...this custom or approve it. He leaned over the bulwarks of the Donau as the American passen- gers crossed the plank—the travellers who embark at Southa... ...d at Southampton were not of the greasy class; they were for the most part American families who had been spending the summer, or a longer period, in ... ... be an aspect to study, like every- thing else. He had known in Dresden an American family in which there were three daughters who used to skate with ... ...t passed before him, and he felt this to be the last of the old world. The American coast also might be pretty—he hardly knew what one would expect of... ...ican coast also might be pretty—he hardly knew what one would expect of an American coast; but he was sure it would be differ- ent. Differences, howev... ...e same persuasion, and that persuasion the least to be mistaken. They were Jews and commercial to a man. And by this time they had lighted their cigar...

...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...n- tered about among the mixed population of Somanlis, Ban- yans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitant... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...n villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off hi... ...wned with wreaths of smoke, appeared on the edge of the waters. It was the American steamer, leaving for Y okohama at the appointed time. “Confound he...

...ure in the taste of the time when faith was strengthened by the shrieks of Jews on the rack, and enlivened by the roasting of heretics. Other such fri... ...such as Bomb Lane, Battery Lane, Fusee Lane, and so on. In Main Street the Jews predominate, the Moors abound; and from the “Jolly Sailor,” or the bra... ...te” regarding the French pro- ceedings at Mogador; and met several refugee Jews from that place, who said that they were much more afraid of the Kabyl... ...stle was passing in the market-place, in front of the window, where Moors, Jews, Spaniards, soldiers were thronging in the sun; and a ragged fat fello... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ... round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war. The American replied in a similar playful ferocity—the two warriors made a litt... ...orsted, challenged his adversary to a race, and fled away on his grey, the American following on his bay. Here poor sticking-plaster was again worsted...

...ctionate couples who talked in under- tones, a tableful of bright-coloured Jews who talked in over- tones, and a family party from the Midlands, badly... ... that rising in- tonation of humorous conclusion which is so distinctively American, “those Druids have got him.” “He’s hiding,” said the automobilist... ...he cheek bones, that faint flavour of the Amerindian, one sees at times in American women. Her voice was a very soft and pleasing voice, and she spoke... ... pleasing voice, and she spoke persuasively and not assertively as so many American women do. Her de- termination to make the dry bones of Stonehenge ... ... Stone Age. The shorter, less attractive lady, whose accent was distinctly American, came now and stood at the doctor’s elbow. She seemed moved to pla... ... here right now instead of being shopping in Paris or London like de- cent American women.” The younger lady looked down on her companion with somethi...

...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ... get onto the way a city fellow’s mind works, and then, of course, they’re Jews, and they’d lie right down and die if they knew Sid had anted up a hun... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...vertisements of those home-study courses which the energy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first... ...e these correspondence-courses might prove to be one of the most important American inventions. “Trouble with a lot of folks is: they’re so blame mate... ... elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews. In the entr’actes they met other lone delegates. A dozen of them went... ... workmen who jeered—young cynical work- men, for the most part foreigners, Jews, Swedes, Irishmen, Italians—but the older men, the patient, bleached, ...

... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...ake me. Short of muffing my fellowship I’m with you always…. Will it be an American trotter?” “It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that... ...ecils perhaps not, because they are in the order of things, the rich young Jews perhaps not, because acquisition is their principle, but for most othe... ...f en- noblement—and neglecting the Frenchman, the Russian, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed, the greater part of mank... ...arriage and plunged into the network of unlovely dark streets in which the Jews and traders harboured… . Benham’s first interven- tion was on behalf o... ...ature of the conflict by enquiries in clumsy Russian. He was told that the Jews had insulted a religious procession, that a Jew had spat at an ikon, t... ...e blaze had spread to the adja- cent group of houses. He gathered that the Jews were run- ning out of the burning block on the other side “like rats.”...

...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ..., but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ... in slant for- age caps and rattling sabers. It suggested to them a common American past, and it was memorable because they had discovered it together... ...essed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagin... ...moral than a chapel organ; that some poets do not have long hair; and that Jews are not always pedlers or pants-makers. “Where does she get all them t...

...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...gn; on the march to Rome he had lassoed his beef in the Campagna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic... ...the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the sh... ... his power- ful limbs lost in the vulgarity of a brown tweed suit, made by Jews in the slums of London, and sold by 449 Joseph Conrad the clothing de...

...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...uke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers CHAPTER V “Nathaniel’s coat, s... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell... ...ady; “sure, it was the Lord who was with ‘em; for he always sided with the Jews, before they fell away; and it’s but little matter what kind of men Jo...

...ull of people, people who had nothing to do but to stare at one another on the great flat down. There were thou- sands of little chairs and almost as ... ...group of giggling, nudging spectators, Flora wasn’t ready to tell about her- self. She held her little court in the crowd, upon the grass, playing her... ...land was that in commemoration of the new relationship she had gone to stay with Lady Considine. This had made me take everything else for granted, an... ... on such a scale that, with a deep plunge into a great chance, I was three good years in rising again to the surface. There are nymphs and naiads more...

...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...man beings; there would be great rejoicings over the conversion of alleged Jews, and ter- rible descriptions of the death-beds of prominent infidels w... ...cency. “Modesty and Decency,” said Hatherleigh, “are Ori- ental vices. The Jews brought them to Europe. They’re Semitic, just like our monasticism her... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ... ...ries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, ...

...hat he made me a present of a very beautiful piece of petrifaction – I believe the most beautiful and portable he had. Here was a man, at least, who w... ... us. One is Norse, one Celtic, and another Saxon. It is not community of tongue. We have it not among ourselves; and we have it almost to perfection, ... ...ory amused me, when I felt myself so thoroughly ripe on both sides to be duped in the same way. It is at least a curious thing, to conclude, that the ... ... character in Dickens; and the poor woman, driven to her entrenchments, at last remem- bered with a shriek that there were still some houses at the tu... ...mell of bays and nutmegs commanded themselves gratefully to our senses. One way and another, now the die was cast. Silverado be it! After we had got b... ...n “placed.” Three Lake County fami- lies, at least, endowed for life with a ship’s kettle. Come, this was no misspent Sunday. The absence of the kettl... ...other quarter of an 35 hour went by; till at length, at our earnest pleading, we set forth again in earnest, Fanny and I white... ...ce by which he held it would ran out upon the 30th of June – or rather, as I suppose, it had run out already, and the month of grace would expire upon...

...e had been invited to treat, through an English lady, an Oxford acquaintance, then at Nice, who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiab... ...desperate proprieties—struck him as topsy-turvy. He had encountered nothing like them at Oxford; still less had any such note been struck to his young... ...ad once found Mr. Moreen shaving in the drawing-room), their French, their Italian and, cropping up in the foreign fluencies, their cold tough slices ... ...ck some one down once or twice a year! Clever as they were they never guessed the impression they made. They were good-na- tured, yes—as good-natured ... ...come on.” Pemberton bethought himself. “They won’t like that, will they?” “Oh look out for them!” Then Pemberton brought out his remedy. “I’ll go to t... ...Mr. Granger, and wasn’t that also precisely where one would look for them on the eve of a smash? Pemberton gath- ered that Mr. Granger was a rich vaca...

...t a heap of illuminations you have seen! For the glorious victory over the Americans at Breed’s Hill; for the peace in 1814, and the beautiful Chinese... ...ds shake him by the hand; whilst the sailor mounts on the roof; whilst the Jews hang round with oranges, knives, and seal- ing-wax: whilst the guard i...

... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ...in his unity and universality. The God you salute to-day is the God of the Jews and Gentiles alike, the God of Islam, the God of the Brahmo Somaj, the...

... them and learnt to respect them. Perhaps his father had learnt to respect Jews, for there was a boy named Abner, he protected, who smelt Jewish; he s... ... ashamed to tell me you were one if you were?” “Not at all.” “You like the Jews?” “Those I know I like.” “Not many Christians have the good sense and ... ...l come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too, if only they will come! The more mixed, the more it ... ...he work, doesn’t dispirit. Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time. I shall manage to keep my head... ... strong man, probably enough. She proved she liked her country better. The Jews wrote the story of it, so there she stands for posterity to pelt her, ... ...miauling about women. It ‘s easy to be squashy on that subject. As for the Jews, I don’t go by their history, but now they ‘re down I don’t side with ... ...is boys: English, French, Germans, Italians, a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all em...

... name, it was all his (Mr. Woolsey’s) eye; that he was in the hands of the Jews, and his stock and grand shop eaten up by usury. And with regard to Wo... ... If the truth must be told, he loved pleasure, and was in the hands of the Jews. He had been in business twenty years: he had borrowed a thousand poun... ...n’t.” “Indeed I don’t.” “Nonsense. Don’t humbug a poor old fellow like me. Jews— Amos—fifty per cent., ay? Why can’t he get his money from a good Chri... ... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or...

...scheme ended in bankruptcy, a swift deliverance to the tender mer- cies of Jews and Pharisees; and he well knew it. But to a poor devil who was despon... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...words. The wily banker retained the horrible pronun- ciation of the German Jews,—possibly that he might be able to deny promises actually given, but o...

...beautiful lines from The Rape of the Lock about Belinda’s diamonds, “which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.” “But I hope your lordship is orthodox,... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

...of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinary life I never quest... ...ty. I don’t want him to sell his country to Germany, or to turn it into an American republic in order that he may be president. But when he gets the r... ... money. And, more than that, peers’ daughters were bestowing themselves on Jews and shopkeepers. Had he not better make the usual inquiry about the ma... ...eas, ‘all England does not return one Catholic to the House, while we have Jews in plenty. You have a Jew among your English judges, but at present no... ...r,—the result of which was, that he had gone rather deep into two or three American mines before the end of July. But he had already made some money o... ...rds, has not yet given it a name. I am a good deal at present in the South American trade.’ She listened, but received no glimmering of an idea from h... ...derived no informa- tion whatever from her husband’s hints about the South American trade, though she was ignorant as ever of his affairs, yet she fel... ...ilar franchise for the counties and bor- oughs must inevitably lead to the American system of nu- merical representation. But when time had been given...