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...them would isolate himself still further and for ever from the rest of his fellows. Yet they are convivial, they are almost the only race with the sou... ...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...of the pillars, But he, too, seems a shadow, not one of the dazzling white fellows I knew. Here we are trees, men, pillars, the dark earth, the sad bl... ... are seated, by church instinct, all together on the left, with perhaps an odd man at the end of a row, beside his wife. On the right, sprawling in th... ...iforms and slanting cock’ s-feather hats; then peasants, fishermen, and an odd couple or so of brazen girls taking their places on the men’s side. At ... ...and thin and somewhat German-looking, wearing 99 Twilight in Italy shabby American clothes and a very high double collar and a small American crush h... ...ught a quart of red wine. At other tables men were playing cards, with the odd Neapolitan cards. They too were talking Italian. It was a warm, ruddy b...

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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... ...“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 ... ...nvicted, a challenge to consumption—they smiled at each other in confirmed fellowship. “Do you call it subtly? It’s a plain poor tale. Besides, you’re... ...pse figured to him as a symbol, a symbol of his long grind and his want of odd moments, his want moreover of money, of opportunity, of positive dignit... ...a- tively safe—that having his young friend at his side would have been an odd feature of the work of redemption; and this quite in spite of the fact ... ...things, were to be learned at least cost, and in which all sorts of clever fellows, compatriots there for a purpose, formed an awfully pleas- ant set.... ...patriots there for a purpose, formed an awfully pleas- ant set. The clever fellows, the friendly countrymen were mainly young painters, sculptors, arc... ...me indiffer- ence and independences that had struck the latter as fresh—an odd and engaging dignity. He lived at the end of an alley that went out of ...

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...aning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; some of them with cheeks of a... ...the men than they thought. In short, although one of your sheepish-looking fellows, he had a sort of still, timid cunning, which no one would have sus... ...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...ection, employ, at large wages, one or two men of the commonest order—vile fellows, utterly regardless of appearances, upon whom they first try their ... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... to himself. At noon, he brought out his quad- rant, a rusty old thing, so odd-looking that it might have belonged to an astrologer. Sometimes, when r... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...but to the na- tives it was anathema—taboo—and, for several hours and some odd minutes, they would not touch it. Emissaries of the Pope and the devil,...

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...ue thinking. Yes, well, and if a tumble distorts our ideas of life, and an odd word engrosses our speculations, we are poor creatures, he addressed an... ...ts of advice to a frail humanity he was indulgent, the giant spoke in good fellowship. It would have been to have strained his meaning, for purposes o... ...Law that sanctions, they’re the criminals. Victor Radnor is the noblest of fellows, the very best friend a man can have. I will tell you: he saved me,... ... a colossal fortune: genius, as I said: and his donations to Institutions. Odd, to read his name and Mrs. Burman Radnor’s at separate places in the li... ...man: but Fredi’s appalling sense of fun must try him hard. And those young fellows are often more wounded by a girl’s thoughtless laughter than by a m... ...tive pleasure in looking forward to the hours of the City office. This was odd, but so it was; and looking homeward from the City, he had a sense of d... ... 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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...t daybreak. 7 Melville CHAPTER II. Showing that Many Men have Many Minds “ODD FISH!” “Poor fellow!” “Who can he be?” “Casper Hauser.” “Bless my soul!... ...r absent-minded, he sees so much as smiling or gesturing to himself in any odd sort of way, is secretly making him his butt. In some moods, the moveme... ... may be competent in all its branches. I invented my Protean easy-chair in odd intervals stolen from meals and sleep.” “You call it the Protean easy-c... ...f most destroyers of confidence and gloomy philoso- phers, the world over. Fellows who, whether in stocks, poli- tics, bread-stuffs, morals, metaphysi... ... made quite a fool of him.” “His own fault if I did. But I like prosperous fellows, comfort- able fellows; fellows that talk comfortably and prosperou... ...e fellows; fellows that talk comfortably and prosperously , like you. Such fellows are generally honest. And, I say now, I hap- pen to have a superflu... ... 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... ... 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...

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...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 ... ...the political police had kept his name on their lists. Contenson, like his fellows, was only a super in the dramas of which the leading parts were pla... ... terests. Still, what is to be said? He is a good fellow, the king of good fellows, and a man who has undergone much perse- cution, and for having sav... ...h silver-gilt—and offered it to Peyrade with an impulse of delightful good-fellowship. Peyrade said to himself: “And these are their agents! Good Heav... ...1819, Jacques Collin had faithfully handed over twenty thousand francs and odd to this woman from her lover, after he had been executed. Trompe-la-Mor...

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... contemporary . Whatever faults he had ought to find extenuation among his fellows, since they prove him to be human; without them, the exalted nature... ...en had no shame—all vied In evil, slave and despot; fear with lust Strange fellowship through mutual hate had tied, _700 Like two dark ser... ...ountain dip _120 Their plumes, with fearless fellowship Above and round him wheel and hover. The fitful wind is heard to... ...ecollections Of pedlars tramping on their rounds; Milk-pans and pails; and odd collections _430 Of saws, and proverbs; and... ...y out,—’Heads or tails?’ where’er we be. Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sec... ...sentangle them who may. Baron de T ott’s Memoirs beside them lie, And some odd volumes of old chemistry. Near those a most inexplicable thing, ... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous...

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... apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire. Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his way... ...e answered. ‘You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do... ...h the boots which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe cap, and the other a ... ... see that a young lady, otherwise neatly dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half buttoned, it is no great deduction to say that she came... ...certainly to muster all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the American Encyclopaedia which stands upon the shelf beside you. Thank yo... ...The Adventure of the Speckled Band 8 O N GLANCING over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the metho... ... I had foreseen the possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. She wa...

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...e criminal to delay any longer calling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many ... ...ment has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals made to the American Minister at Paris; and in spite of subse- quent action taken by th... ...e initiative of my friend, Hon. . 4 The Enormous Room The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambridge, Mass., and... ... placed my bed, bed-roll, blankets and ample pélisse under one arm, my 150-odd pound duffle-bag under the other; then I paused. Then I said, “Where’s ... ...he coffee was pure. Moreover it would be a novelty to me promener sans l50-odd pounds of baggage. We set out. As we walked easily and leisurely the by... ... of yellowish froth. From behind me a chunk of hurtling spittle joined its fellows. I decided to stand up. At this moment, at the far end of the room,... ...his herding of men like cattle—they treat us no better than pigs here. The fellows drop their dung in the very room where they sleep. What is one to e... ...helped evacuate the venereal hospital at Ham, with whose inhabit- ants (in odd moments) I talked and walked and learned sev- eral things about la guer... ...fellow would do any- thing for me. And now I’ll tell you what I’ll do: you fellows give me whatever you want to spend and I’ll get you the best whiske...

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...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...n in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every other part of the world—in England, in Australia, and in t... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ...this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially,... ...the knees. In Chicago, after I had spoken at a meeting, I met one of these fellows. They usually have some process for cur- ing all of the ills of the...

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...e: cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold 605 The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bl... ...voyage; till at last SATAN, whom now transcendent glory rais’d Above his fellows, with Monarchal pride Conscious of highest worth, unmov’d thus ... ...thin them, can allow Omnipotence to none. But well thou comst Before thy fellows, ambitious to win 160 From me som Plume, that thy success may sh... ...w unlike To that first naked Glorie. Such of late 1115 COLUMBUS found th’ AMERICAN to girt With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde Among t...

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...t, his future friend was in the third form. When chance brought the school-fellows together again, Lucien was weary of drinking from the rude cup of p... ...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash...

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...ast instance be a history of a really very relentless warfare. Neither his fellows, nor his gods, nor his passions will leave a man alone. In virtue o... ...int out its high qualities with perfect sympathy and insight. After twenty odd years of friendship (and my first literary friendship too) I may well p... ...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ... ...a hidden thing, because the secrets of his heart are not to be read by his fellows. As to a man’s work, if it is done well it is the very utmost that ... ...needlessly jaundiced view. There were in that ship’s company three or four fellows who dealt in tall yarns, and I knew that on the passage out there h...

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...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ...ached him that troops were seen moving towards him from the direction of T odd’s Tavern, and Brooke’s brigade was detached to meet this new enemy; but... ...e 7th General Custer drove the enemy’s cavalry from Catharpin Furnace to T odd’s Tavern. Pickets and skirmishers were sent along our entire front to f... ...ht march to take position at Spottsylvania C. H. with one army corps, at T odd’s T avern with one, and another near the intersection of the Piney Bran... ...twenty yards of the fort, and he begged that Butler would leave some brave fellows like those who had snatched the flag from the parapet and taken the...

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...ks playing cro quet. Mr. Pontellier’s two children were there sturdy little fellows of four and five. A quadroon nurse followed them about with a far... ...tion and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. She was an American woman, with a small infusion of French which seemed to have been... ...ed to his mother’s room. It was situated at the top of the house, made up of odd angles and a queer, sloping ceiling. Two broad dormer windows looked ... ...d whirling his stick between his two hands; “but she doesn’t act well. She’s odd, she’s not like herself. I can’t make her out, and I thought perhaps ... ...e an inspired psychologist to deal successfully with them. And when ordinary fellows like you and me attempt to cope with their idiosyncrasies the res... ... a sense of the unattainable. The moments glided on, while a feeling of good fellowship passed around the circle like a mystic cord, holding and bindi...

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...this dancing bear,” resumed the officer. “Must he share the stripes of his fellows?” “Shoot him through the head!” said the energetic Puritan. “I susp... ...ed the captain. “Then bring them along with us, but more gently than their fellows. There be qualities in the youth, which may make him valiant to fig... ... Ga- zette, to be lying at death’s door in a fainting fit. But some shrewd fellows had doubted, all along, whether a young lady would be quite so desp... ...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... ...oth of Tabitha’s hands, and danced the old lady across the floor, till the odd- ity of her rheumatic motions set him into a roar of laughter, which wa...