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... royal drawing- room was full of old adherents, whose powdered heads, seen from above, suggested a carpet of snow. There the Count met some old friend... ..., as part of the his- tory of the Revolution. The Count prudently withdrew from the venerable group, which formed a respectful semi-circle before the ... ...st family; then, having extricated his sword, not without some difficulty, from among the lean legs which had got mixed up with it, he crossed the cou... ...sieur de Fontaine showed less amenity. Kings enjoy contradicting more than people think. Like most youngest children, Emilie de Fontaine was a Benjami... ...of literature, she might have made folks believe that, as Mascarille says, people of quality come into the world know- ing everything. She could argue... ...rder, to the younger sons of members of the peerage. According to him, the people had conquered a sufficiently large share in practical govern- ment b... ...oluble young secretary went on, “to find my brother here. On arriving from Vienna I heard that the poor boy was ill in bed; and I counted on seeing hi...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ... there? “Napoleon has landed at Cannes.” Such news might create a panic at Vienna, and cause Russia to drop his cards, and take Prussia into a corner,...

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...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ... boot, Sewis, and say it ‘s mine; you ‘ve my leave.’ Sewis withdrew a step from the bedside. At a safe distance he fronted his master steadily; almost... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ...d him to me as a sort of shadow about a pastrycook’s shop. But I surprised people by speaking of him. I made remarks to our landlady which caused her ... ...future. To be candid, I no longer see to write. Gruss’ dich herzlich. From Vienna to you next. Lebe wohl!’ My aunt Dorothy sent a glance at the letter... ..., and dropped her eyelids a moment. She resumed ‘The Grand Seigneur was at Vienna last year, and would not come to Sarkeld, though he knew I was ill.’... ...nage me. I pose my pride—immolate my son to it, Richie? I hope not. No. At Vienna we shall receive an invitation to Sarkeld for the winter, if we hear...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...heeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our gener... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...d the man completely cornered by generalizing. He said— “We are a civilian people; we pride ourselves on having civilian methods.” “How can that be if... ... just visited England and were off again, we were driving on our own road. Vienna in April and May—what do you say? You like the reviews there, and th... ... on would have done it to the full. As to Morsfield, never once, either in Vienna or in Paris, had she, warmly admired though she was, all eyes telesc...

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...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ...as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchst... ..., and replied that the secret had now of necessity become known to so many people that I was indifferent on the subject. Lord Meadowbank was thus in- ... ...y their petty squabbles and mutual irritability, the laughing-stock of the people of the world. I resolved, therefore, in this respect to guard my bre... ...Keir, had one son—namely Robert Keith of Craig, ambassador to the court of Vienna, afterwards to St. Petersburgh, which latter situation he held at th... ...Murray Keith, K.B., a general in the army, and for some time ambassador at Vienna; Sir Basil Keith, Knight, captain in the navy, who died Governor of ... ...oatswain. If there must be a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a...

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...ttle garden, so that you see the side of the house in section, as it were, from the Rue Nueve-Sainte- Genevieve. Beneath the wall of the house front t... ... fact that she was a de Conflans, and regardless of re- peated corrections from her lodgers. The central space between the walls is filled with artich... ...ned. Another door opens out of it into the dining-room, which is separated from the kitchen by the well of the stair- case, the steps being constructe... ...n, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon. The red tiles of the floor are full of depressions... ...mers who 11 Balzac lived in the neighborhood. There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme. Vauque... ...ted about a throat like a turkey gobbler’s; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious ra... ...ace of humanity, saved France from being torn in pieces at the Congress of Vienna; and they who should have given him laurels fling mud at him. Oh! I ... ...ucingen had sent bills for large amounts to Amsterdam, London, Naples, and Vienna, in order to prove if necessary that large sums had been paid away b...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ...s of his youth; not for the fairest prin- cess, countess, or actress, from Vienna to Paris. At length—it was the night after he had seen Hayes countin...

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...dirty and dilapidated grasses in the centre, and at one end a soup tureen, from which a gentleman had helped himself and a young girl of about thirtee... ...d the plates, really came as near to feeding the pair as was possible with people above three years old. The one was a dark, thin man, with a good dea... ...ble brow, but that her dark hair was cut square over it, so as to take off from its height, and give a heavy over-hanging look to the upper part of th... ...poke again. ‘Dolores,’ and the tone was dry, as if all feeling were driven from it. 6 The Two Sides of the Shield ‘Yes, father.’ ‘You know that I hav... ...thing,—and sharks, and volcanoes, and hurricanes.’ ‘I don’t think they eat people there now.’ ‘It’s bad enough if they don’t! And you know those aunts... ...ed; and father took me there on Sunday to luncheon; but there were so many people, and such a talk, and such a bustle, that I hardly knew which was wh... ...many divided into circles, and everything as it was before the Congress of Vienna?’ ‘You liked geography; I hated it.’ ‘Y es, I was young enough to co...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ...e regards itself as a part of the Great World, compares itself to Rome and Vienna, it will not acquire the scientific spirit, the international mind, ...

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...e, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer... ...the blue- checked cotton curtains which screened the mysteries of the room from profane eyes. Now and then the watcher, weary of his fruitless contemp... ...on which the splashes betrayed his impatience. He had just come, no doubt, from a wedding or a ball; for at this early hour he had in his hand a pair ... ... in the depths of a wood. The mute and constant looks which made the young people’s eyes meet by sheer need of change in the midst of persistent work ... ...her to find Madame Roguin, from whom she had been sepa- rated by a tide of people. At that moment her frightened eyes fell on the impassioned face of ... ...the crowd and join her cousin, who was still strug- gling with the mass of people that hindered her from getting to the picture. “You will be stifled!... ...all because he went as mayor to congratulate the Emperor on his entry into Vienna? Oh, this marriage must take place! For my part, I adore the dear yo...

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...xholme still kept to dancing, and had effectually driven away Mr. Pericles from their gather- ings. For Mr. Pericles said: “If that they will go ‘so,’... ... colossus, when the Winter sun despatches a feeble greeting messenger-beam from his miserable Arctic wallet. The simile must be accepted in its might,... ...as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his French accentuation of our tongue did not detract. Mr. Peric... ...s. Eclipsed as they may be in the gross appreciation of the world by other people, who excel in this and that accomplishment, persons that nourish Nic... ...s, and was there- fore useful in exaggerating the features of disagreeable people, and showing how odious they were: besides endearing pleas- ant ones... ...s thought by the ladies. She added: “I feel that I sing better when I have people to listen to me.” “You find it more sympathetic, do you not?” remark... ...f for composing. He was not an Austrian: but when he was alive he lived in Vienna, the capi- tal of Austria. He ate Austrian bread, and why God gave h... ...hrough “Paris, Turin, Milano, Veniss, and by Trieste over the Summering to Vienna on a tour for a voice.” And in no part of the Continent, his vehemen...

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...d it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an ... ... that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or l... ...g, 1914. 6 The Moon and Sixpence who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanati... ...and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people. I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the ... ...one another. You’ll meet him if you dine there. But she doesn’t often have people to dinner. He’s very quiet. He’s not in the least interested in lite... ...beginning to doubt it.” Strickland gave the polite little laugh with which people acknowledge a facetiousness in which they see nothing funny , but di... ...right,” said Strickland. “I bet he found it hell to paint.” When later, in Vienna, I saw several of Peter Brueghel’s pictures, I thought I understood ...

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...him into animation, and ever and anon chasing her little dog to extract it from be- tween his teeth. Suddenly she became aware of the presence of a sp... ...said, not without hesitation—’You have not heard when to expect your party from Madeira?’ ‘You know we cannot hear again. They were to sail by the nex... ...e’—stammered Mr. Wingfield. ‘Well,’—she said, haughtily. ‘Here is a letter from my cousin, who has a curacy in the Lake country. Your brother is at Wr... ... as he is, so fastidious about women! And yet this letter spoke decidedly. People talk of love! and Arthur is so easy, he would let himself be drawn o... ...not think how she was kept in such unconsciousness.’ ‘She knows nothing of people’s ways,’ said Arthur. ‘She knew you were all abroad, and her own fam... ...undoing my own trunk.’ ‘No, no,’ said he, much diverted; ‘she never thinks people can help themselves. She was brought up to be worshipped. Those are ... ...as much as it was with this child of Arthur’s. He was born unexpectedly at Vienna. Your mamma had a dreadful illness, brought on by your father’s blun...

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...O CTOBER, 1829, Monsieur Simon Babylas Latournelle, notary, was walking up from Havre to Ingouville, arm in arm with his son and accompanied by his wi... ...nice,” the notary looked about to see if any one could overhear him either from the terrace above or the path beneath, and when he spoke he lowered hi... ...of the su- preme court, feels that her birth authorizes her to claim issue from a parliamentary family. This conviction explains why the lady, who is ... ...Modeste Mignon the habitual companions of Modeste Mignon, for, at her age, people and things have as much influence upon the future life as a person’s... ...de La Bastie, now citizen Mignon, found it more wholesome to cut off other people’s heads than to let his own be cut off. The sham ter- rorist disappe... ...with admiration for that Mon- sieur Hugo. I’m sure I don’t know where such people” (Vic- tor Hugo, Lamartine, Byron being such people to the Ma- dame ... ... the last governor of Normandy, was born during the emigration in 1799, at Vienna. The old marechal, father of the present duke, returned with the kin...

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...itied me. I do not know to what feeling or happy accident I owed my rescue from this first neglect; as a child I was ignorant of it, as a man I have n... ...t; as a child I was ignorant of it, as a man I have not discovered it. Far from easing my lot, my brother and my two sisters found amusement in making... ...h as I. Was this partly the effect of a childish love of imitation; was it from a need of testing their powers; or was it simply through lack of pity?... ...Here I draw upon myself the storms I fear may break upon my children or my people; and in doing so I feel a something I cannot explain, which gives me... ...her Madame la duchesse, and to speak to her in the third person. The young people of the present day have lost these polite manners; you must learn th... ...fined principles of liberty are powerless to create the hap- piness of the people. Before considering, as a Lenoncourt, what an aristocracy ought to b... ...ival the career of my brother, who had lately been sent to the Congress of Vienna, and was anxious at any risk to justify Henriette’s appeal and becom...

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...nce; for we are all of us distinctly marked to get back what we give, even from the thing named inanimate nature. The ‘Leaves from the Diary of Henry ... ...arm- ers—returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour’s harvest-home, eased their bub- bling breasts with a read... ... laugh is an excellent progenitorial founda- tion for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is wi... ...te of the selecter missionary lieutenants of Satan. We pray to be defended from her cleverness: she flashes bits of speech that catch men in their ung... ...lows there.’ But she would have us away with sentimentalism. Senti- mental people, in her phrase, ‘fiddle harmonics on the strings of sensualism,’ to ... ...enants! They can’t have my feeling for the place where I was born. They’re people of tolerably good connections, middling wealthy, I suppose, of the n... ...se to work.’ ‘Have you spoken to her?’ said Redworth. ‘And next to Berlin! Vienna! A horse would be … . I? I don’t know her,’ Raiser replied. ‘Some of... ...e talk of Premiers offered Whitmonby occasion for a flight to the Court of Vienna and Kaunitz. Wilmers told a droll story of Lord Busby’s missing the ...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ... Mallet imagined there was a private reason for it—a reason quite distinct from her pleasure in receiving her honored kins- man. The next day he flatt... ...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...ofession which consists exclusively, as she supposes, in making figures of people without their clothes on. Sculpture, to her mind, is an insidious fo... ...na interposed, slowly and softly. “We are going to London. We are going to Vienna. We are going to St. Petersburg.” Prince Casamassima dropped his eye...

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...ishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentle- men, I thank you from my heart. Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and... ...eligion. T o attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impi- ous hand to the Crow... ...hings and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound 4 Jane Eyre them: they should not be c... ... see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fiel... ...h, would you like to go to them?” I reflected. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, ... ... was synonymous with degradation. “No; I should not like to belong to poor people,” was my reply. “Not even if they were kind to you?” I shook my head... ...” “You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, V enice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: whe...

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... use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. He therefore allowed Valentine to go into the garden, sent a... ... invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind... ...t, not to live in this house, for that might not be pleasant for the young people, but that you should 6 The Count of Monte Cristo live with them; so... ...ave recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her un... ...he home depart- ment, or of the observatory?” “Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to under- stand things of which I would prefer to... ...to tell you. Ah, really this is magnificent! But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?” “Do not alarm yourself, my dear Maximilian —... ...ce, where he would receive one part of his fortune, and then proceeding to Vienna, where he would find the rest, he meant to take up his residence in ...

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... deal of byplay, a great stand- ing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing ... ...holic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a pencil from his pocket and showed her the fly-leaf of his guide-book. She stood lo... ...od deal?” he asked at last. “Pas beaucoup?” The young lady raised her eyes from her palette, scanned him from head to foot, and alighted with admirabl... ...e which projects into the great open quadrangle. The place was filled with people, the fountains were spouting, a band was playing, clusters of chairs... ...t until two o’clock in the morning, watching the coming and going, and the people knocking about.” “You’re easily pleased. But you can do as you choos... ...ut of it I can. I want to see all the great things, and do what the clever people do.” “The clever people? Much obliged. You set me down as a blockhea... ...uable little present. Newman, on leaving Venice, went through the Tyrol to Vienna, and then returned westward, through Southern Germany. The autumn fo...