments, and more than kind to camel agents of no nationality whatever. In the early morning, being then appropriately dresse...

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................................................... 216 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ..., regarnished into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of p... ...shed into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of po- ets) d... ...asting Frost. Medicean Tuileries, how changed since it was a peaceful Tile field! Or is the ground itself fate-stricken, accursed: an Atreus’ Palace; ... ...g mostly on paper. For the Sol- diers at Jales, being peasants or National Guards, were in heart sworn Sansculottes; and all that the Royalist Cap- ta... ...has prowled indefati- gable over France, in days now ending; and, in freer field, 18 The French Revolution—V olume Two might have earned instead of p... ...ay we of Boys? Beautifullest Hebes; the loveliest of Paris, in their light air-robes, with riband-girdle of tricolor, are there; shovelling and wheeli... ...thunderous belch of grapeshot, blast some fifty of Bouille’s vanguard into air! Fatal! That sputter of the first musket-shot has kindled such a cannon... ...th utmost possible Consti- tutionality; doing justice, loving mercy; being Shepherd of this indigent People, not Shearer merely, and Shepherd’s- simil...

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...irl named Critheis. The girl was left an orphan at an early age, under the guard- ianship of Cleanax, of Argos. It is to the indiscretion of this maid... ...e discoverable in the language of the poems, the total absence of Athenian national feeling is per- haps no less worthy of observation. In later, and ... ...nt value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The songs which ... ...he dreamed on earth, to look down on his race, to see the nations from the fields of Asia to the forests of Hercynia, performing pilgrimages to the fo... ... of a critical character, to bear upon the text. But Pope’s version was no field for such a display; and my pur- pose was to touch briefly on antiquar... ... In like manner it may be remarked of Statius’s he- 39 Pope roes, that an air of impetuosity runs through them all; the same horrid and savage courag... ...well as a bold and sordid one; which differ as much from each other as the air of a plain man from that of a sloven: it is one thing to be 49 Pope tr... ...’d forth by thousands, darkens all the coast. As from some rocky cleft the shepherd sees Clustering in heaps on heaps the driving bees, Rolling and bl... ...close array, and forms the deepening lines. Not with more ease the skilful shepherd-swain Collects his flocks from thousands on the plain. The king of...

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...irl named Critheis. The girl was left an orphan at an early age, under the guard ianship of Cleanax, of Argos. It is to the indiscretion of this maid... ...e discoverable in the language of the poems, the total absence of Athenian national feeling is per 17 Pope haps no less worthy of observation. In la... ...nt value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The songs which ... ...he dreamed on earth, to look down on his race, to see the nations from the fields of Asia, to the forests of Hercynia, performing pilgrimages to the f... ...; Instant he flew with hospitable haste, And the new friend with courteous air embraced. “Stranger, whoe’er thou art, securely rest, Affianced in my f... ...our soul be sunk in sad despair; He lives, he breathes this heavenly vital air, Among a savage race, whose shelfy bounds With ceaseless roar the foami... ...s hero’s fate alone Has Jove reserved, unheard of, and unknown; Whether in fields by hostile fury slain, Or sunk by tempests in the gulfy main? Of thi... ...cents of translucent horn The brows of all their young increase adorn: The shepherd swains, with sure abundance blest, On the fat flock and rural dain... ...arble from the rock, Brown with o’eraching pine and spreading oak. A giant shepherd here his flock maintains Far from the rest, and solitary reigns, I...

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...Without a beating heart, whose azure veins Steal like dark streams along a field of snow, _15 Whose outline is as fair as marble... ..._65 Check their unearthly speed; they stop and fold Their wings of braided air: The Daemon leaning from the ethereal car Gazed on the slumbering maid.... ...rched and sandy waste Now teems with countless rills and shady woods, Corn-fields and pastures and white cottages; And where the startled wilderness d... ...ITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught... ...ess glance; not many were Around her, for their comrades just withdrew T o guard some other victim—so I drew My knife, and with one impulse, suddenly ... ...m slaves call men: obediently they came, Like sheep whom from the fold the shepherd brings To the stall, red with blood; their many kings Led them, th... ...he will 152 V olume One Of Europe’s subtler son, the bolt would kill Some shepherd sitting on a rock secure; But smiles of wondering joy his face wou... ...e Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain ... ..., and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci. This national and universal interest which the story pro- duces and has produced...

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...in, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess... ...toral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess. As a set-off against this, the old his... ... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...iving the further adventures of Don Quixote and humours of Sancho Panza as shepherds. It is plain that he had at one time an intention of dealing with... ... have been haunted by the fear that there might be more Avellanedas in the field, and putting everything else aside, he set himself to finish off his ... ...avity of which Cervantes was the first great mas- ter, “Cervantes’ serious air,” which sits naturally on Swift alone, perhaps, of later humourists, is... ...leful sound makes its dwelling? Tranquillity, a cheerful retreat, pleasant fields, bright skies, murmuring brooks, peace of mind, these are the things... ...e with which he had knocked it to pieces disconcerted him somewhat, and to guard against that dan- ger he set to work again, fixing bars of iron on th... ...es a doleful dirge Over a corse unworthy of a shroud. Let the three-headed guardian of the gate, And all the monstrous progeny of hell, The doleful co...

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...g his rank. The whole regi- ment was found lying in regular order upon the field of battle, with their colonel, the old Count de Fuentes, at their hea... ...was one poor peasant woman, who, undeterred by fear of the savage men that guarded the castle, crept, at every safe op- portunity, to the grated windo... ... to New York. Still thrilling with the suffering of being carried from the field, and lifted to his place, he saw a comrade in even worse plight broug... ... of the wild limestone hills that had become familiar to him when he was a shepherd. Brave cap- tain and Heaven-destined king as he was, his name attr... ...rough the thick forests that clothed the hillside. In the stillness of the air, at daybreak, the Phocian guards of the path were startled by the crack... ...n the distance, had not then become almost uninhabitable from pestilential air, but was rich and fertile, full of highly cultivated small farms, where... ...d mountains came next in order, and after them waved for the last time the national ensigns of the many tribes of Gaul. Once more Vercingetorix and Ve... ...ble, obscure, almost nameless man. THE SHEP THE SHEP THE SHEP THE SHEP THE SHEPHERD GIRL OF HERD GIRL OF HERD GIRL OF HERD GIRL OF HERD GIRL OF NANTER... ...chanted out question and answer in Russ, unsuspected, to the tune of their national airs. He was taken on an expedi- tion against the Russians, and ve...

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...usmore; What reins were tightened in despair, When rose Benledi’s ridge in air; Who flagged upon Bochastle’s heath, Who shunned to stem the flooded T ... ...d, Each plant or flower, the mountain’s child. Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale and violet flower ... ... Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. XVIII. And ne’er did Grecian chisel trace A N... ...said, ‘Whose stalwart arm might brook to wield A blade like this in battle-field.’ She sighed, then smiled and took the word: ‘You see the guardian ch... ...warfare o’er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle’s enchante... ... in this sad glen the maid Sat shrouded in her mantle’s shade: She said no shepherd sought her side, No hunter’s hand her snood untied. Y et ne’er aga... ... writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to 118 The Lad... ...nd merry-making. Cf. 410 below. See also The Lord of the Isles, i. 8: “The shepherd lights his belane-fire;” and Glenfinlas: “But o’er his hills, in f... ...cture—the effect of the sounds —and the wild character and strong peculiar national- ity of the whole procession, are given with inimitable spirit and...

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... distinguished) could place upon sale little miracles of dexterity and taste. Some had a more engaging appearance; fine features were found to do as w... ...e at least of the others I possessed; and finding much entertainment in our commerce, I did not suffer my advantages to rust. I have never despised th... ... And lastly, although I was not insen- sible to the restraints of prison or the scantiness of our rations, I remembered I had sometimes eaten quite as... ...with a profusion of hair in which the sun found threads of gold. As soon as she came in the courtyard (and she was a rather frequent visitor) it seeme... ...He is so sorry for you!’ ‘It is more than I have the right to ask,’ I replied; ‘but among gentlefolk these generous sentiments are natural. If your br... ...e resin on the twine, appeared to contribute. I ran to my fallen adversary, kneeled by him, and could only sob his name. He bade me compose myself. ‘Y... ... gener- ous in you must rise against that—domination.’ ‘And perhaps,’ I retorted, ‘had your childhood passed among wolves, you would have been overjoy... ...ed. ‘Well,’ said I, ‘there is a point about them: they have a defect,—they are not to be trusted in a retreat. I have seen them behave very ill in a r... ... off, and a trifle higher on the mountain, a tall old white-washed farmhouse stood among the trees, be- side a falling brook; beyond were rough hills ...

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...title attracted me; I took them home with me, with the permis- sion of the guardian, and devoured them. It is not my intention here to enter into an a... ...ry, drew his sword, saluted his adversary, and seriously placed himself on guard. But at the same moment, his two auditors, accompanied by the host, f... ...hree silver pieces at the foot of mine host, gal- loped after his master. “Base coward! false gentleman!” cried D’Artagnan, spring- ing forward, in hi... ...raded his Musketeers before the Cardinal Armand Duplessis with an insolent air which made the gray moustache of his Eminence curl with ire. Treville u... ... a moment’s audience of M. de T reville—a request which the other, with an air of protection, promised to transmit in due season. D’Artagnan, a little... ...As for Athos, they believed him to be dead, and left him very quiet on the field of battle, not thinking it worth the trouble to carry him away. That’... ...t that pe- riod, a sort of building without a window, surrounded by barren fields—an accessory to the Preaux-Clercs, and which was generally employed ... ...o not know who you are. We cannot fight with such names; they are names of shepherds.” “Therefore your lordship may suppose they are only as- sumed na... ... they had as yet but partisans; and he, Richelieu—the French minister, the national minister—would be ruined. The king, even while obeying him like a ...

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...in, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess... ...toral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess. As a set-off against this, the old his... ... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...iving the further adventures of Don Quixote and humours of Sancho Panza as shepherds. It is plain that he had at one time an intention of dealing with... ... have been haunted by the fear that there might be more Avellanedas in the field, and putting everything else aside, he set himself to finish off his ... ...his, the most cosmopolitan book in the world, is one of the most intensely national. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not mo... ...avity of which Cervantes was the first great mas- ter, “Cervantes’ serious air,” which sits naturally on Swift alone, perhaps, of later humourists, is... ...leful sound makes its dwelling? Tranquillity, a cheerful retreat, pleasant fields, bright skies, murmuring brooks, peace of mind, these are the things... ...e with which he had knocked it to pieces disconcerted him somewhat, and to guard against that dan- ger he set to work again, fixing bars of iron on th...

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...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...und a refuge beyond the Atlantic. One southland farmer, three grey-plaided shepherds, and six dogs, now tenanted the whole glen, which in his youth ha... ... but the old Earl of Leven, the covenanting general, was driven out of the field by the im- petuous charge of Prince Rupert, and was thirty miles dis-... ...d to carry, and his rider occu- pied his demipique, or war-saddle, with an air that showed it was his familiar seat. He had a bright burnished head- p... ...stained on one side a long straight double-edged broadsword, with a strong guard, and a blade calculated either to strike or push. On the right side h... ... himself corresponded well with his military equipage, to which he had the air of having 29 Sir Walter Scott been long inured. He was above the middl... ...ntenance was that of a resolute weather- beaten veteran, who had seen many fields, and brought away in token more than one scar. At the distance of ab... ...m the east- ward into Argyleshire, through passes scarcely practicable for shepherds and deer-stalkers, and over mountains, with which even the clans ...

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... rick, with its thatch straw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift of four... ... of iron twisted by the fury of the sea into the strangest forms. The timber was already bleached and iron rusted, and even these objects did no viole... ...ther, and contemplating a world of fits. For everybody else in the room had fits, ex- cept the wards-woman; an elderly, able-bodied pauperess, with a ... ...RCANTILE JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack,... ...nsufficient explanation, because even then they might sometimes put themselves in the way of being blown into the Regent’s Ca- nal, instead of always ... ...pkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for some- thing out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tu... ...ectable cookery of potatoes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or... ...ion me to rise early. I go forth in my slippers, and promenade the pave- ment. It is pastoral to feel the freshness of the air in the uninhabited town... ...e did it, was this: he summoned me as a Juryman on his Coroner’s In- quests. In my first feverish alarm I repaired ‘for safety and for succour’—like t...

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...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... ... members of it, had pushed him to the trial once or twice—or had put on an air of doing so; creating a temporary disturbance, ending in a merry duet w... ...lar. I came into the City to look at a warehouse they want to mount double guard on. Your idea of the fireman’s night-patrol and wires has done wonder... ...visits, as we did at Craye Farm and at Creckholt; we are there for country air; we don’t court neighbours at all—perhaps the elect; it will depend on ... ...n accompa- nying vision of outspread primroses flooding banks of shad- owy fields near Lakelands. He crossed the road and rang. Upon the opening of th... ...y country?’ ‘T rust her papa for that.’ ‘Nice for walking and running over fields? No rich people?’ ‘How escape that rabble in England! as Colney says... ...it; we have a poor remunera- tion for the melody gone; think of the little shepherd’s pipeing in Mireille; and there’s another in Sapho-delicious. I h... ...tering subtlety. She had hoped (having clearly seen the sheep’s eye in the shepherd) that Mr. Barmby would be watchful to act as a block between them;...