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...NDERER?1910 .................................................................................................................................. 55 THE LIFE BEYOND?1910........................................................................................................................................ 59 THE ASCENDING EFFORT?1910 ..............................................

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...oseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...................................................................... 55 THE LIFE BEYOND—1910 ............................................................. ................................................................. 67 P ART II—LIFE ......................................................................... ............................................... 220 5 Joseph Conrad Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad AUTHOR’S NOTE I DON’T KNOW whether I oug... ... I ought to offer an apology for this collection which has more to do with life than with letters. Its appeal is made to orderly minds. This, to be fr... ...t all this matter as removable rubbish. All those things had a place in my life. Whether any of them deserve to have been picked up and ranged on the ... ...ell, yes! A one-man show— or is it merely the show of one man? 6 Notes on Life and Letters The only thing that will not be found amongst those Figure... ...Trappist monastery. The part I have ventured, for shortness’ sake, to call Life, may perhaps justify itself by the emotional sin- cerity of the feelin...

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...Excerpt: The Life and Death of King John; Actus Primus -- Scaena Prima -- Enter King John, Queene Elinor, Pembroke, Essex, and Salisbury, with the Chattilion of France. King John. Now say Chatillion, what would France with us? Chat. Thus ...

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...Table of Contents: The life and death of King John, 1 -- Actus Primus, Scaena Prima., 1 -- Scaena Secunda., 7 -- Actus Secundus, 21 -- Actus Tertius, Scaena prima., 23 -- Scoena Secunda., 29 -- Scaena Tertia., 31 -- Actus Quartus, Scaena prima., 35...

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...peare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The life and death of King John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus, Sc... .... . . . . . . . . . . 59 Scena Septima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 The life and death of King Iohn. - i - The life and death of King John a1 ... ... cease 39 Till she had kindled France and all the world, - 1 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 40 Vpon the righ... ... my mothers head, 85 But that I am as well begot my Liege - 2 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 86 (Faire fall t... ...his, 131 Insooth, good friend, your father might haue kept - 3 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 132 This Calfe, b... ... Plantaginet: 177 I am thy grandame Richard, call me so. - 4 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 178 Bast. Mad... ...deliuer 223 Sweet, sweet, sweet poyson for the ages tooth, - 5 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 224 Which though ... ...nds bed: 269 Heauen lay not my transgression to my charge, - 6 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 270 That art the ... ...e you Cordelions death 306 The rather, that you giue his off- spring life, 307 Shadowing their right vnder your wings of warre: 308 I ...

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.... He was a South Ameri- can of good family, and the books published in his lifetime numbered him amongst the liberators of that continent from the opp... ...itudes of changing fortune the fierceness and inhumanity of a struggle for life. All feelings of pity and compassion disap- peared in the growth of po... ...under a bush in the 11 Joseph Conrad enjoyment of the inestimable boon of life. II GASPAR RUIZ, condemned to death as a deserter, was not thinking ei... ... brutality of his sneers. “I don’t remember having been so miserable in my life before or since. The torment of my sensibility was so great that I wis... ...by mental suffering it was like a hundred years; a longer time than all my life has been since. No, certainly, it was not so much as a 16 A Set of Si... ...plunging the point of his blade into any body giving the slightest sign of life. But none of the bodies afforded him an opportunity for the display of... ...with the blood of his neighbours and shamming death, strove to appear more lifeless than the others. He was lying face down. The sergeant recognized h... ...be that, wandering ruined and houseless, and burdened with nothing but his life, which was left to him by the clemency of the Pro- visional Government... ...uld have imagined that a young girl, daugh- ter of a ruined Royalist whose life was held only by the contempt of his enemies, would have had the power...

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...hest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure....

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...N?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, ...

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...TER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CALIFOR- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 N... ...XI — PASSAGE UP THE COAST—MONTEREY . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 CHAPTER XII — LIFE AT MONTEREY . . . . . . . . . 40 CHAPTER XIII — TRADING—A BRITISH ... ...R XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMAT... ...rtaken from a determi- nation to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes... ...an beginning a - 1 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana sailor’s life. At length those peculiar, longdrawn sounds, which denote that the... ... was separating myself from all the social and intellectual enjoyments of life. Yet, strange as it may seem, I did then and afterwards take plea-... ... and we went below. I now began to feel the first discomforts of a sailor’s life. The steerage in which I lived was filled with coils of rigging, sp... ...ing of the first beams upon trees, hills, spires, and house tops, to give it life and spirit. But though the actual rise of the sun at sea is not so ... ...my sea legs on, and was beginning to enter upon the regular duties of a sea life. About six bells, that is, three o’clock P. M., we saw a sail on our...

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...paint for you what is, not that which I imagine. This day, this hour, this life, and even politics, the centre and throbbing heart of it (enough, when... ...be critics of their captains, but trustworthy for their work. In the later life of the family, they preferred the provincial state of splendid squires... ...ched to sea. He went unwillingly; not so much from an objection to a naval life as from a wish, incomprehensible to grown men and boys, and especially... ... really disliked war and the sword; and scorn- ing the prospect of an idle life, confessing that his abilities barely adapted him for a sailor’s, he w... ...very well for a man to talk like that who owns no more than his barebodkin life, poor devil. Tall talk’s his jewelry: he must have his dandification i... ...aluable to a Christian gentleman. You will receive from the publisher the “Life and Letters of Lord Collingwood,” whom I have it in my mind that a you... ...it: he had rather encounter a grisly bear than a mosquito any night of his life, for no stretch of cunning outwits a mosquito; and enlarging on the qu... ...as the only daughter of the Comte de Croisnel. Her brother Roland owed his life to Nevil, this Englishman proud of a French name—Nevil Beauchamp. If t... ...of faith and stone-cutting. What was done then might be beautiful, but the life was monotonous; she insisted that 43 George Meredith it was Huguenot;...

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...her unused to 8 The Relics of General Chasse move in a Highland sphere of life. But alas, alas! General Chasse had not been nurtured in the classical... ...that she had never known—could never know—aught of the comforts of married life. It was she who held the scissors and the black garments. It was she w... ...being wandering then in that Dutch town so utterly denuded of the goods of life. For what is a man fit,—for what can he be fit,—when left in such a po... ... he then and there exacted a promise that I would never tell it during his lifetime. I have kept my word; but now my old friend has been gathered to h... ...eant Englishmen; and as I was in the habit of meeting such every day of my life at home, I cannot say that I was peculiarly elevated by the promise. W...

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...ay, across the Shannon and back to win a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and...

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..., the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood suppo... ... of a family of seven children, all males, and hard at the bottle early in life: ‘for want of proper occupation,’ he says in his Memoirs, and applauds... ...ell: I am never affected now as I was then; and people in a low station of life could affect me then, without being flung at me, for I dislike an enti... ...ene, Mrs. Kempson, who played the part (as, alas, she could do to the very life!), so threw herself into the pathos of it that there were few to hold ... ...er of fragments descending. The truth is, they have taken a stain from the life they lead, and are troubled puddles, incapable of clear reflection. To... .... He lost both legs before the war was over, and said merrily, ‘Stumps for life’’ while they were carry- ing him below to the cockpit. In my girlhood ... ...moment in the district. 22 The Amazing Marriage We lived a happy domestic life in those old coaching days, when county affairs and county people were... ...hing relating to her, saw herself compelled to tell him the history of her life, to save him, as she thought, from these chivalrous vindications of he... ...hat sees its flower fading to the withered shred. On the last night of her life this old man of past ninety carried her in his arms up a flight of sta...

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...y known. But yet many kings and lords held great war against him for that cause, but well Arthur overcame them all, for the most part the days of his life he was ruled much by the counsel of Merlin. So it fell on a time King Arthur said unto Merlin, My barons will let me have no rest, but needs I must take a wife, and I will none take but by thy counsel and by thine advice...

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...se, but well Arthur over- came them all, for the most part the days of his life he was ruled much by the counsel of Merlin. So it fell on a time King ... ...ielded him, and besought him as he was a knight and gentleman, to save his life. Thou shalt die, said Sir Gawaine, for slaying of my hounds. I will ma... ... Then Sir Tor bade him yield him. That will I not, said Abelleus, while my life lasteth and the soul is within my body, unless that thou wilt give me ... ... and I kneeled half an hour afore him in the mire for to save my brother’s life, that had done him no damage, but fought with him by adventure of arms... ...wherefore he made great sorrow, and wept passing sore, and said, Alas! her life might I have saved; but I was so fierce in my quest, therefore I would... ...aid Queen Guenever, ye were greatly to blame that ye saved not this lady’s life. Madam, said Pellinore, ye were greatly to blame an ye would not save ... ...am, said Pellinore, ye were greatly to blame an ye would not save your own life an ye might, but, save your pleasure, I was so furious in my quest tha... ...st that I would not abide, and that repenteth me, and shall the days of my life. Truly, said Merlin, ye ought sore to repent it, for that lady was you...

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...Excerpt: I am Buffalo Bill?s horse. I have spent my life under his saddle -- with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his clothes; and there is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. He is ov...

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...OLDIER BOY PRIVATELY TO HIMSELF I am Buffalo Bill’s horse. I have spent my life under his saddle — with him in it, too, and he is good for two hun ... ...n thing about a word, and that one’s up to standard. She spent her military life as colonel of the T enth Dragoons, and saw a deal of rough service —... ...onger than my arm, and I never had such a good time in an Indian camp in my life, and I learned a lot of words of the language, and next day BB took ... ...e. The children are devoted to Cathy, for she has turned their dull frontier life into a sort of continuous festival; also they know her for a stanch ... ..., but now that this blossoming vine has wound itself about me and become the life of my life, it is very different. As a furnisher of busi ness for m... ... “Yes, perfectly right. Mongrel has heard them planning. They are after BB’s life, for running them out of Medicine Bow and taking their stolen horses... ...ep a sharp lookout! He never does; he despises them, and all their kind. His life is always being threatened, and so it has come to be monotonous.” “D... ...ould, and protected me from the wolves; and if he got a chance he kicked the life out of some of them — for you know he would, BB.’ The sergeant said,... ... horse,’ said BB; ‘he’s the grandest horse that ever was! and has saved your life, Lieutenant General Alison, and shall protect it the rest of his lif...

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...ike water, there was a frenzy of money-spending. Though the necessities of life were in abundance, still the people struggled in frenzy for cheese, sw... ...oes he contrive for? What does he talk for?—” “For all the purposes of his life,” replied the landlady. “Ay, an’ what’s the purpose of his life?” insi... ...hat’s the purpose of his life?” insisted Aaron Sisson. “The purpose of his life,” repeated the landlady, at a loss. “I should think he knows that best... ..., swelling and sinking. The effect was strange. And thus the whole private life of the street was threaded in lights. There was a sense of indecent ex... ... a mystery. I’m glad I’m not entangled in it.” “Y es, to make some woman’s life a misery.—I’m sure it was death to live with him, he seemed to kill ev... ...ith him? She didn’t know if she wanted to or not: and she couldn’t for her life find out. She was in that nervous state when desire seems to evaporate... ... that,” she said. “Why, you must feel a whole difference. It’s a whole new life.” He smiled, as if he were laughing at her silently. She flushed. “But... ... red carpet, palms green against cream-and-gilt walls, small whirlpools of life at the open, dark doorways, men in opera hats steering decisively abou... ... of a work- ing-man, one of the common people, the fons et origo of modern life. Jim was talking rather vaguely about Labour and Robert Smillie, and B...

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...Henry. My Lord of Warwick, heare but one word, 192 Let me for this my life time reigne as King. 193 Plant. Confirme the Crowne to me and... ... Before I would haue granted to that Act. 277 But thou preferr’st thy Life, before thine Honor. 278 And seeing thou do’st, I here diuorce my... ...l King Henry be dead. 321 Richard. Your Right depends not on his life, or death. 322 Edward. Now you are Heire, therefore enioy it ... ... Clifford. 403 Clifford. Chaplaine away, thy Priesthood saues thy life. 404 As for the Brat of this accursed Duke, 405 Whose Father... ...know, they haue demean’d themselues 465 Like men borne to Renowne, by Life or Death. 466 Three times did Richard make a Lane to me, 467 ... ...d not shunne their furie, 483 The Sands are numbred, that makes vp my Life, 484 Here must I stay, and here my Life must end. 485 Enter ... ...fford, for a thousand causes 512 I would prolong a while the Traytors Life: 513 Wrath makes him deafe; speake thou Northumberland. 514 ... ...es Glory, 567 And rob his Temples of the Diademe, 568 Now in his Life, against your holy Oath? 569 Oh ’tis a fault too too vnpardonable... ...eart, wrapt in a Womans Hide, [o6v 604 How could’st thou drayne the Life- blood of the Child, 605 To bid the Father wipe his eyes withall,...

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...y, blood- stained silliness. It is the plain duty of every man to give his life and all that he has if by so doing he may help to end it. I hate Germa... ...ring; an effort to remove German militarism 8 War and the Future from the life and regions it has invaded, and to bank it in and discredit and enfeeb... ...rvations, Hawthorne’s Note Book. It was to be the story of a man who found life dull and his circum- stances altogether mediocre. He had loved his wif... ...t now after all she seemed to be a very ordinary human being. He had begun life with high hopes—and life was commonplace. He was to grow fretful and r... ... common; it is clear that not one of them has spent ten minutes in all his life in thinking of himself as a Personage or Great Man. They all have the ... ...rtain things to him about the difference in com- plexity between political life in Great Britain and the colo- nies, that he was manifestly totally ca... ...f a pack of cards and a wine flask on some newly-made graves. The ordinary life was a very obstinate thing…. He talked of the courage of modern men. H... ...re,” he said. I think that might well become an historical phrase. For the life of the Effigy is a series of historical incidents. 6 6 6 6 6 Manifestl... ...an of letters. And at the high positions they are too used to the vertical life to understand the secret feelings of the visitor from the horizontal. ...

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...to his lodging which is in a mountain, for to ravish and lie by her to her life’s end, and many people followed her, more than five hundred, but all t... ...d him, saying in this wise: He that all the world wieldeth give thee short life and shameful death; and the devil have thy soul; why hast thou murdere... ...ame to his breast. And then the emperor fell down dead and there ended his life. And when it was known that the emperor was slain, anon all the Romans... ...ok the duke and sent him to Dover, there for to abide prisoner term of his life, and assigned certain rents for the dower of the duch- ess and for her... ... and the Port of Tremble, and to give him yearly a million of gold all his lifetime. Then he rideth into Tuscany, and winneth towns and castles, and w... ... Lorraine; and he thanked him, and said he would serve him the days of his life; and after made dukes and earls, and made every man rich. Then after t...

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...s, Ally Sloper’s Half-holiday, cigarettes, and all the con- comitants of a life of pleasure and enlightenment. All of this without hindrance to his li... ...of their new landlord, and of their old landlord, and of bills and claims. Life presented itself for the first time as a hopeless fight against fate …... ...he Air ing in the sun, pleasure-boats went to and fro; the common abundant life of the time, unsuspicious of all dangers that gathered darkly against ... ...t and waistcoat—perhaps with some idea of presently having to swim for his life—and his black hair was extraordinarily dis- ordered. “Will all you peo... ...roduced by the million in every country of the world. He had lived all his life in narrow streets, and be- tween mean houses he could not look over, a... ...ight descend among he knew not what foreign people. “It’s the chance of my life!” he said. It became more and more manifest to him that it wasn’t. “Di... ...his costume with the gravity of a man who has taken an irrevocable step in life, buttoned up his jacket, cast the white sheet of the Desert Dervish on... ...and white cords. Afterwards he made a sort of inventory of the provisions. Life in the high air was giving him an appalling appetite, and it seemed to... ...of change in the pace, scope, materials, scale, and possibilities of human life that then occurred, the old bound- aries, the old seclusions and separ...

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...from town. How green the grass is all about! We might as well sit down. —Ah, life, what is it but a flower? Why must true lovers sigh? 30 Be kind, have... ...r use Than strangling in a string. 20 A. E. HOUSMAN 9 And sharp the link of life will snap, And dead on air will stand Heels that held up as straight... ...e there. There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: 15 Then ’twas the Roman,... ...XXXII FROM far, from eve and morning And yon twelve winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I. 26 A Shropshire Lad Now—for a br...

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...IM TO LONDON. ............................................................................................ 139 BOOK II CONTAINS MR. ESMOND?S MILITARY LIFE, AND OTHER MATTERS APPERTAINING TO THE ESMOND FAMILY.....................................................................................153 CHAPTER I I AM IN PRISON, AND VISITED, BUT NOT CONSOLED THERE. ...................

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.................................. 139 BOOK II CONTAINS MR. ESMOND’S MILITARY LIFE, AND OTHER MATTERS APPER- TAINING TO THE ESMOND FAMILY................... ...his house of Castlewood, and here permanently settled. After a long stormy life in England, he passed the remainder of his many years in peace and hon... ...-citizens, how inexpressibly dear to his family, I need not say. His whole life was a benefit to all who were connected with him. He gave the best exa... ...ver. 8 Henry Esmond From that day, until the last of his dear and honored life, it was my delight and consolation to remain with him as his com- fort... ...ity failed him. And it is since I knew him entirely—for during my mother’s life he never quite opened himself to me—since I knew the value and splendo... ...come to understand and pardon what, I own, used to anger me in my mother’s lifetime, her jealousy respecting her husband’s love. ’Twas a gift so preci... ... expected to have, and his adventures in Europe far more exciting than his life in this country, which was passed in the tranquil offices of love and ... ...according to the laws of his Court-marshal, persisting in enacting through life the part of Hero; and, divested of poetry, this was but a little wrink... ...areers as he traces the course of them. I have seen too much of success in life to take off my hat and huzzah to it as it passes in its gilt coach: an...

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...n that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman?s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, ?nosee- ems,? make travelling in the woods almost impossible; but now their...

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...er and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman’s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in the summer m... ...uses among the weather stained ones, as if the tribe had still a design upon life; but generally they have a very shabby, forlorn, and cheerless look,... ...ads, even Indian homesteads, but instead of home or abroad steads, for their life is domi aut militiæ, at home or at war, or now rather venatus, that ... ...ually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and r... ...ce upon slice, with tea or water, as the case may 2 Springer, in his “Forest Life” (1851), says that they first remove the leaves and turf from the spo... ...est, and toward the Aroostook valley on the northeast; and imagine what wild life was stirring in its midst. Here was quite a field of corn for this re... ...itants of an old settled country, on farms all run out and gone to seed with life everlasting, in the towns about Boston, even on the high road in Con... ...y in the drear and boughy wilderness, plainly not nervous about his solitary life, nor afraid to hear the echoes of his voice there. We remembered als... ...y our own adventure, and was inspired by the experience of a similar kind of life, — for the rapids were ever near, and the daylight long past; the wo...

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...Excerpt: The law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once...

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...worthy BY RUDYARD KIPLING T HE LAW, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and ... ...ire into which he had penetrated, and of adventures in which he risked his life for a few days’ food. “If India was filled with men like you and me, n... ...of exposure, but I had never met any of the caste before. They lead a hard life, and generally die with great suddenness. The Native States have a who... ...siness with divers Kings, and in eight days passed through many changes of life. Sometimes I wore dress-clothes and consorted with Princes and Politic... ... unless we was in earnest? We have kept away from the two things that make life worth having.” “You won’t enjoy your lives much longer if you are goin... ...n eyebrows that met over the nose in an inch-broad black band, but for the life of me I could not tell where. “I don’t know you,” I said, handing him ... ...’ve brought you to this, Peachey,’ says he. ‘Brought you out of your happy life to be killed in Kafiristan, where you was late Commander- in-Chief of ...

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...ed a great reputation for valor in the field and for wickedness in private life. At the siege of T arragona it lost its celebrated hero, Bianchi, the ... ...shop and this living-room, so fine in color and in its tone of patriarchal life, was a dark staircase leading to a ware-room where the light, carefull... ...as gifted with a certain patriarchal eloquence, in keeping with his simple life and customs, his tale will be im- proved by abridgment. At the period ... ...e to Tarragona, driven from 12 Juana V enice at the time of its fall. The life of this woman had been a tissue of romantic adventures and strange vic... ..., palaces, pictures, journeys (like those of Catherine II.); in short, the life of a queen, despotic in her caprices and obeyed, often beyond her own ... ...elf to him as a dog to its master, sharing the discomforts of the military life, which indeed she comforted, as content under the roof of a garret as ... ...ese reli- gious beliefs cast into that heart like diamonds into mire, this life begun, and ended, in a hospital, these gambling chances transferred to... ...de, the blood of the Maranas spoke; the courtesan returned to her reckless life, a thought the more within her heart. At last she loved, with the viol... ...ad a daugh- ter, a daughter to save, a daughter for whom to desire a noble life and the chastity she had not. Henceforth, happy or not happy, opulent ...

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...by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting to choose a companion for life. In spite of the blandishments of a rich but revolutionary parvenu, who valued the alliance at a high figure, he married Mademoiselle de Kergarouet, without a fortune, but belonging to one of the oldest families in Britt...

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...obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting to choose a compan- ion for life. In spite of the blandishments of a rich but revo- lutionary parvenu, ... ... when her family was loaded with the favors of fortune, the enchantment of life contin- ued. The luxury of Paris seemed to her just as natural as a we... ...s of flattery, sincere or false, and the festivities and vanities of court life. Like most spoiled children, she tyrannized over those who loved her, ... ...plain to his daughter the more important pages of the mys- terious book of life. Vain effort! He had to lament his daughter’s capricious indocility an... ...ng of happiness is in ourselves, she demanded it of the circum- stances of life. She would have fled to the ends of the earth to escape a marriage suc... ...s, they have also 16 The Ball at Sceaux a mania for composing a scheme of life, while casting for themselves a brilliant horoscope; their magic consi... ...r or no, the future lover must correspond. After some little experience of life, and the serious reflections that come with years, by dint of seeing t... ...s you long for—and this fastidiousness may cost you the best years of your life— your attractions might work a miracle, for men often marry for love i... ... induce him to divulge so impor- tant a secret. The old man, who spent his life in playing off these scenes on his niece, often paying for them with a...