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...A tale of mystery, romance, and honor, as David Carrigan must choose between his duty as an officer of the law and a girl who holds him captive; a girl who Carrigan thinks he may have fallen in love with no less! Who is this strange girl Jean-Marie, and why won't she give him his freedom? And who are the people that she surrounds ...

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...own of Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector de Maris. Now saith this story, when Galahad had rescued Percivale from the twenty knights, he yede tho into a waste forest wherein he rode many journeys; and he found many adventures the which he brought to an end, whereof the story maketh here no mention. Then he took his way to the sea on a day, and it befell as he passed by a castle whe...

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...ad had rescued Percivale from the twenty knights, he yede tho into a waste forest wherein he rode many journeys; and he found many adventures the whic... ...a forty year after the passion of Jesu Christ that Nacien, the brother-in- law of King Mordrains, was borne into a town more than four- teen days’ jou... ...your blood, and he shall be as good a knight as Duke Josua, thy brother-in-law. CHAPTER VI How Solomon took David’s sword by the counsel of his wife, ... ...PTER IX How the three knights, with Percivale’s sister, came unto the same forest, and of an hart and four lions, and other things. T hen began he to ... ...e knights, and Percivale’s sister with them. And so they came into a waste forest, and there they saw afore them a white hart which four lions led. Th... ...d twelve of them were kings’ daughters. Then they departed and went into a forest. Now, said Percivale unto Galahad, we must depart, so pray we Our Lo... ...elot. S o after, on a Monday, it befell that they arrived in the edge of a forest to-fore a cross; and then saw they a knight armed all in white, and ...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of ...

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...ich is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and val- leys whic... ...ion of the inferior gentry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English consti- tution, were entitled to hold themsel... ...t was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were delivered in the same tongue. In shor... ...ed Saxons. THE SUN WA S SETTING upon one of the rich grassy glades of that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds o... ...f him,” said Gurth, “and the mother of mischief confound the Ranger of the forest, that cuts the foreclaws off our dogs, and makes them unfit for thei... ... “Why, how call you those grunting brutes running about *The Ranger of the Forest, that cuts the fore-claws off our dogs. 10 Ivanhoe on their four le... ... lay upon the grass beside him. This second Eumæus strode hastily down the forest glade, driving before him, with the assistance of Fangs, the whole h... ...injury. At such meetings the Jews were under the protection of the general law; and if that proved a weak assur- ance, it usually happened that there ... ...me and place prevented his re- *This term of chivalry , transferred to the law, gives the phrase of being attainted of treason. 79 Sir Walter Scott ...

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...oth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and in the midst of woodland coverts, abounding with excellent game. The bride, with her...

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...ur esque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by na ture to be the retreat of m... ...on of offences,” replied Sir Ralph, “superin duced on the original basis of forest treason. He began with hunting the king’s deer, in despite of all ... ...ing of payment of certain moneys to the abbot of Doncaster, in denial of all law; and has thus made himself the declared enemy of church and state, an... ...id Sir Ralph, “he is an outlaw from this moment.” “So much the worse for the law then,” said brother Michael. “The law will have a heavier miss of him... ...r Michael. “The law will have a heavier miss of him than he will have of the law. He will strike as much venison as ever, and more of other game. I kn... ...rn freebooter?” “A man must live,” said brother Michael, “earl or no. If the law takes his rents and beeves without his consent, he must take beeves a... ... brambles then,” said brother Michael. “The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble, Doth make a jest Of silken vest, That will through gre... ... That will through greenwood scramble: The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble.” “Plague on your lungs, son Michael,” said the abbot; “th... ...ratch, If they ride among the bramble: The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble.” “Tall friar,” said Sir Ralph, “either you shoot the shaf...

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... GOVERNMENT ..................................................................................................................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LAW COURTS AND LAWYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FINANCIAL POSITION ....................................................................................................

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...d not share it. One of these men had been the parent of the Fugitive Slave Law; the other had been great in fostering the success of filibustering. Bo... ... all the civilized world be- fore many years have passed. If international law be what the lawyers say it is, international law must be altered to sui... ...ceeding. Would Captain Wilkes have been right, ac- cording to the existing law, if he had carried the “Trent” away to New York? If so, we ought not to... ...cent, but that it should not be made out to be guilty by any international law. Of its real innocency all thinking men must feel themselves assured. B... ...ile above the levee, where the old, un- 122 North America V ol. 2 changed forest of nature came down to the very edge of the river, and mixed itself ... ...t still ever renewing themselves with the rapid, moist life of luxuri- ant forest vegetation. Nothing to my eyes is sadder than the monotonous desolat... ...n of such scenery. We in En- gland, when we read and speak of the primeval forests of America, are apt to form pictures in our minds of wood- land gla... ...cenes than which nothing that God has given us is more charming. But these forests are not after that fashion; they offer no allurement to the lover, ... ...lancholy, death-like beauty. The disordered ruin and confused decay of the forest was all gemmed with particles of ice. The eye reaching through the t...

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... Poem: At The Close ........................................................................................................................ 28 Poem: Forest History....................................................................................................................... 28 Poem: A Garden Idyl .......................................................................

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.................................................................... 28 Poem: Forest History................................................................ ..., Midway between eve and dawn, See the chase, the rout, the flight In deep forest; oread, faun, Goat-foot, antlers laid on neck; Ravenous all the line... ...ody glen, Under cliffs that tear the blue, Over torrent, over fen, She and forest, where she skims Feathery, darken and relume: Those are her white-li... ...s, Like the run with her, when rings Clear her rally, and her dart, In the forest’s cavern heart, T ells of her victorious aim. Then is pause and chat... ...rs that burn in dew. 10 A Reading of Life Comes there a tremor of night’s forest horn Across her garden from the insaner crew, She darkens to maligni... ...r lordship the illumined brain rejects For earth’s beneficent, the sons of Law, Her other name. So spake she in their heart, 22 A Reading of Life Am... ..., Delightful Peace, that answers Reason’s call Harmoniously and images her Law; Reflects, and though short-lived as then, revives, In memories made pr...

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.................................................................................................................................................. 4 THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE.................................................................................................................................. 19 THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT .................................................

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....................................................................... 4 THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE............................................................. ...onder cloud—Good Hunting!—loose The rain that breaks our Water Truce. T HE LAW OF THE JUNGLE—which is by far the oldest law in the world—has arranged ... ...wgli spent a great part of his life in the Seeonee Wolf-Pack, learning the Law from Baloo, the Brown Bear; and it was Baloo who told him, when the boy... ...who told him, when the boy grew impatient at the constant orders, that the Law was like the Giant Creeper, because it dropped across every one’s back ... ...ere the sun strikes like a burning- glass; or turns through dripping, dark forests where the tree- ferns dress the trunks from head to heel, and the p... ...they were fifty or sixty miles away. The pass was crowned with dense, dark forest—deodar, walnut, wild cherry, wild olive, and wild pear, but mostly d... ...t seemed to be low scrub, on the opposite moun- tain-flank, was in truth a forest of hundred-foot pines. Purun Bhagat saw an eagle swoop across the gi... ... “my brothers,” and his low call of “Bhai! Bhai!” would draw them from the forest at noon if they were within ear shot. The Himalayan black bear, mood... ...s saw the outline of the barasingh stalking like a shadow through the dark forest behind the shrine; saw the minaul, the Hi- malayan pheasant, blazing...

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...9 MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS ......................................................................................... 10 I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR ................................................................................................................ 10 ST. MARTIN?S SUMMER .........................................................................

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............................................................. 10 I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR ........................................................... ... when the maddened lake grows black And ruffles in the blast. I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR I. I dreamed of forest alleys fair And fields of gray-fl... ...w, Wi’ a kind o’ Gospel ower a’, May or October, Like Peden, followin’ the Law An’ no that sober. Whusky an’ he were pack thegether. Whate’er the hour... ...ED ALL NIGHT LONG As one who having wandered all night long In a perplexed forest, comes at length In the first hours, about the matin song, And when ... ... tales men hear us tell Still let the unfathomed ocean swell, Or shallower forest sound abroad Below the lonely stars of God; In all, let something st... ...alace rise Red-roofed, blue-walled, a rainbow on the hill, A wonder in the forest glade: he still, Unthinkable Aladdin, dawn and dark, 97 New Poems b... ...from the falser kind. No rich saloon, nor palace of the great, Nor suit at law should trouble our estate; On no vainglorious statues should we look, B...

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...ndividual 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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...ent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more va... ...the collision neared,—all these ele- ments of the scene blended, under the law of association, with the previous and permanent features of distinction... ...t— if there be anything amiss—let the Dream be responsible. The Dream is a law to itself; and as well quarrel with a rain- bow for showing, or for not... ... Pickford, the great carrier, always horsed his wagons with eight. And the law knew of no distinction between wagon and post-chaise, coach-horse or ca... ...es; and positively the dic- tion of Parricombe and Charricombe from Exmoor Forest is mixed up with the pure Icelandic forms of the English lakes, of N... ... the hunting season, he might have seen it actually hunted over Martindale forest and its purlieus. Or, again, in Devonshire and Cornwall, over Dartmo... ...ous consummation was true only for the southern world of civilization. The forests of Germany, though pierced already to the south in the third and fo... ...torial descent, would have dissevered his own solitary stem from the great forest of his ancestral order; and this he must have done by doubting the l... ...urse and the relations in an- other world; but that was for the purpose of forestalling a vile, unspiritual notion, already current amongst the child-...

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...e window, after hitting the hat of a stranger who was crossing the courtyard of a house in the Rue Vivienne, where dwelt Maitre Derville, attorney-at-law....

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...d of a house in the Rue Vivienne, where dwelt Maitre Derville, attorney-at-law. “Come, Simonnin, don’t play tricks on people, or I will turn you out o... ...erks shouted with laughter. “Why! Monsieur Hure, you take ‘By Jingo’ for a law term, and you say you come from Mortagne!” exclaimed Simonnin. “Scratch... ... to write out an appeal without thought. It is the ‘Shoulder arms!’ of the law.” “Given in—in?” asked Godeschal.—”Tell me when, Boucard.” “June 1814,”... ...t his face buried in a pile of papers—broutilles (odds and ends) in French law jargon—and went on draw- ing out the bill of costs on which he was busy... ...nished with the traditional stool which is to be seen in all these dens of law-quibbling. The stove-pipe crossed the room diagonally to the chimney of... ...ginning of this story had, however, put him in possession of two tracts of forest, and of an estate which had considerably increased in value during i...

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...Table of Contents: I: Into the Primitive, 1 -- II: The Law of Club and Fang, 9 -- III: The Dominant Primordial Beast, 16 -- IV: Who Has Won to Mastership, 26 -- V: The Toil of Trace and Trail, 33 -- VI: For the Love of a Man, 44 -- VII: The Sounding of the Call, 54...

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...he Primitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II: The Law of Club and Fang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 II... ... That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fi... ...ously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was his first snow. II The Law of Club and Fang B UCK’S first day on the Dyea beach was like a nigh... ...nd men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang. He had never seen dogs fight as these ... ...d seen horses work, so he was set to work, hauling Franc ¸ois on a sled to the forest that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of fire wood.... ...h of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. It was no task for hi... ...he lake. Later, the nine team dogs gathered together and sought shelter in the forest. Though unpursued, they were in a sorry plight. There was not on... ...d instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets,... ...th into the sun. Par tridges and woodpeckers were booming and knocking in the forest. Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked t...

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... home they went. A little lowly Hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people, that did pas In trauell to and f... ... And lusted after all, that he did loue, Ne would his looser life be tide to law, But ioyd weake wemens hearts to tempt, and proue If from their loyal... ...oeus ioynts were stretched on a gin, Theseus condemned to endlesse slouth by law, And fifty sisters water in leake vessels draw. They all beholding wo... ... liues to Couetise, Through wastfull Pride, and wanton Riotise, They were by law of that proud Tyrannesse Prouokt with VVrath, and Enuies false surmis... .... Her shrill outcryes and shriekes so loud did bray, That all the woodes and forestes did resownd; A troupe of Faunes and Satyres far away Within the ... ...rdie courage tame with dreadfull aw, That his beheast they feared, as tyrans law, His louing mother came vpon a day Vnto the woods, to see her little ... ...er yeares he raught, And there abode, whilst any beast of name Walkt in that forest, whom he had not taught To feare his force: and then his courage h... ...ickt forth with iollitie Of looser life, and heat of hardiment, Raunging the forest wide on courser free, The fields, the floods, the heauens with one... ...h good lucke prolonged hath thy date, Yet death then, would the like mishaps forestall, Into the which hereafter thou maiest happen fall. Why then doe...

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...ater near the outlet. For more than half a century has this remnant of the forest floated about, from point to point, its bald head whitening with tim... ...was actually naked. Then the truth became apparent: it was a native of the forest, in his summer garb, who had thrown aside his blanket, and stood in ... ...alf-subdued tribe could retain so completely the air and mien of the great forests and distant prairies. “Seneca,” was the simple answer. The word was... ...ibed “DeLancey” and may have belonged to the family of Cooper’s brother-in-law, Episcopal Bishop of Western New York William Heathcote De Lancey (1797... ...antages between the civilized condition, and those of a life passed in the forest and on the prairies. In this respect our young Seneca resembles the ... ...osition to the Manitou.” “How,” exclaimed Fuller, “did the dwellers in the forest suffer by such practices?” “Men are every where the same, let the co... ...same, let the color, or the tribe, or the country be what it may. It was a law of our people, one which tradition tells us came direct from the Great ... ...be taken only in certain seasons, and for so many moons. Some thought this law was for the health of the people; others, that it was to enable the fis... ...ong, or what is right. The wicked may flourish for a while, but there is a law that is certain to bring him within the power of punishment. Evil spiri...

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...ted on his mule, and so mounted he makes his way through the vast primeval forests down to the banks of the Serapiqui river. That there is a track for... ...he country well, would know that it might still be raining over those vast forests; but now as the matter was settled, they would hope for the best. O... ...mules. Here, where the ways forked, their road lead- ing through the great forests to the Atlantic, they sepa- rated, and many tears were shed on each... ...arates the two oceans. At this spot the good road comes to an end, and the forest track begins; and here also, they would, in truth, enter the forest,... ...ing the whole of the journey, and then started by the narrow path into the forest. First walked the leader of the guides, then another man following h... ...l right now,” said Arkwright. “Good-bye, old boy,”—and the two brothers-in-law grasped each other’s hands heartily. “Keep up your spirits, and we’ll h...

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...ey were willing to suffer pain and to travail for the setting forward of the Law of Jesus Christ, that He willed to make new by His death and by His c... ...nd they all died in arms for their great hardiment in setting forward of the Law that was made new. There were twelve brethren. Alain li Gros was the ... ...l these died in arms in the service of the Holy Prophet that had renewed the Law by His death, and smote His enemies to the uttermost of their power. ... ... us that after the crucifixion of Our Lord, no earthly King set for ward the Law of Jesus Christ so much as did King Arthur of Britain, both by himsel... ...een, “And were you to go to the chapel of S. Augustine, that is in the White Forest, that may not be found save by adventure only, methinketh that on ... ... after the King. And when he had ridden a long space he entered into a great forest and looked in the way before him and saw the slot of the King’s ho... ...until 16 The High History of the Holy Graal that he came to a launde of the forest whereat he thought that the King had alighted. The squire thought ... ... beyond the grave yard and issueth forth of the launde and entereth into the forest and thinketh that he will not cease until he hath found the King. ... ... and saith unto him, “You, that come there, have you met King Arthur in this forest?” “In no wise,” saith the messenger, “But you have I met, whereof ...

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...taking place in this leafy nook would have shuddered, as the old mother-in-law and the wife of the man we speak of were now shuddering. A hunts- man d... ...ark of fifteen hundred acres enclosed by a stone wall, nine large farms, a forest, mills, and meadows. This almost regal property belonged before the ... ...the pavilion of Cinq-Cygne. The village of Cinq-Cygne is at the end of the forest of 7 Balzac Nodesme (a corruption of Notre-Dame) which was reached ... ... woods, the long perspective of the av- 8 An Historical Mystery enue, the forest in the distance, the rusty iron-work, the masses of stone draped wit... ... master of the property. The terror he inspired in his wife, his mother-in-law, a servant-lad named Gaucher, and the cook named Marianne, was shared t... ...ror lasted, Michu, still bailiff of Gondreville, a devoted patriot, son-in-law of the president of the revolutionary tri- bunal of T royes and flatter... ...of respect. But when the Mountain was overthrown and af- ter his father-in-law committed suicide, he found himself a scape-goat; everybody hastened to... ...ought there by a farmer whose farm, at Grouage, was situated be- tween the forest and the park on the left of the noble avenue, Michu turned pale and ... ...ver did he say a brutal word, to her at least; in fact, he en- deavored to forestall her every wish. The poor pariah, believ- ing himself disagreeable...

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...proved, by many crucial tests, to be a government of “liberty regulated by law,” with such results in the development of strength, in population, weal... ...e sanction of public opinion. If M. De T ocqueville could now search for a law that would negative this provision in its effect upon social equality, ... ... equality, he would fail to find it. But he would find it in the unwritten law of the natural aversion of the races. He would find it in public opinio... ...ces. He would find it in public opinion, which is the vital force in every law in a free government. This is a subject that our Constitution failed to... ... appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of North America – Prairies -Wandering T ribes of Natives – Their o... ...s, and laurels. Beyond this outer belt lay the thick shades of the central forest, where the largest trees which are produced in the two hemispheres g... ...anches with those of the oak, the beech, and the lime. In these, as in the forests of the Old World, destruction was perpetually going on. The ruins o... ...nd their respective productions were mingled together. The depths of these forests were gloomy and obscure, undirected in their course by human indust... ...rees to these fertile plains, or whether they had once been cov- ered with forests, subsequently destroyed by the hand of man, is a question which nei...

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...ature more adorable. To the right and to the left thick woods, centenarian forests, towered up from gentle slopes, filling the horizon with a sea of v... ...in the most sultry days of July and August. The Morelle descended from the forests of Gagny and seemed to have gathered the cold from the foliage bene... ... sole source of coolness: all sorts of flowing streams gurgled through the forest; at each step springs bubbled up; one felt, on following the narrow ... ...f his uncle, who had left him a small property upon the very border of the forest of Gagny, just opposite the mill, a few gunshots distant. He had com... ...vegetables upon which he sub sisted. He fished and hunted; many times the forest guards nearly caught him and were on the point of drawing up proces ... ...re Merlier, on taking his departure, already called Do minique his son in law. Without doubt the old man had found the youth he had gone to seek a wo... ...his daughter; he had a solid friendship for Domin ique, his future son in law, but his wheel also held a large place in his heart. Since the two youn...

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................ 53 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM ............................................................................. 72 WINDSOR-FOREST38 ............................................................................................................................................ 94 ODE ON ST CECILIA?S DAY ...................................................

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.................................................................. 72 WINDSOR-FOREST38 ..................................................................... ...first at Kensington, and then in Binfield, in the neighbourhood of Windsor Forest. He is said to have put his money in a strong box, and to have lived... ... his translations and imitations. His next period, he says, was in Windsor Forest, where for several years he did nothing but read the classics and in... ...versification, and Dryden for his vigorous sense and vivid sarcasm. In the Forest, he became acquainted with Sir Will- iam T rumbull, the retired secr... ...d Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of “Windsor Forest,” although they were not published for some time afterwards. By his ... ... was stated that various letters of lords were included, and as there is a law amongst regulations of the Upper House that no peer’s letters can be pu... ...n, he made him a warm friend; Allen, Pope’s acquaintance, a rich father-in-law; and himself, by and by, the Bishop of Gloucester. Sophistry has seldom... ...rk t’ outlast immortal Rome design’d, Perhaps he seem’d above the critic’s law, And but from Nature’s fountains scorn’d to draw: But when t’ examine e... ...here, the Fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her ne...

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...daughter of a coppersmith, a widower, named Champagnac. When his father-in-law died he bought the house in which he had been carrying on his trade of ... ...r; both knew very well, however, that the father was in search of a son-in-law. Old Sauviat went to Monsieur Graslin. Monsieur Graslin, a rich banker ... ...ctation of two hundred and fifty thousand more. Graslin, his chosen son-in-law, would therefore infallibly marry Veronique; and so, as we have seen, i... ...led old Sauviat. Happily, Graslin found a means of occupying his father-in-law. In 1823 the banker was forced to take possession of a porcelain manufa... ...ket for their products (if they produced anything), close to an unexplored forest which sup- plied them with wood and the uncertain livelihood of poac... ...t peak of the Correze mountains. The space between is covered by the great forest of Montegnac, which clothes the hill, extends over the valley, and a... ...disappear, by ways known to them alone, into the inaccessible parts of the forest. Such a region was naturally out of reach of law. No one now travell... ...age Rector prosperity of this region of country, it cut down this strip of forest, and stationed a detachment of gendarmerie near the ravine, which es... ...ould be seen, on one side, for a foil, the dark masses of the bronze-green forest; on the other, the church and the ruins of the castle perched on the...