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...Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town a... ...f the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the plat- form or the street, an... ... some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of... ...other person.” “Ah, I see; I might have known you were fully provided with alternatives. And is the other person coming home this way?” Lily laughed a... ...lds. “Let us sit here,” Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily drop... ... the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb. 60 House of Mirth She sat quiet, her li... ...ned away as she spoke, letting him strut at her side through the gathering groups on the terrace, while every nerve in her throbbed with the conscious... ...e after the princi- pal actors had left the stage; but among the remaining groups, Lily could discover neither Gryce nor the youngest Miss V an 91 Ed... ...fact of life. What he could not accept, in his own case, was the makeshift alternative of a relation that should be less than this: that should leave ...

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...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...e under notice to quit, the last patch of country in a district flooded by new and prbaa things. He did his best to console himself, to imagine matter... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...rench artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zeala... ...eralogy in the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s ... ... ourselves—the Desert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the beach regarded them with horror for the most part, but some... ...the wind and is itself a part of the atmosphere. Once started, it does not rock nor sway; you cannot feel whether it rises or falls. Bert felt acutely... ...o close to the Bremen and Weimar that they instantly engaged. There was no alternative to her abandonment but a fleet engagement. O’Connor chose the l... ... it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle in the sky. Then they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of German air-ships towards the lower sky inc...

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... 1 Chapter 1 ‘TAKE OFF that mute, do!’ cried Louisa, snatching her fingers from the piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked s... ...he piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked slowly from her music. ‘My dear Louisa,’ she replied, ‘it would be simply unen- du... ...se and blood, and carved with Chinese symbols; then a litter of mementoes, rock-crystals, and shells and scraps of seaweed. A stranger, entering, felt... ... integrity, meant a breaking of bonds, a severing of blood-ties, a sort of new birth. In the excitement of this last night his life passed out of his ... ...lay curled up asleep at the core of the glamour, like the moon; on the sea rocking backwards and forwards till it rocked her island as she slept. She ... ... was burning, volcanic, as if he would destroy her. She had given him this new soft beauty. She was the earth in which his strange flowers grew. But s... ...s, stealthily, through a poultry farm whose fowls were standing in forlorn groups, once more dismayed by evening, Helena’s pride battled with her new ... ...responsibility, the shadow-finger of the sundial travelling over them. The alternative was, not to return, to let the fin- ger travel and be gone. But... ...t hand, large shapes of trees rose up. Farther, lamps like little mushroom groups shone amid an undergrowth of darkness. There was a vague hoarse nois...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ...e Castle, so we went into the middle of the road and formed a line. Soon a rocket (the signal that the Queen was at Slough) was let off, and then 17 ... ...ousin, George May Coleridge; and here the brothers and sisters climbed the rocks, boated, fished, and ran exquisitely wild in the summer holi- days. C... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...which had been taken in hand by a Scot- tish Presbyterian Mission; but the groups which seem to form 100 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the third fr... ...nd is now at work again—English, Maori, Greek and Hebrew types. Sepa- rate groups of buildings, which once were filled with lads from different Melane... ... disappointed; I was at first, but I had the com- fort of having really no alternative. I had, indeed, a great desire to make a thorough visitation of...

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...Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. Now that the election is ov... ...eive 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One of a man farther removed from baseness, farther removed from corruption, from mere self-seeking; but... ...pleton & Co., Macmillan & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and Harper Broth- ers, of New Y ork; to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dana, Estes & Co., and L. C. Page & ... ...with- out ambition for himself or his children, constantly look- ing for a new piece of land on which he might make a living without much work; his mo... ...- fluenced by the actual presence of the institution among them, he saw no alternative but to admit such a Territory into the Union. He declared furth... ...19, the year before the Mayflower landed our Pilgrim Fathers upon Plymouth Rock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in... ...en our Washington. Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its basis; and as truly as has been said of the only greater instit... ...ering tones of anathema and denunciation with which the lordly judge often groups together all the crimes of the felon’s life, and thrusts them in his... ... or a direct tax, must soon be resorted to; and, indeed, we be- lieve this alternative is now denied by no one. But which system shall be adopted? Som...

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...inueth, Greater than their knowing. Western wind and open surge T ore us from our mothers; Flung us on a naked shore (T welve bleak houses by the sh... ...ll of us— Of one master all of us—) Keen in his vocation. This we learned from famous men Knowing not its uses When they showed in daily work Man mu... ... & Co fain have forgotten Prout and his works in a volume of Surtees and a new briar-wood pipe. Crusoe, at sight of the footprint, did not act more sw... ...d to a long-smothered interest in first-flowerings, early butterflies, and new arrivals, and volunteered, if Mr. Hartopp saw fit, to enter on the new ... ... said King, with a loving look at the canes under Foxy’s arm. “There is no alternative.” Ten minutes later the news was over the whole school. Stalky ... ...the drum! Hid in the coal-locker—and tweaked Rabbits-Eggs—and Rabbits-Eggs rocked King. Wasn’t it beautiful? Did you hear the glass?” “Why, he—he—he,”... ... How beautiful! How holy! But you should have seen his face when the first rock came in! And the earth from the basket!” So they were all stricken hel... ...ts and coteries—small gatherings in the twilight, box-room committees, and groups in the corridor. And when from group to group, with an immense affec... ...ll stay after call-over.” The school filed out in silence, but gathered in groups by the gymnasium door waiting what might befall. “And now, Flint,” s...

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...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...rt dwelling- houses, utterly formless and sordid, without poverty. Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous... ...aidservant came and went hurriedly. Meanwhile the men stood in calm little groups, chatting, smoking, pretending to pay no heed to the rustling anima-... ..., lying in the sun. The water 97 ran over a little stone wall, over small rocks, splashing down from one pond to the level below. The swans had gone ... ...d sharp blows of unknown, terrifying noise struck through her till she was rocking with terror. She recoiled like a spring let go. But a glistening, h... ...oked aside, feeling she was being belittled. People were standing about in groups, some women were sitting in the shade of the walnut tree, with cups ... ...oved uneas- ily on his feet, and did not finish. ‘You mean if you knew the alternative?’ asked Birkin. ‘ And since you don’t know it, marriage is a pi... ...aid Gerald. ‘There’s something inferior about it. But as I say, what’s the alternative.’ ‘One should avoid this home instinct. It’s not an instinct, i...

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...been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is... ...ily and imperfectly redeemed. The reader may recognize an old friend under new circum- stances in the principal character of this legend. If the exhib... ...eness; and the present experiment has been so long de- layed quite as much from doubts of its success as from any other cause. In this, as in every ot... ... shooting us as we double a headland, or are busy in steering clear of the rocks?” “The Lord!—He who has so often helped others in greater difficultie... ...e business before us—plain broadside and broad- side work, and no trees or rocks to thicken the water.” “And no Lord too, I dare to say, if the truth ... ...ounsel, no more was said on tbe subject. The whole party now broke up into groups: Arrowhead and his wife sitting apart under the bushes, con- versing... ...nemies, so was he never known, under any circumstances that admitted of an alternative, to abandon a friend. The affinities of such a character were, ... ...ugh the land still remained in view on her larboard beam, the fort and the groups of anxious spectators on its rampart were swallowed up in the mist. ... ...ter can be beached? The moment has arrived when we are driven to this hard alternative.” That instant of indecision on the part of Cap secured the tri...

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...it seems, was proved by the report of Dr. Walter Bayly, sometime fellow of New College, then living in Oxford, and professor of physic in that univers... ...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ...ing boys to bring my harvests home, Or I shall hear no flails thwack. —The New Inn. IT IS THE PRIVILEGE of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn,... ...rown matri- monial held at the humour of a woman, and owning only the poor rocks and bogs of the north.” The Countess paused, as if what the Earl last... ...climb a mountain of loose sand —we dare make no halt until some projecting rock affords us a secure footing and resting-place. If we pause sooner, we ... ...n one party entered and traversed the Pleas- ance. But they were in joyous groups of four or five persons together, laughing and jesting in their own ... ...elief that is thrust on him. Fetch me the cloak instantly.” V arney had no alternative save obedience. In a few minutes Leicester was muffled in the m... ...over, but the men, still habited in their masking suits, stood together in groups, like the in- habitants of a city who have been just startled by som...

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... UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ... ...TON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took... ...ed by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilec tion, and, i... ...for their country in direct opposition to all the suggestions of policy. The alternative, then, is to destroy or keep down a bad passion by creating a... ... of the United States to that portion of our territory which lies beyond the Rocky Mountains. Our title to the coun try of the Oregon is “clear and u... ...ndition, the only means by which the power of the States on this side of the Rocky Mountains can reach them in sufficient time to “protect” them “agai... ... quiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. There is no other alternative, for continuing the Government is acquiescence on one side or... ...Apache Chief Geronimo), coal miners, soldiers, and students were some of the groups represented. The oath of office was administered on the East Porti... ...d built up by the genius of individual men and the limitless enter prise of groups of men. It is great, also, very great, in its moral force. Nowhere...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ...e the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and waterways. The airmen will go to and fro over water as the midge... ...ds of feet up into the sky, the air is more irregular than a torrent among rocks; it is—if only we could see it—a waving, whirling, eddying, flamboyan... ...hemselves wise, capable and heroic— beyond any aristocratic precedent. The alternative, if it is an alternative, is resignation—to the Social Democrac... ...ctuations of employment, the failure of the employing class to provide any alternative to idleness during slack time, break that habit 44 An Englishm... ...of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching. Individuals and groups and trades have found themselves in imperfectly apprehended and diff... ...e a general form for it. Every art nowadays must steer its way between the rocks of trivial and degrading standards and the whirlpool of arbitrary and...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, h...

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... previ ous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been ... ...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ... to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Ref... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ...ation of those interests, which, bringing them before the mind in definite groups, might give indication of the qualities by which a form of governmen... ...ned out of office by a hostile vote, he could only be reduced by it to the alternative of resignation or dissolution. The power of dissolving Parliame... ...ion, and the dignity and prestige of French power—than to sulk on his own rocks, the half savage relic of past times, revolving in his own little men... ...gnity in the gift of the crown is freely open to the native of Guernsey or Jersey. Generals, admirals, peers of the United Kingdom are made, and there...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ... languor or violence in its force, never running back upon itself, opening new visions at every turn of its course through that richly inhab- ited cou... ...our disposal on which rest the labours of a solitary man in his study, the rock on which have been built commonwealths whose might casts a dwarfing sh... ...s loves and its hates about every twenty-five years—at the coming of every new and wiser generation. One of the most generous of the dead is Daudet, w... ...e inhabitants had flocked in their tens of thousands to an amphitheatre of rocks; they were penguins; but the holy man, rendered deaf and purblind by ... ...en, together with some other things; whether, perchance, as an interesting alternative, it will make peace on the Amur in order to make war beyond the... ...w mobs of horses assembled on the commons with soldiers guarding them, and groups of villagers looking on silently at the officers with their note-boo... ...ces; the echoes of distant shouts entered the open windows of our bedroom. Groups of men talking noisily walked in the middle of the road-way es- cort...

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...e streams? Rickie rebuked his own groveling soul, and turned his eyes away from the night, which had led him to such absurd conclusions. The fire was ... ...e. The door opened. A tall young woman stood framed in the light that fell from the passage. “Ladies!” whispered every-one in great agitation. “Yes?” ... ...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... ...s rather careful when he drove up to the fa- cade of his shop. “I like our new lettering,” he said thoughtfully. The words “Stewart Ansell” were repea... ...to-date were said to be combined. The school doubled its numbers. It built new class-rooms, laboratories and a gymna- sium. It dropped the prefix “Gra... ... leading tourist, and the ladies say how interesting. The island begins to rock, and so do the minds of its visitors. They start and quarrel and jabbe... ...eally good ghost story and we’d take it at once. Or”—he suggested it as an alternative to imagination—”or you might get inside life. It’s worth doing.... ...e with Seclusion. He, poor little man, lives in the choicest scenery—among rocks, forests, emerald lawns, azure lakes. To keep people out he has built...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ...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... ...le tremors of hope now shook my nerves: if they shook from that inevitable rocking of the waters that follows a storm, so much might be par- doned to ... ...ng is come—when our poor Kate, that had for fifteen years been so tenderly rocked in the arms of St. Sebastian and his daughters, and that hence- fort... ...it amongst the hills would have the effect of throwing them (as their only alternative in a case where so wide a sweep of pas- turage was required) up... ...ch- ess on being hailed as Dauphiness, was a succession of the most tragic groups from the most awful section of the Gre- cian theatre. The next allia... ... them, in a Christian land, make Paley the foundation of their ethics; the alternative being Aristotle. And, in our mind, though far inferior as a mor...