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...w way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have aban- doned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my h... ...ld sit in the shop of Donato del Corno gossip- ing curiously among vicious company, or pace the lonely woods of his estate, book in hand, full of bitt... ...off his peasant clothes cov- ered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on th... ... 2 2 In Machiavelli’s outlook the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of... ...ver the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of Works. Then there were also School Boards; I was alre... ...bitious area with an air of appetite was walled in by a Bromstead Cemetery Company, and planted with suitably high-minded and sor- rowful varieties of... ...t houses with the utmost gusto, invested the proceeds and my father’s life insurance money, and got us into a small villa at Penge within sight of tha... ...now when I distressed her. Chiefly I was aware of my mother as rather dull company, as a mind thorny with irrational con- clusions and incapable of ex... ...xthly, he and several associated firms had organised a simple and generous insurance scheme against lead-poisoning risks. Seventhly, he never wearied ...

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...d fumbled for sleep as for a drug. He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adven-... ...being seen in bulgy corsets. She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun. She... ...were wondering what we’d do with them?” “Good Lord! Did you ever in all my life know me to wear the coat of one suit and the pants of another? What do... ...led. Verona had for six months been filing-clerk at the Gruensberg Leather Company offices, with a prospect of becoming secretary to Mr. Gruensberg an... ...e employment-manager and public- ity-counsel of the Zenith Street Traction Company. He could, on ten hours’ notice, appear before the board of alderme... ... old Mat Penniman, general utility man, collector of rents and salesman of insurance—bro- ken, silent, gray; a mystery, reputed to have been a “crack”... ...am dead sure there will be no diffi- culty in getting him to pay for title insurance, so now for heaven’s sake let’s get busy—no, make that: so now le... ...assessment and there will be no difficulty in getting him to pay for title insurance. So let’s go! Yours sincerely, As he read and signed it,... ...ough he had been born in the village of Catawba, Babbitt had risen to that metropolitan social plane on which hosts have as many as four people at din...

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... ness of a Chicago evening at the end of February. The Italian Grand Opera Company gave one of the most popular pieces of its repertoire on that parti... ...cried. “Isn’t it too bad. I can’t imagine why they don’t come.” Page, more metropolitan, her keenness of appreciation a little lost by two years of ci... ...ropolitan, her keenness of appreciation a little lost by two years of city life and fashionable school- ing, tried to reassure her. “You won’t lose mu... ...he ought to. Corn is worth that.” “Never saw such a call for margins in my life. Some of the houses called eight cents.” Page turned to Mrs. Wessels: ... ...pro- moters sought his friendship, his name on the board of directors of a company was an all-sufficing endorsement; in a word, a “strong” man. “I can... ... talking. The man will hate the very sound of her name all the rest of his life.” Then all at once she uttered a joyful exclamation: “At last, at last... ...rd any mail that comes for you to this address, and I sent word to the gas company to 40 The Pit have your gas turned on—” “Oh, that’s good,” said La... ...or Jadwin to sell out his holdings. His “long line” was a fearful expense, insurance and storage charges were eating rapidly into the profits. He must...

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...illtop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fl... ...ack sliding waters. Carol’s family were self-sufficient in their inventive life, with Christmas a rite full of surprises and tenderness, and “dressing... ...I can’t stand it, this breaking up after four years! The happiest years of life.” She believed it. “Oh, I know! To think that in just a few days we’ll... ...and friend of Carol’s sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company. They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-cof- fee lap sup... ... of Carol’s sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company. They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-cof- fee lap suppers, and ... ...d meet Doc Kennicott—Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. He does all our insurance-examining up in that neck of the woods, and they do say he’s some... ...a breeze from the open door: “All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock. Enfeebles a workman’s in... ...chens. Certainly it ought to have a clear window, so that they can see the metropolitan life go by. Some day I’m going to make a better rest-room—a cl... ...the first really smart woman I’ve seen in a year!” Carol exulted. She felt metropolitan. But as she followed Kennicott to the elevator the coat- check...

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...ind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

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...to reveal cracks which, from either the reverberations of former blows in life or what was still alive underneath and sought escape, appeared in the... .... Before he began to hobble – the reason he stumbled one day and lost his life in that hit and run accident - he was quite vibrant in his way. Now th... ...m as though pleasure were the predominant and most substantive part of her life, a treat of recompense for the vanished concept of family (her mother... ...osisly in inclement time. Even so, they were family, and being in their company, she had been needed in one respect or another. Thus, back then, ... ...ovies down here in the basement and just invite everybody from the Greater Metropolitan Area of Baltimore in for a bit of entertainment and edificati... ...e only job I ever had. It helped buy some medicine for my mother that the insurance would not pay for, furniture that had to be bought after Katrina;... ...ng her. She kept thinking to herself that she should not have signed that insurance policy making him into her beneficiary as his cupidity was now h... ...How peculiar it is to be human--so eager for extension, eager to be in the company of another, all this energy expended to understand him a little; m... ... any worry that a bottle of morphine will be at one’s bedstand , that the insurance will pay for the next hospital visit, that an estranged husband w...

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...early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in...

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...sic in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which shou... ...med as natural to Newland Archer as all the other conventions on which his life was moulded: such as the duty of using two sil- ver-backed brushes wit... ...e, any hint of the frailty which had so nearly marred that unhappy being’s life, and had disarranged his own plans for a whole winter. How this miracl... ...at was somehow justified by the extreme decency and dignity of her private life. Mr. Manson Mingott had died when she was only twenty-eight, and had “... ...f haste or embarrassment the drawing-room in which New Y ork’s most chosen company was somewhat awfully assembled. In the middle of the room she pause... ...“It seems they’re going to stay in New Y ork. I believe he’s going into an insurance business, or something. They’re look- ing about for a small house... ...ries of the queer wilderness of cast-iron and encaustic tiles known as the Metropolitan Mu- seum, they had wandered down a passage to the room where t... ... a big official reception for the inauguration of the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, and the spectacle of those great spaces crowded with t... ...andsomely entertained by him in Buenos Ayres, where he represented a large insurance agency. He and his wife died there in the odour of prosperity; an...

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...PID?S ARROWS ....................................................................................................................... 43 HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.................................................................................................................. 47 WATCHES OF THE NIGHT .....................................................................................

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............................................................ 43 HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.......................................................................... ...ok to her own unclean people savagely, as if to make up the arrears of the life she had stepped out of; and, in a little time, she married a wood-cutt... ...had the satisfaction of know- ing that she had never looked so well in her life. She was a large blonde and, when she chose, carried herself superbly.... ...Kitty fled, now and again, from the stately wooings of Barr-Saggott to the company of young Cubbon, and was scolded by her Mamma in consequence. “But,... ... twice—always with the same deliberation—while a chilly hush fell over the company, and Mrs. Beighton took out her hand- kerchief. Then Kitty shot at ... ... man grows to think that there is no one higher than himself, and that the Metropolitan Board of Works made everything. But in this country, where you... ...in the latter.” I do not quite see what this means, unless it refers to an Insurance Policy . Perhaps it was the Viceroy’s way of saying:— ”Lie low.” ... ...anch, and a sound practical man with a large experience of native loan and insurance work. He could combine the frivolities of ordinary life with his ... ...im next morning to raise a two-thousand rupee loan on a five hundred pound insurance-policy, eighty pounds paid in premiums. He would recognize you, b...

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...ck take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.” —Rabelais. “This whale’s liver was two cartloads.” —S... ...le quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” —Ibid. “History of Life and Death.” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inwa... ... the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will send you to hell.” —Life of Samuel Comstock (The Mutineer), by His Brother, William Comstock. A... ...old joy then. I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord’s policy of insurance. I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness o... ...iberal professions. If a stranger were introduced into any mis- cellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the general opinion of ... ...ybody but himself. Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lea... ... of churches. For by some curious fa- tality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice,... ...icine here; you 312 Moby Dick want to poison us, do ye? Y ou have got out insurances on our lives and want to murder us all, and pocket the proceeds,... ...whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay some- thing extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ll dined at home, and this was only on the evenings when Delphine received company. But by the end of two months, tortured by a fever of impa- tience,... ...he cash in- trusted to his known, and indeed enforced, honesty. Among such company a mistake is paid for by a dagger thrust. To this capital he now ad... ... neigh- bor Monsieur Pillerault. “Pshaw!” said Monsieur Camusot to all the company, for he alone had expressed no astonishment, “it is Contenson, Louc... ...match, and flattered herself she would find a place for her ex-lover in an insurance office. She waited—a day, two days—then a week, two weeks. She th... ... me!” “I brought you in tow from Alencon to Mantes, and from Mantes to the Metropolitan Court,” replied Amelie. “Well, well, be quite easy!—I intend t...

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...it by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publicatio... ... the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvan... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens PREFACE WHAT IS... ...marked and extraordinary manner as one surfeited of High Life and Gracious Company. It has been rumoured, and it is needless to say the rumour origi- ... ...ping curiously in above the shoulders of a dozen loungers. As to this idle company, there they stood, spellbound by the place, and, casting now and th... ...d turned him loose in a spacious room on the two-pair front; where, in the company of certain drawing-boards, parallel rulers, very stiff-legged compa... ...he least regard (but he never had much) for the tailors’, where the newest metropolitan waistcoat patterns were hanging up, which by some strange tran... ...es, the total became enormous. People had been known to apply to effect an insurance on their lives for a thousand pounds, and looking at him, to beg,... ...ll you,’ said Tigg in his ear, ‘how many of ‘em will buy annuities, effect insurances, bring us their money in a hundred shapes and ways, force it upo...

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...R I—AN ISLAND LANDFALL F OR NEARLY TEN YEARS my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voy age, I believed I was com... ...led from San Fran- cisco towards the end of June 1888, visited the eastern islands, and was left early the next year at Honolulu. Hence, lacking coura... ... remain. I began to prepare these pages at sea, on a third cruise, in the trading steamer Janet Nicoll. If more days are granted me, they shall be pas... ...unged. It was a small sound, a great event; my soul went down with these moorings whence no windlass may extract nor any diver fish it up; and I, and ... ...ked there, sitting silent with the rest, for a man of some author- ity, might leap from his hams with an ear-splitting signal, the ship be carried at ... ...Corsican who had years before called him Cochon Sauvage—Cocon Chauvage, as Hoka mis- pronounced it. With people so nice and so touchy, it was scarce t... ...uch is the number and similarity of these is- lands that, even when you have picked one up, you may be none the wiser. The reputation of the place is ... ...ms; here and there, the green wall of wood ran solid for a length of miles; and on the port hand, under the highest grove of trees, a few houses spark... ..., with New Zealand. And even so, even there, the world-enveloping dishonesty of the white man prevented him; his profit melted, his ship returned in d...

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...expected to find him nervous, introspective, to discover that his men- tal life was not at all the result of impressions and sensa- tions that came to... ...hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumultuous life ran like fire from dawn to dark, and from dark to dawn again, primitiv... ...hout fear. Something (to his idea not much) had been done to catch at that life in passing, but its poet had not yet arisen. The few sporadic attempts... ...o there you are, Presley. That’s 16 The Octopus the P . & S. W . Railroad Company of California. I am on my last run now.” “Shameful,” declared Presl... ...onterey to marry the girl by proxy for him. I went with Esteban. We were a company, nearly a hundred men. And De La Cuesta sent a horse for the girl t... ...arried to the girl. On our way back, De La Cuesta rode out to meet us. His company met ours at Agatha dos Palos. Never will I forget De La Cuesta’s fa... ... salesmen, drummers for jewelry firms of San Francisco, commercial agents, insurance men, well- dressed, metropolitan, debo- nair, stood about crackin... ...y firms of San Francisco, commercial agents, insurance men, well- dressed, metropolitan, debo- nair, stood about cracking jokes, or hurried in and out...

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...bstinate sensual old man that you are! I take the boy, and I consecrate my life to the duty of establishing him in his proper rank and station, and th... ...taff only got off by hard running and roaring out that he knew his unclean life would make him taste like pork and thus let the Jew into the trick. My... ...e feast. I had soup, fish, meat, and pastry, and, for the first time in my life, a glass of wine. How they laughed to see me blink and cough after I h... ...d carry me away at a moment’s notice. In the evening I was introduced to a company of gentlemen, who were drinking wine after dinner with my father. T... ...he hall-door was opened. I ran out and caught sight of my aunt Dorothy, in company with old Mr. Bannerbridge. I was kissed and hugged for I know not h... ... was constantly speaking of my father’s magnificence in my presence before company. Allowed to draw on him largely for pocket-money, I main- tained my... ... at the close of the two months. I gained his commendation by shunning the metropolitan Balls, nor did my father press me to appear at them. It was ta... ...ause I love it. A paradox! she says. But we seem to be effecting a kind of insurance on the life of the things we love best by crying them down violen...

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...the great family of Christ. Considering the extreme frailty of an infant’s life during its two earliest years, to delay would often be to dis- inherit... ...we have reason to feel no little perplexity in finding the materials for a life of this transcendent writer so meagre and so few; and amongst them the... ...bted, indeed, whether at this day we arc as accurately acquainted with the life of Shakspeare as with that of Chaucer, though divided from each other ... ...omedians during Shakspeare’s childhood. One or two of the most respectable metropolitan actors were natives of Stratford. These would be well known to... ... was the very occasion of his first resorting to London; or that a leading company of players in the metropolis, one of whom, and a chief one, was his... ...till familiar to the public eye, from its adja- cency to some of the chief metropolitan establishments, and to the English ear possessing a degree of ... ...without cost of his. But on this arose the sugges- tion—Why not execute an insurance of this nature twenty times over? One single insurance pays for t... ... no pretext for wanting more than one funeral on account of one child, any insurances beyond one are in themselves a ground of suspi- cion. Now, if an... ...cion. Now, if any plan were devised for securing the publica- tion of such insurances, the suspicions would travel as fast as the grounds for them. 2d...

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...t and complex, beyond the utmost power of such minds as ours. Every day of life drives that conviction further home. And it is possible to maintain th... ...re are many who do not feel such a need at all, and with these we may part company forthwith; there are, for example, those who profess the artistic t... ...ed religion does supply a trustworthy guide at every fork and labyrinth in life. By my allusion to the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy ... ...ivate judgment has play. No doubt upon certain defined issues of every-day life some religions are absolutely explicit; the Mahomedan religion, for ex... ...elf and his wife and children above the mini- mum standard of comfort, his insurance against premature or accidental death or temporary economic or ph... ...RADFORD, “The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. “Metropolitan Police Office, “New Scotland Yard, “January 28th, 190... ...most urgent kind compels every capable busi- ness manager to sell out to a company and become a “gentle- man” at the very earliest opportunity, the na... ...ization in such areas will lead only to the final tri- umph of the private company. Political efficiency must pre- cede Socialism.* But there can be ...

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...two or three chapters in the parlour aloud. The old lady sees scarcely any company, except the little girls before noticed, each of whom has always a ... ...tion of a trip to some quiet place on the sea-coast, passes the old lady’s life. It has rolled on in the same unvarying and benevolent course for many... ...th aqua-fortis. But all this is nothing to his seditious conduct in public life. He attends every vestry meeting that is held; always opposes the cons... ...separate existence, but to have made up their minds just to winter through life together. They were three long graces in drapery, with the addition, l... ...in Polar harmony among themselves, and, as they sometimes went out, or saw company ‘in a quiet-way’ at home, occasionally icing the neighbours. Three ... ...il they astonished the children who had written them, rather more than the company who read them; sums in compound addition were rehearsed and re-rehe... ...gs and cuffs, who wears his D’Orsay hat so rak- ishly, is ‘Honest Tom, ’ a metropolitan representative; and the large man in the cloak with the white ... ...t, too, was perfectly unaccountable. We discovered the secret at last; the metropolitan Members always dined at home. The rascals! As for giv- ing add... ...ornaments, which, if they were yellow instead of white, might be taken for insurance plates of the Sun Fire-office. There are several of these shops i...

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...two or three chapters in the parlour aloud. The old lady sees scarcely any company, except the little girls before noticed, each of whom has always a ... ...tion of a trip to some quiet place on the sea-coast, passes the old lady’s life. It has rolled on in the same unvarying and benevolent course for many... ...th aqua-fortis. But all this is nothing to his seditious conduct in public life. He attends every vestry meeting that is held; always opposes the cons... ...separate existence, but to have made up their minds just to winter through life together. They were three long graces in drapery, with the addition, l... ...in Polar harmony among themselves, and, as they sometimes went out, or saw company ‘in a quiet-way’ at home, occasionally icing the neighbours. Three ... ...il they astonished the children who had written them, rather more than the company who read them; sums in compound addition were rehearsed and re-rehe... ...gs and cuffs, who wears his D’Orsay hat so rak- ishly, is ‘Honest Tom, ’ a metropolitan representative; and the large man in the cloak with the white ... ...t, too, was perfectly unaccountable. We discovered the secret at last; the metropolitan Members always dined at home. The rascals! As for giv- ing add... ...ornaments, which, if they were yellow instead of white, might be taken for insurance plates of the Sun Fire-office. There are several of these shops i...

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...as I had there witnessed them moving in ghostly silence; this duel between life and death narrowing itself to a point of such exquisite evanescence as... ...s, had read with religious fidelity every word of this tale, so thoroughly life-like, surrendering her perfect faith and her loving sympathy to the di... ...ndled; begged me to take back the book; and never again, to the end of her life, could endure to look into the book, or to be reminded of that crimina... ... my mother’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that count... ...ven more violently to the river Thames. As a tidal river, even: beyond the metropolitan bridges, the Thames undoubtedly does much towards cleansing th... ...ally be rated very highly, namely, a chancery lawsuit, with the East India Company for defen- dant. However, if the company is a potent antagonist, th... ...t is an eligible one, that, in the event of losing the suit, the honorable company is solvent; and such an event, after some nine or ten years’ delay,... ... B. vi.), had “from the armory of God been given him tempered so,” that no insurance office, traf- ficking in life-annuities, would have ventured to l... ...purposes of national grandeur, at the fiat of one coarse barbarian. As the metropolitan home of the Greek church, she could not disown a maternal inte...

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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. ...

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...OF ANY IMPORTANCE COMEDY is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men a... ...ssured that he had given his rela- tive and friend a taste for a soldier’s life. Y oung Sir Willoughby was fond of talking of his “military namesake a... ...oon parading between showers on the stately garden terrace of the Hall, in company with his affi- anced, the beautiful and dashing Constantia Durham, ... .... Under this light he danced, and you may consider the effect of it on his company. He had received the domestic education of a prince. Little princes... ...e Egoist was at either hand of him; the only two that had ever, apart from metropolitan conquests, not to be recited, touched his emotions. Susceptibl... ...laves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself. His metropolitan experiences did not answer to his liking the particular questi... ... the hard-binding East and melts the air and brings out new colours, makes life flow; and her thoughts recurred in won- derment to the behaviour of Co... ...You like her?” “In love with her! I can imagine life-long amusement in her company. Attend to my advice: prize the porcelain and play with the rogue.”... ...o credit the volatil- ity in order, as far as he could, to effect the soul-insurance of his bride, that he might hold the security of the policy. The ...

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...34 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ...............................................................

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....................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ......................................................................... ... and only shut out by an accident; an accident which could not happen to a metropolitan journal, but which hap pens easily to a poor little village r... ...h their beguiling fanta sies—oh yes, and how soon and how easily our dram life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together tha... ...f deportment which compelled the admiration and likewise the wonder of the company. All noticed it and all commented upon it, but none was able to div... ...wdling around in their private yacht. Six days of sordid and plodding fact life at home on the ragged edge of Lakeside and straitened means, the sev ... ...s he doing? Polluting himself with a gay and dissipated secret life in the company of other fast bloods, multimillionaires in money and pau pers in c... ...e late coming for their ships, the Admiral always burned them, so that the insurance money should not be lost. At last this fine old tar was cut down ... ...OF LYING IN BED THE MAN IN THE TICKET OFFICE SAID: “Have an accident insurance ticket, also?” “No,” I said, after studying the matter over a lit... ... for tomor row.” The man looked puzzled. He said: “But it is for accident insurance, and if you are going to travel by rail—” “If I am going to trave...

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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... ...ar and channel; and they had all a look of watchfulness that made them one company. The smell of rock-waters and roots of herb and moss grew keen; air... ...ves you a lodging in his house, and food enough, we’ll hope. You won’t see company or much of him.’ ‘I cannot exist without being loved. I do not care... ... Woodseer. ‘ And here, Corby! tell the countess I have a friend to bear me company, and there is to be an extra bedroom secured at her hotel. That swi... ...t be excited in them by (among other matters left to the luck of events) a metropolitan play upon the Saxon tongue, hard of understanding to the leeky... ...e and England’s wealthiest noble- man struck a match to terrorize the Fire Insurance of Smithfield. That meteoric, intractable, perhaps wicked, but po...

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...ny Trollope CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to ... ...llope absurdities which our near relatives had adopted into their domestic life. All that she told was worth the telling, and the telling, if done suc... ...against the excellence of their institutions and the grace of their social life. Of this at any rate I can assure them, in sober earnestness, that I a... ...iver at Montreal to the same point, viz., Island Pond. And the Grand Trunk Company have made it from Detroit to Montreal, crossing the river there wit... ...anch connecting the main line with Quebec and Riviere du Loup. This latter company is now incorporated with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic, but has onl... ... “ Elevating, and canal freight to New York 19 “ Transfer in New York and insurance 3 “ Ocean freight 23 “ Cost of a bushel of Indian-corn at Live... ...that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that most of our free metropolitan schools are still necessarily con- fined. You and I, reader, w... ...omposed of two old provinces, of which Hartford and New Haven were the two metropolitan towns. Indeed, there was a third colony, called Saybrook, whic... ... and farms; how there are thirty churches in Lowell, a library, banks, and insurance office,; how there is a cemetery, and a park; and how everything ...

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