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...f the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in high water: thence to the sea the width steadily diminishes, until, at th... ...dified, would make a mass a mile square and two hun dred and forty one feet high. The mud deposit gradually extends the land—but only gradually; it h... ...s interfere with its work, it builds fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet’s Island contained one thou sand five h... ...n civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French were schooling them in a rudimentary way, missionarying among them, and drawin... ...he realm of France received on parchment a stupendous accession. The fertile plains of Texas; the vast Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 13 basi... ...r ‘striker’ on a steamboat. This thing shook the bottom out of all my Sunday school teachings. That boy had been notoriously worldly, and I just the r... ...but a board four or five feet long, with one end turned up; it is a reversed school house bench, with one of the supports left and the other removed. ... ...an arrow heads, of flint; pair of bead moccasins, from uncle who crossed the Plains; three ‘alum’ baskets of various colors—being skeleton frame of wi...

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...; some dreadful combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life, and some of very middling indeed; some love-making for the senti... ...ed a copy of “Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, t... ..., as she thought, quite enough, without conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary. Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be t... ...t conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary. Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyar... ...enty-four young la- dies. Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her; high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter’s granddaughter) allowed that her... ... how to act. She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at leaving school. For three days before, little Laura Martin, the orphan, followed he... ...led spoils. And her pleasure was to ride the young colts, and to scour the plains like Camilla. She was the favourite of her father and of the stablem...

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...elieved to pass a build- ing put up by the London County Council for Night Schools. “Lord, how gloomy it is!” her husband groaned. “Poor creatures!” W... ...,” said Ambrose. Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men’s talk without listening to it, could think... ..., lights that indicated huge squares of domestic comfort, lights that hung high in air. No dark- ness would ever settle upon those lamps, as no darkne... ... 15 Virginia Woolf “Did you leave the children well? They’ll be ready for school, I suppose. Do they take after you or Ambrose? They’ve got good head... ...as flushed and out of breath. “You know what gentlemen are. The chairs too high—the tables too low—there’s six inches between the floor and the door. ... ...o sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—only that sounds too like a school- girl! You know,” she said, turning to Helen, “I don’t think music’s... ...ense river and the immense forest, the vast stretches of dry earth and the plains of the sea that encircled the earth; from the sea the sky rose steep...

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...followed up what everybody said, with continuous double knocks. Mrs. Tibbs highly approved of every observa- tion that fell from Mrs. Maplesone; and a... ...with everything that was proposed. Mr. Wisbottle, on the other hand, was a high Tory. He was a clerk in the Woods and Forests Of- fice, which he consi... ... the house. He felt convinced that his intrinsic merits must procure him a high destiny. He wore shepherd’s- plaid inexpressibles, and used to look un... ...e of the place. ‘Amelia, my dear, ’ said Miss Maria Crumpton, entering the school-room one morning, with her false hair in papers: as she occasionally... ...on all the young ladies murmured their admiration again. Courtiers are but school-boys, and court-ladies school-girl’s. 54 Sketches by Boz So importa... ..., as never can take place with a proper degree of bustle out of a boarding-school. The smaller girls managed to be in everybody’s way, and were pushed... .... ‘Man,’ replied Horatio, ‘man, whether he ranged the bright, gay, flowery plains of a second Eden, or the more sterile, barren, and I may say, common...

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...so that the wheels of a dili- gence could be heard a league away along the highroad. The two longest sides of the square, separated by an avenue of li... ...art of “the old scoundrel’s” property. However, Rogron did send his son to school, and did buy him a man, one of his own cartmen, to save him from the... ...besity, and showed, instead, an almost ridiculous de- bility. His father’s high color was changed in him to the livid flabbiness peculiar to persons w... ...h he will spend a mint of money; others, again, dream of distinction and a high grade in the National Guard. Provins, that terrestrial paradise, fille... ...o shopkeepers in the muddy regions of Saint-Denis. After crossing the gray plains which lie between La Ferte- Gaucher and Provins, a desert and yet pr... ...due that child,” said Rogron. 58 Pierrette “Isn’t she old enough to go to school?” asked Madame Vinet. Again she was silenced by a look from her husb... ...or the little cousin in the managing editor; we intend to engage that poor schoolmaster who lost his employ- ment through the encroachments of the cle...

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...rt attention from his mistake by affected attitudes, and carrying his arms high; but this made him only more ridiculous, and excited 22 Saint-Simon b... ...father passed the rest of his long life surrounded by friends, and held in high esteem by the King and his minis- ters. His advice was often sought fo... ...state for the war department. Both were in good favour with the King; both high in power, both spoiled. The suc- cesses in Catalonia had annoyed Barbe... ...ve them their patents. Under M. de T urenne the army had afforded, as in a school, opportunities for young officers to learn the art of warfare, and t... ...el- ebrated Papal decree which has made so many martyrs, de- populated our schools, introduced ignorance, fanaticism, and misrule, rewarded vice, thro... ...ns which affected him in nothing, nor touched in any way the honour of the School of Molina! His profundities, the violence he spoke of—all this toget... ...ee it once is to see it always. Ani- mals to shoot are not met with in the plains. They must be sought for among the mountains,—and there the ground i... ...g, the wild boar, and other beasts as we hunt the hare,—and elsewhere. The plains even are so dry, so hard, so full of deep crevices (that are not per...

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...deed, it has been made the butt of ridicule by the disciples of a decadent school. Its faults and its beauties are on the surface; Rousseau’s own esti... ...s, we could only show ourselves in the streets while they were employed at school. I had already become a redresser of grievances; there only wanted a... ... passionate, assignations with a Miss Goton, who thought proper to act the schoolmistress with me. Our meetings, though absolutely childish, afforded ... ...d actions were strictly scrutinized, and that such advice would be thought high treason against Catholicism, but she spoke so feelingly of the afflict... ...ady to burst with vexation. Madam de Warrens, who did not seem to think so highly of this expedient as the projector pretended to do, contented hersel... ... the small parcel I carried under my arm; be that as it may, I conceived a high opinion of my consequence from this circumstance, and already thought ... ...mind, ’tis ever to the country of Vaud, near the lake, in those charm- ing plains, that imagination leads me. An orchard on the banks of that lake, an...

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...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM... .................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140 4 Across the Plains whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place... ...the hour; and as I saw, one after another, pleasant villages, carts upon the highway and fish- ers by the stream, and heard cockcrows and cheery voice... ... I am at a loss to name their parallel in England. A butler perhaps rides as high over the unbutlered, but then he sets you right with a reserve and a... ...inly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They considered themselves too highly to accept. They would even resent the offer. As for him and me, we... ...ements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working in – . It is a good country. You can get from 5... ... folks get along.” And so ends this artless narrative. The little man was at school again, God bless him, while his brother lay scalped upon the deser... ...keep pigs. Gun-powder and print- ing, which the other day we imitated, and a school of man- ners which we never had the delicacy so much as to desire ...

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...ut I know it was remarkable enough to attract my notice, even though his figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset, that I had shaded my eyes with my hand before I saw him at all....

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...figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset, that I had sha... ...he Line, he turned himself about again, and, raising his eyes, saw my figure high above him. “The Signal Man” Charles Dickens 3 “Is there any path ... ...el of damp air, and could he never rise into the sunshine from between those high stone walls? Why, that depended upon times and cir cumstances. Unde... ...e” Charles Dickens 34 angelic little wife, and where is the boy I went to school with?” I entreated the phantom to be comforted, and above all thin... ...and above all things to take heart respecting the loss of the boy he went to school with. I represented to him that probably that boy never did, withi... ...rged that I myself had, in later life, turned up several boys whom I went to school with, and none of them had at all answered. I expressed my humble ... ...On the other hand, a young antelope of transcendent beauty from the fruitful plains of Camden Town (whence she had been brought, by traders, in the ha...

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...ful time of it by all ac- counts. But there is this about some women, which over- tops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice to themselve... ...rom the tow-path with a ‘c’ ses vite, mais c’est long.’ The canal was busy enough. Every now and then we met or overtook a long string of boats, with ... ...nto the wake. Of all the creatures of commercial enterprise, a canal barge is by far the most delightful to consider. It may spread its sails, and the... ...ers, ambassadors, and consuls sit throned in state from China to Peru, and the Union Jack flutters on all the winds of heaven. Under these safeguards,... ...e eti- quette of the universe – to sit at the same table and pick your own superior diet from among their crusts. I had not seen such a thing done sin... ...ur, in a blouse and military kepi. It was notable that the child was many degrees better dressed than either of the parents. We were informed he was a... ...hole mansion, with its dogs and birds and smoking chimneys, so far a traveller as that? and as homely an object among the cliffs and orchards of the S...

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... moving at a snail’s pace, their limp ears marking the time; while perched high upon the seat, under a yellow cotton wagon umbrella, Presley recognise... ...ark brown, and his forehead was the forehead of the intellectual, wide and high, with a certain unmistakable lift about it that argued education, not ... .... The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that of a delicate and highly sensitive nature, the lips thin and loosely shut together, the chin ... ...usands of miles distant—a drought on the prairies of Dakota, a rain on the plains of India, a frost on the Russian steppes, a hot wind on the llanos o... ...me when she was a gradu- ate of some years’ standing from the State Normal School and was teaching literature, music, and penmanship in a seminary in ... ...ll. As a public speaker he was one of the last of the followers of the old school of orators. He even carried the diction and manner of the rostrum in... ...aw but the office, his own personal aggrandisement. He belonged to the new school, wherein objects were attained not by orations before senates and as... ...as to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India. Falseness dies; injustice and oppression in the end of eve...

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...ompleted “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Y orkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of e... ...means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved hi... ...upation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school any- where; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was... ... worthy cornerstone of a structure, which, for absurdity and a magnificent high-minded laissez-aller neglect, has rarely been exceeded in the world. W... ...asmuch as my father has got it now, and is saving it up for me, which is a highly virtuous purpose; and, going back to the old gentleman, good did com... ... a melancholy little plot of ground behind them, usually fenced in by four high whitewashed walls, and frowned upon by stacks of chimneys: in which th... ...ith the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria, the humble artist had pursued her lonely, but contented wa...

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...ural to us. W e no longer put arguments into the form of syllogisms like the schoolmen; the simple use of language has been, happily, restored to us. ... ...Cleinias may be dis- couraged at these repeated overthrows. He therefore ex- plains to him the nature of the process to which he is be- ing subjected.... ...bious animal, half philosopher, half politician; one of a class who have the highest opin- ion of themselves and a spite against philosophers, whom th... ...s, we should imagine a mental state in which not individuals only, but whole schools during more than one generation, were ani- mated by the desire to... ...u seem to have no objection to talking nonsense. Fearing that there would be high words, I again endeav- oured to soothe Ctesippus, and said to him: T...

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...ing of the gong carried the order to take up everything and bear it beyond highwater mark, and the flare-lamps broke out by the hundred between the we... ...f the three doubtful spans, but boats adrift, if the flood chanced to be a high one, might endanger the girders; and there was a very fleet in the shr... ... went 15 The Day’s Work out in spouts of foam. Mother Gunga had come bank-high in haste, and a wall of chocolate-coloured water was her mes- senger. ... .... Also my staff says -” “Peace, thou!” lowed the Bull. “The worship of the schools is mine, and they talk very wisely, asking whether I be one or many... ... of strange Gods, and I listen. Faith follows faith among my people in the schools, and I have no anger; for when all words are said, and the new talk... ... that my people grow rich and praise me. Shiv has said that the men of the schools do not forget; Bhairon is content for his 26 Rudyard Kipling crowd... ...came from the Government that a Bhil was to repair to a walled city of the plains to give evidence in a law-court, would it be wise to disregard that ... ...d, and of the house in Devonshire; 87 The Day’s Work then, nodding to the plains: “Yes; it’s a big work all of it even my little share. He must have ... ...kept to our hills. Some of our men have taken ponies and bullocks from the plains, and others pots and cloths and ear-rings.” 88 Rudyard Kipling “ Ar...

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...ver you be, and whatsoever be your station—whether that of a member of the higher ranks of society or that of a member of the plainer walks of life—I ... ...ld be thankful. Also, it would be an excellent thing if some reader in the higher walks of life, some person who stands remote, 12 Dead Souls both by... ...class and an- other, and whether, at times, there may not be repeated in a higher sphere what is done in a lower, and likewise to note any additional ... ...t before him there stands a man of incomparably inferior enlightenment and school- ing—a rude country bumpkin whose life, throughout, has been passed ... ... out a prolonged probing with the aid of an insight sharpened in the acute school of research. Only God can say what Manilov’s real character was. A c... ...up, and gentle nurture, as we all know, is to be acquired only in boarding schools, and boarding schools, as we know, hold the three princi- pal subje... ...s of a type rarely to be met with in Russia, where nearly everything, from plains to human feet, is, rather, on the gigantic scale; these features, I ...

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............................................................. 313 THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER. ................................................................ ...and face, Set my breast on fire; Then above my head the blaze Mounted ever higher. Vain I sought to put it out; Ever burned the flame; Stead of dying,... ...ould be! When married we are, They call us mamma. No need then to sew, T o school we ne’er go; Command uncontroll’ d, Have maids, whom to scold; Choos... ...ragile bridge The wanderer quakes. I hear thee, when yon billows rise on high, With murmur deep. T o tread the silent grove oft wander I, When a... ...ttempts to pierce the air in vain, When, hidden in the azure sky, The lark high o’er him chaunts his strain: So do I cast my troubled gaze Through bus... ... next appear Mills and wheels, the surest token That a level spot is near, Plains far-stretching and unbroken. And so onwards, onwards roam, T o my ga... ... AFTER these vernal rains That we so warmly sought, Dear wife, see how our plains With blessings sweet are fraught! We cast our distant gaze Far in th... ...ness covers, Yet Susan’s image still o’er it hovers.— The water sinks, the plains re-appear. Fair Susan’s lamented with many a tear,— May he who refus... ... bell is safe suspended—” So to the fields he straightway sped As if ’twas school-time ended. The bell now ceas’d as bell to ring, Roused by the mothe...

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...tumble downward like the flying fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture, quite a dry, Bob! And Word... ...been but both in Their senses, they ‘d have sent young master forth To school, or had him soundly whipp’d at home, To teach him manners for th... ...dition, Expurgated by learned men, who place Judiciously, from out the schoolboy’s vision, The grosser parts; but, fearful to deface Too m... ...I will say—my reasons are my own — That if I had an only son to put To school (as God be praised that I have none), ‘T is not with Donna Inez ... ...e, Juan (and not Wordsworth), so pursued His self communion with his own high soul, Until his mighty heart, in its great mood, Had mitigated... ...hts like these true wisdom may discern Longings sublime, and aspirations high, Which some are born with, but the most part learn To plague t... ...burst forth from her Numidian veins, Even as the Simoom sweeps the blasted plains. The last sight which she saw was Juan’s gore, And he himsel... ...from his beads to join the jocund race; Even Nimrod’s self might leave the plains of Dura, And wear the Melton jacket for a space: If she hath...

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...st sang, Draught of Bacchus never sprang Blood the bliss of Gods to share, High o’er sweep of eagle wings, Like the run with her, when rings Clear her... ...n-haunted thickets hold apart. In love the ruddy hue declares great heart; High confidence in her whose aid is lent T o lovers lifting the tuned instr... ...nds the Titan with the God; Yet unto dwarf and mortal, she, submiss In her high Lady’s mandate, yields the kiss; And is it needed that Love’s daintier... ...s in its laboratory, what shall save? But men who ply their wits in such a school, Must pray the mercy of the knave and fool. —Much have I studied har... ...tral] A hundred mares, all white! their manes Like mace-reed of the marshy plains Thick-tufted, wavy, free o’ the shears: And when the fiery squadron ...

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...g to advise the public, may speak free, Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise; Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace: What can be j... ...They, who to states and governors of the Common wealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition,... ... and that his loyalest affection and his hope waits on your proceedings. His highest praising is not flattery, and his plainest advice is a kind of pr... ...ok no heed. Therefore we do not read that either Epicurus, or that libertine school of Cyrene, or what the Cynic impudence uttered, was ever questione... ...tage is it to be a man, over it is to be a Areopagitica Milton 26 boy at school, if we have only escaped the ferula to come under the fescue of an... ...rs of good antiquity and ablest judgment have been per suaded that even the school of Pythagoras and the Per sian wisdom took beginning from the old... ...ich once of Meliboeus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e’er piped on plains. There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb ...

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...phere. Saladin Foster was book keeper in the principal store, and the only high salaried man of his profession in Lakeside. He was thirty five years o... ...can we, Aleck?” Aleck shook her head. “No, dear,” she said, “it won’t sell high till we’ve had the first semi annual dividend. You can spend part of t... ...en their daughters and the young me chanics. The daughters could now look higher—and must. Yes, must. They need marry nothing below the grade of law ... ...wing room when there was company, and by going with the children to Sunday school and listening there; and when ever she heard a large word she said ... ... gath ered these things from time to time when she had gone to the Sunday school with the children, and had laid them up in her memory more carefully... ... deliv ered at Sunflower Hill, South Carolina, and member of the Yale Law School. New Haven: published by T . H. Pease, 83 Chapel Street, 1845.” No o... ...he fair day gave place to gloomy twilight, which lay heavily on the Indian Plains. He remembered an old Indian Castle, that once stood at the foot of ... ...e gold and silver mines of California and Nevada; about the Indians of the plains and deserts of the West, and their cannibalism; about the raising of... ... yesterday, the mountains were left in a ragged condition, and some of the plains were so cluttered with rubbish and remnants that the aspects were qu...

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...s I have to struggle hard enough every day with what the Ger- mans call my higher impulses. I know too well the tempta- tion to be moral, to be self-s... ... jobbery, idolatry, and an omnipresent tyranny in which his doctor and his school- master, his lawyer and his priest, coerce him worse than any offici... ...y youth, and sown my political wild oats subsequently in the revolutionary school. This combination is not common in England; and as I seem, so far, t... ... music is perfectly single and simple. It is the adept musician of the old school who has everything to unlearn: and him I leave, unpitied, to his fat... ...e voluntarily. Not until the Plutonic power is so strongly set up that the higher human impulses are suppressed as rebellious, and even the mere appet... ...his miserable century. Being a race of moral dwarfs instead, we think them highly respectable, comfortable and proper, and allow them to breed and mul... ... the composition of The Rhine Gold and Night Falls On The Gods; and it ex- plains why he dropped The Ring allegory and fell back on the status quo ant...

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... it does not always follow that the violator of the law is not a person of higher type than the majority who are directly and indirectly responsible f... ... and that all execu- tions should be public and should be performed on the high- est hill. So much has been written about the decrease of crime that f... ...facts of life and nature do not sustain. We seem to feel that man has some high calling; that he should make some- thing of himself which cannot be ac... ...rom the crowded part of a poor district. He has had little chance to go to school and could not have been a scholar, no matter how regularly he attend... ...ool and could not have been a scholar, no matter how regularly he attended school. Some useful things he could have learned had society furnished the ... ...ower of suggestion. So well known is this weakness of human character that schools of salesmanship are regularly organized and promoted to teach the a... ...n has made of her a milk-machine. T urn all thoroughbred horses out on the plains to shift for them- selves, and they would either die or gradually be... ...ually be modified until they were adapted to the free and wild life of the plains. This would not be so good for man, but would be better for 142 the...

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...ers. They took the only part of our society in which there was leisure for high culture, and made it an economic, political and; as far as practicable... ...nature had been reversed. All foods, he felt, must now be adulterated. All schools must be closed. No advertisements must be sent to the newspapers, o... ...as an intolerable affectation; and the picture galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum itself was sa... ...r dance without even throwing off his cassock first, and the respect- able school governor expelling the German professor with insult and bodily viole... ...asy for those who had to write and speak about the war to throw away their highest conscience, and deliberately work to a standard of inevitable evil ... ...ilosophy of history or knowledge of what war is. I doubt whether it was as high as our propor- tion of higher mathematicians. But there can be no doub... ...n said, “not difficult to die,” and enormously difficult to live: that ex- plains why, at bottom, peace is not only better than war, but infinitely mo...

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...tient, consistent, apologetic, laborious person, with the temperament of a schoolmaster and the pursuits of a vestryman. No doubt that literary knack ... ...his reconciliation with the gods far beyond mere lovemaking into politics, high art, schemes for reclaiming new continents from the ocean, and recogni... ... and com- promising to his newly acknowledged position as the founder of a school. Instead of pretending to read Ovid he does actu- ally read Schopenh... ... all costs, and of every woman to be married at all costs, must, without a highly scientific social organization, produce a ruinous development of pov... ...Masters of Arts as what they really are and no more: that is, patentees of highly questionable methods of thinking, and manufacturers of highly questi... ...onable, and for the majority but half valid representa- tions of life. The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow’s head makes perhaps th... ...f the nerves. The visions of my romantic reveries, in which I had trod the plains of heaven with a deathless, age- less creature of coral and ivory, d...

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...lding in the middle of the city. It was surrounded by a large garden with high walls and chestnut trees whose branches f ailed in the wind. A f ash ... ...d to play on the swings as a child, a steady hand on her back pushing her higher and higher until she thought she might be able to touch the sunshin... ...mes. I have never seen a case of amnesia in anyone younger than 21, and I highly doubt that…’ 12 Bozo and the Storyteller ‘No, really. I don’t reme... ...hday party in the desert before jumping on a f ying camel that got you to school just in time to take an exam, but before you could start a sud- den ... ...came to see me last night…’ The audiences were made up of tourists, French schoolchildren on a day out, and people with nothing better to do. Some li... ...t I was the forgetful one. To Paris, of course. There’s a group of French schoolchildren over there and their bus leaves in f ve minutes.’ ‘How do y... ... Omar had driven them north for the rest of the day, through stony desert plains and dramatic red hills. Every now and then, oncoming cars roared by... ... and regain their strength. They took a short trip down the valley to the plains where Raj was now the guest of honour. Draped in marigolds and with...

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...nd extenuation for errors, and may consent to bury them. That is a trivial schoolboy text; why do I dwell on it? It has little reference to me, for I ... ...ay, who are un- influenced by the weather, and neither know melancholy nor high spirits. I held him in great awe, and appeared more timid and sensitiv... ...ve boy like me was not fit to encounter the rough expe- rience of a public school. Mr. Letherall had said so very de- cidedly. Mr. Letherall was a lar... ...moment of her strongest dominion over me, I should have declared to be the highest element of character. But there is no tyranny more complete than th... ...e of persons as they judge of coins, and value those who pass current at a high rate. After a time I interfered so little with Bertha’s habits that it... ...ecame such visions as that I had had of Prague—of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellat...

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...ng unusual for a painter, for he had been to Eton and to Cambridge. He was highly talented, abun dantly loquacious, and immensely enthusiastic. It wa... ...s a mountaineer, he had made an ascent of K2 in the Hindu Kush, the second highest mountain in In dia, and he made it without the elaborate equipment... ... romance. For years Susie had led the monoto nous life of a mistress in a school for young ladies, and had resigned herself to its dreariness for the... ...ife, Arthur found himself the girl’s guardian and executor. He sent her to school; saw that she had everything she could possibly want; and when, at s... ...back of your head. Art has nothing to do with a smart frock, and whether a high heeled pointed shoe commends itself or not to the painters in the qua... ...in des Plantes, my dear Clayson. Have you ever hunted them on their native plains?’ ‘No, I haven’t.’ Clayson did not know why Haddo asked the question... ... I think the odd trick is mine.’ This cruel vindictiveness, joined with a schoolboy love of taunting the vanquished foe, was very characteristic. Sus...