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...most as daring, that one day a mammoth had been beset; and therewith began fiction—pointing a way to achievement— and the august prophetic procession ... ...ise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing much ... ...rical fanaticisms in the valleys of the Semoy and the forest region of the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chin... ...rs in Chicago, and the same fate had overtaken Berlin, Moscow, T okio, the eastern half of Lon- don, T oulon, Kiel, and two hundred and eighteen other... .... And moreover, as the king put it to Firmin, it was decided to ‘nail down Easter.’ … In these matters, as in so many matters, the new civilisation ca...

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...nd health. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit’s schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four tons register; sailed from San Fran- cisco towards the end of ... ...that bar- rier the forest harboured, roosting and nestling there like birds about a ruin; and far above, it greened and rough- ened the razor edges of... ... says the sad Tahitian proverb; but they are all three, so long as they endure, co-haunters of the beach. The mark of anchorage was a blow-hole in the... ...from the bath in bright raiment, red and blue and green, such as we delighted to see in the coloured little pictures of our childhood; and presently t... ...nd the adopted chil- dren play and grow up together undistinguished. The spoil- ing, and I may almost say the deification, of the child, is nowhere ca... ...Here was the suffumigation; here was the muttering wizard; here was the desert place to which Aladdin was decoyed by the false uncle. But they manage ...

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...d patriotic cries, and then flew up very swiftly and easily into the south-eastern sky, rising and falling with long, easy undulations in an ex- traor... ...?” said Edna. “Oh!—manoeuvres,” stid Bert. “Oh! I thought they did them at Easter,” said Edna, and troubled no more. The last great British war, the B... ...ances—might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the... ...univiorsal service in a defensive militia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with r... ...the new type. They had been built solely for reconnoitring purposes on the eastern fron- tier, they were mostly too small to carry more than a couple,... ... Red Indians, and comic, respect- ful niggers. This he had learnt from the fiction in his public library. Beyond that he had learnt very little. He wa...

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...l sacrifice to her father’s will was on the occasion of Mark’s marriage at Easter. Things had arranged themselves very conveniently for him at Micklet... ...at all was in order for the marriage of Mark and Annaple immediately after Easter. Lady Delmar had resigned herself to the inevitable, and the wedding... ...orkers, and devoting two regular evenings in each week to Gerard Godfrey’s eastern district, where he kept all the ac- counts, had a model court and e... ...e went, to the great relief of Nuttie, who, according to the experience of fiction, could hardly believe his life safe till what she called justice ha...

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...aped from the glowing lassitude of Venice for some days of climbing in the Eastern Alps. In January, in an outbreak of enquiry, he had gone with Lione... ...d Benham against the Balkans; the Balkans were getting to be too handy for Easter and summer holidays, and now that there were sev- eral good hotels i... ...eople are dreadful people.” “But how?” “You’ve heard of the great Kent and Eastern Bank smash and the Marlborough Building Society frauds eight or nin... ... claim him,” said the spokesman, misunderstand- ing. “He is a character in fiction.” But all men are brothers, Benham maintained. They had to be merci...

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... thing she must necessarily repent of, or in any case make apology for. An Eastern Queen, thus ad- dressed by her Minister of the treasury, could not ... ...should. When we ask for facts simply, we feel the intrusion of a style. Of fiction it is part. In the one case the classical robe, in the other any me... ...nworth? Becas, my dear, there’s Arr’bella, who’s sharp, she is, as a North-easter in January, (which Chump ‘d cry out for, for the sake of his ships, ... ...There’s the Indian Staff—the Persian Mission: they like soldiers for those Eastern posts. But we must take what we can get. We should, anyhow, live ab... ... she was selected by a prince of the earth. A sort of 398 Sandra Belloni ‘Eastern handmaid’ prostration, with joined hands, and, above all things, a ...

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... “his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head.”’ ‘Shall we see you at Easter?’ said Emily. ‘No, I do not think you will. I am engaged to stay wit... ...ar, and I shall spend a fortnight with my mother and Florence. It is after Easter that you come to Oxford, is it not, Claude?’ ‘Y es, my year of idlen... ... fairy tales from her sisters’ library; so great was her dread of works of fiction, that Emily and Lilias had never been allowed to read any of the Wa... ...r they seem to fleet; We count them past, But they shall last.’ SOON AFTER EASTER, Claude went to Oxford. He was much missed by his sisters, who wante... ... and how little they owed to her; she feared to think of the ap- proach of Easter Day, a dread which she had never felt be- fore, and which she knew t... ...very reason of this dreadful neglect; well do I deserve to be miserable at Easter, the proper time for joy. Oh! how different it will be.’ ‘It will be...

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...eir full value.” When a man crushed by misfortune is once able to make the fiction of a hope for himself by a series of arguments, more or less reason... ... of Roses” to westward, the house of A. Popinot was rising, radiant in the eastern splendors of success. By the advice of Gaudissart and Finot, Anselm... ...o are to supersede the agent, step into the insolvent’s shoes, became by a fiction of law the insol- vent himself, and are authorized to liquidate the... ...injunction the books of the false creditors, show the improbability of the fiction of their existence, prove it to the judges, sue for justice, go and... ...ttle Molineux,—the being he had once regarded as a nonentity, who now by a fiction of law had become Cesar Birotteau. He was compelled to go to the Co... ...re used and spent at every hour. Honor was to Cesar a corpse, for which an Easter morning might yet dawn. This hope kept his sorrow incessantly active...

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...ty of their newspapers the intelligence of vari- ous native risings in the Eastern Archipelago. Sun- shine gleams between the lines of those short par... ...e two women; accomplished what the priest called “his religious duties” at Easter. That morning he felt like a man who had sold his soul. In the after... ...o declare him- self in love. Under the cover of that sacred and poeti- cal fiction he desired her masterfully, for various rea- sons; but principally ... ...olden light shot up into the heavens and spread over the semicircle of the eastern horizon. The sun had risen. The mist lifted, broke into drifting pa...

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...nnouncements, from annual reference-books, from Sunday School periodicals, fiction-magazines, and journals of discussion. One bene- factor implored, “... ...e booming sounds, with affable smiles, like a popular preacher blessing an Easter congre- 116 Babbitt gation, like a humorous lecturer completing his... ...as the heavy circular stone over the door the women found ‘rolled away’ on Easter morning. This is the story we are to ‘Go-tell.’” In their advertisem... ...every grimace had been arranged by a director, could not have acted in the Easter cantata of the Central Methodist Church; maga- zines reporting, quit... ...een getting off lately, do you?” “Oh, rats, Henry T., you been reading bum fiction. There 322 Babbitt ain’t any such a thing as these plots to keep f...

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...- ter, and especially amusing herself over her niece Mademoiselle’s little fiction that her equipage had secured respect. ‘That young Darpent is a use... ...! Nothing would restore my reputation but marrying the little Chevalier at Easter. And in the midst, just as Eustace was a little better, and there wa... ...pray—pray as I had never prayed before—all that night and that strange sad Easter morning, when all the bells were ring- ing, and the people flocking ... ...low gentle voice, trained by his ministry to his sweet sister. He read the Easter Epistle and Gospel too; and at last Eustace, relaxing the weary watc... ...latter. I knew nothing of what was passing at home till a day or two after Easter Sunday, when one of the gentlemen of the household of the Duke of Or... ...e, up a few shallow steps, in a quiet, cool, wainscoted room, adorned with Eastern porcelain on shelves, we found her with her little daughter at her ...

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...been the theme of earlier hopes. The wedding had taken place shortly after Easter; and im- mediately after, the Rivers family had departed for London,... ...nessing one’s sisters. Poor thing! And Averil had only come home this very Easter.’ ‘And with everything to learn, in such a scene as that! The first ... ...his world! T o take up one of his works after any of our present school of fiction is like getting up a mountain side after a feverish draw- ing-room ... ...hat he heard from the Mays, and he strongly advised that Leonard should at Easter obtain employment for a couple of years at the school in which he hi... ... read in her room, she was uneasy, though she could hardly listen. So came Easter Eve; and towards evening she was a little revived, and asked Averil ... ...rushing the grief; but it was such as to be at its softest and sweetest at Easter, amid the Resurrection joys, and the budding flowers, though Ella’s ...

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...get our towels, and nous sommes avec vous!” Rudyard Kipling A LITTLE PREP EASTER TERM was but a month old when Stettson major, a dayboy, contracted d... ... sacred, too, sir?” said Perowne. The Old Boys’ match was the event of the Easter term. “We’ll hope they aren’t in training. Now for the list. First I... ...be fair and include everybody. Let’s see. They have a holiday task for the Easters, which, of course, none of them will ever look at. We will give the... ...y.) “Our open incompetence takes refuge in the flowery paths of inaccurate fiction. But a day of reckoning approaches, Beetle mine. I myself have prep...

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...iged vari- ous manufacturers; and there followed a series of the financial fictions by which neither notaries nor borrowers are deceived. Chesnel’s ey... ... the bench. The pretty maid-servant, now of ripe age, and wrinkled like an Easter pippin, looked after the house, and they lived accord- ing to the es...

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... it (enough, when unburlesqued, to blow the down off the gossamer-stump of fiction at a single breath, I have heard tell), must be treated of men, and... ... given to lose our solidity and fly at it; although the faithful mirror of fiction has been showing us latterly that a too superhu- man beauty has dis... ...s feet, ‘it’s because I consented to a compromise!’—a transparent piece of fiction this, but so in harmony with the character stripped naked for us th... ...inter with- out seeing him. She returned to Mount Laurels from Lon- don at Easter, and went on a visit to Steynham, and back to 245 George Meredith L... ...lays. Beggar and heiress he said in his heart, to vitalize the three-parts fiction of the point of honour which Cecilia’s beauty was fast submerging. ... ...ore than in what you do. They are now in Wales. They will be in town after Easter. Then you must expect that her feeling for you will be tried, unless... ...uchamp’s Career CHAPTER XLV A LITTLE PLOT AGAINST CECILIA Some days before Easter week Seymour Austin went to Mount Laurels for rest, at an express in... ...ere is an objection, I am sure—yes; papa has invited Mr. T uckham here for Easter.’ ‘We could carry him with us.’ ‘Yes, but I should wish to be entire... ...e.’ ‘In that case, we might be off early, as you say, and have part of the Easter week in Rome.’ ‘Mr. Austin wishes it greatly, papa, though he has no...

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...aid, “that’s the place where our blessed Lord was born.” She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets. In the foreground wa... ...elf; and perhaps because the first im- pression on his mind was made by an Eastern town, he found his chief amusement in those which described the Lev... ...elf running, running, faster than any of the other boys. At the end of the Easter term there were the sports, and he would be able to go in for the ra... ...ut he could never get near enough to put the salt on a bird’s tail. Before Easter he had given up the struggle. He felt a dull resentment against his ... ... sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could not think a man profound whose interests were so divers... ...d if you want to go to Germany you’d better go 106 Of Human Bondage after Easter than after Christmas. It’ll be much pleasanter in the spring than in... ...lt himself ridiculous because at his age he had not enjoyed that which all fiction taught him was the most important thing in life; but he had the unf... ...e time of the sixpenny reprints. There was a regular supply of inexpensive fiction written to order by poor hacks for the consumption of the illiterat... ...re chivalrous; and, her imagination filled with the extravagances of cheap fiction, she pictured to herself all sorts of romantic explanations for his...

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...feel- ing for her a particle, a shred of what I do for Mary, it was a mere fiction—a romance, an impossibility.’ ‘I do not understand you, Louis. Why ... ...’ ‘You’ll find no distinction of territory here,’ laughed Clara. ‘It was a fiction that we were to live in separate rooms, like naughty children. Does... ... ber what I used to think of patronage. ‘But Louis has promised to come at Easter, and he will teach me a little more charity, I hope; and, what is be... ... ‘Your most affectionate Sister, ‘Clara’ Before Easter, Charlotte’s poor rival was lying at rest in Cheveleigh churchyard, ... ...itzjocelyn did not shine there as usual. He was detained in London all the Easter recess by his father’s illness. Lord Ormersfield was bound hand and ... ...mere air and exercise. ‘Father,’ said he, coming in one day a little after Easter, ‘you are a very wise man!’ ‘Eh!’ said the Earl, looking up in wonde... ... arrayed in black robes, which, by their weight and coarse- ness, recalled Eastern fashions of mourning, which Spain derived from the Moors. She attem...

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...ed to ordinary readers in the lighter form of clev- erly mingled truth and fiction, these books will assuredly be read with profit and delight, especi... ...with. a painful interest in consequence of the disas- trous eruptions last Easter Day, which covered with lava and ashes the poor and scanty vegetatio... ... favourable?” my uncle asked. “Excellent,” replied Captain Bjarne; “a sou’-easter. We shall pass down the Sound full speed, with all sails set.” In a ... ...st. The rugged peaks of the trachyte rocks presented faint outlines on the eastern hori- zon; at times a few patches of snow, concentrating the vague ... ...actacus, or Caradoc. (Tr.) 95 Jules Verne taken his way when he chose the eastern tunnel? or was he determined to examine this passage to its farthes... ...y. “The want of water,” he said, “is the only obstacle in our way. In this eastern gallery made up of lavas, schists, and coal, we have not met with a...

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...Mysie. Dolores had looked for- ward to his coming, for, by all the laws of fiction, he was bound to be the champion of the orphan niece, and finally t... ...that, on the whole, it is the few who are palpably affected by the mass of fiction in the world; but that it is needful to take good care that those f... ...clung to everything, even to the guinea-pigs, and she was the first in the Easter holidays to beg for the ‘Thorn Fortress.’ Indeed, Mysie was a little...

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...ondon: that this room of state, in short, could be anything but a pleasant fiction and cheerful jest of the captain’s, invented and put in prac tice ... ...e perspective, furnished, as Mr. Robins would say, in a style of more than Eastern splendour, and filled (but not inconveniently so) with groups of la... ... captain had foreseen from the first that we must be in a place called the Eastern passage; and so we were. It was about the last place in the world i... ...nner of an enclosure for keeping elephants in, as we see it represented in Eastern prints and pictures. The prisoners wear a parti coloured dress; and... ...ountry; and who were sauntering, too, about a larger state room called the Eastern Drawing room; we went up stairs into another chamber, where were c... ... you, this may, but it don’t suit me. This may be all very well with Down Easters, and men of Boston raising, but it won’t suit my figure nohow; and ... ...ght. He ap peared to understand correctly all he had read; and what ever fiction had enlisted his sympathy in its belief, had done so keenly and ear...