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...disconsolate tone in which you bade me farewell at Noble House, [The first stage on the road from Edinburgh to Dumfries via Moffat.] and mounted your ... ...s, and bread eaten in secret. There was no mistaking the profession of the male and female, who were partners with Benjie in these merry do- ings. The... ... in a man’s hat, a blue coat, which seemed also to have been an article of male ap- parel, and a red petticoat. She was cleaner, in person and in clot... ...rance of the old woman whom the laird had termed Mabel; Cristal Nixon, his male attendant; and the young person who had said grace to us when I supped... ...I NARRATIVE The advantage of laying before the reader, in the words of the actors themselves, the adventures which we must other- wise have narrated i... ...hough many accused him of conceit in presuming to undertake, at this early stage of his practice, a case of considerable difficulty. But Alan, notwith... ... it as an idle tale. I little thought how nearly I was inter- ested in the actors of a scene so daring. How could you have courage to go through with ... ..., or that caprice which so of- ten tempts painters and musicians and great actors, in the phrase of the latter, to walk through their part, instead of... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...rom its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already ... ...hat all the great sights are somewhere else. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger’s seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice o... ...there are the boughs, and trunks, and stumps of trees, in every pos sible stage of decay, decomposition, and neglect. Now you emerge for a few brief ... ...ly into her own bed chamber. In another part of the building, there was a male pa tient in bed; very much flushed and heated. ‘Well,’ said he, start... ...where there was certainly greater politeness exhibited than at most of our stage coach banquets. At about nine o’clock we arrived at the railroad stat... ...s nobody there. To my horror and amazement it is full of sleepers in every stage, shape, attitude, and variety of slumber: in the berths, on the chair...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ... for expression of its maximum, my glim- mering story was, at the earliest stage, to have nipped the thread of connexion with the possibilities of the... ...estions that the “story,” with the omens true, as I say, puts on from this stage the authen- ticity of concrete existence. It then is, essentially—it ... ... happy luck of mere finding has little to do. The joys of finding, at this stage, are pretty well over; that quest of the subject as a whole by “match... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...hat matter, it had begun to seem to him that there must only have been the male and the female. These made two exactly, even with the individual varie... ...ut of it, with his “home,” as Strether figured the place, in the Boulevard Malesherbes; which was perhaps why, re- pairing, not to fail of justice eit... ...actual business half an hour later was with a third floor on the Boulevard Malesherbes—so much as that was definite; and the fact of the enjoyment by ...

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...p- tain, is it permitted to come on board?’ were the first words we heard among the islands. Canoe followed canoe till the ship swarmed with stalwart,... ... spoke no language. ‘Mais, vous savez,’ objected the fair sentimentalist; ‘Ils apprennent si vite l’Anglais!’ But to be able to speak to people is not... ...of the catch; and I think we may go beyond, and say, that if such a population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...te history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and stages. I have al- ways fondly remembered a remark that I heard fall years ... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...ceive nothing irregular in the situation. It had become clear, at an early stage of their community, that they should never desire the same thing at t... ... had better not marry their cousins. Another is that people in an advanced stage of pulmonary disorder had better not marry at all.” The old man raise... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...

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...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ...inly were not so cautiously whispered but they occasionally did do so. The male remarks, indeed, generally died away in the throats that uttered them;... ..., that, had they been younger and prettier, they would have fared worse. A male emissary, who was ad mitted on the supposition of his being a patient... ...s which we are apt to associate with a noiseless tread and movement in the male sex. The sunshine came through the ivy and glim mered upon his great ... ...s singularly delicate) ought to have borne. Once in a long while the weary actors in the headlong drama of life must have such repose or else go mad o... ...ut a by inci dent, a slight refreshment, to enable him to pass the midway stage of life. It is an excellent thing to see the faith of a hearty Englis... ...id Redclyffe; “but it is none the less cer tain to me, that the efficient actors—those who mould the world—are the persons in whom something else is ...

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...downward grimace, the necessitated wrinkles of which could be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our ... ...f the un- folding of that secret was brilliant to his eyes as a scene on a stage. He refused to feel any sensible bruise on his head, with the admissi... ...nted by the shopkeeper, while the attendants climbed the ladder to up- per stages for white-waistcoat boxes, on his being; the first bird of the seaso... ... the key, this way the cupboard, of the supplies, their fuel. According to Stage directions, The Rajah and His Minister Enter a Gin-Palace.—It is to w... ... a short utterance between the nuptial two, of whom the unshamed exuberant male has found the sweet reverse in his mate, a 97 George Meredith haven o... ...g in my service an inveterate pugilist—who breaks the law from patriotism! Male or fe- male, these very respectable persons—the people your show was m... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s...

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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...he gangway, was assisted on board, for our visitor was in that interesting stage of intoxication when a man is amiable and helpless. Although he was u... ...ore I trusted my weight to them. On arriving towards the end of the second stage in this vertical journey, and shaking the long roots which were round... ...ts, and after eating all that remained of our bread, prepared for the last stage of our journey. I will not recount every hair-breadth escape, and ev... ...s of the principal groups it is simply a sexual designation applied to the males; but it is now used by the natives in their intercourse with foreigne... ...to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations. T o destroy our malefactors piece-meal, drying up in their veins, drop by drop, the blood w... ... concentrated; and to have seen it filled with a crowd of the natives, all males, conversing in animated clusters, while multitudes were continually c...

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...ve been travelling along, stupidly enough, as you generally do in the last stage of the day; and the ninety six bells upon the horses—twenty four apie... ...d you have been thinking deeply about the dinner you will have at the next stage; when, down at the end of the long avenue of trees through which you ... ...t sellers; there, the shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picture... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ... ...is very high) then rose up, and stretched out its tiny arms, while all the male spectators in the square uncovered, and some, but not by any means the...

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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 ... ...s to say the rumour origi- nated in the same base quarters, that a certain male Chuzzlewit, whose birth must be admitted to be involved in some obscur... ...is: merely adding, by way of a final spadeful, that many Chuzzlewits, both male and female, are proved to demonstration, on the faith of letters writt... ...ts bonds, and hung upon her neck; for which instance of its waywardness no male observer would have had the heart to blame it. Her attire was that of ... ..., as one may say, particu- larly in the wine department, which had so many stages of declen- sion, that sometimes a young gentleman was a whole fortni... ...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... ...iff remarked that he would trouble his eldest daughter, even in this early stage of their journey, for the brandy-bottle. And from the narrow neck of ... ...n who had effectually corked the subject also; and went to sleep for three stages. The tendency of mankind when it falls asleep in coaches, is to wake...

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... the habit of thinking of spring and summer, autumn and winter, as so many stages in a prolonged campaign. Although he was still under thirty, this fo... ...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... .... As she ran her needle in and out of the wool, she thought of the various stages in her own life which made her present position seem the culmination... ...reat many people,” he added, look- ing round him. “It’s like a room on the stage. Who is it to-night?” “William Rodney, upon the Elizabethan use of me... ...inner, the sense of being women together coming out most strongly when the male sex was, as if by some religious rite, se- cluded from the female. Kat... ... his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgment no ounce of his male muscularity. He seemed to argue as fiercely with her as if she were hi... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ... ...nham’s unfashionable appearance. He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing one, he remained silent. The glance, the slight q...

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...e of his evening; he must be the hero of one of those mysteries with three actors which constitute an opera ball, and are known only to those who play... ... can laugh and make others laugh. That gift of all great writers and great actors is proper to those who have investigated every social deep. At eigh-... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...nd Asie you can live here for a thousand-franc note a month like a queen—a stage queen. Europe has been a dressmaker, a milliner, and a stage super; A... ...ius could invent the tale of Othello; English ge- nius could put it on the stage; but Nature alone reserves the power of throwing into a single glance... ... est waiting-maid that Monrose could have hoped to see as her rival on the stage. Slight, with a scatter-brain manner, a face like a weasel, and a sha... ... rose in life, require an answer, but even benevolent curiosity—as much as malevolent curiosity—went on from one inquiry to another, and found more th... ... than that he had hitherto pursued—to give a sum of money to some Frontin, male or female, to act and think for him. Madame de Saint-Esteve alone coul... ...ical feeling—the Marechale d’Ancre and the Queen of France, Semblancay and Malesherbes, Damien and Danton, Desrues and Castaing. Fouquier-Tinville’s p...

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...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...egend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. For them stage-coaches will have become romances —a team of four bays as fabulous as... ...ent— 71 Thackeray ah, how their tails shook, as with smoking sides at the stage’s end they demurely walked away into the inn-yard. Alas! we shall nev... ... young gentleman made me re- mark that we drove very slow for the last two stages on the road, because Sir Pitt was on the box, and because he is pro-... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...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...

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...ere to be for ever dis- appointed by the intervention, as it were, of some malevo- lent being, and who was at last to come off victorious from 10 Guy... ...because its existence was secret (that is, presumed to be so) from all the males of the family, but especially from the hus- band and master. He was, ... ... for the Laird to pass.” “He shall have his share of the road,” answered a male gipsy from under his slouched and large-brimmed hat, and without raisi... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...venture to make his pres- ence in the country known to Miss Mannering. The stage was a long one of eighteen or twenty miles, and the road lay across t... ...ng his brow, and twisting his face, and gesticulating as if he were on the stage, and dressed out in all his costume. My father’s manner is quite diff... ...nce on the Ellangowan property, Mr. Sampson—You would find most of the old stagers still stationary there. I have too much respect for—the late family... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

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...arnest scene, and an ear- nest man, very well, but only in their place—the stage. See what sad work they make of it, who, ignorant of this, flame out ... ...anything of it. No, he gets it from some of those old plays he sees on the stage, or some of those old books he finds up in garrets. T en to one, he h... ... to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob- served at an evening party there, a ce... ...sustained throughout an almost entire sitting; that they may not, like the American savan, be thereupon be- trayed into any surprise incompatible with... ...he Confidence-Man dence. It is evil!” “From evil comes good. Distrust is a stage to confidence. How has it proved in our interview? But your voice is ... ... Injuries IN A KIND OF ANTE-CABIN, a number of respectable looking people, male and female, way-passengers, recently come on board, are listlessly sit... ... what I say. I speak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that Ch... ...he faces, but ransacking the lives of several thousands of human be- ings, male and female, of various nations, both employers and employed, genteel a... ...to the moral. Are we right there, sir? Now, sir, take a young boy, a young male infant rather, a man-child in short—what sir, I respectfully ask, do y...

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.......................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR ..............................................................

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............... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 .......................................... ...alamity, inevitably, and with- out restraint, we go on to consider it as a stage spectacle. Exclamations of—How grand! How magnificent! arise in a sor... ...nd then would come the rush up-stairs. Against this, as the only dangerous stage in the transaction, the murderer would have specially prepared. Mrs. ... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...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... ...yelps, lip-gnawings, glaring horrors, and other emotional symbolism of the stage. It becomes at last a mere deaf-and-dumb language to them, which they... ..., 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... ...the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of supposing that the actors were try- ing to represent human beings. I looked round on my first-... ...more exaggerated gestures. “Really, one might think it a disease,” I said—“Stage-Walkitis!” (There’s many a truth spoken in jest.) Then, if I remember... ...ed at- tention to the conventional attitudes and intonation of the English stage was gradually affecting my speech and carriage. I was giving way to t... ...bble sat, luckily for himself, at a safe distance, regarding him. The four malefactors, feigning a profound absorption in their work, watched him furt... ...tres, and “all that.” And in addition were aunts of his wife, and cousins (male and female) to eat up capital, insult him per- sonally, upset business... ...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,...

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... would still be mine; for I, you know, should never have placed her on the stage. She would have lived obscure, well conducted, and mine. Oh! if you c... ...s she humbugs every one—she who knew nothing, not even that word.” At this stage the retired perfumer wiped his eyes, which were full of tears. The si... ...se, at the Theatre des Varietes, had recognized her father in a lower tier stage-box with Jenny Cadine, and had exclaimed: “There is papa!” “You are m... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent... ...ound him. Where does Madame Nourrisson—yes, that was her name—pick up such actors?” On the following day, Doctor Bianchon allowed the Bar- oness to go... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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... are not conscious of it; but if the artist brings it into his art, on the stage say, we shall roll about with laughter and only wonder we did not not... ...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... ... play- ers—the latter clad in frockcoats of the kind usually af- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piec... ...ats of the kind usually af- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piece, even though, with arms sharply cro... ...on of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass be- yond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth... ... split within a fortnight, and brought down upon your head dire showers of male- dictions; with the result that gradually your shop grew empty of cust... ...ir business with the Governor’s wife, the ladies’ party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting ... ...women,” “pet- ticoats,” and others of a nature peculiarly offensive to the male sex. Also, however much they might arm themselves and take the field, ...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...It has quite put out the Desert Island passion, which used to be a regular stage in these children’s lives. Every voyage we have taken, somebody has c... ...ne; she has not learned to be laughed at yet, and has not come even to the stage for being taught to bear it.’ ‘She looks fit to turn the cream sour,’... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ... ...he French original existed in the house, and Fly started the idea that the male performers should speak En- glish and the female French; but this was ... ...olute best.’ The performance went off beautifully—at least so thought both actors and spectators. The dignity of the Bailli and the meddling of the dr... ...and the least successful personation was that of Gillian, who had a fit of stage-fright, forgot sentences, and whirred her spinning- wheel nervously, ...

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...e o’er each scene’ with him, as he actually ad- vanced through the several stages of his life. Had his other friends been as diligent and ar- dent as ... ..., Mr. Levett, Captain Garrick, father of the great ornament of the British stage; but above all, Mr. Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Prerogative Cou... ...ceived my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. ... ...the law, from which he was soon diverted by his decided preference for the stage. They were recommended to Mr. Colson, an eminent mathematician and ma... ...hter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so whimsical a thought came into my mind, b... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...ll who was my grand- father.’ He maintained the dignity and propri- ety of male succession, in opposition to the opin- ion of one of our friends, who ... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments...

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...ey have learnt that there are two sides to a question, that there are many stages in human life, and that the success or failure of early enthusiasm l... ...they—all eight of them—were almost destitute? the birth of the poor little male heir preventing the sale of the property, so terribly en- cumbered; an... ...or him?” asked Clement. “In fact, ever since the first Lambkin came on the stage any one would have thought those poor boys were her steps, not good o... ...rew round, and he exclaimed— “Foolish guillemots’ eggs?” “He is in the egg stage,” said his father, smiling. “I won’t answer for guillemots,” said the... ...’s Merrifield! Excuse me, Cherie.” And off he went. “The sentiments of the actors somewhat resembled Adrian’s. It was too new, and needed more learnin... ...B TLE B TLE BUT UT UT UT UTTERFL TERFL TERFL TERFL TERFLY Y Y Y Y The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, his- tory, pastoral, pasto... ...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...where she was to be left for a year, while Fernan with Marilda visited his American establishments, and on their return would decide whether she would...

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...they betray. Cry, False! on them, and there is an instant echo of bleeding males in many circles, like the poor quavering flute-howl of transformed be... ...nt chilled the prospect, considered in its genial appearance as a feast of stages; having luminous extension; so, to ease his client’s mind, he ventur... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...d to the outer world by the opening of her mouth; chiefly then, though not malevo- lently to command: as the portal of some snow-bound mon- astery ope... ...ere ‘s your music?’ said the captain, twinkling for an adversary among the males, too distant or too dull to distinguish a note of challenge. ‘You’d b... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ived from the Mattock family. It is a love resembling the affection of the stage-box for a set of favourite performers, and Patrick, a Celt who had sc... ...nds of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses on reports from camps of foreign armies. He drops his head ... ...e laden emotions of her nature brought her round by another channel to the stage neighbouring sight, where facts, dimly recognised for such—as they ma...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...ity which resolved itself into the wages, would, through all the different stages of the manufacture, rise only in arithmetical proportion to this ris... ...odity which re- solved itself into profit would, through all the different stages of the manufacture, rise in geometrical proportion to this rise of p... ...his business, and his own labour maintains him through all the dif- ferent stages of his employment. It is reasonable, therefore, that in Europe the w... ...the Romans who made no more distinction between elder and younger, between male and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distributio... ... can be no indisputable dif- ference but that of sex, and that of age. The male sex is universally preferred to the female; and when all other things ... ...aestus”, says old Cato, “stabilissimusque, minimeque invidiosus; minimeque male cogitantes sunt, qui in eo studio occupati sunt.” Country gentlemen an...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...d, the match meeting with pa- rental disapproval, had himself taken to the stage as a profes- sion. Notwithstanding Mrs. Poe’s beauty and talent the y... ...stanza from William Winter’s poem, read at the dedication exercises of the Actors’ Monument to 10 Poe in Five V olumes Poe, May 4, 1885, in New Y ork... ...ch it might be possible to travel. “It is true that balloons, in the first stage of their ascensions from the earth, are known to rise with a velocity... ...egan to fill me with alarm. It will be remem- bered, that, in the earliest stage of my speculations upon the possibility of a passage to the moon, the... ...e any thing to do with the proceedings but himself, and he has elbowed the male rela- tives out of the way, according to their representations, in a v... ...ng the rose in the key-hole; the ‘Marie’ upon the slate; the ‘elbowing the male relatives out of the way;’ the ‘aversion to permitting them to see the...

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... last, in desperation, I sent one, which I called A Man of Honour, to the Stage Society, which gave two performances, one on Sunday night, another on... ...t merit to please an intellectual audience. As every one knows, it was the Stage Society that produced the early plays of Bernard Shaw. The committee ... ...st serve to keep his theatre open for a few weeks, by the end of which the actors he wanted for the play he had been obliged to postpone would be at l... ...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... ...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 ... ...y off the most famous, the most infamous, of them all, Sprenger’s Malleus Malefikorum. ‘Here is one of my greatest treasures. It is the Clavicula Sa... ... became manifest. Of these, the most marvellous were those strange beings, male and female, which were called homunculi. The old philosophers doubted ... ... was found that the spirits had grown to about a span and a half each; the male homunculi were come into possession of heavy beards, and the nails of...

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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... ...n works of piety and autobiog- raphy. Interesting as the origins and early stages of a subject always are, yet when one seeks earnestly for its full s... ...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 ... ... piety do not reach back so far. And if fetishism and magic be regarded as stages of reli- gion, one may say that personal religion in the in- ward se... ...tion thus becomes a verbal one again; and our knowledge of all these early stages of thought and feeling is in any case so conjectural and imperfect t... ...on the sly, and this fact, together with my jealousy of another one of her male admirers and my own conscience despising me for my uncontrollable weak... ...h between the two Ideals. The carnivo- rous-minded “strong man,” the adult male and can- nibal, can see nothing but mouldiness and morbid- ness in the... ...Bad, between Friends and Foes, between Father and Child, Husband and Wife, Male or Female; but all would have been turned topsy-turvy, by being expose...

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...in which not one of that hero’s mille e tre adventures is brought upon the stage? To propitiate you, let me explain myself. You will retort that I nev... ...end. Why are our occa- sional attempts to deal with the sex problem on the stage so repulsive and dreary that even those who are most deter- mined tha... ...Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-T urgenieff stage, and were confronted with... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...licacy would initiate any effort in that direction. There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this mat- ter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexu... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... premier; for it is not in reason to suppose that a second such attractive male figure should appear in one story. The slim shapely frame, the elegant... ...N. I thought so, sir. Morality sent to the devil to please our libertines, male and female. That is to be the fu- ture of England, is it? TANNER. Oh, ...

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...for a new St. Bartholomew!” cried others. “We are to be massacred, man and male child!” Neither was this rumor wholly discredited, although the wiser ... ...s of the congregation, many of the middle aged, and nearly all the younger males. Pearson found it difficult to sustain their united and disapproving ... ..., while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered. She then divested herself of the cloa... ...dition of the narrative, with a voice like a field preacher, when the mail stage drove into the village street. It had trav- elled all night, and must... ...alled me to his bedside, and gave me two dollars and fifty cents to pay my stage fare, and another dollar for my extra expenses. He then laid his pock... ...woke in the next street to his home, he is as effectually abroad as if the stage-coach had been whirl- ing him away all night. Yet, should he reappear... ...ge than General George Washington; and the other principal officers of the American army, such as Gates, Lee, Putnam, Schuyler, Ward and Heath, were r... ...ernard, and of the well-remembered Hutchinson; thereby confessing that the actors, whoever they might be, in this spectral march of governors, had suc... ...night. However this might be, such knowledge has never become general. The actors in the scene have vanished into deeper obscurity than even that wild...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...Easton Police Department and relayed what he had heard. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Mar... ...ss. Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediate... ...ent. And, as a Palestinian, he saw Israel as the top priority for the next stage. 26 Whether the dispute was about power, personal differences, or str... ...s, missile defense, and glob- alization.Terrorism infrequently took center stage; and when it did, the con- text was often terrorists’ tactics—a chemi... ...was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriati... ...ter the move, Bayoumi used their apartment for a party attended by some 20 male members of the Muslim community.At Bayoumi’s request, Bin Don videotap...

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...n India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the f...

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...an, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside t... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...h English children begin to grow up and come to themselves in life. As the stage of the Uni- versity approaches, the contrast becomes more express. Th... ...ci- plined and drilled by proctors. Nor is this to be regarded merely as a stage of education; it is a piece of privilege be- sides, and a step that s... ...- tered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: A Tragedy, I have observe... ...tely stem. In boyhood, as he told me once, speaking in that tone that only actors and the old-fashioned common folk can use nowadays, his 38 Robert L... ...ir, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be...