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...no means nec- essary that a man should ask questions on the subject. Opin- ion was expressed so freely that no such asking was required; and opinion i... ...oor was opened; for of course she had seen the arrival of the fly from the window. ‘The gentleman had better come with us if he’ll be so kind,’ said T... ...ive to drive a poor man like that beyond his wits?’ Then Mr Soames and the manager of the bank showed what inquiry had been made as soon as the cheque... ...retched out his hand without a word, and taking the letter with him to the window, read it very slowly. When he had made himself master of its content... ...al, and cooled himself, and looked up at the pleas- ant plate-glass in the windows of the house of his friend the dean, and told himself how, in their... ...me ac- quainted. ‘Exactly,’ said the bishop. ‘And I am expressing my opin- ion.’ Mr Crawley, who understood fighting, did not think the time had yet c... ...uld admit that.’ ‘One would perhaps let that pass without asking her opin- ion at all.’ ‘She has acknowledged it to me, twenty times. But he is very g... ...e by rummaging about, as I always call it. There have been many theatrical managers, you know, Mr Harding, who have usually made up the pieces accordi...

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...joy the thought of remaining behind the curtain unseen, like the ingenious manager of Punch and his wife Joan, and enjoying the astonishment and conje... ...e of Lammermoor “That’s home as well as true, Master,” replied his compan- ion; “but, by your leave, you have nursed in your bosom one great goodly sn... ...orn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and stanchelled windows which appeared at irregular heights and distances in the walls of t... ...ape and alive, save that I am half dead with cold.” The light at the upper window disappeared, and glancing from loophole to loophole in slow successi... ...the state of Caleb’s larder; and if there had been shutters to that grated window, or a curtain to the bed, I should think it, upon the whole, an impr... ...ide of the way. “If you, Mr. Lockhard,” said the old butler to his compan- ion, “will be pleased to step to the change-house where that light comes fr... ... full of suspi- cion and murmuring, assembled round him to learn the opin- ion of the surgeon. In the mean while, Lady Ashton, her husband, and their ...

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...bracelet on her finely turned finger and wrist, and holding them towards the window on a level with her eyes. All the while her thought was trying to ju... ... occupation, simply leaned her elbow on an open book and looked out of the window at the great cedar silvered with the damp. She herself had taken up ... ... his marrying my niece,” said Mr. Brooke, much relieved to see through the window that Celia was coming in. “Why not?” said Mrs. Cadwallader, with a s... ...hichely, a middle aged bachelor and coursing celebrity, who had a complex ion something like an Easter egg, a few hairs carefully arranged, and a car... ...ure of passions was excited in Fred—a mad desire to thrash Horrock’s opin ion into utterance, restrained by anxiety to retain the advantage of his fr... ...d sent her down with the still more unpleasant task of telling them so. As manager of the household she felt bound to ask them in good provincial fash... ...like the rest of us, felt how soothing it would have been to have a co pan ion who would never find it out. This sore susceptibility in relation to Dor... ...it die with thee.” —Ecclesiasticus. M r. Bulstrode was still seated in his manager’s room at the Bank, about three o’clock of the same day on which he...

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... let on her finely turned finger and wrist, and holding them to- wards the window on a level with her eyes. All the while her thought was trying to ju... ... occupation, simply leaned her elbow on an open book and looked out of the window at the great cedar silvered with the damp. She herself had taken up ... ... his marrying my niece,” said Mr. Brooke, much relieved to see through the window that Celia was coming in. “Why not?” said Mrs. Cadwallader, with a s... ...ure Brooke; and I have reminded her that her friends had a very poor opin- ion of the match she made when she married me.” “But look at Casaubon,” sai... ...g clergyman’s alleged greatness of soul, or Sir James Chettam’s poor opin- ion of his rival’s legs,—from Mr. Brooke’s failure to elicit a companion’s ... ...be called an ugly thing in contrast with that lovely creature your compan- ion, is apt to produce some effect beyond a sense of fine ve- racity and fi... ...d sent her down with the still more unpleasant task of telling them so. As manager of the household she felt bound to ask them in good provincial fash... ...it die with thee.” —Ecclesiasticus. MR. BULSTRODE WA S still seated in his manager’s room at the Bank, about three o’clock of the same day on which he...

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... of them me- chanically as he spoke, drawing the painted hide, cloak-fash- ion, about him. “Now will I tell the truth, Bukta,” he said, leaning forwar... ...d next morning. Not a door in the house was true on its hinges. The little windows, fifteen feet up, were darkened with wasp-nests, and lizards hunted... ...r. A felt-covered water-bottle hung in the draught of one of the shuttered windows; a tea-set of Russian china, packed in a wadded basket, stood on th... ...and milk- ing goats; but from time to time he would stroll up to William’s window, and murmur: “Good enough, isn’t it?” and William would answer with ... ...rtin down to the village,” said the mother, filling in gaps. Like all good managers, the mother had her one weakness— a mania for little strategies th...

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...Thackeray ’Twas noon in Chepe. The ware-rooms were thronged. The flaunting windows of the mercers attracted many a purchaser: the glittering panes beh... ... lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The poor slave had toiled, died perhaps, to produce yon pyramid of ... ...n with their dulness, are called Clubs no doubt; those who yawn from a bay-window in St. James’s Street, at a half-score of other dandies gaping from ... ...p off every stick of my furniture. ‘Wardrobe & furniture of a man of fash- ion.’ What an adwertisement George Robins DID make of it; and what a crowd ... ... as Rowena, that vapid, flaxen-headed creature, who is, in my humble opin- ion, unworthy of Ivanhoe, and unworthy of her place as hero- 258 Thackeray... ...rters of an hour which they allow for the entertainment of us men of fash- ion on the stage, before the curtain draws up for the bally, while the ladi... ...’s-Or- phans’ Home;” Lady de Sudley was the great projector of it; and the manager and chaplain, the excellent and Reverend Sidney Slopper. His salary...

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...Mogul’ s Company,” as Fielding had called his troop, and indirectly to its manager’s career as a playwright. He did indeed write a few pieces in futur... ...ing perceived, he had studied a great good book which lay open in the hall window, where he had read, “as how the devil carried away half a church in ... ... some gentleman or lady hurt. As soon as the wench had informed him at his window that it was a poor foot-passenger who had been stripped of all he ha... ...es; and that he would be obliged to him if he would let him know his opin- ion of his patient’s case above-stairs.”—“Sir,” says the doc- tor, “his cas... ...l sagacity had possessed himself of the door, he most unhappily forgot the window. The thief, who played on the other side, no sooner per- ceived this... ... to which he had very particular obligations), but, according to the opin- ion of some very sagacious critics, hawked them all sepa- rately, deliverin... ... her mistress and blame her master) had not formerly been of another opin- ion.” “I don’t know,” replied she, “what I might once think; but now I am c... ...hen it came into rehearsal, he informed me he had received orders from the managers to return me the play again, for that they could not possibly act ...

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...ottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with... ... was chiefly on one of these hills, and formed a pleasant view from the cottage windows. The prospect in front was more extensive; it commanded the who... ...ounded in beautiful walks. The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their s... ...ther do any thing in the world than be thought so by a person whose good opin ion is so well worth having as yours. And I am sure I should not have t... ...em in an instant in their parsonage house; saw in Lucy, the active, contriving manager, uniting at once a desire of smart appearance, with the utmost ... ...or. It would be needless to say, that the gentlemen advanced in the good opin ion of each other, as they advanced in each other’s acquaintance, for i...

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... statesman, every social orga- nizer, every philanthropist, every business manager, every man who lifts his head for a moment from the mean pursuit of... ...orners, go droning by, spitting fire from their overhead wires; great shop windows display a multitudinous variety of ob- 118 Mankind in the Making j... ...e social pressure of the most urgent kind compels every capable busi- ness manager to sell out to a company and become a “gentle- man” at the very ear... ...ing together of the populations that is going on, the fash- 129 H G Wells ion and facilities for travel, the production of the radii from the trading... ...d by that eminent educationist, Mr. Squeers, and the sequel to spell- ing “window” was always to “go and clean one.” The science in each course in tho... ...here permissible to the grow- ing youth and “young person.” So far as shop windows, book- stalls, and hoardings go, so far as all general publicity go... ...d to several other sources of sugges- tion would not be impossible. If the manager of a theatre saw fit to produce “adult” matter without excluding pe...

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...at a maid, hard by the place where I then was, had thrown herself out of a window to avoid being forced by a common soldier who was quartered in the h... ...entices when we come to it. There have, an- ciently, been men so excellent managers of their time that they have tried even in death itself to relish ... ...on that age natu- rally brings both upon body and mind, which, in my opin- ion, is equal, if indeed the soul has not more than half, has lost the repu... ...ersonal defor- mity, a permanent and incorrigible defect, and in the opin- ion of us French, who are great admirers of beauty, an im- portant prejudic... ...or this, that Numa and Sertorius, to possess their men with a better opin- ion of them, fed them with this foppery; one, that the nymph Egeria, the ot... ... is sufficient for executions, whether of less or greater weight. The best managers are those who can 200 Book the Second worst give account how they... ...esolved that they should throw them- selves headlong into the sea out of a window that overlooked it, and that she might maintain to the last the loya...

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... different hands employed in prepar- ing his bread and his beer, the glass window which lets in the heat and the light, and keeps out the wind and the... ... their marriages are generally more fruitful than those of people of fash- ion, a smaller proportion of their children arrive at maturity. In foundlin... ...its manu- factures, and from those which consume them. The people of fash- ion in Sicily are clothed in silks made in other countries, from the materi... ...uence of their considering her colonies as provinces subject to her domin- ion, Great Britain has, upon different occasions, laid out upon their defen... ...r at a place where nobody passes, or merely to embellish the view from the windows of a neighbouring palace; things which sometimes happen in coun- tr... ...ighty thousand pounds. The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people’s money than of their own, it cannot well b... ...tax of two shillings upon every dwelling-house inhabited. A house with ten windows to pay four shillings more. A house with twenty windows and upwards...

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...ich stand in the centre of the village of Chaldicotes; but to the rear the windows open upon four different vistas, which run down through the forest:... ...the year, was now alive in all its parts. There were lights in many of the windows, and a noise of voices came from the stables and servants were movi... ... from a small wicket to the front door. The path ran near the drawing-room window, and she was just in time to catch a glimpse of the last fold of a p... ...en taken to one of them he felt tolerably certain. He would explain to the manager his conviction that he would have to make good the amount, his inab... ... he went over to Barchester, and called there on a certain Mr Forrest, the manager of one of the banks, with whom he as ac- quainted; and with many in... ...whom he as ac- quainted; and with many injunctions as to secrecy told this manager the whole of his story. At first he concealed the name of his frien... ...o us, ’ said Fanny. ‘I am sure she is; she must be a very pleasant compan- ion to you, and so useful about the children; but—’ And then Lady Lufton pa... ...rs Gresham was this: that if the incense now offered on the altar of Fash- ion were accepted, Miss Dunstable would at once abandon the pomp and vaniti... ...ce was to be carried to its completion. She still, however, held her opin- ion—whether correctly or not who shall say?—that the young lord had intende...