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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ...n but a suc- cessful charlatan, and in that was always some- thing for the comic spirit to rejoice in. “ Verruckter Kerl! A madman!” he said. He had s... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...th his red fat face and his little gleam- ing eyes, looked extraordinarily comic; but Philip was too much in earnest to laugh. “Have you never done an... ...spirits and a constant gaiety . He strummed a little on the piano and sang comic songs with gusto; and evening after evening, while Philip was read- i... ...ether; many of the windows had been broken and were clumsily repaired with strips of French newspaper; the doors had not been painted for years; there...

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...inattentively, and he saw that she was preoc- cupied with a new idea. “And Americana—do you collect Americana?” Selden stared and laughed. “No, that’s... ... good editions of the books I am fond of.” She made a slight grimace. “And Americana are horribly dull, I suppose?” “I should fancy so—except to the h... ...l collector values a thing for its rarity. I don’t suppose the buy- ers of Americana sit up reading them all night—old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn’... ...g handed when she caught a phrase on her other side, where Miss Corby, the comic woman of the company, was bantering Jack Stepney on his approaching e... ...d its contents on the table. All the letters had been pieced together with strips of thin paper. Some were in small fragments, the oth- ers merely tom... ...tion to her- self. She had sensibilities which, to Lily, would have seemed comic in a person with a freckled nose and red eyelids, who lived in a boar... ... most absurdities. There’s nothing grim- mer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.... Where was he? Oh—the reason they chucked Sicily and rushed b...

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...rked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few num- bers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bo... ...Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as t... ...hat I would have liked to see.” His little bald head quivered, imparting a comical vibration to the wisp of white goatee. His enunciation would have b... ... hard-working protectors. Chief Inspector Heat raised his voice a little. “Strips and bits of bright tin were quite visible to me,” he said. “That’s a... ...ntage and unconventional sympathies, which were the stand- ing joke of the comic papers. The notabilities and even the simple notorieties of the day b...

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...id the old gentleman; he had frowning eyebrows and a merry mouth ‘you’re a comical character.’ I felt interested in him, and asked him what he was. He... ...uth. Dumpy children, bulky men, compressed old women with baked faces, and comical squat dogs, kept the villages partly alive. We observed one young u... ... of fourteen or fifteen—ay, Richie, have your fun out. A youngster saw the comic side of her. Do you know, that child has a remarkable character? Her ... ...here could I be but with him?’ Her little Ann coming in with chocolate and strips of fine white bread to dip in it stopped my efforts to explain the d... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...evails in melo- dramas, and in virtue of which the elderly farmer with the comic son always knows what the dumb girl means when she takes refuge in hi... ...at the Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, company round the chimney corner every winter’s even... ...me to nod to Mr Pinch, and looking one of the most careless, good-humoured comical fellows in life. His late companion, with a thoughtful face pursued... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ... pursed up, kneading away at the crust, rolling it out, cutting it up into strips, lining the basin with it, shaving it off fine round the rim, choppi...

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...lled by a gentleman of professional celebrity, faced by Little Swills, the comic vocalist, who hopes (according to the bill in the window) that his fr... ...to the great edification of the audience, especially of Little Swills, the comic vocalist. Now. Is there any other witness? No other witness. Very wel... ...the great drawing room before his favourite picture of my Lady, with broad strips of sunlight shining in, down the long perspective, through the long ... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ...s down the river, where he comes out in quite an innocent manner and sings comic ditties of a juvenile complexion calculated (as the bill says) not to...

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..., peopled with characteristic native types commonplace enough but drawn in comic relief. “The comic,” explained the author yet at the beginning of his... ... about with laughter and only wonder we did not notice it before.” But the comic in Dead Souls is merely external. Let us see how Pushkin, who loved t... ...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...osed of in a brief essay. Such a strange combination of the tragic and the comic was truly seldom seen in one man. He, for one, realised that “it is d... ... mostly of moleheaps, and in which the party had to pick their way between strips of ploughed land and of harrowed. Soon Chichikov began to feel weary... ... green, iron-clamped box in- scribed: “The —th Battery of Artillery”; long strips of freshly-tilled earth which gleamed green, yellow, and black on th... ... beyond, again, there can be seen show- ing through the slightly misty air strips of yellow heath, and, again, wide-rolling forests (as blue as the se...

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...m a book. “‘Smiles’ ‘Elp Yourself,’ it’s called,” said Jane; “but it ain’t comic. It tells you how to get on in the world, and some what William read ... ...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ..., always having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps. Comic songs a’ Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she w... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,... ...pain, no hardship, gashing with knives, splin- ters thrust under my nails, strips of flesh flayed off, all for the glory and honour of God.” God smile... ...y. A rather “touristy” friend of his took him away at times. He complained comically to Miss Winchelsea. “I have only two short weeks in Rome,” he sai...

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...e sleevesof some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of some thing fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, ... ... Well, my dear, number Two came after lunch. He is such a nice fellow,and American from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems alm... ...d has exquisite manners, but he found out that it amused me to hear him talk American slang,and whenever I was present, and there was no one to be sho... ...ion makes it a harder puzzle than before. But even if the burial service was comic, what about poor Art and his trouble? Why his heart was simply brea... ...ngs that you cannot. Let me illus Chapter 14 234 trate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith, ‘that faculty which enables us to believe ... ...nto the mass between his hands. This he then took, and rolling it into thin strips, began to lay them into the crevices between the door and its sett... ...th me.” I thought it was now time to end the scene, which was becoming too comically grave, so I went towards the door, simply saying, “Come, my fri...

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...onic good humour. Now passed a guard in the romantic cloak of a brigand in comic opera and a peaked cap like that of an alguacil. A group of telegrap... ...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...e a Franz Hals; but he was dressed like the caricature of a Frenchman in a comic paper. He spoke English with a Parisian accent. Miss Boyd was beginni... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ... ...ng dish with live charcoal. Meanwhile, he wrote forms of invocation on six strips of paper. When the boy arrived, the sorcerer threw incense and one o... ...per. When the boy arrived, the sorcerer threw incense and one of the paper strips into the chafing dish, then took the boy’s right hand and drew a squ... ...Jeanne Marie Porhoët.” ‘The magician put the second and third of the small strips of paper into the chafing dish, and fresh frankincense was added. Th... ...e driven home.”’ Oliver Haddo told his story not ineffectively, but with a comic gravity that prevented one from knowing exactly how to take it. ‘Havi...

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..., took the money. Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very long and very narrow strips of printed bill announced, was then inaugurating the entertainments ... ...celebrated for his daring vault ing act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prai ries; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an... ... as he smoked, in front of T om and looking down at him, observed: ‘What a comical brother in law you are!’ ‘What a comical brother in law old Bounder... ...ked through a chink in the boards. ‘That’h Jack the Giant Killer—piethe of comic infant bithnith,’ said Sleary. ‘There’th a property houthe, you thee,... ...there’th little Jack himthelf in a thplendid thoot of armour; there’th two comic black thervanth twithe ath big ath the houthe, to thtand by it and to...

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...ated. He was so full of colour and animation, his voice ran so easily into comic grotesque, he was so ready and so pleasant with everybody. Her own fa... ... followed the manufacturer into a grubby little room, upholstered in black American leather, glossy with the rub- bing of many customers. On the table... ...the copying himself. He worked quickly and well. This done, he seized some strips of long yellow paper, about three inches wide, and made out the day’... ...ntering, with their bags of food, for fear of being turned out. Leonard, a comic, thin fellow, went first; Paul, who would have died rather than be se... ...atrice demurely. “Where’s Paul?” Leonard had followed Annie. He had a long comic face and blue eyes, very sad. “I suppose he’s left you to settle it b...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...aused an undergar- ment to be made for him; and in the undergarment he had strips of leather fixed, into which a hundred and fifty brass nails, pointe... ...e with clothing, but which feels no grief and makes no resistance when one strips it again. It is in this way that you should feel towards your clothe... ...dicat orbis terrarum is another instance. [225] “Mesopotamia” is the stock comic instance.—An ex- cellent Old German lady, who had done some traveling...