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... concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat- lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation... ...er. I won’t drone. Why should they have all the garden suburbs on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest ex... ...ng the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ... ... Prairie is going to have a great future. Some of the best dairy and wheat land in the state right near there—some of it selling right now at one-fift... ...training, isn’t he?” “Yes, that’s so, but I guess most of us get rusty. We land in a rut of obstetrics and typhoid and busted legs. What we need is wo... ...eralls. The most energetic and vital places in town. A large warehouse for agricultural implements. An im- pressive barricade of green and gold wheels... ...forgot Cy while she was talking with a girl who had taken the Uni- versity agricultural course. Cy could not have returned the bottle; he came stagger...

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..., but a thin spider’s web of inconspicu- ous special routes will cover the land of the world, pierce the mountain masses and tunnel under the seas. Th... ...topi- ans wish to travel fast and far; thereby you will glide all over the land surface of the planet; and feeding them and distrib- uting from them, ... ...s, clean little electric tramways I picture them, will spread out over the land in finer reticulations, growing close and dense in the urban regions a... ...s running beside rushing streams, paths across the wide spaces of the corn land, and, above all, paths through the flowery garden spaces amidst which ... ...s will stand. And everywhere about the world, on road and path, by sea and land, the happy holiday Utopians will go. The population of Utopia will be ... ...ave a property in various sorts of contracts and concessions, in leases of agricultural and other land, for ex- ample; in houses they may have built, ... ...ions that will diffuse the towns will tend to little concentrations of the agricultural population over the coun- try side. The field workers will pro... ...llege quadrangle with a common room and club. I doubt if there will be any agricultural labourers drawing wages in Utopia. I am inclined to imagine fa... ...enterprises as stock breeding, seed farming and the stock- ing and loan of agricultural implements are probably, and agricultural research and experim...

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...h correspondents one by one, and beginning more and more to look upon this land as his home. Some men fall this way; and they are of no use afterwards... ...ned royally; he horsed himself well; he gave dances; he was a power in the land; and he be- haved as such. Consider that everything I am writing of to... ...S A GENERAL RULE, it is inexpedient to meddle with questions of State in a land where men are highly paid to work them out for you. This tale is a jus... ...alk to. This man’s name was Mellish, and he had lived for fifteen years on land of his own, in Lower Bengal, studying cholera. He held that cholera wa... ...al Department, under the same penalty as that attaching to the transfer of land without a stamped document. But Government won’t take suggestions. It ... ... consulted about Pig. The Indian Pig is not exactly an important factor in agricultural life; but Nafferton explained to Pinecoffin that there was roo... ...ce- ful tools; and Government wished to know “whether a modi- fied form of agricultural implement could not, tentatively and as a temporary measure, b...

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...t is another reason for wishing to convey him, if not to Scotland, to some land like Sweden or Prussia, where his faith would not be a bar to his prom... ...and powder and the like, an original conception of his, namely, a northern landscape, with snow-laden trees, drifts 22 A Modern Telemachus of snow, d... ....’ The water coach moved only by day, and was already ar- rived before the land one brought the weary party to the meeting-place—a picturesque water-s... ...esque water-side inn with a high roof, and a trellised passage down to the landing-place, covered by a vine, hung with clusters of ripe grapes. Here t... ...- ever there was a halt near a good inn, Madame de Bourke and the children landed for the night. And in the fine days of early autumn the deck was del... ...ad managed to reach the land, and that this was a village of Moors—settled agricultural Moors, not Arabs, good Mos- lems—who would do him no harm. Thi...

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...hat Pantai band came full of words and gestures. Unknown to my respectable landlady, it was my practice directly after my breakfast to hold animated r... ...wenty-three years since I had 29 Joseph Conrad seen the sun set over that land; and we drove on in the darkness which fell swiftly upon the livid ex-... ...tion of all his wards then living. He had been guardian of many orphans of land-owning families from the three southern provinces—ever since the year ... ...eat unfenced fields—not a flat and severe plain, but a kindly bread-giving land of low rounded ridges, all white now, with the black patches of timber... ...tly understood that it is not I but my grand-uncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, &c. &c., who, in his young... ...not being a com- 110 Some Reminiscences mercial nation at all, but purely agricultural. He made then the quaint reflection that it was “a long way fo...

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...is the floor I think of chiefly; over the oilcloth of which, assumed to be land, spread towns and villages and forts of wooden bricks; there are steep... ...ded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they died, no doubt through contact with civilisation—one my m... ...no doubt through contact with civilisation—one my mother trod on—and their land became a wilderness again and was ravaged for a time by a clockwork cr... ...got my work to do, and do it I will.” And in no time all my continents and lands were swirling water and swiping strokes of house-flannel. That was th... ... He would come in like a whirlwind. “This damned stuff all over me and the Agricultural Chemistry Class at six! Bah! AAAAAAH!” My mother would never l... ...opulation numbered a little under two thousand people, mostly en- gaged in agricultural work or in trades serving agriculture. There was a blacksmith,... ... the claylands to the east, and the Great Growth had begun in earnest. The agricultural placidities that had formerly come to the very borders of the ... ... so sure,” he said in a voice of intense discriminations, “after all, that agricultural work isn’t good for women.” “Damn agricultural work!” I said, ... ... tary candidature for the Kinghamstead Division, that shape- less chunk of agricultural midland between the Great Western and the North Western railwa...

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... not. At least we show that we are wanting in them. The taxpayer of a free land taxes himself, and his disinclination for the bitter task, save under ... ...quick spirit. They were accustomed to the machin- ery employed to give our land a shudder and to soothe it, and generally remarked that it meant nothi... ...ed field, pay- ing and taking fair ransom for captures; and they were good landlords, good masters blithely followed to the wars. Sing an old battle o... ...h they swam back to their places, as born warriors, urged by a passion for land, are almost sure to do; are indeed quite sure, so long as they multipl... ...ltiply sturdily, and will never take no from Fortune. A family passion for land, that survives a genera- tion, is as effective as genius in producing ... ...hat he had gained an acquain- tance with the struggles of the neighbouring agricultural poor to live and rear their children. His uncle’s table roared...

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...haack place.’ This uncle was Thomas Melville, presi- dent of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, and a successful gentleman farmer. Herman’s roving di... ...co, he had, in 1849 and 1856, visited England, the Continent, and the Holy Land, partly to superintend the publication of English editions of his work... ...eserved in various anthologies. ‘Clarel, a Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land’ (1876), is a long mystical poem requiring, as some one has said, a di... ...York, June, 1892. 20 Typee TYPEE CHAPTER ONE THE SEA—LONGINGS FOR SHORE—A LAND- SICK SHIP—DESTINATION OF THE VOYAG- ERS—THE MARQUESAS—ADVENTURE OF A ... ...EVA S ix months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale be neath the scorching sun of the Line... ...nd tramping overhead’,—what would ye say to our six months out of sight of land? Oh! for a refreshing glimpse of one blade of grass—for a snuff at the...

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...verdure a character of its own, and one that is somewhat unusual among the landscapes of France; it held the teeming secrets of many beauties in its v... ...he soldiers turned to look back, an invisible hand seemed to lift from the landscape the last of these veils—a delicate vapor, like a diaphanous gauze... ... stands of arms around a bivouac), adjoining other fields of rich ploughed land, from which the rye was already harvested. Here and there were dark sl... ..., their own country and their beloved customs, to die, perhaps, in foreign lands, they involuntarily excused a tardi- ness their feelings comprehended... ...ence under an apparent desire to examine into the military position of the land. But Hulot, whom we shall henceforth call the com- mandant, to avoid g... ... under which were a cider-mill, a flail to thresh buckwheat, and sev- eral agricultural implements. She stopped before one of the posts, unwilling to ...

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...s sur- roundings. Well, our surroundings have become—how shall I put it?—a landslide. The war which seemed such a defin- 10 The Secret Places of the ... ...p their quarters at the Radiant Hotel with its pleasant lawns and graceful landing stage at the bend to- wards the bridge. Sir Richmond, after some tr... ... ou might think that my time has been fairly well filled without much phi- landering. And all the time, all the time, I’ve been—about women—like a thi... ... “with any long discourse on the ways of getting fuel in this country. But land as you know is owned in patches and stretches that were determined in ... ...n patches and stretches that were determined in the first place chiefly by agricultural necessi- ties. When it was divided up among its present owners... ...ng about the minerals beneath. But the law- yers settled long ago that the landowner owned his land right down to the centre of the earth. So we have ...

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... misgovernment of any portion of the country. No visitor of that beautiful land can fail to have a strong conviction on the subject; but as I chose wh... ...ent from my old pursuits, I am about to resume them, joyfully, in Switzer land; where during another year of absence, I can at once work out the them... ...t unexpectedly, with nothing coming of it—like a firework to the last! The landlady of the Hotel de l’Ecu d’Or is here; and the landlord of the Hotel ... ...is open mouthed and open eyed, for the opening of the car riage door. The landlord of the Hotel de l’Ecu d’Or, dotes to that extent upon the Courier,... ...as he descends. ‘My Courier! My brave Courier! My friend! My brother!’ The landlady loves him, the femme de chambre blesses him, the garcon worships h... ...inting, representing a peas ant on his knees, with a spade and some other agricultural implements beside him; and the Madonna, with the Infant Saviou...

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...and torpedoed ships, one against ten. He was beloved by queens in barbaric lands, and recon- ciled whole nations to the Christian faith. He was martyr... ...ly, the woods and big river sweeps of Penn- sylvania, the trim New England landscape, a little bleak and rather fine like the New England mind, and th... ...r Mother England does. It was good for the Three Ps to walk through such a land and forget for a time that indeed they had no footing in it all, that ... ...iews of Tivoli and the Bay of Naples round, so that these rather brilliant landscapes were hidden and only the plain blue enamel showed, and she antic... ... silenced everyone for a moment or so. He seemed a fragment from the ruder agricultural past of our race, like a lump of soil among things of paper. H... ...ke up for lost time. Sunshine and a stirring wind were poured out over the land, fleets of towering clouds sailed upon urgent tremendous missions acro...

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...t B-, from the scarcity of other markets for the surplus produce of a wide agricultural district. An accident, however, in which perhaps no offence wa... ...rally communicates itself to their domestics and other dependants. Now, my landlady had been a lady’s maid or a nurse in the family of the Bishop of —... ... have lived in the bishop’s family conferred some distinction; and my good landlady had rather more than her share of the pride I have noticed on that... .... What followed, how- ever, was somewhat worse. “Oh, my lord,” answered my land- lady (according to her own representation of the matter), “I really d... ...I had also some from the Marquis of —, his father, who, though absorbed in agricultural pursuits, yet having been an Etonian himself, and as good a sc... ... indeed I am) little better than an out- cast— Lord of my learning, and no land beside— were, like my friend Lord —, heir by general repute to 70,000 ... ...ered at last some account which she had given me of ill-treatment from her landlord, which made it probable that she had quitted those lodgings before...

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.... Kipling purchased from his brother- in-law, Beatty Balestier, a tract of land about three miles north of Brattleboro’, Vt., and on this erected a ho... ...he world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie on your lips. I spoke the truth to the evil-minded Cust... ...or advertised news-papers on their backs, wherefore they did not match the landscape, which was chiefly hoarding. Some day, perhaps, whatever sort of ... ... American Notes her twenty inexperienced summers. Item, a woman from cloud-land who has no history in the past or future, but is discreetly of the pre... ...pull the eye-teeth of a Californian in business. Well, if I lived in fairy-land, where cherries were as big as plums, plums as big as apples, and stra... ...the recruit down to the low mental level, and see that the best of all the agricultural science available is in the hands of the elders, and there you...

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... one of the principal merchants, who were then, as now, like nobles in the land, that the stock of dislike which Mrs. Melmoth had provided was found t... ..., they could not have believed it to be inhabited. A considerable tract of land in the vicinity of the cottage had evidently been, at some former peri... ...ved cow gazed wistfully over the mouldering log-fence. These were the only agricultural tokens. Edward Walcott, nevertheless, drew the latch of the co... ...vapors, Ellen’s fancy, in the interval of other thoughts, pictured a fairy-land, and longed for wings to visit it. But as the clouds lost their brilli... ...f a black eagle. But it is necessary to speak rather more at length of the land- lord than of the house over which he presided. Hugh Crombie was one f... ... especially of those who haunted the tavern of which he had now become the landlord. Under this course of education, Hugh Crombie grew to youth and ma...

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...on, almost a consecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, an... ... great battle, it had been our spe- cial privilege to publish over all the land, most naturally en- tered the Dream under the license of our privilege... ...personal, and was kept alive by no local or family memorials rooted in the land, or surviving herself, it was inevitable that, as soon as she herself ... ...ent county of Leicestershire was not then what it is now. The state of the land was radically different for the foot of the horse, the nature and dist... ...irst glance? Far from it. Search the Scriptures, was the cry in Protestant lands amongst all people, however much at war with each other. But I often ... ...as high-roads for the conveyance of commodities, as perma- nent sources of agricultural fertility, &c. In like manner, a mystery of any sort, having a...

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...al settlement. It is an island, and they seize a boat, and get to the main land. Their way is by a rugged and precipitous sea shore, and they have no... ...d he could not (in consequence) permit his brother to provide for him. His landlord has never shown a spark of human feeling. When he put in that exec... ... we can never henceforth separate our French water ing place from our own landlord of two summers, M. Loyal Devasseur, citizen and town councillor. P... ...tions to place a bedroom candle and a match under the staircase lamp on my landing, in order that I might light my candle there, whenever I came home.... ...mforted, or ad vised, at our Great Pavilionstone Hotel? Send for the good landlord, and he is your friend. Should you, or any one be longing to you,... ...these things before, we are ready at the station when there’s races, or an Agricultural Show, or a Chancellor sworn in for an university, or Jenny Lin... ...ples were, com mercial prosperity co existently with perfect and profound agricultural contentment; but short of this he would never stop. His princi...

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...and stackyard which flanked it, indicating that there was a pretty take of land attached to the inn, gave the traveller a promise of good feed for him... ...eraldic bearings of that ancient family, the Donnithornes. Mr. Casson, the landlord, had been for some time standing at the door with his hands in his... ...at the sound of the horse’s hoofs. “Why, what’s up in your pretty village, landlord?” he contin- ued, getting down. “There seems to be quite a stir.” ... ...t very well. But you’ve not got many Methodists about here, surely—in this agricultural spot? I should have thought there would hardly be such a thing... ... hage this ‘ay-’arvest, sir, an’ we shall hev fine doin’s. He owns all the land about here, sir, Squire Donnithorne does.” “W ell, it’s a pretty spot,... ...But he’s a little lifted up an’ peppery-like.” “Well, good evening to you, landlord; I must get on.” “Y our servant, sir; good evenin’.” The traveller...

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...in the virile way, and proceeded to light his pipe. Presently he heard his landlady behind him, coming with 9 H G Wells his lamp lit from the kitchen... ... it, and shouted. The room was flooded with yellow glare as his astonished landlady entered with the light. His face was white as he turned blinking t... ...ome day my pigments would glorify the whole blessed coast of England, from Land’s End round again to the Lizard. Luck comes to a man very often when h... ...down at Wookey—a boy. I missed all that… . What a fuss we had with him! My landlady wouldn’t take him in, wouldn’t let him stay—he looked so queer whe... ...ap, but the G.P . before him—was at him until nearly two, with, me and the landlord holding lights and so forth.” “It was a cataleptic rigour at first... ...forces they controlled; the police of the railways, of the ships, of their agricultural estates, their time-keepers and order-keepers, outnumbered the... ...d Ostrog. “In one quarter only. But the Senegalese division of our African agricultural police—the Consolidated African Companies have a very 155 H G...

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...reat French writer deserves to be re- garded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays,... ... Bouhier, he cared neither for the chase, nor building, nor gardening, nor agricultural pursuits, and was exclusively oc- cupied with reading and refl... ...one is content with the place where he is planted by nature; and the High- landers of Scotland no more pant after Touraine; than the Scythians after T... ...that I have hitherto defended in so many civil wars, in so many battles by land and by sea? And after having settled the universal peace of the whole ... ...o you re- pute any man the greater for being lord of two thousand acres of land? they laugh at such a pitiful pittance, as laying claim themselves to ... ... I am in no degree satisfied; I discover still a new and greater extent of land before me, with a troubled and imperfect sight and wrapped up in cloud...