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...l days—”The House of Aspen.” The Keepsake for 1828 included, however, only three of these little prose tales, of which the first in order was that ent... ... while I have the use of my limbs, to visit my respected relation at least three times a week. Her abode is about half a mile from the suburbs of the ... ...re; and if leased for building—oh, it was a gold mine! And all sold for an old song out of the ancient possessor’s hands!” My comforters cannot bring ... ...study that no one of them should resemble another in form, size, or in the old-fashioned stone entablature and labels which adorn them. This tenement,... ...he only representative will then be an 8 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror infirm old man, moving not unwillingly to the grave, which has devoured all that w... ...nd of the apartment, and they saw Damiotti, standing at the head of two or three steps, sign to them to advance. His dress was so different from that ... ...t and darkness over the face of the wonderful glass, a long perspective of arches and columns began to arrange itself on its sides, and a vaulted roof... ... foreign church. The pil- lars were stately, and hung with scutcheons; the arches were lofty and magnificent; the floor was lettered with funeral insc...

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...aught air of reverting to a bygone place and time, or of listening to some old echoes in his mind, but might have said it was the manner of a haunted ... ...lived on haunted ground? His dwelling was so solitary and vault like, — an old, retired part of an ancient endowment for students, once a brave edific... ... on every side by the over growing of the great city, and choked, like an old well, with stones and bricks; its small quadrangles, lying down in very... ...they were stifled in the heavy air of the forgotten Crypt where the Norman arches were half buried in the earth. You should have seen him in his dwel... ...obacco trade, and had stuck up a representation of a native of each of the three integral portions of the British Empire, in the act of consuming that... ...cer, which, on being uncovered, sent forth an odour so agreeable, that the three pair of eyes in the two beds opened wide and fixed themselves upon th... ...d stealthily rubbing it bright upon his shreds of dress, as he went along. Three times, in their progress, they were side by side. Three times they st... ...ghted, and bordered by a sluggish ditch; from that, to the sloping line of arches, part of some neighbouring viaduct or bridge with which it was surro... ...th from his place of ref uge, and was ready for him before he reached the arches. “Back to the woman’s?” he inquired. “Back, quickly!” answered Redla...

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... brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by the very pillars that on... ...p of the Coliseum, with the blue sky brightening through its upper tier of arches. Far off, the view is shut in by the Alban Mountains, looking just t... ... mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of world-famous statues in the salo... ...as we may, and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had ... ...mself into the posi- tion in which the statue has been standing for two or three thousand years. In truth, allowing for the difference of cos- tume, a... ... and more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The c... ...o such privi- leges in the right of his tender age, for he is at least—how old should you think him, Hilda?” “Twenty years, perhaps,” replied Hilda, g... ...en on the turf. Terminal fig- ures, columns of marble or granite porticos, arches, are seen in the vistas of the wood-paths, either veritable relics o... ...illars, and weeds and flowers root themselves in the chinks of the massive arches and fronts of temples, and clamber at large over their pedi- ments, ...

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...aid Charles. ‘The post-town to Redclyffe; Sir Guy Morville’s place.’ ‘That old Sir Guy! What can he have to do with my fa- ther?’ ‘Did you not know,’ ... ...?’ 4 The Heir of Redclyffe ‘Eh? No, I did not.’ ‘Yes,’ said Philip; ‘when old Sir Guy made it an especial point that my father should take the guardi... ...hilip heartily, and the letter was given to him. ‘Ha! Eh? Let us look. Not old Sir Guy’s hand. Eh? What can be the matter? What? Dead! This is a sudde... ... try to make him take interest in it. It was not till the child was two or three years old, that Sir Guy ventured to let himself grow fond of it.’ ‘Si... ...an admirable and superior man, who had been dead about five years. He left three children, Margaret and Fanny, twenty-five and twenty-three years of a... ...back to Stylehurst. V ery little property was left to be divided among the three; and as soon as Philip perceived how small was the provision for his ... ...e, looking at him with friendly eyes. There, behind those limes cut out in arches, was the commercial school, where he had spent many an hour in const...

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...nd gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack—but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from him mater... ...ued our route in search of the Amontillado. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed The Cask of Amontillado 6 on, and descending a... ...piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. ... ...nes, we perceived a still interior recess, in depth about four feet in width three, in height six or seven. It seemed to have been constructed for no ... ...to its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed t...

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... brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by the very pillars that on... ...p of the Coliseum, with the blue sky brightening through its upper tier of arches. Far off, the view is shut in by the Alban Mountains, looking just t... ... mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of world-famous statues in the salo... ...as we may, and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had ... ...mself into the posi- tion in which the statue has been standing for two or three thousand years. In truth, allowing for the difference of cos- tume, a... ... and more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The c... ...o such privi- leges in the right of his tender age, for he is at least—how old should you think him, Hilda?” “Twenty years, perhaps,” replied Hilda, g... ...en on the turf. Terminal fig- ures, columns of marble or granite porticos, arches, are seen in the vistas of the wood-paths, either veritable relics o... ...illars, and weeds and flowers root themselves in the chinks of the massive arches and fronts of temples, and clamber at large over their pedi- ments, ...

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...(mean- ing of course the other vault) “should dominate above his head. His old mutilated Guard shall watch around him: the last veteran, as he has she... ...eror’s remains were to be deposited, his episcopal benediction. Napoleon’s old friends and followers, the two Bertrands, Gourgaud, Emanuel Las Cases, ... ...re passengers on board the frigate. Marchand, Denis, Pierret, Novaret, his old and faithful servants, were likewise in the vessel. It was commanded by... ...erals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases and M. Marchand. At half-past three o’clock the funeral car began to move, preceded by a chorister bearin... ...own we found a brilliant sky and beau- tiful weather. From the morning the three French ves- sels of war had assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- in... ...ince de Joinville had stationed himself at the head of the officers of the three French ships of war. The great- est official honors had been rendered... ...perial emblems, adorning every nook and corner of the edifice. Between the arches, on each side of the aisle, were painted trophies, on which were wri...

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...in the out set, that they must never expect to know it. I am not a churlish old man. Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I... ...luence upon my home and heart. I live in a venerable suburb of London, in an old house which in bygone days was a famous resort for merry roysterers a... ...that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my foots... ...esume. Besides this, he interrupted the good citizen just as he had reckoned three hundred and seventy two fat capons, and was carrying them over to t... ...nly bidding him ‘go out of his private counting house, ’ brought forward the three hun dred and seventy two fat capons, and went on with his account.... ... were present to the citizen’s mind for a moment; but by the time he reached three hundred and eighty one fat capons, he had quite forgotten him. Joe ... ...ns 71 occurrence. The shops upon the bridge were all closed; the low wooden arches thrown across the way were like so many black pits, in every one o... ...ich made Will feel as though light itself were dead, and its tomb the dreary arches that frowned above, they placed the coffin in the vault, with unco...

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...feet showed that her lord was returning, and, com- mitting the girl to her old nurse, she went down to the hall to receive him. The grave, grizzled wa... ...t on his cross- legged, round-backed chair, and a boy of some twelve years old stood before him, in a sullen attitude, one foot over the other, and hi... ...mortar into the plan of a castle. “How dost thou, Leonard?” he asked. “Did old Hal strike very hard?” “I reck not,” growled Leonard. “How long will my... ...es. It was a low-browed chapel of Norman or even older days, with circular arches and heavy round piers, and so dark that the gleam of the candles was... ...e went down the turret stair into the cloister—a beau- tiful succession of arches round a green court—she met a novice and a girl about her own age; t... ...ered by the west door with the long vista of clustered columns and pointed arches before them. Low sounds of mass being said at different altars met t... ...uchess Cecily, tall, fair, and stately , sailed into the hall, followed by three fair daugh- ters, while Warwick, her nephew, though nearly of the sam... ...ttack. So on a May morning the old, weather-beaten Dacre pen- non with its three crusading scallop-shells, was uplifted in the court, and round it mus... ...ll, as he well knew, had been shriven only last Friday; Leonard muttered, “Three days since, when I was dubbed knight, ere the battle.” “That suffices...

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... mention that two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of- war’s-man, whose acquaintance I had made in Rio de Janeiro, at ... ...ion with something from the medicine- chest, rolled it up in a piece of an old sail, making so big a bundle that, with my feet resting on the windlass... ...zar fare of the valley, was posi- tively delicious. While thus engaged, an old sailor on a chest just under me was puffing out volumes of tobacco smok... ...wo souls; now, they mustered about twenty; the rest had deserted. Even the three junior mates who had headed the whaleboats were gone: and of the four... ...nutes, he brought along with him two officers in undress and whiskers, and three or four drunken obstreperous old chiefs; one with his 17 Melville le... ...y. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Corsican’s: three days after landing, the exquisitely tattooed hand of a princess was h... ...hing places that ever was seen. High overhead are ranges of green rustling arches; through which the sun’s rays come down to you in sparkles. You seem...

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...ient shepherd’s tale to learn; Though oft he stop in rustic fear, Lest his old legends tire the ear Of one who, in his simple mind, May boast of book-... ...ed sons of little men, Essay to break a feeble lance In the fair fields of old romance; Or seek the moated castle’s cell, Where long through talisman ... ...strels made, Of Ascapart, and Bevis bold, And that Red King, who, while of old, Through Boldrewood the chase he led, By his loved huntsman’s arrow ble... ...art and hind. Yon thorn—perchance whose prickly spears Have fenced him for three hundred years, While fell around his green compeers – Yon lonely thor... ...he isle. 44 Marmion X. In Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderou... ...wn. 46 Marmion XIII. Then Whitby’s nuns exulting told, How to their house three barons bold Must menial service do; While horns blow out a note of... ... secret laid; But none may know the place, Save of his holiest servants three, Deep sworn to solemn secrecy, Who share that wondrous grace. 48 ... ... executioner Were blindfold when transported there. In low dark rounds the arches hung, From the rude rock the side-walls sprung; The grave-stones, ru... ...rance of the porch: Reflecting back the smoky beam, The dark-red walls and arches gleam. Hewn stones and cement were displayed, And building tools in ...

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...ng new upon this lane of the sea. He had been on these coasts for the last three years. From Low Cape to Malantan the dis- tance was fifty miles, six ... ...pe to Malantan the dis- tance was fifty miles, six hours’ steaming for the old ship with the tide, or seven against. Then you steered straight for the... ...e, or seven against. Then you steered straight for the land, and by-and-by three palms would appear on the sky, tall and slim, and with their dishevel... ... fractures—the brimful estuary of a river. Then on through a brown liquid, three parts water and one part black earth, on and on between the low shore... ... thought of having anything to do with her and her invariable voyages. The old ship ought to have known the road better than her men, who had not been... ...na- tive town at the end of the beat. There was a three days’ rest for the old ship before he started her again in inverse order, seeing the same shor... ...e could just detect the twin gleam of the whites shifting under the shaggy arches of the brow. At short range these eyes, for all the man’s af- 71 Jo...

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... with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as... ... a little rusty on his law, but he rubbed up for this book, and those two or three legal chapters are right and straight, now. He told me so himself. ... ...is second day of January, 1893, at the Villa Viviani, village of Settignano, three miles back of Florence, on the hills—the same certainly affording t... ...ked with hollyhocks, marigolds, touch me nots, prince’s feathers, and other old fashioned flowers; while on the windowsills of the houses stood woode... ...s the sole business street. It was six blocks long, and in each block two or three brick stores, three stories high, towered above interjected bunches... ...of it. The town was sleepy and comfortable and contented. It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly—very slowly, in fact, but still it was growin... ...oceans in maps, and that they form various clearly defined patterns, such as arches, circles, long curves, whorls, etc., and that these patters differ...

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...ll countries in times of civil or religious wars. Chil- dren, young girls, old men shared the monarchial fever to which the country was then a victim.... ...ncapable of deny- ing his political faith, anxious even to confess it, the old baron remained in Paris in the midst of his enemies. Ginevra Piombo was... ...looked at her to give her pain. She inspired such keen attraction that her old father caused her, as matter of precaution, to be ac- companied to and ... ...t Labedoyere!” he added. “Oh, Labedoyere!” 25 Balzac At this cry they all three looked at one another in silence, each comprehending the others’ thou... ... not come; the next day another girl was missing, and so on, till the last three or four who were left came no more. Ginevra and Laure, her little fri... ...e, her little friend, were the sole oc- cupants of the deserted studio for three or four days. Ginevra did not observe this falling off, nor ask the c... ...ad, the enchanting socket of her eyes, the purity and whiteness of the two arches beneath which the eyes themselves turned slowly, expressing the happ...

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...d not come from a Danish tin, cutlets, and even a dish of potatoes. It was three weeks since I had seen a real, live potato. I contemplated them with ... ... even worse: impolitic. All I could do at the moment was to keep on in the old groove. “Are the provisions generally dear here?” I asked, fretting inw... ...ted by this. He and the ship had been getting on in years together and the old gentleman imagined this strange event to be the forerunner of his own e... ... Fortune He went away mincingly to his desk. He amused me. He resembled an old maid, a commercial old maid, shocked by some impropriety. Was it a comm... ...ed workman able to fit up shelves in a day, and he could procure me two or three dozen good plants— The tips of his thick, round fingers rested compos... ...ut placidly. “Eight of the principal clerks, the manager, that’s nine, you three gentlemen, that’s twelve. It needn’t be very expen- 19 Joseph Conrad... ... which stood wide open on to a verandah or rather loggia running its brick arches along the garden side of the house. It was really a magnificent gard...

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...nd particularly by your sex, that you must give me leave to explain two or three difficult terms. The Rosicrucians are a people I must bring you acqua... ...w with scorn two pages and a chair. 7 As now your own, our beings were of old, And once enclosed in woman s beauteous mold; Thence, by a soft transit... ...ystic mazes guide their way, Through all the giddy circle they pursue, And old impertinence expel by new. 10 What tender maid but must a victim fall ... ...an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. 16 There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former lo... ...his former loves. With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ... ...of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel, ... ... if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the smallpox, or chased old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife s cares produce, Or who wo...

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...a greater degree than those of other domiciles, the characteristics of the old Flemish buildings, so naively adapted to the patriar- chal manners and ... ... ish life. English comfort is harsh in tone and arid in color; whereas the old-fashioned Flemish interiors rejoice the eye with their mellow tints, an... ...a it learned the ponderous diplomacy which, to use a popular saying, takes three steps backward to one for- ward; while its trade with India poured in... ... dikes, husbandry , nor revolutions; and they *Flanders was parcelled into three divisions; of which East- ern Flanders, capital Ghent, and Western Fl... ...of solid stability, we could do no better than point to a portrait of some old burgomaster, capable, as was proved again and again, of dying in a comm... ...ing at the sides into the arch. The coping of the arch was ornamented with three rows of brick, placed one above the other, the bricks alternately pro... ...e longed for a swallow to build her nest in the red coping that roofed the arches of the windows. The precise and immaculate air of this facade, a lit... ...n to them for love, the sentiment that budded into life beneath the gloomy arches of the picture-gallery, beside the stern old abbe, in a still and si...

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...with its red bark and its majestic parasol; here a cedar two hundred years old, weeping willows, a Norway spruce, and a beech which overtops them all;... ...ar shrubs,—a yew trimmed in a way that recalls some long-decayed garden of old France, 9 Balzac and magnolias with hortensias at their feet. In short... ...r thousand acres of woodland, a park of some nine hundred acres, the mill, three leased farms, another immense farm at Conches, and vineyards,—the who... ...these charm- ing streams of water; the estate was originally called in the old title-deeds “Les Aigues-Vives” to distinguish it from “Aigues-Mortes”; ... ... Madame du Barry, she buried her diamonds. At that time she was only fifty-three 14 Sons of the Soil years of age, and according to her lady’s-maid, ... ...ing more than the dry particulars of tech- nical writers, who for the last three thousand years have told us about left and right wings and centres be... ...olding the infant Jesus. The sides of the structure are externally of five arches, defined by stone ribs and lighted by windows with small panes. The ...

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...d pour, if he can, the purple air of Italy over his canvas. He studies the old schools of art in the mountain towns where they were born, and where th... ...f enjoyment and success. Kenyon had seen, at a distance of many miles, the old villa or castle towards which his journey lay, looking from its height ... ...om head to foot in a garment that might, by this time, have been centuries old, though ever new. In the dry Italian air, how- ever, Nature had only so... ... than now. 5 Hawthorne Up and down the height of the tower were scattered three or four windows, the lower ones grated with iron bars, the upper ones... ... floor, on which heavy pilasters were planted against the wall, supporting arches that crossed one another in the vaulted ceiling. The upright walls, ... ...the Monte Beni face had a tendency to look grim and savage; and, in two or three instances, the family pictures glared at the spec- tator in the eyes ... ... seized it, it should at once perish in his grasp. Donatello paused two or three times, and seemed to lis- ten,—then, recommencing, he poured his spir... ...ch this shy rivulet was capable. A stone bridge bestrode it, the ponderous arches of which were upheld and rendered indestructible by the weight of th... ...ne with burnished gold. They glow with pictures. Their walls, columns, and arches seem a quarry of precious stones, so beautiful and costly are the ma...

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......................................................... 149 Chapter 2.4.VI. Old-Dragoon Drouet. .......................................................... ... debate, for the sessions are occasion- ally ‘scandalous, ’ and as many as three speakers have been seen in the Tribune at once,—let us continue to fa... ...e Fourth of August, when new Faith rose suddenly into miraculous fire, and old Feudality was burnt up, men remarked that Mirabeau took no hand in it; ... ...e financial performances, which shall astonish mankind. So that now, while old rags last, there shall be no lack of circulating medium; whether of com... ...; your old party-coloured Provinces become new uniform Departments, Eighty-three in number;— whereby, as in some sudden shifting of the Earth’s axis, ... ... would not stand on a few hundreds; yet we never rise as high as the round three hundred thousand. Shudder at it, O People; but it is as true as that ... ... westward to the Gate by the river (where also shall be wood, in triumphal arches), we count same thousand yards of length; and for breadth, from this... ...e Car- pentry and Painting have vied, for the upper Authorities; triumphal arches, at the Gate by the River, bear inscrip- tions, if weak, yet well-me...