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...erned with. I had from far back mentally projected a certain sort of young American as more the “heir of all the ages” than any other young person wha... ... to—to keep my subject to a decent compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to see wh... ...le, for developments. What one had discerned, at all events, from an early stage, was that a young person so devoted and exposed, a creature with her ... ...e would be a great deal to say). It is in Kate’s consciousness that at the stage in question the drama is brought to a head, and the occasion on which... ...panish dancer, understood to be at that moment the delight of the town, an American reciter, the joy of a kindred people, an Hungarian fiddler, the wo... ... in short, that now troubled her—though certainly, as Europe was the great American sedative, the failure was to some extent to be noted: it was the s... ...dmiring eye of friendship, under the clear shadow of some probably eminent male interest. The clear shadow, from whatever source projected, hung at an... ... girl, so easily might have been, like herself, only vague and cruelly fe- male. She was by no means sure of liking Aunt Maud as much as she deserved,... ...an themselves, supernumeraries mostly a little battered, whether as jaunty males or as ostensibly elegant women. They might have been moving a good de...

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...ffort—made several efforts, in fact—but the portier was not satisfied. He finally had it taken up, and then he put it down himself and got it right. A... ...was heard, and immediately groups of people began to gather in the street. Two or three open carriages arrived, and depos- ited some maids of honor an... ...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...nnheim 41 A Tramp Abroad opera. These people talked, between the acts, and I under- stood them, though I understood nothing that was uttered on the d... ...up, the light in the body of the house went down. The audience sat in the cool gloom of a deep twilight, which greatly enhanced the glowing splendors ... ...ake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious. Many people say that... ...the walls of one room were pretty completely covered with small pictures of the Margravine in all conceivable varieties of fan- ciful costumes, some o...

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... to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well ... ...ld do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that o... ...aid. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led t... ... which showed that two, at least, were destined to bear the persons of fe- males, of a rank that it was not usual to meet so far in the wilds of the c... ... any new victim, these diligent workers of vengeance soon approached their male prisoners, pronouncing the name “La Longue Carabine,” with a fiercenes... ...enimore Cooper Gamut cheerfully assented, and together they sought the fe- males. Cora received her new and somewhat extraordinary protector courteous... ...ywhere along its bands were the moldering relics of dead trees, in all the stages of decay, from those that groaned on their tottering trunks to such ... ...oved, and which were now about to be closed forever from his view. In this stage of the obsequies, a warrior much renowned for deed in arms, and more ... ...how that they knew not how much further they might proceed. It was in this stage of the rites that the scout again addressed them: “My young women hav...

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...h other again, in London, some three months previously, at a dinner at the American Embassy, and when she had caught sight of him her smile had been l... .... Her husband had struck him as a characteristic speci- men of the kind of American as to whom one is not quite clear whether he lives in Europe in or... ...tation as to the issue, but rather that she seemed to wish not to miss any stage in the gradual reflowering of their intimacy. Darrow, for his part, w... ...er high sweet voice and of her quick incessant gestures.She was clearly an American, but with the loose native quality strained through a closer woof ... ... was false from head to foot!” “False—?” In spite of time and satiety, the male instinct of ownership rose up and repudiated the charge. Miss Viner ca... ...lids; then, with a touch of hauteur: “I’m going to Paris: to study for the stage.” “The stage?” Darrow stared at her, dismayed. All his con- fused con... ...class uninteresting. Such generalisations belonged, however, to an earlier stage of his experience. The more he saw of life the more incalcu- lable he... ...ace, at the same moment, underwent the same change, shrinking into a small malevolent white mask in which the eyes burned black. “Thank you—thank you ... ..., as though the russet covert through which he trudged were the heart of a maleficent jungle... Snatches of his companion’s talk drifted to him interm...

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...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ces between Thompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, effici... ...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 ... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ... gained nothing but his crooked nose, his cel- ebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable. He was ab... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ... or two people. “Gosh, I’m not doing so bad; hittin’ ‘em up like a regular stage dancer!” he gloated; and she answered busily, “Yes—yes—I told you I c...

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...es.’ When a nation has acknowledged that it is as yet but in the fisticuff stage of the art of condensing our purest sense to golden sentences, a read... ...raglio Point: they have not yet doubled Cape T urk.’ It is war, and on the male side, Ottoman war: her experi- ence reduced her to think so positively... ...ND OF WHAT THEY LED TO A FORTNIGHT after this memorable Ball the principal actors of both sexes had crossed the Channel back to England, and old Irela... ...lood. There were, one hears that there still are, remnants of the pristine male, who, if resisted in their suing, conclude that they are scorned, and ... ... an actress showing herself nightly on a London 44 Diana of the Crossways stage, she would before now have met the superb apprecia- tion, melancholy ... ...ake a kind of hueless grey, and are chiefly strik- ing in an authoritative stage. Without contradicting, for he was exactly polite, his look signified... ... morum, spicing the lamentable derelictions of this and that great person, male and female. The plea of corruption of blood in the world, to excuse th... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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...; 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 ... ...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...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... .... For fifteen minutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, tha... .... Wutherspoon. You’re the only famous actor I’m going to let appear on the stage tonight.” While Raymie blushed and admitted, “Oh, they don’t want to ... ...shields and faded red, white, and blue bunting. At the end was an abortive stage. The room was large enough for the community dances which Mrs. Nat Hi...

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...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... ...ted the Judge with the character of those in the sleigh. It contained four male figures. On one of those stools that are used at writing desks, lashed... ...hen the law provided that all born after a certain day should be free, the males at twenty— eight and the females at twenty-five. After this the owner... ...which opened into the porch emerged two or three female domestics, and one male. The latter was bareheaded, but evidently more dressed than usual, and... ...serious, for I have fifty , at this moment, shut up in the coops, in every stage of fat, so that you might choose any quality you pleased. There are s... ...d temperature. Once, just as her eyes had opened, appar- ently in the last stage of drowsiness, the roaring winds brought with them a long and plainti... ...carried the mail or “the post,” as he was called, talked much of running a stage, and, once or twice during the winter, he was seen taking a single pa...

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...d beginning to play stirring marches as we puffed out of the bay. THE NEXT STAGE was Gibraltar, where we were to change horses. Before sunset we skir... ...busy cheerful drama is heightened, as it were, by the decora- tions of the stage. The sky is delightfully brilliant; all the houses 34 Notes on a Jou... ...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... ...as en- deavouring to get the likeness of one or two of these comfort- able malefactors. One old and wrinkled she-criminal, whom I had selected on acco... ...in your hair:you would not listen to the choruses they were singing on the stage, for the voice of the fair one would be whispering a rendezvous for t... ...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... ...th. Hard by was Rebecca’s Well: a dead body was lying there, and crowds of male and female mourners dancing and howling round it. Now and then a littl... ...it. Then one of his companions got up and showed us his black cattle. The male slaves were chiefly lads, and the women young, well formed, and abomin...

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...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... ...of black coats behind the President-Dictator, on the crimson cloth-covered stage erected under a shady tree on the shore of the harbour, where the cer... ... “Imagine an atmosphere of opera-bouffe in which all the comic business of stage statesmen, brig- ands, etc., etc., all their farcical stealing, intri... ... of himself by that note of passion and sorrow unknown on the more refined stage of European politics. But when the tall Antonia, advancing with her l... ...time for extending a modest man’s business. He enveloped in a swift mental maledic- tion the whole country, with all its inhabitants, par- tisans of R... ...as clear. It would be of no use to him—alone. He could do nothing with it. Malediction! The doctor would never come out. He was probably under arrest ... ...ic manner—proofs visible, sensible, and incon- trovertible of the doctor’s malevolent disposition. And Nostromo was of the people. So he only grunted ...

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.... The girl had a fine black eye like her mamma, a grand enthusiasm for the stage, as ev- ery actor’s child will have, and, if the truth must be known,... ...nfluence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter especial... ... world, from Bond Street to Bread Street; he knew all the authors, all the actors, all the “notorieties” of the town, and the private histo- ries of e... ...have seen whence the music came. Behind her came slowly a drag, or private stage-coach, with four horses. Two grooms with cockades and folded arms wer... ...ed her daughter between all the acts, she nodded to all her friends on the stage, in the slips, or in the real water; she intro- duced her daughter, M... ...to me, considering these things, it seemed that there were a hundred other male brutes squatted round about, and treated just as reasonably as Bottom ... ... 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... ...ourse of study, nor, indeed, possible; for, between ourselves, none of the male Fitz- Boodles ever could sing a note, and the jargon of scales and sol...

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...dy. Fi- nally, the Carminative Balm, which can be employed by women in all stages of their toilet, will prevent cutaneous diseases by facilitating the... ... arrest the play of all his faculties; but neither the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the women, nor the writers in the great drama will listen to th... ...ss, to understand a part and act it without compro- mising the play or the actors in it, and possessed of a rare sort of honor, that of keeping a secr... ...imulate the growth of hair, to titillate the scalp, to revive the color of male and female tresses. This cosmetic will not be less successful than my ... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...es for a prodigy among the bourgeoisie. Matifat, a passionate lover of the stage, had a slight leaning to obscenity. It was even said that, in imitati... ...ut architects and contractors are to each other very much what authors and actors are,—mutually dependent. Grindot, ordered by Birotteau to stipulate ... ...Bellona, and reach a state of peaceful confidence. In Paris the astringent stage of suspicion and mistrust is as quick to declare itself as the expans... ... “There is a beginning to everything,” said Molineux. Dismayed by the curt malevolence of the old man, Cesar was cowed; he heard the knell of failure ...

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...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ... brilliant glare in the sur- rounding darkness—she caught a glimpse of the stage. It was set for a garden; at the back and in the distance a chateau; ... ...rowded, and Jadwin and Cressler were obliged to stand, in order to see the stage. Although they all spoke in whispers, their arrival was the signal fo... ...balancing in the twilight, defined itself. But soon she turned towards the stage. The applause died away, and the contralto once more sang the aria. T... ...ut the ship about. Jadwin having criticised the effect because none of the actors turned with it, was voted a Philistine by Mrs. Cressler and Corthell... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...n exhilaration. Beneath that boyish exterior was the tough coarseness, the male hardness, the callous- ness that met the brunt and withstood the shock... ...e posed as a task- master, relentless, never pleased, hustling the amateur actors about without ceremony, scolding and brow-beat- ing. He was a small,...

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... times, an almost unprecedented number. In fact he was entering on a fresh stage of life, from the little boy to the lad, and the period was marked by... ...ow, as well as travelling companion. This year seems to have been a marked stage of develop- ment. He was now twenty-five, and the boyish distaste for... ... long since I have been so excited in a theatre. I was three rows from the stage, heard and understood everything, and was so completely carried away ... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...it to-day, and had a long talk with the physician and surgeon, and saw the male pa- tients, two of them natives. One of them is dying, and so I am to ... ...haps: two or three faint female voices, two or three rough most discordant male voices, all the attempt at singing. No instrument of any kind. The bur... ... it is for all who wish to belong to it. He recognises no dis- tinction of male or female, bond or free.” 477 Yo n g e ‘Some of the elder men are bec... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...m come before the public under such skil fully contrived circumstances of stage effect as those which at once mystified and illuminated the remarkabl... ...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ...ging the rest of mankind to retain her as the spectacle of only a few. The stage would have been her proper sphere. 34 The Blithedale Romance She sho... ...e so happy, especially a feminine creature.” “They are always happier than male creatures,” said I. “You must correct that opinion, Mr. Coverdale,” re... ...ely sense of the exultation with which the spirit will en ter on the next stage of its eternal progress after leaving the heavy burden of its mortali... ...ating them from other relations, had kept so long upon my mental stage, as actors in a drama. In itself, perhaps, it was no very remark 123 Hawthorn... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s... ...voices and much laughter proceeding from the interior of the wood. Voices, male and feminine; laughter, not only of fresh young throats, but the bass ...

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...nd had rather 85 Yo n g e not have done so now, but as he saw none of his male com- panions setting off, he fancied that to attend a week-day ser- vi... ... lest the others should tell. As soon as the tea was despatched, the three actors de- parted, and presently there was a call from behind the screen, “... ...acting, and the chorus of boys, who greatly enjoyed chasing him across the stage, crying, “The law, his ducats, and his daughter!” Then, after a short... ...ndshakings before the sailor had time to distinguish one from another, the actors assuming their own characters, grandmamma and Mrs. Roger Langford as... ...augh arose the next moment at the appearance of the still half-dis- guised actors: Alex without Bassanio’s short black cloak and slouched hat and feat... ...son about his travels. A sailor just returned from four years on the South American coast, who had doubled Cape Horn, shot condors on the Andes, caugh... ...one, by way of warning, at least twenty times before. Busy Bee was in that stage of girlhood which is very sen- sible on some points, in the midst of ...

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...ught to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and a... ...t-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors’ lives. Mlle. Michonneau, that elderly young lady, screened her weak... ...lzac Vautrin (the man of forty with the dyed whiskers) marked a transition stage between these two young people and the others. He was the kind of man... ...m some idea of the treasures con- tained in galleries and museums. At this stage of his career a student grows eager and excited about all sorts of fo... ...s on sunny afternoons in the Champs-Elysees, he soon reaches the fur- ther stage of envying their owners. Unconsciously, Eugene had served his apprent... ... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ... ...self unmasked his batteries, for he took Poiret and the Michonneau for the male and female of the same species. “If his Excellency himself, his Excell... ...Poiret, his heart swelling with the cour- age that love gives to the ovine male, “respect the weaker sex.” “Spies are of no sex!” said the painter. “A...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...e for shine. O, woe for Alpine’s honoured Pine! ‘Sad was thy lot on mortal stage!— The captive thrush may brook the cage, The prisoned eagle dies for ... ...; and many other examples might be mentioned. The Ben-Shie implies the fe- male fairy whose lamentations were often supposed to pre- cede the death of... ...hed, least powerful, nor least brave of the tribes of the Gael. “The first stage of the Fiery Cross is to Duncraggan, a place near the Brigg of Turk, ... ...he Daoine Shi’, or Men of Peace, of the Highlanders, though not absolutely malevolent, are believed to be a peevish, repining race of beings, who, pos... ...unds, etc. “It has been already observed that fair- ies, if not positively malevolent, are capricious, and easily of- fended. They are, like other pro... ... as we are describing. This sporting, in which kings did not disdain to be actors, was prohibited in Scotland upon the Reformation, by a statute of th... ...has introduced Finlay of the Foot-Band, who after much swaggering upon the stage is at length put to flight by the Fool, who terrifies him by means of...

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...versation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and hum... ..., and fresh news began to arrive from the war, brought by men who had been actors in the scene. Wagons and long country carts laden with wounded came ... ...ace all the females of the establishment in mourning; and desired that the male servants should be similarly attired in deep black. All parties and en... ...y handsome. But wherever she went she touched and charmed every one of the male sex, as invariably as she awakened the scorn and incredulity of her ow... ...d was right very likely. However, the London lamps flashed joyfully as the stage rolled into Piccadilly, and Briggs had made a beautiful fire in Curzo... ...les, made such a to-do that you would have thought she never had been in a stage-coach before—much less, that she had been turned out of this very one... ...laughter-House School where they were educated and to appear on Drury Lane stage, amongst a crowd which as- sembled there to greet the king. the King?... ...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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...d,—which had hitherto been fatal. The young men said it was because no old stager who knew the way of pulling the wires would come forward and put the... ...y no means strange. I understand that they have gone on trying the two old stages till it is useless to try them any longer; and if there is to be a f... ...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... ... boys at school used to draw out the elevens for a cricket match.’ The old stager turned round and stared at the younger politician. ‘The thing itself... ...leman at the Home Office, who means to reform the police and put an end to malefactors; or the new Minister at the Board of Works, who is to make Lond... ...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... ... with various ladies, with the Pountneys and Gun- ners, and other obedient male followers, had been to church. None of the Ministers had of course bee... ...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... ...k that his son ought to enjoy any special privilege of primogeniture or of male inheritance. And if it could be so managed that the daughter should be...