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...the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest...

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...ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been unde... ...of for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest. In 181... ...sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest. In 1819, how- ever, the time when this drama opens, there was an almost penniless young girl among ... ...ons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in ... ...on the two widows went shopping together—they purchased a hat adorned with os- trich feathers and a cap at the Palais Royal, and the Countess took her... ...he most, to be put into the Museum of Arts and Crafts, among the automatic machines, and labeled La Fayette; while the prince at whom everybody flings... ... Even now it was clear to him that, once involved in this intricate social machinery, he must attach himself to a spoke of the wheel that was to turn ...

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...y that he had been sitting with his nether extremities in some complicated machinery, a threshing-machine, say, or one of those hay-making furies. But... ...em waits the jest of the unexpected treadle. You try at least to walk your machine in an easy manner, and whack!—you are rubbing your shin. So out of ... ...rlock is presently explaining, by the help of the minor injuries, that the machine ridden is an old-fashioned affair with a fork instead of the diamon... ...n 8 The Wheels of Chance hand. The assistant is dreaming of the delicious time—only four hours off now—when he will resume the tale of his bruises an... ...nging.” The shop-walker brings up parallel to the counter. “Any particular time when you want your holidays?” he asks. Hoopdriver pulls at his skimpy ... ...ampot.” “I’m getting fairly safe upon it now,” he told Miss Howe. At other times Hoopdriver might have further resented the satirical efforts of the a... ...ld though. Luckily. We got along very well in the old days.—But there’s no os- triches on that farm now.” He had a diamond mine in his head, just at t...

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...th more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely... ...omes to our aid. It is, after all, a blessing that, in these revolutionary times, there should be one country where abstract Thought can still take sh... ...ecognition even that we have no such Philosophy, stands here for the first time published in our language. What English intellect could have chosen su... ... the harangue, he gurgled out his pursy chuckle of a cough- laugh (for the machinery of laughter took some time to get in motion, and seemed crank and... ...ok back on it; for my whole Universe, physical and spiritual, was as yet a Machine! However, such a con- scious, recognized groundplan, the truest I h... ...or Industry, of hand or of head, are the Fleshly Clothes, the muscular and os- seous Tissues (lying under such skin), whereby Society stands and works... ...ce here. Into the Hofrath’s Institute, with its extraordinary schemes, and machinery of Corresponding Boards and the like, we shall not so much as gla...

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...atesmanship. But things that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’s time have come near to one another; it is no simple story of white passions... ... popular, is still all human and earthly, a fallen brother—and at the same time that nobly dressed and nobly dreaming writer at the desk. That vision ... ...but a Prince it had to be. Before I saw clearly the differences of our own time I searched my mind for the modern equivalent of a Prince. At various t... ...th and early manhood have given place now to more scientific and efficient machinery. When I was a boy, Bromstead, which is now a borough, was ruled b... ...reluctantly agreed to stimulate them by money payments. The State set up a machinery of exami- nation both in Science and Art and for the elementary s... ... was destined to alter the scale of every human affair. That something was machinery and a vague energetic dis- position to improve material things. I... ...d for me to marry without the scandalous and ugly publicity, the taint and os- tracism that follow such a readjustment. We went on to the whole perple...

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...d to learn the social material of an epoch which they will call the “olden time.” The picturesque “coucous” which stood on the Place de la Concorde, e... ...uish it from that of the Grandes Messageries of the rue Montmartre. At the time of which we write, the T ouchard success was stimulating speculators. ... ...led the “Lion d’Argent.” The proprietor of the estab- lishment, which from time immemorial had lodged coach- men and coaches, drove himself for the gr... ...t and familiarity. “Yes, Pierrotin, very well. Please take good care of my Os- car; he is travelling alone for the first time.” “Oh! so he is going al... ... I shall be famous.” After that speech, uttered with bombastic assumption, Os- car flung himself back in his corner. “Husson of what, of where?” asked... ...shonored,—the son of the man to whom you owe your fortune?—for his name is Os- car Husson. Save him, or Titine will deny you forever!” “But how did he... ...dow, was as little recognizable as her son. Clapart, a victim of Fieschi’s machine, had served his wife better by death than by all his previous life....

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...ions, or reading 4 Men’s Wives Cumberland’s “British Theatre.” The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatch, that journal which is take... ...d will have, and, if the truth must be known, had appeared many and many a time at the theatre in Catherine Street, in minor parts first, and then in ... ...d to dance: I have not the name to my hand, but think it is Davidson. Four times in the week, at least, her mother and she used to sail off at night t... ...t lady and the Captain had parted long ago; it was Madame Dolores de Tras- os-Montes who inhabited the cottage in St. John’s Wood now. But if some lit... ...nch bonne, whose name, I am given to understand, is Madame Dolores de Tras-os-Montes. Madame de Tras-os-Montes always puts a great gold glass to her e... ...ys to exchange queer winks at each other in the ring, until Madame de Tras-os-Montes lately adopted a tremendous chasseur, with huge whiskers and a gr... ...erable buttons, and I was too much occupied in admir- ing the build of the machine, and the extreme tightness of the fellow’s inexpressibles, to look ...

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...Gaston Le Fox,” which we in- vented, maintained, and found marvellous at a time when we both were boys. Principal Characters in the Novel Curtis Jadwi... ...wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consumption as ... ...rmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chanced to ... ...led in unison, all the bows moving together like parts of a well-regulated machine. The kettle-drums, marking the cadences, rolled at exact intervals.... ...ife was tremendous. All around, on every side, in every direction the vast machinery of Commonwealth clashed and thundered from dawn to dark and from ... ...her disperse it. She was a little frightened—frightened of the vast, cruel machinery of the city’s life, and of the men who could dare it, who conquer... ...s mains pour l’embrasser; Mais je n’ai plus trouve q’un horrible melange D’os et de chair meurtris et traines dans la fange, Des lambeaux pleins de sa...

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...ather’s estate. She was not in love—that is, not often, nor ever long at a time. She would earn her living. But how she was to earn it, how she was to... ...rubby children” the minute they had a chance to marry; and studious, some- times bulbous-browed and pop-eyed maidens who at class prayer-meetings requ... ...rm as to do good by their faith in the value of parsing Caesar. At various times during Senior year Carol finally de- cided upon studying law, writing... ..., oh, thank you!” One of the men was clamoring at Kennicott, “I brought my machine down to take you home, doc.” “Fine business, Sam!” cried Kennicott;... ...arricade of green and gold wheels, of shafts and sulky seats, belonging to machinery of which Carol knew nothing—potato-planters, manure-spreaders, si... ...ellows, and a man was pasting up red bills with lovely pictures of washing-machines on them. and the jeweler was laying out bracelets and wrist- watch... ... he was in vogue, I re- member Mr. Warren saying that Swinburne (or was it Os- car Wilde? but anyway:) he said that though many so- called intellectua...

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...on of one town the frame for events which happened in another; and several times already in the course of the Comedy of Human Life, this means has bee... ...and the tea-table. An Aubusson carpet, taken up two weeks before the usual time, obstructed the steps of the portico, and the floor had been violently... ... the Comte de Gondreville. But when it comes to an election, what are sen- timents! This Scene is written for the information of countries so unfortun... ...reign people, she kept it on her shoulders, and the headsman put aside his machine. Though the other decree, organising the Grand National Gynaecium, ... ...icades? “Barricades,” replied Sallenauve, “have nearly always seemed to me machines which turned of themselves and crushed the men who raised them. We... ...at I am talking about. You don’t need to be told that if in our poor human machine some one part gets out of order, it is on that that any strong emot... ...e the honor of this invention? You know already, gentleman, that it is due os- tensibly to a woman, a peasant-woman, one who labors for her living; he...

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...That doubt never seems to have got a lodgment in Benham’s skull; though at times one might suppose it the basis of White’s thought. You will find in a... ...ed to call it The Aristo- cratic Life, and that he had tried at some other time the title of An Essay on Aristocracy. Moreover, it would seem that to-... ...gible hair and brown eyes that went dark and deep with excitement. Several times White had seen him excited, and when he was excited Benham was capabl... ...hands, he had a dread of ridiculous outlines. Prothero lapsed readily into os- tentatious slovenliness, when his hands were dirty he pitied them soone... ...s I was passing. I was perhaps a little to blame. He asked me to bring his machine to Cam- bridge. He went on in the car… . It is all perfectly simple... ...e of that. No- body could dispute the equal importance of every wheel in a machine, of every atom in the universe. Prothero and Carnac were angry beca... ...strong man over men. Essen comes, the new thing, the tyranny of the strong machine…. “Science is either slave or master. These people—I mean the Germa...

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...world is under pushing steam, they wear the look of the re- volted sons of Time, fast chained before scornful heaven in an iron peace. Day at last bri... ...ead of me, goat! chamois! and teach me how the thing used to be done in my time. Old legs must be the pupils of young ones mark that piece of humility... ...sting in a burning marl, and hear him howling. We have no weapons in these times—none! Our curses come back to roost. This is one of the serious facts... ... ought to know, and just enough to keep him comfortable! So we work like a machine, signorina. Only, not through that Beppo, for he is vain of his leg... ...ovidence. Barto raised his hand. “We’re too low down here for that kind of machinery,” he said. “They say that Providence is on the side of the Austri... ...very one of insincerity and of faithlessness; and, being the master of the machinery of the plots, he was ready, upon a whispered justification, to de... ...r her children. She received disaffected persons: she subscribed her money os- tentatiously for notoriously patriotic purposes; and she who, in her fa...

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...of Henry Wilmers’ are studded with examples of the dinner-table wit of the time, not al- ways worth quotation twice; for smart remarks have their meas... ...ng passages are under an obligation to paint us a realistic revival of the time, or we miss the relish. The odour of the roast, and more, a slice of i... ...vour of the modern day reviving that of our Poet, between whom and us yawn Time’s most hollow jaws. Surely we owe a little to Time, to cheer his progr... ...mal world, when not rigorously watched, will always crown with success the machine supplying its appetites. The old dog-world took signal from it. The... ...e; it was marriage in the abstract: her own mistake and the world’s clumsy machinery of civilization: these were the capital of- fenders: not the wife... ...w it to be as little a Stradivarius as I am a Paganini. It is an eccentric machine, in tune with me for the moment, because I hap- 161 George Meredit... ... they were borrowed, and that a pattern morality could regard the woman as os- tracized: nor was it agreeable to be looked at through eye- lashes unde...

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...te of waking stupefaction; the other half kept them in either condition by maintaining a monotonous droning noise, as if they were performing, out of time and tune, on a ruder sort of bagpipe. The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours....

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...maintaining a monotonous droning noise, as if they were performing, out of time and tune, on a ruder sort of bagpipe. The teachers, animated solely by... ...livered the dreariest orations to all comers, at all sorts of unseasonable times. So, unwieldy young dredgers and hulking mudlarks were referred to th... ...kens peating the word Sepulchre (commonly used among infants) five hundred times, and never once hinting what it meant; the conventional boy smoothing... ... answer, Everything!’ See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless os- triches plunge their heads! It is such unspeakable moral com- 96 Our M... ... ery day take new pains to make them both familiar, will be, I may hope, a machine in such working order as that they can keep it going. I know I need...

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... University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE ...................................................................... ................................................................ 203 IN FLOOD TIME ......................................................................... ... the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling 1895 THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE Hit a man an’ help a woman, an’ ye can’t be far wrong anyways. —Max... ...r Mulvaney took, I cannot say. All that I am certain of is that, at supper-time, I found Mulvaney with Private Ortheris, two-thirds of a ham, a loaf o... ...whip me on the peg in that way! Me that have saved the repitation av a ten times better man than him! ’T was ne-farious—an’ that manes a power av evil... ...eordie tramp—one of those lumber- ing, dish-bottomed coal-barges where the machinery is tied up with a string and the plates are rivetted with putty. ... ...kicker’s discomfiture. Slane walked to Jerry Blazes and hung over him with os- tentatious anxiety, while Simmons, weeping with pain, was carried away....

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...ntique sculpture, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perhaps corroded by the damp earth in which they lay buried for centuries. Here, likewise, is seen a symbol (as apt at this moment as it was two thousand years ago) of the Human Soul, with its choice of Innocence or...

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...of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perhaps cor- roded by the damp earth in which they lay buried for... ...so old, on sec- ond thoughts, or possibly older. He has nothing to do with time, but has a look of eternal youth in his face.” “ All underwitted peopl... ...d myself getting weary and annoyed that the man should be such a length of time leaning on his arm in the very act of death. If he is so terribly hurt... ...rious painter over and over again: thus they convert themselves into Guido machines, or Raphaelic machines. Their performances, it is true, are often ... ...and soul through which the picture gets its immortality. Hilda was no such machine as this; she wrought religiously, and therefore wrought a miracle. ... ...s immortalized in marble! They are not his work, but that of some nameless machine in human shape. Miriam stopped an instant in an antechamber, to loo... ...cience,—and multitudes whose hearts and minds find good employment in less os- tentatious ways,—who lead high, lonely lives, and are con- scious of no...

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...TORIUS ORIUS ORIUS ORIUS ORIUS IT IS NO GREAT WONDER if in long process of time, while for- tune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coinci-... ...e other totally ruined and destroyed them; the city of T roy was the first time taken by Hercules for the horses promised him by Laomedon, the second ... ...by Agamemnon, by means of the celebrated great wooden horse, and the third time by Charidemus, by occasion of a horse falling down at the gate, which ... ...obes, while images and figures of victory were introduced by the motion of machines, bringing in with them crowns and trophies of gold to present to h... ...ormidable that ex- cited indignation; they were even more odious for their os- tentation than they were feared for their force. Their ships had gilded... ...t in the nets composed of sinews, which protected the ropes with which the machine was managed. This fell out exactly ac- cording to Aristander’s pred... ...a pleasure, not to be satiated, in great improvements in ship-building and machines. He did not waste his natural genius and power of mechanical resea...

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...rm Whales! There she blows! There she breaches!” “Sing out! sing out every time!” “A y A y, sir! There she blows! there—there—thar she blows—bowes—bo-... ...e!” “A y A y, sir! There she blows! there—there—thar she blows—bowes—bo-o- os!” “How far off?” “Two miles and a half.” “Thunder and lightning! so near... ...e pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; hi... ...eet, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and b... ...they anoint it with a view of making its interior run well, as they anoint machinery? Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity o... ... hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton. If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a ...

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...names of the great ones who are admitted to the feasts dies after a little time. He can’t survive the glare of fashion long. It scorches him up, as th... ...Even these will pass away. And some day or other (but it will be after our time, thank goodness) Hyde Park Gar- dens will be no better known than the ... ...agg’s great patron, who gave him dinners and lent him a little money some- times, and whose election, newspaper, and other jobs Wagg did, gave the luc... ... of every known science. The Rev. Mr. V eal had an orrery, an electrifying machine, a turning lathe, a theatre (in the wash-house), a chemical appa- r... ...ed hers ten times more.” “By God, you are a good feller, sir,” was all Mr. Os-borne said. It had never struck him that the widow would feel any pain a...

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...d be invidious, and is noways needful, to single out any critic of our own time to place beside these great men. But it can- not be denied that the bo... ...don in the eighteenth century, while Shakespeare was a poet writing in all time and all space, so that the comparison is luminous in more ways than on... ...ast certain that Fielding, during the composition of Amelia, had much less time to bestow upon elaborating his work than he had previously had, and th... ...is- sion, this appears to me to be no less an absurdity than to say of any machine that it is excellently made, though incapable of performing its fun... ...the passage to you, as I know you have Greek enough to understand it:— Os rh’ epea phresin esin akosma te, polla te ede Maps, atar ou kata kos...

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... even the older States was rescued from the wilderness. Ontario in our own times has been the scene of important naval evolutions. Fleets have manoeuv... ... hands were thrust into the bosom of a vest of red cloth, a fashion of the times,—“more, Magnet! say, rather, what less? Where are your combing seas, ... ...the latter like the sudden appearance of a sail at sea; and, for the first time since they met, he ventured to touch the warrior, as has been related.... ...othing but 12 The Pathfinder nostrils. Friend Arrowhead, didst ever see a machine like this?” The Indian turned, cast at glance at the compass, which... ...the brown stone visi-tie, and now cov- ering it with a limpid sheet, as if machinery controlled the play of the element. The tongue cannot always expr... ...t and uncertainty. In this, however, the old mariner was mistaken, for the Os- wego Rift and the Oswego Falls are very different in their char- acters... ...particular that the incidents which had occurred during the descent of the Os- wego had made so little impression on her mind. Too inexpe- rienced to ... ...n get to be easterly. When the day dawned, the cutter had the mouth of the Os- wego well under the lee, distant about two miles; and just as the morni... ...he sails trimming themselves, the rudder alone con- trolling the admirable machine. The object appeared to be a reconnoissance. When, however, the Scu...