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...te By Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipl... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipl... ...................................................................... 230 4 Soldiers Three Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and Whi... ... an- swer to your voice.’ Almost before Ortheris had deftly thrown all the rifles of the Guard on Mulvaney’s bedstead, the Irishman’s voice was uplift... ... wan side did more to kape the bhoys from messin’ wid the insides av their rifles than any punishmint. ‘O’Hara gave no reason for fwhat he’ d said, an... ...meal and drunk tobacco. When we awoke in the morning, be- hold, of our six rifles not one remained! Also, the big Police- book that was in the Havilda... ...me the most constant of her few admirers. He possessed a head that English artists at home would rave over and paint amid impossible sur- roundings—a ...

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...derable encouragement. In 1915, in spite of delicate health, he joined the Artists’ Rifles O.T.C., was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served... ...ncouragement. In 1915, in spite of delicate health, he joined the Artists’ Rifles O.T.C., was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served with the... ...as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries for t... ...We could do nothing, but wipe his bleeding cough. Could it be accident? — Rifles go off … Not sniped? No. (Later they found the English ball.) It w... ...am, and ask — he knows not what. A Terre (Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I’m blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; ca... ...I shall not know I wince. Don’t take my soul’s poor comfort for your jest. Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing’s best l...

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...; they were everywhere received with feasting; wore fine clothes; sang, danced, acted; gave ex- 29 Robert Louis Stevenson hibitions of dexterity and ... ... child; all other children, who had a father or a mother in the company of Oro, stood condemned from the moment of conception. A freemasonry, an agnos... ...n art. He sees the limitations of his aim, the defects of his practice; he smiles to be so employed upon the shores of death, yet sees in his own devo... ...devoid of any furniture; its whitewashed walls covered with inscriptions in Marquesan and rude drawings: one of the pier, not badly done; one of a mur... ... of wakeful people, some twenty souls in all, the court and guardsmen of Butaritari. The court ladies were busy making mats; the guardsmen yawned and ... ... upon examina- tion, to be a privy on the European model. In front of this, upon some mats, lolled Tebureimoa, the king; behind him, on the panels of ... ... the conduct of drunkards even at home is al- ways matter for anxiety; and at home our populations are not armed from the highest to the lowest with r... ...ence; a man, if he were strong, might easily pluck down the palisade; he need not be specially active to leap from the beach upon the terrace. There i...

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...t anything you do,’ he answered. ‘I’ll be an artist, and I’ll do things.’ ‘Artists always want money, don’t they?’ ‘I’ve got a hundred and twenty poun... ...all, to press on without delay in the teeth of the churning Nile. With the soldiers sweated and toiled the correspon- dents of the newspapers, and the... ...d into a square side by side, in deadly fear of being shot by over-excited soldiers; they had fought with baggage-camels in the chill dawn; they had j... ...nds, the procession of shipping, and the white hospitals where the English soldiers lay. He strove to set down in black and white and colour all that ... ... wish I had; but I forgathered with some men of sorts. They said they were artists, and I knew some of them could draw,—but they wouldn’t draw. They g... ...oots,—observe the high light on the toe. That is Art. I cleaned his rifle,—rifles are al- ways clean on service,—because that is Art. I pipeclayed his... ...at they call an artist by profes- 117 Rudyard Kipling sion. You know what artists do?’ ‘They draw the things in red and black ink on the pop-shop lab...

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... and clean clothes were the rule. The little children of both sexes were nearly always nice enough to take into a body’s lap. And as for the uniforms ... ...ely way to get a verdict on the field of honor. So I framed this idea into a proposition. But it was not accepted. The code was in the way again. I pr... ...them owned the castle and village on top of the mound which I have been speaking of, and in his absence his brother came with his knights and Mark Tw... ...But I did not care, for I had come out for a pedestrian tour anyway. CHAPTER XIV Rafting Down the Neckar WHEN THE LANDLORD LEARNED that I and my agent... ...k out of Heilbronn, but called up Go”tz von Berlichingen’s horse and cab and made us ride. I made a sketch of the turnout. It is not a Work, it is onl... ...ok is this one: “The fact that a band of 6,000 Indians are now murdering our frontiersmen at their impudent leisure, and that we are only able to send... ...longer. I judge so from the fact that hundreds of old gravestones have been removed from the graves and placed against the inner walls of the cemetery...

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...iests were watching by the side of their victim as assiduously as were the soldiers at the door. After a last consultation, the guide announced that h... ... clouds of smoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance. Fakirs and soldiers and priests, seized with instant terror, lay there, with their fac... ... abduction had taken place. They hastened into the forest, followed by the soldiers, who fired a volley after the fugitives; but the latter rapidly in... ... But, instead of forming a pyramid by mounting each other’s shoulders, the artists were to group themselves on top of the noses. It happened that the ... ...ves on the floor, their noses point- ing to the ceiling. A second group of artists disposed them- selves on these long appendages, then a third above ... ...d not be well, before taking the train, to purchase some dozens of Enfield rifles and Colt’s revolvers. He had been listening to stories of attacks up...

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...nner Howard and Snooky foregathered in the nursery with their beloved lead soldiers; T ravis went to her room to write letters; and Mr. Bessemer sat i... ...ay down to the wharf. For Condy had joined a certain San Francisco club of artists, journalists, musicians, and professional men that is one of the in... ...nday’s supplement of the “Times,” with il- lustrations by one of the staff artists. It attracted not the least attention. Just before he went to bed t... ...ked about the fine day that it was, about the queer new forage caps of the soldiers, about the bare green hills of the Reservation, about the little c... ...ine of international renown. The trade to Peruvian insurgents of condemned rifles was to be regretted only because the ring manipulating it was broken... ...try’s good, and for their family’s peace of mind—adventurers, wan- derers, soldiers of fortune, gentlemen-vagabonds, men of hyphenated names and even ...

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...the barracks as soon as the Martians emerged, for the help of a company of soldiers to protect these strange creatures from violence. After that they ... ...enish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky. About eleven a company of soldiers came through Horsell, and deployed along the edge of the common to... ... walk down towards the common. Under the railway bridge I found a group of soldiers—sappers, I think, men in small round caps, 32 The War of the Worl... ... a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rifles. Apparently the Martians were setting fire to everything within rang... ...ve never seen these structures, and have only the ill- imagined efforts of artists or the imperfect descriptions of such eye-witnesses as myself to go...

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...first born’s birth, Sweet is revenge especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize money to seamen. Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet ... ...made them apes of her distortions; Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. Motion was i... ...tion, The kingly scourge, the lust of notoriety, The millions slain by soldiers for their ration, The scenes like Catherine’s boudoir at three... ...orners. Then being taken by the tail — a taking Fatal to bishops as to soldiers — these Cossacques were all cut off as day was breaking, A... ...mirari’ Was what he call’d the ‘Art of Happiness;’ An art on which the artists greatly vary, And have not yet attain’d to much success. Ho... ... and now Still older mansion; of a rich and rare Mix’d Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare Withal: it ... ...anto Sixteen” 330 But as Lord Henry was a connoisseur,— The friend of artists, if not arts,—the owner, With motives the most classical and pu...

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..., beautiful and terrible at the same time, such a majesty. They march like soldiers with trumpets. ‘But some man will say’—as you have said just now—’... ...ir, such as one sees in the saints and evan- gelists of the pre-Raphaelite artists, hung over his ears. Presley again remarked his pointed beard, blac... ...charged with blood, dying groans, the reek of pow- der smoke, the crack of rifles. All the legends of ’49, the violent, wild life of the early days, w... ...ed “crackers” snapped continually like the discharge of in- numerable tiny rifles. The caps of tissue paper were put on—”Phrygian Bon- nets,” “Magicia... ...a for the entire Fake. The decayed professors, virtuosi, litterateurs, and artists thronged to the place en masse. Their clamour filled all the air. O... ... furthermore caused the poem to be illustrated by one of the paper’s staff artists in a most im- pressive fashion. The whole affair occupied an entire... ...lsior. Underneath, in temporary racks, were two dozen Winchester repeating rifles. “Why—what—what—” murmured Hilma blankly. 334 The Octopus “Well, I ... ...t them as quick as how-do-you-do. Why, it would take a regi- ment of U. S. soldiers to put any one of us off our land. No, sir; they know the League m...

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...ritten laws had their beginnings. Men specialised for fighting and rule as soldiers and knights. Later, as ships grew seaworthy, the Mediterranean whi... ...and town craftsmen and territo- rial lords and rulers doctors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu-... ...had been fighting in minor or uncivilised states, with peasant or barbaric soldiers and with but a small equipment of modern contrivances, and the gre... ...mashed machine. Their passen- gers descended, and ran, holding their light rifles in their hands towards the debris and the two dead men. The coffin- ... ..., to a large extent, with us. The majority of our population con- sists of artists, and the bulk of activity in the world lies no longer with necessit...

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...nnance of Marshal Marmont; afterward captain in the 2d Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced king... ... It was not the outcome of a need—the famous need of self-expression which artists find in their search for motives. The necessity which impelled me w... ...binet ministers, Fabians, bricklayers, apostles, ants, scientists, Kafirs, soldiers, sailors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes, and constellation... ...very children in arms, because the women had refused to stay at home. Tall soldiers wearing high, hairy caps stood in a circle, facing the people sile...

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...ance of Marshal Marmont; afterwards Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish Army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced king... ... It was not the outcome of a need—the famous need of self-expression which artists find in their search for motives. The necessity which impelled me w... ...et Ministers, Fabians, bricklay- ers, apostles, ants, scientists, Kaffirs, soldiers, sail- ors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes and con- stellat... ...ry chil- dren in arms, because the women had refused to stay at home. Tall soldiers wearing high, hairy caps, stood in a circle facing the people sile...

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...and all convenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhab- ited this world. Justice has ne... ...tillery, inhab- ited this world. Justice has never been done to bricks and soldiers by those who write about toys. The praises of the toy theatre have... ...eatre once, but I never loved it nor hoped for much from it; my bricks and soldiers were my perpetual drama. I recall an incessant vari- ety of intere... ...rom ships, jum- bling them up in their wrong boxes, clumsily so that their rifles and swords were broken, sweeping the splendid curves of the Imperial... ...we had imagined would change to wonderful heroes at the first crackling of rifles, remained the pleasant, rather incompetent men they had always been,... ... illusion. All through my middle Cambridge period, the guns boomed and the rifles crackled away there on the veldt, and the horsemen rode and the tale... ...e it. “The mod- ern community needs its serious men to be artistic and its artists to be taken seriously,” I remember his saying. “The day has gone by...

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...ion from Avesnes had been distributed everywhere plentifully in Brussels. “Soldiers!” it said, “this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by w... ... march once more to meet them. We and they, are we not still the same men? Soldiers! these same 52 V anity Fair – V olume Two Prussians who are so ar... ... of quite insane enthusiasm. He believed in his wife as much as the French soldiers in Napoleon. Her success in Paris was remarkable. All the French l... ...he young fellows never, never to touch a box; and when young Green, of the Rifles, lost a very considerable sum of money, Rebecca passed a whole night... ...s studio. Lords come up to my door with stars and garters, instead of poor artists with screws of to- bacco in their pockets. I have a gentleman for m...

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...inter, and going fishing—” Blarrrrrrr! The orchestra had crashed into the “Soldiers’ Chorus”; and she was protesting, “No! No! You’re a dear, but I wa... ...gg blue, clumsy Red River carts laden with luxurious furs, whiskered Union soldiers in slant for- age caps and rattling sabers. It suggested to them a... ... the men who had come here eighty years ago—Maine lumbermen, York traders, soldiers from the Maryland hills. “It’s a good country, and I’m proud of it... ... camped in dooryards, stalked into kitchens to demand doughnuts, came with rifles across their backs into schoolhouses and begged to see the pictures ... ...hey were a special caste, neither above nor below the Haydocks, but apart, artists and adventurers. The night telegraph-operator at the railroad stati... ...Ander- son, Henry Mencken, and all the other subversive phi- losophers and artists whom women were consulting ev- erywhere, in batik-curtained studios... ...She urged, “What if you do have to go back? Most of us do! We can’t all be artists—myself, for instance. We have to darn socks, and yet we’re not cont...

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...troduction to a relation of her husband’s, a certain Captain Buller of the Rifles, who was with the Depot there,—a pleasant person, who I believe had ... ...eir money only, but themselves along with it, as democratic volunteers and soldiers of progress; among whom, it need not be said, Sterling intended to... ...onry; many of the figures, which are nearly as large as life, representing soldiers clad and armed much as I should sup- pose those of Cortez were. Th... ...have now sailed; two of them for the East Indies, and having three hundred soldiers on board. It is a curious thing that the long-continued westerly w... ...soul, seeking guidance towards eternal excellence from the official Black- artists, and successful Professors of political, ecclesiasti- cal, philosop...

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...s with it; it formed the delight of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-... ...Whirter, or on potatoes, like old O’Dowd. Do you expect my wife to take in soldiers’ washing, or ride after the regiment in a baggage waggon?” “Well, ... ...ion from Avesnes had been distributed everywhere plentifully in Brussels. “Soldiers!” it said, “this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by w... ... march once more to meet them. We and they, are we not still the same men? Soldiers! these same Prussians who are so arrogant to-day, were three to on... ...he young fellows never, never to touch a box; and when young Green, of the Rifles, lost a very considerable sum of money, Rebecca passed 372 V anity ... ...s studio. Lords come up to my door with stars and garters, instead of poor artists with screws of to- bacco in their pockets. I have a gentleman for m... ...great company in Rome thronged to his saloons—Princes, Dukes, Ambassadors, artists, fiddlers, monsignori, young bears with their leaders—every rank an... ...Among those were Major Loder (un- attached), and Captain Rook (late of the Rifles), who might be seen any day on the Dike, smoking and staring at the ...

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...and at the whole process of preparing tea in China, as depicted by Chinese artists. In my room there were oval engravings of the months—ladies haymaki... ...arelessly disposed, and his neckkerchief loose and flowing, as I have seen artists paint their own portraits) which I could not separate from the idea... ...plate some mental pictures of fine weather on occasions, and may be better artists at them than the grooms. The old roan, so famous for cross country ... ...“No. W e never have tunes here.” “That’s the Dead March in Saul. They bury soldiers to it, so it’s the natural end of the subject. Now, if your pretty... ... were a good shot; asking Phil Squod which he considered the best of those rifles and what it might be worth first hand, telling him in return that it... ...ing jolted in the back. 374 Bleak House – Vol. One CHAPTER XXVII More Old Soldiers Than One MR. G EORGE HAS NOT FAR to ride with folded arms upon ...

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...is all the same. Don’t the barristers’ wives talk about Circuit? Don’t the soldiers’ ladies gossip about the Regiment? Don’t the clergymen’s ladies di... ...great company in Rome thronged to his saloons—Princes, Dukes, Ambassadors, artists, fiddlers, monsignori, young bears with their leaders—every rank an... ...Among those were Major Loder (un- attached), and Captain Rook (late of the Rifles), who might be 194 V anity Fair – V olume Three seen any day on the...

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...ink George will ever permit us to have colours,’ said Ethel; ‘he says that Rifles have no business with them, for that they are of no use to skirmishe... ...olks,’ said the Doctor, ‘that you are not to suppose it always hails crack rifles on all sorts of im- proved systems, as it does when Captain Hector i... ... were welcome to vol- unteer, but that the Channel Fleet would prevent the rifles from being seriously put to the proof—a declaration highly satisfact... ...aid the Doctor, ‘depend upon it, the desk is admi- rable training for good soldiers of the Church. See the fear- ful evil that befalls great schemes i... ... ‘T o-day’s paper-account of inquest;’ and the illustrated press sent down artists, whose three-legged cameras stared in all directions, from the Vint... ...ep from boy to man, but more from the sense that he was not fulfilling the soldiership he had dreamt of with her, and that he had once led her to thin... ...tes, together with a few stone coffins, which had once inclosed corpses of soldiers of the Roman garrison. Large piles of building inclosed the quadra...

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... nor dull, but of the grey tint which may be noted in uniforms of garrison soldiers which have seen long service. To complete the picture, a cock, the... ...dders. Likewise, as the effect of last night’s doings, a whole squadron of soldiers seemed to be camping on my chest, and giving me a flogging. Ugh! A... ...g that he may be spoiling the plan of the general attack, that millions of rifles may be protruding their muzzles through the embrasures of the impreg... ...pictures. Among the latter was a long engraving of a battle scene, wherein soldiers in three-cornered hats were brandishing huge drums and slender lan... ...ouse, and the next day a banquet and generous largesse given to a party of artists and sculptors. During these seasons of scarcity (sufficiently sever...

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...o set on fire a few canoe sheds! At Nukuheva, there were about one hundred soldiers ashore. They were encamped in tents, constructed of the old sails ... ... its pagan inhabitants the spirit that reigned in the breasts of Christian soldiers. Who can wonder at the deadly hatred of the Typees to all foreigne... ...re assailed by the intrepid garrison of a house, who levelled their bamboo rifles at you from be- tween the upright canes which composed its sides. Fa... ...f a song tattooed upon his chest, and a variety of spirited cuts by native artists in other parts of his body. He sported a fishing rod in his hand, a...

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...—T om don’t—save it’s a serious thing. “Well, there were some pits for the rifles, just dug on our French-leaning wing: And backwards, and forwards, a... ...ingham Palace, to say what he’s done and he’s seen. Victoria’s fond of her soldiers: and she’s got a nose for a fight. If T om tells a cleverish stor... ... struck on sight, when quick with dews, Like music of the very Muse. Great artists pass our single sense; We hear in seeing, strung to tense; Then hap...

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...and at the whole process of preparing tea in China, as depicted by Chinese artists. In my room there were oval engravings of the months—ladies haymaki... ...arelessly disposed, and his neckkerchief loose and flowing, as I have seen artists paint their own portraits) which I could not separate from the idea... ...plate some mental pictures of fine weather on occasions, and may be better artists at them than the grooms. The old roan, so famous for cross country ... ...“No. W e never have tunes here.” “That’s the Dead March in Saul. They bury soldiers to it, so it’s the natural end of the subject. Now, if your pretty... ... were a good shot; asking Phil Squod which he considered the best of those rifles and what it might be worth first hand, telling him in return that it... ...eing jolted in the back. 374 Bleak House – Dickens CHAPTER XXVII More Old Soldiers Than One MR. G EORGE HAS NOT FAR to ride with folded arms upon ...

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...able to the unspeakable carrion of those battle- fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies’ plaudits? And if the idea of peril ... ...o jeopar- dize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane’s soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that in- valuable l... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might... ...have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale— even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and c... ...an orchestra, that made the air vibrate as with the combined discharges of rifles. The triumphant halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as—much n...

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..................499 Years of the Modern..........................499 Ashes of Soldiers...............................501 Thoughts......................... ....................517 A Carol Closing Sixty Nine..............517 The Bravest Soldiers.........................517 A Font of Type......................... ... And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers. Be it so, then I answer’d, I too haughty Shade also sing war, a... ... the antique to justify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other sho... ...he race, The western turkey shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs, Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes hi... ...erica, The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes... ...hat he has follow’d the sea, And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist, And the laborers perceive he could labor with them... ...art giant hurry his plenteous offspring, Drest in blue, bearing their trusty rifles on their shoulders. Then the Mother of All with calm voice speakin... ...by or on a full run, With the patter of small arms, the warning s s t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,) And bombs bursting in air, an...

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... a question of good taste. But politics to bed, Patrice. My chief is right—soldiers have nothing to do with them. What are you fiddling at in your coa... ...y, Phil, tell us, could you give us a hint for packing five or six hundred rifles and a couple of pieces of cannon?’ Philip stared; he bent a lowering... ...t had always been: he deplored the fatality. Nevertheless, he esteemed our soldiers, our sailors too. A city man himself and a man of peace, he cordia... ...remost rank (on the line, facing the door) in our exhibition of the chosen artists, where, as our popular words should do, it struck the spectator’s e... ...t-flying gas, and prove a poem-producing people to be of their nature born artists; if they did but know it. The explosion of a particular trade point... ...a good sword for the country. If in a world still barba- rous we must have soldiers, here was one whom it would be grievous to lose. He had fallen for...

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...an through Catalina’s most casual adventures. She had enlisted amongst the soldiers; and, on reaching port, the very first person who came off from sh... ...es there?’ Kate an- swered, ‘Spain.’ ‘What people?’ ‘A friend.’ It was two soldiers, deserters, and almost starving. Kate shared her provisions with t... ...) that Kate does the trick, that she gets down to the other side; that the soldiers do not: and that the horse, if preserved at all, is preserved in a... ...open to his own snare by refusing to pay for admission. Spies must be poor artists who proceed thus. Upon which Coleridge remarked—‘That, before the g... ...hom *But judge not, reader, of French skill by the attempts of fourth-rate artists; and understand me to speak with respect of this skill, not as it i... ...nment stores. Birming- ham will be ruined, or so much of it as depended on rifles. And the great Scotch works on the river Carron will be hun- gering ...

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...nimals to put in the horse? It is vain to ask, though it is notorious that artists combine without bickering to do these things; and one puts his name... ...The laugh abashed her; she murmured of women being good nurses for wounded soldiers, if they were good walkers to march with the army; and, as evident... ...e has never such splendid reach as ani- mation—I mean, in the living face. Artists prefer repose. Only Nature can express the uttermost beauty with he... ...k to see, nor old. No, she was very young. But she did all the things that soldiers do,—was a bit of a foreigner;—she brought a reputation up from the... ...led into the long room of the workshop, where various patterns of muskets, rifles, pistols, and swords were stars, crosses, wedges, over the walls, an... ..., where they were rather better than soaked weeds. A small body of trained soldiers had sprung to the call to arms; here and there an officer could wh...