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...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named Noah, was t... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...em a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once more. The road we were on, struck... ...e from Ohio, my horse, saddle and bridle, I soon found my way out to White Haven, the name of the Dent estate. As I found the family congenial my visi... ... least one of these hamlets lived underground for pro- tection against the Indians. The country abounded in game, such as deer and antelope, with abun... ...own called San Patricio, but the inhabitants had all been massacred by the Indians, or driven away. San Antonio was about equally divided in populatio... ...mainder the pay of privates. This would not secure a band leader, nor good players on certain instruments. In gar- rison there are various ways of kee... ...oirs eye was regaled, on every block near the water front, by the sight of players at faro. Often broken places were found in the street, large enough...

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... The better class of tourist was shocked at this, and sympathized with the new-comers. Miss Bartlett, in reply, opened her mouth as little as possible... ...“Why didn’t you talk, Lucy? He prefers young people, I’m sure. I do hope I haven’t monopolized him. I hoped you would have him all the evening, as wel... ...ery interesting, and Lucy hurried over her breakfast, and started with her new friend in high spirits. Italy was coming at last. The Cock- ney Signora... .... That’s worth minding.” Lucy was puzzled. She was again conscious of some new idea, and was not sure whither it would lead her. “If you’ve no Baedeke... ...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... ...“The Misses Alan aren’t that!” cried Lucy. “Yes, they are,” said Cecil. “I haven’t met them but I should say they were a highly unsuitable addition to... ...EM Forster been with me in the fields or the wood since we were engaged?” “Haven’t I? The wood, then,” said Lucy, startled at his queerness, but prett... ... sight. They ran to get dry, they bathed to get cool, they played at being Indians in the willow-herbs and in the bracken, they bathed to get clean. A...

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................................................... 319 CHAPTER IV BEA TRIX’S NEW SUITOR.................................................................... ...uite agile. It was not until after that dreadful siege of our house by the Indians, which left me a widow ere I was a mother, that my dear mother’s he... ...his youth:— ”Were your father, Madam,” he said, “to go into the woods, the Indians would elect him Sachem;” and his lordship was pleased to call me Po... ... in which her ladyship was represented as a huntress of Diana’s court. The new and fair lady of Castlewood found the sad, lonely, little occupant of t... ...the great and undeniable likeness between this por- trait and the lad, the new Viscountess, who had still hold of the boy’s hand as she looked at the ... ...of this past trial as an initiation before entering into life—as our young Indians undergo tortures si- lently before they pass to the rank of warrior... ... him joy,” says Mr. Esmond. “What is the cause of this supreme felicity?” “Haven’t you heard?” says he. “Don’t you know? I thought the family told you... ...y the dress is not becoming, and I’ve much too pretty a figure to hide it. Haven’t I, cousin?” and here she glanced at her person and the looking-glas... ...ried Beatrix, “and you bring me this com- mission! He has left me, and you haven’t dared to avenge me! Y ou, that pretend to be the champion of our ho...

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...u something, since your property is returned. For all that, if you bring a new hat with you, you will have to pay for the knowledge that a special cos... ...okes of the whip, nothing could move him now. The stifled groans of ruined players, as they passed out, their mute imprecations, their stupefied faces... ... of a bloodthirsty drama, and just as effective. The rooms are filled with players and onlookers, with pov- erty-stricken age, which drags itself thit... ...he silence seemed to grow deeper as all heads turned curiously towards the new arrival. Who would have thought it? The jaded elders, the fossilized wa... ...ness looks gay, and despair is decorous? Such thoughts as these produced a new emotion in these torpid hearts as the young man entered. Were not execu... ...very one for his own benefit. Is this logical, or am I a madman after all? Haven’t you there all the moral of the comedy that goes on every day in thi... ...vainest susceptibili- ties were wrung with an infernal pain. The words, ‘I haven’t a penny about me, my good fellow!’ came from me in the hard voice o... ...se de Montbauron. “‘I would sooner take ship for the Brazils, and give the Indians lessons in algebra, though I don’t know a word of it, than tarnish ... ...lodging, Pauline broke in through my first stammering words with: “‘If you haven’t any money—?’ “Ah, the music of Rossini was as nothing compared with...

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... was killed, 7 Yo n g e and he himself severely injured, in a raid of the Indians far west, and he was brought home by an old friend of the fam- ily.... ...ng under the loss of the main pillar of their house, but sending forth the new founders with good hope. Geraldine had made her home at St. Matthew’s w... ...zing how far life is from having its final crisis over at one-and-twenty . New Sisters came in, old ones went to found fresh branches; stricter rules ... ...elegram from Ironbeam Park to find his sister in the utmost danger, with a new-born son by her side, and her husband in the paroxysms of the terrible ... ... than he fell upon me with, ‘Mrs. Daisy, I give you to understand that you haven’t a husband made of such tough commodity as you are used to at home, ... ..., thank you, I don’t know it, and I don’t believe it.” “Ah, we’ll see! You haven’t thought of the dresses you two are to have for the Drawing-Room fro... ...ink one knows noth- ing at all.” “What do you know, Adrian?” “Know? Why, I haven’t been about with Kit and Ted Harewood for nothing! Jolly good larks ... ...s the dearest, most devoted of fathers, till he and I were devoured by the Indians. If they had com- pleted their operations on my scalp, it would hav... .... THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQUE UE UE UE UE Your honour’s players, hearing your amendment, Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Taming...

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...not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the complet... ...ift the back- ground, the interlocutors, the light and shade, in search of new revelations and effects. He pre- sents a succession of many scenes, exq... ...them. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I look upon every day lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.’ And again: ‘Why, Sir, I am a man of the world. I live in... ...isition there appears a very strong symptom of Johnson’s prejudice against players; a preju- dice which may be attributed to the following causes: fir... ...ttain. At all periods of his life Johnson used to talk con- temptuously of players; but in this work he speaks of them with peculiar acrimony; for whi... ...ich Garrick had committed in the course of that night’s acting, said, ‘The players, Sir, have got a kind of rant, with which they run on, with- out an... ...crease their exertion and alacrity when they have a near prospect of their haven. Lord Chesterfield, to whom Johnson had paid the high compliment of a... ...r observes, that it is said there are no weak or deformed people among the Indians; but he with much sagacity assigns the reason of this, which is, th... ...well. ‘And that, Sir, is not from affection but gallantry. But some of the Indians have affection.’ Johnson. ‘Sir, that they help some of their childr...

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...minded a portion in heaven, and to the children whom he loves a rest and a haven not built with hands. Something that I have seen dimly warns me to lo... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...hich I had ever been solaced. On the other hand, it will be obvious that a new hope at the same time arose to take its place, viz., the reasonable one... ...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... ...r all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always done her duty in action;... ...tures whom they feared? No; but towards their friends—towards that fi- nal haven of China—as what was hourly implored by their 179 Thomas de Quincey ... ...sheet anchor for the storm-beaten sufferer, who is laboring to re- cover a haven of rest from the agonies of intemperance, and who has had the fortitu...

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...onsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuin... ... peculiar state of mind in which the last word spoken by anybody else is a new injury. ‘Over! and why should I say no more about it because it’s over?... ...y, because, as practical people, we thought even a playful name might be a new thing to her, and might have a softening and affectionate kind of effec... ...ding on by nonsense after every one has found it out, it is a beadle. Y ou haven’t seen a beadle lately?’ ‘As an Englishman who has been more than twe... ...m afeared of my life of ‘em, you should be. Y ou’ve got half the property, haven’t you?’ ‘Y es, yes.’ ‘Well then, don’t you be cowed. Y ou’re clever, ... ..., and he stood entirely corroborated. 62 Charles Dickens ‘Got a room now; haven’t you?’ the turnkey asked the debtor after a week or two. ‘Y es, I ha... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c... ... I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we can’t be Indians, unfortunately—Good morning!’ They came down-stairs with powder bef...

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...onsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuin... ... peculiar state of mind in which the last word spoken by anybody else is a new injury. ‘Over! and why should I say no more about it because it’s over?... ...y, because, as practical people, we thought even a playful name might be a new thing to her, and might have a softening and affectionate kind of effec... ...ding on by nonsense after every one has found it out, it is a beadle. Y ou haven’t seen a beadle lately?’ ‘As an Englishman who has been more than twe... ...m afeared of my life of ‘em, you should be. Y ou’ve got half the property, haven’t you?’ ‘Y es, yes.’ ‘Well then, don’t you be cowed. Y ou’re clever, ... ..., and he stood entirely corroborated. 62 Charles Dickens ‘Got a room now; haven’t you?’ the turnkey asked the debtor after a week or two. ‘Y es, I ha... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c... ... I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we can’t be Indians, unfortunately—Good morning!’ They came down-stairs with powder bef...

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...he Nopolis Tea-Pot’—as nearly as I can recollect, this was the name of the new paper. The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant—not to say seve... ... night, and I spect he’s gone and cabbaged ‘em every one.’ ‘Dod rot him! I haven’t a doubt of it,’ replied the foreman, getting purple with rage ‘but ... ...ent to his lately-ac- quired charger —an attachment which seemed to attain new strength from every fresh example of the animal’s ferocious and demon-l... ...nished neighborhood stood idly around in silent and pathetic wonder. But a new and fearful object soon rivetted the attention of the multitude, and pr... ...eadful business that of the Bugaboos, wasn’t it?—dreadful creatures, those Indians!—do turn out your toes! I really am ashamed of you—man of great cou... ...e different moves. All is then dependent upon the variable judgment of the players. Now even granting (what should not be granted) that the movements ...