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...als, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility. She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate semi- nar in the drama, ... ...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...treet From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and ... ...te flannel trou- 341 Sinclair Lewis sers. He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, any- thing but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street. A vi... ... Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament. It proved that he had learned to play in Minneapolis; th...

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...scheme of the nation, as being in a sense designed to take the crude young male of the more or less responsible class, to correct his harsh egotisms, ... ...re at the omissions from our cur- riculum, and particularly at our want of German. More- 58 The New Machiavelli over, four classes still worked toge... ...on’t wish to innovate unduly,” he used to say. But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it so... ...vy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to themselves by way of Harrow a... ...uld have seen to it effectually enough that they didn’t get at croquet and tennis with the vicarage daughters and discover sex in the Peeping Tom fash... ... and Moskowski, with great decision and effect, and hovered on the edge of tennis foursomes where it was manifest to the dullest intelligence that my ... ...nd nineteen, but a Cambridge “man” of two and twenty with a first and good tennis and a grow- ing social experience, is a fair contemporary for two gi... .... Next them are a group of anglicised Germans and highly specialised chess-players, and then two of the oddest- looking persons—bulging with documents...

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...r being in the Isle of Wight, we two children, with Miss Headworth and the German nurse, and our being told of our new sister. Uncle Alwyn and his yac... ...that they went off at once to put a stop to it, but found us left with the German maid, who declared that Miss Headworth had gone off with Mr. Egremon... ... least. Perhaps the Egremont property will not concern you, and only go to male heirs. That would be the best thing, since in any case you must be suf... ...e she has some ac- complishments.’ ‘She has done very fairly in French and German—’ ‘And Latin,’ put in Ursula. 60 Nuttie’s Father ‘And she has had s... ...ess. Blanche was a slight, delicate-looking, rather pretty girl in a lawn- tennis dress. The visitor took the part of treating the new- comers as well... ...em ever so much. There are great capa- bilities. Look, you could have four tennis courts on this one lawn. We wanted to have a garden-party up here la... ... liberty; but now you’ll have some delicious ones? Of course you play lawn-tennis?’ ‘I have seen it a very few times,’ said Nuttie. ‘Oh, we must teach... ... not only by the details of the manufacture and the multitude of artizans, male and female, whom it employed, but by the number of warehouse-clerks wh... ... over again before he could fully take it in. Then he uttered a suppressed malediction on engines, insisted that all his impromptu guests should immed...

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...g a tyrant, as so often befalls those whose skill ren- ders them valuable. Tennis became Coley’s chief recreation, enabling him to work off his superf... ...language had already shown itself when his sister Fanny had given him some German lessons; and even on his first halt at Cologne, he received the comp... ...ompliment, ‘Sie sprechen Deutsch wohl’ and he found him- self talking to a German on one side and a Frenchman on the other. His letters throughout his... ...ed to obtain a Fellowship at Merton, and wished in the mean- time to learn German thoroughly in order to study Hebrew by the light of German scholarsh... ...it to-day, and had a long talk with the physician and surgeon, and saw the male pa- tients, two of them natives. One of them is dying, and so I am to ... ...haps: two or three faint female voices, two or three rough most discordant male voices, all the attempt at singing. No instrument of any kind. The bur... ...to take), and am quite as much disposed as ever to wish for a good game at tennis or fives to take it out of me. ‘Your loving Brother, ‘J. C. Patteson... ...y from Kohimarama to St. John’s College. I got him to describe the game of tennis, and he warmed up and told me of games he had played at. ‘How that c... ... it is for all who wish to belong to it. He recognises no dis- tinction of male or female, bond or free.” 477 Yo n g e ‘Some of the elder men are bec...

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...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...e Valera, be deported. Dead right, by golly! All these agitators paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 B... ...e of Saragossa, the defini- tion of the word “sabotage,” the future of the German mark, the translation of “hinc illae lachrimae,” or the num- ber of ... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...ky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life,... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ...same good jolly kind of guff, ‘bout autos, politics and stuff and baseball players of renown that Nice Guys talk in my home town! “Then when I entered... ...turity. On Saturday they played golf, jeering, “As a golfer, you’re a fine tennis-player,” or they motored all Sunday afternoon, stopping at village l... ...itor and acquired an excellent man. Young Fritz was a curly-headed, merry, tennis-playing youngster. He made customers welcome to the office. Babbitt ...

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... was false from head to foot!” “False—?” In spite of time and satiety, the male instinct of ownership rose up and repudiated the charge. Miss Viner ca... ...I only meant externally! Y ou see, she often used to come to my room after tennis, or to touch up in the evenings, when they were going on; and I assu... ...ace, at the same moment, underwent the same change, shrinking into a small malevolent white mask in which the eyes burned black. “Thank you—thank you ... ..., as though the russet covert through which he trudged were the heart of a maleficent jungle... Snatches of his companion’s talk drifted to him interm... ...cian, in the same rapt fixity of attention with which she had followed the players at the Francais. The accident of her having fallen into the same at... ...the telegram to Anna, and she learned that his Ambassador, on the way to a German cure, was to be in Paris the next evening and wished to confer with ...

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...d. “And you’ll find yourself some employment, eh? Scales, French, a little German, eh? There’s Mr. Pepper who knows more about separable verbs than an... ...ere she would sit for hours playing very difficult music, reading a little German, or a little English when the mood took her, and doing—as at this mo... ...ll never forget my first Parsifal—a grilling August day, and those fat old German women, come in their stuffy high frocks, and then the dark theatre, ... ...ou have not read her,” said Richard. “She is incomparably the greatest fe- male writer we possess.” “She is the greatest,” he continued, “and for this... ...er. Read a chapter of Miss Appleby’s Adventure to Aunt E. P.M.—Played lawn-tennis with Mr. Perrott and Evelyn M. Don’t like Mr. P. Have a feeling that... ...it, Monk? The thought of the immortal passions, or the thought of new-born males to keep the Roman Catholics out? I assure you,” he said to Helen, “he... ...taught,” her voice proceeded rhythmically as if checking the list, “and my tennis, and the village, and letters to write for father, and a thou- sand ... ...alise, the nature of the gulf which separates the needs and desires of the male from the needs and desires of the female… . At first they had been ver... ...enough about herself, and she asked whether they had come down to join the tennis tourna- ment. “The young people are very keen about it. It be- gins ...

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... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...e said, one only daughter. His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the los... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...ney, created Peer of France in 1581. It was a peerage which, in default of male successors, went to the female, but this descendant was not heir to it... ...inals gave rise to. The Bouillons wished to be recognised as descended, by male issue, of the Counts of Auvergne, and to claim all kinds of distinctio... ...ndome. Tournai was near. The Duc de Bourgogne went there to have a game at tennis. This sudden party of pleasure strongly scandalized the army, and ra... ..., as long as he could make use of them. He had excelled in dancing, and at tennis and mall. On horseback he was admirable, even at a late age. He like... ...used himself at Fontainebleau during bad weather by seeing good players at tennis, in which he had formerly excelled; and at Marly by seeing mall play...

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...Rather would I be Metchnikoffed* at once and have a clean, good stomach of German silver. No! If we are to have no ale in Utopia, give me the one clea... ...nny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one might look at the chains of a slave. You imagine that father ... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter... ...wift rail- way to Paris and England and Scotland, and to the Rhineland and Germany will run. And as one walks out from the town centre one will come t... ...hey have not such flamboyant qualities then they are tepid and ineffectual players. Nor may the samurai do personal services, except in the matter of ... ...the man who was fool enough and cheap enough to become an expert. Cricket, tennis, fives, billiards——. Y ou will find clubs and a class of men to play...

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...ncle became the husband of my aunt, and their children were doubly cousins german. Before a year was ex- pired, both had the happiness to become fathe... ...t he suddenly disappeared, and we learned some time af- ter that he was in Germany, but he never wrote to us, and from that day we heard no news of hi... ...ough 146 The Confessions he had experienced inconceivable difficulties in Germany; for not understanding a word of German, Latin, or French, he had b... ...ted on the game, and, interested for the success of my wager, followed the players and their balls over rough and stony roads, procuring by this means... ...en scarcely ever forgive. Take the most sensible; the most philosophic fe- male, one the least attached to pleasure, and slighting her fa- vors, if wi... ...the walls of my chamber have ears. Surrounded by spies and by vigilant and malevolent inspectors, disturbed, and my attention diverted, I hastily comm... ... acquainted with M. de Legal, M. Husson, Philidor, and all the great chess players of the day, without making the least improvement in the game. Howev... ...ht be nearer at hand, I left my hotel at Quentin, and went to lodge at the Tennis Court, Rue V erdelet, which leads into the Rue Platiere, where M. Du... ... upon me, the detail has escaped my mind, since I communicated it to M. de Malesherbes in one of my four letters to him. This is one of the singularit...

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....” To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, “Senor, we are players of Angulo el Malo’s company; we have been acting the play of ‘The C... ... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua... ...ers, but never any like these. 101 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. They are male and female; the male is in that first cage and the female in the one b... ... his position, and that it was impossible for him to avoid letting out the male without incurring the enmity of the fiery and daring knight, flung ope... ...rs lost in astonishment, while the Trifaldi went on to say: “Thus did that malevolent villain Malambruno punish us, covering the tenderness and softne... ...ave him with him that he would not have changed places with the emperor of Germany. On taking leave he kissed the hands of the duke and duchess and go... ... there I was anxious to see all I could. I crossed into Italy, and reached Germany, and there it seemed to me we might live with more freedom, as the ... ...ruth is, I came to the gate, where some dozen or so of devils were playing tennis, all in breeches and doublets, with falling collars trimmed with Fle... ... more was that books, apparently full of wind and rubbish, served them for tennis balls, a strange and marvellous thing; this, however, did not astoni...

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...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ...o; and letting off thirty “ohs,” and sixty sighs, and a hundred and twenty maledictions and execrations on whomsoever it was that had brought him ther... ...ot even dismount; and so from the back of his horse he began to utter such maledictions and objurgations against those who were blanketing Sancho as i... ...ear of being heard or seen, then I broke silence and lifted up my voice in maledictions upon Luscinda and Don Fernando, as if I could thus avenge the ... ...d the crown in the hand; but if so, may be there is within some company of players, with whom it is a common thing to have those crowns and sceptres y... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous... ... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua... ...ruth is, I came to the gate, where some dozen or so of devils were playing tennis, all in breeches and doublets, with falling collars trimmed with Fle... ... more was that books, apparently full of wind and rubbish, served them for tennis balls, a strange and marvellous thing; this, however, did not astoni...

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...nts and children differ extremely from ours. For, since the con junction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature, in order to prop... ... own capacities, as well as inclinations. I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female. The nurseries for males of noble ... ... the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but al... ...nes gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter ... ...ption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets. I was chiefly disgusted with modern h... ...ose and throat, and their language approaches nearest to the High Dutch, or German, of any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significan...

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...sed it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arminius... ...nd constrained to the ends of government, 12 Essays: Book III “Veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus; umbra e... ...us utimur;” [“We retain no solid and express portraiture of true right and germane justice; we have only the shadow and image of it.”—Cicero, De Offic... ...hatred to move you to such an act; but he employs you as they do condemned malefactors in execu- tions of justice, an office as necessary as dishonour... ...t tesseras;” [“Let them reserve to themselves arms, horses, spears, clubs, tennis, swimming, and races; and of all the sports leave to us old men card... ...edge: “Obsterix, virginis cujusdam integritatem manu velut explorans, sive malevolentia, sive inscitia, sive casu, dum inspicit, perdidit.” [“By malev... ...r eyes, a conscious blush covers her face.”—Catullus, lxv. 19.] I say that males and females are cast in the same mould, and that, education and usage... ...s triumph. Consider, that even in vain and frivolous actions, as at chess, tennis, and the like, this eager and ardent engaging with an impetuous desi... ...ntation: men are only puffed up with wind, and are bandied to and fro like tennis-balls. He pro- posed to himself no vain and idle fancies; his design...

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...nt to the same school till Magdalen had been sent away to be fin- ished in Germany. “Dear Sophy, I wish you had the good fortune, too!” “Oh! my galleo... ...,” and Vera and Paula hardly knew the game, they had always played at lawn tennis; but they were delighted to learn, for Uncle Redgie proved to be a v... ...ed to help her two elder sisters in preparations for the next day, placing tennis nets, arranging croquet hoops, mustering chairs by the verandah, and... ... laughed Aunt Jane. “We saw it rise and saw it fall; and here come all the players, the revival. Well, how went the game?” So the party collected, and... ...to rely on him, as a woman with unaccustomed property is glad to do with a male relation. And to him, the society of the Goyle was a new charm. He had... ... the Goyle. Hubert 106 Modern Broods was eager for assistance in learning German and Italian, and read and discussed books of interest; and even when... ...of property of her own to show off? There was Paula, too, playing animated tennis with that clerical brother of the bride, who had been talking to Mag... ...ismayed at what all regarded as a tri- fling ailment, even if dignified as German. Angela owned that she regarded it as a relief, since infection migh...

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...than the Court Gazette and the newspapers which we get thence. There was a German officer of Webb’s, with whom we used to joke, and of whom a story (w... ...ing James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germany with the Elec- tor-Palatine, in whose service Sir Francis incurred ... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ad stared at the player woman who acted the wicked tragedy-queen, when the players came down to Ealing Fair. She sat in a great chair by the fire-corn... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ... comrade’s sight. They sported together, they drank, they played bowls and tennis: my Lord Castlewood would go for three days to Sark, and bring back ...

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...e art of fenc- ing and the use of arms, to ride well on horseback, to play tennis, to acquire good manners,—in short, to possess all the frivolous acc... ...my science? For this is science. Yes, it proceeds from a science which the Germans are already calling Anthropology. Ah! if I had not already solved t... ...ituted for husband and wife. If, on the contrary, he dies first, leaving a male heir, Madame de Manerville has a right to three hundred and sixty thou... ...e.” “Through the female line!” The topic was presently exhausted. The card-players went to the tables, the young people danced, the supper was served,... ...u to have a son. Yes, mon- sieur le comte, you ought to have had at once a male heir to consolidate that entail. Why not? Madame Evangelista was stron... ... of State and privy-coun- cillor; Martial de la Roche-Hugon is minister to Germany and peer of France; Serisy leads the Council of State, to which he ...

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...Housewives of Lowenburg, and St. Stephen’s Crown, to Freytag’s Sketches of German Life; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr. Mayhew’s Germa... ...is XV . of France had taken the part of Austria, and had sent an army into Germany in the autumn of 1760. From this the Mar- quis de Castries had been... ...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...astplate of British pearls that Caesar dedicated to Venus. A band of flute-players followed, and then came the white oxen that were to be sacrificed, ... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ... about seven years old, two celebrated bishops passed through the village, Germanus, of Auxerre, and Lupus, of Troyes, who had been invited to Britain... ...g might have escaped through an open- ing that led from the vault into the tennis court. Presently, however, the King called to them to draw him up ag... ...lt, having a few days before caused the hole to be bricked up, because his tennis balls used to fly into it and be lost. In trying to draw him up by t... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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...wed his guards to eat his dinner, and his generals to govern the republic; Richard abdicated the protectorate on the 22nd of April, 1659, more than a ... ...inner, and his generals to govern the republic; Richard abdicated the protectorate on the 22nd of April, 1659, more than a year ago, sire. “From that ... ...st eager players are Lambert and Monk. Well, sire, I, in my turn, wish to take part in this game, where the stakes are thrown upon my royal mantle. Si... ...er, and you have, in the eyes of France, the responsibility of peace and war. But that you should pretend to prevent me, who am king, from extending m... ...n qualify it myself. Tell it.” “A great sin, reverend father!” “We shall judge, monseigneur.” “Y ou cannot fail to have heard of certain relations whi... ...ll take place about three o’clock.” “Aha! it is now only half-past one; let us step out, we shall be there in time to touch my three hundred and sev- ... ...disdainfully, “a million! What will your majesty do with a million?” “It appears to me, nevertheless —— “ said Louis XIV . “That is not more than is s... ...lligent, young, handsome, and intriguing; to learn, by means of this woman, all the feminine secrets of the young household, whilst he, Malicorne, and... ... which holds its head high, it is said, never tires his rider’s hand. The withers are rather low. 572 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 The drooping of the h...

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...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ...s, or at least, by long extracts from him, give an idea of the vagaries of German taste when it thought it could do better than Rabelais. It is danger... ...malus addam, Cum sapiens totus prodierit Rabelais. Malevolus. (Reader, the Errata, which in this book are not a few, are casu-... ... ing beasts, in the like exigent of their fulness, will never suf- fer the male-masculant to encroach them, their answer will be, that those are beast... ...ed the Brack, or unto the meadows, where they played at the ball, the long-tennis, and at the piletrigone (which is a play wherein we throw a triangul... ...e at this nick of time so outraged and wronged me, it cannot be but by the malevolent and wicked spirit. Good God, thou knowest my courage, for nothin... ...e glorious labyrinth. Between the two other towers were the courts for the tennis and the balloon. Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of ... ... part, I can conceive no other meaning in it but a description of a set at tennis in dark and obscure terms. The suborners of men are the makers of ma...

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... only his Maison-Bouche, and Valetaille without end, but his very Troop of Players, with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, f... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ... is wholly a notable business; and France, without doubt, is big (what the Germans call ‘Of good Hope’): we shall wish her a happy birth-hour, and ble... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long- drawn files, hoarse... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked... ... us;—and now it is time to go to dinner. This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone fort... ...iss Chateau-Vieux come up,—which can fight, but can hardly speak except in German gutturals; let soldiers march, and highways thunder with artillery- ...

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...p and down the hillside all the afternoon. What it was and exactly how the players had sided, Lucy was slow to discover. Mr. Eager had met them with a... ...e lawn and smiled in at them, just as if she was going to ask them to play tennis. Then she saw her brother’s face. Her lips parted, and she took him ... ...s. They would descend—he knew their ways— past the shrubbery, and past the tennis-lawn and the dahlia-bed, until they reached the kitchen garden, and ... ...tation was just. “How tiresome!” she said. “Couldn’t you have es- caped to tennis?” “I don’t play tennis—at least, not in public. The neighbourhood is... ... The Way of All Flesh. Never heard of it. Gibbon. Hullo! dear George reads German. Um—um—Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and so we go on. Well, I suppose you... ...hould desire a change.” Here, apparently, was one of those points that the male intellect misses. Mr. Beebe exclaimed: “So she says herself, and since... ...but they went by themselves. They alone of this little company will double Malea and plough the waters of the Saronic gulf. They alone will visit Athe...

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...haracter—sympathy in some with mere misfortune—sympathy in others with fe- male frailty and guilt, not perhaps founded upon an abso- lute unwavering b... ...sed for the basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that... ...xperiments. This is the one creature of fifteen in all Spain, be the other male or female, whom nature, and temper, and provocation have qualified for... ...m, for many reasons, he could not be supposed to recognise—lapse of years, male attire, twilight, were all against him. Still, she might have the fami... ...niary difference to Urquiza. Thus stood matters, when a party of strolling players strolled into Paita. Kate, as a Spaniard, being one held of the Pai... ...Spanish blood, a native of Spain; the second, a Roman born in Spain. So of Germanus and Germanicus, Italus and Italicus, Anglus and Anglicus, &c.; an ... ...s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Arabian, a combination hard to judge of.... ...com- pany kicked about the poor diabolic writer’s head as if it had been a tennis-ball. Coleridge, the yet unknown criminal, absolutely perspired and ...

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...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long-drawn files, hoarse-... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked... ... us;—and now it is time to go to dinner. This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone fort... ... Chateau- Vieux come up,—which can fight, but can hardly speak ex- cept in German gutturals; let soldiers march, and highways thunder with artillery-w... ...goose Gobel, for example,—or Go(with an umlaut)bel, for he is of Strasburg German breed, be a Constitutional Arch- bishop? Alone of all men there, Mir... ...ike ostrich-egg, to be hatched of Chance—into an ostrich- eater! Jewish or German Freys do business in the great Cess- pool of Agio; which Cesspool th...

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...doorpost a card on which was writ- ten in a woman’s handwriting: “WANTED A MALE AT- TENDANT WHO CAN KEEP ACCOUNTS. INQUIRE WITHIN.” The smoker was a p... ...ssons than those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she... ...nce of Lucian’s statement that the tenant of the Warren Lodge had a single male attendant. It was impossible that this glo- rious vision of manly stre... ...ciently for the game to make myself proficient. You were equipped for lawn-tennis, I think, when I saw you yesterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-t... ... Australian champion!” he repeated. “And who may HE— Oh! you mean the lawn-tennis champion. T o be sure. Well, Miss Goff, I congratulate you. It is no... ...rs. The occasion will be a special one, as Herr Abendgasse, a remark- able German socialist and art critic, is to deliver a lecture on ‘The T rue in A... ... then, if you care to come. At nine o’clock, Herr Abendgasse, a celebrated German art critic and a great friend of mine, will read us a paper on ‘The ... ...speare’s history. He knew that he could find in the provinces many veteran players who knew every gesture and inflection of voice associated by tradit... ...r ability, or they are men of pleasure, which means that they are dancers, tennis-players, butchers, and gamblers. I leave the nonentities out of the ...

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... par- ticularly meritorious. The fact of his speaking English, French, and German with a good accent, and of his wear- ing the best linen, clothes, ti... ...RS QUESTIONED When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male prisoner. “Simeon Kartinkin, rise.” Simeon jumped up, his lips continu... ...edly. She gave a very full and intelligent account, speaking with a strong German accent. First of all, the hotel servant Simeon, whom she knew, came ... ...ook at the pictures?” he asked. “No, we put that off. We have been playing tennis at the Salamatoffs’ . It is quite true, Mr. Crooks plays remark- abl... ..., and, above all, how large her thumb-nail was and how like her father’s. “Tennis is a dull game,” said Kolosoff; “we used to play lapta when we were ... ...e afraid of him,” said Khoroshavka, who managed to exchange notes with the male prisoners and knew all that went on in the prison. “He’ll run away, th... ..., and some military men and some civilians stood near them. The clatter of male and female voices went on unceasingly. “Enfin! you seem to have quite ... ... been there twice since, and once, at his mother’s request, he had taken a German steward there, and had with him verified the accounts. The state of ... ...218 Resurrection ers were planted in front of the steward’s house—over the tennis ground, now overgrown with dandelions, and along the lime-tree walk,...

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...e said to her shortly. “We are busy.” “I beg your pardon,” she said to the German mechani- cian; “I want a few words with my husband.” The German woul... ...aid to him: “Don’t disturb yourself.” “The train is at three?” queried the German. “I mustn’t be late.” Levin did not answer him, but walked out himse... ...hear: ‘Stop!’ Oh, I thought they’ve relented. I look out, and behold a fat German being sat down by him and driving away.... And my new shoes all for ... ... and these were all unlike those in use at Pokrovskoe. “Une partie de lawn-tennis,” Veslovsky proposed, with his handsome smile. “We’ll be partners ag... .... After dinner they sat on the terrace, then they pro- ceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a... ...er they sat on the terrace, then they pro- ceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a tightly dra... ... tired that she sat down with Princess Varvara and simply looked on at the players. Her partner, Tushkevitch, gave up playing too, but the others kept... ...sums subscribed by the nobility of the province, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally, ...

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...s mangy, undersized—a ti- gress worn with nursing, or a broken-toothed old male—and Bukta would curb young Chinn’s impatience. At last, a noble animal... ...ires in light dust-coats danced out on two little excited ponies. The four players of the Arch- angels’ team followed, and the sight of their beautifu... ...ound. Their riders were excellent play- ers, but they were a team of crack players instead of a crack team; and that made all the difference in the wo... ...eways at the narrowing space. If you know how a man feels to be cramped at tennis—not because he wants to run out of the court, but because he likes t... ...r Street, hanging on to a leather strap between an Irish washerwoman and a German anarchist. If any of his guests had seen him then they would have sa... ...t Cottar was busy for eleven hours of the day. He did not care to have his tennis spoiled by petticoats in the court; and after one long afternoon at ... ... and the fat pony; they fell into the trout-ponds; they picnicked and they tennised; and they sat on gates in the twilight, two by two, and Georgie fo... ... secret fancies aloud, she does not care to have them trampled over by the male Philistine. They rode into the little red-brick street of Bassett, and...

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...week, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, “but I never get any further than tipping German waiters.” “These men are not the true type,” Mrs. Shouts went on. “I... ...silence—not even hostility! The game was up to 21 Kipling them; the other players hid their cards and waited. Sus- pense, she felt, was in the air, a... ...he rest lay in the hands of beneficent advisers from Lon- don, or spirits, male and female, called up by Mr. and Mrs. Cloke from the wastes of the far... ... obsolete drone-comb, broad and high-shouldered, showing to what marks the male grub was expected to grow; and two-inch deep honey-magazines, empty, b... ...already done so without effect, and begins to relieve her mind about cheap German enamels for collar-bearings. The Frenchman assents cordially, cries ... ...dt & Bleamers’ boats,” says Captain Hodgson. “Serves ‘em right for putting German compos in their thrust-blocks. She won’t be in Fayal to-night! By th... ...to short- lived triumph. I had never before seen a Law Lord dressed as for tennis, with a stump-leg barrel-organ strapped to his shoulder. But it is a... ...overed residence. A verandah at the south side gave on to a garden and two tennis courts, separated by a tasteful iron fence from a most park-like mea... ...s on the lawn of young men and maidens appropriately clothed, playing lawn tennis in the sunshine. “A pretty scene, ain’t it?” said Mr. M’Leod. “My go...

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...is he burst forth into a tremendous passion, took leave of the mother with maledic- tions, and as he left the apartment, turned back to say to his wea... ...n all Stair’s offspriung we no difference know, They do the females as the males bestow; So he of one of his daughters’ marriages gave the ward, Like ... ...hich Dick had learned while painting the scenes of an itinerant company of players); there is nothing in whole pages but mere chat and dialogue.” “The... ... light, admit- ted from the upper part of a high casement, fell upon a fe- male figure of exquisite beauty, who, in an attitude of speech- less terror... ... Head and the village of Eyemouth, looked out on the lonely and boisterous German Ocean. A black domain of wild pasture-land surrounded their new resi... ...litary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean. On three sides the rock was precipitous; on the fourth, which... ...lace a treasurer or lord commissioner as they would take a rook or a pawn. Tennis for my sport, and battle for my earnest! And you, Master, so dep and... ...g for the county; he must carry the heat—must walk the course. Two cousins-german, six more distant kinsmen, his factor and his chamberlain, were all ...

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...than the Court Gazette and the newspapers which we get thence. There was a German officer of Webb’s, with whom we used to joke, and of whom a story (w... ...ing James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germany with the Elec- tor-Palatine, in whose service Sir Francis incurred ... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ad stared at the player woman who acted the wicked tragedy-queen, when the players came down to Ealing Fair. She sat in a great chair by the fire-corn... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ... comrade’s sight. They sported together, they drank, they played bowls and tennis: my Lord Castlewood would go for three days to Sark, and bring back ... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...ither, by different routes, the whole forces of English, Dutch, Danes, and German auxilia- ries took their way. The foot and artillery under General C... ...beheld him for the first time? The young king, in a flannel jacket, was at tennis with the gentlemen of his suite, crying out after the balls, and swe...