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...the moment. I was proud of my new lore, and thought I had learned the art to perfection. And certainly Modestine did wonders for the rest of the fore-... ... stopped as I drew near, the mother still cursing; and I could see she was a handsome, motherly, respectable-looking woman. The son once more answered... ...able is com- pletely laid. My knife was cordially admired by the landlord of Bouchet, and the spring filled him with wonder. ‘I should never have gues... ...el equally silly and extraneous, I pray God it be my last as well. I kept my eyes to myself, and know nothing of the woman except that she had beautif... ... birch all jewelled with the autumn yel- low, here and there a few naked cottages and bleak fields, – these were the characters of the country. Hill a... ...g rocks, plunging mid-leg in bog, until I gained the entrance of the village. In the first lighted house there was a woman who would not open to me. S... ...ts and senses; but still my last waking effort was to listen and distinguish, and my last conscious state was one of wonder at the foreign clamour in ... ... heart. I own I like definite form in what my eyes are to rest upon; and if landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one pen...

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..., for that matter, the former’s whole analytic faculty would be led such a wonderful dance. “The Ambassadors” had been, all conveniently, “arranged fo... ...etachment in his zeal and cu- riosity in his indifference. After the young woman in the glass cage had held up to him across her counter the pale-pink... ...eft me. I went to the office and asked. Hadn’t you better do the same?” He wondered. “Find out who you are?—after the up- lifted young woman there has... ... the same?” He wondered. “Find out who you are?—after the up- lifted young woman there has seen us thus scrape ac- quaintance!” She laughed on her sid... ... as when, after their walk had lasted a few minutes and he had had time to wonder if a couple of sidelong glances from her meant that he had best have... ...fect of appearing to place all knowl- edge, for the time, on this original woman’s side. It in- terested him indeed to mark the limits of any such rel... ...like Cleopatra in the play, indeed various and multifold. She had aspects, characters, days, nights— or had them at least, showed them by a mysterious... ...was in the rustle of the willows and the tone of the sky. The play and the characters had, without his knowing it till now, peopled all his space for ...

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...bullets. They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite. I then made another sign... ...ade signs for more; but they had none to give me. When I had performed these wonders, they shouted for joy, and danced upon my breast, re peating sev... ...h expense and magnificence. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intre pidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst ventur... ... farther, than by pointing to the door, and bow ing several times. The good woman, with much diffi culty, at last perceived what I would be at, and ... ...r’ s Travels – Swift 96 tacle that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of h... ...n amusement, wherein I spent many of my leisure hours. I desired the queen’s woman to save for me the combings of her majesty’s hair, whereof in time ... ..., are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politi cians; to restore new vigour to a crazy ad... ... and event of consequence, that happened in the public, impartially draw the characters of the several successions of princes and great minis ters of...

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... half so fond of her); and for the ten thousand small fragments of genuine womanly tact, by which, without piecing them elaborately together, and patc... ...the masts, or down at the decks, or over the side, they look there too, as wondering whether he sees anything wrong anywhere, and hoping that, in case... ...of hole and pitfall, and stum bling constantly. Before one can so much as wonder, she takes a high leap into the air. Before she has well done that, ... ...walking in the sea, had handed me a letter directed to myself, in familiar characters, I am certain I should not have felt one atom of astonishment: I... ...al alphabet, as used by the deaf mutes, and it is a subject of delight and wonder to see how rapidly, correctly, and eagerly, she goes on with her lab... ...t not succeeding in this, she turned away as from a stranger, and the poor woman could not conceal the pang she felt, at finding that her beloved chil... ... being treated with cold indifference by a darling child, was too much for woman’s nature to bear. American Notes – Dickens 42 ‘After a while, on t... ...ul to allow no persons to enter upon the possession of these houses, whose characters have not undergone the most searching and thorough inquiry. Any ... ... We have got at the right address at last, though it is written in strange characters truly, and might have been scrawled with the blunt handle of the...

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...nitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included... ...erefore he called out loudly for assistance without moving. A wild looking woman, whom even in his agitation, Mr. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 24 L... ...some extraordinary tight fitting fash ion, and to have on her head a most wonderful bonnet like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or ... ..., at a distance, with much feebler sympathy and humility, while the strong woman, having banished the inn servants under the myste rious penalty of “... ...company Miss Manette to France?” “A likely thing, too!” replied the strong woman. “If it was A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 25 ever intended that I s... ...life and hope so exactly was the expres sion repeated (though in stronger characters) on her fair young face, that it looked as though it had passed ... ...ntelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face. Whether he knew what had happened, whether he recollect... ...glish that an Englishman is less open to suspicion of subornation in those characters than a French man, represents himself to his employers under a ...

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...t the top row was only one curl. Moderately buxom was her shape, and quite womanly too; but sometimes—yes, sometimes—she even wore a pinafore; and how... ... keep you as his assistant because you are of any use to him; because your wonder- ful faith in his pretensions is of inestimable service in all his m... ...de to him. Of all the five hundred proposals for his relief which the good woman poured out in less than half an hour, he would entertain 30 Martin C... ...came in his determination. If they sent for any person to attend him, man, woman, or child, he would leave the house directly (so he told them), thoug... ... impress this hint upon her as to induce her to take it. But now, in sheer wonder and amazement at these mys- teries, she withdrew at once, and repair... ... the easy- chair; so radiant with ingenuous honesty, that Mrs Lupin almost wondered not to see a stained-glass Glory, such as the Saint wore in the ch... ... and idiots for their pains. They should have made the search in their own characters. They should have shown themselves fit objects to be robbed and ... ... we have no reserve before each other, but are appearing freely in our own characters.’ Here, the eldest daughter of the strong-minded woman rose a li... ...idity, expressed a general hope that some people WOULD appear in their own characters, if it were only for such a proceeding having the attraction of ...

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...of arithmetic, like the chances of gam- ing. But extraordinary events, and wonderful runs of luck, defy the calculations ox mankind, and throw impenet... ...lan of the present edition, has to mention the prototypes of the principal characters in Guy Mannering. Some circumstances of local situation gave the... ... death in the Eden. It was an operation of some time, for Jean was a stout woman, and, struggling with her mur- derers, often got her head above water... ...dorned with diamonds, so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height, dressed in a long red cloak, who commence... ...d T ory as he was doomed to be, could look upon the Queen. I conceive this woman to have been Madge Gordon, of whom an impressive account is given in ... ... preliminary notices concerning the tale of Guy Mannering, and some of the characters introduced, may save the author and reader, in the present insta... ...m Kippletringan, good dame?” “Frae Kippletringan!!!” in an exalted tone of wonder, which we can but faintly express by three points of admiration; “Ow... ...ising,” answered the laconic Dominie. “Who, or what is she, in the name of wonder?” “Harlot, thief, witch, and gipsy.” Answered Sampson again. “Oh, tr... ...inted, though with due delicacy, at the risk of encouraging such desperate characters: “Were it but in justice to the revenue, I should have supposed—...

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...s. It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,* was sold at Christie’s shortly after the discussion whic... ...ce as pat- *This was described in Christie’s catalogue as follows: “A nude woman, a native of the Society Islands, is lying on the ground beside a bro... ...rickland in a letter written from Paris had described her as “an excellent woman,” since Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz was able to print the letter in facsim... ...en we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had re- ceive... ...ovement. I fancy she’s rather simple, poor dear , and she thinks we’re all wonderful. After 18 The Moon and Sixpence all, it pleases her to ask us to... ...cises the brief span of his life. It was the kind of party which makes you wonder why the hostess has troubled to bid her guests, and why the guests h... ...life of a seaport town would have made a charming book, and in the various characters that came their way the student might easily have found matter f...

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... up by his snoring. Certain it was, the mate snored most strangely; and no wonder, with that crooked bugle of his. When he came to himself it was just... ...orthy; or rather they were selected from a choice assortment of suspicious characters as being of an in- ferior order of rascality. Armed with cutlass... ...he highest perfection, and the profession was esteemed most honourable. No wonder, then, that like genteel tailors, they rated their services very hig... ...t of four. Of chess, the men never could make head nor tail; indeed, their wonder rose to such a pitch that they at last regarded the mysterious move-... ...ourselves battling with the waves, while the be- fore mild T rades, like a woman roused, blew fiercely, but still warmly, in our face. For all this, t... ...d them kindly; but one of the men getting into a quar- rel on account of a woman, and the rest taking his part, they were all massacred but Viner, who... ...ass plates and other gewgaws stuck on all over, like baubles on a handsome woman. Among other things, she carries a stern gallery resting on the uplif...

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...ants? I recollect again and again, in beautiful places, dropping into that wonderment. The real truth is, I think, that they express, under this appea... ... single character, the character and aspect of a particular engaging young woman, to which all the usual elements of a “subject,” certainly of a setti... ...setting, were to need to be super added. Quite as interesting as the young woman herself at her best, do I find, I must again repeat, this projection ... ...t are never the same from man to man (or, so far as that goes, from man to woman), but positively to appear more true to its charac- ter in proportion... ...any intelligence, and you immediately see how full it is of substance; the wonder being, all the while, as we look at the world, how absolutely, how i... ...ipal adventure. Coming to Europe is even for the ‘frail vessels, ’ in this wonderful age, a mild adventure; but what is truer than that on one side—th... ... sophisti- cated, and Caliban was not. But I’m not talking about imaginary characters; I’m talking about Isabel. Isabel’s intensely real. What I wish ...

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...d within the body of the dying man. At the end of the month the physicians wondered, and named another fort- night. The old man lived on wine alone, b... ... a kind of idea that such would be the case, but did not know; and then he wondered at his own ignorance of such a question. He tried to keep his mind... ...ain to-morrow morning, ’ said he; ‘We had better leave the room now to the woman. ’ And so they went downstairs. It was already evening and nearly dar... ... failings of her lord and master. And John Bold was a man to be loved by a woman; he was himself affectionate, he was confiding and manly; and that ar... ...t. She wept as for the loss of the most perfect treasure with which mortal woman had ever been endowed; for weeks after he was gone the idea of future... ... the language of it in the pages of a novel. In endeavouring to depict the characters of the persons of whom I write, I am to a certain extent forced ... ... increase his cares and, it is to be hoped, his happiness equally. Who can wonder that a gentleman, with fourteen living children and a bare income of... ...od of da- guerreotype or photography has yet been discovered, by which the characters of men can be reduced to writing and put into grammatical langua... ...nfriendly criticisms. Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of...

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...y in the discharge of his ordinary duties. Had he mar- ried a more amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:—he might... ...cease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood’s situation, with only common feelings, must have be... ...nd pounds on their mother’s death—a very comfortable fortune for any young woman.” “To be sure it is; and, indeed, it strikes me that they can want no... ... matter. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did ... ... of it seems doubtful; and till his sentiments are fully known, you cannot wonder at my wishing to avoid any encouragement of my own partiality, by be... ...t her and held down his head, to the great sur- prise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy be- fore company, as he could make noise enoug... ...rs while every song lasted. Lady Middleton frequently called him to order, wondered how any one’s attention could be diverted from music for a moment,... ...anted to be personally known to the family, to have a nearer view of their characters and her own difficulties, and to have an op- portunity of endeav... ...d her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity, by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature. She was not a woman of many words; for,...

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...ith such effect that, after several repetitions of the outcry, an old gray woman protruded her head and a broom-handle from a chamber window; the vene... ...owing melancholy, having only his own personality to vivify it all. “How a woman’s face would brighten it up!” he ejaculated, not intending to be over... ...Signore,” said he, “that this rare wine of our vineyard would lose all its wonderful qualities, if any of it were sent to mar- ket. The Counts of Mont... ...bly by a ruder wooing—had won her to his haunts. In due time he gained her womanly affec- tion; and, making their bridal bower, for aught we know, in ... ...ant girls from the farmhouse, all of a broad grin, be- tween merriment and wonder. These good people got food and lodging for their pleasant pains, an... ...s happened to you?” exclaimed Kenyon, stoop- ing down over his friend, and wondering at the anguish which he betrayed. “Death, death!” sobbed Donatell... ...e essential to the effect at which he aimed. He designed the story and the characters to bear, of course, a certain relation to human nature and human...

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...d indefatigable dancing. W as it really eleven years, Selden found himself wondering, and had she indeed reached the nine-and- twentieth birthday with... ...ed to the same race? The dinginess, the crudity of this average section of womanhood made him feel how highly specialized she was. A rapid shower had ... ... a place like this all to one’s self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman.” She leaned back in a luxury of discontent. Selden was rummaging in ... ...If I could only do over my aunt’s drawing-room I know I should be a better woman.” “Is it so very bad?” he asked sympathetically. She smiled at him ac... ... the warm background of old bindings, that he talked on without pausing to wonder at her sudden interest in so unsuggestive a subject. But he could ne... ...ut aside the thought with a smile at her own fears, and hastened downward, wondering if she should find a cab short of Fifth Avenue. Under the Georgia... ...n from old pictures, and the participa- tors had been cleverly fitted with characters suited to their 125 Edith Wharton types. No one, for instance, ... ... when she had offered up her own secret hope to her friend’s extremity. To characters like Gerty’s such a sacrifice constitutes a moral claim on the p...

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...ountry dance, or the deliberate and dignified procession of the minuet. No wonder, therefore, that her faculties were be- wildered by the complex move... ...ch was ordinarily pursued with girls of her expectations. He had married a woman of sense, and now reaped the richest blessing of such a connexion in ... ...th good principles— such as were not worn in order to be in character as a woman and a lady, but were deeply seated, and formed part, not only of her ... ...; but there is no reason to think that Anna will not prove as fine a young woman as Katherine, when put to 14 James Fenimore Cooper the trial.” “Pray... ...hool, though you were not so fond of chang- ing as myself; but that was no wonder, for pa’s stinginess kept me so shabbily dressed, that I was ashamed... ... have, in the fondness of affection, described my person to him already. I wonder if he likes black eyes and fair complexion. Y ou can’t conceive what... ...o lay the heart open in this manner, it should only be done to those whose characters are connected with our own, and who feel ridicule inflicted on u...

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... to two orphans and was sleeping with them in a lodge in the garden, saw a woman’s figure bending over their beds and next day recognised the figure i... ...umsy, with his drowsy, lustreless eyes fixed on the ground. “An old beggar woman” (Tyeglev never let a single beggar pass without giving alms) “told m... ...were called? Who called you?” “Someone....” T yeglev still looked away. “A woman whom I had hitherto only believed to be dead ... but now I know it fo... ...e his appearance. He expressed some regret at the death of the lieutenant; wondered what could have possessed him.... “Was he in debt to you?” I asked... ... he could not restrain himself and said, as though speaking to himself: “I wonder,” he began, “why it is women are always in a fuss? It’s no good expe... ...the face, a heavy, oppressive sleep; the children were look- ing at him in wonder, and Yefrem ... Yefrem, alas, was asleep, too, but in a cold little ... ...plies followed in due course.... There the incident closed. The suspicious characters had disappeared completely and with them the stolen government m...

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...arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes. His wife, though a cruelly-neglected woman whom he had never loved, did her utmost to deliver him, repaired to B... ... home where I grew up. For, as perhaps you have forgotten, I am an English woman by birth, having first seen the light at Walwyn House, in Dorsetshire... ... said no one was as beauti- ful as the Grandmother, and though I am an old woman myself, I think he was right. She was like a little fairy, up- right ... ...e fetched from London; but I knew nothing of all that; I only grieved, and wondered that she did not come to me, till at last the maid who was nursing... ...rand military bearing which is only acquired in the French service, and no wonder, or he 15 Yo n g e had been three years in the Regiment de Conde, a... ...-place, where the piles of fruit, vegetables, and flowers were a continual wonder and delight to me. My hus- band would buy bouquets of pinks and rose... ... out a billet, and showed it to me. I clearly read in the large straggling characters—’You are welcome to a corporal’s party, if you can by no other m... ...ly handed T ryphena this little note addressed to me, in feeble straggling characters:— ‘Do what they may to me my will does not consent. Pray for me....

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...the first part, the author made sun dry minor alterations in the plot and characters of the story, which alterations were not carried into the second... ...is printed as the author left it, with the excep tion of the names of the characters. In the manuscript each personage figures in the course of the n... ...’s T ower were never to be given; and he has departed, taking with him his Wonderful Lamp. Nevertheless there is great splendor in the structure as we... ...the author had not yet be come possessed with the spirit of the story and characters, the handwriting is deliberate and clear. In the manuscript of “... ...nd an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire. 3 It might be partly owing to this handmai... ... he professed to cure diseases of the inflammatory class, and to work very wonderful effects upon the human system. It is a great pity, for the good o... ...r to him, very loud and obstreperous. “I am glad you find it so, my little woman. Well, and so you bid me tell absolutely where he came from?” Elsie n... ... modern ideas respecting feminine capacities and privileges, but regarding woman, whether in the bud or in the blossom, as the plaything of man’s idle... ..., and such other things as she would require to know when she came to be a woman; but carelessly allowed her to gather up the crumbs of such instructi...

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...of Die Hebraerin am Putztische und als Braut, Amsterdam, 1809. (The Hebrew Woman at her Toilette, and in her Bridal character.) I understand that the ... ...f the Israelites, as one of the most valuable presents that a young Hebrew woman could receive from her lover. Amongst the Midianites, who were enrich... ...f his haughty country-women; and in this it was that the enamored He- brew woman sought the beloved of her heart. ADDENDA ADDENDA ADDENDA ADDENDA ADDE... ... reader for the sake of the writer. Besides, the writer bears all sorts of characters, whilst the reader universally has credit for the best possible.... ...ord should have condescended to discuss anything at all. But gradually all wonder subsides—de jure, in nine days; and, after this collapse of the prim... ...alter or of a pauper’s bed. And thus, for the sake of extorting a stare of wonder- ment from a mob of gaping readers, he did not scruple to give birth... ... to be compounded with its superfluous rubbish. NOTE 7. It is no matter of wonder or complaint that a pa- per written by a correspondent a distance of...

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... thought, upon the duty of filling somebody else’s cup, but she was really wondering how she was going to keep this strange young man in harmony with ... ...d to me, ‘Oh, no, we don’t read Ruskin, Mrs. Hilbery.’ What do you read, I wonder?—for you can’t spend all your time going up in aeroplanes and burrow... ...hem to celebrate their silver wedding-day.” Here she stopped for a moment, wondering why it was 10 Night and Day that Mr. Denham said nothing. Her fe... ...generation were being played for her benefit. She was a remarkable-looking woman, well advanced in the sixties, but owing to the lightness of her fram... ...emory of halting awkward sentences which had failed to give even the young woman with the sad, but inwardly ironi- cal eyes a hint of his force. He tr... ... grate, while Mary took up her stocking again. “I suppose you are the only woman in London who darns her own stockings,” he observed. “I’m only one of... ...ht side at dinner, so as to have him by me when people begin talking about characters in Shakespeare. They won’t be rich, but they’ll be very, very ha... ...reboding. What remark of his would ever reach these fabulous and fantastic characters?—for there was something fantastically unreal in the curious swa... ...ion even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with cer- tain characters in the old novels, for she came out, after a pause, with: “Um—um...