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...t. But at the beginning of the second part she glanced over the glistening groups and saw— Arthur. He never took his eyes from her face. A quick shud-... ...ent of the song caused talk and discussion which differed with the various groups. Some pitied Julie’s fate, and regretted that such a remarkable woma... ...nces are never given to the world, men of science, much as Sganarelle is a Latinist for those who know no Latin; there are the men who are allowed by ... ...the stranger’s eyes flashed out on him again; and when he spoke, it was in musical tones with no sign of the previous guttural convulsion, though his ... ...wo hours are almost over,” he said, in a voice that was strangely calm and musical. “You here!” cried the General. “By what means—?” and he gave wife ... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th...

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...n composition. It was the cure of his village who had taught him his first Latin; his parents, from motives of economy, having sent him to school as l... ...ding amid the green corn, soon lengthened out, and broke up into different groups that loitered to talk. The fiddler walked in front with his violin, ... ... the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arb... ...assing for a Jesuit. And you don’t know what a life those dogs lead in the Latin quar- ter with actresses. Besides, students are thought a great deal ... ...nds. Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.* He was so exasperated he quoted Latin. He would have quoted Chinese or Greenlandish had he known those two ... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ... ...n be- gan to sing— “One night, do you remember, we were sailing,” etc. Her musical but weak voice died away along the waves, and the winds carried off... ...at is to say, the beginning of win- ter, that she seemed seized with great musical fervour. One evening when Charles was listening to her, she began t... ...d, that by inducing madame to study; you are economising on the subsequent musical education of your child. For my own part, I think that mothers ough...

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...in it. The pictures were not attrac- tive, nor did they attract her—school groups, Watts’ “Sir Percival,” a dog running after a rabbit, a man running ... ..., so don’t be so chilly and cautious. I’ve just realized, looking at those groups, that you must have been at school together. Did you come much acros... ...cker blue.” 36 The Longest Journey “Rather! He’s secretary to the college musical soci- ety.” “A. P. Carruthers?” “Yes.” Mr. Dawes seemed offended. H... ...d of thing has something in it. Of course you get it all through Greek and Latin. How upset the man must be when he sees the girl turn.” “He doesn’t s... ...mply two dozen boys who were gathered together for the purpose of learning Latin. His duties and dif- ficulties would not lie here. He was not require... ...mate conversations she had asked him to educate her son. “I will teach him Latin,” he answered. “The rest such a boy must remember.” Latin, at all eve... ...e of criticism is quite a thing of the past. Have you seen the illustrated American edition?” “I don’t remember.” “Might I send you a copy? I think yo...

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... ways.” “He can read, I see,” said Grace, “and he told me he had done some Latin with the Major.” “Yes, he has picked up a vast deal of information, a... ... summon her boys and their books. It was not an extensive school library—a Latin grammar an extremely dilapidated spelling-book, and the fourth vol- u... ... feint of doing what he was told, but whether she tried him in arithmetic, Latin, or dictation, he made such ludicrous blunders as to leave her in per... ...ung.” “Fourteen. I was in a naughty fit at her refusing to go to the great musical meeting with us. We always used to go to stay at one of the canon’s... ...ice, and the prime labour of his life was to work up his choir; but he was musical by educa- tion rather than nature, and having begun his career with... ...ossible to read, also the neat writing and thin wavy water-marked paper of American professors and phi- lanthropists in high commendation of his abili... ...ried cousin, to whom she was imperatively necessary in the getting up of a musical party. “And I must go some time or other,” she said to Colonel Keit... ... famished and weary state of expectation, the good Dean gyrating among the groups, trying to make conversation, which every one felt too fretful and t... ...hing at the freaks of the scamper- 448 The Clever Woman of the Family ing groups of children, gaily exchanging pleasant talk with one friend after an...

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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ... boldly, and offer myself as Adlatus to blessed old Cudford! Yes! a little Latin is all that remains to me, and I resolved, like the man I am, to turn... ...ey Court. The Countess smiled, and in the few paces that separated the two groups, whispered to her brother: ‘Miss Jocelyn, my dear.’ The eye-glasses ... ... about me?’ said Aunt Bel. ‘I ‘ll settle the dispute. Let him who guessed “Latin” pocket the stakes, and, if I guess him, let him hand them over to me... ...m, let him hand them over to me.’ ‘Excellent!’ cried Rose. ‘One did guess “Latin,” Aunt Bel! Now, tell us which one it was.’ ‘Not you, my dear. You gu... ...it for any other.’ ‘What do you mean?’ said Evan, thinking more of the un- musical laugh than of the words. He received no explanation, and the irksom... ... on a hump in the middle of the mound which defied the dance. Watteau-like groups were already couched in the shade. There were ladies of all sorts: t... ...ally dragged in her wake. ‘ Another dowager and fogy!’ cried the Countess, musically. ‘Do you not dance, my child?’ ‘Not till the music strikes up,’ r... ...alf- a-dozen ladies were collected, and then followed much laugh- ter, and musical hubbub, and delicate banter. So the ladies and gentlemen fell one a...

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...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ...lihood by the Board of Irrigation, espe cially one highly conscientious and musical family: all the daughters played on stringed instruments, and Ale... ...ll and blooming, but in the happiest frame of mind. She was talking rapidly, musically, and with exceptionally correct articulation and expressive int... ...animent of the orchestra, and a single female voice rendering dis tinctly a musical phrase. The door opened to let the box opener slip through, and t... ...f the term in the summer holidays. Darya Alexandrovna, who had been studying Latin with her son in Moscow before, had made it a rule on coming to the ... ...vins’ to go over with him, at least once a day, the most difficult lessons of Latin and arith metic. Levin had offered to take her place, but the moth... ...es” (she thought of little Masha’s crime among the raspberries), “education, Latin— it’s all so incomprehensible and difficult. And on the top of it al... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu...

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...rying a case quoted all sorts of laws, read 20 pages of judicial senseless Latin, and then proposed to the judges to throw dice, and if the numbers pr... ... Well, our guessing was no use. The Lord willed otherwise,” she went on in musical tones. “Is it possible? Have they sentenced you?” asked Theodosia, ... ...ar artists.” “Yes, that’s so,” said the watchman’s wife, and ran on in her musical strain, “they’re like flies after sugar.” “And here, too,” Maslova ... ...can do anything.” “Yes, that’s so,” remarked the watchman’s wife, with her musical voice. “When a poor man thinks of getting married, there’s many a s... ...veral jailers. In the next room sat about twenty persons, men and women in groups and in pairs, talking in low voices. There was a writing table by th... ... with a great many long words, such as propaganda, disorganisation, social groups, sections and sub-sections, about which she 199 Tolstoy seemed to t... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

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...d of Grushenka in a sort of rapture. She held out her hand with a charming musical, nervous little laugh, watched the “sweet young lady,” and obviousl... ... turned away, wringing his hands. Grushenka ran out of the house, laughing musically. Katerina Ivanovna went into a fit of hysterics. She sobbed, ... ...oduced into our schools.” By degrees Kolya began to get breathless again. “Latin and Greek were introduced because they are a bore and because they st... ...at could they do to make it more sense- less? So they thought of Greek and Latin. That’s my opinion, I hope I shall never change it,” Kolya finished a... ... of conviction. He had listened attentively . “ And yet he is first in Latin himself,” cried one of the group of boys suddenly. “Y es, father,... ... the witnesses for the defence and for the prosecution were separated into groups by the President, and whether it was arranged to call them in a cert... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...